The elevator door opened, and the three of them had just stepped out of the elevator. There was such a loud slamming sound that the door frame seemed to be dislodged, and the wall panels fell down.
Mr. Ke, who was last among the three, turned pale and pressed the elevator down button, refusing to let go. As long as the situation was not right, he would not hesitate to rush back to the elevator and escape.
Luo Chu and Jiang Yue didn't seem to pay much attention to his actions. They both listened with their ears pricked up, as if they were in no hurry to investigate the crazy banging on the door.
Mr. Ke couldn't help but wonder whether these two people were a little abnormal.
The sound of banging on the door sounds very sinister, but these two people actually don't seem to care, not panic at all? Not curious at all?
A normal person would never go crazy like this when he breaks down the door.
This kind of door-smashing posture is unless it is a murder scene and someone is desperate to escape.
However, the door is closed inwards.
People from outside want to enter the house, but they can't get in without a key.
If the people inside want to come out, why do they have to smash the door? Wouldn’t the door handle come out as soon as it is pulled?
When you are at home in broad daylight, you don't want to lock yourself in the house, do you need some insurance? Even if it is locked, you can still use the key to open the door.
Why break down the door?
Every time there was a hit inside, the anti-theft door vibrated obviously, as if the entire door frame might be smashed away at any time.
Luo Chu frowned and asked, "Xiao Jiang, what do you think?"
"Not like a normal person."
At this moment, the banging on the door suddenly stopped.
The screams inside seemed to have calmed down.
Instead, there was a heart-piercing crunching sound.
It's like a cat's claw scratching the door, or like a spatula scraping an iron pot. No matter how hard it sounds, it feels uncomfortable.
Crunch...crunch...
At this time, a sudden phone ringing came from the empty corridor.
The three of them looked at each other, all stunned.
Immediately, Mr. Ke looked like a dish and gingerly took out his mobile phone.
I took a closer look and almost screamed. My hand shook, and the phone fell to the ground with a bang.
Spider lines suddenly appeared on the screen.
Ke summed up stammering, with a pale face: "It's... it's him..."
"Who?" Jiang Yue asked in surprise.
"Old...Old Dong..."
How could it be him? Wasn't the phone turned off when I called him earlier?
Jiang Yue and Luo Chu were also confused.
"Take it." Jiang Yue reminded.
Mr. Ke looked at the door of the apartment and then at his phone. He was a little hesitant.
But in the end, he gritted his teeth, answered the phone, and turned on the speakerphone.
"Old Dong? Where are you?"
In order to build up his courage, Mr. Ke asked the question first.
There was no response from the other end of the phone, but there was obviously heavy breathing on the other end of the phone, like a low growl from the bottom of the throat from a wild animal.
This sound is abnormal when you hear it? It makes people's hair stand on end.
Mr. Ke's hand holding the cell phone kept shaking. The poor cell phone kept shaking in his hand, which clearly revealed the fear in Mr. Ke's heart.
"Old Dong?" Mr. Ke called into the phone again.
"Cough cough cough..."
A violent cough? It sounded like you were about to cough up your entire lungs.
The coughing finally ended, and a slow and eerie voice suddenly came from the other end of the phone.
"Every one of you is going to die!!"
What?
This sentence was said in a low and slow tone, but it was pronounced clearly and Mr. Ke could hear it clearly!
Snapped!
The troubled phone fell to the ground again? The entire screen was completely shattered.
Mr. Ke was sweating profusely. He was so frightened that his whole body was trembling. He couldn't continue acting anymore, so he just cried and shouted, "I want to go home, let me go home!"
Jiang Yue is not surprised? This sentence? This is not the first time he has heard it.
"Luo Chu, I want to go in and take a look."
This is a private house, and it stands to reason that no one can break into it at will. Jiang Yue said this, but he was actually telling Luo Chu that he would leave it to you to clean up the matter later.
Luo Chu nodded.
Jiang Yue stepped forward? He didn't see any effort on his part, as if the door was originally ajar.
Reaching out and pulling, the security door made a muffled sound, and the entire lock structure suddenly collapsed. The security door made a squeaking sound and was pulled open by Jiang Yue.
When the door was opened? A figure fell out almost at the same time.
Take a closer look and you will see that it is Mr. Dong who Jiang Yue and the others have been tracking down.
"Old Dong?" Mr. Ke was dumbfounded.
Jiang Yue blocked Mr. Ke behind him, then stepped forward and roughly pulled a pair of headphones from Mr. Dong's ears.
"you……"
Mr. Ke couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw Jiang Yue's rough movements.
"Mr. Ke, have you seen these headphones?"
Mr. Ke was shocked, but he still said truthfully: "Lao Dong once gave me a pair, saying it was an international brand. I have no interest in this thing. I forgot where I threw it. I haven't even dismantled it."
International brand?
If it’s a high imitation, then it’s a high imitation. It’s not an international brand.
Jiang Yue said: "Mr. Ke, you finally did something wise."
"What? There's something wrong with the headphones?"
"Anyone who has come into contact with this headset is either dead or close to death. If you have been using that headset, it may be like this. Or worse, it may have died."
Mr. Ke instinctively didn't believe it. It was just a pair of headphones. Is it that exaggerated?
But when he saw the ghostly appearance of Old Dong, he couldn't believe it.
I kept recalling in my mind, where on earth was those damn headphones lost? I had to find them and destroy them.
A person of his level can naturally get some information, and he has naturally heard a lot about the coming of the strange era.
The Luo Chu in front of me is the director of the Operations Bureau. If someone comes to visit him in such a serious manner, it must be related to a strange incident.
Mr. Ke was a little afraid to recognize the old director in front of him.
The old Dong, who was originally strong and well-proportioned, has become so emaciated and emaciated after not seeing him for only half a month.
Not to mention that Mr. Ke had not been seen for half a month. When Luo Chu and Jiang Yue saw Mr. Dong in the surveillance video, they almost couldn't recognize that they were the same person.
The surveillance was only on the weekend of last week, and it has only been a few days ago?
In just a few days, no matter how serious the illness is, it is impossible to suddenly lose weight to this extent.
Hit evil!
This is the only explanation.
Jiang Yue walked in through the open security door. This was a single apartment, only sixty or seventy square meters, with one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom.
However, Mr. Dong is obviously a person who understands life, and the design is very stylish, even higher than the luxury rooms in five-star hotels.
Jiang Yue walked around the house and searched carefully, but found nothing unusual.
What puzzled Jiang Yue was that there seemed to be no trace of anyone living in this apartment. If Mr. Dong had lived here these days, it stands to reason that the furnishings inside could not be so neat.
This kind of neatness is just like the neatness you see when you open the door and walk in when you first check into a hotel.
The sofa, bed, tableware, tea sets, etc. were all obviously untouched.
When they went upstairs, Jiang Yue listened specially at the door. He was very sure that there was no one in the apartment.
But they had just come downstairs, why did Mr. Dong appear in the house again?
This apartment building has three elevators and a total of more than a dozen suites on one floor.
Perhaps, when they went downstairs, Mr. Dong happened to take the elevator upstairs. This kind of coincidence may not be impossible.
But looking at Mr. Dong like this, it doesn’t look like he can take the elevator normally.
And when going downstairs, Jiang Yue also glanced at the elevator. The other two elevators at that time, one stopped on the ground floor, and the other stopped on another floor lower than this building, were both in a stationary state, and there was no
run.
Therefore, the possibility that Mr. Dong took two other elevators to go upstairs at the same time as they went downstairs can almost be ruled out based on the time point.
If Mr. Dong took the elevator upstairs, the elevator should have stopped at the floor where Mr. Dong was located, or continued running to other floors.
There is no reason for one to be on the ground floor and the other to be parked on a floor lower than Mr. Dong’s floor.
There is another possibility that Mr. Dong arrived at this floor and someone else on the same floor pressed the elevator again.
But this situation almost never happens, because during the time Jiang Yue and the others were in the elevator, other elevators could not run so fast, and they would go at night and arrive at the ground floor earlier.
As for the elevator that stops at a lower floor, that's even less likely.
Generally in this kind of residential apartment, no matter which floor you go downstairs, you will always go to the first floor or the underground parking lot on the first floor below. It is rare to go from one floor to another.
And in terms of time, it’s simply too late.
After this analysis, Jiang Yue could almost conclude that the old Dong was in this building before, but not in the apartment.
Then why did he return to his apartment after they went downstairs and still appear at the window? And why did he smash the door like crazy?
Is it because of the curse brought by this pair of headphones?
What kind of magic power does this headset have that can torture a normal person like this?
Jiang Yue couldn't sort out any decent clues in his mind at the moment.
Previously, he had dug through the layers of the cocoon and found the mastermind behind the lottery, Mr. Dong. He thought that finding Mr. Dong would mean he had found the answer.
Now it seems that it is still too optimistic.
Dong Zong, who they suspected was the mastermind, suddenly became a victim.
This is not the scariest thing.
The most frightening thing is that once we get to Mr. Dong, the clues are suddenly cut off.
Mr. Dong’s interpersonal relationship is not something that a simple girl like Wang Chenyan can find out immediately.
These days, the workload of finding out who Mr. Dong has come into contact with and where he has appeared would be too large, too arduous, and almost an impossible task.
Moreover, no one knows where he got into trouble?
Jiang Yue checked very carefully, including even a small ornament in the apartment, but he still couldn't find any clues.
Jiang Yue even opened the shoe cabinet at the door and took a closer look.
Just as he was about to step out the door, Jiang Yue suddenly stopped again.
He turned around and glanced at the shoe cabinet.
There are several exquisite containers placed on the shoe cabinet, which contain some daily sundries, including some coins, various membership cards, business cards, various payment receipts, etc.
There is also a set of keys.
There are seven or eight keys in this bunch, and they all look similar at first glance.
Jiang Yue also noticed the hanging key at first, but didn't take it seriously. Each security door has at least six keys, so it makes sense to string them together.
However, when Jiang Yue went back and looked at it a second time, he still found some differences.
Although these keys have similar shapes, there is almost no difference. However, after careful comparison, it is obvious that these keys do not open the same door.
In other words, these keys are not all keys to this home.
Jiang Yue became interested, picked up the hanging keys, and tried them one by one on the security door.
When I tried the third one, the lock cylinder made a snapping sound.
This third key is indeed the key to this apartment building.
Jiang Yue continued to try until all the keys were tried.
Except for the third key, all other keys do not belong to this apartment.
A playful smile overflowed from the corner of Jiang Yue's mouth.
The shapes of the keys are almost the same. If you had not carefully identified them and tried them one by one, you would never have noticed this at first glance.
So……
What are the remaining keys for?
For the company? For other properties elsewhere?
With so many keys and no special markings, how did he identify them?
Seeing this, Luo Chu couldn't help but ask: "Xiao Jiang, what's wrong?"
"These keys are interesting."
Jiang Yue looked around, looking at the apartments on both sides of the corridor, and suddenly had an inspiration.
"Luo Chu, it seems that Mr. Dong is really rich. This apartment covers half a floor. It's really a big deal."
Jiang Yue said, picking up one of the keys.
He inserted it into the security door of one of the apartments.
Incredibly, the lock actually opened.
Jiang Yue then tried one after another, and miraculously opened each one with accuracy. No one was tried twice.
Everything is passed through once and opened once.
Even Mr. Ke was dumbfounded.
"How can this bastard boss be so rich? He hides it very deep. I always thought he only had an apartment here."
Although this apartment only costs over one million yuan, there are eight apartments in this row, covering half a floor.
This place alone has a market value of 10 to 20 million, let alone other more valuable mansions.
But, is there any use for money?
Seeing this old Dong who was so distraught, so thin that he looked completely different from a normal person, and might even die at any time, Mr. Ke's thoughts suddenly changed.
At this point, whether you have money or not, what can you decide?
"What kind of disease does this old Dong have? Why don't you go to the hospital for treatment?" Mr. Ke murmured.
"Do you really think he is sick?"
"What is that?" Mr. Ke's scalp was numb for a while. In fact, he had vaguely thought of a possibility. The reason why he asked what the disease was was actually just to comfort himself.
"You escaped the earphones, but you didn't escape Jin Chan from being tampered with. Now Jin Chan's calamity has been resolved, but whether you can escape it in the next step, or whether you will end up like this old Dong, still depends on
Say something else."
Jiang Yue didn't mean to scare Mr. Ke.
When the situation has developed to this point, it is obviously out of control.
Jiang Yue couldn't figure out how many evil spirits were behind this, and how many black hands were behind it.