At 11:34 p.m., Chen Ge received a call from Team Yan in the police car.

"The situation is not too good, the other party is very vigilant and seems to have discovered us." Team Yan then sent another photo to Chen Ge: "After our scout entered the elevator, he saw a mobile phone thrown inside, with such a piece of information being edited. ”

The photo is Xiao Gu's mobile phone, and there is a very strange sentence in the WeChat input field:

"Dad killed us and put us on the stairs."

"My brother is lying behind me."

"My brother is lying in front of me."

"Can you find us?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Ge was a little puzzled after seeing the information on Xiao Gu's mobile phone, not too understanding the meaning of this sentence.

"I suspect that the lunatics have already discovered us, which is why they deliberately left such a message in the elevator."

"You're already in Building Three?" Chen Ge had reminded Team Yan of the situation before, and told them not to startle the snakes.

"The two action groups are all dressed in civilian clothes and have not yet entered the Fanghuayuan community, and the vehicles are parked at the intersection 15 meters away from the incident community, and there are special personnel on standby in the car."

"How could that be discovered? Could it be that something is wrong with your scouts? ”

"Impossible, the one who entered the No. 3 building to investigate is a veteran of us here, who has seven years of criminal investigation experience and has helped us solve many vicious cases." Team Yan didn't think that there would be a problem with his subordinates: "Besides, he just opened the elevator and saw this mobile phone, and it takes at least three minutes to set up this mobile phone in advance without being seen, and between three minutes, our scouts have not yet entered the Fanghuayuan community." ”

"I understand what you mean, which means that the suspect has already set up this phone before you arrived." After Chen Ge figured this out, his face changed: "Where is the investigator who found the mobile phone now?" ”

"He's still in Building 3, and the photo was taken by him and sent back."

"Oops! Hurry up and get him back! Chen Ge knew very well in his heart that the fundamental purpose of the Strange Talk Association to trick Xiao Gu into taking the bait was to deal with himself! The phone with the strange information left behind should be for him!

After coming into contact with many ghosts, Chen Ge has figured out some rules, including Hongyi, most ghosts need a medium if they want to harm people.

For example, I received Zhang Ya's love letter, played Xu Yin's tape, used a ballpoint pen to play a pen fairy game, and so on.

Ordinary people need a "special thing" to be the switch in order to get in touch with another world.

The piece of information left on Xiao Gu's mobile phone is actually a switch, and seeing the information is equivalent to being targeted by one or several unknown ghosts.

"Okay." Team Yan didn't ask the reason in detail, and used the internal communication device to give the reconnaissance team members an order to evacuate temporarily, but to his surprise, only a few minutes passed, and the investigator lost contact!

"Something's wrong?" Team Yan didn't hang up the phone, Chen Ge heard it clearly here: "I may have three or four minutes to arrive, you must not send people in again!" ”

Several policemen on the other side of the phone were discussing countermeasures, and after more than ten seconds, Chen Ge heard the sound of the car door opening on the phone, as if someone had found Team Yan.

After the two sides talked, Team Yan asked him to stay in the car, and then picked up his mobile phone and said to Chen Ge: "The apprentice brought by the scout just now found me, and his master sent him a > "Didn't he give you a response when you contacted the scout just now?" Chen Ge became more and more puzzled: "What did that scout send to his apprentice?" ”

"Just three words - not there."

"Absent?"

"This message is certainly not from our scouts." Team Yan's voice became serious: "It is absolutely impossible for an experienced scout to send meaningless text messages to his apprentice in the course of his mission. If he needs anything, or if he encounters danger, the first thing that comes to mind should be the on-site commander-in-chief. ”

"Looks like the scout may have been unlucky." Chen Ge didn't say this, he just thought about it in his heart.

"Whether he's killed or not, we have to prepare for the worst." The investigator is in danger, and in this case, Team Yan will naturally not squat outside the community anymore: "Notify the first and second groups, act immediately!" Enter Building 3! ”

"Team Yan, don't be impulsive! The mentally ill in the building are very dangerous! ”

"The situation has changed, now we can only adopt other plans, you call Lao Wu and ask him to drive the car to my side first and join me."

Human life is at stake, Chen Ge knew that he couldn't persuade Team Yan, so he could only back down: "The others are fine, you be careful not to let the policeman who received the information enter the building, he may have been targeted." ”

The investigator saw the information being edited on Xiao Gu's phone, and then something happened.

After the accident, he immediately sent a message to his apprentice, and Chen Ge vaguely felt that there was something wrong with it.

He thought of the first thing Xiao Gu said when he called him, which seemed to be related to Lao Wang.

Re-deduce, Xiao Gu has decided to come to work in the haunted house, and the probability of running into the Fanghuayuan community to patrol at night is not high, so why did he appear in Building No. 3?

"Xiao Gu's distress, it is likely that Lao Wang sent him a message first!"

Chen Ge wanted to say something to Team Yan, but Team Yan had already begun to deploy and hung up the phone.

Three minutes later, Chen Ge came to the Fanghuayuan community.

"Has the missing scout been found?"

"I have found it at the corner of the stairs on the second floor, his body is fine, but he fell into a coma, according to the reaction of the personnel at the scene, his pupils are dilated, and his face is very bad." Team Yan stood on the side of the car, holding their internal communication device in his hand, and frowned: "What I am curious about now is how the murderer made a physically strong adult with a fighting foundation fall into a coma in just a few minutes. ”

By the time the two were talking, the scout had been lifted out and someone was taking care of him.

Chen Ge glanced at the investigator's attire, he was completely an ordinary person, as long as he didn't lift his coat, he couldn't find his identity at all without seeing the police walkie-talkie.

"The Strange Talk Association should treat this plainclothes as a passer-by who accidentally entered the game, they regard life as a mustard, and they will show no mercy even in the face of innocent people, but this time they are kicked to the iron plate."

When Chen Ge went to the 24th floor for the first time, Zhu Xiu made a request to the Strange Talk Association, hoping that the Strange Talk Association could help him escape from the police, but the Strange Talk Association clearly rejected him. ”

This little detail proves one thing, the Strange Tales Society does not dare to confront the police, they are like rats living in the shadow of the city, making garbage, tearing carrion, but never daring to see the light.

"Team Yan, did you find the mobile phone in the elevator?" Chen Ge asked another very critical question, the unedited information on Xiao Gu's mobile phone was a trap deliberately left by the Strange Talk Association, and it was likely to trigger ominous behavior after reading it.

"It's been found by a group and put in an evidence bag."

Team Yan didn't realize the seriousness of the matter, but Chen Ge was different, it was a matter of several lives, and he didn't dare to delay any longer: "Team Yan, what those mentally ill people really want to deal with is me, and I can't escape this matter." ”

As he spoke, he walked towards the Fanghuayuan community.

"You wait." If another victim came over, Team Yan would definitely stop the other party, but Chen Ge was different.

He took out a walkie-talkie from the car and stuffed it into Chen Ge: "Will it work?" ”

"Yes, when I used to have a lot of employees in my haunted house, I had one per person."

"That'll do." Team Yan was still a little uneasy, and beckoned to Lao Wu, who was driving: "You two go in together, so you can take care of it." ”

Chen Ge, the kindness of Team Yan, did not refuse, and he entered the Fanghuayuan community with Lao Wu.

In order to prevent unnecessary panic, Team Yan did not notify the residents in the building, and the third building was still quiet and scary.

The dim light reflected the pale wall, and Chen Ge and Lao Wu walked to the side of the elevator.

"Team Yan asked us to follow the second group, let's go to the fifth floor now." Lao Wu Gang determined the location of the two action groups through the walkie-talkie: "Wait a minute, you will be behind me, don't run around." ”

It is very rare for the victim to participate in the arrest, but after considering a series of things that happened to Chen Ge, Lao Wu was quickly relieved.

The man next to him filled a row of filing cabinets in the serious crime file room in just three weeks.

Thinking of this, Lao Wu Chao took a step to the side, keeping a distance of almost two meters from Chen Ge.

"Old Wu, let's go find a group first! There was a problem with that phone, and now the group is in danger! Chen Ge's voice was urgent, and the longer it dragged on, the more likely it was that the group would be in danger.

"No, Team Yan has explained, let you follow the second group."

"Let's take a look first, and if nothing happens to one group, we'll go and join the second group."

"Okay." Lao Wu hesitated for a long time before entering the elevator with Chen Ge and pressing the button to the eighth floor: "The first group and the second group are responsible for the stairs on the left and right sides respectively, and the progress of one group is relatively fast, so the possibility of encountering danger is also greater than that of the second group." ”

"It's fine." Chen Ge replied casually, he watched the numbers on the display screen change little by little, but his eyes stopped at the extra number - 24.

The two quickly reached the eighth floor, and at this time the group had already gone up to the ninth floor, and they searched floor by floor, and the progress was very fast.

Lao Wu got in touch with a group leader on the walkie-talkie, and the two of them went to the safe passage next to them to the ninth floor.

Standing at the entrance of the corridor and waiting for a while, a group leader followed two people ran out of the corridor: "Why did you bring him too?" ”

The leader of a group was very strong, and when Chen Ge was interrogated at the city bureau, this person was sitting across the table, and the Yan team called his name once, as if he was called Li Zheng.

"Team Yan explained, I just obeyed the order." Lao Wu glanced at the two people beside Li Zheng: "Why are there only three people left in your group?" ”

"I asked Xiao Jia and Ah Cheng to answer in the corridor to prevent the murderer from escaping when we entered the floor to search." Li Zheng looked into the corridor: "Didn't you meet them?" ”

When he said this, Chen Ge suddenly had a bad premonition: "The mobile phone you picked up in the elevator, is it on them?" ”

"yes, what's wrong?" Li Zheng is also a great name who has admired Chen Ge for a long time, he seemed to have thought of something, frowned, took a flashlight, and stood directly in the dark corridor and shouted: "Xiao Jia! Ah Cheng! ”

The voice in the corridor came far away, and it didn't take long for Li Zheng's walkie-talkie to respond: "Brother Zheng, Xiao Jia doesn't know what's going on, and keeps running upstairs!" We're on the fourteenth floor now, and I just caught him...... Xiao Jia! What are you doing?! You are crazy! ”

The voice on the intercom suddenly became chaotic, and then the sound of a heavy object falling was heard.

"Ah Cheng?" Li Zheng held the walkie-talkie, shouted behind him, and led several other team members to rush upstairs.

Chen Ge and Lao Wu also hurriedly chased after them, and several people rushed to the fourteenth floor, where Ah Cheng was lying on the ground with his face covered, blood oozing from his fingers.

"Old Wu! The two of you will send Ah Cheng down immediately. ”

"Brother Zheng, I'm fine, you hurry up and find Xiao Jia, he will be like an evil spirit!"

Li Zheng took Ah Cheng's hand away and looked at it, his cheek was bitten and the back of his hand was bitten and wounded.

"That mobile phone, is it on Xiao Jia?" Among everyone, Chen Ge's mood was relatively stable: "Did you two read the information on your mobile phone?" ”

"I didn't look at it, Xiao Jia looked twice when he put his phone in the evidence bag." Ah Cheng replied truthfully.

"Sure enough, it has something to do with that message." Chen Ge recalled the content of the message, it was very strange, he recalled in his heart: "Dad killed us and put us on the stairs, the first two sentences of the message should be hinting at the stairs, but what does the brother and brother in the back mean?" And why look for them in the end? ”

While Chen Ge was thinking, Li Zheng had already rushed to the fifteenth floor with someone.

"Lao Wu, you are guarding Xiao Jia here, I'll go up and have a look." Chen Ge didn't give Lao Wu a chance to speak, and ran up directly.

"The first scout who saw the information was unconscious, and the second Xiao Jia who saw the information seemed to be crazy, why are the symptoms different?"

Li Zheng and the others didn't dare to separate, and they were afraid of missing the floor where Xiao Jia was, so they chased up the stairs, Chen Ge didn't have this concern, he ran to the fifteenth floor and walked to the elevator.

After waiting for the elevator door to open, he directly pressed the button on the 23rd floor, he was going to go to the most dangerous 23rd floor to take a look, after all, Xiao Gu mentioned this floor on the phone.

"I hope Xiao Gu will be fine."

The elevator door slowly closed, and Chen Ge pointed to the switch of the repeater.

If he is the only one who comes, it is really possible to be tricked in the face of the unknown means of the Strange Tales Association. It's a pity that this time, he came with the police, and he had an advantage in numbers.

The numbers on the display screen kept changing, and when the elevator rose to the twenty-first floor, Chen Ge's own mobile phone suddenly vibrate.

He swiped the screen, but he didn't expect it to be a message from Xiao Gu's mobile phone.

"Absent?"

At the first glance of the information, Chen Ge replied to him.

"Report the location, I'll go to you now."