The boy walked to the door and suddenly looked back. Lonnie and I hurried to the ditch nearby. The boy made sure that no one was following him, then walked into the apartment, disappeared in a flash.
Lonnie and I hurriedly chased after him. Fortunately, there were no security guards outside the apartment, so we walked in smoothly.
There was only one elevator in the waiting hall, and I saw the sign above showing that the elevator had just stopped at the fourteenth floor. In other words, that boy probably lived on the fourteenth floor!
So Lonnie and I walked into the elevator and pressed the button for the fourteenth floor.
The elevator in the apartment was seriously aging. After a violent jolt, it finally stopped.
The elevator door opened, and in front of him was a long, dark corridor. As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, a damp and putrid smell came over him.
There are a row of rooms on both sides of the corridor. The doors of all the rooms are tightly closed. No matter how you look at them, they don't look like they are inhabited.
"boom!"
Suddenly, there was a loud noise at the end of the corridor, as if someone had just returned home and closed the door.
Lonnie and I hurried over. At the end of the corridor, there were rooms 1406 and 1408 on both sides. I was thinking about which room the boy had entered. I only heard a creak and the door on the left slowly opened. .
"You two, do you want to stay in the hotel?"
A woman in her thirties leaned on the porch and asked me with a smile.
This woman had short hair and was wearing an outdated red sweater. Her face was sickly pale due to the lack of sunlight for a long time.
I looked past the woman and into the room behind her. It was a duplex apartment. There was only one corridor on the first floor, with several compartments made of composite boards on both sides. At the end was a spiral staircase that could go up to the second floor.
"Is this a hotel?"
I asked the woman curiously.
"yes,"
The woman nodded: "It can also be called a daily rental house. It's cheap. It only costs 100 yuan a day. It's suitable for young couples like you."
The woman glanced at Lonnie next to her, with a hint of deep meaning in her eyebrows.
"Well, we..."
"If you don't stay in a hotel, what are you doing here?"
Seeing my hesitation, the woman's attitude suddenly became cold.
"I saw you two sneaking around just now. You must not be residents of this apartment, right?"
I quickly explained: "Sister, it's like this. A friend of ours lives here, but we don't know exactly which room he lives in, and we can't contact him now, so we want to find out if there is a person living opposite you. A boy?"
"have no idea!"
The woman crossed her arms and said with a hint of impatience.
"I rarely go out and don't care about other household heads!"
"Then, we..."
I was about to pull Lonnie away, but Lonnie took a step forward and said directly: "Let's live here first!"
I was stunned for a moment and saw Lonnie winking at me secretly, so I didn't say anything more.
"This girl still knows how to see things, please come in!"
The woman then smiled happily, opened the door to the maximum, and invited us in.
"Sister, don't you have any other tenants here?"
Seeing that all the compartments were locked, I asked the woman.
"Of course, my place is usually very busy. People come to stay here every day. Two minutes ago, two groups of guests just left. Didn't you see it?"
I was stunned. There is only one elevator in this apartment. If a guest had just left two minutes ago, he would have bumped into us, but we obviously didn't see anyone?
"Well, maybe you can't see them!"
The woman said something without beginning or end, and then continued to ask: "Which room do you two plan to stay in?"
"Just the one by the door will do!"
Lonnie said directly.
I looked where Lonnie was pointing, and then I saw that this compartment had a skylight against the wall. Through the skylight, I could see the situation in the room on the opposite side of the corridor.
Only then did I understand the reason why Lonnie wanted to stay. She wanted to use this to monitor the movement on the other side. If the boy showed up, we would be able to see it immediately.
"Girl, you have really good eyesight. This compartment is the most spacious, for you."
The landlady said, handed over the key, and then asked: "I also have various drinks and snacks here, what do you want to eat?"
"Two bottles of water, please."
I said directly.
"Okay! Please wait."
After the boss lady finished speaking, she walked to the innermost compartment, opened the door, and walked in. After a while, she came over with mineral water on both sides.
"Boss Boss, do you live here alone? Where is your family?"
I took the mineral water and asked the landlady casually.
"I was married from out of town. My father-in-law and mother-in-law passed away. I divorced my husband last year and he took the children away. I am the only one left here, living by renting a house on a daily basis."
The landlady smiled slightly and said to me.
"I live upstairs. If you need anything, you can call me anytime. I wish you two a good sleep!"
After saying that, the landlady smiled at me and went straight up the spiral staircase to her room.
Lonnie and I returned to the cubicle, thinking about what to do next.
"Ni, who do you think that boy is?"
I asked Lonnie.
"I don't know, but it's definitely not normal for a student to live in such a remote apartment."
"I think he must have something to do with Li Feifei's death. Let's wait a little longer. If he doesn't come out yet, we'll find a way to get in!"
I nodded, and then wanted to call Bai Ze, but found that there was no signal at all in the apartment, and I didn't know if he had solved Li Feifei's wronged soul.
I put my phone away, handed over a bottle of mineral water, and said, "Do you feel that this daily rental house proprietress is a little weird?"
"Indeed, she seems to be behaving a little strangely, and it doesn't seem to be abnormal."
Lonnie said, unscrewing the cap of the mineral water, and before she put it to her mouth, her face suddenly changed.
"Xiao Chengzi, what do you think is in this bottle?"
I was stunned for a moment, picked up another bottle of mineral water, and almost vomited it out after just one glance!
Just now, the surface of the bottle was covered with a layer of water mist, so I didn't notice anything unusual. It wasn't until now that I saw clearly what kind of mineral water was in the bottle. Instead, it was a bottle full of thick and scarlet liquid, with a fishy stench!
There were even a few people's fingers soaked in the scarlet liquid!
Looking at the logo on the outside of the bottle, the production date turned out to be eight years ago!
"It looks like there should be corpse fluid inside!"
Lonnie said in a deep voice: "There's something wrong with this boss lady!"
Even though I have seen many evil ghosts, I still couldn't help but feel queasy after hearing Lonnie say that the bottle contained corpse liquid!
Could this proprietress be a pervert, actually selling corpse liquid as mineral water?
