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Perhaps it was because the building had not been properly repaired after a fire, or perhaps it was because the apartment building was too old, but power outages were common inside. The key issue was that a power outage was usually manageable, but today’s outage is a big problem.

It meant she had to interact with those ghosts and monsters in the dark, which significantly increased the difficulty.

Darkness naturally instills fear in people, and even a tiny bit of dim light in the hallway can make one feel a bit more at ease.

Using the light from her cell phone, Zhao Mingyue found her flashlight but didn’t rush to open the door and go out. Instead, she leaned against the wooden door, listening to the noises outside.

She entered the state quickly and was quite serious. Even Bai Yu, hidden in the shadows, couldn’t help but nod silently, inwardly remarking that this girl was a talent with potential. She lacked experience, but her attitude alone is enough.

“You are right to do this, the tenants here are not simple, it is helpful for you to understand more information.”

In the dark, Bai Yu’s voice echoed in Zhao Mingyue’s heart.

As soon as her voice fell, there was a movement downstairs, it was a young man’s voice, which surprised Zhao Mingyue, this person was actually not Lu Liangting.

“There are other people coming in!” Her heart moved slightly, she had lived here for so long, and she was quite familiar with this place. For such a long time, she had never seen anyone come to live here in the middle of the night.

“No, I still can’t hear clearly standing in the room.”

Anyway, the power was out, and the other party wouldn’t see her immediately when they came upstairs. With this thought, Zhao Mingyue opened a crack in the door and poked half of her face out.

The person downstairs seemed to be dragging a very heavy suitcase, and the sound of the suitcase wheels rolling on the ground was very obvious. Judging from the voice of the person speaking, he should be under thirty years old.

The sound of the iron door being opened came, followed by the voice of the old landlord.

The conversation between the two was very simple. The young man wanted to stay here for one night because the rain outside was too heavy, and he would leave early tomorrow morning.

The old landlord hesitated for a while and then agreed, and handed the keys to the room to the young man.

“This is your key, on the second floor, find it yourself, I tell you, you are not allowed to go out or wander around at night, you absolutely cannot go up to the fourth or fifth floors. Otherwise, you will bear the consequences.”

“Also, there is everything in the room, there is hot water, but remember not to take a bath, I am not sure when the power will come back on, just wait.”

With a clang, the iron door of a room on the first floor slammed shut.

This service attitude was extraordinarily poor. Zhao Mingyue heard the man’s complaint. He wouldn’t have come to such a ghostly place if it weren’t for the heavy rain.

“Rain?”

Zhao Mingyue frowned and looked out the window of the living room. Although it was windy outside, there was absolutely no rain, and the weather forecast said that there would be heavy rain only in the latter half of the night.

But what was strange was that after the man muttered, he started to go upstairs. His footsteps were very strange, as if he was wearing two rain boots soaked with water, each step carrying a slight sound of water, and because the man was carrying a heavy suitcase, his footsteps and breathing were quite heavy.

“Something is wrong, it’s clearly not raining outside, where is the water sound on this man coming from?”

“Dragging such a heavy suitcase in the middle of the night, and coming by taxi, if he is coming back from out of town, then he should not stay here, if he has a taxi, it’s easy to find a hotel, or why not just go home?”

“Taxis don’t want to come near here at night, which means that the possibility of the driver actively bringing him here is very low, it is more likely that he asked to come here himself.”

“Normal people would run towards the city, but this person wants to go out of the city…”

Zhao Mingyue waited a little longer, making sure the man had entered the room, and that there was no movement for a long time.

The game has not even started yet, and Zhao Mingyue already felt a bit of pressure, she began to slowly understand Bai Yu’s words, sometimes, people are much scarier than ghosts.

Time passed by every minute and second, Zhao Mingyue looked at the time, it was already eleven o’clock.

There was no news from Lu Liangting, not knowing if he had changed his mind temporarily.

It was not yet twelve o’clock, and Zhao Mingyue clearly felt the change, the eerie silence around her, gusts of cold wind blowing from nowhere, stimulating the skin, almost raising goosebumps, it seemed that there was a water pipe in the corridor that was not repaired, making a drip-drip sound.

Some creature was crawling through the pipes and walls, rustling. Zhao Mingyue wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, but she felt the smell of disinfectant in the air was getting stronger and stronger.

Such a strong smell of disinfectant would not make people think of disinfection and sterilization, but rather like it was deliberately covering up some other smell.

Quickly returning to her room, Zhao Mingyue put on her backpack, which contained her staff, a kitchen knife, and a bloodstained rabbit doll.

“Bai Yu, Sister Bai, can I go out now?”

Her plan was simple, assuming that the ghosts would officially appear at twelve o’clock, then now at eleven o’clock, could she go and learn about the other tenants on the fourth and fifth floors first.

Despite living here for so long, she really didn’t know how many households were living here, she could only be sure that there were indeed other people living here.

“Yes, go ahead, I will remind you when the time comes.”

“Okay!”

Unable to wait for Lu Liangting, she simply went to scout for information herself. Zhao Mingyue went out quietly, and she also kept a watchful eye. To prevent someone from sneaking into her room while she was not there, she deliberately pulled out a strand of hair and stuffed it into the keyhole.

Leaning against the door, Zhao Mingyue looked at the dark corridor, feeling an instinctive unease in her heart.

Whether it was the pervasive cold wind or the pungent smell of disinfectant in the air, it was all stimulating her little heart.

Tomorrow Apartments is “日” shaped on each floor, with the staircase in the middle, and only one place.

Her current location is 404, right at the corner of “日”, there are four more rooms on her left hand side, and two rooms inside the two corners, there are eight rooms on one floor.

She tiptoed to 403, which is next to her, and tried to knock on the door, listening carefully to the movement behind the door, only a creepy silence.

She took out a flashlight from her pocket and shone it on the iron door, finding that it was covered with a lot of dust, obviously uninhabited.

“The landlord didn’t let that man go to the fourth and fifth floors, there must be a reason.”

Muttering to herself, Zhao Mingyue carefully walked towards the stairs along the wall.

The strongest smell of disinfectant was at the stairwell.

“The landlord has to repaint the walls almost every two months. What exactly is on these walls?”

Reaching the stairwell and confirming that the room next to it also had a thick layer of dust, Zhao Mingyue shone the flashlight on the wall, which was so white it was chilling.

She squatted down, took out the staff from her backpack, and used the pointed end to scrape hard on the wall. The white putty was easier to scrape than she thought, but the thing behind the putty sent chills down her spine.

“Is this… blood?”