"Not breathing?" Xie Xiaoying asked anxiously, "Are you saying that there is a ghost inside?"

The long ponytail gave her a white look: "I didn't look carefully, I was afraid that he would find me, so I leaned against the door and listened for a long time."

Chai Jun was dissatisfied with the long ponytail and rolled his girlfriend's eyes, so he chimed in and said, "You can't hear anything if you stick to it, the sound of breathing is so quiet."

The long ponytail snorted coldly: "Coincidentally, I have strengthened my hearing, and I can really hear."

As soon as this remark came out, no one else said anything.

Zhu Yi had a mission on him, so he didn't react too much to the words of the long ponytail, so he whispered something and continued to move forward.

Seeing this, Xie Xiaoying couldn't help but follow, making the boyfriend next to her beard and stare with anger.

Long Ponytail saw that the other four had to go back, and the door connecting the stairwell behind him could not be opened no matter what.Although she was reluctant, she had to follow.

This is the third floor, and the scenery in the corridor is almost the same as that on the second floor, but what is striking is that besides many scattered psoriasis advertisements on the wall of this floor, there are also some talisman papers.

Yellow paper and red letters were pasted on the wall, and some of them fell to the ground because of degumming, and some footprints were stepped on.In such a gloomy and dark corridor, it looked extremely strange.

What's even more strange is that there are even statues of gods enshrined at the door of several households.In front of the statues, there was no candle or incense, but only a few tribute fruits.Zhu Yi reached out to pick up a tribute fruit, and found that it was not a fresh fruit, but a prop made of plastic.

When he picked up the tribute fruit, the statue was illuminated by Zhu Yi's flashlight, and his face, which was painted with white paint, was blushing. Two black eyes were outlined in black ink, as if he was staring at the person in front of him.

Xie Xiaoying was terrified because of his actions: "Why don't you put it down, in case you touch some taboo?"

When Chai Jun heard this, his face immediately collapsed: "Why do you care so much about him!"

Xie Xiaoying looked at her boyfriend bitterly: "Am I concerned about him alone? I am thinking of everyone, okay?"

Hearing the words, the long ponytail raised his forehead: "Can you two stop quarreling at this moment, that room is coming soon."

As soon as she finished speaking, the air suddenly became quiet, and the tense words could not be pressed on their heads.

Zhu Yi threw away the props and continued walking, passed two more rooms, and finally saw the open door.

Just as Long Ponytail wanted him to be careful, Zhu Yi's flashlight shone in.What came into view was a narrow living room. There was a square table directly opposite the door, and an old woman with a haggard face and a stooped figure was sitting beside the table.

Before the long ponytail had time to inhale, Xie Xiaoying beside her helped her inhale first.

At this time, the old man suddenly raised his head, his cloudy eyes looked like leftovers in the jade market under the light of the flashlight.

"She...she is the old lady I saw on the second floor." Xie Xiaoying said to Zhu Yi in a low voice.

Zhu Yi nodded. After Xie Xiaoying came out from the second floor to the first floor, he talked to them for a while. During this time, the old man had enough time to return from the second floor to the third floor.

It seems that the old woman is a person.

"How is it possible!" A trace of surprise flashed in Long Ponytail's eyes, and he muttered to himself, "I obviously didn't hear the sound of breathing."

"I'm afraid there is something wrong with your ears." Chai Jun sarcastically said, "Tsk, save up points and go back to Nightless City to update your enhancements."

With a long ponytail and a sword eyebrow, his eyes looked at Chai Jun like a knife.At this moment, the old woman interrupted their quarrel.

"Everyone, cough, cough, come in and sit down."

However, as soon as these words came out, none of them wanted to speak out.

Although the old lady looked like a human being, this was a supernatural live broadcast, and something was wrong with this building and its residents.Under such circumstances, rushing into a small room can be said to block one's escape route.

But Zhu Yi took the lead.

He walked in, sat directly next to the old woman, and looked at her casually.

The old lady was wearing a black long-sleeved suit, which was a short Tang suit. It was supposed to be made of clean and shiny fabric, but after wearing it for too long, her body had a gray texture.

Her hair was coiled, neatly clamped with a few steel clips, without a single white strand messing around.

According to the time in the live broadcast, it should be one o'clock now.An old man was wandering outside in the middle of the night, sitting at the table with his hair neatly coiled, and there seemed to be a bowl in front of him...Zhu Yi took a closer look, and there were a few black solidified objects floating in it, which should be blood. Soup.

Everything is very strange, but the old man should hold some clues, he can not let go.

Lu Qi also followed him and sat beside him, and the other three looked awkward standing up, and the old woman kept staring at them, so the three crowded and sat on a bench.

"You guys don't sleep at night, cough, cough, why are you running around?" asked the old woman.

"We're the new security guards—"

Chai Jun was interrupted by her before he finished speaking.

"Don't wander around the building at night... Cough cough cough... That's how my daughter got lost."

"How did your daughter get lost?" Lu Qi asked upon seeing this, "Do you have any specific information?"

"Specifically...?" The old man turned his cloudy eyes and looked at Lu Qi, "This building has been built since it was built, so you don't come out at night, my daughter... I can't remember cough cough cough."

Zhu Yiyan's heart moved when he heard the words, so he asked, "When was Anju Apartment built?"

"About—" the old man looked at the ceiling for a while and remained silent. Just when everyone thought she had passed, she suddenly said, "It was 30 years ago."

Zhu Yi was a little surprised. Anju Apartment did look very old, and its history could be seen from the wall bricks inside.But in an old house 30 years ago, why did the elevator look like it was newly installed.

He asked out his doubts.

"Elevator—" the old man thought for a while and said, "The elevator is installed at the back."

[Story Exploration: Progress 10%

(You learn that Anju Apartment was built 30 years ago and has been renovated once in recent years, adding an elevator.)]

"When did you pretend?" Zhu Yi asked.

"This... I don't remember cough cough cough." The old man began to cough non-stop, her cloudy eyes suddenly looked at Zhu Yi's uniform, "Are you security guards?"

"That's right, Ganqing told you just now that you were completely ignored." Chai Jun was a little dissatisfied when he heard this.

He felt that this NPC looked scary, but he was actually a person who provided clues.When she was talking to her just now, she pretended not to hear it, but Zhu Yi answered every sentence he said.

Chai Jun thought of Xie Xiaoying's inexplicable dependence on Zhu Yi, and Zhu Yi's arm that was held by Xie Xiaoying when he first met them, and he couldn't help feeling angry.

"That's great, there hasn't been a security guard for a long time." The old man ignored him at all and said to himself.

After everyone heard this, their expressions became weird.Everyone's expression is saying that there is no security guard, how can their mission be completed.

Among them, Zhu Yi's expression was even more unexpected. Others didn't know that he didn't know, but he and Tang Yeli had received a call from Wang Baoan in the security room.

In addition, until today, Wang Baoan's name was still filled in the patrol register.Now the old woman said that there has been no security guard for a long time, what exactly does it mean.

Is it because she is too old to remember wrongly, or as the words say, there are really no security guards.As for what Wang Baoan is, there is no other way to say.

Zhu Yi thought for a while and asked, "Grandma, when was the last time you saw Wang Baoan?"

The old man rolled his eyes when he heard the words: "Wang Baoan? Oh... I remembered, Xiao Wang. It's been almost three months since I last saw him."

"Three months?"

"Yes." The old man's words made people fall into an ice cave. "Xiao Wang died of illness three months ago. At that time, the mourning hall was set up at the door of the apartment. Everyone went to cough cough cough."

The person who died three months ago called them tonight and wanted to hand over work to them.

Zhu Yi clearly remembered Wang Baoan saying on the phone that he would be there later.

Now it seems that Tang Yeli was right, the one who handed over to them was not an individual.

"Hey, speaking of Xiao Wang... I asked him to help me find my daughter... but he died before the person was found..." The old man said, there was only pity in his voice, but he didn't feel sorry for Wang Baoan's death. Have a little sympathy.

"By the way, aren't you new security guards?" The old man said suddenly, "Then help me find my daughter."

"Is it okay if you don't look for it..." Xie Xiaoying asked reflexively when she heard this sentence.

"But if you don't help me find her...cough cough cough what if she comes to you cough cough cough..." the old man said incoherently.

But no one questioned her words.

Because the moment the old man finished speaking, they received a mandatory task.

[Compulsory task - to find the missing daughter.

(The grandma in the Anju apartment tells you that her daughter is missing. She looks for her daughter in the apartment every night, but she has never found it. Now she is entrusting the task to you, the new security guard who is about to take office.)]

[Mission level - the level of the mountain of swords and the sea of ​​fire.

(Attention, this task is life-threatening, please treat it with caution. If you fail, you will face the pursuit of a sword-level ghost.)]

【mission rewards--

1. Obtain 4 careful hearts.

2. After completion, the resident will sign and grade your work handover form. 】

Everyone is forced to accept this task, and there is no other way to go but to complete it.

"Mother-in-law, how long has your daughter been missing?" Xie Xiaoying asked compromised.

"I...don't remember..." The old woman still returned the same sentence.

"If you don't remember when she disappeared, you still remember how old she was when she disappeared." Long Ponytail asked.

"How old..." the old man turned his gaze to her when he heard the words, and said, "Just like you."

Several people exchanged glances. It seems that the old man's daughter was at least an adult when she disappeared, but the exact age is still unclear.

"We need some clues to find her, do you have her picture?" Xie Xiaoying asked.

The old man nodded slowly, stood up and walked into the bedroom, and came out after a while holding a yellowed photo album.

She opened the photo album, and the first page was a photo of a little girl.It can be seen that the child's skin is as white as snow, his eyes are big and round like two black grapes, and he looks very cute.

The old man continued to turn back, and the little girl was growing up, gradually becoming dignified and beautiful, with long black hair parted in the middle, revealing an oval face with willow eyebrows and almond eyes, she was a woman with classical beauty.

"This—" Xie Xiaoying covered her mouth after saying one word.

Zhu Yi glanced at her and saw that she was looking over.

Zhu Yi knew what she was thinking.The old man's daughter is very similar to the pin-up girl on the red wooden cabinet on the second floor. She doesn't look the same, but the overall temperament and the feeling of eyebrows and eyes are almost the same as the pin-up girl.

The old man continued to turn backwards, and his daughter's appearance seemed to have taken preservatives, and there was no change at all.Because the date was not recorded on the photo, they could not judge the year and month.

When turning to the penultimate page, Zhu Yi suddenly stopped the old man.

Everyone looked carefully and found that this photo was taken in the apartment.The woman in the photo was wearing a white dress, her waist-length hair was still long, no makeup was applied on her face, but she was extremely beautiful.She was leaning against the wall of the aisle, and behind her was a long and deep corridor.

At the end of the corridor, there is a little silver object.

"Is this... an elevator?" Mr. Long Ponytail asked.

Everyone else had the same idea. Behind the old man's daughter, the metal object exposed in the distance was the door of the elevator.

Then it can be proved that the old man's daughter disappeared after the elevator was built.According to the old man, the elevator was only built in recent years.So it wasn't too long since her daughter disappeared.

However, even if it is not long, it is still a few years ago from the current time.In reality, the old man's daughter should have turned into a handful of loess long ago.But in the world of supernatural live broadcasts, they already knew what they were going to face.

On the bright side, it might be a corpse that hasn't decomposed yet.At worst, it is just a ghost who died unjustly.

Thinking of this, those photos suddenly became ghostly. The women in the pictures seemed to be looking at them through the photo paper.

"Why don't we go to the second floor to have a look." Xie Xiaoying suggested while the old man was returning to the room to put the photo album, "I always feel that there is something strange in that cabinet."

"Okay, you can go and have a look." Zhu Yi said.

Because they entered the old man's house without saying a few words after meeting, so Xie Xiaoying didn't tell Chai Jun everything.

When Chai Jun heard his girlfriend discussing something he didn't know about with others, he clenched his fists in jealousy.

Even if he knew that Zhu Yi and Lu Qi should have some inexplicable relationship, he probably wasn't interested in Xie Xiaoying.But his girlfriend's attitude, as well as Zhu Yi's appearance, made it difficult for him to control the jealousy in his heart like a spark.

But Chai Jun didn't show it, he thoughtfully put his arms around Xie Xiaoying and left the old man's house.

Zhu Yi walked to the door of the stairwell and signed his name and time on the building inspection register on the wall.

The door opened suddenly, as if a pair of invisible hands were gently pushing behind it.

They went downstairs together, and at the door, they could see the red wooden cabinet standing in the distance.It's just that it's far away, and the light of the flashlight can't shine through, so that it looks like a tall black figure.

However, there were five of them at this time, probably due to the large number of people, Xie Xiaoying was not so afraid anymore.

They soon came to the wooden cabinet, Lu Qi suddenly lowered his head, and there was a flashlight thrown out of the den at his feet.

Lu Qi bent down to pick up the flashlight and found that the switch was on, but there was no light.

"Is it from Tang Yeli?" Xie Xiaoying asked, "I remember he broke the flashlight just now."

Hearing this, Chai Jun found out that Xie Xiaoying and Zhu Yi knew someone he didn't know, and immediately became jealous: "Hurry up and open the cabinet."

Standing aside with his hands in his long ponytail, he sneered: "Hey, you have such a big temper, why don't you do it yourself?"

"I just fucking-"

"Chai Jun, what's the matter with you." Xie Xiaoying pinched him, reminding him not to mess around with her eyes.

Zhu Yi didn't seem to hear their quarrel, and walked forward, holding the handle of the cabinet door.

The pin-up girl was still smiling peacefully, watching them quietly in the dark, but the smile on her face was creepy after seeing it for a long time.

One hand was on Zhu Yi's, Zhu Yi raised his eyes, saw Lu Qi walking beside him, and took his hand off.

Zhu Yi didn't refuse, and stood aside to let Lu Qi open the cabinet door.

Under everyone's gaze, the red cabinet door opened slowly.First they saw a pair of dangling arms, followed by a distorted face.

"Help!" Tang Yeli fell out of the cabinet with his head in his arms, writhing on the ground.

The one in the cabinet turned out to be Tang Yeli who had disappeared just now, which was an unexpected harvest.

Tang Yeli was very emotional, and seemed to be immersed in fear, and lost the basic ability to judge the five people in front of him.

"Calm down." Xie Xiaoying knelt down to help him up.

Seeing her hair, Tang Yeli immediately pushed Xie Xiaoying down like crazy.

At this moment, Lu Qi grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up, his trachea was firmly held by a strong hand, the air in his lungs became thinner and thinner, Tang Yeli kept kicking his toes off the ground and struggling.

It was not until his face turned black that Lu Qi threw him down.

Tang Yeli stood still holding the cabinet door, coughing continuously to relieve the discomfort in his throat.

After experiencing a near-death suffocation, his emotions calmed down unexpectedly.

In the tears he coughed up, he could clearly see the faces of Zhu Yi and others.

"How do you know I'm in there?"

"We don't know, we just happened to meet you." Zhu Yi said.

"Didn't you come to save me on purpose?" Tang Yeli was disappointed when he heard this.

"Of course, but I didn't expect you to be in the closet at first." Zhu Yi paused, pushing his glasses and said.

When Xie Xiaoying heard this, she looked at Zhu Yi very confused.

Who was the one who said categorically that he could not save people just now, and why is he lying to people and not writing a draft?

When Tang Yeli heard Zhu Yi's words, she immediately burst into tears of gratitude, and wiped away her tears with her arm.

Seeing that he had almost recovered, Zhu Yi asked, "Why did you suddenly disappear just now?"

Tang Yeli frowned: "I don't know either. I went back to write the time, and at this moment I saw a person standing in the corridor, but when I looked carefully, she disappeared again. I thought it was a hallucination, so I continued write, but—"

"At that time, it was like being knocked out of my head. I couldn't remember the memory of the next moment." Tang Yeli said, "When I recovered, I was already squatting in that cabinet."

"Did you know where you were?" Zhu Yi asked.

When Tang Yeli woke up, he was in the cabinet. How to find out the direction in a small closed and dark space.

"I have a general feeling that I know where I am." Tang Yeli showed a look of fear on his face, "But I was sure of this idea because when I was in the closet, I saw a hairy man through the gap in the closet door. A long, woman in a cheongsam stood outside."

When he said this, the others gasped.Because they're standing right now talking in front of pinup girls in cheongsams.

"I dare not go out because that woman has not left." Tang Yeli continued, "I know she can see me in the closet, but she has not opened the closet. So I have been deadlocked with her until you come , she left."

"I missed it." Zhu Yi said regretfully.

"Brother..." Tang Yeli looked at him with a complicated expression, "Although she is indeed very beautiful, she is not so..."

Before Tang Yeli finished speaking, he saw Lu Qi staring at him, as if staring at a dead person.

He immediately remembered Zhu Yi's declaration of coming out, so he pretended to rub his neck and said, "Ah, I'm still a little hypoxic, and I'm just talking nonsense hahaha."

"Don't waste time, since there is nothing in the cabinet, let's continue to look for it." Long ponytail said with his hands in his hands.

"What are you looking for?" Tang Yeli asked confusedly.

Xie Xiaoying told him the mission, and Tang Yeli felt hurt immediately. It turned out that saving him was incidental, and they were just here to do the mission.

But fortunately, he was already safe, and Tang Yeli didn't bother to worry about it. Instead, he raised a guess: "Is her daughter the woman standing in front of me?"

"It's possible." Zhu Yi said while reaching out to uncover the poster.

The others didn't have time to stop, they only heard a tearing sound, and the poster was split into two.The girl's beautiful face turned into half, making her look even weirder.

Zhu Yi looked at the nervous four people, continued to tear off the other half, put the two halves together, and tore them apart from the middle to form four pieces.

He sent one each: "Tear it up."

Chai Jun looked at the pictorial in his hand, the girl only had half of her facial features left: "Why, you are not afraid of any problems?"

"If you keep it, there will be problems." Zhu Yi said.

"However, even if we tear up the poster, there is no way to help us find the old woman's daughter." Xie Xiaoying said.

"She's not in the closet, but there's another place we can go and see." Zhu Yi said, "The poster was torn off so that she couldn't leave from another place."

"Did you mean the elevator?" Tang Yeli realized.

"Well, I suspect her body is on the top of the elevator." Zhu Yi said.

Thinking of everything in the elevator, Tang Yeli nodded, and then said: "The elevator is on the first floor now, let's pry open the door from the second floor to see if there is any."

"No." Zhu Yi said, "It's not sure that the elevator is really broken. It's very likely that it started to go up the moment we opened it."

"Then what should we do?" Tang Yeli asked.

"Turn off the switch that controls the power supply of the elevator," Zhu Yi said.

"Do you know where?" Long Ponytail asked.

"I don't know, so we have to go back to the third floor." Zhu Yi said, "ask the old man."

The others had no objections, so they went back to the third floor together.They walked to the old man's door again, but the door was still open. The old man was sitting at the square table just like before they left.

"No." Lu Qi said suddenly.

At the same time, the expression of the long ponytail became extremely flustered.

Zhu Yi shone the flashlight on the old man's face.

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