Chapter 0295 – The Disappearing Hand
The Third Hospital’s family compound was so old that it looked a bit shabby, and there wasn’t even a gate guard.
He first entered the family building next to it and looked around, only to find that all the rooms here were not labeled with door numbers.
”The advertisement for rent only wrote a 304 number, how am I supposed to find it?”
Carrying a bag and guarding the entrance to the neighborhood, Chen Ge wanted to find someone to ask for directions.
After waiting for ten minutes, a high school student riding a battery bike entered the neighborhood.
”Hello, I want to ask which building is No. 304 in our neighborhood?” Chen Ge opened his mouth from a long distance away, he was afraid of suddenly standing out and scaring the kid.
”No. 304? Sounds familiar.” Which high school student stopped the battery car and pointed towards the inside of the neighborhood: “It should be inside, I’m not too sure.”
”Please ask again, did anything strange happen in our neighborhood before?” Chen Ge tried to make himself look kind: “The family compound of the Electric Power Bureau across the road is also in the old city, but the other side of the house looks obviously more lively than our neighborhood.”
”Nothing strange has happened.” The high school student looked at Chen Ge, he did feel that this person in front of him was a bit strange.
”Yawen! Who are you talking to!” A middle-aged woman’s voice came from the third floor next to him, Chen Ge twisted his head to look, there was a woman in pajamas who was looking at Chen Ge with a wary face before waving at the high school student next to him, “Go home!”
”Oh, got it.” The high school student rode away.
”Wait a moment!” Chen Ge didn’t want to miss this opportunity, he just came to get the drawers and didn’t want to make things so troublesome.
After he finished speaking, he stood directly under the building and shouted at the middle-aged woman upstairs, “Big sister, do you know which building number 304 is in?”
He just casually shouted this, but after he finished speaking, the only few homes with lights on in the entire building instantly turned their lights off.
”Is it that serious?” Only the middle-aged woman’s house was left with lights on in the residential building in front of Chen Ge.
”Go inside, the third floor of the first building on the left of the neighborhood.” The older woman’s face was ugly, and she went back inside and turned off the lights in her house as well.
”You guys are overreacting too much, right?” Chen Ge didn’t leave directly, he quietly followed the high school students up the stairs together.
Parking the battery-operated car, the high school student, who still didn’t know what was going on, walked towards the upper floor with his schoolbag on his back.
”Mom, what’s for dinner tonight?”
The high school student was about to open the security door outside, when a middle-aged woman’s voice suddenly came out from inside: “Don’t touch the door! Stomp your feet before you come in!”
”What are you stomping for? I just got off of night study and I’m exhausted fast.”
”Do whatever you’re told!” The woman’s voice became louder all of a sudden, as if she was particularly angry, startling Chen Ge, who was hiding on the second floor.
The high school student reluctantly stomped her foot, and only then did the middle-aged woman open the door, and her mouth kept chanting, “Children don’t know any better, no offense, bad luck go away ……”
Continuously read several times, she is assured to let the child into the house: “Take off all these clothes, I will give you a wash again.”
”I just changed it in the morning!”
”Don’t eat if you don’t take it off.”
The third floor security door slowly closed, Chen Ge walked out of the building, feeling strange in his heart, “Isn’t this neighborhood a bit of a fuss?”
The probability of the carousel drawing the drawer was one percent, the probability of drawing Xu Yin was three percent, probabilistically speaking, the drawer was just a little bit better than Xu Yin to be right, not even red.
”Whatever, before it gets dark, let’s get the stuff first.”
I don’t know if it was because he just shouted that, but there were even fewer rooms with lights on in the neighborhood.
Finding the building that the middle-aged woman had mentioned, Chen Ge didn’t find anything special when he entered the building, except that it looked shabby and didn’t seem to have been inhabited for a long time.
When he came to the third floor, there were two households on the left and right, neither of which had a door number, but the one on the left had a contact information left on the door.
”Could this be 304?”
Chen Ge took out his cell phone and dialed the number, and after only two rings, the call was answered.
”Hello, we are Yiju Agency, how can I help you?”
”It’s like this, I’ve got my eye on one of your houses in the third hospital’s family compound. I’m in the neighborhood right now, and I’d like to look at the house tonight if that’s okay.”
”Please wait a moment, I’ll ask the person in charge of the district you’re in for you.” After a while, a reply came from the cell phone side, giving Chen Ge another number: “He just got off work, I’ve already explained your situation to him, and he’s rushing over to your side right now.”
”Trouble.”
About ten minutes later, a man wearing a black shirt with a briefcase stopped outside the residential building, he looked to be in his thirties and acted very enthusiastically, “What a coincidence, my house is in this neighborhood, I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until tomorrow if you change your place.”
”Looks like I’m quite destined to this house.” Chen Ge laughed, thinking in his heart how to take the drawers away without God realizing it, “How about we go upstairs and look at the house first?”
”Good.” The man looked at the darkened hallway and was obviously a little scared, but he didn’t show it and still had a smile on his face, “Follow me.”
He took out his cell phone to show the way and introduced it to Chen Ge: “The transportation in this area is particularly convenient, hospitals, schools, libraries are all available, the price is not expensive, and there is huge room for appreciation.”
He came to the third floor, he took out a bunch of keys from his pocket, Chen Ge had Yin pupils so he could see clearly, and each key was labeled with a number.
And on the key that the man was going to use to open the door, the number labeled was 305.
”This room is not 304?” asked Chen Ge directly.
Hearing his voice, the key of the man from the intermediary almost didn’t hold it steady, and he turned back toward Chen Ge and gave a dry smile, “This is 305, 304 is a murder house, how can we possibly put a murder house ……”
”What I want is 304, murder house or something I don’t mind, as long as the price makes me satisfied on the line, you take me into 304 to see it.”
Chen Ge was decisive, the intermediary that man pinched the key to 304, just did not dare to go to open the door.
After half a day of stalemate, the man walked towards 304 in tears, “If I had known that you wanted to see 304, I definitely wouldn’t have run over at night.”
He stuffed the key into the middle of the door lock, “The price of 304 is half of 305, but there are some things to make clear to you, so that you don’t complain about me later.”
”What is it?” Chen Ge focused his attention, he felt that the drawer he had drawn was a bit unusual.
”The first head of household in 304 was a gambler who owed loan sharks, and he mortgaged the house to the bank to pay back some of it. But the interest simply couldn’t be paid back, and in the end the guy was desperate and jumped off a building in the neighborhood.”
”That’s where the murder house came from?”
”I’m afraid you won’t dare to rent it if I tell you the truth.” The man opened the door to the room, “He jumped in the latter part of the night, and when the police came over they found that the man had cut off one of his hands, but they looked all over the neighborhood and couldn’t find where the hand was.”