During the National Day holiday, Gu Feng had just returned home when his cousin came to visit him. The newspaper where his cousin worked sent him to do an interview in the mountainous area during the National Day holiday, and he would be away for about a week, so he asked Gu Feng to help him look after the house.
Gu Feng's cousin recently bought a high-rise apartment and just finished decorating it. He put the key on the table and told Gu Feng that the apartment was on the 15th floor, Block A. Since the entire residential building had just been delivered, the property company's supporting facilities were The facilities are not up to date, and the house numbers haven't even been nailed on yet, so don't make a mistake. Before leaving, I reminded him again: "Remember, it's Building A on the 15th floor, the one on the left."
The elevator stopped at the fifteenth floor. As expected, there was no house number above the door frame of the residence. Gu Feng remembered what his cousin said, that it was the one on the left. He inserted the key into the keyhole of the luxury security door and turned it left and right, but it just wouldn't open. He was worried He went to the wrong floor, and when he looked at the elevator, it was clearly marked as the 15th floor. He wanted to call his cousin's cell phone to ask, but he was afraid that his cousin would laugh at him for being a nerd who couldn't even open a door.
Gu Feng thought of an old classmate who specialized in unlocking locks, so he called him and asked him to help. The old classmate came in a hurry with tools, but he didn't expect the lock to be so strong that it took more than an hour to unlock it. It took him hours to open the door, and he was sweating profusely. However, the lock of the security door was broken, so he had to replace it with another one.
The house was decorated very luxuriously, with ancient style from the living room to the bedroom, from the kitchen to the computer room. Even the bathroom was luxurious, with a tall and large bathtub, but the tiles outside the bathtub were uneven. Gu Feng watched the game until about two in the morning. He went to bed and was about to fall asleep when he heard a "ding, ding, ding" sound, like a knock on the door. He turned on the bedside lamp and saw The phone rang at exactly three in the morning.
When I got to the door, I found that the "ding, ding, ding" sound was not a knock on the door, but came from the bathroom. But there was nothing else in the bathroom except a toilet, bathtub, sink and mirror. Gu Feng wanted to take a closer look. When he searched, the sound disappeared and everything returned to calm. Gu Feng thought that maybe he had watched TV for too long and had tinnitus.
The next evening, my cousin called and said that he was about to enter the mountains where there would be no cell phone signal. He would disappear completely but would call home as soon as he had the chance.
That night, Gu Feng went to bed early, but in the second half of the night, he was awakened by a sound. It was the sound of "ding, ding, ding". He was startled and got up quickly. I turned on the light and saw that it was three o'clock in the morning again.
Gu Feng went straight to the bathroom and searched inch by inch. He found that the sound came from the drain hole of the bathtub. It seemed that something was hidden under the bathtub and was constantly knocking on the bottom of the bathtub. Gu Feng felt strange. Is there something hidden underneath? Just then, the sound disappeared again. He leaned down to listen carefully, and suddenly smelled a foul odor from the drain of the bathtub, like an animal corpse. The rotten kind made him feel sick and want to vomit. He quickly plugged the rubber stopper in the bathtub . In the middle of the night, a ghost knocked on the door. He just couldn't understand how he could smell the stench coming from the sewer pipe in a 15-story building?
On the third day, the rotten smell became stronger, filling the entire bathroom and even the room. Every time he went to the bathroom, he would hold his breath and finish as quickly as possible. I called my cousin to ask for clarification, and the answer from the other end was: "Sorry for knocking on the door in the middle of the night. The number you dialed is out of service. Please try again later."
In desperation, Gu Feng had to go to the supermarket to buy air freshener and sprayed the bathroom and the room, only then did he feel better.
But at three o'clock in the morning, the horrible knocking sound started again on time, echoing softly in the room, feeling indescribably eerie and strange.
Each blow seemed to strike Gu Feng's heart, causing his nerves to tremble. Although he never believed in ghosts and gods, he had to think about it at this time. Fear spread through his body like an electric current, and he felt like he was about to collapse. Same. He yelled, opened the security door and rushed out…
The next day, Gu Feng went to the property management company to report the situation. Manager Zhang of the property management company laughed and said, "Young man, you must have watched too many horror movies." Gu Feng insisted that he had not heard wrongly, and that the stench in the bathroom was It is still there. Manager Zhang had no choice but to send his employees to follow him up to smell the stench.
The stench in the bathroom seemed to be even stronger, and the employee vomited on the spot. After hearing the report, Manager Zhang personally came up to experience the stench, and immediately took out his cell phone to call the police. After the police arrived to understand the situation, they said they would open the bathtub to take a look.
Gu Feng's heart began to beat wildly, and he had a bad feeling. The police put on a mask, found a big hammer, and smashed the bricks beside the bathtub. The stench was so strong that it could make people When several people lifted the bathtub, everyone present screamed. Gu Feng's eyes went dark and he almost fainted.
Under the bathtub, a highly decomposed female corpse was lying on its back, with its arms outstretched, as if it was hugging the bathtub tightly. Even more terrifying was that the corpse's ten fingers were pointing upwards, as if it was hitting the bathtub. The more Gu Feng thought about it, the more he felt. The more scared he was, the more he trembled all over. Suddenly, it occurred to him that the female corpse was hugging the bathtub, and he was lying in the bathtub taking a bath. Wasn't that like lying in the female corpse's arms taking a bath?
The police wanted to take Gu Feng back to the police station. A terrible thought flashed through his mind: Could it be that his cousin had killed someone, buried the body under the bathtub, and then pretended to be on a business trip, making him the scapegoat?
At this moment, the cell phone rang, and the voice of the cousin came from the other end of the line. Gu Feng was so excited that he was incoherent. After talking for a while, he finally made his words clear and asked him why there was a female corpse hidden under the bathtub. "Female corpse? What female corpse? ? "My cousin asked in astonishment.
Gu Feng was anxious: "Cousin, I really found a female corpse under your bathtub, and now the police are taking me away!" The cousin said in surprise: "Are you still asleep? Where is my house?" What bathtub? There is a shower in my bathroom! Are you mistaken? "
"What!" Gu Feng was shocked. "That's right, Building A on the 15th floor. I'm not a three-year-old child who can't even recognize numbers…" Manager Zhang from the property company next to him shouted, "Wrong, wrong!" This is the 16th floor, Building A, not the 15th floor!
It turns out that there is a problem that developers are troubled by when it comes to high-rise residential buildings. Most buyers find the number "14" unpleasant to the ear, and it is difficult to sell a 14-story house even at a discount. There are 15 floors. My cousin Gufeng bought a 15th-floor Block A, but it is actually a 14th-floor Block A. This is nothing, but the key is that the number of floors of the elevator is designed by the manufacturer before it leaves the factory, and each floor is a real number. The property management company did not keep up with the work, the number of floors displayed on the elevator had not been changed in time, and the house numbers of each apartment had not been nailed on. Gu Feng took the elevator to the 15th floor and thought he was I entered Building A on the 15th floor, but I actually entered Building A on the 16th floor. No wonder I couldn't open the security door.
Manager Zhang said: "The owner of Block A on the 16th floor is a woman named Xia Yan, but in fact… it was actually bought for her by Director Li of the Urban Construction Bureau. Our company often deals with Director Li, and we originally promised to keep it a secret for him. But now this has happened…"
The case was soon solved. The victim was Xia Yan, the owner of the house. Director Li bought the house for her, hoping to keep her as a beautiful woman. But after the house was renovated, Xia Yan asked Director Li to deposit money into her bank account. Xia Yan even threatened that if Director Li dared not to give her the money, she would expose his affairs. Finally, at three o'clock in the morning one day, Director Li, taking advantage of his drunkenness, strangled Xia Yan to death.
After killing someone, Director Li was afraid to take the body out to dispose of it, so he came up with an idea. He smashed the bathtub, hid Xia Yan's body under the bathtub, and then sealed it up and laid the tiles himself. He wanted to wait two or three years until Xia Yan's body was almost completely decomposed, then dig out the remains and throw them away, but he didn't expect Gu Feng to ruin his plan.
After leaving the police station and taking the statement, the lights were already on. Gu Feng arrived at his cousin's house, which was the real Building A on the 15th floor, exhausted. As expected, there was only a shower room in the bathroom, no bathtub.
He lay in bed and tried to have a good sleep, but a question remained in his mind. Was it really the female corpse that was knocking on the bathtub every night, making a "ding, ding, ding" sound, in order to make him To redress her?
I was in a daze like this, and I didn't know how much time had passed. Suddenly, the sound of "ding, ding, ding" rang in my ears again. Gu Feng jumped out of bed as if by reflex, and saw that it was three in the morning again. "Is this a dream?" He bit the back of his hand hard, and grimaced in pain. The sound still came from the bathroom, especially from the drain in the shower room. "Could there be something in my cousin's room too…" His will collapsed like a snowy mountain, and he rushed out the door screaming…
Although Manager Zhang of the property company said he didn't believe Gu Feng's words, he finally decided to send a security guard to accompany him to his cousin's room for the night. At three o'clock in the morning, the "ding ding" sound rang out on time again. The security guard's body suddenly froze, and he rushed out the door screaming…
The police searched every household in the building carefully, but could not find any reason. Rumors spread everywhere. Some said that this place was a cemetery before liberation, and some said that when the building was built, I didn't burn incense to the God of Land, so he blamed me…
On the one hand, the property company requested the public security department to increase police force to find out the cause; on the other hand, unable to withstand the pressure, it secretly invited Taoist priests from the countryside to perform rituals to exorcise the evil spirits…
A week later, the truth finally came to light. It turned out that one of the owners of the building had rented out the underground garage to a self-employed person as a tofu processing site. The tofu owner got up at 2 a.m. every morning to prepare for the work, and spent about three hours Before making tofu, he would always knock the iron mold for making tofu on the sewer pipe a few times, making a "ding, ding, ding" sound, in order to remove the tofu remaining in the gap between the molds. The debris shook out.
The drainage pipes of all the bathrooms in this building are an independent system. They are all metal round pipes. In addition, the design is quite unique. The whole set of pipes becomes an echo tube, which transmits the "ding, ding, ding" sound through The sewer pipes are connected to the bathrooms of every household, and the sound echoes softly. In the dead of night, it can be heard even in the rooms. The occupancy rate of this building is not high at present, and most of the residences are still under renovation. The other families who stayed there also worked during the day and slept soundly at night. They were no match for Gu Feng, who was full of energy and worked day and night in a reversed way. He actually heard it…