r18novel Chapter 56, Person 404
Chapter 56, Person 404
"It's caused by supernatural forces." Sun Rui covered his nose and went inside.
The animal carcasses on the ground all died in strange ways. Some looked like they had been bitten to death, while others had their fur stuck together and water stains on them, indicating they hadn't been dead for long.
The curtains in room 404 were drawn, preventing sunlight from entering and making the whole room feel very gloomy.
The room's layout was roughly the same as 402, with no changes. There was a raincoat on the table, as if someone had left it there before.
Sun Rui touched the table; it was a wooden table and showed signs of water damage.
"Someone came in recently, and it seems they forgot their raincoat?" Sun Rui stroked his chin.
Open the door to the bathroom on the left.
The toilet was so clean that Sun Rui found it unusual. In the other room, the bed was unkempt and the blankets were a mess, but the toilet was spotless.
"Something might have happened in this toilet..." Sun Rui analyzed, noting that the toilet had clearly been deliberately cleaned.
I went inside and examined it carefully.
As soon as he stepped inside, he felt a chill on his neck.
"The ceiling is leaking." Sun Rui stepped aside slightly and looked up.
The ceiling area has been soaked in large patches, forming dark brown spots.
It's obvious that the leak has been going on for a long time, otherwise it wouldn't be like this.
"There aren't any clues in the restroom, but we can check room 504 upstairs. The upstairs residents moved out a long time ago, but it's still leaking." Sun Rui walked out of the restroom.
He went to the bedside and unfolded the blanket that was wrapped in a ball.
"This is……"
As soon as the blanket was pulled back, a white dress fell out, stained with blood.
"Is this what the restaurant owner saw?" Sun Rui sensed that there was nothing supernatural about it, and even the bloodstains weren't real; they were just painted on.
He thought for a moment and realized that the entire room's layout, restored using ghostly haze, would be undetectable to ordinary people.
He withdrew the ghostly haze, and the entire house returned to its previous state, as it had been damaged by Sun Rui.
He suddenly thought of a solution.
"Tonight I'm going to see if the rumors of this place being haunted are true or false," Sun Rui said.
He planned to use the ghostly haze to simulate the environment of the entire apartment building. If it was a ghost, it wouldn't escape his perception; if it was a human, it would eliminate some interfering information.
The information provided by the restaurant owner was almost entirely hearsay or rumors, mixed with personal subjective opinions, which could easily mislead Sun Rui, so it had to be excluded.
Soon Sun Rui heard footsteps coming up the stairs. It was two people, Cassius and Huang Mengjie.
"Let's wait a bit longer, it's not the right time yet," Sun Rui muttered to himself, a smile playing on his lips.
After Sun Rui left, a girl who looked only seven or eight years old crawled out from under the bed in room 404. She had blonde hair and blue eyes and looked somewhat similar to Cassius. This girl was her niece, Arya Grey.
"Dad, has he found me?" Arya muttered to herself, looking at the empty air beside her.
There was no one else in the room, but she tilted her head as if listening, nodding occasionally.
"Don't worry, Dad, I will definitely avenge you... You haven't found your food yet, let's wait until tonight, I'm afraid someone will find out." After Arya finished speaking, she crawled back under the bed and quietly waited for the night to fall.
……
After leaving the room, Sun Rui locked the door and returned to room 402.
At this moment, the boss went upstairs with a bunch of keys.
"The bedding is right next door, you can use it. But if I find out you've broken it, you'll have to pay for it," Cassius muttered as he opened the door to room 401.
Huang Mengjie went in and took a quilt, a pillow, and a cushion.
"I will cherish it," Huang Mengjie said.
Cassius didn't say anything, turned around and went downstairs, seemingly unwilling to stay on the fourth floor any longer.
Back in room 402, Sun Rui was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, seemingly asleep.
"It's weird that someone goes to bed so early..." Huang Mengjie muttered to herself. It was only seven o'clock.
Then he casually made the bed on the floor next to him.
Huang Mengjie looked at Sun Rui, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping herself.
"Forget it, I can't be bothered with you. I just can't stand the smell on me anymore." She turned and went to the bathroom.
At this moment, Sun Rui slowly opened his eyes.
"There's a big problem with this apartment," Sun Rui thought to himself.
Huang Mengjie, who just returned, seemed off, but he didn't know where to begin. It was just his intuition as a ghost tamer.
Sun Rui's ghostly haze spread out, and the invisible smog covered the fourth and fifth floors.
Just like the previous reports, the entire fifth floor was completely empty.
There were no signs of water damage in the toilet of room 504.
The fourth floor is quite interesting.
"404 actually blocked the ghostly haze..." Sun Rui frowned. He had checked earlier and there were indeed no traces of supernatural power.
At this moment, 404 was like a barrier, and things were different once the door was closed. Sun Rui tried to open the door, leaving a crack, and Gui Mai entered smoothly without any hindrance.
"Interesting. Closing the door creates a closed, supernatural space, but it can also be easily opened," Sun Rui thought.
He thought of the vengeful ghost he had always remembered, the "door-blocking ghost," which could imprison people or ghosts in a room. However, the door-blocking ghost could only block one exit at a time. Given the layout of the apartment, it was either a window or a door, and without the cooperation of others, ordinary people simply couldn't get out.
"That girl hiding under the bed can't have stayed home all this time, can she?" Sun Rui muttered.
His guess was unlikely; with so many animal carcasses in the room, they obviously weren't brought in on the same day.
Sun Rui withdrew the ghost haze, and in the process, the 404 door, which had a gap, clicked shut automatically.
"Let's wait until night. When the ghost haze covers the area, I'll be able to know everyone's every move."
Soon the sound of water in the bathroom subsided, and Huang Mengjie came out wearing a relatively clean set of clothes.
"Don't sleep too soundly tonight," Sun Rui said.
"What...what do you want to do?" Huang Mengjie covered her chest.
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in you, at least not in a homeless person," Sun Rui said.
"You..." Huang Mengjie was a little angry, but she didn't dare to say anything, after all, she still needed Sun Rui to make a living.
"Where did you go when you went downstairs to find the boss?" Sun Rui asked.
"I went directly to the boss, but he seemed to be sleeping at the time. I called out for a while at the door of the lounge before I finally saw him," Huang Mengjie said subconsciously.
"The rest room... I understand. Don't fall asleep tonight, I'll take you ghost hunting," Sun Rui said.
"Ghosts? You actually believe in these things? Anyway, you're my boss, so whatever you say goes. Call me if you need anything." Huang Mengjie waved her hand; she hadn't had a good night's sleep in days.
She lay down on the ground and quickly fell asleep.
Sun Rui ignored her; his main concern was arresting people tonight and figuring out some things, as a translator would be needed for the final interrogation.
He used the Ghost Domain to leave 402 and opened the door to 404. He couldn't stay in 402, otherwise the delivery mission would fail.
"He's gone missing, let me see where you are..." Sun Rui's ghostly aura gradually enveloped the entire apartment building.