“A man with his head wrapped in transparent tape?” Fatty’s eyes were strange.

This was the first time anyone had heard such a description.

Xia Qiang pondered for a moment, looked at the shop owner, and said, “A man dressed like that would definitely cause a riot on the subway.”

The shop owner took a deep breath and looked at Xia Qiang with a ‘you’re right’ expression, continuing, “The strange thing is, according to her recollection, the carriage was packed with people, and there were people all around the weird man, but everyone was acting perfectly normal, playing on their phones, chatting… It was like no one noticed him, no, it’s more like no one could see him, see that weird man, except for her!” The shop owner’s tone became hurried as he said this.

“Slow down, what happened next?” Jiang Cheng reached out and patted the shop owner’s leg, reassuring him calmly, “You’re safe now.”

Whether it was Jiang Cheng’s reassurance or not, the shop owner nodded and continued, “She was terrified at the time and immediately screamed, dropping her phone on the ground, startling the people around her.”

“Everyone looked at her, and one of the people next to her asked her what was wrong. She turned her head, pointed shakily at the weird man’s position, and asked loudly, ‘Can’t you… can’t you see him?’” The shop owner imitated her vividly, and Jiang Cheng and Xia Qiang could completely feel the girl’s fear at the time.

“But everyone looked in the direction she was pointing for a while, then turned back and looked at her with puzzled eyes. After a long while, a middle-aged man tentatively asked if she was feeling unwell and if she needed him to call a doctor or something.”

The shop owner pursed his lips, looked up at Jiang Cheng, and said, “When she looked again, the weird man had disappeared, and in his place was a promotional poster, just stuck on the subway car.”

“The poster was of a male celebrity, dressed festively, smiling at the position where she was standing, with no… nothing unusual.”

“She was frightened. After such a thing happened, she didn’t dare ride the subway anymore. When the subway stopped at the next station, she ran out of the car in a panic.”

“Her fear wasn’t entirely because of the creepy appearance of the man.” After a pause, the shop owner explained in a low voice, “It’s mainly because she had seen this man… she had seen this man before, in the script.”

Soon, the shop owner added, “This man with his head densely wrapped in tape is a character in the script, the Rain Night Murderer, exactly as described in the script!”

After a moment of thought, Jiang Cheng asked softly, “A character from the script appeared in the real world and targeted this girl.”

“That’s right!” The shop owner looked at Jiang Cheng abruptly, his chest heaving violently, “That’s… that’s how it is! There’s something wrong with that script, no, there’s something wrong with the entire Room 19. Everyone who goes in will be haunted, haunted by the murderer in the script!”

“What happened after that?” Xia Qiang interrupted the shop owner’s meaningless emotional outburst. They needed clues.

“I took her to see Room 19. The room was locked, and it was easy to see that the door hadn’t been opened in a long time,”

“I also told her that I didn’t have the key to that door, and about the script delivery, the script I ordered was in a car accident, and no script was delivered yesterday at all.”

“She couldn’t accept it for a moment and immediately rushed to the front desk to check yesterday’s surveillance. I watched it with her little by little.”

“Nothing, there was nothing. No one came in with a script yesterday,” the shop owner said. “And as for setting up Room 19, that’s even more impossible.”

“I didn’t plan to tell her about the previous owner. I was worried about scaring her and making her do something irrational, but then I thought, it couldn’t get any worse than this, so telling her sooner might help her.” The shop owner sighed and shook his head slightly. “So I told her.”

Jiang Cheng and Xia Qiang nodded slightly. From the shop owner’s expression, they knew that the girl was likely in grave danger.

“And then?” Zhou Tong asked softly.

“She’s dead,” the shop owner said slowly. “I didn’t sleep all night. I sent her messages and called her in the morning, but she didn’t reply. I already had a very bad feeling.”

“Around noon, I heard that someone had died in an apartment in the south of the city, a girl, apparently she fell from a building, falling from a high floor. I don’t know what she hit on the way down, but when she landed, her body was in two pieces, about ten meters apart. It was a particularly gruesome death.”

“Later, after the news was confirmed, it was… it was her.” At this point, the shop owner’s face was gloomy. He lowered his head, saying that the girl’s death was related to him to some extent.

Jiang Cheng stood up and said to the shop owner, “I’m going to open this door now. Do you want to come with us, or leave first?”

“Open the door?” The shop owner showed a look of surprise. He thought Jiang Cheng and the others were just saying that.

After all, a normal person would avoid hearing such a story, and seeing the relationship between Jiang Cheng and the police, it would be easy to find out that the things he said were true.

The previous owner who couldn’t escape a tragic death even on a plane, and the young female host whose body was broken in two.

“I’m going to open this door now. Do you want to come with us, or leave first?” Jiang Cheng looked at the shop owner and repeated the previous question.

But this time, looking into Jiang Cheng’s eyes, the shop owner bit his lip hard, as if making a huge decision, “I’ll go with you!”

If this matter wasn’t brought to light, it would be like a debt weighing on the shop owner’s heart. He often thought of that girl and the words she had said to him.

Jiang Cheng and the others led the shop owner to the door of Room 19. Feng Jie stepped forward, looking like he was going to kick the door open, but Jiang Cheng stopped him.

He asked the shop owner for a thin wire, picked the lock, and inserted the wire into the lock hole. Jiang Cheng frowned.

The wire could only be inserted a little bit.

The lock hole was blocked by something. It seemed that the previous owner and the shop owner had the same idea, that from the day the door was locked, there was no intention to open it again.

Jiang Cheng turned his head and looked at Xia Qiang, who was telling Zhou Tong and Feng Jie to stay and protect the Lin Muyun and Lin Muwan siblings, and not to go in.

Jiang Cheng also turned around and told Fatty Huai Yi to stay, and that Huai Yi would accompany him in.

Huai Yi thought for a moment, licked his lips, and said, “Why don’t you let Brother Fugui go in with you? You are brothers in the Deep Red after all, and you will cooperate better.”