The young man's story is horrifying and I don't believe it at all.

If what he said was true, the landlord would never have reacted after seeing the surveillance.

However, the cruelty and killing of cats did make me a little more careful. If a pervert is around me, even if it is an animal, it will still make people feel uncomfortable.

When I got up the next day, I went out to grab something to eat. As soon as I returned to the apartment, I saw the young girl who had advised everyone to look for cats last night moving things out.

There was still a look of horror on his face.

When she saw me, the girl nodded as a greeting.

After taking a look at her luggage, I stepped forward and said, "Want to help?"

The girl did not refuse. After thanking me, she moved her luggage to the car outside with my help. When she was getting into the car, the girl hesitated and said, "You can move it too."

"Because of what happened last night?"

The girl nodded, then shook her head and lowered her voice: "Another cat was tortured and killed this morning."

"Something happened again?"

The girl nodded and was about to answer when she saw behind me and suddenly became frightened and hurriedly got in the car and left.

I looked back and saw a middle-aged man looking over here.

I have never seen this man, but he appears in the apartment. He must be a tenant here, but I don't know why the girl is afraid of him.

I went upstairs to my room, and when I walked past the second floor, the young man was telling his ghost story vividly.

It is true that another cat was tortured and killed this morning, but it was not the cat in the apartment, but the cat next door.

It was a big cat. I don’t know when it was forcefully stuffed into the toilet of a public toilet, and all the bones in its body were crushed.

The only thing that was the same as last night was that one eye was gouged out and crushed next to the toilet.

Two cats were tortured and killed one after another, and the young man's story began to spread in the apartment.

For a moment, the whole apartment was in panic.

The landlord had to come forward and accuse the young man of making things up, so that the situation could be brought under control.

However, she did not explain.

In the next few days, no more massacres occurred, and I gradually became familiar with the people in the apartment.

The person who likes to write stories is called Zhai Guan. He is an online novel writer. He likes to socialize very much and tells stories to everyone in the activity room on the second floor almost every day.

The middle-aged man who scares the girl is named Chen Er. He is one of the first residents of the apartment and has lived here for almost 10 years. As a salesman, he seems to have already dried up his talk outside and is very silent in the apartment.

As soon as I come back, I will stay in my room and will not go out.

I don't know much about him. The only thing that impressed me was that he never wore his shoes into the room. His shoes were always clean and neatly placed by the door, with the toes always facing outward.

After dinner that day, I was scrolling through my phone in the room as usual.

There was a noise outside, and I thought there was another massacre. When I went out, I realized that it was Chen Er and Zhai Guan who were arguing.

This usually silent man was very excited and pointed at Zhai Guan and cursed.

Zhai Guan, who was eloquent, was mute, and only said a few words back and forth.

After listening for a while, I found out that a relative of Zhai Guan passed away and went to the cemetery. When he came back, he found that the clothes he was drying were blown to the air conditioner of Chen Er's house downstairs, so he went to find Chen Er to pick up the clothes.

This was a small matter, so Chen Er did not refuse and asked Zhai Guan to wait outside while he went to pick up his clothes.

But Zhai Guan, who always talked a lot, was leaning against the door of Chen Er's house while talking about going to the cemetery, and subconsciously stepped into the room.

When Chen Er came out with his clothes, he stopped doing it and started to quarrel with Zhai Guan.

Everyone thought it was a trivial matter and managed to persuade the two of them to stop.

Zhai Guan angrily took the clothes and left, but said: "When you go to the cemetery, you can't bring your shoes into the house? You are so superstitious. You leave your shoes outside every day. Do you go to the cemetery every day?"

Everyone's eyes fell on Chen Er's shoes outside the door. Chen Er stared at Zhai Guan's back, his face turned blue and white, and he closed the door fiercely.

Everyone dispersed, but I took another look at Chen Er's shoes.

The shoes are very clean and not stained with mud.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shake my head.

This is a big city, not my hometown. Even if I go to the cemetery, there will be no dirt on my shoes.

But when I walked to the stairs, it suddenly occurred to me.

Big cities are not so clean that a salesperson can work all day and his shoes are still spotless.

"Or does he wash his shoes clean before coming back every day? But why?"

After the quarrel, the apartment was quiet for a few days.

Everyone seemed not to be affected by the killings and quarrels, and was living their own lives.

Chen Er also goes out early and comes back late every day, being taciturn.

The only thing that has changed is Zhai Guan. He is usually either writing novels in his room or bragging on the second floor. But these days, he seems very strange. He goes out very early and doesn't come back until almost dark.

However, this didn't affect anyone.

On the fifth day, the tortured cat was discovered in the apartment again.

After the two murders, the owners of the apartment kept the cat outside, and no one knew where the cat came from.

When it was discovered, the cat's limbs and tail were nailed to the ceiling, and its eyes were crushed beneath. The blood dripping from the cat's mouth happened to fall on the eyes.

More people planned to move out, but the landlord was not as strong as before. Not only did they not retain them, they also fully refunded their deposits.

But when everyone was about to leave, Zhai Guan, who was covered in dirt, stopped everyone.

"I know who did it."

With one word, the peace exploded.

Before Zhai Guan could say anything else, the landlord said, "Don't talk nonsense. It's because of my lax management that allowed the homeless people outside to sneak in."

"Yes, how could the people in the apartment do such a thing?"

"These homeless people are so disgusting, we can't let them in again."

...

As soon as the landlord finished speaking, several people agreed.

I took a look at these people. They were all people who crowded into the monitoring room to watch the surveillance with the landlord. Each one of them, like Chen Er, had rented here for a long time.

This apartment has a secret.

And these old people all know this secret. They even know who the person who tortured and killed the cat is, and they are helping each other hide it.

Chen Er!

A name came to mind. Among the old people living here, only Chen Er was not present. Only Chen Er had the opportunity to establish relationships with all of them.

The only thing that makes me confused is that Chen Er has not had much interaction with them these days and does not seem to have a good relationship with them.

I looked at Zhai Guan. After the initial confusion, Zhai Guan also came to his senses.

He took out a bunch of bottles from the backpack behind him and threw them on the ground. He said loudly with a clanging sound: "It's not someone from outside, it's Chen Er. Do you know what's in these bottles?"
Chapter completed!