The bathroom door was left ajar. The bloody man hung where the red dress had been. His body appeared to be boneless, hanging limply.
Blood slid down his shirt and dripped to the ground, dying the white tiles red.
Looking at the bathroom, Han Fei felt a hand clamp around his throat, suffocating him. His limbs were cold and his eyes were frozen.
It was not the red dress that swayed in the dark but a man who was dyed red.
The wound was hidden under the guard's uniform. The man's head was hung low. From the shape of his face, he looked similar to the young guard, Xiao Fang.
The bathroom window appeared to be open. A chilling wind blew in. Xiao Fang, who was hanging in the bathroom, suddenly raised his hand.
He pulled out a pair of sharp scissors from his pocket!
The scissors were stained with blood and red fabric. Xiao Fang had promised to use the scissors to cut the red dress into pieces.
Five fingers gripped the scissors and then he started to cut at his own skin.
Dark red blood gushed out instantly but Xiao Fang did not feel any pain. His movements became faster and faster. It felt like he was bewitched, he was out of control.
His heart raced. Han Fei wanted to warn the man but it was as if he was being held down by a ghost. He was unable to move or speak.
He struggled with all his might. At the last moment, the red lines on Han Fei's arms started to move. The pain of needles stabbing into his flesh jolted Han Fei awake.
He screamed. Brother Hua, who had fallen asleep, jumped up from the ground. He used his flashlight to scan the room.
"Bathroom! Go save Xiao Fang! "
Before Han Fei could say anything, Xiao Fang's scream came from inside the bathroom.
He collapsed to the ground. His body was covered in wounds.
"Xiao Fang, why did you come to the bathroom in the middle of the night?" Brother Hua was spooked when he saw Xiao Fang covered in blood.
"I don't know either. I just fell asleep and had a dream. I think the red dress came back. I wanted to destroy it, to cut it into pieces and bury it in the ground … "Xiao Fang's eyes were red. The pain twisted his face." When I woke up, I was already here. Brother Hua, what is going on? Have I been possessed by the red dress?! "
Xiao Fang's voice was filled with fear. He was completely panicking.
Before Han Fei proposed to send the red dress away, Xiao Fang had suggested cutting or burning the red dress and burying it in the ground. However, these things did not happen to the red dress but to him!
When Brother Hua saw Xiao Fang's pitiful state, his heart ached and he was afraid. He was about to help the young security guard treat his wounds when he suddenly saw something. He stopped in his tracks. "Xiao, Xiao Fang, behind you!"
Xiao Fang, who was already scared to death, quickly turned around when he heard Brother Hua's words. What he saw almost scared him to the point of peeing his pants.
The blood-red dress stuck to his back, making him look like a drowning person clinging onto the back of the person next to him, trying to drag him into the deep pool with him.
With a shriek, Xiao Fang grabbed the red dress and was about to throw it to the ground. However, when he recalled what had happened to him earlier, he felt a lingering fear. In the end, he only dared to place the red dress gently in the bathtub.
"What should we do? Not only has it returned, it looks even redder than before, like it has drunk a lot of blood. "Xiao Fang sat on the toilet floor and his eyes were filled with fear.
Brother Hua appeared to have been through this before. "Everything has started over again. When there is only one of us left, the red dress will probably stop."
He took out the first aid kit and started to bandage Xiao Fang's wounds.
In some ways, the red dress was fair. Xiao Fang's skin was cut until it was bloody. It looked scary but they were all superficial wounds.
"Brother Hua, what exactly happened to you last time?" Han Fei was curious about Brother Hua's previous experience. The man always gave him a vague answer like he did not want to remember what had happened.
After a long hesitation, Brother Hua said, "The last time the red dress appeared was several months ago. At the time, there were four security guards, two experienced ones and two new ones. I remember very clearly that night, everything was normal for the first half of the night but after midnight, the red dress mysteriously appeared … "
He sighed softly. "Initially, we only threw the red dress into the trash can, but when we were patrolling in the middle of the night, one of the newbies suddenly fell from the building, and the place where he fell was the domestic waste sorting bin downstairs. At first, the three of us didn't associate this incident with the red dress, but in the next few days, the red dress kept appearing and pestering us. The other two security guards also got into trouble. Finally, when I was the only one left, the red dress suddenly disappeared. "
Brother Hua appeared to have told Han Fei the whole story but he did not reveal many details.
Han Fei did not think the red dress would disappear on its own, he suspected Brother Hua was hiding something. The man did not go into detail about how the other two security guards died so Han Fei had reason to believe Brother Hua had personally killed the other two security guards.
The man was a good person but when his life was in danger, not many people would be able to stay true to themselves.
Humanity kept colliding inside the haunted apartment like a colorful flower. This was the purpose of the 'flower pot' and it was what the Butterfly wanted to see.
The room became oppressive. Xiao Fang wanted to cry. He felt like he was being haunted by a ghost, he was going to be the first to die.
'I've been in contact with the red dress the most, it won't let me go …' Just as Xiao Fang was sinking into despair, he saw the weakened Han Fei pick up the red dress from the bathtub. "You're the only one who hasn't come into contact with the red dress, I advise you to stay away from it."
"I wish to test something." This was the first time Han Fei had come into contact with the red dress. He held it in his hands and felt the texture on his fingertips.
The workmanship of the dress was average, and it wasn't made of high-grade materials. However, it felt very comfortable to the touch, as if he was touching smooth human skin.
There were not many patterns on the dress but they were exquisite. The original owner appeared to like this dress. Even though it was soaked in blood, there was a light fragrance coming from it.
"Er … what kind of experiment do you want to do?" Brother Hua interrupted Han Fei. He looked at Han Fei like he was looking at a 'madman'.
"Wait a minute." Han Fei walked into the bedroom with the red dress. He pulled back the bedsheet and placed the dress under the bed. "Let's switch off the lights and go out for a while."
A room with the lights on was different from a room with the lights off. Han Fei wanted to see whether the red dress would be able to kill the thing that the deliveryman had placed under the bed.
If the thing was killed by the red dress, then Han Fei would be able to deduce the conditions that the red dress had to fulfill to kill the other ghosts.
While the other two security guards were confused by Han Fei's intention, they had already switched off the lights and left the room.
Just as the three of them exited the room, a scream came from Room 1044. The scream lasted for a whole minute and it gave the three security guards goosebumps.
When the scream stopped, Han Fei hid behind Brother Hua and the three of them reentered the room.
They switched on the lights. Everything was normal. Nothing seemed to have happened in the bedroom.
But when Han Fei pulled back the bedsheet, everyone broke out in cold sweat.
The red dress was unmoved but there was a large pool of blood under the bed. It was like someone had squeezed a balloon full of blood under the bed.
"Do you still remember what I told you earlier? The deliveryman delivered something into the room, that thing should be dead by now. " Han Fei picked up the red dress. "This dress not only kills people but also ghosts. Perhaps we shouldn't resist her but learn to coexist with her."
"Coexist with a red dress?"
"Let me put it in a different way, it should be easier for you to understand." Han Fei held the dress seriously. "Room 1044 is her room to begin with, we're just tenants. Since we're tenants, does that mean the landlord will collect rent from us?"
"Yes." Xiao Fang and Brother Hua nodded.
"Money is useless to them. Our lives are the rent. If we do not want to die, shouldn't we pay her something else? Like something inside the Blood Sacrifice Tower? " A thought appeared in Han Fei's mind. "She seems to like the 'item' that the deliveryman delivered. Before we even left the room, she already made her move. In that case, why don't we give her the delivery ghost? "
"Delivery ghost?" Brother Hua had no idea how Han Fei came up with this idea.
"We're security guards, we have to maintain the security of this area. The woman in red dress is one of the tenants. The delivery ghost trespassed into the tenant's home and hid under the tenant's bed. Don't you think he should be punished? "Han Fei had a point. Under his persuasion, Xiao Fang and Brother Hua agreed.
Without realizing it, Han Fei had become the core of this small group of three. He did not even realize it.
"It's already midnight patrol time, let's go together."
Under Brother Hua and Xiao Fang's shocked gaze, Han Fei folded the red dress. Only then did they realize that Han Fei meant to bring the red dress with him to patrol.
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