Chapter 0204: Don’t Take the Elevator
There was a hint in the goodwill quest released by the black cell phone: honey, do you like black, white, or red?
Because of this, Chen Ge was more sensitive to these three colors.
Wang Xin’s adoptive mother liked black and white clothes, and the woman she met in the elevator before wore red high heels; there was something in them that warranted Chen Ge’s suspicion.
Re-measuring Wang Xin’s adoptive mother, Chen Ge was surprised to find that this middle-aged woman had a well-proportioned body type, and no matter the color of her breath or her appearance, she looked much younger than her real age.
Not to mention when she was young, even now, the middle-aged woman could definitely be called a beauty.
”Patient number two is very afraid of aging …….”
Chen Ge didn’t have any crooked thoughts in his head and became more and more careful. He swept a glance at the teacup that the woman was holding in her hand and was glad that he hadn’t gone to drink that cup of water in the first place.
”Dr. Chen.” The middle-aged woman took a step forward and seemed to notice Chen Ge’s change, “Were you startled?”
”By you, it’s feeling a little panicked and scared.” Chen Ge admitted smoothly, “Can you tell me exactly which room is haunted?”
”No. 3133 on the 13th floor, the police investigated and found that the white shadow ended up running into this room. But the owner of this room wasn’t at home at the time, and then she seemed to have moved out again, and as a result, the matter was left unsettled. After all, there weren’t any casualties or financial losses, so it’s not good for us owners to hold on to it.”
”Maybe she didn’t move out.” Chen Ge’s voice was low.
”What are you saying?”
”Nothing, I’m just curious, why are there so many threes in the room number she lives in?” From the beginning of the third sick building, Chen Ge had realized that the number three had appeared particularly frequently in his life, even to the extent that the countdown on the mirror started from three after he had summoned the Mirror Ghost out in the first place.
”3133 represents Room 3 on the thirteenth floor of Building 3.” The middle-aged woman explained to Chen Ge.
”I inquired with your security guard here, and he said that many of the tenants on the thirteenth floor of the third building have left. Is it because something strange has happened here again in your place within the last one or two years?”
”It’s okay, we all rarely go out at night.” The middle-aged woman thought for a while, “There’s a place I have to tell you about, when you go downstairs later, you’d better not take the elevator, about a few months ago, a drunk man was taking the elevator to go home at night, the elevator stopped on the thirteenth floor and broke down, and there was a white shadow that got into the elevator on that floor.”
”Elevators are usually installed with surveillance, the whole process should have been filmed, didn’t your neighborhood property give a statement?” Chen Ge silently memorized every word the woman said.
”That drunkard was scared enough to go to the property the next day, and it was quite a big deal at the time.” Wang Xin’s adoptive mother recalled the scene at that time, “The property pulled out the surveillance video, but the result was that there was no white shadow in the picture at all, only the drunken owner blindly pressed in the elevator, sitting from the first floor to the top floor, and sitting down from the top floor again. The elevator opened several times off and on in between, but no one went in.”
”Opened several times?”
”But each time it was short, and only when it opened on the thirteenth floor did it stay longer. The explanation given by the property owner was that someone else might have tried to leave on the elevator that day and saw a drunken man collapsed inside, so they didn’t go in.”
”A far-fetched reason.”
”Who says it isn’t? Anyway, since then, we rarely use the elevator at night.”
Nodding, Chen Ge asked with a glimmer of hope, “That surveillance video, can it still be found now?”
”There should be a backup at the property, so I can ask for you when it’s daytime.”
”Okay, thanks a lot.”
Chen Ge wasn’t a police officer and didn’t have the right to look at the surveillance video of the neighborhood, he and the middle-aged woman chatted a few more times before leaving.
The door to the room closed, Chen Ge walked out a few meters away and then spared back, took out a piece of shredded paper from his backpack, folded it several times to mark it and stuffed it in the crack of the security door.
The middle-aged woman herself told him that the residents here seldom went out at night, so if the door to her house was open at night, then she would be very suspicious.
After doing everything, Chen Ge went along the stairs to the thirteenth floor.
In the entire building, only the thirteenth floor was not equipped with sound-activated lights, and the only source of light in the dark corridor was the green sign hanging above the security channel.
The faint green light in this situation appeared even more }human, Chen Ge held the ballpoint pen in his hand and slowly entered the corridor.
It seemed like this place hadn’t been inhabited for a long time, and the security doors on both sides were covered in dust.
”Number 3133.”
Chen Ge found the room where the crazy woman used to live in the middle of the corridor, and what made him feel strange was that there was very little dust on the security door of this room, as if it had always been inhabited.
He shone his cell phone flashlight at the security door and made another discovery on the door.
In the middle of the security door was a white paper with transparent tape to the effect that this room was for rent and resale at a low price, with a phone number on it.
”Someone else bought the house after the crazy lady left?”
The paper was very new and seemed to have only been pasted on for a short while.
Chen Ge stayed outside the door for a while and found that there really wasn’t any movement inside the house, he wasn’t willing to leave it at that and picked up his cell phone to dial that number.
It rang for a full half a minute, and Chen Ge was on the verge of giving up before the call was connected.
”Hello, I saw the advertisement here in the Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood, the price is very fair, so I want to buy that house you have in the neighborhood.” Chen Ge was a little apprehensive, calling the other party at this point in time could potentially cause the other party to be alerted.
No one answered on the other side of the cell phone for half a day, and only after a long time did a woman’s voice come out, “I’ve been very sick, and I’ve been in a hurry to use money lately, so that’s why the price is relatively low, so if you really want to buy it, make an appointment as soon as possible, and let’s meet at the Xinkang Apartment in the old town.”
”Xin Kang Apartment?”
”My condition could deteriorate at any time, so I’ve found a place to stay that’s close to the hospital, just come and find me on the third floor when the time comes.”
”Okay, I’ll be right there.”
”Immediately?” The voice on the other side of the phone raised a bit, becoming a bit shrill, and the timbre also appeared to change a bit, “Okay, then you come.”
Hanging up the phone, the doubts in Chen Ge’s heart became more numerous, there didn’t seem to be any hospitals that were too big in the old city, was this person lying?
Walking out of the third residential building, he felt much lighter on his body.
Taking a taxi to Xin Kang Apartment, Chen Ge ran to the third floor in one breath, he called the other party again, “I’ve arrived, there are three rooms on the third floor, which one are you staying in?”
”Wait a moment.” The phone hung up and the door to the leftmost room in the apartment building was opened from the inside, “Come in, the house is a bit messy, and I’m not in the mood to clean up in my current situation.”
Chen Ge pushed open the door to the room and his heart seized hard when he saw the woman who opened the door.
This woman had no hair or eyebrows, and her entire face was ghastly white and very scary.