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Chapter 38 038. Neighbors
"Newly moved in?"

Seeing that Qiao Mu was motionless, the man with the cropped hair asked again. His voice was a bit cold and not very friendly.

"Ah."

Qiao Mu replied without thinking.

"It's 404, right? This is 403. There's another door over there."

The man with cropped hair pointed to the end of the corridor.

Qiao Mu glanced and heard footsteps coming from downstairs.

The slightly heavy sound of cloth shoes stopped suddenly when they reached this floor. Qiao Mu looked over and found a young girl with a decent appearance wearing a thin green sweater.

"Brother Wang, what's the matter?"

The girl knew the man with short hair and asked curiously.

"It's okay, the new one moved in. I saw that he couldn't find the house and wandered around your door, so I mentioned it."

The short-haired man moved out of the way.

The girl responded softly, and came to the door where Qiao Mu was standing just now.

She glanced at Qiao Mu, bowed her head as a gesture, then opened the door with the key, and got in.

Qiao Mu smelled a strange fragrance, just like the incense in the temple, faint.

[She has secrets, but I don’t recommend you to pry. Remember, curiosity killed the cat! 】

The bloody words snaked through the crack of the gently closed security door.

"I live in 402, and we will be neighbors from now on."

The short-haired man stretched out his hand towards Qiao Mu. His other hand was holding a heavy woven bag. From Qiao Mu's perspective, it was impossible to tell what was inside.

"Eat an apple and make a friend?"

Qiao Mu remembered that there were still two apples in the plastic bag he was carrying, so he took out one and handed it to the other party.

"Thank you for being so polite. I'll go home and cook first. If you don't understand anything, you can find me. I'm usually here at night."

The cropped man opened the door of his own house and paused again.

"By the way, my name is Wang Ke. You can call me Lao Wang or Brother Wang."

"okay."

Qiao Mu also reported his name and watched the other person return to the house. The light red text gradually disappeared with the man.

[He is not simple, as to whether it will be a help or a hindrance, it all depends on your performance, friend]

He looked outside the corridor, the afterglow of the setting sun brought a golden color and ambiguity to the city, and the deep night was gradually swallowing up the remaining twilight. No one knew what would happen this night.

Except Qiao Mu.

He picked up his mobile phone and found that there was no signal and he could not operate various apps. The electronic product was like a brick and had lost its original function.

Can't even open walnuts.

"Right."

This is an abnormal space, just like that mental hospital, not really past.

Qiao Mu glanced at 403 behind him and 402 next door.

This means that both the girl and Wang Ke will die in the fire tonight, and no one will survive.

"Is this what the boss means?"

Qiao Mu remembered Zhou Mingke's words.

Don't try to change things here, that's a fool's errand.

He came to the door of 404.

The door to room 405 is at the end of the corridor next to the door to room 404.

Qiao Mu saw it.

Opposite the door of Room 404, there is a Buddha statue on the window sill in the corridor.

The whole body of the Buddha statue was pitch black, with a solemn expression, like Maitreya Buddha, but the details were a little different.

The red Buddhist niche where it is located is old, decayed, and covered with spider webs. Someone unethically left half a cigarette butt on the tribute table.

Qiao Mu always felt a little weird looking at this Buddha statue.

The Buddha statue he saw in a daze before should be placed at the end of the corridor, not on the window sill, facing the door of Room 404.

Frowning, Qiao Mu turned to look at the door of Room 404, which was an ordinary security door. He took out the burnt key and inserted it accurately into the keyhole.

click-

The door opened.

The room is very dark, and there is no window in the narrow living room of this apartment type. With the ambiguous twilight light, you can see the kitchen counter on the right hand side of the door and the threshold of the bathroom. The faucet in the bathroom seems not to be closed tightly. The sound of ticking became the only melody in the room.

Continuing to look inside, the room took on a ghostly darkness, like the giant mouth of some unspeakable monster, devouring Qiao Mu who was about to step into it.

"Why are you standing still?"

A slightly sharp voice came from Qiao Mu's right. He turned around and saw that it was a woman dressed coolly.

This woman was obviously older than the girls in 403, and she knew how to dress up better. The makeup and powder gas penetrated into Qiao Mu's nose through the distance between the two of them.

[Vulgar people, such guys are the main component of this world, this is really a sad thing]

The bright red text reflected the opponent's figure.

"Yo, handsome guy, new here?"

When she saw Qiao Mu, her expression changed a little, with a slightly vulgar smile on her face.

"Ah."

Qiao Mu opened the door and turned on the light in the living room. The light flickered for a while and finally turned on slightly.

"No one has lived here for a long time."

The woman took a peek at 404 and continued speaking.

"You can call me Xiaoyan, I live in 405, you can come to me if you don't understand anything, but it's best not to look for the two next door."

She lowered her voice again and whispered softly.

"why?"

Qiao Mu 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 bit fierce, and the woman is a bit scary. She has lived here for a long time. She used to live with her grandfather. Later, when the old man died of illness, she didn't say anything. She went to and from work as usual. When the body stinks, It was only discovered by the neighbor, um, this is the room you live in, and the man said that the corpse oil had seeped through the wall, and he thought it smelled bad, so he complained to the landlord and found out."

Xiaoyan lowered her voice, as if she were telling a ghost story.

Although Qiao Mu didn't know if the corpse oil could really penetrate the wall.

"Later, the police said that the old man died of illness, and the woman stayed there anyway, and the landlord didn't even think about kicking her out. It's really bad luck!"

Xiaoyan frowned, cursed in disgust, glanced behind her, and then spoke.

"Besides, I have seen before that this woman is mysterious, she seems to be doing something, she always holds a bowl of uncooked rice and mutters something, I suspect that her family will get retribution for some evil done by raising a little ghost! "

As soon as she finished speaking, the sound of a heavy hammer falling suddenly came from upstairs.

thump—

It seemed like it hit the wall, followed by the sound of something breaking and rolling to the ground.

The sound startled Xiaoyan, and made her look back at the closed door of 403 with some guilt.

"It's still being renovated so late, hurrying to reincarnate!"

Xiaoyan cursed and hurriedly opened the door to her room and got in. Before closing the door, she glanced at Qiao Mu again.

"The landlord seems to be coming over tonight. You need to clean up. He's a little fussy. Really, don't rent out your house if you value your house so much."

She muttered and closed the door, seeming dissatisfied with everything.

Qiao Mu stared at the door for a moment, then casually glanced at the Buddha statue on the window sill.

At this time, the last bit of afterglow has been swallowed up by the tall buildings in the city. The dim twilight shrouds the corridor. The street lamp outside the door hits the wall, and the diffusely reflected light illuminates the face of the Buddha statue.

He found that the corners of the Buddha's mouth seemed to be grinning.

This smile looked mysterious and weird in the dim light. Combined with the pair of eyes made of unknown stone, it gave people a spine-chilling feeling.

Qiao Mu remembered that the Buddha statue just now had no expression.

He took a deep look at the Buddha statue, and another sound of dripping water came from the room behind him, making Qiao Mu turn his head.

Pushing open the door, Qiao Mu entered the room.

(End of this chapter)