"Women's underwear?" Wen Qing didn't notice those details. She felt a little scared after hearing Chen Ge's reminder: "Is he a pervert who steals underwear?"
"Wu You should also have seen his secret, so he came out to dissuade us after knowing that we were in contact with Wu You." Chen Ge and Wen Qing stood in the corridor, their voices were very low, and only the other could hear them.
: "What worries me most is not the man stealing underwear, but what he said. Wu You kept the door open and waited for his parents to come home, which shows that he thought his family was just going out, but the middle-aged man said that Wu You's parents were
Wu You was killed."
"You mean, it was the middle-aged man who killed Wu You's parents?" Wen Qing followed Chen Ge, and her way of thinking gradually became very similar to Chen Ge's.
"I guess many people acted together. No one was the direct murderer, but everyone was related to the death of Wu You's parents." After meeting the three tenants, Chen Ge discovered that this building has its own rules.
, the tenants have already acquiesced that anyone who wants to break the rules is likely to be targeted by everyone: "When a person witnesses a murder and fails to cooperate with the police investigation and maliciously conceals it, then he is an accomplice."
"From what you said, I feel that Wu You is so pitiful. After we find Xiang Nuan, how about we take him away with us?" Wen Qing is a very kind woman, but kindness is the most insignificant thing for the aborigines behind the door.
If you want to survive in this place for a long time, the first thing you must discard is the goodness in human nature.
"Let's find Xiang Nuan first and then talk about it."
Following the stairs to the second floor, both Chen Ge and Wen Qing stopped.
There was an old lady standing on the gloomy corridor on the second floor. She was holding a stained porcelain bowl with some coins and some leftover food in her hand.
The old man was standing outside a certain door and was turning the door handle hard, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't open the door.
When Chen Ge passed by, the old lady saw him, turned around and walked towards him.
Her stained hands were shaking in front of Chen Ge. She was holding the bowl and making a gurgling sound, which sounded terrifying.
"Grandma Li?" Wen Qing recognized the old man in front of her. She was very surprised when she saw the old lady's appearance.
"Do you know her? She's from your neighborhood?"
"It used to be, but then his son said that she was lost and he hadn't seen her for several years." Wen Qing's eyes were full of surprise: "The old lady lived a very exquisite life, her hair was neatly combed, and her clothes were even
There is no wrinkle at all, and I often take care of the flowers and plants in the garden alone."
"Could it be that her son didn't want to take care of her and abandoned her?"
"That's his mother, and it's not an item. How could he just throw it away?"
"Don't overestimate human nature. I was watching the news that day and saw a man burying his paralyzed mother alive. No novel would dare to write that."
Chen Ge and Wen Qing stood there. The old lady seemed to be mentally stimulated by something. She went crazy and couldn't communicate. She just kept stretching the bowl in front of Chen Ge.
"Are you hungry?" Chen Ge didn't mind the old man's stained coat. He walked up to the old man and said, "Do you need me to take you home?"
Through Wen Qing's simple description, Chen Ge felt that this crazy old lady was a "good person" and someone he could win over for cooperation.
The old lady seemed unable to speak a complete sentence. She anxiously stretched the bowl in front of Chen Ge and made a strange sound in her throat.
Chen Ge took out a piece of change from his pocket and put it into the old man's bowl, but the old man still held the bowl stubbornly and kept making gestures with his hands. What she wanted was not money, but something else.
The old man made a lot of noise. After the two sides were in a stalemate for more than ten seconds, the door of Room 206 on the second floor near the stairs was opened.
"It's you again." The person who opened the door was a young man. He was wearing headphones and his face was pale. It seemed that he hadn't seen the sun for a long time: "I just kicked you out, why are you back again?"
He looked at the dirty old man with disgust, walked out of the house, and dragged Chen Ge and the old man away: "Don't get entangled with this old guy, otherwise she will follow you all the time, just like a ghost.
Disgusting.”
The young man in Room 206 is the most normal person Chen Ge has seen behind the door so far. Regardless of his tone of voice or physical appearance, he is the same as the ordinary people outside the door.
"Xiao Sun?" Wen Qing recognized the young man, but the young man did not recognize her.
"Who are you? Forget it, I'm not interested in knowing either. Just be quiet, I'm recording a song inside." The young man said and closed the door.
"Is that young man a family member of the old lady?" Chen Ge asked softly.
"No, Granny Li lives in 205. Her son looks very fierce and looks nothing like Granny Li."
"Who is Xiao Sun? He gives me a different feeling from other tenants." Chen Ge looked at Room 206. As the number of tenants he came into contact with gradually increased, he became more and more confused. This is Xiang Nuan's world behind the door.
, what is the relationship between these people and Xiang Nuan?
"Xiao Sun is a college student who likes to sing. He once rented in Jinhua Community 206 for a period of time. At that time, he paid half a year's rent at a time, but he left after the second month of living. He didn't ask for a deposit, and many things in the house were missing.
I didn’t clean it up, and the landlord complained to me for a long time.”
"What's your impression of Xiao Sun?"
"He rarely leaves his room, doesn't go to class, doesn't talk much, and occasionally goes to the supermarket to buy a lot of daily necessities and food. In my impression, he is a very ordinary homebody."
"A very ordinary otaku disappeared mysteriously after living in your community for two months." When Chen Ge opened the door just now, he used his Yin Pupil to glance inside Room 206. He found that there were several lines on the wall of Room 206.
There were cracks and severe peeling off of the walls, and the interior decoration of room 206 was extremely poor.
"Why did he disappear mysteriously? Maybe he was just in a hurry and didn't have time to notify the landlord. By the way, I heard from the landlord that the room Xiao Sun rented was very messy, with mountains of garbage and damaged furniture. Maybe he was worried about having to compensate the landlord.
Money, so he ran away secretly."
"If a sheep lives with a pack of wolves, what do you think will happen to that sheep?"
"what do you want to say?"
"If he hadn't turned into a wolf, he would have been eaten by the wolf. When everyone is an accomplice, and you don't want to be an accomplice, you can only be a victim."
Granny Li also heard what Chen Ge said. Interestingly, Granny Li, who was originally emotional, gradually became smaller in her movements. She seemed to understand what Chen Ge said.
Granny Li's reaction was as expected by Chen Ge. He just discussed Xiao Sun in front of Granny Li just to test her.
It is very difficult to survive in the world behind the door. Every "person" must have his or her own reasons not to be killed.
Wu You is a liar, Granny Li is crazy, and Xiao Sun looks the most normal, so his next situation will be the most dangerous. Of course, if he has "compromised", that will be another matter.
The hand holding the porcelain bowl was trembling, and Granny Li was speechless. She stopped her strange behavior and just followed Chen Ge, unwilling to leave.
All this is just like what Xiao Sun said just now. Granny Li is like a "ghost asking for life" and she doesn't want to leave no matter what.
"Xiao Sun must have experienced something like this. If I guessed correctly, Granny Li was actually reminding him, or she wanted to ask Xiao Sun for help in this way."
Chen Ge was curious about why Granny Li couldn't speak. According to Wen Qing's memory, there shouldn't be any problem with this old lady's voice.
"You can't say it? Or you don't dare to say it?"
Instead of staying on the second floor, Chen Ge, Wen Qing and Granny Li who were following them came to the first floor.
"Uncle Huang lives in Room 104. There are only three rooms on the first floor that are occupied, and the other three rooms have been converted into utility rooms and warehouses." Wen Qing also felt that Uncle Huang could be trusted, so she was even more anxious than Chen Ge.
, ran directly to the door of 104 and knocked on the door.
While Wen Qing knocked on the door, Chen Ge looked at the corridor on the first floor.
Unlike Ying Tong's world behind the door, the internal space of this building is not infinite. The entrance to the corridor is right in front of you, but there is a rusty iron door at the exit. The door is also locked. If you want to go out,
You must have a key.
"The door to go out is locked. If Xiang Nuan doesn't have the key, he should still be in this building. But what if the key is in Xiang Nuan's hand?"
It had been a while since Chen Ge entered the door, but he still had no clue. He couldn't see Xiang Nuan's despair. All he saw was the despair of others. Xiang Nuan himself was more like a bystander.
"The corridor on the first floor has the most blood stains. The blood-black spots penetrated into the floor tiles, and bloodshot-like lines appeared on the walls. This floor is probably more dangerous than the floors above."
While Chen Ge was thinking, the door of Room 104 was opened, and then Chen Ge heard Wen Qing's exclamation.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Ge looked back and was also shocked.
The iron door of Room 104 was opened, and a stooped old man stood behind the door. He was very short and seemed to have something pressed on his back.
If it were just like this, Chen Ge wouldn't even frown. The most terrifying thing was the old man's face.
That wrinkled face was full of bite marks from teeth, and all the bite marks were of different depths, and the teeth marks were not exactly the same. They seemed to have been bitten by different people.
"Uncle Huang?" Chen Ge asked uncertainly, forcing himself to behave normally.
"My surname is Huang, do you have anything to do with me?" The old man walked out of the room with his back stooped, and an indescribable stench emanated from his room.
"Uncle Huang, I am Wen Qing..." Wen Qing frowned and said forcefully.
"Wen Qing?"
"Don't you remember me? I often bring you meals. Once you fell ill, I sent you to the hospital and took care of you every day." Wen Qing had never told Chen Ge before about these things.
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"Sorry, I'm old and I really can't remember some things. Are you a resident here too?" The old man looked confused. He seemed to be very weak and coughed every few words.
"Of course, I live in..."
"Uncle Huang, we want to ask you about something." Chen Ge decisively stopped Wen Qing and did not let Wen Qing continue.
In fact, he had discovered something was wrong. No one in the world behind the door seemed to recognize Wen Qing. The most important person to Xiang Nuan was completely blank in the world behind the door.
The leaflets on the wall that insulted Wen Qing did not include Wen Qing's face, but turned into headless photos.
Just now, Xiao Sun had no memory of Wen Qing, and now Uncle Huang has no memory of Wen Qing. This is definitely not a coincidence.
The door was pushed open by Xiang Nuan. Chen Ge felt that Xiang Nuan was specifically protecting Wen Qing. He didn't want Wen Qing to have any contact with the world behind the door.
Even if she falls into the abyss, Wen Qing is still the same Wen Qing in the world.
"It's a good idea, but he probably didn't expect that Wen Qing would follow him into the world behind the door." Chen Ge didn't say this, he just thought about it in his heart. The focus now is to find out whether Uncle Huang is an enemy or not.
friend.
"What do you want to ask about?" The old man's physical condition was very poor. He held the door with his hand and his back became even more hunched.
"Uncle, has anyone ever gone out through this door at the entrance of the corridor?"
"Probably not. There has been a lot of chaos outside recently. The landlord has added a lock to the door. The key is with the landlord. If you want to go out, you must find the landlord." Uncle Huang revealed a lot of information in just one sentence.
The chaos outside shows that they know the situation of the other buildings to some extent. This community is a whole and there are connections between them.
The lock was added by the landlord. If Chen Ge and the others wanted to go out, they had to find the key from the landlord first.
Finally, Chen Ge also understood one thing from the old man's words. At least in this building, the landlord was a very key person. He had completely ignored this person before.
Before entering this door, he did not have time to contact the landlord because of time constraints. Now he can only rely on Wen Qing's understanding of the landlord to figure out the landlord's situation.
"Is there anything else? If not, I will go back. I am getting older and my legs hurt after standing for a while." After speaking, Uncle Huang was about to close the door, but he only closed it halfway, and Chen Ge caught the security door.
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"Uncle, can we go sit in your room for a while?"
The smell in Uncle Huang's house is extremely strong, the smelliest among all the rooms. Chen Ge feels that there must be some secret hidden in this room, so even if Uncle Huang disagrees, he will try his best to go in and check.
"As you wish."
Uncle Huang did not refuse Chen Ge's somewhat unreasonable request. He seemed really tired. After saying this, he sat back on the sofa in the room while holding on to the wall.
Seeing the sofa, Wen Qing's scalp felt numb again. The back of the sofa was full of small blood vessels.
Uncle Huang curled up on the sofa, and the expression on his face finally relaxed.
Wen Qing wanted to remind Chen Ge, but Chen Ge had already walked in. He seemed to be unable to see those scary and weird things at all. As if he had returned to his own home, he sat down opposite Uncle Huang casually.