Guiding Spirit [Part 1]

Early in the morning, Jiang Mu's work was interrupted by a "sneaky" knock on the door. The sound was very weak, then knocked slowly, as if he didn't dare to use force for fear of offending the owner.

He could probably imagine the timid look of the knocker.

After the door opened, the person standing outside was not a stranger. The person was tall and wearing a tracksuit and looked like a sports player. He thought for a while and said, "Mr. Xiao."

Xiao Wenke grinned and nodded vigorously, "It's me, it's me."

"What's the matter with you?" Jiang Mu asked softly.

Still in that cold tone but with a gentle tone, Xiao Wenke was a little embarrassed when he saw that he was standing at the door and didn't intend to let him in. He stretched out his hand and scratched the back of his head, embarrassedly raised the things in his left hand and said: "I haven't eaten yet." How about breakfast? I got up on my day off work to buy breakfast, let's have it together."

Eat breakfast?

with a stranger?

Jiang Mu didn't answer or refuse, but just looked at him lightly for a few seconds, the searching eyes made Xiao Wenke stand at attention nervously.

Tsk, he is obviously a skinny boy who is half a head shorter than himself, why does he look so majestic.

"Is there something wrong with you?"

"No, no, don't misunderstand." He thought about it in his heart, but when Jiang Mu asked, he waved his hand and explained, "Isn't it because I rubbed your umbrella at night, and I wanted to thank you, so that the neighbors will have someone in the future." Take care."

"You're welcome." Jiang Mu lowered his eyes and said softly. His tone was flat and his body was still standing at the door. Xiao Wenke felt that he might not be able to enter this door today. He was thinking about giving him what he was holding when he saw him sideways. He turned around and said lightly to himself, "Please come in."

After entering the house.

What Xiao Wenke saw was an empty living room. There were no sofas or home appliances. There was only an old rectangular dining table with four old chairs.

He guessed that it was either found in a flea market or left by the previous owner.

There was a laptop standing on the table with a network cable plugged in. The desktop was still on the document interface. Jiang Mu packed the computer and moved it to the back room. Woke up early to write articles.

"That, Mr. Jiang? Where are your bowls and chopsticks? I'll take them out."

When Jiang Mu came out, he saw Xiao Wenke standing in the living room with his head poking his head. He was holding a big bag of food in his hand. He shook his head slightly and said, "There are no bowls and chopsticks in the room. I forgot to buy them."

In fact, Jiang Mu's original intention was not to bother the other party, but Xiao Wenke didn't expect Xiao Wenke to give him food without saying anything, "You take me back to get a bowl and chopsticks, wait for me, I will be back in a while!" Said Then he ran out in a hurry, and Jiang Mu could hear the sound of him running all the way in the room.

Still a warm heart?

In less than a minute, the other party ran back holding a stack of dishes and chopsticks, and Jiang Mu saw the small pink bowl in his hand, and there was a cute cat paw image printed on the porcelain wall. It's hard to see what the other party's attributes are.

Xiao Wenke noticed his eyes and suddenly grinned, "Don't worry, I've cleaned everything."

After speaking, he handed the most pink bowl to him.

Jiang Mu paused for a moment and gave him a gloomy look, but in the end he didn't say anything, and helped to serve the porridge out.

Two big men were sitting opposite each other in front of a pile of pink bowls and chopsticks. No matter how you looked at it, something was wrong.

But neither of them mentioned that it was unnatural, although Jiang Mu was out of character, and Xiao Wenke was really hungry.

One bun for one bite, one deep-fried dough stick for two bites, and the porridge slurped.

Xiao Wenke had a good meal several times. Seeing that Jiang Mu was still biting the fritters slowly with a sullen face, he asked, "Isn't it to your liking?"

Jiang Mu shook his head, "Get used to it."

The other party ate so gracefully, which made him a little embarrassed to wolf down and slowly slow down the progress of "swallowing". He raised his head and glanced at Jiang Mu quietly, white and clean and weak like a scholar.

"It was dark last night and I didn't see you clearly. I didn't expect you to be younger than I thought. Are you still in school? A college student?" Xiao Wenke looked at him uncertainly.

Jiang Mu lightly sipped the porridge and said, "No, I never went to college."

"Oh."

One sentence blocked all the conversations, Xiao Wenke blinked his eyes and decided to let his mouth be blocked, so as not to make more mistakes.

"Mr. Xiao can just call me Jiang Mu."

"Jiang Mu?" Hearing what Jiang Mu said, Xiao Wenke swallowed quickly, "My name is Xiao Wenke, so you don't have to be polite, just call me Xiao Wenke, Mr. Xiao always feels weird."

Jiang Mu nodded, "Xiao Wenke? Your name is good."

Xiao Wenke was instantly elated and wanted to chat a few more words, but at this moment the phone rang suddenly.

The more "flashy" ringtone made him a little embarrassed, Xiao Wenke looked at Jiang Mu embarrassedly, turned his head, turned on the phone and answered, "Hello?"

"Hi! Where are you, Ke Zi? I knocked on the door for a long time and no one answered."

"You came to my house? Why are you looking for me so early in the morning? I'm not at home."

"Where have you been?"

"I..." Xiao Wenke turned his head to look at Jiang Mu, and suddenly lowered his voice, "I'm at my neighbor's house."

"What neighbor? A man and a woman?" The voice on the phone suddenly seemed to think of something and raised the pitch several times, "Did you go to that mysterious man's house?!"

"Pfft!" Xiao Wenke almost spit out a mouthful of water, this big brother can keep his voice down!He hurriedly raised his eyes to look at Jiang Mu, but fortunately, the other party was still eating slowly, and his expression didn't change at all.

"Isn't 503, you wait for me to come down!"

Xiao Wenke panicked, "What are you doing down there? Don't come over. I'm going up now."

"Let him come over."

Xiao Wenke was stunned and turned his head to see Jiang Mu looking at him lightly. He blushed and waved his hands in embarrassment and said, "Farewell, farewell, my friend is not very good at thinking. Gone."

"I'll go to your grandma, your brain is not working, Xiao Wenke! You wait until I come down and beat your head in your stomach." A roar suddenly came from the other end of the phone, making Xiao Wenke's hands tremble three times in fright.

Jiang Mu lowered his eyes and chuckled, and in a blink of an eye, he heard the sound of boots stomping on the ground from far to near at the other end of the corridor.

Immediately afterwards, "dong dong dong", the knock on the door was deafening, and confidently afraid that others would not hear, Xiao Wenke cursed secretly and hurried to open the door.

Standing at the door was a man wearing a black jacket, with a cropped head, more than 1.8 meters tall, a little shorter than Xiao Wenke but looked much stronger.

"What are you doing? Opening the door so slowly, is there something tricky?" He waved his hand and pushed Xiao Wenke away carelessly. He came in and looked around like he was trying to catch a female ticket girl Chang. Xiao Wenke was angry and scolded him, "There is your sister!"

"Hey!" The man looked up and saw Jiang Mu who was eating, and said, "I'm eating."

Jiang Mu chewed the last bite of fried dough sticks and ignored him, Shen Long narrowed his eyes slightly, Xiao Wenke hurriedly closed the door and introduced, "This is Jiang Mu, the neighbor who just moved here, Jiang Mu is Shen Long , my good friend, don't look at the big and the three rough, people are actually pretty good."

Jiang Mu nodded to him, "Hello."

Shen Long cupped his hands at him, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

Xiao Wenke stabbed directly with his elbow without compromising, and cursed secretly: "I beg you!"

It made Shen Long give him a blank look, stretched out his hand and grabbed two deep-fried dough sticks on the table while eating, and asked, "Don't be surprised, little brother, we are a rough man who doesn't know how to behave. Yesterday Ke Zi came home and said that he met a very nice neighbor." , I heard his description is quite mysterious, so I want to meet him, you don't mind, do you?"

Jiang Mu put down the bowl and said slowly: "Mr. Xiao is polite."

The corner of Xiao Wenke's mouth twitched, well, he became Mr. Xiao again, and the relationship returned to the original point.

Shen Long didn't regard himself as an outsider at all. He sat in Xiao Wenke's original seat, ate his food and drank his porridge, and at the same time stared straight at Jiang Mu opposite him with an unknown laugh. It's hooliganism.

"Cough!" Xiao Wenke pretended to cough.

Shen Long came back to his senses and turned blank again. He turned his head to Jiang Mu and asked: "Little brother looks very young, how old is this year? Are you still in school? The accent is not like a local, is it a foreigner? Where is my home? Seeing your delicate skin and tender face, you are angry, are you an only child? Are parents assured that you live alone?"

"Ahem!" Xiao Wenke coughed twice and glared at Shen Long fiercely, causing Shen Long to look at him with disgust, "Go to the hospital if you are sick, cough cough is eating, you know?"

Xiao Wenke spat: "You still know how to eat? Why are you asking nonsense? Checking the household registration?"

"Hey!" Shen Long rolled up his sleeves and turned around, "I asked little brother Jiang Mu, what's bothering you? Dogs take mice, mind your own business."

Xiao Wenke scolded: "It's the first time you come to someone's house and you don't know how to keep your mouth shut!"

Jiang Mu calmly watched the two of them quarrel and drank two mouthfuls of porridge, and then said: "21, I didn't go to school, I'm from Qingjiang City, an orphan, I don't know my parents, do you have anything else to ask?"

When the words "orphan" came out, Xiao Wenke's expression changed instantly, and then he glared at Shen Long fiercely, "I'm telling you to talk nonsense!"

Shen Long's eyes fluttered and he shrugged, "It's gone."

After the conversation, Xiao Wenke was not in the mood to eat. Jiang Mu on the opposite side was still drinking porridge slowly, and Shen Long didn't say a word, "Hmph" "Hmph" eating like a starved ghost who has been hungry for hundreds of years. The way he eats makes him feel ashamed.

"I'm going to the toilet." Xiao Wenke planned to escape the embarrassing atmosphere by urinating.

"This way." Jiang Mu reached out and pointed to him.

After Xiao Wenke was gone, only Shen Long and the others were left in the living room. Unwilling to be lonely, Shen Long winked and asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?"

Jiang Mu shook his head.

"What about the boyfriend?"

Jiang Mu looked up at him expressionlessly, Shen Long smiled awkwardly: "Just kidding, just kidding, don't be angry."

After Xiao Wenke came back, the atmosphere became even more awkward...

"I see that your bathroom is also empty, and the water heater is not installed." Xiao Wenke sat down and mentioned.

Jiang Mu pursed his lips and said, "Forgot."

Xiao Wenke: Er...

Shen Long interjected: "You have only moved here for a few days? Who introduced it, don't be fooled?"

Jiang Mu stared at him for a while, then asked, "What exactly do you want to ask?"

Shen Long's face froze, and then he sat up straight and straightened his clothes with an unnatural expression, and said, "I didn't want to ask anything, since you can see it, I won't go around in circles."

"Actually, I just want to remind you that these days, real estate agencies are very black-hearted. They dare to sell any house to deceive foreigners. Do you know what the house you live in is called by the locals, and what happened in it? ?”

Jiang Mu leaned on the back of the chair and said calmly: "I know, this house is a famous haunted house, there have been four murders, and a total of seven people who died were all tenants."

"That's right!" Shen Long stood up and paced in the living room, "The first murder happened seven years ago. The deceased was a lady who was leading a night show in a bar and lived alone."

He looked at Jiang Mu, who nodded to him, "Continue."

"She died in the fish tank in the living room. The fish tank was so small that it could barely hold the size of a head, and she had to use both hands to put it down. He died in this strange posture. Everyone felt that It was a murder case, and the murder scene was faked by the murderer, but after the forensic examination, she was indeed drowned, there was no sign of struggle on her body, and she drowned in the water in the fish tank, do you think it is strange?"

"The second murder happened five years ago. It was a young couple in their 20s. The cause of death was simple. They were seriously injured and bled to death. Do you know what they did? They plucked out each other's eyes, tongue and ears Cut it up, and then lay quietly on the bed waiting to die, and no one found out until the body decomposed."

Seeing Jiang Mu's calm appearance, Shen Long paused and said, "The third murder happened four years ago. The deceased was an old lady who cut her throat with a kitchen knife. The fourth murder happened a year ago. The three people who died were a family of three, and the child was a boy who was only five years old. They committed suicide by jumping from the window one night, and they all died on the spot with their heads down."

Xiao Wenke did not speak. He has lived in this community for many years. It can be said that he lived here before the first murder. He is also very strange about 503 all these years. He is obviously upstairs but the bottom is a little bit No movement could be heard.

When this weird thing happened, he wanted to move out at the beginning, but he didn't move because of lack of money and luck. Seven years passed like this, and he and the remaining residents gradually discovered some patterns.

As long as 503 is uninhabited, strange things will not happen, and even if it happens because of inhabitants, it will not affect other places. At least their neighbors are living well, and he will not care about these as time goes by to live in peace.

Xiao Wenke came over here today, in fact, he wanted to deal with this Mr. Jiang and persuade him to move out quickly. Anyway, this house is a bit unlucky. He even wanted him to change a room, such as next to his house on the sixth floor. There are also houses for rent.

"I have understood the things you said before. I am quite confident in my mental control, and I will not have suicidal tendencies."

Shen Long stared at him and suddenly laughed, "I don't understand, why are you so obsessed with this room?"

Jiang Mu looked at him, "It's cheap, three bedrooms, two living rooms, one kitchen and one bathroom, 200 yuan per month plus free water and electricity. If you can find me a house that is cheaper than this, I can move out immediately."

Shen Long raised his eyebrows and waved his hands, "I can't find it."

Jiang Mu sighed softly and stood up, asking, "Then, does Officer Shen have anything else to ask?"

Xiao Wenke was listening hard at first when he heard Jiang Mu's words, suddenly he was stunned and said in shock: "I'll go! How do you know his identity?"

Jiang Mu smiled faintly, "Guess."

Shen Long curled his lips, "Come on, since you know I won't say much. Actually, I have nothing else to do today, I just want you to pay more attention. It stands to reason that we policemen should not promote these superstitions, but these days This case is too mysterious, it is a good thing that you can increase your vigilance by living here."

Jiang Mu nodded and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

"You're welcome." Shen Long took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over, "Just call me Shen Long, this is my contact information, if you have anything, you can call me at any time."

Jiang Mu stroked the business card, raised his eyes and said, "I will."

"Of course, if the situation is urgent." He turned his head and patted Xiao Wenke. "You can also go to him directly. Although he is not a policeman, he is taller, and it is also useful to use it to block guns."

"Fuck you!" Xiao Wenke gave him a blank look.

Shen Long said: "Not much to say, I'm going to the bureau now, let's go first."

Xiao Wenke hurriedly said: "Wait, let me take you down."

"These dishes and chopsticks will be delivered to you after I wash them. What's the number of your house, Mr. Xiao?"

Xiao Wenke turned his head and looked, "I'll forget them if you don't tell me, I just take them up without you washing them."

Before Jiang Mu could speak, he piled up the bowls, chopsticks, and plates in a frenzied rush, and carried them away without delay.

Shen Long glanced at it in disgust, "I just patronized eating and didn't realize it, the pink mother is not chirping, your kid's taste is too bad, right?"