Chapter 18: The Gatekeeper

"Go in and have a look?" Charles asked.

"Well, knock on the door first." Cheng Yang said and walked inside. At this time, Cheng Yang knew that he was inconvenient, so he came to the fence and pushed open a space large enough for the wheelchair to pass.

"I'll do it." Charles came to Cheng Yang and got up, and soon Cheng Yang had a way in front of him to get in, and Charles pushed Cheng Yang inside.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

Charles knocked on the door and listened to the sounds in the room.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

Knocking on the door again, there was still no sound in the room, Cheng Yang looked at Charles and asked, "Can I enter this house?" ”

Charles thought for a moment before saying, "No problem. As he spoke, Charles took out a small bottle from his pocket, opened the lid and drew a sign on the door, "I have been in this house before, and when I was a clerk, the lock should have been changed when I left." ”

"What happened here?" Cheng Yang didn't know what was going on here, so he asked.

"Murder, rumors that there was a haunting in that area also appeared at that time, and the address was in the house not far from the next door." As he spoke, Charles pointed to a house in the distance.

"What does that have to do with this house?" Cheng Yang asked.

"The family of the deceased lives in this house, come and come in and have a look." As he spoke, Charles opened the door to the room.

A smell of air freshener in the room entered Cheng Yang's nose, and the smell of air freshener will remain for hundreds of years in a confined space, but this kind of house looks like it is leaking all around, how can the smell of air freshener still remain here.

"How long has it been since no one lived in this house?" Cheng Yang asked.

"It should have been about 10 years, why is it so big of an air freshener smell." Charles also smelled the air freshener.

"What happened to the family?" Cheng Yang asked casually.

"I didn't know where the house went after it was sold, but the price of the house was very low at that time." Charles said.

"And what about the new owner of the house?"

"I passed away a few years ago, and the house was repossessed because there was no heir." Speaking of this, Charles added: "Don't think about it, you will die of a normal illness." ”

Cheng Yang, who heard that it was a normal death, did not continue to think about it, and after a while, the smell of air freshener in the room was not so big before he walked inside.

After entering the house, Cheng Yang looked at the dark room and felt a little uncomfortable, and then came to the side and opened the curtains, the curtains that had not been opened for a long time were instantly covered with dust in the moment Cheng Yang dragged it, and then Cheng Yang opened the window, and the moment he opened the window, Cheng Yang understood why there was such a big smell of air freshener in the house.

Looking at the sealant strip on the window frame, I guess it is also on the other windows in this room. When waiting for the dust to clear, Cheng Yang was not idle, so he opened the other curtains, opened the windows, and convective wind appeared in the room in an instant.

"Cheng Yang, come and take a look."

Cheng Yang hurriedly went over after hearing this, and at this moment, a series of footprints appeared on the ground, as if the dust had deliberately avoided these footprints.

Charles crouched on the ground and studied it, then asked, "Can the person you called still be reachable?" ”

"I don't know, I'll try." As he spoke, Cheng Yang took out his mobile phone and dialed the phone, and soon the other side was connected.

"Hello, I'm Cheng Yang, I've arrived at the address you said, where is the thing?"

"Something? What is it? You made a mistake. The other party asked.

"Didn't you contact me? Say I have something here. Cheng Yang asked.

"Sick, right? I don't even know you. After saying that, the other party hung up the phone.

"What's wrong?" Charles asked.

"The other party said I made a mistake." Cheng Yang said.

"It doesn't look that simple, should we leave?" Charles asked.

Cheng Yang nodded, and in this way, the two restored the room to its original state and left the house. Just as he was about to leave the community, a person suddenly came out of the duty room at the door and stopped the car.

Charles poked his head out and asked, "Is there something wrong with the uncle?" ”

"Did you just go to Villa 307?" Uncle asked.

"Yes, we just came out." Charles said.

The uncle looked at Charles for a moment and said, "The owner of 307 has come to me for many years to put some things, you can come and see if it is what you are looking for." ”

"What's that?" Cheng Yang lowered the window and asked.

"I don't know, a box." The uncle said and walked to the back.

Charles immediately got out of the car and pushed Cheng Yang to walk in the direction of the uncle, and soon the three of them came to a warehouse, which was not very big and had been converted into a resting place.

"Wait a minute, I'll go in and get it." With that, the uncle walked into the house.

Looking around, Cheng Yang asked, "Are there any gatekeepers here?" ”

"Yes, isn't this uncle."

Soon the uncle walked out, still holding a black box in his hand. "This is what the owner of No. 307 left, and he said at the time that if someone came to 307, this thing would be what the other party was looking for, and I didn't understand it very well, so I kept waiting."

"When will the owner of 307 give your uncle?" Cheng Yang asked.

"It's early, it's been many years." The uncle put the box on the table and said, "Come and sit, don't always stand." ”

"Isn't anyone looking for this?" Charles asked.

The uncle shook his head and said, "No stranger has been here for two years, except for some people who repair the infrastructure and people who inspect it every year. ”

Cheng Yang could see that the uncle was not lying, he looked at the box carefully, and saw that there was a logo on the box that was exactly the same as the one on the metal plate in his home.

At this moment, Cheng Yang felt more and more as if he had touched something, as if he didn't need to look for these things to appear on his own.

"Can I bring this thing back?" Cheng Yang asked.

The uncle shook his head and said, "No, the owner of 307 said that this thing can only be seen from here, and cannot be taken away." If you feel like there are a lot of people and there are rooms inside, you can go in and open it yourself. As he spoke, he pointed to the room in the corner.

Cheng Yang picked up the thing and nodded to this Charles and entered the room alone, closed the door Cheng Yang looked through it, and soon found the opening on the box.

When the switch was pressed, the inside of the box rang twice, and then it opened. The contents of the box were wrapped in a heavy black tarpaulin, and Cheng Ah touched the outline with his hand, which seemed to be a pocket watch.