Please Lock the Door

Everything traces back to that strange phone call in the early hours of the morning: Mrs. Ge, a former nurse, claimed she had caught a giant rat—one she insisted had grown fat from gnawing on corpses! The young detective Wu Jianxiang, who took the case, sensed immediately upon arriving at the scene that there must be a hidden room. When the iron door to the secret chamber was finally pried open, a wrist crawling with white maggots was found wrapped in a bed sheet. Even more horrifying, the moment the sheet was pulled, the cabinet door beside it suddenly flew open, and a corpse sprang out from inside.

Everything happened so quickly that Wu couldn’t help but question himself: Why had he rushed into the bedroom? Why had he destroyed the crime scene without hesitation? A wave of terror washed over him—it felt as though he had plunged into a nightmare from which he could not awaken.

And yet, as the convoluted, baffling case reached a deadlock, an even stranger event occurred: a man appeared before Wu, claiming to be “the next victim,” and insisted Wu accompany him back to the secret chamber—to uncover the true killer!