Chapter XXXVIII. Case 7: Midnight Terror
Although Hu Zongren and I did not speak, we both knew that when there is a man-made situation in an environment where no one is confirmed, we will classify it as "abnormal", and Hu Zongren and I, who are not normal in the first place, what we think is abnormal, is basically really abnormal.
Sister Zhu went on to say that since there was no key and no one answered the door, she and the property management staff had to go downstairs to the property management office to get the key to the resident. And at the property management office, she also found the name and phone number of the head of the household. When returning to the 23rd floor from the property management office, Sister Zhu still kept emphasizing that it was impossible for no one to wait, and it was not until the staff opened the door with the key that she was completely dumbfounded.
The room was empty, just like when she first took over the room, and she reluctantly searched inside and out, but she found nothing but the dust left from the construction on the ground. She stuck out her head from the window of the room corresponding to her bedroom, not far from the window is her newly installed canopy, and a small opening obviously appeared on the canopy, judging from the shape, it was stabbed open by artificial external force, there is no mop, and there is no bottom, and even the marks left by the rain on the canopy a few days ago are clearly visible, this time, it makes Sister Zhu feel incomprehensible.
But she didn't give up, she looked up again, counting up from the 23rd floor, there were few residents left, and some of them were not equipped with air conditioning boxes like the 23rd floor, which meant that no one lived. The first house that can be seen is inhabited, and it is also equipped with a protective net, and the bottom of the protective net is paved with wooden boards, which is probably used by the family to put some sundries or flower pots. In addition, this house is a bedroom, and the mop is commonly used to drain water in the bathroom or balcony, so Sister Zhu was dumbfounded and couldn't figure it out for a while.
Then she exited the room with the property management staff, and apologized to the people again and again for delaying so much time and so on. After returning home, she couldn't figure it out, and when her husband came home, she told her husband about this strange thing. Mr. Huang, like many men, doesn't like trouble, and he doesn't like to worry about things. So that night he glued the place where he had opened again, and then he didn't take it seriously.
Sister Zhu said that for about a week since then, there has been no rain, but there have been no strange incidents. Although Mr. Huang felt that it didn't matter, Sister Zhu always kept this matter in mind. One night a week later, after taking a shower by herself, she was about to go back to her room to sleep, and Mr. Huang was already asleep by that time. So Sister Zhu lay on the bed while making a mask while playing with her mobile phone, and not long after lying down, she heard a ticking sound from the canopy again, and this time the sound was obviously much faster than before.
Hu Zongren interrupted her and said, what does it mean to be in a hurry? Sister Zhu said that the sound she heard before was like a faucet that was not turned off, and water dripped down from time to time, but the interval frequency was the same and the speed was uniform. The sound I heard that night was more like someone wringing a handful of water out of a wet towel, and although it was not loud, it was very fast, and it was very clear to hear it at night. After hearing the sound, she instinctively looked in the direction of the canopy, and found that the edge of the canopy was indeed dripping, so she got up from the bed and walked to the window to look, and found that the water was not the relatively clean water like rain, but a dark similar sewage.
Sister Zhu was angry again all of a sudden, and she didn't care that it was already night, so she stuck her head out of the window and scolded upstairs, saying upstairs, don't be so immoral, don't drain the water outdoors, this is a public area, you make me add a canopy to make a noise, and let people not rest! Sister Zhu said that she was a little angry at the time, and her tone was inevitably bad, and she scolded a few swear words during this period, purely just to vent. After she finished scolding, the sound of the drop of water suddenly stopped, she thought that maybe the residents upstairs heard her scolding, so she quietly took back the mop or something or something, so as not to cause conflicts between neighbors, so Sister Zhu herself planned not to continue scolding, and her own scolding just now had woken up Mr. Huang on the bed, and asked her what had happened, but she said that it had been resolved.
So when she was about to go back to bed and continue to make the mask, suddenly there was a bang, and the sound was relatively loud, as if something had fallen from a high place onto their canopy, she was startled, and quickly looked back, and saw that there was another opening in the place that had been glued not long ago, and the size was about the same size as the one she had seen before. And the mop head appeared on the edge of the canopy, dripping down the strips of cloth.
Now Sister Zhu was completely angry, she planned to pull the mop head into the house, whether it was night or not, she was going to knock on the doors upstairs one by one. But just as she reached out on the bench to pull the mop's head, she suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Speaking of this, Sister Zhu, like many employers who encounter this kind of incident for the first time, may be because the memories are too specific, and they inevitably scare themselves again, so she fought a cold war, and Mr. Huang, who was sitting on the side, patted her shoulder with a sad face to stabilize her. Sister Zhu bit her lip and couldn't open her mouth, so Hu Zongren said to her, it's okay, everyone is here, you just have to say, and only if you make it clear, we will take fewer detours when we get things done.
Sister Zhu calmed down and said that when she just grabbed the strip of cloth on the mop head, she felt that it didn't feel right, and after careful identification, she found that it was not a mop at all, but hair. Sister Zhu said that it was a woman's hair, which was very long, as if it was under her head and feet, and her hair hung down one by one. And when she pinched it, her hand was wet, and when she noticed that it was a strand of hair, she subconsciously let go of her hand, only to find that the wet strand of hair was not sewage, but blood. Sister Zhu said that at that time, she screamed and fell off the bench in fright, sat on the ground and stared at the hair hanging on her canopy while retreating, only to see that the hair slowly retracted little by little, very slowly, and even if Sister Zhu didn't want to look, she couldn't look away, until the hair disappeared on the edge of the canopy, as if someone had pulled it away, at this time, suddenly from the open small opening, there were eyes that had been open and round, staring at her!
Sister Zhu's voice trembled a little and said, I will never forget that eye in my life, at that time, there was some wet hair outside that eye, it felt like a woman in the rain, staring at you at a small opening, it was terrible. After saying this, Sister Zhu's hands also began to tremble, because the posture of holding the teacup had already told me that she was very scared at the moment. I think it's the same for anyone, especially this kind of person who rarely sees a ghost once in his life.
To be honest, I was also a little scared by what Sister Zhu said, but if you don't pretend to be calm in front of customers, it will be too unprofessional. Hu Zongren asked Sister Zhu, what about later, how long did that eye stare at you? Sister Zhu shook her head and said, just for a short time, because when she saw that eye, she screamed in fright, and then crawled desperately in the direction of her husband, and then looked back after hugging her husband, and found that the eye was gone. Sister Zhu said that she was frightened at that time, and said that she would not live in the house anymore, but Mr. Huang kept comforting her, saying that it was not too much work pressure to hallucinate, she was too lazy to explain so much to Mr. Huang at that time, and she had to let go of the cruel words, so Mr. Huang had to follow her, and the two of them simply cleaned up, called the child who was still sleeping, and went out overnight to live in a hotel.
Hu Zongren said, so you haven't seen that thing since that day, right? Then why are you still looking for us? Sister Zhu frowned and said, even if she is 100% sure that she is a ghost, but what do you say that this house was also bought with all her savings, although she is a shopping mall manager, but her income is not necessarily higher than others, her husband is a bus driver, and the income is completely dependent on the passenger traffic of this line, so although the couple is not living a tight life, it is definitely not to the point where they don't even want a house. She told us that a few days after that day, she and Mr. Huang asked people to inquire about the knowledgeable people, and found a Taoist priest, and when they entered the house, they said that the house was too evil, and if the seven days and the like were not eliminated, there would be a great disaster in the future, so they chattered in the house for a long time, and pasted a charm above the entrance of each room and door, and in the couple's bedroom, which was the room where the ghost was hit, the window was firmly closed, and then a charm was pasted like a seal, telling them not to tear it open. So the couple moved back in disbelief, the first few nights they didn't dare to go back to the room to sleep, the family was in the living room to lay on the floor, the next few days were a little bolder, back to the house but did not sleep well, always worried about being woken up by something in the middle of the night.
Sister Zhu said that just last night, I didn't move for so long and thought that the Taoist priest's talisman had worked, but I was awakened by that inexplicable sound in the middle of the night, but this time I had a long memory, and I knew that there must be no good thing when this voice appeared, so I didn't dare to open my eyes, but pretended not to hear and slowly turned to face my husband, and then gently shook Mr. Huang awake, and said to him, there is a voice outside, I don't dare to look at you to help me see what it is
After speaking, Sister Zhu shrunk into the quilt and shivered. Hu Zongren asked Mr. Huang, have you seen it? What do you see? Mr. Huang's face was pale and he looked frightened, but he deliberately pretended to be calm and said, I saw a person who was only half cut off, starting from the position of his stomach, hanging upside down on the canopy of my house, hanging his hands, like those who were interrogated, but his head was not upside down, but as if he was trying to twist it right, looking at the woman in the room, his face was covered with blood.
Mr. Huang said, and there was a long gash on her stomach