The Missing Iron Lock

To ease the awkwardness, Li Mo smiled and said, "I'm in Class 5-2, right next door to you. We can play together when we have time."

While speaking, Li Mo did not forget to shift his gaze to Beichen.

Her fair hand had already rested on the hilt of her sword. This was not a good sign.

"We'll have a chance to meet again in the future. We'll be heading back first."

After speaking, Li Mo pulled Beichen and quickly walked towards the nearby residence.

He hated disputes, whether it was bloody wars or verbal conflicts.

Because it was very troublesome, and Li Mo didn't like trouble.

Beichen would help him deal with all the unpleasant things, but her methods were not gentle, at least in terms of the jurisdiction of the current social system.

Although as long as she was willing, she would not leave any traces of murder.

Sakura Blizzard would swallow everything.

After Beichen and Li Mo left, the man was greatly disappointed. He had thought that he could chat with the other party for a few words.

As a neighbor, maybe he could get her contact information, and they could go shopping and play together when they had time.

Thinking of this, the man looked at his wife and immediately felt very dissatisfied.

Beichen was too stunning. Whether it was her appearance, figure, clothing, or temperament, she was too outstanding, so much so that everyone else would become dim in comparison.

The woman also stopped filming. For some reason, she suddenly lost interest.

Sakura and Rin also took this opportunity to quickly finish the food in their hands, temporarily filling their stomachs.

After a while, the moving company's employees drove a large bus and stopped at the entrance of the villa. They moved the goods to different rooms according to the couple's instructions.

In the room, the moving company's people asked the couple in confusion, "Strange, there's everything in the house. Didn't the previous owner take his things with him? This furniture...hiss, is very expensive."

Hearing what the moving company's people said, the couple did not become suspicious, but were overjoyed.

Looking around, they indeed found pictures and antiques that looked valuable at a glance, placed in various corners of the villa, extremely luxurious.

High-grade carpets, decoration, and furniture, everything was ready.

The prices of various things added up were probably much more expensive than the house itself. This made the couple, who were eager for a bargain, overjoyed. They couldn't control their facial expressions, and the corners of their mouths grinned.

Their two hands were at a loss, their fingers constantly bending and stretching, and their limbs were fidgeting restlessly.

"Don't worry about it. Just move our things in. Don't touch this furniture," the man said immediately.

He couldn't let this group of moving company employees delay his dream of getting rich.

"Oh," the employee just replied, turned around, and moved in all kinds of furniture that was extremely cheap compared to the original furniture in the villa.

Although they were very envious, after all, they were just Party B, and they only needed to follow Party A's requirements.

"The fourth floor is locked. Do you have the key?"

The employee saw the locked fourth floor and vaguely saw the lights inside flashing. It seemed that there were three people standing inside the door.

After rubbing his eyes, they disappeared again.

The woman said sharply, "You don't need to worry about it. Just put the things on the first three floors. We will handle the fourth floor ourselves."

With the expensive furniture on the first three floors, there might be more precious things on the fourth floor. Wealth should not be exposed. It was best to wait until the outsiders had all left.

It was just a lock. Her husband could just smash it a few times with a hammer.

After a long half-day of being busy, everything was ready. The moving company's people left the villa.

Before leaving, the employee who had seen the figures in the fourth-floor door rubbed his eyes.

"Am I too tired... but I really haven't slept well these past few days. I've been working all the time..."

The employee blinked his eyes repeatedly. After confirming that there was no problem with his vision, he looked back again.

This time he saw it clearly. The shadows of three people, stiffly raising their hands and waving at him.

Thinking of the accidents in this villa in the news, the employee immediately felt a chill in his heart and left without looking back.

"Hahaha, this will be our home from now on!" the woman jumped onto the soft big sofa.

The unprecedented softness and comfort made her very excited.

The sofa was much larger than the bed she used to sleep on, and it was even softer.

The first floor was the hall and entertainment area, the second floor was where they washed clothes and cooked, the third floor was for rest and sleep, and the door to the fourth floor was locked.

The man, on the other hand, carefully took pictures of the various antiques in the corners of the house, wanting to confirm their value.

Time passed unknowingly. Night fell, and all four floors of the house were "brightly lit."

The couple was in the bedroom, immersed in the joy of their changed life, playing around.

The woman brought the man a bowl of instant noodles, and she also had a bowl.

"I'm too tired tonight. Let's just make do with this."

"That's right. From tomorrow on, we will enjoy life. We are no longer the bottom class of the past. By the way, have you cooked for Sakura and Rin?"

"No, I've been busy all day. Where do I have the energy to cook? Didn't someone bring them food in the afternoon? Let's talk about it tomorrow. By the way, let's see what's hidden on the fourth floor."

"Alright."

The two of them did not have more conversation on this topic. After all, Sakura and Rin were not their biological children. As for their parents.

In the end, the two families were not familiar with each other at all. If it weren't for the high insurance premium, who would be willing to carry two burdens in this era of involution.

People were selfish. With so much money, wasn't it better to raise their own biological children?

There was a saying that goes, "those who are not of our race must have a different heart."

The clock on the third floor was a traditional clock.

Tick-tock—tick-tock—

Ding—

A crisp sound rang out.

The hour hand, minute hand, and second hand coincided at this moment. The time had reached midnight.

The lights on the first and second floors had been extinguished long ago, and the lights on the third floor were also extinguished as people went to bed.

Suddenly, the gorgeous chandelier in the couple's bedroom suddenly lit up, but the brightness was much dimmer than normal.

The man covered his eyes with his arm. He had just fallen asleep. What was his wife doing...

Turning on the light, how could he sleep?

Tick-tock... tick-tock...

Like the second hand of a clock, a drop of black-red blood fell from the glorious lamp and landed on the orange-red bedsheet.

Gradually, the light became lighter and lighter, from orange-yellow to scarlet, like a blood-colored eye, peeking at the two people sleeping on the bed.

"Ugh..."

The man woke up from his sleep and instinctively took out his phone to check the time.

00:12.

Twelve minutes past midnight. Strange. According to the degree of fatigue today, he should have slept until dawn. Why did he suddenly wake up in the middle of the night?

The man looked up at the chandelier above his head and didn't feel anything abnormal.

The urge to urinate came. He got up, put on his slippers, and walked towards the bathroom at the end of the corridor.

Thump, thump...

The man stopped in his tracks, and the sound suddenly died down.

"I didn't sleep well, and I'm having auditory hallucinations? Why do I feel like there are footsteps behind me? Forget it, who cares. It's just auditory hallucinations."

The man didn't care and continued to walk towards the toilet.

Thump, thump... thump, thump...

Thump, thump, thump... thump, thump, thump...

Thump, thump, thump, thump... thump, thump, thump, thump...

From the initial two types of footsteps, it had become four.

The man's heart was a little flustered. The lights in the corridor were always bright, which gave him the courage to look back.

But no matter how he looked, there was no one behind him, or rather, he was the only one in the corridor.

"Haha, what am I being so suspicious for? How can there be a ghost? It's all psychological. That agent during the day was so dramatic, he gave me a wrong impression. With such bright lights, even if there is a ghost, it wouldn't dare to come out."

After comforting himself, the man strode forward without stopping.

In the middle of the corridor was a window several meters wide. It was tightly closed, and the curtains were not drawn. The scene inside could be seen from the outside.

Not far away, on the top floor of the villa next door, a cold gaze fell on the man who was in a hurry to go to the toilet. Three black silhouettes whose appearances could not be seen clearly followed behind him.

But because the corridor was pitch black, Beichen couldn't see the man's expression clearly.

That man seemed to be completely unaware.

"..."

"Leaving a brightly lit place is a rule. It's not fatal, but you will be locked on by a ghost."

"Staring at a ghost outside the villa won't attract attention."

Beichen remembered that there was a light switch in the third-floor corridor of this villa, but from the man's appearance, he didn't seem to think that he was walking in the dark.

Perhaps... in the man's eyes, the lights in front of him were very bright.

The identities of the three ghosts were unknown, and their killing rules were unknown. Let's observe for a while first.

After all, the Special Section of the Fire Moth had never stipulated that they must rescue those innocent people trapped in supernatural events.

The death rate of ordinary people trapped in supernatural events was not much different from 100%.

Beichen took out her phone, preparing to record the relevant information in the file. But after thinking for a moment, she kept some of it and only wrote down the first rule, and said that it was not easy for her to handle.

There was no reason, she just felt disgusted.

From the bottom of her heart, she felt that some people in the Special Section gave her an inexplicable instinctive disgust.

It was best not to reveal all her strength. Anyway... she and Li Mo had no great ambitions. She just needed to protect Li Mo.

Protect this boy who had pulled her out of despair.

In the blink of an eye, the man in the third floor of the villa disappeared from Beichen's sight. He had already passed the window.

Beichen sighed lightly and continued to sit on the roof. The Sakura Blizzard in her hand turned a vivid red, like a heart that could not be suppressed, trembling and eager to try.

Thump, thump, thump, thump...

Every time the man took a step, three footsteps would follow.

Although he hadn't seen a ghost yet and was always in the light, the man still felt that something was wrong.

So the next second, he pretended to take a big step, but slowed down at the moment of landing, gently stepping on the ground without making a sound.

And then...

"..."

"..."

"..."

The corridor was silent.

The man stretched out his right hand and touched his chest, "You scared me to death. It really was auditory hallucinations. I thought there was really a ghost. I was just scaring myself."

The man said so with certainty.

After all, how would a ghost know that he would suddenly lighten his steps in the next step? It turned out that the repeated footsteps he had heard before were all in his imagination.

Sure enough, in the subsequent walk, there were no more extra footsteps in the corridor.

The man quickly arrived at the toilet. Strangely, the appearance of the toilet was different from his memory.

"Strange, I didn't see a door when I went to the toilet during the day?"

The man found it very strange. There was no main door outside the toilet, only a thin veil to block the view.

Perhaps this was the perverse taste of the previous owner.

"A glass door..."

The man was in a hurry to finish his business and go back, completely unaware.

There was no light in the reflection on the glass door, and in his perception... the surroundings were extremely bright.

The man stretched out his hands and grabbed the rusty iron lock, pulling it frantically. He was like a madman, completely ignoring that his fingers were already twisted, and he hit the iron lock with his bones.

Clang, clang, clang!!

The iron lock was being tampered with violently, swaying, and there were faint signs of it falling off.

However, the man's hands were already a bloody mess, turning into rotten flesh.

But the man seemed to feel no pain. He knelt on the ground and gnawed at the iron lock with his teeth.

Clang.

The iron lock fell to the ground, and the door to the fourth floor was opened.

The man walked in in a daze...

The next day, the sun was shining brightly. When the woman got up, she did not find her husband in the bed.

After getting out of bed, she searched everywhere, calling her husband's name, but got no answer after calling for a long time.

"Where did that damned dog go? He didn't even turn off the light. I was wondering why I slept so uncomfortably yesterday."

The woman searched all over the third floor but could not find the man. On the way, she woke up the sleeping Sakura and Rin.

"What are you sleeping for? Hurry up and go to school. Figure out your own breakfast."

Rin raised her head and said, "Today is the weekend..."

"What's wrong with the weekend? You can sleep in on the weekend? Get up and tidy up the room, then go to the first floor to clean the living room. I'll come to check later. If you don't do a good job, you won't get any lunch."

The woman showed a sarcastic and harsh face, calculating in her mind how to get rid of these two burdens.

After all, they couldn't not go to school. If they were reported and sued in court, they would lose a lot of money.

Sakura and Rin looked at each other and lowered their heads in silence.

The woman left the room and continued to look for her husband. She finally found him at the door of the fourth floor.

But the man's appearance was a bit strange.

He stood motionless in front of the fourth-floor door with his back to the woman. The woman called him several times but got no response.

The impatient woman rushed forward and kicked him hard, and only then did the man come back to his senses.

The man who had been kicked to the ground cursed angrily, "What are you doing! Are you sick in the morning!"

The woman retorted, "I want to ask you that. You're acting all mysterious here in the morning. Have you made breakfast? Have you washed the clothes? Standing here like a neurotic. What were you doing last night?"

"Last night, I!..."

"..."

The man stood there in a daze. His memory of last night was like a blank. He couldn't remember anything.

He only remembered that he had vaguely woken up and gone to the toilet. He couldn't remember anything else.

He looked around. There was nothing wrong with his body. It was really strange.

"Forget it. I won't argue with you for now. I've already dealt with Sakura and Rin. Let's go to the fourth floor and see what's going on."

The woman bypassed the man and came to the fourth-floor door, only to find that the lock was missing. She turned her head and asked, "Did you get rid of the lock?"

The man was still in a daze and shook his head repeatedly.