Separated from the short-haired female ghost, I walked the rest of the way alone. I knew she was going to experience the world again in the next half hour, but I don't know what she would do with her future after half an hour. We may make many decisions in our lives, and some of us do after we die, because of these decisions our lives are forced to lead to many events that lead to hopeless absurdity.

It is inevitable that a person will think about problems when he walks, but most of the questions are inconclusive and cannot be answered - the most brilliant and alluring part of life is often a dilemma. I shook my head, trying my best to drive out these negative thoughts, and as a person who has died once, I have broken and opened and closed, only to realize that there are some things that are meaningless to seek truth or not, and that even if we spend our entire lives, we cannot touch the core of it. In fact, despair is a more extravagant thing than hope, hope only needs one step, and despair is a concept that sings back, it is too ethereal, and only life and death have the right to value it.

Following the navigation into a long-standing community, I was reminded by the voice of my mobile phone that I had reached the vicinity of my destination, and I looked up and bumped into a tall and gloomy residential building. It is an old-fashioned building, circa nineties style, with walls still in a striking brick red, except that over time most of it has been occupied by the vine man of the creeper. It's now more than eleven o'clock, but there are few windows with lights on in the whole building, I don't know if it's because the residents are too young and still running around, or the overall age is too old and used to going to bed early and getting up early.

I looked at the location again, and made sure that it was the building in front of me, and then I counted the floor by floor to the location of the ninth floor of Unit 2. The window is still lit.

I noticed it when I looked at the address before, and it specifically stated that Cao Ke lived in the south room of Unit 2 902, and it seemed that he was living with his roommates. It's easy to have a roommate here, otherwise there's no one at home, and I'll have to float over tomorrow during the day.

I took the elevator upstairs, knocked on the door of 902, and then heard the sound of footsteps inside, and the light in the cat's eyes dimmed and lit up again. A woman's suspicious voice came from inside, "Who?"

"I'm Cao Ke's hometown, and Brother Da Fei asked me to come over. "I put my phone in front of the cat's eyes and shook it. When I was just taking a photo, I noticed that Brother Leopard's note to his brother was Da Fei.

There was a sound of rubbing clothes on the other side of the door, a key spinning, and then the door was pushed open from the inside, and the lights from the room splashed out like water. A blonde-haired girl leans against the doorway with her hands on her chest, her hair tucked behind her ears with a cartoon headband, and is dressed in a figure-flattering suspender nightgown wrapped around a satin nightgown. Her forehead is smooth, her cheekbones are prominent, and her nose and cheeks are covered in a thick gray-green cream, presumably a cleansing mask or something.

"Cao Ke hasn't been back for a few days, and she doesn't know where she went. "She didn't seem to mean letting me in.

"Yes, I couldn't find her at home, I couldn't get through the phone, I don't know what she does now, so I asked me to come and have a look. If it's convenient, let me see her room?"

"Come in, you don't have to change your shoes," the girl thought for a moment, turned sideways and let me in, then slammed the door shut, and the lock made a loud "click". "This building is too old, there are many people and miscellaneous, don't lock the door and don't feel at ease, don't mind. ”

The interior of this apartment is very different from the outside, with a clean and warm Mediterranean style, which at one point made me wonder if the freshly creaked elevator and the sometimes bad hallway lights were real. The apartment is a two-bedroom structure, with a modest living room with fabric sofas, curved TVs and half-height Xiaoice cabinets, and crystal ceiling lamps decorated with starfish. The bedroom door on the left hand side is closed, while the door on the right hand side is hidden, and an ambiguous pink light leaks through the crack in the door. I noticed a couple of open delivery boxes scattered around the couch, a couple of translucent bags next to it, and the lace looked like unopened erotic lingerie.

I was a little embarrassed to see this for the first time in this kind of place, but the girl didn't care. She looks younger and more petite than me, and she has a childish look between her eyebrows and eyes. She pointed to the door on the left, "Cao Ke lives there," and sat back on the couch as she continued to admire the loot she had made.

"How long has she not been back?"

"A week, ten days, maybe longer, I didn't really care. Anyway, I haven't seen her lately, and no guests have come to look for her. Da Fei has been here a few times recently. ”

Such a weak roommate is good for my investigative work. I tried to push open the closed door, but I was surprised to find that Cao Ke did not lock the room, I don't know if she was weak in defense, or if she didn't have time to lock the door.

The room was pitch black, the curtains were tightly drawn, and there was hardly any light source. I tentatively felt for the switch on the wall, and with a crack, the room was lit again.

The dull smell of captivity in the air was also re-lit by the lights. This kind of smell, which only occurs when it has been uninhabited for a period of time, can only be distinguished by those with a keen sense of smell. The walls of the house are covered with Turkish tapestries with gold patterns that echo the plush carpet on the floor, and a round bed is placed in the center of the room, and a round mercury mirror is placed opposite the ceiling, which reflects the European bed. In addition to this, there is a bulky cream-white carved wardrobe in the room, and a chair that resembles gym equipment.

Such a nondescript and ambiguous decoration style reminds me of a lot of love hotel advertisements. I cautiously walked into the house, trying not to step on the white carpet.

The futon on the bed was not neatly tied, but spread out haphazardly, with a few pieces of worn-out women's clothing on it. I flipped the pillow open, found a box of condoms and a few hairs of varying lengths underneath, and put the longest one in the pouch I carried with me. Then I opened the closet again, and found a door on the left full of revealing underwear, handcuffs and ropes and other utensils - I was so frightened that I quickly closed the closet door.

Opening another door, Cao Ke's true side was revealed in front of my eyes. There are a few clothes that ordinary girls like hanging in the closet, the style is not new, and it seems that they have been worn for some years. There were a few shoeboxes under my clothes, and I picked them up and shook them, and found that one of them was empty. The shoebox was opened, and it contained several boxes of accessories, a document bag containing the contract, as well as her ID card and bank passbook.

I took out my phone and took a picture of her ID card and contract, and then looked at her passbook in general. Cao Ke's name is written in the column of the account holder, and I noticed that she used to deposit a fixed amount of money every month, four thousand six each time, which adds up to a lot, and the total amount is getting bigger and bigger. What is different from usual is that her last deposit was half a month ago, and she saved 80,000 yuan in one go. Not a small amount.

It seems that her disappearance is not simple. I put her things in order and put them back in the closet. My hand touched a hard, smooth thing in the closet, as if in a compartment between a shoebox. I took it out and found it a metallic wooden frame, showing a family of four snuggling up to each other, looking poor but happy. It seems to be Cao Ke and her parents and younger brother.

I sighed and placed the frame on top of the shoebox, but it seemed to be damaged by the foot that supported the force and slid behind the shoebox again. I closed the closet again, turned off the lights again, and the room was quiet as if no one had entered or left.

Cao Ke's roommate saw me come out and used the key to open the security door, and the voice-activated light in the corridor lit up because of the sound of the door opening, like a faint exclamation mark.

"Thank you for bothering so late. ”

She didn't speak, but waved at me as a farewell.

I took the elevator downstairs and walked out of the unit door, and there was silence all around, except for the sound of songworms rubbing their wings. At twelve o'clock in the night, the moon hung silently in the air, reminding me of my mother's red bean pie.