Wang Qi had been trying to persuade Chen Ge to leave. From a stranger's perspective, he was being overly friendly.
Chen Ge did not agree immediately. After hearing Wang Qi's story, he had a feeling that the man was hiding something.
"I've told you everything I can. It's not too late to leave now. After midnight, the apartment will change into something else." After saying that, Wang Qi patted the dust off his body and left the building.
It was not until Wang Qi's shadow disappeared into the night that Chen Ge realized what was going on. Initially, he had planned to find the tenants of the building to understand the situation, but now, he had more questions than answers.
"There's a big problem with this person. Is he crazy?" Thinking back to Wang Qi's cloudy eyes, Chen Ge felt uncomfortable. The man's eyes were filled with pain and tiredness, and they could not have been faked. Looks like he really loves his wife.
Chen Ge walked back. When he passed the woman's room on the first floor, he hesitated before knocking on the door.
"Hey, new guy." The door to the woman's room did not budge, but the door behind Chen Ge opened halfway, and a tall, thin man leaned against the door.
He looked to be in his thirties, and his hair and beard were almost joined together. There was a tattoo of a peony on the back of his hand.
"You are?" Chen Ge turned around cautiously.
"The man who put up the missing person notice is not one of our tenants. There's something wrong with him." The man tapped his temple. "Don't believe anything he says. If you get too close to him, something bad will happen."
This was the first time that Chen Ge had met the tall and thin man. Even though the man looked unkempt, his tone was the most normal among all the people that Chen Ge had met. "The man's behavior is indeed strange, but it is probably due to the disappearance of his wife that he has suffered too much."
"Did he tell you that his fiancée went missing near the apartment building?"
"Yes."
"Did he say that was what the police told him, and that's why he kept coming here to look for her?"
"Yes."
"Hehe." The tall, thin man laughed. "I've lived here for nine months, and I've never seen the police come here. That madman is lying to you. He's talking about ghosts and ghosts. It's all nonsense."
He took out a low-quality cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth. "How can there be ghosts in this world? At most, someone is pretending to be a ghost. Alright, it's getting late. You should hurry back to your room. "
Chen Ge thanked the man and turned to leave.
As he walked up the stairs, he could not make up his mind. One of them must be lying. Who could it be?
Perhaps he was too engrossed in his thoughts, when Chen Ge came back to his senses, he had already reached the third floor.
Peeling numbers were printed on the corners of the floors, and the voice-activated lights above them gave off a dim light. Chen Ge looked around. This floor had not been renovated, and the floor was dirty and messy. There were burn marks everywhere, and the paint on the walls was peeling off like crisscrossing scars.
"Why is it that only the third floor hasn't been renovated? Is it because you don't have enough funds, or are there other reasons? "
The voice-activated lights soon went off, and the whole apartment was abruptly plunged into darkness.
Chen Ge had been working at a Haunted House for many years, so he was quite used to the darkness. He did not panic. He took out his phone and was about to turn on the flashlight when he saw a shadow moving quickly down the dark corridor.
"Who's there?" The flashlight on the phone lit up the third floor, but the shadow was nowhere to be seen.
Chen Ge wanted to go in to investigate, but coincidentally, footsteps came from downstairs.
"Is that the landlord?" If the hot-tempered landlord saw him loitering on the third floor, he would definitely be scolded. Chen Ge thought about it, pocketed his phone, and silently retreated to the second floor.
When he turned the corner of the stairs, Chen Ge saw a short, rotund, middle-aged man walking out from one of the rooms on the second floor. The man was humming a song, and he seemed to be in a good mood, but when he saw Chen Ge, his face tensed up, and he hurried past with his head lowered.
"What's the meaning of this? Do I look that scary? " Returning to his room, Chen Ge hugged his backpack and lay in bed. There doesn't seem to be a normal person in this apartment. Everyone looks like a murderer …
With that in mind, Chen Ge sat up with a jolt. The mission on the phone only asked me to find the murderer, but it didn't tell me how many murderers there are. If that's the case, then there really might be more than one murderer! After all, this is related to a family massacre, so the possibility of it being a gang is very high. No, I need to investigate the case from back then as soon as possible.
Chen Ge took out his phone. His conversation with Wang Qi was not entirely fruitless. At least he had found out one thing. Ping An Apartments used to be called Fu An Apartments.
He typed in Jiujiang's Fu An Apartments into the search bar, and after scrolling through a few pages, the shocking words squeezed into Chen Ge's eyes.
"A family of four was brutally massacred! The murderer disappeared into thin air! "
"Is it an accident? Or murder? How did the fire at Fu An Apartments start? "
"Hiding dead bodies inside the building leads to a case within a case!"
Chen Ge flipped through all the information related to Fu An Apartments, and he felt chills run down his spine. Reality was scarier than fiction because this was something that had happened before, and it might happen to him one day.
Five years ago, a villager saw the fire at Fu An Apartments and called the fire department.
After the fire department put out the fire, they started to investigate the cause and estimate the damage.
It was supposed to be a routine investigation, but as the investigation progressed, more and more suspicious details started to surface.
The concrete was cracked, the window glass was small, and the smoke was faintly discernible. This meant that the fire was not only strong but also hot, and it spread quickly.
There were multiple ignition points at the scene, but they were not connected to each other. This was a classic case of arson.
The nature of the case changed. The local police department got involved, and they found four bodies among the debris. They were the family of four that ran the apartments.
This case caused quite a commotion at the time, and the police did their best to investigate. However, due to the destruction of the scene, they could not find any trace of a fifth person, much less the murderer.
The apartment was sealed off for a whole year, and according to the law, it was transferred to the father of the original owner. It was then that Fu An Apartments was renamed to Ping An Apartments.
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