It's finally dawn! Lu Tao got up immediately, washed up briefly and hurried out, but when he arrived at the parking lot, he remembered that his car was still broken downstairs in the company. Lu Tao looked down at his watch, it was only seven o'clock in the morning, I don't know if it was because he was anxious, Lu Tao obviously felt the heat of the weather at the moment. Lu Tao didn't want to delay more, and hurriedly went to the side of the road to prepare to take a taxi to the apartment, and finally got one, but as soon as he got in the car, he received a text message from his assistant Xiao Liu: "Mr. Lu, I'm sorry, I bothered you so early because the customer called early the day before yesterday, and some details of the last meeting need to be further communicated, and I will arrive at the company at half past eight, please be sure to be there." ”

Lu Tao scolded in a low voice, and was going to reply that he was still sick and couldn't be there, but halfway through the editing of the text message, he still deleted it, and finally replied simply: "Okay, I'll be on time." This customer is too important, Lu Tao didn't want to end up affecting this business because of Li Xiaomeng's matter, so he immediately decided to turn the taxi around and drive directly to the company.

At half past eight, the customer arrived at the company on time, Lu Tao originally thought that it was just to talk about a few simple details, and it would be over in a while, but he didn't expect that this conversation was a whole day, and the time was almost five o'clock in the afternoon.

Finally stayed up until half past five, the meeting finally ended, Lu Tao hurriedly walked out of the company gate, but when he arrived at the parking lot, he glanced at his car, and couldn't help but be irritable again, he didn't want to delay time in this car, from the beginning, Li Xiaomeng had not contacted him for almost three days, which was absolutely impossible before, and something must have happened this time.

Lu Tao was thinking about it, when suddenly a hoarse voice sounded behind him: "Do you want a ride?" ”

This sudden voice really startled Lu Tao, he quickly turned around and looked, and the person who asked was the old man in the taxi he met the day before, who was looking at him at the moment. Lu Tao was a little annoyed, but it can be seen that he was also kind to ask, so he suppressed the fire again, and secretly thought to himself, what is the matter with this old man? It's like knowing that his car is broken down and deliberately waiting for him here to pull him, but now he really needs to take a taxi, so he replied, "Well, yes, let's go." ”

The old man didn't say much, he led Lu Tao into the car, and as soon as he got in the car, he asked in a hoarse voice: "Is it still Lin Hai's apartment?" ”

Lu Tao was stunned for a moment and replied, "Well, master, hurry up!" I'm in a hurry. ”

The old man glanced at Lu Tao anxiously from the rearview mirror, stopped answering, stepped on the accelerator, and set off.

There was no rain today, and the old man drove quite fast, but Lu Tao always felt that the old man was secretly looking at him from the rearview mirror, and he unconsciously remembered the old man's words the day before yesterday, so Lu Tao opened his mouth and said: "Master, do you see that my Yintang is still black today?" ”

After hearing this, the old man sighed softly, looked at Lu Tao from the rearview mirror and said, "I was just about to tell you, it's darker than that day!" ”

The old man's words suddenly made Lu Tao's back cold, this hot day was like putting a cold air conditioner behind him, but Lu Tao was no longer as angry as the day before yesterday, thinking about these two nights, was the old man right? So he was about to ask again, but at this time, Lu Tao's mobile phone suddenly rang, Lu Tao picked up the mobile phone and saw that it was an unfamiliar call, he hesitated, but still connected.

A voice immediately came from the other end of the phone, a female voice in her thirties, who asked: "Hello, are you Mr. Lu Tao, the owner of No. 1014 Building A of Linhai Apartment?" ”

Lu Tao was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, could it be that something happened? So he replied a little nervously, "Well... Yes, are you? ”

The other end of the phone replied: "Sorry, I'm sorry to disturb you, I am the property of Linhai Apartment, someone has reported a foul smell coming from your apartment, we want to know the situation." ”

Lu Tao's brain seemed to have been struck by lightning suddenly, and the hand holding the phone began to tremble a little unconsciously, and replied with a stumbling voice: "Evil... Stinking? Is there a mistake? ”

"There should be nothing wrong, we have checked the apartments left and right, and the smell is indeed coming from your apartment, so please come over and deal with it as soon as possible, okay?" The tone on the other end of the phone affirmed.

Lu Tao hesitated for a moment, then said "um", trembled his fingers, and hung up the phone. What would that be? Lu Tao didn't dare to continue thinking about it, and hurriedly raised his head and said to the old man: "Master, please hurry up again!" ”

The old man saw the change in Lu Tao's expression, and did not answer, but sighed lightly and increased the throttle a little.

Finally, when the car arrived at the gate of Lin Hai's apartment, Lu Tao paid the money and got out of the car, the old man looked at Lu Tao, and stopped talking, so he turned around and left quickly.

I don't know why, at this moment, Lu Tao looked at Lin Hai's apartment, his heart was very depressed, like a huge dark cloud pressing on him, he was eager to get here, but he really arrived, but he never took a step into it, he was extremely worried in his heart, and he even began to dare not face what was about to happen for a while. Since answering the call from the property, he has a strong, uneasy premonition in his heart that Li Xiaomeng may really be... Something went wrong.

But things always have to be faced, after several struggles, Lu Tao still walked into the apartment, he trembled and pressed the tenth floor, the elevator slowly went up, but this short time of less than a minute is better than a year for Lu Tao, the elevator finally came to the tenth floor, Lu Tao walked out of the elevator with heavy steps, the lights in the aisle have been restored, and it is extremely bright at the moment, but Lu Tao seems to be still in the dark, the closer to apartment 1014, the more nervous his heart is.

After walking a few steps, Lu Tao smelled a pungent stench, the smell was like the smell of rotting animal corpses, extremely strong, Lu Tao hadn't eaten much for two days, and suddenly asked about this smell at this moment, he was almost smoked and vomited, Lu Tao covered his mouth and retched for a long time, probably because there was really no food in his stomach, otherwise he would have vomited all over the place. No wonder the property calls themselves, the smell is really unbearable for anyone.

Lu Tao covered his mouth and continued to walk forward, but the more he walked, the stronger the smell became, and when he walked to the door of his apartment, the smell was already permeating everywhere, Lu Tao put down his hand and tried to smell it everywhere, the smell seemed to really come from inside, Lu Tao immediately stepped forward and slapped the door hard, but it was still the same as before, there was no movement in the house!

"Click"! The door of his apartment was not opened, but the door behind him was opened, and it was the woman Lu Tao met that day who came out, the woman wore a mask, and when she saw that it was Lu Tao, she immediately scolded loudly: "What are you doing?" The smell doesn't make people live in the end! ”

Lu Tao was scolded, but not only did he not get angry, but hurriedly asked, "Have you seen my girlfriend?" I didn't have a key with me, there seemed to be no one inside! ”

The woman then scolded: "I haven't seen any girlfriend of yours just now, I warn you, deal with it quickly, or I'll call the police in a while!" Without waiting for Lu Tao to reply, he turned around and went back to the house directly, slamming the door slammed shut.

Lu Tao couldn't stand the smell, so he hurriedly ran to the elevator room, dialed the property phone, and roughly explained the situation, and the property staff politely replied: "Okay, our unlocker will arrive in ten minutes, please wait." ”

Ten minutes of waiting, but for Lu Tao it seems like a year, the master who finally unlocked the lock arrived, Lu Tao hurriedly took the master to apartment 1014, the master who unlocked the lock was also smoked by the pungent stench and vomited frequently, but it was inconvenient to have a seizure due to his professionalism, hearing that there was movement here, the woman on the other side of the door also opened the door, leaned against the door and stared at this side tightly, she was also curious about what was going on here! Lu Tao is also in the same situation, he knows that he is wrong, and he can't say anything.

After about five minutes, I heard the "click" of the door lock, and the locksmith whispered: "Okay, the lock is opened." After hearing this, the woman hurriedly took a step forward and looked over with her head in her head.

The locksmith packed up his tools, collected the money, and turned to leave. Lu Tao held the doorknob, looked at the woman behind him, and was about to open the door, but at this moment his palms were full of sweat, and his back was constantly breaking out in cold sweat, he hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth, as if he had made a lot of determination, twisted the doorknob, and opened the door...

As soon as the door opened a crack, a stronger stench came out, Lu Tao was so smoked that he hurriedly covered his nose, and the woman behind him saw that the door was open, and unconsciously walked a few more steps; Seeing this, Lu Tao simply pushed the door open with force...

When Lu Tao was stunned by the terrifying scene in front of him, a woman's hysterical scream suddenly broke out behind him, and then the woman's eyes closed, and she fainted with fright, and fell to the ground with a "bang"...

The door of the apartment is facing the living room, and at this moment, Li Xiaomeng is wearing a red long dress, a thick hemp rope around her neck, and she fell straight to death in the living room, her hands and legs are stiff and naturally drooping, and one hand seems to be holding something tightly; Her hair is scattered, she should have experienced a violent struggle before she died, the temperature has risen sharply in the past two days, Li Xiaomeng's body has begun to decompose, and her face is crawling with maggots at the moment, but it is not difficult to see that before she died, she applied bright red lipstick to herself, and the nails of her hands and feet were also covered with bright red nail polish; Li Xiaomeng's eyes have turned white, and the whole bulges out of the eye sockets, one of the eyeballs even hangs down in mid-air, her tongue is stretched out, and there are maggots crawling in her mouth, what is really chilling is that there is still a strange smile on the corner of her mouth, and the scene in front of her is exactly the same as the Li Xiaomeng that Lu Tao saw in his dream...

The stench coming from the house came from Li Xiaomeng's corpse, there was a chair that was kicked over under her, the light in the living room was on, there was a window that didn't seem to be closed tightly, and the occasional wind blew in made the corpse shake gently in the living room...

Lu Tao looked at Li Xiaomeng with wide eyes, and suddenly his legs went weak, and he immediately collapsed at the door...