Translator: CinderTL
"That's right," Wu nodded, but everyone could detect a strange undertone in his voice.
"Sister Chen Yi," Chu Jiu tugged at her arm and asked, "How are you feeling? Are you feeling unwell anywhere?"
Chen Yi shook her head. She only felt a bit dizzy. Last night, she had bumped her head while crawling under the bed, which caused her to faint. Now, there was still a swollen bump on her head.
"You said the ghost that came after you yesterday had dark bluish legs?" Banana Wolf hesitated for a moment before raising his head and continuing to ask, "Was there anything else distinctive about it?"
Chen Yi took the water Fatty handed her, drank a few sips, and then said to Banana Wolf, "I know what you're trying to ask. The ghost that attacked me last night was different from the three that have already been identified. It's a new one."
Fatty's eyes paused slightly, and he stammered, "So... that means there are four ghosts in this scenario."
"For now, at least," someone added.
Fatty turned his head and found that the speaker was Wan Yuanning. When she noticed Fatty looking at her, she instinctively nodded and then averted her gaze.
From this woman, who exuded a homely aura, Fatty didn't sense any trace of fear. On the contrary, she appeared quite calm.
Jiang Cheng turned to look at the others and asked, "How was it for you all last night?"
Buildings 2 and 3 were very quiet.
No ghosts appeared.
After a brief exchange, everyone dispersed. The people from Buildings 2 and 3 needed to continue following up on leads. Only the four original residents—Chen Yi, Chu Jiu, Jiang Cheng, and Fatty—remained in the room.
Squatting in front of Chen Yi, Jiang Cheng felt her leg and asked with concern, "How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine," Chen Yi replied.
Chu Jiu said she had alcohol and gauze in her room and went back to get them. Jiang Cheng told Fatty to accompany her.
After the two left, Chen Yi looked at Jiang Cheng's face and suddenly lowered her voice, "How did you know the ghost would come after me?"
Jiang Cheng stood up indifferently and sat down beside Chen Yi, explaining his earlier analysis to her. His tone made it seem like he was discussing something trivial.
When Chu Jiu and Fatty returned with the medicine bottle and gauze, Jiang Cheng disinfected the wound on Chen Yi's head. However, she refused to have a bandage wrapped around it.
This left Jiang Cheng quite disappointed.
The urgent task now was to identify the long-legged ghost.
The four of them worked together to search the room thoroughly, but apart from some clothes, cosmetics, and other simple daily necessities, they found no clues that could confirm the identity of the resident.
After tossing the last pair of jeans back into the wardrobe, Chen Yi shook her head and said to Jiang Cheng behind her, "Nothing. It seems we'll have to investigate the ghost's identity from other angles."
Jiang Cheng had just come out of the bathroom, holding a bottle of essence in his hand. It wasn't a big brand, something that a recent college graduate might use.
There were quite a few cosmetics on the bathroom vanity. Jiang Cheng noticed that most of them were makeup and face masks.
Based on their current findings, they speculated that the previous resident was a young woman, with modest financial means but who took great care in her appearance.
"Strange," Jiang Cheng muttered softly as he looked around the room.
Chu Jiu heard Jiang Cheng's words and looked at him with pitiful eyes, her lips moving slightly, "What's strange?"
Hearing Chu Jiu speak, Chen Yi also turned her gaze to Jiang Cheng.
As did Fatty, who was standing at the back.
"Why isn't there a mirror in this room?" Jiang Cheng asked Chen Yi, "Was it like this when you first arrived?"
Chen Yi nodded, "That's right, I didn't see a mirror when I arrived." She added, "I haven't been to the bathroom, so I thought there might be a mirror in there."
But Jiang Cheng had just come out of the bathroom. The wall next to the sink was bare.
It was indeed strange that a young woman who frequently did her makeup would have no mirror in her room.
Chen Yi thought for a moment before looking up and saying, "There probably was a mirror before, but something happened later that made the woman get rid of all the mirrors."
"Exactly," Jiang Cheng replied.
"Could it be..." Chu Jiu carefully swallowed and looked at the two of them, "that the mirror could see the ghost, and the woman got rid of it out of fear?"
At the moment, that seemed highly likely.
"Oh, right," Chen Yi suddenly remembered something as she walked out, "Yesterday, on my way back, I noticed a garbage bag in front of one of the doors in the hallway. It contained food scraps and other household waste, but it wasn't there the day before when we arrived."
Household waste meant someone was living there. They could try their luck by knocking on the door.
Perhaps the neighbor knew something.
Room 717.
Standing in front of the door, Jiang Cheng hesitated for a moment before knocking.
"Knock, knock, knock."
Moments later, the sound of slippers shuffling could be heard from behind the door. The door opened a crack, revealing half of a woman's face.
The crack wasn't wide. From Jiang Cheng's position, he could see a silver chain attached to the door. The woman seemed highly vigilant, as there was also a bolt lock inside the door.
The room was dark. Jiang Cheng guessed that the curtains were tightly drawn. The half of the woman's face that was visible was unnaturally pale.
"Who are you?" The woman behind the door shifted her eyes and finally fixed them on Jiang Cheng's face, her tone somewhat unnatural.
Jiang Cheng nodded calmly and said to the woman, "Hello, I'm a tenant here. I live in Room 710." He turned and pointed behind him.
When the woman first heard the number 710, she didn't react much. But when she saw the room Jiang Cheng was pointing to, her face instantly changed.
Her breathing became rapid, and she quickly said through the crack, "That room is uninhabitable! You should move out today, before it gets dark."
"Why?" Chen Yi asked innocently, "Did something happen there before?"
Perhaps the group's experience reminded the woman of something. After hesitating for a moment, she unlocked the chain and bolt.
"Come in," the woman opened the door.
At the same time, an unpleasant smell wafted out from the room. It seemed the woman hadn't left her room for a long time.
A faint, rotting odor permeated the entire room.
Jiang Cheng and Chen Yi both frowned.
The woman stepped aside and invited Jiang Cheng and the others in. Jiang Cheng paused for three seconds before turning and pulling Chu Jiu close, wrapping his arm around her waist in an intimate manner.
This caught Chu Jiu off guard, and her face immediately turned red. She instinctively tried to push him away, but Jiang Cheng didn't give her the chance.
Before pulling Chu Jiu into the room, Jiang Cheng turned to Chen Yi and said, "You two should get to work. Don't be late. Help me take leave from the boss."
"15 minutes," Jiang Cheng said calmly, "I'll only take 15 minutes off."
(End of the Chapter)
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