Chapter 1 This Door?

"This is the door?" Looking at the unremarkable wooden door in front of them, a strange expression appeared in Jiang Cheng's eyes and those of his companions.

The door was tightly closed, with a black lock hanging on it, giving the impression that it hadn't been opened in a long time.

As mentioned before, the location of this room was indeed remote, the kind that would be difficult to find without deliberately searching.

Unlike the other rooms, there were no decorations outside this room. Jiang Cheng walked forward, stared at the wall, and then reached out to touch it.

A rough texture was felt, and there were many faint scratches on the wall, as if someone had used their fingernails to slowly scrape it down.

Jiang Cheng understood what was going on. This room used to be a themed room, and there should have been promotional posters or something similar on the wall.

But because of certain events, the posters and some other decorations were removed, and even some hard-to-deal-with corners were scraped off little by little.

Upon seeing this door, the boss's expression changed, and his attitude was no longer the same as before. His tone even carried a hint of pleading, "You... you must not open this door. Believe me, this room is used as a storage room, filled with old junk. There's no point in going in, you're just wasting your time."

These words were too obvious. It was a standard horror movie trope: the door that must not be opened will definitely be opened, and Jiang Cheng and his group were no exception.

"What happened in this room?" Jiang Cheng turned to look at the boss, his tone as calm as ever, with a slight hint of friendliness.

"I told you, it's just..."

The boss struggled and defended himself, but before he could finish his sentence, Jiang Cheng turned his head to Fatty and Huai Yi and said, "I'll kick the door open in a moment. Remember to push the boss in. It's just an ordinary warehouse inside, there won't be any danger."

Upon hearing this, the boss's face turned pale. He really couldn't understand the identity of Jiang Cheng and his group. He originally thought they were police officers, but now it seemed that they were not.

Moreover, the boss had a strange feeling that no matter what they did to him here, the police outside would pretend not to hear.

"Don't!" the boss said loudly, "You can't do this, I'm going to sue you!"

Jiang Cheng took a few steps back, pretending to be ready to kick the door open. He nodded slightly to Fatty and Huai Yi, "Get ready. After the door is open, remember to throw the boss in, and then remember to close the door again."

"Leave it to me, Doctor," Fatty said, putting on a ferocious look, and with his large build, he really looked like a fierce god.

"Hurry up!" Huai Yi also chimed in, trying to create a sense of urgency.

Lin Muwan saw the boss's aggrieved look, and a trace of pity welled up in her heart. She wanted to go forward and say a few words for him, but Lin Muyun stopped her, shook his head gently at her, and said softly, "We can't help, but don't cause trouble."

Seeing the light in his sister's eyes dim a lot, Lin Muyun touched his sister's head and said, "I haven't been of much help, but Muwan has. You helped Mr. Jiang Cheng, you're much stronger than your brother."

After speaking, he winked at Lin Muwan and joked, "Muwan has grown up. I can't tell if what you wrote in your notebook is true or false."

Unexpectedly, Lin Muwan, who had been looking at her brother with a calm expression, immediately frowned, then took out her notebook and wrote a few words on it with extreme speed. Then, she raised her face and defiantly spread out the notebook for Lin Muyun to see.

"I don't like him, my brother is ten thousand times better than him!" The words in the notebook were very delicate, just like this beautiful and stubborn girl.

Suddenly, the boss, who had been repeatedly frightened by Jiang Cheng, Fatty, and Huai Yi, collapsed, slumped on the ground, and trembled uncontrollably.

Xia Qiang looked at the boss on the ground. Although he also thought that Jiang Cheng and his group's actions were slightly inappropriate, he knew what was important.

What he wanted was for the Lin siblings to survive, the process didn't matter.

"Now you're willing to talk," Jiang Cheng nodded, also squatted down, right in front of the boss, "Very good, I want to hear exactly what happened that night, and what happened in this room."

"Wang Jie... Wang Jie was entangled by something in this room, so he died. It has nothing to do with me, I'm not the murderer," the boss said, crying, "It's the thing inside, it's the thing inside that killed him!"

"What thing inside?" Jiang Cheng pressed.

The boss shook his head, "I don't know, I only know that there's something strange about this room, so... so this room was locked, not allowing anyone to enter. To be honest, I don't have the key to this room either, and I don't want to have it!"

"You don't have the key to this room, what's going on?" Xia Qiang noticed the strangeness in the boss's words and asked.

"Because it wasn't me who locked it, it was the previous owner of this store!" the boss said, gasping for breath, "I rented the store from him, very cheaply."

"Where is the previous owner now?" Zhou Tong asked, pressing.

The boss paused, lowered his head, and said with a pale face, "He's dead. After he rented the store to me, he took a plane and left this city that day. I don't know where he went. It was only later that I accidentally heard from someone else that he was dead."

This was not an unexpected result, so everyone's reaction was very calm, "How did he die, do you know?" Xia Qiang's voice was calm.

The boss leaned against the wall, shook his head, and said in a low voice with an uncertain tone, "I don't know the details, but I heard that his death was very tragic, it seems... it seems that he was broken in two."

Thinking of Li Mengyao and the tragic state of Yuan Xiaotian's corpses, the thing that killed them was obviously the same.

"I was half a friend with the previous owner, I often came to play, and we slowly got to know each other, but not very well. I didn't like this person very much, because of his personality... let's say it was because of his personality. He was stingy and liked to take advantage of others." The boss sighed and said, "I was also blinded by greed to believe his words. There must be a problem if he could rent the store to me so cheaply, but I really didn't think so much at the time. I just saw that his business was quite good, so I rented it. At that time, I signed a contract for a full 10 years." Speaking of this, the boss was emotional and looked extremely remorseful, "When I signed the contract, I was so happy that I didn't even check the rooms here one by one!"

"He... he was killed by something in here, that's right, it must be!" the boss said, "After signing the contract, he left in a hurry, dragging a suitcase, and then sent me a message at the airport, saying not to open this room!"

"I asked him why, but he didn't say, he just told me to be sure to do as he said!"

"This used to be a themed script room, right?" Jiang Cheng tilted his head to look at the room and asked.

"Yes."

"What was it called?"

"Rainy Night... Rainy Night Murderer," the boss said with a trembling voice.