Chapter 512 - The Dolls Inside the Room (1/2)
Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97
“The construction was stopped halfway, and the electrical circuit has not been completed, so there isn’t electricity. Then, what is giving out light in the building?” The four buildings stood in the dark. The lights that came from the building were like eyes that were looking at the approaching people.
Lee Zheng saw that Chen Ge did not follow, so he turned back to yell, “Chen Ge, don’t stay too far from us, and keep your guard up!”
“Understood.” Chen Ge knew that Lee Zheng was only worried about him, so he rushed to his side. “I just thought it was weird. The buildings have no electricity, so why are lights coming out from the room?”
“There could be many reasons. It could be reflection of the moonlight, or perhaps there are squatters. No matter the reason, we have to be careful when exploring abandoned buildings like this.” Lee Zheng seemed to have a bad memory. “Abandoned factories or warehouses in the countryside for the favorite places for people with illegal backgrounds to hide. There are also crazy madmen who prefer these kinds of places to conduct their weird rituals. I once oversaw a case where the killer has been stealing dead bodies from the hospital, attempting to summon a legendary monster from a myth. In the end, we apprehended the person inside an underground sewer.”
“Summoning a ghost inside an underground sewer? Has he considered how the ghost feels?”
Chen Ge’s answer stumped Lee Zheng. He did not know how to continue. “You sure have an interesting mind. Never mind, I’m not going to chat with you anymore. Just understand that it’s dangerous here.”
Ming Yang Residence was huge. The four unfinished buildings stood before their eyes, and they looked like four tombstones. The night breeze swayed the grass and leaves. Looking up from the ground, there was an ominous feeling, like the four buildings could collapse at any moment and bury them alive.
“Shall we head toward the light first?” Lee Zheng suggested. “The closest light is on the second floor of the first building. Since we’re going to pass it anyway, why don’t we go check it out?”
“Yes, Room 104 is on the tenth floor. As we go up, we can check all the rooms once. Perhaps we might find some clues.” Tian Lei was very familiar with Ming Yang Residence; he had once handled the cases of the investors.
“Room 104 is on the tenth floor, huh? How did they arrange the room number?”
“The front two numbers are the floor number, and the third number is the room number, so Room 104 is the fourth room on the tenth floor,” Tian Lei explained to Chen Ge.
“But there are four buildings here. Does that mean that there are four ‘Room 104’s?”
“The numbering of the four rooms on the tenth floor of the first building is one to four and the second building is five to eight, so the condition you mentioned doesn’t happen.”
“The room numbers of the different buildings are linked together?” Chen Ge was just curious, but what Tian Lei said gave him some idea. “Why would the designer do that?”
“Apparently, it was a request of the investor. They even planned to build bridges between the buildings to connect the four buildings. They planned to make Ming Yang Residence the landmark in Jiujiang, but that obviously did not come to be.”
“Shush, we’re preparing to enter the building now.” Captain Yan held the flashlight and was the first to enter the dark building.
“To join four buildings together?” Chen Ge remembered this. There had to be a reason behind the death of all the investors.
After they entered the stairs, the temperature noticeably dropped. There was a chill in the air like every breath that they took was filled with cold air. There were many rivers that cut through Eastern Jiujiang, so this place had comparatively more moisture than other places in Jiujiang. Lichen grew on the walls, and the plaster was wrinkled. As one’s finger cut across it, one could peel back a large piece.