Chapter 0118 – He’s crazy
”What are you talking about? How come I don’t quite understand?” Dr. Gao was overwhelmed by Men Nan’s matter and was somewhat unable to keep up with Chen Ge’s pace.
Actually, it wasn’t Dr. Gao’s fault, the hints of the black cell phone were only known to Chen Ge himself, and the most crucial clue of the entire trial mission was the name of the mission – the room of three.
Chen Ge wouldn’t reveal anything about the black cell phone to others, so he didn’t explain to Dr. Gao and walked to the door of the rental house alone.
Men Nan kept repeating the same dream over and over again, and that dream was the scene he remembered most – washing his hair. The dream itself wasn’t considered a nightmare, and Mennan himself said during the daytime in Paradise that he didn’t feel scared the first time he had this dream, and he only started to panic after the man got closer and closer.
In that case, it was the man who was the real threat to Mennan.
This is also mentioned in Mennan’s description of the dream, that he was not harmed in any way during the shampooing process, but by the time the strange man came over, he felt hostility. The strange man came up to him in his last dream and choked him, which was an obvious attempt to harm him.
The contrast between the two was more than revealing. Of the three men in the room, excluding Mennan, the other two, one was trying to protect him, the other to harm him.
Washing one’s hair in a dream signifies removing dust and washing filth in Zhou Gong’s dream interpretation, and Mennan’s dream was probably a hint to him to take precautions, that danger was slowly approaching!
After learning about Men Nan’s past, Chen Ge felt that the person in the room bailing him out should be his mother.
His father was always away from home, and the two of them depended on each other, so his mother definitely had no reason to hurt him.
As for the person who wanted to harm him, it should be the former occupant of room 303 in the apartment building.
The first time he entered Haiming’s apartment, Chen Ge found red ropes tied to the railing of the building and a special knot, which was a very traditional means of warding off evil spirits. From that time onwards, Chen Ge felt that there might really be something dirty inside this apartment building.
Combined with the conversation with the 301 Dirt Uncle before entering Men Nan’s room, and the quest hints given by the black cell phone, Chen Ge was even more certain of his guess.
”If I want to know the identity of the man in the dream and completely help Men Nan to be relieved of the aftermath, I have to enter room 303 and take a look, besides, this is the black cell phone’s quest in itself.” Harming people in their dreams, the dirty things in room 303 were definitely not good, and were most likely the same as the monsters in the mirror that Chen Ge had seen before.
”It’s time to face those monsters again.” People were divided into good and evil, and the same was true for ghosts and monsters; Chen Ge would never be soft when dealing with these dirty things.
”The uncle in 301 said that after 303 had died, there were no more tenants moving in, and the filth that lingered in the apartment building was most likely the severe ghosts that that deceased person had transformed into.” Among the several types of ghosts Chen Ge had seen, the lowest level was the residual thought, something that didn’t have much power and was just a piece of residual will. A little more powerful than residual thoughts was the Tiny, and a little more powerful was the Monster in the Mirror. He estimated that the strength of the dirty thing inside the apartment building was about the same as the monster in the mirror.
”I wasn’t afraid when I was alone, but now that so many people are together, the yang energy is strong, so there’s even less need to be afraid of ghosts and monsters.” Chen Ge walked over to Men Nan and asked for the room where the landlord lived before opening the door to room 304 and leaving.
He avoided the large pile of clutter in the hallway and came to the first floor, knocking lightly on the door of room 101.
Not a moment later, an obese woman in her fifties opened the door, she looked Chen Ge up and down, “Want to rent a room?”
”En, my friend lives in 304, I want to rent the 303 room next to him.”
”303 is not for rent, change the room.”
”That room is obviously empty, why can’t you rent it?” Chen Ge asked smoothly.
”There are still empty rooms on the fourth floor, if you’re not willing to change, then forget it.” The woman did not give Chen Ge a chance to speak and directly closed the door to the room.
”Is her own temper too bad, or did I mention a taboo, it seems that 303 is really a big problem.” The landlord definitely wouldn’t go into detail about something like a dead person in an apartment building, Chen Ge changed his target and returned to the third floor and knocked on the door of room 301.
The TV sound was turned down, and the scruffy middle-aged man with a strong odor of alcohol opened the iron door, “How come it’s you again?”
”Older brother, let’s take a step to talk.” Chen Ge took out a hundred dollars from his pocket and shoved it over.
The middle-aged man grabbed the money and seemed to look at Chen Ge much more smoothly, “What’s the matter?”
”I want to know about what once happened in room 303, the more detailed the better.”
”303 ah?” The middle-aged man didn’t dare to open his mouth in the corridor and waved his hand towards Chen Ge, signaling him to come inside and talk.
Various things were thrown all over the place in the cramped rental house, and there wasn’t even a place to lay his feet.
After closing the door, the middle-aged man casually turned up the volume of the TV before saying, “You’re quite a good boy, just for this thought, I can’t harm you. Hurry up and take your friend away, this place is not for everyone.”
”What do you mean? There are still taboos about living in this apartment building?”
”It really has to do with that room 303 next to it.” The middle-aged man casually grabbed a bottle of beer from the table, which he didn’t know when it was opened, and fiercely poured a mouthful of it, “Do you know the name of the person who originally lived in that room?”
”How would I know that?” Chen Ge endured the middle-aged man’s breath of alcohol, and wondered if the other party was drunk and talking nonsense.
”That person’s name is Wang Haiming, and he built this apartment building.”
”But I saw that the landlord is a woman in her fifties.”
”That’s his ex-wife.” The middle-aged man glanced at Chen Ge and signaled for him to stop interrupting, “Wang Haiming earned a lot of money and abandoned his ex-wife to marry another woman whose origins he couldn’t tell. In a few years, that woman swept away all of Wang Haiming’s money and sent him to a mental hospital. In the end, it was his ex-wife who saw him as pitiful and picked him up, arranging a room for him, which is room 303.”
”Wang Haiming was in a mental hospital?” Hearing this, Chen Ge remembered the tip on his black cell phone – he was from the third sick building.
”Yes. Whether Wang Haiming was truly crazy or fake crazy when he went in, anyway, after he came out from there, he really wasn’t quite the same as a normal person.”
”How different?” Chen Ge was curious.
”Let’s take a very simple example.” The middle-aged man pointed to his head, “Wang Haiming often hit his head against the wall in the middle of the night, feeling as if something had run into his head, screaming heartbreakingly and arguing with himself. Sometimes the bumped head doesn’t stop even when it’s bleeding, no one can stop him, and in the end, he has to trouble the police to come over in order to get him under control.”