This place is dilapidated, old and in disrepair, but it is full of people, reaching the point of being crowded.
"We have never had anyone like this live here."
The apartment manager, probably a middle-aged man hired here, shook his head after seeing Flora's photo.
"Can we see the empty rooms here?"
Drizzt took out a low-denomination bill and handed it to the administrator.
"No problem, come with me."
The administrator smiled as he took the money, and took Drizzt and others upstairs to an empty room on the top floor.
"I guess you don't rent it either, so let me tell you straight away, someone died in this room before. I don't know exactly how. But since then, people living here have often had problems, and no one has lived in it for a long time.
Already."
The administrator made an introduction and opened the door.
Lu Tiao saw a dilapidated but relatively clean room that seemed to have been repainted and was different from the other rooms along the way.
The room is very small, with only one bed, one table, one chair, and no cabinets, but at least it has a door to isolate it from the outside world.
On the window sill, the sun shines into the room, casting a dazzling golden color on the sheets. There is a somewhat damaged bottle on the windowsill, which is empty.
"Strange, there were bottles here before?"
The caretaker picked up the bottle to prevent it from falling to the ground in the wind.
Drizzt stood there blankly. He looked at the window sill, saw the smoke and dust from the factory outside the window, and saw the curtains blown by the breeze. He seemed to see the girl smiling at him.
This is the room in the dream!
Exactly the same!
Just the same one!
Drizzt walked into the room, as if he had been there countless times before, and sat on the edge of the bed, arriving at the same spot in his dream.
Everything seems to be happening again.
"Has something happened here before? Who died? Is there any record?"
Drizzt hurriedly asked the administrator.
"I, let me check."
The administrator was so shocked by Drizzt's attitude that he forgot to ask for money and wandered downstairs. Shia followed. After a while, she came back with a thick volume of documents.
"Room 404, the previous resident was John, a textile factory worker."
"no."
Drizzt immediately denied it. He took the file and looked at the previous records of this room.
Fortunately, the management of the apartment is quite formal. Each room's record is on its own page, and you can see the traces of tenant turnover.
However, there is only written information here and no photo comparison.
Soon, Drizzt saw one of them.
"Tenant's name, Liz, moved in in May 25, died in an accident in October"
Drizzt found the death note.
It is now the spring of 2026, which was a year ago.
"Strange, why is there only one person?"
Shia remembered that there should be two people in Drizzt's dream.
But this rental record only has one person's name.
"This is normal. As long as you register your name in the apartment here, you can move in. It doesn't matter whether you live with one person or two people, as long as it doesn't affect other people."
The administrator said casually.
"Some people rent apartments and rent out their beds to other people, even under the beds. It's not a big deal."
"This second landlord is a bit outrageous."
Lu Tian probably also knew that these people couldn't afford enough money on their own, so they found others to "share the bill", just like there are many groups renting houses in big cities now.
Many people work hard and work hard, but in the end all their money turns into rent and is given to the landlord.
Rent collectors have existed in every era.
He sighed.
"Now that you know the name, you can go to the police to check the files."
Shia said, looking at the paint in this room again.
"When was the paint put on here?"
The color of the paint was different from that of the deceased, not as colorful.
"It must have been after the accident. The administrator at the time has left. I don't know where he went, but I heard that it was quite serious here at the time. There were also gang members injured, and there were always problems with the pipes in this house."
The administrator said while recalling.
"Do gangsters also live here?"
Shia found it a bit unbelievable. There are naturally no gangs in the Kingdom of Darkness, but according to Shia's understanding, this should be some kind of loosely disciplined military organization. It should have a place to gather together and should not live in such a messy apartment.
inside.
"Yes, of course, but most apartments don't accept these guys because they can easily cause trouble. The gangsters who came here at that time were, I think, the Catania family."
The administrator scratched his head.
"Catania family?"
Drizzt felt that something was connecting everything.
"Are you saying that someone from the Catania family came to this house when the accident happened and was injured?"
"It should be, I'm not sure either."
The administrator was also unsure after being asked by Drizzt.
"But someone must have been injured at that time, because the people living next door were gangsters."
He pointed to the rental records.
What is written on it is "Tucker, moved in in November of 2023 and left in October of 25."
It’s October too!
"Oh, I remembered. I also read in the newspaper that two gangs fought and a lot of people died."
The administrator seemed to have just remembered.
"Because of this incident, the big shots in the abandoned city even dealt with the gangs for a period of time, but they only eliminated some irrelevant ones. The real ones are all fine."
"Thank you for your explanation."
Drizzt handed a banknote to the administrator and looked at Lu Tan and Shia.
"We now need to find out where Tucker went, how this person named Liz died, and what the Catania family did here at that time."
"Then we should go to the police station first."
Lu Jian suggested.
"really."
Drizzt took one last look at the room, thinking as he came downstairs.
"If that girl is Flora, then there won't be such a big change in just one year. Then the girl in the dream should be Liz, but how come this pendant is in Flora's hands?
?”
"In other words, the main perspective of my dream was Flora, and the gaze I felt in the basement at that time was Flora's remaining will after she died due to her extraordinary power. She was parasitic on my body, trying to tell me the answer?"
"At least it is certain that the prisoner did not choose the target randomly. There are connections between Flora, Dr. House, and the deceased member of the Catania family. As long as these connections can be found out,
can find out who killed them, and"
"The murderer's next target"
Drizzt thought about the charity banquet in the evening, when everyone from the Catania family would be present.
