Chapter 0017 Fu An Apartment
Wang Qi had been urging Chen Ge to leave, and from a stranger’s point of view, he was acting too enthusiastically.
Chen Ge didn’t agree to go the first time, after listening to Wang Qi’s story, he vaguely felt as if the other party was hiding something.
”I’ve told you everything I can, it’s not too late to leave now, when it’s after midnight early morning, the apartment building will be a different place.” After saying these words, Wang Qi patted the dust on his body and turned around to walk out of the apartment building.
It was not until Wang Qi’s back disappeared in the middle of the night that Chen Ge reacted, he had initially planned to look for the tenants in the apartment building to find out what was going on, but now the doubts not only didn’t diminish, but instead, they increased.
”This person has a big problem, is he crazy or not?” Recalling Wang Qi’s cloudy eyes, Chen Ge felt a little uncomfortable, the man’s eyes were full of fatigue and pain that could not be faked, “It seems that he must love his wife very much.”
Chen Ge walked back, and when he passed the woman’s room on the first floor, he hesitated and tried knocking on the door.
”Hey, newcomer.” The door to the woman’s room didn’t budge, but instead, the door to the room behind Chen Ge opened halfway, and there was a tall, thin man leaning against the doorway.
He looked to be in his thirties, unkempt, with his hair and beard almost joined together, and a peony tattooed on the back of his exposed hand.
”You are?” Chen Ge turned around warily.
”The guy who posted the missing person notice just now is not a tenant in our building, he has a bit of a problem here.” The tall thin man nodded his temple, “Don’t believe anything he says, get too close to him and something will happen.”
It was the first time Chen Ge had met the tall thin man, and although the other party looked scruffy, his tone of voice was the most normal of the few people he had encountered, “That man’s demeanor is indeed strange, but he probably suffered too much of a blow because of his wife’s disappearance.”
”Did he tell you that his fiancée disappeared near the apartment building?”
”Eh.”
”Did he also say that’s what the police told him, and that’s why he’s been coming here to look for her?”
”That’s right.”
”Huh.” The tall, thin man laughed a little, “I’ve lived in this place for nine months and I’ve never seen the police come here, that crazy man is lying to you and talking about ghosts and spirits, it’s just a bunch of nonsense.”
He fished out a poor quality cigarette from his pocket and held it in his mouth, “How can there be ghosts in this world? At most, someone is pretending to be a ghost, alright, it’s getting late, you should hurry back to your room.”
Chen Ge thanked the man and turned to leave.
As he walked up the stairs, he couldn’t decide in his mind, “One of the two of them must be lying, who could that person be?”
Perhaps he was too involved in his thinking, by the time Chen Ge came back to his senses, he had already walked to the third floor.
The numbers that had lost their paint were printed on the corners of the floor, and the sound-activated lamps above his head gave off a dim light, Chen Ge looked to both sides, this floor had not been refurbished, the floor was dirty, there were traces of burning everywhere, and the wall skin was seriously peeling off, as if it was a crisscross of scars.
”Why is the third floor the only one that hasn’t been refurbished? Not enough funds, or is it because of other reasons?”
The sound-activated lights quickly went out, and the entire apartment building was very abruptly plunged into darkness.
Chen Ge had worked in haunted houses for many years and was quite used to the darkness, he didn’t panic and took out his own cell phone and was just about to turn on the flashlight when he suddenly saw a figure walking briskly through the darkened hallway.
”Who’s there?” The light from the cell phone flashlight illuminated the third floor, but the figure was nowhere to be seen.
Chen Ge had the intention to go in and search, but unfortunately, footsteps came from downstairs at this time.
”Is it the landlord?” If that grumpy limp landlord saw himself loitering on the third floor, he would inevitably be reprimanded a few times, Chen Ge thought for a moment, put away his cell phone, and quietly retreated back to the second floor.
Coming down from the corner of the stairs, Chen Ge saw a short, fat, middle-aged man walking out of a certain room on the second floor with a washbasin in his hand, the man was originally humming a little song in a pretty good mood, but when he saw Chen Ge, he immediately tensed his face and walked quickly past with his head down.
”What do you mean? Do I look that scary?” Returning to his room, Chen Ge hugged his backpack and lay on the bed, “This apartment building feels like there is not a single normal person who looks like a murderer ……”
Thinking of this, Chen Ge sat up violently, “The task released by my cell phone only asked me to find out the murderer, but it didn’t tell me exactly how many murderers there were, so if I think about it, there really could be more than one murderer! After all, it involves an extermination case, and the possibility of a gang is very high. No, I need to hurry up and look into the case back then.”
Chen Ge took out his cell phone, his conversation with Wang Qi wasn’t completely unproductive, at least he figured out one thing, Ping An Apartment was called Fu An Apartment a long time ago.
After typing the words Jiujiang Fu An Apartment in the search bar and scratching back a few pages, one shocking word crowded into Chen Ge’s eyes.
”A family of four was brutally exterminated! The murderer disappeared into thin air?!”
”Was it an accident? Or was it murder! What caused the fire at Fu An Apartment?”
”A corpse hidden in the building leads to a case within a case!”
Chen Ge flipped through all the information related to Fu An Apartment and felt his body go a little cold, reality was often more horrifying than acting, because this was something that had really happened and would even befall him one day.
Five years ago, a villager saw the Fu An Apartment on fire and reported the fire.
After the fire department extinguished the blaze, they began to investigate the cause of the fire and authorized the fire damage.
It was routine, but as the investigation progressed, more and more fishy things began to surface.
Concrete cracking, window glass broken pieces of small area, cracks smoke traces of light, which indicates that the fire not only burned fiercely and high temperature, spreading very quickly.
The fire scene has a number of starting points, unrelated to each other, which in turn is typical of man-made intentional arson characteristics.
The nature of the case changed, and the local public security department intervened and subsequently found four bodies among the wreckage of the building, which happened to be the four members of the family who ran the apartment.
The case caused quite a stir at the time, and the police went all out, except that because the fire had destroyed the scene, they searched everywhere without finding any trace of the fifth person’s presence, let alone catching the murderer.
The apartment building was blocked off for a whole year when it was later turned over to the original owner’s father in accordance with the relevant laws, and Fu An Apartment was renamed Ping An Apartment from that time.
”A family of four was burned to death, and the murderer is still at large, so it’s no wonder this place is haunted by legends.” After figuring out the case back then, Chen Ge more or less had a bottom in his heart, he looked at the webpage on his cell phone and suddenly noticed a detail, “The report said that the original owner of the apartment building was forty-one years old at the time of his death, and then the apartment building was turned over to the original owner’s father, if you count the ages, the real owner of the apartment building should be sixty or seventy years old by now.”