When he heard that the resident of 309 had killed the resident of 903, Chu Qingjiu's expression remained unchanged. Only his uncanny purple eyes narrowed slightly, as though he were pondering something.
Qi Wu had told him that, according to the information Zhao Yang had gathered, something had been off about units 309 and 903 lately. There had also been incidents involving both units eight years ago.
Qi Wu looked at Auntie Wang and asked, "Have 309 and 903 both changed residents several times?"
Auntie Wang immediately nodded and named several other units whose residents frequently changed. They matched Zhao Yang's information exactly.
In other words, the Dream Ghost had most likely existed eight years ago, growing stronger over those eight years until finally becoming what it was now.
That meant Happy Community had already accumulated enough resentment to create the Dream Ghost eight years ago. But where had that resentment come from?
On the surface, Happy Community had bad feng shui, which caused its residents to die frequently in all sorts of ways. But the resentment of the residents who had died in the two years afterward probably wasn't enough to spawn the Dream Ghost.
So the later deaths had merely served to conceal the resentment that had already existed here.
After learning this, Qi Wu and the others searched online for what had happened before Happy Community was built. Sure enough, they found some clues.
There was a mine about five kilometers from Happy Community. This place had previously been used solely to bury people who had died in mining accidents.
The land had originally been an auspicious feng shui site, but the construction of the community had destroyed its power to suppress and soothe the dead.
Now, it was an ideal place to nurture corpses and ghosts.