"There are so many things in the world that are scarier than ghosts." Gao Ming took out a few banknotes: "Can you take us to your house in a while?" ”

"Yes, yes, but my home is a little small." The middle-aged woman looked at Qian and then at Yan Hua, a little embarrassed.

"You two stay in the restaurant." Gao Ming asked Yan Hua and Zhu Miaomiao to stay downstairs, he saw that the middle-aged woman asked for wonton noodles, but she didn't eat them, and said to the waiter: "Serve two more bowls of noodles to this table." ”

"No, no." The middle-aged woman waved her hand again and again: "Our family doesn't eat wonton noodles, this noodles are brought back to others." ”

Seeing that the middle-aged woman's attitude was insistent, Gao Ming didn't care too much, and after Xuanwen arrived, they left with the middle-aged woman with Wanyu.

"You can call me fat sister-in-law, there are four ABCD buildings in the apartment building on Surabaya Street, and my family lives in Building B." The middle-aged woman hugged her child and complained: "There are passages inside the apartment building, which are interconnected, and there was no need to detour so far before, you can go directly from Building A, but now it is not possible." ”

"Why?"

"The entire apartment building A has been locked down, and it is said that the few remaining residents have also been relocated, and now it is an empty building." The middle-aged woman shook her body and coaxed the child in her arms: "If you want me to say, those people are sick!" What the hell is there in this world? For the sake of a little trouble, it is better to have the time and energy to approve the express public housing of the poor as soon as possible. Even if you live in a murderous house, it's better than living on the streets! ”

"Building A is emptied?" According to the information found by Gao Ming on Bai Xiao's computer, the anomalous event first appeared in a house in Building A.

"There weren't many residents in Building A, and the day before yesterday, some strange people came to our Building B, hoping that we would leave as soon as possible." The middle-aged woman held the child and carried the wonton: "Hey, these days are getting harder and harder, the key is that you don't know why it's so difficult?" ”

Walking on the dilapidated Surabaya Street, stepping on the potholed pavement, several people avoided the blockaded Building A and came to the vicinity of the Surabaya Street apartment through another entrance.

Without entering, just standing outside the building, Gao Ming felt very uncomfortable, his body seemed to be covered by a slimy shadow, and the temperature was constantly dropping.

Wanyu, who was following behind, raised her hand and grabbed Gao Ming and Xuanwen's sleeves, and stopped in place, not wanting to go any further.

The nine-storey apartment, painted with pale yellow paint, used to be filled with laughter, but now the paint is covered in a thick layer of dirt, and every house is equipped with anti-theft nets, like rusty iron cages.

Looking up, the whole building gives people an indescribable feeling of oppression. It's suffocating just to stand downstairs, let alone live in the building all the time.

"Why don't you leave?" The middle-aged woman was holding the child, and they seemed to have long been accustomed to this: "There are a lot of clutter in the corridor, pay attention when you come over." ”

The Surabaya Street apartments are large and were built decades ago in the Eastern District to accommodate a large number of foreigners, with long corridors on each floor, and residential buildings on either side of each corridor.

But this is not a room or a single household, entering a certain room, it is divided into different areas by partitions and iron nets, and there will even be three households living in one room.

Migrant workers from all over the world gather in a cramped space, with completely different work, lifestyle, and even speaking accents, so it is inevitable that disputes and collisions will occur.

"People who live in this kind of place for a long time will be sick if they are not sick." Takamei walked to the end of the corridor and pushed open the window, where he could see the apartment building next to it.

There was a dead silence, without the slightest hint of life.

His eyes shifted, and when Gao Ming was about to turn around, Yu Guang suddenly caught something.

He turned his head suddenly, and in the apartment building opposite, there seemed to be a family of four, standing side by side by the window, looking at him with the same expression.

The four men were dressed in very different clothes from the ones that were in vogue now, and one of the old men seemed to be bleeding from his mouth.

"That's Building A over there." The middle-aged woman avoided the clothes drying overhead and walked over: "In the past, Building A and Building B were connected, and you could go directly through the corridor, but now it is not possible." ”

She pointed to a concrete wall around the corner: "A few years ago, the residents of the building blocked the road with cement, leaving only two roads on the fifth and ninth floors, but now those two roads are also blocked by the police, and it seems that a cordon has been set up." ”

"The fifth and ninth floors ......" Gao Ming looked at Building A again, and the family of four was gone.

"It's better to stay away from these cement walls, I heard from the old residents in the building that after a murderer killed someone in the past, he hid the corpse in the cement wall, and where you touch it now, maybe the face of the corpse is behind it." The middle-aged woman motioned to Gao Ming to follow: "There are two stairs on the left and right in the apartment building, the elevator has been out of use for many years, and it is best not to go to the corridor on the left, because some residents are reluctant to go to the public toilet on the left side of the corridor at night, so they will solve the problem in the corridor on the left." ”

Going up to the fifth floor, the middle-aged woman deliberately made a heavy footstep sound, as if to tell something "something" that she was back.

She put the child down, looked for the key for a long time, and slowly opened the security door stained with red paint.

"Welcome, welcome."

Looking at the house, Gao Ming finally knew why the middle-aged woman didn't let Yan Hua come over, and the house of more than thirty square meters was full of various items.

Shoes for adults and children were stacked high on top of each other, and the doors of the cabinets placed against the wall were removed, and they were filled with all kinds of things, such as rice cookers, exercise books, school bags, and a whole bunch of miscellaneous items wrapped in supermarket plastic bags.

Opposite the wardrobe was a double-layered iron-framed bed, with clothes tucked at the foot of the bed and bedding piled on top of each other, with yellow-brown patches on it.

The distance between the iron bed and the cabinet was only for adults to pass sideways, and a huge stuffed doll was tucked into the corner of the bed and corner.

Seeing my mother come back, the iron bed shook, and two four or five-year-old children poked their heads out of the second floor of the iron bed, and they seemed to be a little afraid of life and did not dare to get out of bed.

"Don't play, there's a guest at home." The middle-aged woman poured the wonton noodles into the bowl, but strangely enough, she didn't eat them herself, nor did she give them to the children, but just put them on a chair and dragged the chair to the center of the room.

The children looked at the wonton with greed, but they didn't dare to speak.

"You can sit as you like." After the middle-aged woman finished speaking, she walked towards the other room.

The outside room is a place to eat and sleep, and the cubicle inside is even worse, next to the toilet is the stove and sink, and the kitchen and toilet are in one place.

Cooking oil, all sorts of dirty seasoning bottles, on the same shelf as vats of shampoo and cheap laundry detergent, and the floor tile drain is stuffed with broken yellow hair, rotten vegetable leaves, and grease.

"There's no place to sit here, huh?" Gao Ming moved his steps inward, and the middle-aged woman kicked away the child's toys on the ground, barely letting a few people in.

"If you look at the entire Eastern District, except for Building A of Surabaya Street Apartment, there should be no more cost-effective house than mine."

"It's not a question of price-performance ratio now." Gao Ming found that Wanyu's state was very wrong, and the high school student's body twitched slightly: "You said that you live in a murderous house, what happened in this house before?" ”

The middle-aged woman was not worried about scaring her children, and said with a big grin: "There is a man who hanged himself, and took his two children with him before he died." ”

Hearing this, Gao Ming felt a little uncomfortable, but the middle-aged woman and the two children on the iron bed didn't react.

"Many of the apartments on Surabaya Street are murderous houses, and some murderous houses are still very popular because they are cheap." Middle-aged women have their own set of theories: "In fact, living next to the murderous house is the most uncomfortable, not to mention the high housing prices, it's really haunted, and they can't run away." ”

As the woman said this, her eyes glanced to the left, her lips pursed slightly, and she unconsciously glanced at the rag doll in the corner just now.

Through her facial expressions, Gao Ming could see that the woman was hiding something, she was not afraid of death, she seemed to know that the ghost would not kill her.

"Let's go, let's go......" Wan Yu, who rarely spoke, pulled Gao Ming's clothes and tried his best to take Gao Ming out.

Xuan Wen's reaction was also a little strange, patted Gao Ming's shoulder, and walked out silently, without a smile on her face.

"Is this leaving? You've spent money, why don't you sit down more? The middle-aged woman grabbed the security door and slowly closed most of the door, while she herself blocked the door.

"Let's go somewhere else first." Gao Ming said goodbye to the middle-aged woman, and the moment he looked away, he saw a huge plush doll crawling on the dirty ground behind the woman.