TRTN Chapter 7

The bloody apartment (7)

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Chapter 7 The Bloody Apartment (7)

Facing the administrator’s implied threat, Shen Yu just nodded perfunctorily: “I’m doing it, I’m doing it!”

The administrator: “…”

Finally the old man left with a cold face, cursing under his nose on his way out.

Shen Yu had used the spirit of perfunctory attitude used to deal with editors who reminded him about deadlines in the past. After the administrator had left, his face gradually changed.

The information they have collected up to now seems to be a lot, but the clues were messy and didn’t seem to be linked.

He felt that he was just one more step, one thread away from the truth behind the apartment complex.

A thread that can connect all the clues in this story.

After seeing Shen Yu choking off the administrator, everyone gradually dispersed to do their own work.

Only the girl with short hair had remained.

Shen Yu raised an eyebrow, looked at her, and then saw her smiling brightly. She stretched out a hand and introduced herself: “Get to know me officially; my pen name is Cuihua, what is your pen name?”

Cuihua…

What he’d thought before was right, “Novel” is really wicked, what a mess of pseudonyms!

The corners of Shen Yu’s mouth twitched, but he shook her hand in a friendly way: “Mint.”

Girl Cuihua said enviously: “Your pen name is so nice!”

It did sound better than pickled cabbage or bald fatty.

“I think you stayed here specifically for more than just complimenting my pen name.” Shen Yu stared at her eyes and asked seriously.

The words have already been said, so Cuihua no longer hides, and asked bluntly: “What clues have you found?” As she said this, she took out a stack of small cards: “I am willing to use the clues I found, and exchange with each other.”

Exchange information?

Shen Yu and Anonymous silently glanced at each other, and only after getting the veteran’s barely noticeable nod, he was sure that there should be no traps in this.

He opened his black book and took out the old newspaper that had been kept between the pages of it.

After exchanging for the stack of small cards from the other’s hand, he took a closer look, and his eyebrows shot upwards.

[Infertility hospital, give you a better tomorrow. ]

[Ancestral secret recipe, baby boy, invalid refund. ]

[xxx clinic, painless abortion, surgery today, work tomorrow! ]

Unexpectedly, the people who distribute these small advertisements are so frantic that they will not let go of it even in the world of horror novels!

At his moment of speechlessness, Shen Yu accidentally remembered the missing person’s notice in the newspaper, and his heart suddenly stuttered.

Infertility…baby boy …Painless abortion…Wife ran away from home…

Connected!

On the other side of the room, Cuihua had already seen the missing person’s notice in the newspaper. At this time, she looked solemn and continued to ask: “I found these small advertising cards at the residents’ homes in the West Building. Where did you find this newspaper?”

Shen Yu:” East Building,” he paused, then informed the other party of the clues they’d collected earlier:”… the West Wing tenants received free painting and decoration work, the tenants called him master Wu; this should be the same family name of the missing person Wu Jianyi, too.”

Cuihua also pondered for a while, then slowly revealed the information she’d found yesterday: “The small advertising cards in my hand were given to me by an aunt when I was chatting with a tenant yesterday.”

Recalling the face of the aunt yesterday, her brows wrinkled deeply.

Aunts and uncles in their 40s and 50s are at the age when they love to talk with young people the most.

During their chat, they learned that Cuihua, who looked young in front of them, was actually quite old and didn’t plan to get married and have children. An aunt enthusiastically wanted to introduce her to someone and gave her a stack of small advertising cards.

“A woman can’t do without getting married, and having a baby without getting married is not complete.” The aunt licked melon seeds with her sparse teeth, rolled her turbid eyes and said this while swallowing her saliva.

“If you plan not to get married for the rest of your life, is it because you can’t have children? That’s not good. If you don’t give birth to a fat boy for your in-laws, what kind of a woman is that?”

“One of our family’s downstairs was like this! They never had children. The couple was so anxious that they quarreled at home every day. Later, I didn’t know how many times they went to the hospital. Finally, it was found that the problem was with the man, and the illness was finally cured.”

“Tsk tsk! It’s not the woman’s problem to suffer. Otherwise, what could she do for a chicken that can’t lay eggs?”

“After the man’s illness was cured, the woman was finally pregnant. The people in the family were so happy, that they prayed to God and worshipped Buddha. They were looking forward to having a son, and every day they’d get some secret mixtures from someone, forcing the woman to drink them… Tsk, what a good man! For the wife who had spent so much money, the woman didn’t appreciate it, and never wanted to drink them, I don’t know what’s wrong!”

“In the end, the man sneaked the woman into the small clinic and checked its gender, but she turned out to be a girl. He felt unlucky and asked the woman to beat the child and give birth to another baby, a son.”

“Look, Auntie, I’m not a patriarch, but after all, a girl is not as good as a kid! I didn’t even have a son in my entire life, so what is the strength of a person living?”

“The woman was also ignorant of the importance. Not only did she refuse to abort the baby, but she also clamoured to give birth to the child, so that the man was so angry that he beat her till her face was swollen.”

“But no matter how you beat her, the woman just didn’t want to abort.”

“Oh. The man is the head of the family, so what if he keeps fighting? He hadn’t lost his skin or flesh! But who knew that the woman would decide to go and call the police… Call the police! Is it not shameful to let the police intervene in the private affairs of a family? It’s really embarrassing for our entire apartment complex. Fortunately, the police were bluffed back by our old residents.”

After telling this, the aunt’s face showed an ambiguous smile: “Girl, don’t you learn to be like that. Be a good woman. Remember, after a woman gets married, she must learn to win over the man’s heart, otherwise, the man will run away.”

“It’s the same for the family. The woman made trouble repeatedly, refused to abort the baby and ended up with a miscarriage. The man didn’t know any better, so he found a concubine outside and took her home every day.”

“The man was rich and had contracted a construction site. The woman was a housewife. She had no work or money, so she could only swallow her anger. She had been living here every day for three years. After showing off in front of her, she had been forced to sleep in the closet at night.”

“Tsk tsk, so rich and good men can’t be caught, she really did it herself! Now in this world, bad women have forced the good men to learn bad behaviour.”

“Later, I heard that the woman had been making trouble again. Wanted to divorce and split the man’s family property. They said that she’s a hen who can’t lay eggs. How embarrassing to ask for money from others… In order to prevent her from divorcing, the man directly locked her inside at home, but she used force to escape and left the house. She ran away.”

“The man from that family, in order to find this woman, I heard that he also published a missing person notice in the newspaper. He is really a good man whom you can’t find even with a searchlight!”

“What happened after, you ask? How could it be, that people never were able to find her! Saying that she ran away from home, maybe she ran away with an unknown man from the outside!”

“The woman, whom the husband had kept as a mistress, moved into the house with integrity, and later gave birth to a fat son for the man. The family of three lived happily ever after!”

Even now, Cuihua can still remember the disgusting smile on the face of the apartment resident, and the voice filled with persuasion: ” I advise you, all for your own good…”

After listening to the story told by Cuihua, all three of them were silent for a while.

Through the nagging of the badmouthing aunt, a creepy story may have been told inadvertently.

A woman who was derailed every day by her husband’s domestic violence finally filed for divorce, but was locked in the house by her husband, and then ran away from home. Her whereabouts were still unknown.

It’s okay if you really run away from home, but what if… that’s not what happened?

Where was this woman now?

Shen Yu read the old newspaper again and again.

The missing person’s notice was small, the size of a tofu block, and it was sandwiched in a pile of text. It was inconspicuous, and it could be easily ignored by people.

Since the man was not short of money, why didn’t he spend more money to make the missing person’s notice more prominent?

After the woman filed for a divorce, he kept her locked at home. How did she run away from home afterwards?

Or could it be that this missing person’s notice was just a gesture, and the man actually didn’t want to get the person back?

Shen Yu pondered for a long time and finally said: “The male head-of-the-family you mentioned was also working on the construction site and was very rich. It can be easily concluded that this is the same person as Wu Jianyi in the missing person’s notice.”

“Wu Jianyi’s contact information, besides the construction site, also notes his home address, Room 444, Pink Apartment complex.”

“Yesterday, we tried to open the door of East Building No.444 with the key, but it didn’t work. In the whole East Building, only that room can’t be opened, no matter what method you use.”

Hearing what he said, Cuihua instantly realized: “However, there is another room 444 in the apartment complex.”

The layout of the rooms in the east building and the west building is exactly the same, so naturally, the other room 444 was in the West Building.

“So, we can go to the West Wing’s number 444.”

As the clues became clearer, Cuihua eagerly said: “I’ll get Xu Jiaojiao, that silly girl, so that she doesn’t run around when I am away.”

Although Cuihua is a veteran, she will, however, protect the newcomers to a certain extent, which is simply a different kind of veteran.

Because Xu Jiaojiao had already shared space with her, she was included in her protection range naturally.

Xu Jiaojiao was very obedient, keeping close to this big boss who was willing to cover for her, and kept following behind her. Except for the spectacled man whom she hated for sending her sister to death, she was like a little tail who never messed it up with her teammates.

Not seeing her little tail at this time, Shen Yu asked casually: “Where is the girl who has been following you?”

Cuihua waved her hand: “Because I was about to exchange information with you just now, I let that silly girl stay in place for the time being. She’s waiting for me in the lobby; I will get her later.”

It is daytime, so the rotunda on the first floor is temporarily a safe place. It stands to reason that even if you are alone, there is no danger.

But Shen Yu changed his expression slightly: “The lobby on the first floor?”

Cuihua curiously asked: “Yes, what’s the matter?”

Anonymous, who had not spoken until now, suddenly said: “The direction the man in glasses went to after he left. It seems to be the lobby on the first floor.”

The man in glasses had killed Xu Jiaojiao’s sister, and Xu Jiaojiao had made another mark when he had been dividing the keys. Everyone in the apartment knew of the grievances between these two.

If Xu Jiaojiao, who was alone, meets the man with glasses that has no good intentions…

Suddenly, Cuihua’s face also changed.

…

On the first floor, Xu Jiaojiao was sitting on the sofa in the lobby and feeling uneasy; without Sister Cui’s protection by her side, her whole body was trembling a little.

But Sister Cui wants to talk about business, so she made her wait here.

Xu Jiaojiao has no other abilities, but it is true that she has always been obedient.

Just as she was fidgeting, a shadow suddenly fell over her.

She raised her head blankly and saw the gentle face of the man with glasses.

“Miss Xu, we meet again.” The man in glasses greeted slowly, with a creepy smile on his face.

Xu Jiaojiao’s hair on her back rose instantly, and she jumped up from the sofa and wanted to run.

She knows that the man with glasses is not a good person, and she knows that she can’t provoke him without Sister Cui’s backing.

But who knew that just as she was about to take another step, the unhurried voice of the man with glasses came from behind her: “Don’t you want your sister’s belongings?”

Her sister’s…belongings?!

With these words, Xu Jiaojiao’s footsteps were immediately nailed to the ground.

She struggled to restrain her urge to escape, turned around and, trembling, looked at the spectacled man.

The man with glasses was still smiling: “I know that Miss Xu misunderstood me, but I swear that your sister’s death was definitely an accident, I didn’t do anything.”

“Less, less nonsense, I… just want to know, my sister’s things?”

Xu Jiaojiao was sad and scared, almost crying, her words trembled and shattered.

She was involved in an inexplicable horror story. Her sister had died inexplicably, and their parents must still be waiting for them in the outside world all this time.

She couldn’t take her sister to see her parents, and being able to bring her sister’s belongings back would be the last comfort to her parents.

Looking at the girl with red eyes like a rabbit, the man in glasses held his glasses and turned to the elevator in the centre of the hall: “Do you want to know what your sister left you before she died?”

“She hid them in the elevator.”

He stretched out his hand to stroke the closed elevator door, then turned his head and pointedly looked at Xu Jiaojiao.

Xu Jiaojiao was instantly alerted: “Sister Cui said that one of the apartment’s rules is that you can’t enter the elevator.”

This elevator must be dangerous!

But the man with glasses said regretfully: “But if you don’t open the elevator, you will never know what the things are that your sister left you?”

Xu Jiaojiao stared at the man with glasses, his eyes full of seduction, and paused for a moment. After that, she turned around without hesitation and ran away.

In this situation, fools could see that this bad thing was trying to trick her into opening the elevator door.

She cursed in her heart and ran to the stairs with all her strength, but just as she stepped up the steps, she suddenly tripped over her feet and fell to the ground fiercely.

She turned her head in amazement and found that a transparent rope was wrapped around her ankle.

The other end of the rope was in the hands of the man with glasses.

The man with glasses snapped and closed his black book, the smile on his face disappearing.

“What a disobedient girl, why aren’t you being cheated like your sister?”

His tone was still gentle, but his body kept moving, directly dragging the struggling Xu Jiaojiao to his side with brute force.

He used his skills from the black book to tie Xu Jiaojiao into a cocoon, then used her as a meat shield to block between himself and the elevator.

“Aren’t you curious about what’s in this elevator?” He exclaimed, “I’m really curious anyway.”

Since the administrator refused to allow them to take the elevator, the man with glasses had a strong interest in the inside of the elevator.

Later, the administrator had told them that as long as he could kill the monster and bring him the monster’s body, he would be able to give them a generous reward.

The man in glasses admitted that he was jealous of the reward.

He speculated that the reason why people were not allowed to ride on this elevator is that the eight achievements are related to monsters.

But he didn’t dare to face the monsters directly. If he lost his own life just for a reward, it would be too much for the gain.

He needed to do what he did best: find another person to clear his way.

It’s a pity that after being disrupted by the short-haired lady several times, the current newcomer was very vigilant and unwilling to cooperate with him. It was more difficult to fool them to death.

“But who would have thought that I was so lucky to catch an unattended little rabbit!”

His smile at this moment revealed a trace of abnormality, and he raised his hand to brush back the messed-up hair from Xu Jiaojiao’s forehead.

Xu Jiaojiao’s eyes widened in horror, and she twisted her body hard.

But her slight resistance made the man in glasses more excited and he raised his hand to press the elevator’s button.

The numbers on the screen gradually sank until they came to the first floor and the elevator’s doors slowly opened.

What was revealed was…red.

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