That night, I had a very long nightmare.
I dreamed that the hanged woman was hanging from the ceiling above my bed.
And the man with syphilis was sleeping right beside me.
Terrified, I bolted for the door, but it wouldn't open. The man with syphilis got out of bed and chased me.
He chased, I ran, and there was no escape.
I ran around the bedroom all night, right up until dawn, when I woke up.
I might as well not have slept at all. Despite the cold weather, I was drenched in sweat.
I had to take a client to view a property that morning. By the time I finished and returned to the shop, it was already noon.
An Ning and the others were eating boxed lunches, but I had no appetite at all. The sight of the meat in their lunch boxes made me think of the man with syphilis and the hanged woman.
I sat in the office and pulled up the photos I'd taken yesterday.
These photos showed the hanged woman's room. I wanted to see whether I could find any clues.
As I looked through them, Song Xiaotian and Meng Yifan came over with their lunches and sat beside me.
Their curiosity got the better of them, and they wanted to see what I was looking at.
The moment they leaned over, both men shuddered and spat the rice in their mouths straight into their lunch boxes.
I watched as they stopped eating and glared viciously at me.
"It's lunchtime, and instead of eating, you're looking at this? What's wrong with you?"
"You're a menace! Now I can't eat either! Damn it!"
With that, they got up and left.
At some point, An Ning came over and sat beside me to look, popping