038. Neighbors
"New moves?"
The man with the inch head saw that Qiao Du was motionless, so he asked again, his voice was a little cold, not very friendly.
"Hmm."
Qiao Du replied without thinking about it.
"It's 404, it's 403, there's a door over there."
The man with the inch pointed to the end of the hallway.
Qiao Du glanced and heard footsteps coming from downstairs.
The slightly heavy sound of cloth shoes stopped abruptly when she reached this level, and Qiao Du looked over and saw that it was a well-looking young girl wearing a thin green sweatshirt.
"Brother Wang, what's wrong?"
The girl knew the inch-headed man and asked curiously.
"It's okay, the new one moved in, I saw that he couldn't find a house hanging around your door, so I mentioned it."
The inch-headed man got out of the way.
The girl answered softly and came to the door where Qiao Du was standing just now.
She glanced at Qiao Dui, bowed her head, and then opened the door with the key and slipped inside.
Qiao Du smelled a little strange fragrance, like incense in the temple, faint.
[She has secrets on her, but I don't recommend you to snoop, remember, curiosity kills cats!] 】
Blood-colored writing snaked through the cracks of the softly closed security door.
"I live in 402, and I'll be a neighbor from now on."
The inch-headed man stretched out his hand towards Qiao Dui, and he was holding a heavy woven bag in his other hand, and he couldn't tell what was inside from Qiao Dui's angle.
"Eat an apple and make a friend?"
Qiao Du remembered that there were two apples in the plastic bag she was carrying, so she took out one and handed it to the other party.
"So polite, thank you, I'll go home and cook first, if you don't understand anything, you can find me, I'm usually there at night."
The inch-headed man opened the door of his house and paused again.
"By the way, my name is Wang Ke, you can call me Lao Wang or Brother Wang."
"Okay."
Qiao Du also reported his name, and watched the other party return to the house, and the pale red text gradually disappeared with the man.
[He's not simple, as for whether it will be a help or an obstacle, it's all up to you to play, friend]
He looked out into the hallway, the setting sun was bringing a golden and ambiguous glow to the city, the deep night was gradually swallowing up what little sunset was left, and no one knew what would happen on this night.
Except for Joe Twilight.
He picked up his mobile phone and found that there was no signal, and he couldn't operate various apps, so the electronic product was like a brick and lost its original function.
You can't even open walnuts.
"That's right."
It's an anomalous space, like that mental hospital, and it's not really in the past.
Qiao Du glanced at the two rooms behind her, 403 and 402 next door.
This means that the girl and Wang Ke just now will die in tonight's fire, and no one will survive.
"Is that what the boss meant?"
Qiao Du remembered Zhou Mingke's words.
Don't try to change things here, it's just in vain.
He came to the door of 404.
The door to room 405 is located at the end of the hallway, next to the door to room 404.
Qiao Twilight saw it.
On the opposite door of room 404, on the windowsill of the corridor, there is a statue of Buddha.
The Buddha statue is pitch black all over, with a solemn and serious expression, like Maitreya Buddha, but the details are somewhat different.
The red shrine where it is located is old and decaying, and there are cobwebs on it, and I don't know who left half a cigarette butt on the tribute table.
Qiao Duan looked at this Buddha statue and always felt a little weird.
The Buddha statue he had seen earlier in his daze should have been placed at the end of the hallway, not on the windowsill, facing the door of room 404.
Frowning, Qiao Du turned his head to look at the door of room 404, which was an ordinary security door, and he took out the burnt key and inserted it into the lock hole accurately.
Click-
The door opened.
The room is very dark, the small living room of this apartment has no windows, through the faint light of this ambiguous twilight, you can see the kitchen counter and the threshold of the bathroom on the right hand side of the door, the faucet in the bathroom seems to be not closed, and the ticking sound comes from nothing, which becomes the only melody in the room.
Continuing to look inside, the room took on a ghostly darkness, like the jaw of some unspeakable monster, devouring Qiao Twilight who was about to step into it.
"Why are you stunned?"
A slightly shrill voice came from Qiao Dui's right, and he turned his head to look over and saw that it was a coolly dressed woman.
This woman is obviously older than the girl in 403, and she knows how to dress up better, and the fat powder gas also drilled into Qiao Dui's nose from the distance between the two people.
[Vulgar people, such a guy is the main component of this world, this is really a sad thing]
The bright red text reflects the other person's figure.
"Yo, handsome guy, new here?"
When she saw Qiao Dui, her face suddenly changed slightly, and she piled up a slightly vulgar smile.
"Hmm."
Qiao Du pushed the door open and turned on the light in the living room, which flickered for a moment and finally came back on slightly.
"It's been a long time since anyone lived here."
The woman glanced at 404 and continued.
"You can call me Xiaoyan, I live in 405, if you don't understand anything, you can come to me, but it's best not to look for the two next door."
She lowered her voice again and whispered.
"Why?"
Qiao Du felt that having enough information was a necessary part, even if he just wanted to live safely until the next morning, he couldn't be a little deaf and blind.
"The man is a little fierce, the woman is a little scary, she has lived here for a long time, she used to live with her grandfather, and then the old man died of illness She didn't say it, she commuted to work as usual, and waited until the corpse was stinky, only to be found by the neighbors, well, it's the room where you live, the man said that the corpse oil seeped through the wall, he smelled it and felt very smelly, so he found it by complaining to the landlord."
Xiao Yan lowered her voice, as if telling a ghost story.
Although Qiao Du didn't know if the corpse oil could really penetrate the walls.
"Later, the police said that the old man was sick and died, and the woman also lived there, and the landlord didn't think about kicking her out, which is really unlucky!"
Xiao Yan frowned, scolded with disgust, glanced behind her again, and then spoke.
"Moreover, I have seen it before, this woman's god is mysterious, as if she is doing something, always holding a bowl of raw rice and muttering something, I suspect that her family is raising little ghosts to create something to have retribution!"
As soon as she finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of a heavy hammer falling from upstairs.
Knock –
It was like smashing against a wall, followed by the sound of something shattering and rolling to the ground.
This voice startled Xiao Yan, and she looked back at 403's closed door with some weakness.
"It's still being renovated so late, and I'm in a hurry to be reincarnated!"
Xiao Yan scolded, hurriedly opened the door of her house and went in, and before closing the door, she glanced at Qiao Du again.
"The landlord seems to be coming over tonight, you clean up, his person is a little grinding, really, don't rent your house if you value it so much."
She muttered and closed the door, seemingly not quite happy with everything.
Qiao Du stared at the door for a moment, and then casually glanced at the Buddha statue on the windowsill.
At this time, the last bit of sunset has been swallowed up by the city's high-rise buildings, the faint twilight is shrouded in the corridors, the street lamps outside the door hit the walls, and the diffuse glow illuminates the face of the Buddha statue.
He noticed that the corners of the Buddha's mouth seemed to be grinning.
The smile looked mysterious and strange in the dimness, and when combined with the eyes made of an unknown stone, it gave people a chill down their spines.
Qiao Du remembered that the Buddha statue just now was expressionless.
He took a deep look at the Buddha statue, and another dripping sound came from the room behind him, causing Qiao Twilight to turn her head.
Pushing open the door, Jotwi entered the room.