Chapter 5: The Forbidden Room
The building did not have a front desk in the usual sense, and following the advertising prompt at the door, Li Wen went straight to a room on the easternmost side of the third floor.
The door was opened by a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard.
This person was wearing a vest with rotten holes, which was not much better than Li Wen's casual clothes.
"Is there any room available?"
looked at Li Wen suspiciously, Li Wen was very indifferent, he didn't have to pretend deliberately, he knew at a glance that he was the one who came to rent this kind of cheap apartment.
"One hundred and five nights, two hundred deposits."
"If you want to rent for a long time, the price is good."
Li Wen subconsciously glanced into the room, and the middle-aged man who came out closed the door extremely impatiently, and glared at Li Wen with his eyes by the way.
Li Wen smashed his mouth with an indifferent expression.
The middle-aged landlord took Li Wen to room 203, and as soon as the door opened, a musty smell of dust came to the surface. The layout of the house is very simple, and it is very old, a typical budget hotel layout, after handing over the TV and the remote control of the air conditioner.
"Check out by noon tomorrow."
Just as he was about to leave, the middle-aged man's tone was a little nervous.
"You're not one of those supernatural expeditions, are you?"
"There's a group of bastards on the Internet, who call themselves enthusiasts, who come here all day long, and last year there were people with bare butts and naked ben in the middle of the night. I don't know which bastard made the rumor, saying that there are ghosts here, and now there is no business here. ”
"The conditions here are a little worse, but there are none of the things said on the Internet, so you can rest assured."
The strange landlord scolded and left, smelling the smell as if he had drunk wine in the morning, and the posture just now clearly wanted to vent his dissatisfaction with reality in words.
Li Wen said suddenly.
"The cement slab in your corridor just now fell down, you better check the house that is in disrepair, if it really hits someone, it will be a big incident."
"By the way, I heard that there have been fires here before?"
After speaking, he carefully observed the landlord's expression.
"Impossible."
The landlord who turned his head didn't seem to believe it at first, but when he thought of something, a strange expression flashed on his face and he spoke.
"I'll give you 50 less for today's rent, and I will refund you in the deposit when you check out."
This time, he didn't wait for Li Wen to speak again, and had already gone upstairs scolding.
After closing the door and moving in, Li Wen sorted out his thoughts.
"Drinking too much in the morning, with bloodshot eyes, this landlord is a weirdo, at least psychologically problematic. When I mentioned the fire, this person's expression changed slightly, although it was well concealed, but the psychological fluctuations reflected in his expression could not be hidden. ”
"But based on observations, the client should not be him."
From noon, Li Wen began to inspect the Lürssen apartment.
"In the five-story Leshun apartment, there are only one to three floors that can really live, and many rooms on the fourth and fifth floors even have broken doors." "There are less than 10 rooms occupied, and judging by the laundry hanging at the door, they are all long-term rentals. And it's all concentrated on the first and second floors. ”
"Strangely, up the third floor, this landlord is the only resident."
"And as it is said on the Internet, the room where the fire broke out in this building seems to be on the third floor...
After observation, the residents here are also typical long-term tenants of low-cost apartments.
There is a big fat man who has just come back from grocery shopping with a fan.
There was a look of vigilance, and when I saw Li Wen passing by, the eldest sister who hurriedly closed the door.
There are ordinary tenants in a hurry.
The common characteristics are that they are extremely alert and indifferent to the appearance of strangers.
The review didn't end until the evening, but the initial investigation didn't yield anything, and nothing related to the time numbers on the video. When Li Wen walked to the corridor, he felt that his vest was cold, and he turned his head sharply and found that the door of a room on the second floor was open, and a pair of eyes were staring straight at him.
Finding that Li Wen noticed it, the door closed in an instant.
"This is the fat man who bought vegetables just now?"
"This guy is spying on me?"
Li Wen came to 214 and knocked on the door, but there was no movement in the door.
"Pretend you can't hear?"
A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he raised his voice slightly.
"If you don't open the door again, Lao Tzu will kick the door today, and when the landlord comes, he won't be able to find out what you are doing?"
The door of 214 opened instantly, revealing a face full of smiles, it was this fat man.
"Dude, why are you in a hurry?"
This fat man looked obscene, how could he still have the indifferent appearance when he came back from shopping for vegetables before, he glanced around with some vigilance, and motioned for Li Wen to go in. As soon as he entered the door, Li Wen regretted it, and the scene in the house can be described as miserable.
Discarded beer cans, cigarette butts all over the floor, and on the windowsill, there were a lot of all kinds of dishes, some of which were rotten.
"This landlord is a pervert and is extremely observant, if he hadn't used this trick, Lao Tzu wouldn't have been able to live here in the first place."
The fat man lit a cigarette casually and handed another one to Li Wen.
"Take your adventurous spirit to the extreme, just to try to explore the truth of the world."
Standing in this room similar to a garbage heap, the fat man raised his head slightly, and his indifferent expression actually had a kind of "Although tens of millions of people are going to me", this sentence Li Wen has heard, it is the forum slogan of the supernatural website. Without waiting for the fat man to speak, Li Wen had already spoken first.
"My name is Li Wen, this brother, you are also a forum enthusiast?"
There are some people on the Beijiang City Supernatural Forum, even so, Li Wen also admires the spirit of this fat man, according to this fat man, he has been living here for a whole month? In the process, the obscene little eyes also glanced at Li Wen.
"With the current market of the Lüshun Building, you can get in, and you have worked hard."
After a few acquaintances, Li Wen's mind was not on this, and he asked casually.
"Did you find anything?"
The fat man suddenly frowned, and his expression was very strange.
"I, Zheng Sichun, have also broken through a lot of positions, and I am quite famous in the supernatural industry, I originally thought that I would have to take down this Leshun Building, but I didn't expect that I would live here for a month."
The expression was really a little miserable, and Li Wen subconsciously asked.
"Dude, what the hell are you trying to do?"
"What's the picture, what I'm pursuing is the truth, and I'm here to prove that there are no ghosts in this Leshun Building."
One sentence seemed extra lofty, but the next moment the fat man's expression changed, and his voice became quieter, as if he was talking about some secret.
"But... But I regret it now, if there is really a ghost in this Lürssen Building, it is in room 305 here. ”
The words of the passage are categorical.
Room 305?
"Could it be the room where the fire broke out in the first place?"
Li Wen didn't see anything strange when he passed by this room before.
But the fat man shook his head again and again,
"There is nothing strange about the whole building during the day, and even the strange sounds that many buddies come to hear will disappear as soon as they leave the room. I've checked all the places here, only room 305 has a different door lock and the others, there is no card reader, because it is an old-fashioned lock, and the room is completely locked from the inside. ”
"There is only the landlord on the entire third floor, and the 305 is not occupied at all, but the door of the room is still locked. In the past month, I have heard all kinds of sounds at night, screams, footsteps, and even the sound of fighting and throwing things, all from that room. But I didn't see anyone in or out of that room. ”
Li Wen frowned,
"Could it be the sound of a radio or a speaker?"
The fat man's face was even more ugly, even a little pale.
"There are some things that science can't explain. There must have been something in room 305, and I kept observing this room until later, when I couldn't help it, and went in through the window once. ”
The fat man's voice was a little hoarse, even a little miserable, he took a hard puff of his cigarette, put it in the overnight beer can on the side, picked it up and drank it again, and Li Wen only felt a sore throat when he saw it.
"Just... Just because I went in once, I couldn't leave again. There was nothing special in that room, there seemed to be something wrong, but there was nothing unusual in it. But when I came out of that room, I... I had a feeling that the things in that room were already eyeing me, and if I went out to buy groceries and didn't come back, this thing... It's going to kill me. ”
The fat man said that later, he already had a feeling of incoherence.