Not long after, the elevator arrived at the fifth floor.

Dean Qi got off the elevator first and helped the elderly people get on and off the elevator.

The players also came down and stood aside, watching Dean Qi help the old man.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xiao Shi nudged Chen Mu and whispered:

"Boss, do you feel anything strange?"

"Hmm? What's weird about that?"

Chen Mu answered while thinking carefully.

He recalled what he had just seen and heard, including Dean Qi, nurse Liu, and those elderly people...

Based on Chen Mu's ability to judge people, he didn't find any signs of acting.

At least the director and the caregivers usually treat the elderly this way, and the elderly like them very much. This is a natural feeling that cannot be faked.

Other than that, there's nothing unusual.

Xiao Shi whispered, "Boss, why should we take the elevator? We are not old men with inconvenient legs and feet, why don't we just take the stairs?

The elevator is so slow, we have to walk up and down the stairs ten times. What's wrong with the dean? He would rather waste time with us waiting for the elevator than take the stairs directly."

Chen Mu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly. He glanced at Xiao Shi with some surprise in his eyes.

Chen Mu admitted that he himself had not noticed the anomaly raised by Xiao Shi.

Chen Mu's focus was on whether there were any traces of performance and on trying to figure out the meaning of the dialogue, but he also thought of the most straightforward and simple unreasonable points.

Yes, why wait for the elevator instead of taking the stairs?

The wait for the elevator was at least five minutes.

Because this point was too straightforward and simple, Chen Mu naturally ignored it and didn't even think about it.

But to be honest, it’s not that unusual.

After all, Chen Mu and others were here for the first time, so they were considered outsiders.

Generally speaking, as long as there is an elevator, guests will be taken to the elevator as a sign of friendliness and respect.

If it was really the first time we met, it would be a bit unusual to take the stairs instead of the elevator.

"Who knows? Maybe they respect us and don't want us to run too much."

Chen Mu said this.

Xiao Shi thought about it and felt that it made sense. Since the boss didn't say anything, he didn't say anything more.

Soon, after Dean Qi helped the old man and greeted them, he turned around and came to Chen Mu and others.

"I'm sorry, but the atmosphere here in our nursing home is quite friendly. We're all old acquaintances, so we just say hello when we meet."

Dean Qi explained with a smile.

"It's okay, I understand. This just shows that the atmosphere in the nursing home is good." Chen Mu also replied with a smile.

Everyone walked towards the end of the fifth floor in a friendly manner.

The layout of the fifth floor is the same as that of the first floor, with a long corridor and rooms on both sides.

However, compared to the spaciousness of the first floor, there are not so many elderly people living on the fifth floor.

The doors of many rooms were tightly closed.

The two doors were occasionally opened, and there was no elderly person lying on the bed inside. The curtains were even drawn in the room, making it look eerie.

There were dim lights on in the corridor, and since there was no light coming in through the windows, it felt a bit creepy to walk in.

Dean Qi walked in front, step by step, moving forward. No one spoke, and the whole scene seemed a little depressing.

"Dean, where does our client live?" Chen Mu asked.

"Oh, you are talking about him. I will take you to see him. He lives in the innermost room. I have arranged a temporary room for him." As the dean spoke, everyone came to the innermost room.

Dean Qi reached out and knocked on the door three times.

"Xiao Zhang, are you in there? Open the door for us."

No one in the room opened the door, but through the door, one could faintly hear the sound of someone moving around in the room.

The dean couldn't help but sigh. He shook his head and fumbled in his pocket for the key.

"Xiao Zhang has been frightened these past few days and isn't in a good mental state. Luckily, I have a spare key. I'll take you in."

The dean took out a bunch of keys from his pocket.

As the director of a nursing home, it is normal to have a spare key in your pocket.

As he took out his key to open the door, Cui Ning, the girl wearing a watch standing behind him, asked, "Dean, is Xiao Zhang an employee here?"

"Oh, he, isn't it?" said the dean.

"This is a nursing home. Xiao Zhang is a young man and not an employee. Why does he live here?" Cui Ning asked curiously.

Her question is also the question raised by other players.

Yes, why would Xiao Zhang, an outsider, live in a nursing home?

Seeing this, Dean Qi smiled and patiently explained: "Xiao Zhang's mother is an old customer of ours.

His father died early, and his mother has been living here since she retired, for several years.

Xiao Zhang's mother passed away a few days ago. Xiao Zhang was haunted by his mother's ghost. He was scared these days and became nervous. He couldn't leave for a while.

The mother is a regular customer, and I thought I wouldn't let her leave and forget about her. Seeing that her son hadn't been well these past few days, I found him an empty room and arranged for him to stay there first."

With a "click", the door of the room opened.

Dean Qi led the players into the room.

As soon as he entered the room, Chen Mu saw Xiao Zhang curled up on the bed.

His hair was messy, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was in a state of shock, curled up in a corner of the bed, wrapped in a quilt.

When Xiao Zhang heard the door suddenly open, he was obviously startled and immediately shouted:

"Don't! Don't...don't come over here, Mom, please, don't kill me..."

Dean Qi said loudly, "Xiao Zhang, don't be nervous. It's me, not your mother. The exorcists you hired are here. I'll bring them to you."

"Exorcist...Finally, you're here!"

When Xiao Zhang learned that it was an exorcist who came, his bloodshot eyes immediately brightened up.

Chen Mu and others came to the bedside, and they finally met their client this time.

"Exorcists, you must save me!" Xiao Zhang pulled Xue Xuexue's clothes and shouted to the six players, his tone full of pleading.

Xue Xuexue comforted him and asked quietly, "I heard that you are being haunted by a ghost?"

"Yes, yes, yes! My mom, it's my mom who died and is haunting me!"

"Can you tell us the general situation?" said the tattooed man Zhang Shanyi.

"Okay, I tell you, you must save me!" Xiao Zhang excitedly pulled the player's clothes. When he was about to mention the past, Xiao Zhang's eyes were obviously filled with fear.

He took a deep breath, suppressed the fear in his heart, and then slowly said:

"My mother died a week ago. The night she died, it rained heavily and thundered.

I was very sad at the time and was preparing to arrange her funeral. Unexpectedly, from that day on, something terrible happened. My mother began to become a ghost and haunted me.

At this point, Xiao Zhang's eyes were filled with fear again.

His body began to tremble, and it was obvious that he was very scared.

"It's okay, don't be afraid. We are exorcists and we will protect you." Xue Xuexue comforted.

"The day after my mother died, everything was normal. I took care of the funeral arrangements and buried her in the cemetery at the nursing home on the back mountain," Xiao Zhang recalled.

"I was very tired that day. After arranging the funeral, I asked the dean to arrange a room for me to sleep.

I remember that I was very thirsty in the middle of the night, so I got up to find some water to drink.

It was raining outside and I fumbled for my kettle, but there was no water in it.

I just wanted to go to the bathroom and get some water to boil.

When I was drowsy and carrying a kettle to the bathroom, there was a thunder outside.

I was startled and cursed inwardly.

But along with the thunder, there was also lightning. When the lightning illuminated the room, I suddenly saw with horror that there were two figures in the bathroom mirror!

I am the only one in the room. Who is that extra figure besides me?

My sleepiness disappeared in an instant. When I saw the extra figure in the mirror, I was scared and broke out in cold sweat all over my body.

That's my mom!

My mother appeared in the mirror!"

At this point, Jiao Yixue suddenly said, "Congratulations on your mother's resurrection."

It can be seen that Jiao Yixiu has a bit of a dry sense of humor and even likes hell jokes.

Xiao Zhang glared at him fiercely at this ill-timed joke. "Who are you scolding? What kind of exorcist are you? You scold me right off the bat?"

"Fuck, I'm scolding you?" Jiao Yixue's eyes widened. "You can only scold someone if he's dead. How can you also scold someone if he's alive? It seems like anything to do with your mother is a scolding."

The players were a little embarrassed and didn't know how to respond to this sentence.

I don’t know what Jiao Yixiu’s personality is like. He seems to be a bit outspoken and often says abstract things.

Xue Xuexue glared at him and pulled him back. In her heart, she couldn't help but sigh.

To be honest, as a colleague, Xue Xuexue really didn't want to bring him along. If he didn't have that thing in his hand, Xue Xuexue wouldn't have dragged him along.

Xiao Zhang sighed and continued with fear:

"I was so frightened that I quickly grabbed a piece of cloth and threw it over to cover the mirror.

I didn't sleep well the whole night afterwards, and before dawn the next day, I rushed to the dean to tell him about the matter.

Director Qi is a very kind person. He reassured me that it's normal for something like this to happen at Shanqing Nursing Home. As long as we follow the rules, there won't be any problems.

But that's my mom! It's my mom who's become weird!

I had no choice but to hope that she would disappear quickly and ask the dean to change the room.

On the third night, everything was normal and nothing happened.

I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that old...my mother is finally gone.

As a result, on the fourth night, something went wrong again!

I was sleeping in the middle of the night when I suddenly heard a knock on the door.

I was shocked. Damn, I've been scared all the time these days and I'm about to have a nervous breakdown!

Then I jumped out of bed and shouted outside the door, "Who is it?"

I didn't expect to hear my mother's voice outside the door. It was my mother knocking on the door.

She still haunts me and keeps chasing me.

That night, I had no choice but to endure it, and finally I made it to dawn alive.

In the following days, my mother appeared in the mirror again, and another time, she appeared in the corridor at around nine o'clock in the evening wearing a hospital gown.

I can’t take it anymore. I really can’t stand the torture anymore, so I quickly ask you to come over and help me get the old man away.

Please, she wants to harm me, she wants to kill me. If you don’t get rid of her, I’m going to have a nervous breakdown and die.”

After listening to Xiao Zhang's story, the players looked at each other, and everyone was thinking about something in their minds.

Chen Mu was the first one to detect something was wrong from the description.

Xiao Zhang's attitude is very problematic!

Jiao Yixue's incoherent words just now also reflect the feelings of a normal person when he sees the ghost of a loved one just after the death of the loved one.

This is a good thing!

There is a sentence how to say:

The one that scares you may be the one that someone longs for.

Although this may not be the case in reality, as a son, it must be very sad when his mother just passed away.

So on the second night, seeing his mother come back again, even though he was a little scared, Chen Mu felt that it would not be that scary.

Xiao Zhang's behavior was completely extreme with fear.

And from the description, Xiao Zhang was certain in her heart that her mother came back to kill her.

Why so sure?

Would a normal person be so scared and so determined to kill themselves when seeing the ghost of a deceased relative?

There must be something wrong here!

Several other players also noticed the problem.

Xue Xuexue asked in a low voice: "Mr. Zhang, do you seem to be very afraid of your mother?"

Xiao Zhang said, "Nonsense! My mother has turned into a ghost! She is coming to take my life and kill me.

Who wouldn't be afraid? You said it so lightly, you would be the same if it were you."

Xiao Zhang's answer was quite normal.

But within the normality, there is something a little bit wrong.

Chen Mu hit the nail on the head. He asked bluntly, "Mr. Zhang, how did your mother die? It's presumptuous, but I want to know the cause of your mother's death."

When asked about the cause of his mother's death, Xiao Zhang's expression was obviously stunned.

He began to stammer, "This...this is not important. You are exorcists, just drive away my mother's ghost, nothing else matters..."

Chen Mu interrupted him and said in a serious tone: "No, this is very important. We exorcists have different strict exorcism procedures for different kinds of weirdness.

Knowing the cause of death can help us determine the type of ghost, which is very important for exorcising ghosts.

You'd better tell us the truth, otherwise we can't guarantee that we can drive away your mother's ghost."

Frightened by Chen Muyi, Xiao Zhang obviously hesitated.

He struggled for a moment, and finally decided that in order to drive away his mother's ghost, he had to tell the truth.

"Well...my mother choked to death."

"Choked to death?"

This answer was beyond the players' expectations.

In Guimen, this cause of death is not common.

For a normal person, choking to death while eating is a difficult thing, not to mention that this happened in a nursing home with dedicated care.

"Your mother was choked to death. Didn't anyone find out in time? Or was there anyone around her at the time?" Chen Mu asked.

"Someone, I'm right next to her."

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