The place that "Dan Juan Juan" rented was a small one-bedroom apartment, which was not very close to her internship location. It took about half an hour to commute during non-peak hours. In addition, the water, electricity, facilities, and decoration in the house were all old items from ten years ago, and there were water leaks in the walls.

Even most of the lights in the house were purchased by her at her own expense.

Compared with the house we shared before, it is completely different.

But this was the most suitable and cheapest house she could find in the short term, and the rent alone was two thousand five hundred a month, which was stretching her finances.

If 'Danjuanjuan' hadn't been so scared living in that shared apartment, and if she hadn't felt that the ghost of the dead male internet celebrity appeared by her bed and pestered her every evening, she wouldn't have resorted to such a desperate measure.

It was 7.43pm.

The corridor outside the door was long, dark and silent, and just one glance at it made Egg Roll felt terrified.

She couldn't help but clench the only light in her hand, looking at Gu Zhisang's indifferent face on the screen and the constantly refreshing barrage of comments, she felt a little more confident and gritted her teeth and went out.

When the not-so-sensitive voice-controlled lights in the corridor of the old neighborhood suddenly went out, she was so scared that she almost dropped her phone. She coughed loudly twice to make the dim corridor lights light up again.

"Dan Juan Juan" was about to cry but had no tears: "Sangsang, I'm still scared. I always feel uneasy... Please don't hang up the microphone!"

The live broadcast room has tens of millions of viewers, including people of all kinds.

The hot-tempered person immediately started typing away on his keyboard, complaining about "Dan Juan Juan": coward, coward, and making a fuss about nothing...

Gu Zhisang, who had been silent, suddenly changed his usual behavior and spoke a few words to comfort him.

Her eyes were always on the figure of "Danjuanjuan" on the screen, or rather, behind the other person.

The 'egg roll' feeling is right.

On another level that ordinary people cannot see or sense, a ball of gray gas barely gathered into a thin human shape, following closely behind the terrified "Egg Roll".

Not a ghost.

But the gas contains emotions such as unwillingness and resentment.

Its blurry head seemed to be leaning downward, almost covering the top of Egg Roll's head and back, as if this ball of gray gas wanted to get close to the girl's ear and tell her something extremely important.

An invisible, extremely faint blue-white halo enveloped the body of "Egg Roll" - it was the protection formed by the spell that Gu Zhisang had recited to her word by word three times before.

This layer of protection separated the mottled and turbid corpse qi and evil spirit from her body, stripped away the obsession of the deceased that she had picked up from the sudden death scene she saw downstairs in her shared apartment, and blocked it, preventing that obsession from attaching to her.

Even so, the other party did not relax his intention to pester her at all, and followed her closely.

This still made 'Danjuanjuan' feel a chill down his spine, but it wasn't as severe as before.

When Gu Zhisang saw this thing, he realized its specialness.

But her attention was still on the whole body of 'Egg Roll'.

Although the spell had stripped away the obsession and evil spirit that possessed it, the filth around the "Egg Roll" remained unchanged, only the color was slightly lighter.

The smell of corpses was rolling, as if it was coming from her bones.

"That's interesting," Gu Zhisang thought.

She silently watched as Egg Roll took a taxi downstairs and reported the location of the shared rental place:

"Master, please drive to xx Garden, please drive faster..."

Before 'Dan Juan Juan' finished speaking, the driver stepped on the accelerator with excitement on his face, "Sister, I understand. I am a loyal fan of Teacher Gu! I actually encountered such a big event of catching people and exorcising ghosts?!"

The audience was also stunned. After listening carefully, they found that in addition to the navigation sound, the driver's other mobile phone in the car was playing Gu Zhisang's live broadcast room!

What a coincidence to meet a fan of "Spiritual Matters".

The driver said, "I have been driving a taxi in X City for more than ten years. I am not exaggerating. No one knows the roads here better than me. Don't worry, sister. I guarantee that you will arrive at the destination in fifteen minutes and will definitely not delay Teacher Gu's ghost hunting!"

[I am dying of laughter. Tonight the driver is going to be the driving god of Akina Mountain. ]

[The driver turned off the navigation system and the car started burning in the middle of the night. ]

[Apart from anything else, experienced taxi drivers in major cities really drive fast. If you are lucky enough to catch one while catching a train, it is really bumpy but also ridiculously fast! ]

【……】

The driver really dropped the egg rolls off outside the shared apartment complex within fifteen minutes, and refused to collect the fare.

"Danjuanjuan" held up his mobile phone and walked into the community.

She had just moved out and because the rent and deposit were not due, the landlord did not take the key away and told her that she could move back anytime if she changed her mind.

So the community security guard knew her.

When she went in, the familiar security guard greeted her and said, "I haven't seen you much these past two days."

"Danjuanjuan" forced a smile, looking at the neighborhood shrouded in the night, the uneasiness and fear in his heart became stronger.

If Gu Zhisang hadn't said that he wouldn't be able to come back and might not be able to solve the strange events that happened to her, she really didn't want to set foot here again.

When she reached the corridor, she lowered her voice, lowered her head, and said to the camera:

"The flower bed over there... is where Xiao Wu fell from the building."

She didn't dare to look, for fear that the horrific and strange death ten days ago would once again appear in her mind.

But Gu Zhisang could see that the obsessive evil spirit following closely behind her became more and more agitated when they entered the residential area.

Especially when it gets close to the flower bed, which is where it died, it almost twists.

The mixed emotions of resentment, anger, etc. that surged in her also affected "Danjuanjuan", making her hands and feet cold and she couldn't help shivering.

When she arrived, she sent a message to her roommates' group, saying that she had left her things here and wanted to bring a male friend to help move them because she was afraid that she would not be able to explain clearly in a short time.

In fact, they were afraid that when she went live, the girl she shared the apartment with might not be dressed properly and be accidentally photographed.

Twenty minutes later, dozens of messages had been replied to in the group.

"We're here." said Egg Roll.

She didn't use the key to open the door, but chose to knock.

After a while, the person in the room opened the door, revealing the face of a young woman with a dissatisfied expression and a wet headscarf:

"Yuan Fanfang?"

"Why did you suddenly bring a man here so late? Can't you pick it up tomorrow? We all need to take a shower and wash up, it's so inconvenient."

As she spoke, the woman turned her head and looked behind her. Seeing no one else, she looked at 'Egg Roll' - Yuan Yunfang - with suspicion:

"Where's your boyfriend?"

"I'll go in and talk to you."

At this time, Gu Zhisang, who had been silent all this time, raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he had sensed something, and raised his hand calmly.

She lowered her eyes to look at the cards laid out on the table, stroked the cards with her slender white fingertips, pulled out one of them, turned it over, looked at the words on it, and then picked up her phone to send a message to the contact on it.

After putting down the things in her hands, Yuan Yunfang was already sitting on the sofa in the living room.

Due to the perspective, Gu Zhisang could not see the entire room, and only caught a glimpse of the half bodies of two people in pajamas.

Even so, she let out a soft "tsk".

The room is filled with the smell of corpses.

The obsessive evil spirit clinging to Yuan Fanfang's back was about to be twisted into a knot.

There is indeed something wrong with this shared rental location.

At this time, several roommates were at home. A pair of young female college students were old acquaintances who had lived here and had not moved out. One of them was surnamed Gao and the other surnamed He. One of them was the one who had just opened the door for Yuan Yunfang.

It was these two who had been talking and asking questions to Yuan Yunfang.

The other two people were new residents who had just moved in a few days ago. They were just acquaintances with Yuan Yunfang, and almost as soon as they moved in, the other party moved out.

Xiao Gao, who opened the door, frowned and said, "What didn't you move? Let me make it clear that no one has entered your bedroom, and we didn't move anything. Don't blame us if anything is missing."

Yuan Yunfang knew it was not a good idea to make up a story, and this matter also concerned other people living in the same house, so she told the truth.

"What did you say? Haunted?" Xiao Gao raised his voice, his eyes widened, and after a while he said, "You, you must be kidding..."

However, both she and Xiao He had unnatural expressions, and they were obviously thinking about the mysterious fall of their roommate not long ago.

Xiao He glanced at the phone in her hand and asked, "Are you video chatting now?"

The older woman among the new tenants who had been working for several years frowned and said:

"The haunted place you're talking about is probably the tenant who fell from the building earlier? Coming here in the middle of the night just for something like this, isn't that just ridiculous?"

"We are all adults, why do you still believe in those imaginary ghost stories?"

Another introverted woman echoed quietly:

“I think Sister Xu is right.

We have lived here for a few days and didn't find anything wrong. The house is spacious and bright, the rent is cheap, and the landlord is nice... Sister, are you thinking too much?"

The two new women who moved in knew that the reason the rent was cheap was because someone had died there;

I also know that Yuan Yunfang and another tenant named Ye were very scared and moved out one after another.

But the man jumped off the building because he was depressed and it wasn't murder.

They had never seen how the victim died, so naturally they were not very scared. They did not take Yuan Yunfang's words seriously and thought she was too timid.

On the contrary, Xiao Gao and Xiao He looked hesitant and uneasy, and their eyes kept scanning back and forth over Yuan Yunfang's haggard, tired, and dull face.

Just when Yuan Yunfang didn't know how to explain, a calm but pleasant voice suddenly came from her phone:

"A girl wearing pink pajamas, you really didn't notice anything unusual."

Yuan Yunfang was stunned and quickly raised her mobile phone to show the screen to several tenants.

"Gu Zhisang?!" Xiao He exclaimed, recognizing the recently popular 'magician' actress.

The other three also knew Gu Zhisang’s name and had more or less watched her live broadcasts or netizens’ clips, as well as stories reposted by various marketing accounts.

Then, the expressions of several girls changed again and again, realizing that something was wrong.

Due to the popularity of "Spiritual Matters", some imitating metaphysical variety shows have emerged recently. Metaphysical bloggers and metaphysical internet celebrities on major online platforms and live broadcast platforms have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, but most of them are scammers who have no bottom line and are just trying to get attention.

There are frequent reports of fraud, and some platform officials have been forced to send reminders, asking users not to trust the so-called "gurus" on the Internet.

When Yuan Yunfang explained her purpose, they thought she was just a fortune teller she found on the Internet and they were being tricked.

Who would have thought that the person haunting this place was Gu Zhisang!

Then the nature of this will be different instantly!

Xiao He immediately took out her mobile phone and went directly to Gu Zhisang's live broadcast room from the hot search terms. When she saw the familiar furniture and clothes on the screen, she finally panicked.

"It's true! Sister Yuan is really connecting with Gu Zhisang!"

Now the others couldn't sit still anymore. They looked at each other and felt that the environment they were in was not so comfortable anymore. The living room was too quiet and the architectural style was too cold, which made them feel inexplicably cold.

The woman surnamed Xu was about 26 or 27 years old. She broke the silence with a grim look on her face:

"If it's really haunted like Xiao Yuan said...wouldn't we all be unsafe?"

Xiao He, one of the female college students, noticed her friend's ugly expression. Thinking that Xiao Gao was the girl in the 'pink pajamas' that Gu Zhisang had just mentioned, she couldn't help but ask:

"Did you discover anything?"

"I, I don't know either..." Xiao Gao panicked, her palms felt cold. The strange things that happened not long ago that puzzled her suddenly came to her mind, making her more and more scared the more she thought about it.

"But something strange did happen the other day when I went to my boyfriend's house."

She stumbled over her experience.

It turns out that there is a police academy opposite the university where Xiao Gao and Xiao He attend. Her boyfriend is a student at the school opposite. He lives locally and his father is also a police officer.

The two met by chance during their freshman year, and have been dating for two years. Their relationship is very stable, and each other's parents know each other and have each other's contact information.

During the holiday not long ago, her boyfriend took her home to meet his parents and have dinner.

That day she dressed up and carefully selected gifts to go home, but she didn't expect that something unexpected would happen as soon as she entered her boyfriend's house.

Xiao Gao said: "My boyfriend's family has an elderly dog, a retired police dog with an injured hind leg. His parents meet all the qualifications for adoption, and his father is a veteran police officer, so they were able to adopt the dog."

"I walked into the living room and sat on the sofa. The old police dog was lying on the carpet not far from me. Suddenly, it..."

After a pause, Xiao Gao pursed his lips and said, "It suddenly pounced towards me, barking non-stop."

This scared Xiao Gao and he quickly got up from the sofa.

But the old police dog was extremely excited. It barked and pounced on her, and it held on to the edge of her skirt tightly and refused to let go. If her boyfriend and his parents had not helped, her skirt would have been torn into several shreds.

At that time, she heard her boyfriend mutter: "Strange, he is usually very well behaved, why is he so excited when you come?"

My boyfriend's parents smiled and said that their dog liked her very much. But who would have thought that as soon as they let go of the old police dog, it would run to Xiao Gao and bark non-stop, jumping around.

In the end, there was no choice but for the boyfriend to lock it in the bedroom.

That day, Xiao Gao felt extremely embarrassed as she looked at the bitten edge of her skirt and listened to the dog barking in the bedroom. She always felt that her boyfriend's parents looked at her strangely. She left in a hurry after dinner and felt upset about it for two days.

Afterwards, her boyfriend explained to her: "How could my parents have a bad impression of you because of something like this? Don't think too much about it, they asked me to comfort you."

"In fact, the police dog we adopted was a cadaver dog before. It was specially trained and is most sensitive to the smell of corpses. It only gets so excited when it smells like a corpse. It is usually very docile and obedient. But for some reason that day, it suddenly got excited..."

Cadaver dogs are a type of police dog.

Generally, dog breeds with particularly keen sense of smell, as well as dogs with strong appetite and a love of digging the ground are selected for training.

Trainers often encourage dogs to look for raw meat, bones, or rotten meat buried underground when they are hungry.

When the cadaver dogs find and dig out the meat, they are allowed to eat it, thereby strengthening their sensitivity to raw meat, rotten meat, and blood.

The trainers will also repeatedly change the depth, time, location and other conditions of the buried meat to continuously increase the difficulty. Excellent cadaver dogs can even find meat buried 1-2 meters below and corpses that are extremely decayed.

The old police dog in Xiao Gao’s boyfriend’s home is such an excellent dog.

When it was young, it found the bodies of dozens of wounded and victims buried under the rubble of an earthquake in a certain city. For this, its feet were cut off by stone edges during the digging, leaving a leg injury.

Even though he has been retired for a long time, the years of training in the past have already made the reflex arcs that some cadaver search dogs possess ingrained into the bones of the old police dog.

For example, the excitement of finding carrion and the irresistible urge to dig.

After hearing about the type of police dog her boyfriend has, Xiao Gao said in disbelief:

'What do you mean?'

The boyfriend explained: "Don't get me wrong, cadaver dogs are not necessarily only sensitive to corpses. Any decaying matter nearby will affect their sense of smell and judgment..."

But these relatively professional explanations not only failed to comfort Xiao Gao, but made her feel even worse.

She didn't understand why the dog was barking and digging at her.

She couldn't accept the fact that she looked like a dead person or that she smelled like rotten garbage.

No wonder my boyfriend’s parents looked at me strangely at that time!

Afterwards, Xiao Gao took a bath several times until he smelled fragrant. He also checked with his friends again and again. Only then did he feel better and gradually forgot about the incident.

When Gu Zhisang mentioned her name, this incident suddenly popped up in her mind for some reason, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.

Xiao He also said hurriedly: "I remember you complaining to me at that time! You even asked me to smell you several times to see if you had any smell."

"But, but that happened more than half a month ago, and that person hadn't jumped off the building yet."

Xiao Gao, who was extremely panicked, also reacted after hearing what his friend said:

"Yes! Before that!"

"Then it has nothing to do with this matter? But I can't think of anything else..."

Gu Zhisang sneered: "Who said the 'ghost' was the one who fell from the building you shared the house with? The real 'ghost' has always existed in this house. From the moment you moved in, you have been eating and sleeping with it."

Roommate/audience:? ! !

Looking around, the girls in the room were all filled with corpse-like aura, as if corpse-like mist was overflowing from their lungs.

Cats and dogs are both spiritual creatures and are highly sensitive to these things.

What’s more, they are cadaver dogs that are trained and specially used for searching.

No wonder Xiao Gao was misunderstood as a corpse when she approached the retired police dog at her boyfriend's house.

Xiao He felt cold all over and his nose was sore: "Master Gu, please don't scare us!"

"We'll know soon whether it's a scare or not." Gu Zhisang moved his lowered eyes away from the phone screen. "It just so happens that the instigator is here. If you have any questions, you can ask her directly."

Before the tenants could understand what she meant, the door was knocked again.

A voice came from outside: "Hello, we are police officers from the X City Police Department. There is a suspected criminal case here. Please open the door and cooperate with the investigation."

After opening the door, several plainclothes officers showed their ID cards to identify themselves.

Several tenants were surprised to see the slightly disheveled young woman who followed in.

"landlord?"

"Ms. Sun?"

Soon they realized from the young landlord's embarrassing situation and expression that he seemed to be being held as a criminal by the police.

Thinking of what Gu Zhisang had just said, "There is a ghost in this house," the tenants looked at the young landlord again with more vigilance and suspicion in their eyes.

Landlord Sun was a little annoyed, and said with all his trepidation:

"What do you mean by that? You arrested me like a criminal right away. I just went back to my house to check. What crime did I commit? That Gu Zhisang on the Internet said there was something wrong with my house, and you believed it?"

But no one answered her.

Because the arrest order was issued directly by the superiors.

It seemed that Gu Zhisang had predicted that she would appear here, and asked the police station to send people to wait at the gate of the community.

Sure enough, they met the landlord, Sun Yueyue, at the gate of the community.

The strange thing is that the other party did not come from outside, but was going out from the community.

After detaining the person, plainclothes officers took him to the rental house.

Finally meeting the person he wanted to see the most, Gu Zhisang looked at the woman's face carefully, his eyes becoming increasingly cold.

She suddenly smiled and said, "Ms. Sun, since you live in this neighborhood and saw my help seeker coming here, why didn't you come over to clarify the matter? Instead, you packed up your things and left."

Everyone's eyes moved to Sun Yueyue and found that she was indeed wearing a hat, dressed neatly and carrying a large bag, looking like she was about to run away.

When they heard that she also owned property in this community and had actually been living not far from the rental property, everyone thought a lot more and became even more suspicious of her.

Xiao He suddenly said, "Sister Yueyue, didn't you say that this place is too far from your studio and you don't live here all year round, so you rented out the house?"

Xiao Gao also thought of something that didn't make sense: "Yes, you often send us gifts..."

It is said that Sun Yueyue is rich and has plenty of free time. Although she is the landlord, she often cares about whether they live comfortably and whether the home appliances are working properly. Sometimes she even comes to their house to bring them some food, saying that the studio has bought too many gift boxes as employee benefits and cannot distribute them all, so she gives some to them.

When the tenants here talk about Sun Yueyue, they all say that she is a beautiful, wealthy, and kind-hearted angel.

It is their blessing to meet such a landlord.

But now think about it, why is Sun Yueyue so nice to them?

Are there really such good and considerate landlords in the world?

Sun Yueyue looked a little unhappy. "It's my own house. I can buy it wherever I want. I can live there whenever I want and leave whenever I want. Is there any problem?"

"You have detained me now and said there is a ghost in my house. This is totally nonsense! Is there any law left?"

"Ms. Sun, don't worry." Gu Zhisang said slowly, "Officer Zhao, do you still have the surveillance footage of the tenant falling from the building?"

The leading plainclothes police officer heard this and responded, "Yes, we have a copy in our station."

"Please help me retrieve it. I want to take a look." Gu Zhisang said.

The local police station acted quickly and sent over the surveillance video soon.

The video is not long, and because the only common area is the living room, the shooting location is not very wide.

Several tenants shuddered as they watched the surveillance video of a boy walking straight toward the window, moving a stool by himself, and squeezing out of the small hole in the skylight before falling from the building.

Yuan Yunfang turned her head away and didn't dare to look. The other two new tenants also saw this strange surveillance video for the first time and their scalps went numb.

Sun Yueyue lost her temper: "He committed suicide on his own. What's the problem? What does it have to do with me?"

Gu Zhisang ignored her: "Officer Zhao, please return the surveillance to the beginning."

"pause."

The picture freezes at the moment when the tenant just appears on the surveillance camera.

Gu Zhisang said: "I checked the situation with the local police in advance, and also got the interior map of the house, and looked at the location of each of your bedrooms."

Everyone was confused.

Gu Zhisang then said, "Look carefully at the position and angle of this person in the surveillance video. According to the branch map, if he walked from his bedroom to the living room and fell from the building, he should appear in the upper right corner of the surveillance video - because the space extends outward, the bedroom in the upper right corner is his bedroom."

"But in the video, this person appeared from the middle of the surveillance video and walked straight towards the skylight in the living room."

Officer Zhao understood immediately: "Miss Gu is saying that he went to other rooms before he died and came out of other people's rooms?!"

Gu Zhisang shrugged slightly: "That should be the case."

"The layout of the house is that the living room is in the middle, and the other rooms extend directly in all directions. There are no corridors or aisles to block this person's steps. If he walked out of his bedroom, I can't think of any reason why he would walk forward to other people's doors first, then turn and walk to the living room window."

Officer Zhao immediately said, "But we checked every room after the incident and found no traces left."

Gu Zhisang pulled the corner of his lip: "Just because it's not discovered doesn't mean it doesn't exist."

After all, there are ghosts and monsters in this world, and there are always some people who will break the rules and do all kinds of things for their own benefit.

"I see." Officer Zhao walked straight to the room behind the fallen person in the surveillance video - that is, the master bedroom of Xiao Gao and Xiao He. "Sorry, we need to recheck all the rooms in this house."

"If possible, please help us take a look, Miss Gu."

When we look at this, we are naturally not looking at ordinary things, but whether there are any extraordinary things.

When Sun Yueyue saw the direction the plainclothes police officer was heading, her eyelids jumped and she was completely panicked.