"How could the owner of the apartment allow this kind of person to rent?"
Jenkins complained softly, and immediately remembered that the soul around him might be the owner of this place, but the evil spirit didn't react inappropriately to this.
The items in the room are placed very tightly, and there is almost no place to step down. After the woman's soul guided Jenkins to come here, she no longer explained the reason for coming here, or she couldn't explain it clearly at all.
But the owner of this room should not be among the corpses just now, because there are only four children and a woman in the corpses in the closet.
"Maybe the man was the master of this room just now, and the souls of all the women led me here."
He guessed, comforted the anxious cat again, and then walked into the room.
Although it is narrow and unobstructed here, due to too many books and materials, it is very difficult to search aimlessly.
Jenkins didn't even know what he was looking for, so he rummaged around. He hoped that the residents here would also have the good habit of keeping diaries, and then under the guidance of chocolate, they were pleasantly surprised to find that under the "Question of Ancient Witchcraft" and "Introduction to the Study of Modern Occult", there were really diaries.
The handwriting in the diary is the same as the handwriting on those false mystic materials, so it can be considered as the owner of the room. Jenkins checked it roughly. He thought it was just ordinary people's accounts of trivial things in life, but he didn't expect to find something extraordinary.
The name of the owner here is Billy Schultz, male, 25 years old. He was originally a reporter for a newspaper, so Jenkins had some impressions of this name, but since mid-December last year, he gave up his job and began to study witchcraft and supernatural powers.
The reason for this is the following text:
[In a trance, I got mysterious revelations, and unspeakable whispers and whispers often appeared in my ears; dreaming back at midnight, magical visions and terrifying landscapes tormented me, but also surprised and excited me. I think I've had a revelation and it's time for a life change.]
This is a very typical behavior of being raped by evil gods or other indescribable creatures, thus changing one's life and delving into illegal rituals and spells. Even the text written by Billy Schultz, Jenkins has seen no less than ten similar copies in the church materials.
But he had never heard of mortals who were induced by those terrifying existences to delve into these fake information that they got from nowhere. Evil gods and unspeakable evils will bestow some simple powers and profane knowledge on humble mortals, and it is absolutely impossible for them to delve into it from scratch.
Mortals fear and yearn for the otherworldly, and in the hands of illicit bookshops, boring noblewomen, or country witches, there are indeed many deceitful things. Ordinary people have no way to distinguish their authenticity from fakes, and this reporter obviously didn't get any genuine ones.
"Who raped him? Could it be that the god with the priesthood of lies wants to play a joke on him... Oh, the priesthood of lies is with me."
Jenkins couldn't imagine the answer.
The diary shows that the reporter was still alive until a week ago, and at the end of the diary there is a sentence of unclear meaning:
[I understand, I'm here.]
Nothing was written on the paper after that, and apparently Billy Schultz never came back. But he should not be the man in Room 4 just now. Judging from the contents of the diary, Billy Schultz was only obsessed with such research, but he did not show the desire to kill or the obsession with corpses.
In addition to being influenced by unknown beings to change his life, the diary also occasionally records some things that happened around him. But mostly complaining about the neighbors interfering with his life, or the apartment landlord refusing to give up the rent for a few days—losing his job and spending huge sums of money to acquire a bunch of strange things, he can't even meet the daily expenses.
Jenkins was intrigued by his description of the neighbors, including the first-floor landlord's family:
[Extremely stingy, God, I have never seen such a stingy family. Yes to the man, yes to the woman, yes to the three children. Greed must be flowing in their veins, and their bodies are filled with desire for gold coins...]
Schultz was very dissatisfied with where he lived, and stated in his diary many times that once the research was successful, he would move out immediately.
There is such a description for the family facing the stairs:
[The Leviathan family is the most ridiculous family I have ever seen, the bald middle-aged man, the fat woman, and the nasty little boy. Damn, it's a good thing they don't live next door to me, and I feel the urge to vomit just by seeing them.]
The dissatisfaction with the Leviathan family should be due to something that happened a long time ago, which can be seen in the text. But Jenkins couldn't find any other diaries, so he didn't know where the feud started.
The neighbor in the second room on the left of Leviathan is Howard Link, a middle-aged man who lives alone, and his evaluation of him is also full of resentment:
[Damn dwarf, what are you going in and out of every night? Damn you, I curse you!]
The young reporter's resentment towards his neighbors didn't start after he became obsessed with occultism. From the first page of the diary, he had been complaining constantly.
Complain about your boss, your newspaper colleagues, your neighbors, everything you can complain about.
And his description of the neighbor on his right, that is, the neighbor where the corpse is stored, is the least. Jenkins can't even find a complete paragraph.
But judging from the occasional details, the young reporter thought that the man was kind and friendly, but his professional habits allowed him to observe more carefully than ordinary people.
[Like a mental patient I reported on] [His eyes are weird and kind of scary] [I think this is a dangerous person, but it's best not to point it out]
These are the only few paragraphs, and according to his description of the appearance of his neighbor, Mr. Brown, it is obvious that the man who just checked the body is him.
"Hiding a dead body in your own room? That's funny."
So far, what happened in this second-floor apartment has gradually become clear. Judging from the clues obtained, Mrs. Cooper and the children living on the first floor were killed by Brown in Room 4 on the second floor, and made specimens of the corpses and hid them in the closet. The reporter Schultz in Room 3 on the second floor was "inspired" by an unknown existence to study occultism spontaneously a month ago—although his research direction was wrong, Schultz disappeared a week ago, and the leftover notebook was It was discovered by Jenkins who came to collect the bill.
As for the family in Room 1 and the solitary person in Room 2, although there are no clues to indicate their whereabouts, something is obviously wrong.
PS: I will add an update at the beginning of next month, and I will offer a reward tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.