Chapter 0297 – Are You a Ghost?
Chen Ge hung up the phone and touched the door.
He held the skull crushing hammer in his right hand and opened the door a crack with his left hand.
Bright light shone onto the dark corridor, and it seemed like there were two different worlds inside and outside the house.
”Who are you looking for?”
At the door stood a tall, thin man with sunken eyes and rough skin, looking very haggard.
”I just came to give you a heads up.” The man kept his distance from the door of the room, “Don’t ever spend the night here, and even if you have to stay in the neighborhood, definitely don’t live on this floor.”
”Why?” Chen Ge was eager to hear what this strange man would say.
”Don’t care why, just don’t spend the night here.” He coughed twice and stretched out his right hand from his pocket to cover his mouth, as if he was afraid of being overheard, and squeezed out a sentence through his teeth, “Someone disappeared in a room on this floor.”
”Disappeared in a room?” Chen Ge recalled the agent’s words that the second tenant, an English teacher, had disappeared strangely in the house.
”Hurry up and go, if you don’t leave, it’ll be too late.” The man seemed to be just trying to come over to give Chen Ge a heads up out of good intentions.
”How do you know all this? Are you a tenant here too?” Half of Chen Ge’s body was exposed outside the door, and his hand with the skull-crushing hammer was hidden inside the door.
”En, I live upstairs, I just heard you talking to yourself downstairs.” The tall and thin man was wearing a worn out jacket with his hands in his pockets, he didn’t seem to be in too good of shape and walked slowly, “I thought you would leave after coming in to take a look, who knew that you’d even run into the house, and by the looks of you it seems as if you were preparing to spend the night here, that’s why I thought to come over and give you a heads up.”
”I’m talking to myself?” Chen Ge gulped, this would have taken a different person to come over and probably have started to panic: “Have similar situations appeared in your building before?”
”Appeared, but are daytime, like you this big night over I still see the first time.”
”What happened to all those people?”
”Some went crazy, some became tenants here, but those tenants were not as good as crazy, they either committed suicide or disappeared.”
”Some went crazy? Some disappeared? Different people end up in different ways?”
”Neither.” The man extended his right hand to signal Chen Ge to come closer, but Chen Ge did not do as he asked.
The tall and thin man had to take a step forward himself and said in a low voice, “I heard that the people who went crazy came here through regular agents and became tenants, and the people who ended up in trouble all dialed the number of the ghost agent.”
”Ghost intermediary?” Chen Ge’s mind recalled the girl’s unchanging but polite voice on the other side of the cell phone, “What is a ghost agent?”
”This has to start from a few years ago, this room 304 next to you had a murder case before, the dead one seems to be a real estate agent’s salesperson, the murderer hasn’t been caught until now.” The man sucked in his breath and looked towards the upstairs, other than Chen Ge here everywhere else was pitch black, and he didn’t know what he was looking at.
After confirming it again and again, the tall and thin man carefully said, “Ever since his accident, this house has been unused, but strange things keep happening. Often people would come here to look at the house, and when they were asked where they saw the rental information, their answers varied, some said it was online, some said roadside advertisements, and there were also tenants who themselves forgot where they saw it.”
The tall and thin man paused when he said this, and looked at Chen Ge with a slightly puzzled expression, “By the way, where did you see the information from? And …… how did you get the key to the room across from 304?”
”The process was a bit convoluted.” Chen Ge glanced towards the real room 304, “I called the phone number left by the agent when I saw it on the door, and then a man in a black shirt, probably in his thirties, gave me the key.”
”Thirties? Black shirt?” The tall, thin man recited, and suddenly his eyes widened, “He’s back!”
After saying this, the tall and thin man ran towards the stairs in big strides, as if he was in shock.
”Hey! You’d better say it clearly!” This tall and thin man was too suspicious, Chen Ge did not intend to let him go and chased after him with the skull crushing hammer.
The man didn’t know if he had seen the skull crushing hammer in Chen Ge’s hand, smothering his head and running straight upwards.
An old building like the Third Hospital’s family compound only had seven or eight floors, which wasn’t very high, and when he chased him to the fifth floor, Chen Ge’s cell phone kept vibrating.
”Stop!” Chen Ge didn’t get distracted and chased after the sixth floor in one breath, finally whisking up the tall thin man, “What are you running for?”
”The dead man who did the sales in the first place was in his thirties! The white shirt he wore when he was dying was soaked with blood and it ended up being reddish black!” The tall, thin man was agitated, and after seeing the skull-crushing hammer in Mr. Chen’s hand, he clearly showed even more “agitation”.
”Pretty much what I thought, it seems that what I just encountered was the first tenant, what I need to consider now is whether the agent has a problem or not.” Chen Ge’s cell phone was still vibrating, and he took it out.
At this time, the tall and thin man across the street had his body pressed against the fence, seemingly unwilling to approach him.
The screen flickered, and the agent sent over the housing information, on the first of which some of the third tenant’s gambler’s condition was recorded, Chen Ge scratched to the bottom of the screen, and the agent was kind enough to send him a photo of the gambler before he was born.
”Depressed spirit, sunken eyes, thin body type!” The moment he saw that face, Chen Ge’s body had to react one step faster than his mind, and he swung his skull-crushing hammer to smash the railing in front of him.
As early as when he saw the tall and thin man, Chen Ge had this speculation in his mind, that person only stretched out his right hand no matter what he did, his left hand was always stuck in his pocket.
At that time, Chen Ge pondered in his mind whether this person simply did not have a left hand!
”Boom!” The hammer head smashed and bent the guardrail, and the tall thin man ducked to the side, his body twisting up abnormally.
He also didn’t fight Chen Ge hard, and with a strange smile on his face, he jumped over the guardrail to the next floor, and finally disappeared to the third floor.
”He should have run into room 304.”
Chen Ge did not bring the repeater with him when he left the room, and to avoid accidents, he decisively withdrew to the third floor first.
Returning to room 305 and turning on the switch of the repeater, Chen Ge then felt at ease.
”This building can be really interesting, one says it like it’s true, but in reality, each one has a hidden agenda, I can’t trust anyone here.” Chen Ge thought back to his conversation with the tall and thin man, “The gambler has been urging me to leave, I don’t know if he’s giving me psychological hints or if he really doesn’t treat me well.”
Packing up everything, Chen Ge took out his cell phone and looked at the screen.
”The agent’s side only told me the information about the gambler and didn’t divulge the information about the previous two tenants, did she do this on purpose? And what connection do these people have with the drawer?” Chen Ge shook his head, “The severe ghost I drew this time is really a bit special!”
He dialed the agent’s number, grasping the skull-crushing hammer with one hand while holding the phone to his ear with the other.
”Hello, the information has been sent to you, is there anything else you need?” The agent’s voice on the other side of the phone was still polite, and it was almost twelve o’clock at night!
”En, I still have one last question I would like to inquire about.”
”Go ahead.”
”Excuse me, are you a ghost?”