After Xie Xiaoying's mood stabilized, the five entered the elevator.Xie Xiaoying seemed to be in poor spirits, her eyelids were still swollen, and she needed Zhou Lanlan's support to stand still, but she was not as hysterical as she was at the beginning.

The elevator swayed slowly to the tenth floor. After opening the door, there was a clean corridor without any breath of life.

Compared with residential buildings, the signs on this floor look closer to an office building clad by a certain company.

It's just that the aisle is not as spacious as the office building, and it is as narrow and dark as the layout downstairs.

They got out of the elevator and followed the directions given by Wang Baoan.

"The eighth door on the right after exiting the elevator." Jiang Nian illuminated the corridor with a flashlight.

If they hadn't been counting the number of rooms they passed by, these identical doors would easily make people lose their sense of direction.

"Here we are." Zhou Lanlan helped Xie Xiaoying to stop in front of the eighth door.

There was no difference between this door and other doors, it was locked, and only a door handle and a keyhole were left on the clean door.

Zhu Yi took out the key given by Wang Baoan and inserted it into the lock, and the door opened with a click.

Contrary to expectations, behind the door is not an archive room, but a white wall.

The distance between the wall and the door is just over a meter wide, making the room lose any functionality.The space that should have been there was blocked by a white wall.

"What's going on?" Jiang Nian looked at the white wall in front of him in surprise, "Wang Baoan is lying to us?"

"No way..." Zhou Lanlan pointed to the key in Zhu Yi's hand, "At least the key he gave is correct."

At this time, Lu Qi squatted down, reached out and touched the bottom of the wall.The knuckles suddenly bent, and a white thin plate was buckled out by him.

Under the white sheet is a small arched door that is covered.

The door was less than half the height of an air duct, and terribly narrow in width, and it wouldn't be wrong to call it a dog hole.

The small door was not locked, and Lu Qi stretched out his hand to pull it, and a narrow passage was exposed in front of their eyes.

He took a flashlight and looked in. The length of the passage was not too long, and he only needed to climb four or five meters to get out of it.

At the end of the light, it seems to be a room with a faint light that looks like it is emitted by a computer screen.Through this light, Lu Qi saw many shelves in the room, neatly placed aside.

But this passage was too narrow. Among them, except for the thin Zhu Yi and the two girls, Lu Qi and Jiang Nian couldn't pass through it.

"Let me come." Zhu Yi said, "You and him won't be able to enter unless the bones are broken."

Lu Qi was noncommittal when he heard the words, turned his head and said to the others: "Go out and wait for me first."

Everyone didn't know what he was going to do, but Lu Qi asked, so they all went to the corridor and waited.

Zhu Yi was still wondering, but Lu made a short run-up, kicked sideways, and kicked against the wall.

There was only a dull but heavy echo, which was the tremor of heavy metal after the impact.On the wall in front of him, the snow-white wall ash began to crack, and then fell to the ground one after another, like snowflakes falling.

The others immediately covered their noses and swept away the dust flying in front of them with their hands.

After the white wall ash was removed, the true face of the wall was revealed to them.

The lower layer turned out to be metal, and I don't know what material it is, it should be some kind of strong alloy.

Zhu Yi looked at Lu Qi in shock.

He knew that Lu Qi was the one who could break a tree with one punch and knock over the roof of an elevator with one kick.

But now, there is no trace left on this wall.It shows that the firmness of this metal is definitely not an ordinary security defense level.

A place where surveillance video is stored is protected by this metal, what secret is it hiding.

Zhu Yi looked at the small door below, and suddenly felt that there might be no way out through this door.

The others obviously thought of it too, and the expressions on everyone's faces suddenly became a little heavy.

"Let me go." Zhou Lanlan spoke first, "This passage is too narrow, it doesn't look like girls can't get in."

"You are a girl, if something happens after you go in..." Jiang Nian felt quite inappropriate.

"Don't worry, I'm very strong, and nothing will happen to me." Zhou Lanlan said haha, but she seemed a little lacking in confidence.

"I'll go in too." Zhu Yi said, "I'm worried about letting you go alone."

When Zhou Lanlan heard the words, she immediately glanced at Lu Qi, waved her hands and said, "Don't talk nonsense, there is nothing to worry about, there is nothing between us."

"You think too much." Zhu Yi pushed his glasses, "I'm worried that you missed the details."

Zhou Lanlan blushed instantly because of her self-indulgent sentimentality, but when she thought of entering a small confined space with someone to accompany her, she really felt relieved.

Lu Qi stroked his brow with his fingertips: "Alright, you go in."

Zhu Yiwenyan squatted down and looked into the small door, and measured the width of the passage and his own width. He could pass but it would be very difficult.

He hung the rhino horn amulet around his neck and began to crawl slowly inside.

Because the passage was too narrow, the metal plate above his head almost pressed against his waist.There was no way to lift his head, so he could only keep it level with his back, looking at the road ahead from the corner of his eye.

Zhu Yi couldn't climb in quickly, and it was difficult to retreat if something happened.

After about ten seconds, he finally climbed to the head.

Zhu Yi stood up and found that there was a huge space behind the wall, a bit like an archive room, neatly lined up with racks, and the time of the CDs was marked on them according to the time.

The disc was first released ten years ago, and Anju Apartment should have been around that time, and monitoring equipment was installed in the apartment.

Zhu Yi found that these CDs were burned into one piece a week, and they have been saved for ten years, and the number is very considerable.

"Zhu Yi, are you okay?" Zhou Lanlan asked outside.

"It's okay, come in, it's a file room inside." Zhu Yi replied.

"Okay, I'm coming in." Zhou Lanlan squatted down and crawled into the passage. Just as her upper body climbed in, her face suddenly changed, "It's terrible, why can't I get in?"

She broke down and said, "Could it be that I've gained weight? No wonder I can't lift my jeans anymore."

Zhu Yiwen said a little speechless: "Or you can stay outside, I can do it by myself."

Xie Xiaoying's weak voice came, comforting Zhou Lanlan a few words, and then said: "I'll go in and accompany Zhu Yi."

Zhou Lanlan whimpered a few times, as if she had been beaten to the point of losing her self-esteem.

When Zhu Yi heard Xie Xiaoying's words, he originally wanted to refuse, but then he thought that even if Jiang Nian took off his arms and wanted to squeeze in, it had nothing to do with him, so he acquiesced to Xie Xiaoying's behavior.

Jiang Nian was a little worried about Xie Xiaoying's state, and asked her a few words. Seeing that Xie Xiaoying seemed to have adjusted her mood and made up her mind, Jiang Nian stopped blocking her.

After a while, there was a noise in the passage, and someone crawled in.

Xie Xiaoying climbed to the exit, stood up from the ground while leaning on the wall, and looked around the hidden space.

At this time, Zhu Yi had already found the light button in the room. With the mentality of trying it out, he stretched out his hand and pressed the button.The overhead lights turned on all of a sudden, but they were just a few small spotlights, and the light was not bright enough to be able to see objects clearly.

Towering shelves block the light, casting dark gray shadows on the floor.The bulky monitor of the old-fashioned computer was slightly blue, adding a layer of coldness to the room.

Xie Xiaoying looked at the CDs on the shelves: "Are these all surveillance videos?"

Zhu Yi nodded: "Now we need to find the CD on August [-], [-]."

The two looked up at the reminder on the shelf, searched according to the time mark, and finally found the one belonging to August [-]th among a pile of dusty CDs.

They took the CD and walked to the computer. The computer didn't need to enter a password. As soon as Zhu Yi touched the mouse, he entered the desktop from the standby state.

The computer desktop is very clean, there are no redundant programs, just folders, recycle bins and a playback software.

Zhu Yi inserted the August [-] CD into it, and the small funnel on the screen turned and a folder popped up.

The third week of August [-].

August [-] happened to be the first day.

Zhu Yi clicked on the video of that day, and the player popped up, starting to play the images from all the surveillance cameras that day.

The color of the picture is green at first, because the time of video recording started in the early morning, and the lights in the apartment were not turned on.

Under the infrared light, every corner of Anju Apartment is dead silent.Even though there has been no movement, but staring at the unchanging picture for a long time, I am afraid that there will be something extra on the screen.This unknown is even more frightening.

Xie Xiaoying tugged at her collar and quietly hid behind Zhu Yi, trying to let Zhu Yi's shoulders block the picture for her.

Zhu Yi tapped the keyboard with his fingers, and the screen began to speed up, and gradually the color of the screen changed to normal color.

It's dawn, and it's morning.

The residents living in the apartment came out of their homes one after another, some went to work, some went to school, and there was a thriving and harmonious state.

Zhu Yi suddenly beeped and pressed the pause button.

At this time, on the lower right corner of the surveillance video, the recorded time is eight o'clock in the morning.

In the screen, all the residents who appeared under surveillance seem to have heard something, and they all looked in the same direction at the same time.

Immediately afterwards, these people left their original positions and ran out of the screen.After a while, all these people appeared under the surveillance at the gate of the apartment.

They were not in a hurry to go out, but they went outside and looked at something.The inner three floors and the outer three floors formed a circle, and the surveillance was just able to capture some of the onlookers.

"At eight o'clock in the morning on August [-], [-], the outer wall of Anju Apartment fell off, causing passers-by to be injured." Zhu Yi murmured, "The news in the old newspaper in the security room should be This is the time."

He continued to play the video, and soon a person in a black suit appeared in the surveillance video at the gate.There were three people in total, and they seemed to be negotiating with the surrounding residents. After a while, most of the residents dispersed.

After a while, an ambulance pulled up to the door of the apartment, and two emergency personnel in white uniforms rushed out of the car and ran past the surveillance camera with a stretcher.After a while they carried a person back into the frame, and after talking to the black suits, one of the black suits followed the car, and the other two returned to the apartment.

"These three people in black suits should be the staff of the apartment." Xie Xiaoying guessed, "Maybe they are the property management."

Zhu Yi nodded and continued to look down.

After the wall brick smashed someone, apart from black suits going up and down in the apartment on the phone, nothing special happened on the whole morning of August [-]th.

In the afternoon, black suits led four workers in hard hats and safety vests into the apartment.

They stopped in the lobby for a while, and they didn't know what to talk about, and they went up to the twelfth floor from the elevator together.

Zhu Yi and Xie Xiaoying focused on the monitoring screen in the corridor on the twelfth floor.

Xie Xiaoying said suddenly: "There seems to be no difference between day and night in this building."

She was not exaggerating when she said this, because once upstairs, the aisle was always sandwiched between door-to-door houses. Except for a pitifully small window at the end, the entire corridor was basically unable to receive any light.So much so that the whole building looks dark, even in broad daylight, it is very gloomy.

On the screen, the property owner knocked on the door of a family on the twelfth floor.After a while, a middle-aged man walked out from inside.The man seemed to have a bad temper, with greasy hair and a gloomy face, and he said a few words in a harsh voice to close the door.

The property manager hurriedly stopped him, and handed him another pack of cigarettes. He didn't know what to say, and the man's eyebrows stretched.

But he still guarded the door to prevent these people from entering.

After a while, one of the men in a black suit took out a wallet from his pocket, ordered a few hundred dollars and gave it to the man.The man smiled happily when he saw this, and stretched out his hands to make a seven.

"What are they doing in there?"

"On the day the wall fell off, Anju Apartment hired four workers to repair the outer wall. The man's house happened to fall in the direction of the fall." Zhu Yi said, "It seems that they want to borrow the windows of this man's house so that the workers can take care of themselves." Go out and fix it."

Xie Xiaoying understood, and muttered: "It seems that this man thinks this money is not enough."

"He didn't mean that he didn't have enough money." Zhu Yi shook his head, "He just asked these people to come later, maybe seven o'clock in the evening."

Zhu Yi pressed the speed button, and everything in the apartment was running normally during this period.When it was almost seven o'clock, Zhu Yi suddenly saw a door on the third floor being pushed open.

Lihua appears in the camera, wearing a cheongsam, her hair loosely pulled back, and a bottle of milk in her hand.He came out of the house unsteadily, went to the elevator and pressed the elevator.

When the elevator opened, she walked in, looked at the mirror in the elevator covered with small advertisements, and stretched out her hand to smooth her hair.

Lihua showed a sweet smile in front of the mirror, put her hand next to her chin and made a few hand gestures commonly used by models in taking pictures.

Zhu Yi only saw Lihua as a ghost, but never what she looked like when she was alive.I saw that she was extremely white, and she was quite beautiful, not much different from the poster girl in the cheongsam, both of which exuded a charm.

The elevator reached the first floor, and Lihua walked out.She passed through the hall on the first floor, exited the door of the apartment, and disappeared into the frame.After a while, she came back with a bottle full of milk in her hand.

Zhu Yi looked at the time mark in the lower right corner, it was exactly seven o'clock in the evening.

She walked to the elevator and pressed the elevator button.The elevator door opened, and there were three people standing inside, holding a bag in their hands, half the height of a person, and they didn't know what was in it.

Zhu Yi was a little surprised when he saw these three people, because this apartment does not have a first floor, so when did these three people get into the elevator?

He was patronizing Lihua just now, but he didn't notice the pictures under other surveillance.

Zhu Yi turned back the time a little and found that just after Lihua finished milking and entered, three people came out of a room on the first floor and got into the elevator.

But the response speed of the elevator in Anju Apartment was extremely slow. When Lihua went to the elevator door and pressed the button, the people inside hadn't pressed the floor number yet.

When Lihua saw three men in the elevator, she froze for a moment.Before she could react, her legs had already stepped in.

The atmosphere in the elevator was heavy. Although no sound could be heard from the surveillance, none of the three men spoke.

Lihua looked very nervous, and carefully pressed her body against the elevator wall.

The elevator door closed, and one of the men reached out and pressed the eleventh floor first.Because Lihua was sticking to the door, his hand accidentally touched Lihua.

Li Hua suddenly opened her mouth in fright, probably screaming, and spilled the milk on the ground.

Her reaction was a bit exaggerated, but the three men did look weird.First of all, their clothes look different, but they are actually uniform.They were all in black, well wrapped from head to toe, one with a hood and the other two with the hoods of their hoodies pulled over their heads.

In short, when you see them for the first time, you will feel very low-key.

When the milk spilled, it splashed on her own legs, the pants of the man next to her, and the sack they were carrying.

The freshly whipped milk was still warm, but Lihua shivered as if she had been frozen.

She stared straight at the burlap bag, her eyes full of fear.But this time she didn't open her mouth, but turned to press the elevator button.

However, she had already missed the third floor at this time.

Lihua was probably too flustered, so she reached out and slapped desperately on the floor panel of the elevator, and pressed the alarm button again.

Zhu Yi and Xie Xiaoying couldn't hear the sound, but Lihua's lips kept moving in the picture, it should be that the emergency call was connected.

The three men behind her remained indifferent to her behavior like bystanders.

At this moment, the elevator door finally opened.Hope lit up in Lihua's eyes, she had never wished so much for the elevator doors to open faster.

When the door opened to a gap where she could squeeze her body out, Lihua rushed out without even thinking.

However, a thick scorpion protruded from the elevator door and grabbed the back collar of Lihua's cheongsam.

Lihua's eyes were suddenly occupied by fear, and when she was pulled into the elevator again, in the surveillance screen of the corridor on this floor, there happened to be an old man slowly pushing the door and coming out of the room.

Lihua saw hope, and just about to open her mouth, her lips were tightly covered, and she couldn't break free no matter what.

The old man seemed to have heard something, and turned his head to look in the direction of the elevator.However, what he saw was the elevator doors that were about to close.

In the elevator, Lihua was strangled by the man with milk on his pants.Her fair face turned red from lack of oxygen, and then turned blue.Looking at the light on the top of the elevator with both eyes, the eyeballs became more and more protruding.

Lihua was still struggling, desperately kicking the man in front of her with her calf, but accidentally kicked on the sack.

I saw the sack trembling by itself, and then the sack began to slam into the elevator crazily.

It can be seen from the shape that there should be a living person inside.

Lihua soon stopped moving, and her neck became stiff when she tilted her neck.

The three men threw her body aside and said a few words when the elevator reached the eleventh floor.

They dragged the sack and Lihua's body out and entered a room.

Zhu Yi and Xie Xiaoying continued to watch the surveillance video in silence. After about 5 minutes in the video, Zhu Yi suddenly moved the mouse to enlarge the surveillance screen at the door of the apartment below.

On the screen, the four workers who came to the apartment in the morning came back with tools in their hands.They went directly to the elevator and went up to the twelfth floor. It was quite strange to see the milk on the ground.After reaching the twelfth floor, they knocked on the door of the man who had gone during the day.

The man came over and opened the door, and stepped aside to let the four of them in.

After about half an hour, the workers ran out of the man's house one after another as if they had seen a ghost. The expressions on their faces looked confused, and their eyeballs kept rolling, which seemed a little hysterical.

After they came out, they went straight to the elevator and went downstairs, and ran out of the apartment without looking back.

And the man on the twelfth floor was standing in the corridor inexplicably, carrying the tools left by the workers.

At this time, the unchanging monitoring screen of the corridor on the eleventh floor also changed.

Among the three men who killed Lihua, the one wearing the peaked cap came out of the room.He was carrying a black cloth bag in his hand, the zipper was not closed tightly, and a bloody arm protruded from the cloth bag.

The peaked cap was still wearing white gloves, which were also stained red with blood.

He walked to the elevator door, did not press the button, took out a metal tool from his body, and forced the elevator door open.

A small puddle of blood had already accumulated under the black cloth bag on the ground. The peaked cap picked up the black cloth bag and threw it into the elevator shaft.

"They are... dismembered..." Xie Xiaoying murmured.

Zhu Yi nodded. He had seen Lihua's corpse with his own eyes.Lihua should have bumped into those three men on August [-]th, and then was murdered to silence her.

However, she had pressed the alarm button, and the monitoring of this apartment has been kept, which shows that the manager of the apartment is well aware of this matter, and has even been covering up the truth.

After about another hour in the video, the three men finally descended from the eleventh floor to the first floor and left the apartment.

The screen went black, and Zhu Yi stood in front of the computer and said, "I want to see the monitoring content on August [-]th in the past few years."

"Ah, why?" Xie Xiaoying asked.

"There should be some connection between this."

The two went to the shelf and started looking. This was not an easy task. First of all, some of these CDs were not placed according to the time, so they couldn't find them for a while.

"It seems that there is still one missing." Xie Xiaoying turned over and said, "Why don't you look at it first, and I'll look for it later."

"Yeah." Zhu Yi said looking at the CD on August [-], [-] in front of him.

August [-], [-], is today.

Today is not over yet, why is there a CD in this room?

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