I tapped him on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

"I must catch the murderer and avenge my brother." Dudge clenched his fists and said angrily, his eyes turning to me, "You...... Do you know what's going on? ”

I habitually reached out and touched the wound on the back of my neck, smeared Shen Ming's medicine, and the wound began to scab over. It doesn't feel as smooth as it used to be, but it gives me peace of mind.

Seeing that I didn't answer, he lowered his head embarrassedly, "I offended ......"

I coughed lightly and explained, "No, it's a weird thing, and I haven't figured it out myself, so I can't speculate with normal human thinking."

Sorry, there's no way to tell you now. However, we are in one camp. I also hope to find the person who killed your cousin soon...... After all, in S City, her existence is like a *, and there is no guarantee which one will be next to us to be hurt. ”

"Will she show up again?" Dudge stared in surprise, and I saw a hint of trepidation in it.

"First of all, we don't know what she is. Secondly, why did she kill your brother, we don't know. So, the answer to this question needs to be looked at your cousin's corpse before drawing conclusions. I touched the amulet around my neck with my hand.

Grandma, is it really you?

If it's really you, how can I do it?

He nodded approvingly, "My cousin's body is still in the morgue, and if you want to see it, you need relatives to lead you." ”

I gave him a grateful look.

I happened to meet his landlord when I went downstairs.

The landlord was a middle-aged woman in her forties, and her fat body had become narrower in the already dimly lit corridor.

"Hey, Duch, why haven't you left yet?" The landlady was holding one hand at her waist and pointing at Duge with the other, wearing a white silk nightdress, and her short hair was as hot as a watermelon.

Duch said without humility or arrogance, "I will continue to live." ”

"Ouch, I'm sorry." The landlady spit out the toothpick in her mouth, and her oily face showed a defiant smile, "Do you have any money?" Have a job? What do you take to pay the rent? Hurry up and pack my things and get out of here. ”

She smacked her teeth impatiently.

Dudge's face flushed at the words, and he looked at me embarrassedly.

I stopped the landlady directly.

She held her head up in disdain, "What for?" Annoyed and angry and want to hit someone? ”

When he saw me, the corners of his lips twitched twice, "Yo, I'm still a very good-looking little girl, how ......"

"He said he was going to live here." I said word for word.

The landlady's face instantly fell, and she said loudly, "I don't understand people's words, I asked him to leave quickly, he has no money, and I don't want to rent the house to him anymore." I have such a good house, there are a lot of people to rent. ”

We were standing in the hallway and making noise, and it was louder. A few families opened the door curiously to see what was going on, and when their eyes touched the landlady, they immediately closed the door without exception.

Du Qi saw that a girl dared to stand up directly, and as a boy, he couldn't hide behind with fear.

"I have money, I want to live, can I do it now?" Duge pulled out the money I had just given him in his bag, and it was more than enough to pay the rent.

The landlady rolled her eyes, smiled on her face, and said almost flatteringly, "Why not, it's really ......" said that, her fat hand was like Du Qi stretched out, pulled out the cash, dipped her index finger in her tongue, and lit the money, the more she tapped the smile on her face, the greater the arc of the smile on her face.

Where is this enough for a month's rent, half a year's rent.

The landlord was very impressed with Duchy as a resident, and every time the rent of the previous month was paid in the next month. If it weren't for Xiao Xu, who worked in the group, she wouldn't have tolerated it for so long.

Du Qi's cousin Xiao Xu is not a good person, and he hides his salary tightly, and he doesn't give a penny to his cousin.

And she happened to hear that Duch was an orphan, and she came to Xiao Xu in desperation.

It's good now, Xiao Xu died unexpectedly, and Du Qi also lost his job, so she can't rent the house to him for nothing, otherwise when the time comes, she will lose a month's rent, who will she find to compensate.

In just a moment, many thoughts flashed through her mind, but they didn't show it on her face at all.

casually put the money in his pocket, and said enthusiastically, "Xiao Du, who is this, is your girlfriend?" ”

Dudge's face flushed with embarrassment.

I rolled my eyes silently, I had two faces, rich and not, and I didn't want to have anything to do with this kind of person, so I pulled Duqi away.

Let's go in the direction of the staircase.

She suddenly said in a loud voice, "Wait, I can't walk the stairs today." ”

Duche looked back puzzled, "Why?" I came up yesterday and was fine. ”

The landlord smiled awkwardly, "Because ...... Just now a tenant moved, and everything was left in the stairwell, and it was very blocked. Take the elevator. ”

It just so happened that the elevator opened with a "ding", it was clean and tidy, and there was a red carpet.

I didn't care if I took the stairs or the elevator, all I wanted was to see Cousin Dooge's body and find my grandmother as soon as possible.

The two of us went straight into the elevator and didn't notice the smile on the corner of the landlady's mouth when the elevator door closed, and the surface of the elevator was covered with cobwebs.

From the staircase, footsteps faintly sounded, and a thin, middle-aged man in an ill-fitting wide suit appeared in view.

In the dark corridor, only the fireworks on his fingertips flickered, and there was a sinister anger in his eyebrows, "Mother-in-law, what are you talking about?" What did someone move and the corridor was blocked? ”

The landlady took out the money again, and carefully counted it twice, and then put it in a black plastic bag, wrapped in three layers inside and three layers outside, "You give me a little ......"

The man's eyes lit up when he saw the money, and he moved to the woman's side, "My cigarette money is gone......

The landlady pinched him hard on the arm, leaving a bruise, "Money, money, money, I ask for money all day long, is it easy for my mother to make some money, me, you treat me as toilet paper, wipe your ass every time?" ”

The man covered his head and smoked a few more cigarettes, glanced at the elevator out of the corner of his eye, and was shocked, "How is this elevator good?" ”

The landlady let out a faint "um" that didn't care much.

The man grabbed her wrist and said in horror, "Let me ask you, how is this elevator good!" ”

The landlady shook off his hand, "What are you arguing about, it's okay on its own, it's my business." ”

The man seemed to suddenly remember something, "Where did you get this money, did someone go in?" ”

The landlady tightened her bag and looked at the man vigilantly, "What are you doing, this money is the rent paid by someone else, don't you want to take it, is the money you took from me less?" ”

"I'll say it one last time, did anyone go in!" The man was almost finished with a roar, his body was shaking, and the elevator light was on for a while, and then it was dark.

The landlady's face became a little delicate, the horizontal flesh on her face shook twice, and she slapped a heavy palm on the man's back, "They went in by themselves!" It's not all up to me......"

The man took two quick steps and pulled on the elevator door, trying to break it open, but apparently to no avail.

The landlady swallowed, pulled the man's wrist, dragged him up the corridor, looked around, and no one dared to speak.

The landlady reluctantly opened the black plastic bag, took out some cash and stuffed it to the man, "Dead ghost, you speak, louder, you are trying to kill me." ”

For the sake of money, the man lit another cigarette and smoked, "What's going on with the elevator?" I won't be leaving today without making it clear. ”

The landlady muttered and cursed a few times, still distressed by the small amount of money, and said in a low voice, "I don't know, that dead brother Duqi and his little girlfriend went in." ”

"You know ......," the man snuffed out his cigarette, and the young boy he had some impression of working in a fancy bar, and occasionally meeting him when he went there to spend a lot of time drinking.

"What does the old lady know? The old lady doesn't know anything! Not to mention, the elevator door opens by itself, and the people also enter by themselves. The landlady said impatiently, rummaging through her bag for the keys.

"Isn't Duge moving out?" The man was a little unaccustomed to the feeling of not having a cigarette in his hand, and walked around irritably.

"Heh," the landlady sneered, a sly smile appeared on her fat face, "Today, somehow, I suddenly paid all the rent for the next half a year, I think it may be that when Xiao Xu died, any money left behind was taken away by Duqi." Old man, think about it, Xiao Xu works in the Lian Group, and he lives a poor life, so where is all the money he saves......"

The man took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, did not light it, and waited quietly for the landlady's next words.

"The money may still be in the house, and they may never get out of the elevator anyway." The landlady took the key and shook it twice in front of the man, "When the time comes, we will have fifty or five cents of the money?" ”

The man stuffed the cigarette back into the box, "They really can't get out?" If we find out, we're going to have to ...... lawsuit."

"You don't know this ghost elevator, which one of the first few times we had a problem! Okay, stop the ink, hurry up, go and see if there's anything good, sell it if you can, and preferably find cash. ”

The two agreed, and sneaked into Duki's room.

……

And when Duge and I entered the elevator, we felt a cold breath, an inexplicable familiarity.

The warm yellow light above his head flickered, making it very uncomfortable to look at.

Du Qi pressed the first floor on the button, his fingertips instantly turned black, and he raised his hand strangely to look, "This elevator seems to have never been used, why did it fall into such a layer of dust." ”

Before, there will be a sign in front of the elevator, "fault maintenance", I didn't think about this stubble just now, now I think about it, it's a little strange.

I pushed Dooch away, my fingers pressing on the keys on each layer. Dudge lives on the 22nd floor, the highest floor of the building.