Chapter 9 Neighbors
The 05th household was less than two meters apart from his home. When he came to the other party's door, he looked at the locked door, Lu Zhao hesitated for a moment, and then rang the doorbell.
Sure enough, the response to him was dead silence. Lu Zhao rang the doorbell a few more times, tried to knock on the door and asked, but no matter how he called, there was no movement next door.
Just as Lu Zhao was planning to go upstairs to see Grandma Li again, footsteps came from the corner stairs. In his sight, a woman wearing a large sun hat and loose pajamas appeared in the corridor with a stroller.
The woman was about 1.6 meters tall, because there was no elevator in 5A, so she could only lift the stroller upstairs alone.
She pushed the cart, stopped at the door of 01, and then took out the key to open the door.
Lu Zhao was a little surprised. Except for the terrifying woman next door, this was the first time he saw other tenants in 5A appear.
"Sorry to bother."
Lu Zhao quickly stepped forward, intending to get close to the neighbor. Thinking of the other party living here for a long time, he should have some understanding of the situation in the building.
After hearing someone talking behind her, the woman subconsciously turned around. She did not put on makeup. I wonder if it was because of her bare face, her appearance looked a little haggard.
"Who are you?" The woman blocked the stroller vigilantly, her eyes full of alert.
"Sorry for disturbing me. My name is Lu Zhao. I am a new resident who moved in yesterday. I live in 06 households." Lu Zhao quickly explained.
"So it's a new neighbor." The woman was quite friendly and nodded at him: "My name is Feng Xinyun, is there anything wrong?"
"I want to ask you about the 05 households." As Lu Zhao spoke, his eyes glanced at the stroller. Although it was summer at this time, the woman covered the child tightly and could only vaguely see her furry head.
"05 House? That house has been empty for a long time, so where can anyone live?"
He immediately shifted his gaze when he heard the woman talking.
Feng Xinyun lowered his voice and came to Lu Zhao, and said nervously: "You can't get into evil, right? Our building is indeed not clean, but after living for a long time, you will get used to it."
After hearing what she said, Lu Zhao was shocked, but on the surface he forced a smile: "That's it, thank you for your advice."
"A ghost, there is nothing to be afraid of. I have seen ghosts, and they come to me every day. But so what? Isn't it impossible to deal with me?"
Feng Xinyun smiled at Lu Zhao, then picked up the vegetable basket at his feet.
She looked at the doll in the stroller lovingly, as if talking to herself: "bb, let's go home, mom will make you porridge today..."
The woman's words made Lu Zhao's hair stand on her hair. After watching the other party enter the room, the smile on Lu Zhao's face disappeared: What is this place? Are the residents in this building not normal people?
I heard Feng Xinyun's meaning just now that the 05 household was indeed a dirty haunted house. But although her appearance looked normal, her words and deeds revealed indescribable weirdness. Lu Zhao was still skeptical about her words.
In this way, I should still ask Grandma Li for help.
While thinking, Lu Zhao quickly walked up the stairs to the sixth floor.
At this moment, he suddenly noticed that the strange traces on the ground last night had disappeared.
The door of 603 was closed and I knocked outside for a long time, but I didn't hear Grandma Li's movement.
Did the grandma go out early in the morning?
He looked around and remembered that Uncle Zhong once said that there were three families living on the sixth floor.
Lu Zhao came to a door with domestic garbage piled up in the corner of the wall and rang the doorbell. As Uncle Zhong said, a couple living here were living here.
Fortunately, the couple is normal. In the face of Lu Zhao's inquiry, the two also gave answers one by one.
However, when Lu Zhao asked Grandma Li of 603 households, he received a creepy reply.
Lu Zhao walked to the elevator in a daze, and the couple's words just now kept echoing in his mind:
"The owner of 603 is an old man living alone who has never been married for life. He passed away a month ago. We have lived here for five or six years and have never seen any grandma before."
Whether it is Grandma Li or the couple from the 05 households next door, they are all non-existent people...
All the ones I saw last night were ghosts?
Thinking of Grandma Li taking this elevator with her last night, Lu Zhao looked around in fear, fearing that she would suddenly appear behind her.
Why is this happening? I have just come to the building, so why did I encounter so many ghosts one after another?
Lu Zhao looked at his pale face in the elevator reflection and grabbed his hair in pain. He suddenly thought of the mysterious cheongsam woman: Although she is also a ghost, in the past four years, except for constantly causing him to fall into nightmare, the other party seemed to have never harmed him.
In her dream last night, she warned herself not to meddle in other people's business, and also reminded herself that there will be greater danger tonight...
"No, I can't die, I still have a lot of things I haven't figured out." Lu Zhao, who calmed down, took a deep breath, and then pressed a layer of buttons.
Although Grandma Li's whereabouts are unknown, she cannot be determined by relying on a few words from others to determine that she does not exist.
Although he knew that the other party might not be credible, for Lu Zhao, the only one who could provide him with clues is the old security guard of this building.
After coming to this strange and strange environment, Lu Zhao completely realized that all the mysteries seemed to be gathering on him.
Whether it is the women in red, Grandma Li, Uncle Zhong, or the agent, they all do it for their own good on the surface, but in fact, they seem to have their own purposes and they cannot fully believe what they say.
Lu Zhao came to the security room on the first floor. Through the window, he saw Uncle Zhong holding a cup of tea, wearing reading glasses, and carefully looking at the newspaper.
Lu Zhao knocked on the window. After hearing the movement, the latter raised his head, narrowed his eyes and smiled at him: "It's you, how about you? Are you still used to living?"
"It's okay, it's just that the mouse at home is chewing the furniture." Lu Zhao said.
"Your room is not oriented well, it is cold and humid, so there will be mice. But it doesn't matter, wait, I'll find you some rat poison. After you go back, sprinkle it in the corner of the kitchen, and it will be better."
Uncle Zhong was very enthusiastic. He got up and took the key, found a pack of rat poison from the storage room, and handed it to Lu Zhao: "But then, why did you think of renting our building? Aren't you afraid alone?"
When facing Uncle Zhong’s inquiry, Lu Zhao was careful. He did not mention anything about his grandfather and the woman in red, but said that he came to Hong Kong to work and could not afford to live in an expensive house.
Uncle Zhong said "Oh" and didn't care.
Seeing this, Lu Zhao added: "By the way, last night, I heard a strange movement next door. In the middle of the night, the hostess of the house came to knock on my door and asked me to borrow something."
After hearing Lu Zhao say this, Uncle Zhong, who was originally smiling, suddenly widened his eyes, quickly opened the door of the security room, and pulled Lu Zhao into the room.
Chapter completed!