"Are you sure you want to bring her with you? If the tenants see this, it might scare them. " Brother Hua was being very tactful. His real thought was, 'Aren't you afraid you'll ruin the whole building if you carry this thing around?'
"It's fine, I'll try my best to hide it from the tenants." Han Fei had already folded the dress. "I'll just cover it up like this."
"Then you sure are considerate of the tenants." A helpless smile appeared on Brother Hua's face. "Did your teacher not teach you well?"
"He has already gone missing, I'm looking for him."
"Then it's fine."
Brother Hua subconsciously moved to Han Fei's other side, away from the red dress. "You have to keep it safe, don't let it fall into the tenants' rooms."
"Don't worry, I've worked here before and I've befriended many tenants. They all think I'm a good person." Han Fei was telling the truth, he soon became the building manager.
"You're a good person but your way of thinking is a bit unique." Brother Hua patted Han Fei on his shoulder. "No matter what, the three of us have to shoulder this responsibility. Strange things happen here and the tenants are afraid, we have to try our best to provide them with a sense of security. Remember, the reason we patrol every night is not to investigate the truth but to let the tenants know that the three of us are still here. "
"Okay." Han Fei nodded. He respected normal people like Brother Hua but he was curious about what kind of memory the butterfly had implanted in them and where was the butterfly pattern hidden?
"Let's pack up and get ready to depart. Hopefully, we'll be able to survive the night." Brother Hua glanced at the patrol list and then moved aside the cupboard that held various security items. Behind it was a clay statue of Guan Yu.
After bowing thrice to the statue, Brother Hua rearranged the cupboard and strode out of the room.
"It's been a long time since midnight and today is the 4th of April. I have a feeling something else is going to happen here. You two better not stray too far away from me. Don't just run away if you run into any danger." Brother Hua took on the air of a senior and his voice turned serious.
"Brother Hua, you have a watch. Can you tell me what time it is?" Han Fei realized something. In real life, it was not 4th April. The security guard's memory was probably frozen on 4th April. If Han Fei did not show up, this would be the last night of their lives.
"It's 3: 27 in the morning. Why do you ask?"
"Anything with the number 4 in this building is an unlucky sign. Today is April 4th, so I have a feeling that 4: 44 am and 4 seconds in the morning will be especially scary." Han Fei's words sent chills down the two guards' spines.
"Then let's try to come back before four o 'clock." Brother Hua waved his hand. He had the injured Xiao Fang and Han Fei walk behind him while he led the way with the flashlight.
It could be seen that he was also very scared. Every time he walked, he would turn his head slightly, as if he was looking out of the corner of his eye to see if Han Fei and Xiao Fang were still behind him.
Perhaps to lighten the atmosphere, Brother Hua coughed drily and started to share his' experience 'with Han Fei and Xiao Fang. "Both of you are newbies, I'll be your guide today. Us night guards have to patrol 4 times a night, 8 pm, midnight, 3 am, and 8 am. Each patrol starts from the left staircase. We'll go to the 24th floor and then we'll go down the right staircase to the first floor. If you wish to deliver the delivery spirit to the Red Dress, we'll wait until then. Hopefully, we'll have better luck. "
Brother Hua had no idea whether running into a ghost counted as good luck or not. He had a natural resistance toward the delivery spirit, like something had happened between them before.
"No matter what, we have to carry on with the patrol. We have to check every floor for fire safety, blind spots on the stairs, and surveillance cameras …"
The 3 guards were worried about the arrival of 4 am. With a tacit understanding, they moved quickly.
Han Fei also understood why Brother Hua and Xiao Fang insisted on patrolling. It was not only because of their professional mission but also because if they did not show up on time, they would be punished the next day.
Being a security guard at a haunted residential area was very lucrative but correspondingly, if one did not follow the rules, the punishment would be severe.
Xiao Fang did not elaborate on the punishment, he just instinctively felt that it was better to go on patrol.
The 3 soon entered the staircase and reached the 5th floor.
The voice-activated lights came on and the pressure disappeared. Only the odd-numbered floors of the Ziggurat had lights, the chilliness seemed to have dissipated.
"Should we stay here for a while longer?"
The 3 did not say anything else. They all slowed down. Sometimes, human chemistry was that simple.
After some hesitation, Brother Hua turned on his flashlight and prepared to go to the 6th floor.
Patrolling a haunted residential building at 3: 30 in the morning was a very scary thing to do. If something went wrong and he started to let his imagination run wild, he would be scared out of his wits.
The odd-numbered floors of the Ziggurat did not have voice-activated lights. The 6th floor was also shrouded in darkness like no one lived there.
When Han Fei and Xiao Fang arrived at the 6th floor, they were about to rush up when Brother Hua stopped. "Wait here for a moment, there's a divorced mother living on the 6th floor. Her son has a habit of sleepwalking. He likes to find the key to open the door in the middle of the night and then squat at the corner of the stairwell."
"Find the key?"
"Yes, no matter where the mother hides the key, her son will always find it. The mother found it very strange. She even locked the key inside the safe. The next day, when she checked the surveillance, she could still see her son leaving her home in the middle of the night with the key. " Brother Hua kept his voice low. Holding the flashlight, he shuffled slowly. "Then the mother begged us to keep an eye on her son every time we patrol."
Even though Brother Hua was a coward, he was a responsible person. He pushed open the door to the 6th floor and looked inside. There was nothing inside the dark room.
"Looks like the child is not sleepwalking today." Just as Brother Hua sighed in relief, they heard the sound of a marble rolling on the ground.
The three of them huddled together and turned to the source of the sound. There was a pale-skinned child squatting behind the door.
He was about five or six years old. His eyes were wide open and his expression was blank. He kept mumbling something under his breath. He would push the marble behind the door and then the marble would roll back on its own like someone was playing a game with him.
Xiao Fang was spooked by the child. Just as he was about to teach the child a lesson, Brother Hua stopped him.
"You can't wake sleepwalking children up directly, the older generation said that it'll cause them to lose their soul."
This did not appear to be Brother Hua's first time doing something like this. He was experienced. He squatted down behind the child and picked him up gently.
"I'll send the child to his mother's place."
When Brother Hua passed Han Fei with the child, Han Fei could hear the mumbling of the child — 'Turn around and you'll die, turn around and you'll die, turn around and you'll die!'
Numbness crept up his neck. Han Fei subconsciously turned back to look. He saw a hand grab the marble and hide it behind the safety door that the boy had been squatting behind earlier.
'Someone's playing with him?'
Han Fei took a deep breath. When he turned around, the child was still alive.
After knowing that turning around was not the condition for his death, Han Fei turned back madly several times. 'I wonder if my curse has been triggered. If it has, what will it be?'
The door to Room 1064 was left ajar. Brother Hua did not enter the room but knocked on the door from outside.
Not long after that, a woman with long black hair came to the door. She thanked Brother Hua profusely and then carried the child back to the room.
Closing the door, Brother Hua appeared to be in a good mood. Some of the fear in his heart had been chased away. 'Humans should do more good deeds to improve their mental state.'
He and Xiao Fang prepared to go to the 7th floor. When they exited the stairwell, Han Fei turned back to look. He was shocked to see a child standing behind the door!
The child looked exactly like the child from earlier but his skin was paler.
He held the marble in his hand and his eyes stared at Brother Hua.
"Is that woman's child that was just carried into the house? If not, then what is the thing that Brother Hua carries into Room 1064 every night? And where is the woman's child? '
His scalp was numb, and when he looked back again, the child was gone.
'Every floor of this Ziggurat is dangerous, it's going to be difficult to survive the night.'
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