TRTN Chapter 3

The bloody apartment (3)

Posted by April Fox, ? Views, Released on July 17, 2021

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Chapter 3 The Bloody Apartment (3)

The next day, a scream of horror broke the dead silence in the apartment complex.

Boss Qian’s body was first discovered by his driver Da Zhuang. No one would have thought that a man’s simple and powerful voice could scream like this.

Hearing the screams, Shen Yu cautiously led the little boy out of the room and, together with the other people, arrived in Room 101 of the East Building one after another.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Boss Qian’s body dangling by the window, his fat and greasy face facing the door, and his bloodshot eyes seemed to be staring at the people who’d walked in.

In his hand, he was still tightly holding the black book that belonged to him.

Da Zhuang looked at the familiar face of his boss, and suddenly his legs became weak and he fell on the ground, pointing to the window tremblingly, practically speechless, and finally rushed out of the room, vomiting.

Shen Yu kept looking at the book Boss Qian was still holding since before his death.

Regardless of the other people’s disgust or their horrified eyes, he stepped forward to untie the rope holding the corpse’s neck, put the deceased on the bed and then took the black book from the other’s hand.

He turned the pages of the book and read:

[Thirteen brave cleaners stayed in the pink apartment complex. ]

[On the first night, Fatty the cleaner heard movement outside the window, so he violated the rules of the apartment, opened the window and looked out…] [Thus, the story of Fatty is over.]

The bald man also came over, glanced at the page in Boss Qian’s book and then smacked his lips disdainfully: “A newcomer is a newcomer. There really is nothing in the book. If you want to pick up a loophole, there is nowhere to pick it up. What do you see in his book?”

Loophole?

Shen Yu didn’t speak, but decided to remember the information contained in the words of the bald man in his mind, then silently put the black book back into the deceased’s hand.

At this moment, the rest of the people had gathered.

The man with glasses came over, looked at the wide open window and commented knowledgeably: “It seems that this novice, because he was alone in a room and boarding in the east building, was in danger last night.”

“No, he opened the window at night, not because he was ordered, nor because he lived in the East Building.” Shen Yu pondered for a long while, then suddenly asked everyone, “Did you hear the sounds of something scratching on the glass last night? “

The little couple who lived together said palely: “We heard it. First we heard someone scratching the glass outside the window, and then there was a knock on the door… We were too scared, so we hugged each other and didn’t open the door or the window.”

And the man with the flower tattoo, who’d lost a hand, shook his head nonchalantly, then grinned and said: “Don’t scare people, it was quiet last night, I didn’t hear anything anyway!”

He asked everyone and found out that some had heard the noises last night, yet others had not.

Anyone who heard the scratching outside the window would also hear knocking on the door. The sound of knocking on the door stopped the scratching on the window.

Shen Yu thoughtfully concluded: “It seems that the one who knocked on the door could’ve been chasing the thing outside the windows. When the knocking on the door starts, the thing outside the window will go away.”

The little lovers who’d hugged each other before, suddenly trembled again. Someone raised his hand and asked in a low voice: “Since one has died… then tonight, the number of people is just right, so no one will be alone?” The rest of the restless novices, after hearing these words, immediately saw light, as if they’d taken a reassurance pill.

Yup! There were only twelve of them left, and they were all already paired up for their respective rooms, so there was no need to grab the keys from each other.

But suddenly there was another scream: “Wait, where is my sister?” The screamer was the younger sister of the twins.

The sisters’ names were Xu Tingting and Xu Jiaojiao. Last night, the sister Xu Tingting had teamed up with the man with glasses. The girl Xu Jiaojiao, who was left behind, had been picked up by the short-haired girl.

But today, while Xu Jiaojiao had emerged in good health, she couldn’t find her sister in the crowd.

So at this time, she finally couldn’t help asking the man with glasses: “Where is my sister? She… is she still in her room?”

At the end of the question, Xu Jiaojiao’s voice trembled slightly, and an ominous premonition enveloped her heart.

“You mean Miss Xu…” The spectacle man pushed the gold glasses on the bridge of his nose, “I don’t know.” “I don’t know? She was in the same room with you, why don’t you know?” Xu Jiaojiao screamed.

“Ms. Xu suddenly wanted to go to the bathroom after the lights were turned off last night, so she opened the door and went to the public restroom, alone in the dark.” The glasses man said politely, “But what happened to her afterwards… That I don’t know. Anyway, she didn’t return for the rest of the night.”

In this dangerous and weird apartment complex, she went out alone after the lights were out, and ended up staying away all night… As a lesson learned from the rich boss, obviously Xu Tingting’s final end would not have been ideal.

Xu Jiaojiao asked in disbelief, “Why’d she dare to go out knowing that it’s a violation of the rules? Didn’t you try to stop her?”

Hearing her rhetorical question, the man in glasses couldn’t help sneering, his tone full of indifference: “As everyone knows, Miss Xu is a grownup woman, with her own wishes and decisions; can I stop an adult from going to the bathroom by herself?”

Xu Jiaojiao’s eyes were red, she sobbed and stopped talking, just gritted her teeth, then turned and ran towards the west building.

The others looked at each other, and so they rushed over, too.

The Pink Apartment complex is an old-fashioned building. Even in the newly painted West Building, there were no private bathrooms in the rooms, instead there was only a public washroom at the end of the corridor on each floor.

After everyone rushed to the floor where the glasses man had slept last night, they found the missing Xu Tingting.

This public washroom was divided in two parts: the inner part, containing the toilet cubicles, and the outer part, offering a row of rusty shower heads for communal bathroom purposes.

At this time, Xu Tingting was lying on her back under a shower head, with blood stains on her clothes, a clear pinch mark on her snow-white neck, and her chest had already stopped breathing.

Her bloodshot eyes were still open, filled with fear, as if she had seen something terrible before she died.

Xu Jiaojiao suddenly wailed in grief and lay on her sister’s body, crying in despair.

While Shen Yu looked at the pinch marks on the neck of the corpse, his heart jumped.

The small greenish-purple pinch marks were not like adult handprints. There were no obvious wounds on the corpse, but the clothes were stained with blood, as if they were stained by something else.

It’s so familiar!

He looked down at the dry blood stains on his clothes, and then carefully touched his neck, the bruise that was about to disappear.

Had this girl met the blood monkey, the same one that’d attacked him a night earlier?

He had been once attacked by the monkey-like monster, and ended up managing to kill it successfully, but an unsuspecting girl may not have been so lucky after being attacked in a sneak attack.

But if the girl was really killed by the blood monkey, then as far as he knows, there must be at least three monsters in this complex?

Unfortunately, Xu Tingting was not a novelist and she did not have a black book to record the exact cause of her death, so Shen Yu had to temporarily compartmentalize his suspicions.

“Tsk tusk tusk!”

At this moment, the man with glasses who’d come along with them, sighed pretendingly: “What a pity! Such a young and beautiful girl still couldn’t escape.”

And the short-haired girl, who heard the fake condolences, immediately squinted at him and said coldly: “The newcomers are always timid and dare not violate the rules. You coaxed her out last night on purpose?”

“Did you promise her that going out at night will not be too big of a risk, and that silly girl believed your nonsense?”

Xu Jiaojiao, who was crying bitterly, was taken aback when she heard these words, and then glared at the man with glasses.

The smile on the corners of the man with glasses remained unchanged, and he said nonchalantly: “You must have evidence in everything, don’t slander others at will.” The short-haired girl sneered disdainfully: “Every time in the story, there will be veterans deliberately coaxing newcomers to go find death, try out the way for themselves.” “Did you want to use this girl’s life to test what will happen if you violate the rules of going out late at night? You are just one of those scumbags!” The glasses man’s smile finally disappeared completely.

He said in a stunned voice: “We are both veterans, why bother for a newcomer? This newcomer is not even a novelist, but an audience, and will not help you in the future.”

“Or say…you must be a good person today?” The gentle and elegant skin was peeled off, and the man with glasses had only a bitter killing intent in his eyes at this time, and he held his black book with one hand.

The short-haired girl spat out the lollipop in her mouth with a “pooh” sound and faced the provocation of the man with the glasses, and pressed her hand against the black book with the same wariness: “You want to try one?”

The atmosphere between the two was tense, almost on the verge of a fight breaking out.

Shen Yu didn’t know the strength of the two people, nor the purpose of the black book, so he guarded the little boy behind him vigilantly, stepping back and staying away from the battlefield between the two.

The others were also quite wary, and all hurriedly quit the public bathroom.

Just when the atmosphere in the bathroom had been suppressed to the climax, a hoarse and weird voice interrupted the next movement of the two of them.

“So many of you’ve gathered together, do you want to be lazy and not work?”

The corridor manager, who’d handed out the keys yesterday, was standing behind everyone, his turbid eyes staring at everyone and his old face twitching.

The man with glasses and the girl with short hair paused and hesitated for a moment. After weighing their advantages and disadvantages, they both retracted their hands with the books.

The administrator bent down and coughed, stretched out a shriveled and old palm, and muttered in his mouth: “Hand over your keys, and quickly get the tools to work.”

Everyone looked at each other and finally turned the keys obediently. Then the administrator distributed a bunch of cleaning utensils such as brooms, towels, buckets and so on.

Only Xu Jiaojiao, who had just lost her relative, shouted to the administrator with tearful eyes: “My sister is dead; two have already died in your apartment complex!!”

Hearing her yelling like venting, the administrator’s eyes rolled, he then split his lips and smiled: “Oh, I forgot to tell you one thing.”

“Recently, in the complex, there were three pets owned by someone who ran away, so if you go out to open the window at night, you will inevitably encounter those little pets.”

“The three pets are a bit fierce. If they kill someone, our apartment complex is not responsible.” After that, he impatiently waved his hand: “Okay, stop crying, now the apartment is dirty, go clean it up!”

Seeing that he was about to leave, Shen Yu, who had been silent, suddenly uttered in a low voice: “Wait!” The manager stopped, turned his head and stared at him with cold eyes.

Shen Yu turned a blind eye to this, instead calmly asking: “I have one more question about the few pets that ran away.” The administrator smacked his lips: “Say.”

“If I found any of the three pets… What are the consequences of killing them?” Shen Yu stared into the eyes of the administrator and asked in a deep voice.

The administrator seemed to be taken aback by his question. He stood frozen for a while, then suddenly opened his toothless mouth and smiled “Hoho”.

After smiling, he walked up to Shen Yu: “Young man, if you kill those little pets that ran away…”

“Then you must give their bodies to us. We can give you whatever reward you want!” the administrator said, almost gritting his teeth.

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