What Lai Fangzhi didn't see was that behind her, Lai Fangwan was quietly watching her. When the elevator door closed, Lai Fangwan's back was revealed, with black curly hair reaching her waist. It was another woman!
Li Fangzhi didn't care, as if she didn't notice her sister's strange back gesture. She turned around and pulled her sister over, while sending a message to He Lou with her other hand.
Brother Lou, we have all overlooked a problem.
This building has not just nine floors, but ten!
He Louzheng and Lu Yanli knocked on the door of the resident on the first floor. After hearing the message alert tone, they picked up their phones and were shocked.
Ten floors
Where is the extra layer
It’s no wonder that they didn’t know. They were confined in the apartment and couldn’t go out. Naturally, they couldn’t count how high the building was. They could only get the answer from Lu Yanli.
He calmed himself down. The door on the other side had already been opened. He quickly replied, put the phone back in his pocket, and started talking to the resident.
A family of three lived in Room 101 on the first floor. The couple were at home on weekends. He Lou pretended that he was visiting a friend and saw that the building was nice and he wanted to buy a house there, so he took the opportunity to ask some questions.
The young couple was very welcoming and talked to him for a long time. They quietly told him that if he wanted to live here, he should forget it or buy a high-rise building. There was a man chopping meat here every night, which was very noisy. There was no point in calling the police.
"I was staying at a friend's house last night and heard it. It was really noisy." He Lou was very considerate. After chatting for a while, he asked naturally, "I heard your building has ten floors, right? Why is the elevator only on the ninth floor?"
"Ten floors?" The couple living on the first floor were confused. Lu Yanli was also a little surprised. After the young couple closed the door, Lu Yanli asked, "Brother Lou, what's the matter with the ten-story building? How do you know there are ten floors?"
He Lou shook his head and didn't say how he knew. He just asked Lu Yanli to count the floors outside.
Only now did he realize the loopholes in this mission.
They were restricted from leaving the apartment, and the elevator also only had nine floors. If it weren't for Li Fangzhi's keen eye for numbers, and she noticed that the time it took the elevator to go up one floor and the time it took to reach the top of the building were not right, they might not have noticed that there was an extra floor.
Lu Yanli obediently went out to count them. He even took a photo. After coming back, he counted them carefully and said solemnly, "There really is one more layer..."
Which layer is this extra layer
The strange thing is that this photo seems to have some magic, no matter how hard they count, they can't count them all.
He Lou had a bad guess in his mind. For some reason, he always felt that the extra floor might be near the third floor.
This conjecture made him feel cold all over in the early autumn when the summer heat had not yet dissipated.
"Brother Lou, what's wrong?" Lu Yanli asked puzzledly, waving his hand in front of him.
He still looked a bit goofy and naive, with a concerned look on his face.
He Lou suddenly asked: "You really don't know?"
Since he has been facing those weird things all the time, will he really ignore this abnormality in his apartment
If he is really that stupid, how did he survive in the past
Lu Yanli blinked: "Ah?"
There are only three people left. No matter how stupid He Lou is, he should know that there is something wrong with him.
But Lu Yanli didn't care. This group of people's mission would still take a few days. If He Lou was sensible, he would not turn against him.
He Lou paused, and indeed showed no sign of abnormality. He sighed and said, "We were too careless. We didn't even notice such a big blind spot."
You must stay in the apartment for a week and are not allowed to go out. This not only means that there is something abnormal in the apartment, but also implies that there are some clues that can only be obtained outside the apartment.
The two seemed to have no grudges against each other, but in fact they each had their own ulterior motives and continued to look for the next household to ask for information.
Room 102 is occupied by an elderly couple who I heard have lived here for a long time.
There was a single woman living in Room 103. For some reason He Lou always felt that she looked familiar.
104 No one, I don't know if anyone lives there.
Next is 201, 202…
Neither of them realized that they had overlooked a bigger mistake.
After questioning every household one by one, Li Fangzhi and Li Fangwan came down from the upstairs, and they met at Lu Yanli's house.
"Did you get any information?" asked Li Fangzhi.
He Lou shook his head.
Everyone looked like ordinary residents living in an ordinary apartment, nothing unusual. When asking about the surrounding buildings, they could all be matched to the map that He Lou had specially checked.
"When you went downstairs, did you notice which floor was extra?"
"Yes." Li Fangzhi looked solemn and pointed to the ceiling.
It's actually right upstairs from them
He Lou didn't know whether to say this was expected or unexpected. When he saw Li Fangzhi's answer, he felt relieved.
Abnormal... This apartment is abnormal, right
Lu Yanli looked terrified. He swallowed his saliva and pointed at the ceiling as well, not daring to speak too loudly: "You said this extra floor, is it... ?"
Lai Fangzhi nodded.
"Then... what about the sound we heard?" Lu Yanli said to himself, "No wonder my upstairs neighbor said he was just chopping dumpling stuffing, and the police didn't find out anything..."
"Then the sound that is made every night..." Lu Yanli didn't dare to say anything more.
"We can't jump to conclusions so quickly." He Lou said, his eyes turning to Lu Yanli, "In order to determine the source of the sound, we will wait on the fourth floor tonight."
"No! The fourth floor is too..." Lu Yanli lowered his voice, "If it is really the fourth floor, then wouldn't it be too dangerous? Let's go to the fifth floor. Is there a floor between us? We can still hear it clearly."
He Lou vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but Li Fangzhi felt that what Lu Yanli said made sense and agreed with his point of view.
"Indeed, we can't take any more risks now. The fifth floor can hear it clearly. Or, Lu Yanli, do you have any recording or video equipment at home?"
The camera that was used when taking photos at the last visit to the aquarium recorded something that shouldn’t have been recorded and could no longer be used, so Lu Yanli threw it away early on.
Lu Yanli shook his head subconsciously, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and said, "There is also a camera I bought a long time ago."
"Then let's wait on the fifth floor tonight and put the camera on the fourth floor. Will it still work now?"
"It should be possible. Wait for me to look for it."
Seeing Lu Yanli rummaging through boxes and cabinets to search, He Lou and Li Fangzhi exchanged glances. Then, He Lou casually walked to the TV in the living room, quickly replaced the battery for a mini video recorder in the corner, and replaced the memory card.
Although ghosts can often affect electronic devices, functions such as recording and video recording can make ghosts appear and help them grasp the whereabouts of NPCs. On the first day they moved in, the three of them installed surveillance cameras in every room.
He Lou also wanted to know what Lu Yanli had done. Was he really as innocent as he appeared to be
Over there, Lu Yanli had already dug out an old camera and ran out excitedly: "I found it, it still works, I'll charge it for a while."
"Okay, that's what we'll rely on tonight."
Night falls.
The four of them entered the elevator. In order to compare the time it took to go upstairs, they first went downstairs and then took the elevator to the fifth floor. He Lou specially used a stopwatch to record the time.
Sure enough, the time taken to reach the fourth floor through the third floor was about half that of the other floors.