At first glance, the community pointed out by Liu Miao is nothing special.

The buildings of the residential buildings in the community are gray-blue, which is not quite the same as the beige buildings in the photo.

However, after entering the community, I found that the buildings inside were of different colors. A row of residential buildings along the street has a gray-blue façade and a gray-green interior.

Liu Miao also pointed out to us the location of Chengxin Garden, and from here we have to go a little further, and we can't see it from our position.

Walking past the gray-green residential buildings, I saw a few buildings in beige.

Building 11 mentioned by Liu Miao came into view first, followed by buildings 12 and 13.

Buildings 13 and 14 in question are side by side, and from the outside, there is nothing strange about them.

The windows on the 3rd floor of Building 13 are lit up, and they are still dim. When I looked closely, I realized that it was the effect of the flashlight hitting the yellow curtain.

The rest of the windows in both buildings were dark, and most of them had drawn curtains to let the moonlight in.

Because of the power outage, the building's anti-theft iron door was ineffective, at least the doorbell could not be ringed.

Liu Miao took out a small bag from her pocket, which contained a lock-picking tool that ordinary people only see in movies and television.

I was dumbfounded.

Seeing that Liu Miao tinkered for a while, he successfully pried open the lock of the iron door.

The sound of unlocking sounds a bit deafening at night.

However, we had been walking a lot before.

I looked around, and no one was looking around. I don't know if it's because most of the people are asleep after midnight, or if there is something wrong with this neighborhood.

Liu Miao pulled the iron door open, motioned for us to follow, and walked into the door first.

Naturally, there are no lights in the corridor, and the glass windows are still the kind of gray that is not wiped all year round, so that the moonlight cannot shine in well.

I smelled some musty smell, it wasn't heavy, and I smelled some at the corner of the stairs on the first floor. There are dilapidated bicycles and motorcycles piled up there, and judging by the dust on them, they must have been abandoned here.

This building has a total of five floors, one floor and two households, which is the kind of old community that is common in Minqing, and it should be twenty or thirty years old, slightly newer than the six villages of workers and peasants. However, the old houses in the Sixth Village of Workers and Peasants have been renovated in about 10 years, and it seems that this building has not received this treatment, at most the exterior walls have been repainted.

The doors of the two houses on the first floor are closed, the left side is the security door, and the right side is a combination of iron door and ordinary wooden door. I looked at the two doors, but I didn't see any yin or other breath leaking through the cracks in the doors.

"Let's go up and have a look." Liu Miao said, taking out a small flashlight.

He brought a lot of stuff with him. The light from that flashlight was so strong that a small circle of light immediately appeared in front of our eyes.

The stairs are narrow enough to allow only one adult male to pass through.

At the corner of the stairs from the first floor to the second floor, there are several pieces of advertising paper scattered on the ground. The colored paper reads "Good news, old friends! Great news! words. Below is a dense print and a few accompanying pictures. The content of the picture seems to be several kinds of traditional Chinese medicine raw materials.

Liu Miao didn't stop and continued to walk up.

The upper staircase was painted with the words "Repair Plumbing", and below that line was a string of phone numbers.

There are white-painted blocks on the walls. It turned out to be a small advertisement.

The residents on the second floor are equipped with security doors, one black and one green, which look ordinary.

On the third floor, there are no new tricks.

On the corner of the staircase from the third to the fourth floors is a bicycle, also a dirty abandoned vehicle.

At the corner of the staircase from the fourth to the fifth floor, several cardboard boxes containing old toys, old lamps and a typewriter were stacked.

There is a trace of a square on the ceiling of the five-story roof. It should open up to the roof. When I entered the community, I saw the water tanks installed on the upper floors of these residents, as well as the water pipes on the outer floor of the buildings.

Previously, it was supposed to be supplied with water tanks. It's just that Minqing changed the way of water supply a few years ago. The water supply for residents has been turned into a direct water supply. But I'm not sure what's going on with the residential buildings here.

Liu Miao aimed the flashlight at the area.

I looked closely, but I couldn't see why.

Liu Miao made a judgment, "This door hasn't been opened for a long time." ”

After he finished speaking, he put down his flashlight and looked at the two residents of the five-story building.

On the left-hand side is the security door. There was a plastic shoe cabinet at the door, which was wiped clean and still pink. There are floor pads on the floor, also clean and cute pink, with a cat printed on it.

The door on the right hand side is the most ordinary wooden door, and the keyhole looks like the thinnest one-word lock, which is even more rudimentary than the cross lock of the large iron door downstairs. The wooden door itself is not very sturdy. When I looked down, I could see a gap in the lower right corner of the door panel, which looked like it had been bitten out by a mouse.

There are ten households in this building, and this one looks the most suspicious.

Liu Miao stepped forward and didn't find the doorbell, so he knocked on the door directly.

The knock on the door seemed terrifying at midnight.

Although the person who knocked on the door was Liu Miao, who was from our side, and he still had a calm expression, my heart was about to pop out.

The shoe cabinet is relatively large, and with Liu Miao and me, it already occupies all the positions of the platform. Skinny and Nantian stayed on the steps.

The skinny man was right behind me, and I could feel him shivering.

This may have affected me.

What is happening in front of me is more stressful than seeing a ghost that looks hideous, or powerful enough to kill me.

This kind of waiting and unknown is creepy.

Liu Miao knocked on the door once, but when she didn't get a response, she knocked again. This time, he was knocking and shouting.

Suddenly, his movements stopped.

It was quiet at night.

In the silence, the sound of a cane came from behind the door.

My nerves tensed.

I had in my mind the ghost in the police station, the old man on crutches.

But the sound of the two crutches is somewhat different. I can't tell the difference either. It seems that the crutches are made of different materials, and it seems that there are other reasons.

There was a clang, and the sound of empty bottles falling to the ground could be heard from behind the door. Good

The bottle rolled as if it had reached the door of the room and hit the wooden door.

The crutch paused, then resounded, and approached the wooden door.

Click.

The door lock opened.

Squeak –

The door panel is slowly pulled open.

It was pitch black behind the door.

The flashlight in Liu Miao's hand suddenly illuminated the scene inside the door.

It was a down-and-out man blocking the entire crack in the door.

He was unkempt, his thinning hair fell over his shoulders, and his beard was about the length of his hair.

The man narrowed his eyes, avoiding the light.

I saw the cane he was holding in his hand.

It was a new type of crutch, made of metal, all black, with a curved grip wrapped in a sponge, and at the bottom it resembled an octopus with open legs, with four support columns, and a cushion with non-slip and cushioning at the bottom.

The crutch doesn't look cheap, and in the glow of the flashlight, it also reflects a metallic glow.

The man's clothes are shabby, old T-shirts, old pants, all loose, and have not been washed much.

"Hello, is it Mr. Cheng?" Liu Miao asked.

The man looked up, squinting at us.

"I am." He nodded, out of the way, "Come in." ”

The weather has been very bad recently, so please pay attention to keeping warm and traveling safely. (づ￣ 3￣)づ

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