The street lamp stretched Chen Ge's shadow for a long time, and there was no one on the street, and occasionally stray cats could be seen running past the garbage cans, making a sound of squirming.

"On the back side of the bustling city, there is such a quiet neighborhood." Chen Ge walked through the middle of the dark buildings and walked along the narrow cement road to the deepest part of the residential area.

There is a faint stench wafting in the air, the garbage cans on the side of the road have not been cleaned for a long time, and all kinds of household garbage packed in plastic bags are piled together, and from time to time something runs out of them.

Compared with the previous buildings, the building in front of Chen Ge looked more dilapidated, with various stains on the walls on the first floor, and a lot of sundries placed at the entrance of the corridor.

"Found it." Chen Ge looked at the six-storey apartment building in front of him, and the advertisement outside the residential area said that this was here.

"The mission site released by the black phone is room 303 on the third floor, and Mennan should live there." Chen Ge glanced at the time, six minutes away from eight o'clock in the evening: "After Doctor Gao comes, it may be a little inconvenient, I'll go first to understand the situation." ”

He didn't call Dr. Gao and went straight into the hallway.

The floor is very low, about two meters or so on the first floor, the guardrail is iron, and every other distance, there will be a red rope wrapped around it, and I don't know what it is for.

Entering it, Chen Ge smelled a strange smell. It's very light, and it's not a smell, people who are used to living will even slowly ignore this smell, and Chen Ge is also more sensitive because he is here for the first time.

"It's kind of like the smell of a bad meal." Chen Ge paused on the first floor, trying to find the source of the smell, but to no avail, the smell seemed to emanate from the apartment building itself, soaking into every wall tile.

There was no light in the corridor, so Chen Ge took out his mobile phone to illuminate it.

There are four families living on the first floor, which is very crowded, and the sound insulation of the building is not good, and the quarrel inside can be clearly heard outside.

Lightly, Chen Ge came to the third floor, he did not take the liberty to knock on the door of 303, but first stood outside the door and listened to the sound in the house.

In the four households on the third floor, the sound of the TV in 301 is very loud; There was a man on the phone in 302, his mood was not very stable, and the two sentences that Chen Ge could hear him repeat the most were - don't you push me anymore, do you want to force me to death?

There was no sound in the two rooms 303 and 304, and it was very quiet.

After staying for two or three minutes, Chen Ge gently knocked on the door of room 303, and the interesting thing was that he just knocked on the door of room 303.

The sound of the TV in 301 was immediately lowered, and the man in 302 seemed to stop calling, and the entire third floor suddenly fell silent.

Chen Ge knocked on the door for a minute, but the door still hadn't opened, he had doubts and shouted in a low voice: "Mennan? At home? ”

After about ten seconds, the door of room 301 opened, and a very sloppy middle-aged man was lying on the door frame, and he exuded a strong smell of alcohol: "Hey! Who are you looking for? ”

"303's Mennan, he is a student of Jiujiang Medical University."

"You're wrong, I don't know who Mennan is, but he definitely doesn't live in 303." The man scratched his face, and the left side of his face seemed to have been bitten by a mosquito, and the skin had been scratched.

"But my friend told me he lived in this room." Chen Ge wanted to say something from the middle-aged man's mouth: "Besides, you don't know Mennan, why are you sure that he doesn't live in this room." ”

"303 has died, this house has not been rented out since the accident, why do you say?" The middle-aged man put his hand in front of his eyes, looked at the remaining blood stains on his fingertips, and scratched the wound even more: "Don't knock on the door of 303 again, do you hear me?" It's unlucky. ”

After speaking, the middle-aged man closed the door, but Chen Ge noticed that the sound of the TV in the room was not turned up, and the middle-aged man probably did not leave, but was hiding at the door and paying attention to his every move.

Chen Ge didn't knock on the door again, he had already obtained a very important clue from the man's mouth - 303 had died, and since the accident, this room has never been rented out.

The mission site that the black phone said had been found, and the key now was to find a way to get in and check it out before twelve o'clock in the night.

"The black phone has never been wrong, and the cause of Mennan is probably related to this room." Chen Ge looked at the table below, it was already eight o'clock.

He called Dr. Gao, who was afraid that he would not be able to find his way, so he had been guarding outside the residential area and had not yet come in.

After explaining the situation on the phone, Dr. Gao led Mennan into the corridor.

When he saw Mennan again, Chen Ge was taken aback, this young man now looked completely different from a normal person, like a natural deformity.

His head and spine were almost misaligned, and his head hung low, as if he had been pressed downward.

Chen Ge pointed at Mennan and looked at Doctor Gao with an inquiring look.

Doctor Gao immediately understood what Chen Ge meant, and shook his head slightly: "The situation is even worse, after taking the medicine, it is not easy to stabilize, let's go in and talk about it." ”

Mennan, with his head down, took out the key from his pocket. The hallway was dimly lit, and he tried several times, but the key couldn't fit into the lockhole, and his arm trembled angrily, as if he was about to get sick again.

Seeing him at this scene, Chen Ge hurriedly took the key and helped him open the door of 304.

When the three of them entered the house, Dr. Gao and Mennan were used to it and didn't feel anything, but Chen Ge was here for the first time, and as soon as he entered the door, he smelled the strange smell like something had deteriorated.

"Seems to be coming out of the walls." Chen Ge glanced left and right, the house was very clean, there was no garbage in the paper basket, and he couldn't find anything that could emit a smell: "Could it be that there is a corpse hidden in the wall?" ”

Soon Chen Ge vetoed this speculation, the deepest wall in the corridor on the third floor of the Ping'an apartment was thickened by Wang Qi, and a corpse could not be stuffed into the wall of a normal apartment.

"Looking for what?" Dr. Gao noticed that Chen Ge was acting very abnormally as soon as he entered the room, so he opened his mouth to ask.

"Do you smell a strange smell?" Chen Ge finally stopped next to the wall between 303 and 304, where the stench was the strongest.

"It's a little, the old house will produce some weird smells." Dr. Gao helped Mennan to the bedside, but Mennan refused to come near the bed, he would rather stand than sit on the bed.

Chen Ge glanced at Mennan and asked softly, "What's wrong with him?" ”

"He was afraid that he would fall asleep, and in the last dream, the man had already choked his neck, and if he fell asleep again, he might never wake up again."