When Gu Zhisang saw the message for help, she also sensed the strong aura of decline. She immediately read out the name of the person asking for help and invited her to interact via live broadcast.
When asked about the specific calculation method, the girl did not hesitate, and even urged anxiously:
"Video! Video, Sangsang!"
"Okay." Gu Zhisang responded, and then clicked on the video invitation.
Then a young girl's face popped up on the screen.
Nicknamed "Dan Juan", she looks to be in her twenties, with gray-blue dyed hair, fair skin, single eyelids, and a slim figure. She has the kind of cold and aloof face that many people in school would secretly love.
At this time, the girl was sitting in front of the camera and the background lighting was very dazzling.
There were four visible lights in the room, all on, making the whole room brightly lit.
"Sangsang! Something is really wrong at home!"
Egg Roll's tone was agitated. Her mental state and rest must have been poor recently. She had dark circles under her eyes and looked haggard.
After connecting via video and meeting the famous "magician" Gu Zhisang face to face, her fear and anxiety were slightly relieved.
After calming down, 'Danjuanjuan' introduced himself.
She is 23 years old, a graduate student, and currently rents a house.
The reason she turned on all the lights in the house was because she felt that she was haunted by something unclean.
There's a ghost around.
Dark environments make her feel frightened and uneasy. If she doesn't turn on the lights and make the whole room bright, she will be so terrified that she can't sleep.
Gu Zhisang glanced at the girl's lifeless face with a cold gaze.
"Nothing will happen to you. I and the audience in the live studio are here with you." Seeing that she was really suspicious and her eyes were full of anxiety, he said:
"If you are very scared, repeat after me."
Gu Zhisang uttered a string of somewhat difficult-to-pronounce spells slowly and clearly.
Although 'Danjuanjuan' didn't understand what was being said, nor did she know what the words were or what they meant, as soon as she opened her mouth she stumbled over and recited Gu Zhisang's curse, and the pitch was correct, as if Gu Zhisang's voice had been imprinted in her mind.
What made her feel even more magical was that after she recited it twice, the coldness and inexplicable eeriness that penetrated from her bones and almost made her teeth chatter gradually disappeared.
Her clenched shoulders relaxed and she felt the bright room was empty and eerie.
There is no doubt that Gu Zhisang's spell is effective.
Looking at Gu Zhisang's delicate and beautiful face on the screen, there was only admiration and excitement in 'Danjuanjuan's eyes.
There were also many online viewers in the live broadcast room chanting along.
When they heard their voice, which sounded particularly solemn and upright, they were all surprised. They didn't expect that they could be so serious.
Little did they know that some individual audience members who were laughing and joking and did not take the spell seriously, had negative energy that was vaguely connected to and entangled with them from nowhere, and all of them disappeared quietly under the effect of the spell.
During the live broadcast, 'Danjuanjuan' couldn't wait to send his birth date and photo to Gu Zhisang.
Gu Zhisang looked at her silently, and after a moment he spoke out the results of his calculations, describing the girl's childhood and adolescence information exactly as it was.
“You majored in finance in college and later was admitted to a graduate program in a related field.
If you have a strong fortune star and a strong Qi Sha star in your horoscope, it means that you are ambitious and proactive, can endure hardships, and like the feeling of making money - this is not a derogatory word, but a compliment. "
“Besides that, your horoscope is evenly distributed, with the three corresponding stars of Tianxiang, Lucun and Guaxiu all falling in the tenth house, corresponding to the three-level stars of ‘Jia Yi Bing’;
This means that you like dealing with money and are suitable for the financial industry. "
Looking at the natal chart from the horoscope, the 2nd house corresponds to the 'House of Wealth', the 10th house represents career opportunities, and the 11th house often shows a person's social relationships...If many stars appear in these three houses, the person is born to be a businessman.
'Egg Roll' is such a star plate.
Hearing his expertise being praised, Danjuanjuan couldn't help but smile.
Gu Zhisang: “From deduction, we can know that you are in your second year of graduate school this year, and you have had considerable internship experience and have been exposed to industry affairs;
The reason you live outside instead of in the school dormitory is because you are doing an internship, right?"
"Yes." Egg Roll nodded and said, "As the saying goes, I am 'money-shy'. I really like the feeling of making money and getting a promotion and a raise at work. The financial industry was a popular major a few years ago, but it is now saturated and the competition is high. I don't have any good connections at home, so I can only get into a big company if my resume is good enough."
Apparently, 'Egg Roll' is the latter.
She had good academic performance and was pursuing a master's degree at a key university, but it was not enough to make her stand out in this highly competitive industry.
She has participated in internships since her junior year and has had four internship experiences.
She is still in the internship period, but the school is jointly involved in an internship program with a large enterprise. If she performs very well during the internship, she has a certain chance to be directly accepted by the enterprise and sign a contract;
Even if you are not accepted, an excellent intern will add a lot of color to your resume.
Therefore, "Danjuanjuan" attaches great importance to this internship.
However, what Gu Zhisang said next made her face change suddenly.
"If I'm not mistaken, the 'weird things' you encountered and the feeling that you were entangled by something dirty started after this internship." Gu Zhisang said in a flat tone, and then threw a 'bomb':
"There's a dead air about you."
"Literally, the smell of the dead is very strong."
Glancing at Egg Roll's pale, tightly pursed lips, Gu Zhisang asked, "In the past half month, or more recently, has anyone around you died?"
"And you witnessed the other person's death, right?"
Her tone was calm and firm, and she was sure of the accuracy of her deduction.
As if Gu Zhisang's words reminded him of a scene he didn't want to recall, Egg Roll's shoulders trembled and he nodded in panic:
"Yes, about ten days ago, a boy who shared the apartment with us fell from a building in the rental area... I was just getting off work and coming back from my internship at the company, and I heard a muffled sound, which scared me..."
'Egg Roll''s narration was intermittent, but at least he made the story clear.
It turned out that the school she attended was in a first-tier city, and the company where she worked was in a busy business district with high prices and a large flow of people. The daily commute from school to work would take a long time, and the round-trip fare was not cheap.
For this reason, she found a shared apartment near her workplace, which had three bedrooms and two living rooms, faced the sun, was well decorated, and had good sound insulation.
The owner of the house is a young beauty, a local from a wealthy family. Her family bought her an apartment in a prosperous area when she was still young - the same apartment that "Danjuanjuan" rented.
That house should have been renovated by the owner.
One side of the sunny living room was converted into a floor-to-ceiling window at a high price, and the suite was converted into four bedrooms, with two beds in the largest bedroom;
Except for a pair of junior girls from a nearby university who already knew each other and lived together in the large bedroom with two beds, the remaining three rooms were rented to three other people including "Danjuanjuan".
According to 'Danjuanjuan', one of them is a girl who just graduated a year and a half ago and works as a white-collar worker in a company in a nearby business district. She is two years older than her, and the two have the best relationship in the shared house.
The other tenant is a boy, a small internet celebrity, whose daily job is to shoot videos and do live broadcasts.
One of the reasons why several girls are willing to share a house with a man is that he is gay, has better makeup skills than them, is easy to get along with and has no messy problems at all.
Besides that, the most important thing is that it is cheap.
For a house of the same size, location, and decoration, even if five people share the rent, each person will have to pay 2,000 to 3,000 yuan, or even more.
But the total rental cost of this apartment is less than 10,000 yuan, with an average rent of more than 1,000 yuan per person per month.
In such a prosperous area, you can rent a house with complete facilities, decoration and excellent style at such a low price. I am afraid you can't find it within ten kilometers.
"Danjuanjuan", who was still studying and had a tight budget, was attracted almost immediately after seeing the house and signed a six-month rental contract.
Before the incident, she had lived there for four months and had become familiar with the tenants in the apartment.
She has the best relationship with the white-collar worker, followed by the male internet celebrity, and the other two young girls were originally roommates and moved out together, so they have a better relationship;
Although there is some friction, it is generally comfortable and pleasant.
Who would have thought that ten days ago, this peace and tranquility was suddenly broken!
After she finished work that day, the white-collar worker sent her a message saying that he was also going to get off work.
So the two of them made an appointment to have dinner outside and brought a few desserts to take back to their roommates.
Who would have thought that just as the two of them walked downstairs, they caught a glimpse of a black shadow out of the corner of their eyes, falling rapidly from above and hitting the edge of the flower bed less than ten meters away from them.
The muffled sound and the screams of others scared them. When they looked back with wide eyes, they were both stunned with fear.
By the time 'Danjuanjuan' reacted, she couldn't control herself and started screaming along with the girls around her, and even her legs went limp.
The one falling from the sky was a person.
A man.
His body smashed on the edge of the flower bed, his arms were pierced by branches, his spine was severed by the flower bed guardrail, and he lay softly on his back not far away, like a pile of crushed mud, with blood flowing all over the ground and soaking the porcelain white wall of the flower bed.
那人颈椎已经断了，头仰面向下，大量血渍从他口鼻溢出，模糊了脸孔；
同时又因为坠落的楼层太高，他几乎当场死亡，还未涣散的瞳孔死死盯着‘蛋卷卷’二人的方向，身体微微抽搐、脸孔扭曲，根本分辨不出他原本的样貌。
但‘蛋卷卷’和白领认得他。
男人身上还穿着他们再熟悉不过的骚包衬衫，同标志性的紫发被血染得斑驳。
这是他们的合租室友。
那个唯一的男生！
‘蛋卷卷’亲眼看到了这人横死的惨状，浑身都在哆嗦，等手心刺痛反应过来时，她已经跌坐在地上把手心磨破了皮。
从那之后，她连续做了一周的噩梦，眼睛只要一闭上就会回想起那天的画面。
至于白领女生状况更差，心态都崩了，直接请了长假、并且搬离了合租宿舍。
宿舍里一下子少了两个人，就更显空旷凄冷，好在房主为了表示自己的歉疚，要补偿剩下的三人，主动提出下半年的房租减半；
这么一算，她们每人的房租一个月不到一千元！
对于三个还在上学的女孩子来说，的确太划算了。
听到这儿，直播间里不少观众发表评论：
【好家伙，这可是‘凶宅’！难为你们三个胆子这么大还敢租，尤其是求助人你，你可是亲眼看到了那场面，怎么敢的？？】
【那男生死因是啥？】
【不该继续租的，无论什么原因，新死过人的房子都有祟气，这房主应该是想用你们这些活人给这屋子增加些阳气，把屋子盘活；
否则一出事就人去楼空，以后这房子也不好租不好卖了。】
【呵呵，这不是活该吗？有脑子的都不会继续住了吧！】
【弹幕里骂求助人‘蠢’、‘贪’的消停消停吧，俗话说没做亏心事不怕鬼敲门，那人坠楼和求助人又没关系。
我也是从毕业了独自打拼走过来的，能理解蛋卷妹子的心酸和衡量，但凡有钱租独栋谁去和别人合租？一线城市市中心的房价多贵了，再说了女孩子一个人住也不安全。】
【……】
'蛋卷卷’也看到了弹幕上的争执，她苦笑一声，说道：
“大家骂的有道理，我也后悔继续租在那里了。”
“可是那房价真的很低，我如果离开回宿舍，每天光来回通勤时间就要至少三小时，我耽搁不起！
换住处的话，且不说不一定能找到这么便宜这么近的公寓，还要考虑里面的住户人品……”
实习对她来说太重要了。
到了尾声时期，她同期的其他人都很拼，每天七八点钟才走，她自然也不能比别人落后，否则这小半年的努力将前功尽弃。
再加上合租的另外两个女大学生也不搬走——她们同样没太多钱，大学的住宿费是一学期一缴，她们就算搬走也回不了宿舍，得重新找住处。
且她们并没有亲眼看到合租男生的死状，没有那么害怕，两个女生还是住在一间卧室，能够互相安慰、保护；
所以她们便接受了房东的‘补偿’，同意如果能够满足‘尽快找足空置的租户住进来’这个条件，就继续租房。
房东再次降价，也在短短两天的时间内，找到了两名同样被低房价吸引过来、不惧怕‘凶宅’之名的女生，签订了租房合同。
看到宿舍重新被填满，死去的合租男生那间屋子，也被房东换新一通住进了新室友，多方考虑后‘蛋卷卷’也选择了留下来。
顾之桑适时开口，询问道：
“既然选择留下来继续住，为何又搬走了呢？”
从‘蛋卷卷’的面相上看，她最近的一次短途迁徙，就在三天前。
她急匆匆从合租地搬走，为此还损失了一笔不少的钱财，顾之桑推断应该是她违反了租房合同，被扣了押金。
沉默片刻，‘蛋卷卷’说：“我不舒服，而且一直在做噩梦。”
“梦里的画面从一开始那个男生他、他坠楼的样子，变成了一团黑影，我有时候闭着眼睛，也能感觉床边、或者说我的身边有什么东西在盯着我！
我发誓这是真的，不是我的错觉也不是我出幻觉了，因为从那段时间开始我身体特别冷，哪怕穿再多的衣服盖着厚被子，或者在阳光下，我依然想打哆嗦。”
“然后呢？”顾之桑问。
“然后我就给叶姐——就是搬走的那个女生打电话，结果接通的人是她母亲。她母亲说叶姐已经辞职回老家了，精神状态非常不好，和我一样每天做噩梦，能看到死掉的人远远站在漆黑的梦里、或者就在床边盯着她！
她母亲准备带她去老家找能驱邪的大师，给她治一治。”‘蛋卷卷’语气激动，说：
“我一听，叶姐这状况不是和我一模一样？我们俩都被缠上了！”
“但我发誓，我从没有害过死去的那个男生，我和叶姐同他的关系不错，经常约饭，我们也没想到平时看着那么开朗的人他会想不开跳楼，更不明白为什么他、他要缠着我和叶姐。”
把这些经历和心中疑窦都说出，‘蛋卷卷’心里轻松多了，委屈之意涌上心头。
顾之桑微一挑眉，问道：
“那人是自杀？”
“对。”‘蛋卷卷’点头说道：“当时我们四个上班的上班，上学的上学，家里只有他在。长期在家职业自由度高的人，就只有他一个，经常是我们离家了他在睡觉，回去的时候他准备出门。”
她回忆道：“因为是合租，每个卧室都是私人区域，只有客厅装了一个监控，再有就是外面走廊上有物业的监控。当天警方来调查的时候，还传我和叶姐她们去问话、录口供。”
“走廊监控画面上显示当天我们其他人出门后，除了中午那个男生叫了一份外卖，他自己开门拿饭，其他时间再没人出入；
至于客厅的监控画面，也只能看到他自己忽然从镜头外走进监控范围，再走向落地窗，而后翻窗跳楼了……”
房东品味不错，把墙体改成了落地窗。
玻璃是专门材料，很坚固。
为了通风在靠上的位置开了一块方正的通风窗，可以开合，但想要从这窗口翻出去颇有困难。
客厅监控里，那男生就是自己晃晃悠悠搬了凳子踩上去，打开窗，费力把自己不算十分瘦小的身体从窗户框挤出去。
由于框口是银色金属，在他手臂、腰两侧留下了几道挤压剐蹭的长长痕迹，有的严重处破皮出血。
坠楼身亡后，在僵硬的尸体上浮现出道道淤青。
一切都显得无比正常，没人毒害他，也没人谋杀他。
可又透着十分的诡异。
警方后续调查时，在男生的手机里发现了一些聊天记录。
他是个化妆博主，在视频平台发布短视频收获了喜爱和金钱的同时，也收到了许多谩骂和侮辱。
长期接受这些辱骂，导致他的心理出现问题，和一些朋友的聊天中也常常出现‘想死’的字眼。
在他坠楼前二十分钟，他还在和朋友闲聊，吐槽网上骂他的人。
除了这些，实在找不到其他自杀的理由、或是他杀的痕迹。
也正因男生是自杀，也让这栋房子没有变成真正的‘凶宅’，才能这么快找来新的租户。
说完这些信息，‘蛋卷卷’还是困惑：
“桑桑，他为什么缠着我和叶姐啊？难道、难道我们俩以前在不知情的情况下得罪过他吗？”
顾之桑问了那个坠楼男生的姓名，而后取出牌占，起了卦象。
当她卜到第二卦的时候，便意识到事情没有这么简单。
她抬眸，目光冷冽：
“你想错了，我没在你身上感受到多少怨气，更多的是一种‘执念’，那个人也不是缠着你们二人，而是因为某些特殊原因，把‘执念’寄托在了你们身上。”
'蛋卷卷’和姓叶的白领都看到了那男生横死的现场。
在玄学说法中，横死现场不可看。
横死的尸体，更不能对视。
这种死者的魂魄往往是在一瞬间被破坏躯壳、震出体外，死的时候痛苦，心里要么不甘要么有遗愿。
这时旁边的人若和它们对视，八字轻身体弱的很容易被‘连坐’记恨上，或者被缠住，横死的阴魂希望这些人能够帮它们完成遗愿和执念，帮它们报仇。
'蛋卷卷’遇到的就是后者。
那男生绝不像‘蛋卷卷’说的那般，是自杀。
他横死之后是有不甘和执念的，恰逢‘蛋卷卷’和叶姓白领目睹，事情的真相很有可能与这二人有关。
所以这份‘执念’，才会一直萦绕在二人身边，强烈到影响到她们正常生活。
可若是‘蛋卷卷’身上的祟气，并非来源于死者的怨恨，那就是来自别处！
“看来是我判断有误。”端详着女孩儿隔着屏幕，也浓厚到如有实质、覆在周身的阴邪祟气尸气，她凤眼微眯，说道：
"The corpse qi on your body was not acquired more than ten days ago. It should be said that it was not only that. As early as half a month ago, or even more than a month ago, you had dealt with other corpses."
'Egg Roll'/Audience:? ! !
"Impossible!" 'Dan Juan Juan' denied it in a voice: "I have been commuting between my rental place and the company for the past six months. No one has had an accident except the boy I share the room with. I have also never returned home to sweep the graves. It is impossible for me to have any contact with a corpse..."
She was quite confident at first, but after hearing Gu Zhisang's next words, she broke out in a cold sweat.
"Your roommate fell from the building for no reason in the house he rented. How do you know that there is nothing wrong with the house?"
'Egg Roll's face turned pale.
Gu Zhisang: "Do you still have the key to the shared apartment? If you're not afraid, you can go there right now via live broadcast and let me see the feng shui of the house.
If we wait until tomorrow, we may not be able to see anything.”
"But whether to go or not depends on what you, the one asking for help, want to do."
It's already dark outside.
From the bright lights in the house and the tightly drawn curtains, one can see that Danjuanjuan is afraid of the darkness, so she naturally would not force Danjuanjuan to go out.
But the live broadcast has already started, let me say something without any modesty:
"Spiritual Matters" is so popular, and she, Gu Zhisang, is so popular, maybe the landlord and the tenants inside are watching her live broadcast now;
Even if you haven’t read it, it won’t take more than ten minutes for related entries to dominate the top of the trending searches.
Almost all young people who access the Internet can see what happened tonight.
One night is enough to do a lot.
If we don't rush back to investigate now while the other party hasn't reacted, there might be something strange in the house and the owner would have to deal with it overnight.
'Dan Juan Juan' obviously understood what Gu Zhisang meant.
She glanced at the window that was tightly blocked by curtains, but she still felt scared.
After hesitating for a while, she gritted her teeth, stood up and said:
"Sangsang, wait for me to put on some clothes, I'll be there right away!"
"I have to figure out what's going on here!"