Chen Ge hung up and moved to the door.
He held the hammer in his right hand and pushed the door open a gap with his left hand.
The light fell on the dark corridor, and the inside and outside of the room appeared to be two different worlds.
"Who are you looking for?"
A tall and thin man stood at the door. His eyes were sunken, and his skin was rough. He looked very haggard.
"I'm here to give you a warning." The man kept his distance from the door. "Do not spend the night here. Even if you insist on staying at the residential area, do not stay on this floor."
"Why?" Chen Ge wanted to hear what this strange man had to say.
"It doesn't matter, just don't spend the night here." He coughed twice and reached out his right hand to cover his mouth like he was afraid of being overheard. Through his teeth, he said, "Someone has disappeared from one of the rooms on this floor."
"Disappeared from one of the rooms?" Chen Ge was reminded of the words that the agent had said. The second tenant was an English teacher, and he had mysteriously disappeared from his home.
"Hurry up and leave, or else it'll be too late." The man seemed to have come to give Chen Ge a warning out of kindness.
"How did you know all this? Are you a tenant here as well? "Half of Chen Ge's body was exposed outside the door, and the hand that held the hammer was hidden inside the door.
"Yes, I live upstairs, and I heard you talking to yourself downstairs." The tall and thin man was wearing a tattered jacket, and his hands were shoved into his pockets. He did not seem to be in good health, and he walked very slowly. "I thought you would leave after coming in to take a look, but who knew you would run into the house. From the looks of it, you are planning to spend the night here, so I came to warn you."
"I'm talking to myself?" Chen Ge swallowed. If it was someone else, they would have started to panic. "Has something like this happened to your building before?"
"Yes, but it was always during the day. This is the first time I've seen someone like you come at night."
"What happened to those people?"
"Some went mad, and some became tenants here. However, those tenants ended up worse than being mad. They either committed suicide or disappeared."
"Some went mad? Some disappeared? Different people have different fates? "
"No." The man reached out his right hand and gestured for Chen Ge to come closer, but Chen Ge did not do as he asked.
The tall, thin man had no choice but to take a step forward and whispered, "I heard that the people who went crazy all came through a legal intermediary, and the people who became tenants and got into trouble in the end all called the ghost intermediary."
"Ghost intermediary?" Chen Ge recalled the girl's unchanging but polite voice on the other end of the phone. "What's a ghost intermediary?"
"We have to start from a few years ago. This Room 304 next to yours was the scene of a murder. I believe the victim was a real estate agent, but the killer is still missing." The man took a deep breath and looked upstairs. Other than Chen Ge's room, the rest of the room was dark. No one knew what he was looking at.
After confirming again and again, the tall, thin man said carefully, "Ever since his death, this room has been left empty, but strange things keep happening. People often come here to look at the rooms. When asked where they saw the rental information, they would give different answers. Some said they saw it online, some said they saw it from advertisements, and some even forgot where they saw it themselves. "
The man paused and turned to look at Chen Ge with confusion. "By the way, where did you get the information? And … how did you get the key to the room opposite Room 304? "
"The process is quite complicated." Chen Ge looked at the real Room 304. "I saw the number left on the door and called it. Then a man in his thirties wearing a black shirt gave me the key."
"Thirty something? Black shirt? "The tall and thin man repeated the name. Suddenly, his eyes widened." He's back! "
After saying this, the lanky man strode upstairs as if he had been frightened.
"Hey! Explain yourself! " The man was too suspicious, and Chen Ge did not plan to let him go. He grabbed the hammer and chased after him.
It was unclear whether the man saw the hammer in Chen Ge's hand or not, but he kept running up the stairs.
An old building like Third Hospital's Family Quarters was only eight stories tall. When he reached the fifth floor, Chen Ge's phone started to vibrate.
"Stop!" Chen Ge did not lose focus. He chased the man all the way to the sixth floor and finally caught up to the man. "Why are you running?"
"The dead man was in his thirties! The white shirt he was wearing before he died was soaked in blood, and it turned a reddish-black! " The man was agitated. When he saw the hammer in Chen Ge's hand, he became even more 'agitated'.
"It's just as I thought. Looks like I just ran into the first tenant. Now I need to consider whether there's a problem with the agent or not." Chen Ge's phone was still vibrating, and he took it out.
At that moment, the man leaned against the railing like he did not want to get any closer.
The screen flickered, and the agent sent him the information about the room. The first one recorded the information about the third tenant, the gambler. Chen Ge swiped to the bottom of the screen, and the agent very kindly sent him a picture of the gambler when he was alive.
"Listless, sunken eyes, thin body!" The moment he saw the face, Chen Ge's body reacted faster than his mind. He raised the hammer and smashed it at the railing.
When he saw the man, Chen Ge had this suspicion in his heart. No matter what the man did, he only used his right hand, and his left hand was always in his pocket.
At the time, Chen Ge had wondered if the man did not even have a left hand!
Bang! The hammer bent the railing. The man dodged to the side, and his body started to twist unnaturally.
He did not fight Chen Ge head-on. With a strange smile on his face, he jumped over the railing and disappeared from the third floor.
"He probably ran into Room 304."
When Chen Ge left the room, he did not bring the recorder with him. To avoid any accidents, he retreated to the third floor.
Returning to Room 305, he switched on the recorder, and Chen Ge finally felt at ease.
"This building sure is interesting. Everyone makes it sound like they are telling the truth, but in reality, they all have ulterior motives. I can't trust anyone here." Chen Ge thought back to his conversation with the man. "The gambler kept trying to persuade me to leave. I wonder if he's trying to convince me to leave or he really doesn't want to see me."
After packing up everything, Chen Ge took out his phone and looked at the screen.
"The agent only told me about the gambler and did not reveal the information about the previous two tenants. Did she do this on purpose? How are these people related to the drawer? "Chen Ge shook his head." This time, the Specter that I've drawn is quite unique! "
He called the agent. He held the hammer with one hand and held the phone to his ear with the other.
"Hello, I've sent you the information. Is there anything else you need?" The agent's voice was still polite, and it was almost midnight!
"Yes, I have one last question to ask."
"Go ahead."
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