Chapter 15 Fifteen Minutes

"That's right." Wu nodded, but everyone could hear a strange undertone in his voice.

"Sister Xu Yi," Chu Jiu said, tugging at her arm, "how do you feel? Are you uncomfortable anywhere?"

Xu Yi shook her head. She just felt a little dizzy. She had bumped her head when she crawled out of bed last night, which caused her to faint. There was still a swollen bump on her head.

"You said the ghost that came to you yesterday had a pair of bruised legs?" Jiao Tailang hesitated for a moment, then looked up and continued, "Any other features?"

Xu Yi took the water Fatty handed her, took a few sips, and said to Jiao Tailang, "I know what you want to ask. The ghost that attacked me last night is different from the three confirmed ghosts. It's a new one."

Fatty's eyes twitched slightly, and he stammered, "You mean... there are four ghosts in this instance?"

"At least for now," someone added.

Fatty turned his head and found that the person speaking was Wan Yuanning. When she realized Fatty was looking at her, she subconsciously nodded, then looked away.

From this woman who exuded a homely aura, Fatty did not smell fear. On the contrary, she seemed quite calm.

Jiang Cheng turned to look at the others and asked, "How was it on your side last night?"

Buildings 2 and 3 were very quiet.

No ghosts appeared.

After a brief exchange, everyone dispersed. The people from Buildings 2 and 3 continued to pursue clues, leaving only Xu Yi, Chu Jiu, Jiang Cheng, and Fatty, the four original residents, in the room.

Squatting in front of Xu Yi, Jiang Cheng touched her leg and asked with concern, "How do you feel?"

"I'm fine," Xu Yi replied.

Chu Jiu said that she had alcohol and gauze in her room, and she would go back to get them. Jiang Cheng asked Fatty to go with her.

After the two left, Xu Yi looked at Jiang Cheng's face and suddenly lowered her voice, "How did you know a ghost would come looking for me?"

Jiang Cheng stood up indifferently, sat next to Xu Yi, and told her the previous analysis, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.

After Chu Jiu and Fatty returned with the medicine bottle and gauze, Jiang Cheng disinfected the wound on Xu Yi's head, but the latter refused to have him bandage her head.

This made Jiang Cheng very regretful.

The top priority was to determine the identity of this long-legged ghost.

The four worked together to search the room, but apart from some clothes, cosmetics, and other simple daily necessities, they did not find any clues that could confirm the resident's identity.

After throwing the last pair of jeans back into the closet, Xu Yi shook her head and said to Jiang Cheng behind her, "No, it seems we can only start investigating the ghost's identity from other directions."

Jiang Cheng had just come out of the bathroom, holding a bottle of essence in his hand. It wasn't a big brand; it looked like something a recent college graduate would use.

There were also a lot of cosmetics on the bathroom counter. Jiang Cheng noticed that most of them were makeup and face masks.

Based on the current findings, they speculated that the person who lived here before was a woman, relatively young, with average financial conditions, but who paid a lot of attention to her appearance.

"Strange," Jiang Cheng said softly, looking around the room.

Chu Jiu heard Jiang Cheng's words and looked at him with her pitiful eyes, her lips moving a few times, "What's strange?"

Hearing Chu Jiu speak, Xu Yi also looked at Jiang Cheng.

As did Fatty, who was standing at the back.

"Why are there no mirrors in this room?" Jiang Cheng asked Xu Yi, "Was it like this when you first came?"

Xu Yi nodded when she heard this, "That's right, I didn't see any mirrors when I came." She added, "I haven't been to the bathroom, I thought there would be a mirror in there."

But Jiang Cheng had just come out of the bathroom, and the wall next to the sink was bare.

A young woman who often wears makeup doesn't have a mirror in her room, which is really strange.

Xu Yi pondered for a moment, then looked up and said, "There should have been a mirror before, but later something happened that caused the woman to throw away all the mirrors."

"That's right," Jiang Cheng replied.

"Could it be..." Chu Jiu swallowed carefully, looked at the two and said, "That the mirror can see ghosts, and the woman was afraid, so she threw away the mirror?"

At present, this possibility is very high.

"By the way," Xu Yi said, as if she suddenly remembered something, and said as she walked out, "Yesterday I noticed a garbage bag in front of a door in the corridor on my way back. It was filled with fruit peels and other domestic waste, but it wasn't there when we first came the day before yesterday."

Domestic waste means someone lives there, and they can try their luck by visiting.

Maybe the neighbor knows something.

Room 717.

Standing in front of the door, Jiang Cheng hesitated for a moment, then rang the doorbell.

"Ding dong dong."

After a while, the sound of slippers shuffling could be heard behind the door. Only a crack in the door opened, and half of a woman's face appeared in the crack.

The crack was not big. From Jiang Cheng's position, he could also see a silver chain attached. The woman seemed very vigilant, and there was a bolt inside the door.

The room was very dark. Jiang Cheng guessed that the curtains were tightly closed, and the exposed half of the woman's face was morbidly pale.

"You are..." The woman behind the door turned her eyes, finally fixed on Jiang Cheng's face, and her tone was a little unnatural.

Jiang Cheng nodded calmly and said to the woman, "Hello, I'm a tenant here. I live in room 710." He pointed back with his finger.

When the woman first heard the number 710, she didn't have any special reaction, but when she saw the room Jiang Cheng was pointing to, her face changed drastically.

Her breathing became rapid, and the woman quickly said through the crack in the door, "That room is uninhabitable! Move out today, before it gets dark."

"Why?" Xu Yi looked very well-behaved, "Did something happen before?"

Perhaps the experiences of the few people reminded the woman of something. After hesitating for a moment, the woman opened the bolt connected to the chain.

"Come in and talk," the woman said, opening the door.

At the same time, an unpleasant smell overflowed from the room. It seemed that the woman had not left the room for a long time.

A faint stench permeated the entire room.

Jiang Cheng and Xu Yi frowned at the same time.

The woman stepped aside and invited Jiang Cheng and the others in. After hesitating for three seconds, Jiang Cheng turned around, pulled Chu Jiu over, and wrapped his arm around her waist affectionately.

This was very sudden, and the latter's face flushed instantly. Chu Jiu subconsciously wanted to push him away, but Jiang Cheng didn't give her a chance at all.

Before pulling Chu Jiu into the room, Jiang Cheng turned his head and said to Xu Yi, "You two go to work quickly, don't be late, and ask the boss for a leave for me."

"15 minutes," Jiang Cheng said calmly, "I'm only asking for 15 minutes of leave."