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 financially.
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 feel 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.
反倒是小高和小何神情迟疑，面露不安，视线一直在袁莐芳憔悴疲惫、暗淡无光的面孔上来回扫视。
就在袁莐芳不知道怎么解释时，她手机中忽然传出一道语调平淡、却格外悦耳的声音：
“穿粉色睡衣的女生，你真的没察觉到什么异样么。”
袁莐芳一愣，忙把手机举起，将屏幕展示给几个租户看。
“顾之桑？！”小何惊呼一声，认出了最近火得一塌糊涂的‘神算’女星。
其他三人也知道顾之桑的名号，多多少少看过她的直播或网友剪辑、以及各种营销号转载的故事。
随即，几个女生面色都一变再变，意识到有些不对劲。
因着《灵事》爆火，最近冒出了一些模仿的玄学综艺，各大网络平台、直播平台的玄学博主、玄学网红如雨后春笋，层出不穷，但大都是没底线蹭热度的骗子。
时常有被骗的报道发出，一些平台官方都不得已发送提醒，要用户们不要轻信网上所谓的‘大师’。
袁莐芳表明来意时，她们还以为对方是在网上随便找了个算命‘大师’，被套路了。
谁成想说这边闹鬼的人，是顾之桑！
那这性质瞬间就不一样了！
小何当即拿出手机，从热搜上的词条直接进入正在直播的顾之桑的直播间，看到屏幕上熟悉的家具和衣角，她终于慌了。
“是真的！袁姐真的在和顾之桑连线！”
这下其他人也坐不住了，面面相觑时都觉得所处的环境没那么舒适了，客厅太寂静，建筑风格太冷淡，莫名让她们心生冷意。
姓徐的女子约莫二十六七，她脸色难看打破沉寂：
“如果真像小袁说的闹鬼……我们岂不是都不安全？”
女大学生之一的小何注意到了好友有些难看的脸色，想到小高就是顾之桑刚刚提到的‘粉色睡衣’女生，忍不住问道：
“你是不是发现什么了？”
“我、我也不知道……”小高慌了，手心发凉，不久前发生的令她百思不得其解的怪事，如今猛地浮上心头，让她越想越害怕。
“但是前几天我去我男朋友家的时候，确实有件怪事。”
她磕磕绊绊把自己的遭遇讲了出来。
原来小高和小何所在的大学对面，就是一所警官学校，她的男友就是对面学校的学生，家就在本地，并且父亲也是一名警员。
两人是大一时偶然相识，谈了两年恋爱，关系很稳固，并且互相的父母都知道彼此，还有彼此的联系方式。
前不久过节，男友带她回家见父母、吃饭。
那天她特意梳妆整理、还精心挑选了礼物上门，结果没成想刚一进男友的家门，就出现了变故。
小高说：“我男朋友家里养了一条上了年纪的狗，是条后腿受伤的退役警犬，他父母各方面都符合领养资格，父亲还是老警员，所以才领养到它。”
“我当时进门走到客厅，坐在沙发上，那只老警犬趴在我不远处的地毯上，它忽然……”
顿了片刻，小高才抿唇说道：“它忽然朝我这边扑过来，还犬吠不止。”
这可把小高吓了一跳，忙从沙发上起身。
但那只老警犬格外兴奋，一边叫一边往她身上扑，还死死咬着她的裙边不松口，要不是男朋友和他父母从旁帮忙，她裙子都得被扯成几缕。
当时她就听男友嘟囔：“奇怪，它平时乖得很，怎么你来了就这么兴奋？”
男友的父母还笑呵呵说家里的狗狗也很喜欢她，谁成想只要一放开那老警犬，它就跑到小高身边叫个不停、来回扑蹿。
最后没有办法，男友只能把它关到卧室里。
那天小高看着被咬破边的裙摆、听着卧室里的犬吠如坐针毡，格外尴尬，她总觉得男友的父母看她的眼神都怪怪的，吃完饭便匆匆告辞，还为此难受了两天。
事后男友和她解释：‘我爸妈怎么可能因为这种事就对你印象不好？你千万别多想，他们还让我安慰你呢。’
'其实我们家领养的警犬，以前是一条搜尸犬，经过专门训练、对尸体的气味最敏感，也只有对尸体气味才会这么兴奋，平时它很温顺也很听话，就那天不知怎么回事，忽然激动起来……’
搜尸犬是警犬的一类。
一般选择嗅觉格外灵敏的犬种，以及其中食欲强、喜欢刨地的性格的狗狗加以训练。
训练员往往让狗在处于饥饿状态时，鼓励它寻找埋在地下的生肉、骨头、或是腐烂的肉。
当搜尸犬找到、并刨出这些肉时允许它们吃掉，以此来强化它们对生肉、腐肉和血气的敏感度。
训练员还会反复改变埋藏肉块的深度、时间、地点等条件，不断增加难度，优秀的搜尸犬甚至可以找出埋藏在1–2米之下的肉块，以及腐败程度极高的尸骸。
小高男友家的这条老警犬，就是这样的优秀犬。
年轻时它曾在某市地震中找出了十数名掩埋在废墟下的伤员、遇难者尸骨，为此也在挖刨中被石棱割断脚掌，留下了腿伤。
饶是退役了很长时间，但过去长年累月的训练，早已让一些搜尸犬具备的反射弧刻入了老警犬的骨髓。
比如寻找到腐肉的兴奋，以及克制不住想要挖刨的冲动。
听到男友家的警犬种类后，小高不可思议道：
‘你什么意思？’
男友解释：‘你别误会，搜尸犬也不一定只对尸体敏感，附近有腐烂物都会影响到它们的嗅觉和判断……’
但这些相对专业的解释不仅没有被安慰到小高，反而让她更难受了。
她不明白为什么那狗狗会对自己又吠又刨。
无论是自己像死人，还是自己身上有腐烂垃圾味儿，都让她无法接受。
怪不得男友父母当时用一种奇怪的眼神看着自己！
事后小高反复洗了几遍澡，洗得浑身喷香、还找了朋友们反复确认，心情才好起来，渐渐把这事情给忘掉了。
被顾之桑一点名，她不知怎得脑海中忽然浮现起这件事来，越想越不对劲。
小何也忙道：“我有印象，你当时和我吐槽过！还让闻了好几次你身上有没有味道。”
“可是、可是那件事在半个多月前啊，当时那谁还没跳楼呢。”
慌到不行的小高听好友这么一说，也反应过来了：
“对！是在那之前！”
“那就和这事儿无关？可是其他的事情，我也想不到什么啊……”
顾之桑轻嗤一声：“谁说闹的‘鬼’，是你们合租的坠楼者了？真正的‘鬼’一直存在于这栋房子，从你们住进来那一刻起，就和它同食同眠了。”
合租者/观众：？！！
放眼望去，这屋里几个女生身上都尸气滚滚，仿佛是从她们的肺腑中溢出来的尸雾。
猫狗都是灵物，对这些东西感知度很高。
更何况是受过训练、专门进行搜寻的搜尸犬。
也难怪小高一靠近男友家那只退役警犬，就被当成尸体刨了。
小何浑身发冷，鼻子都酸了：“顾大师您别吓唬我们啊！”
“是不是吓唬，很快就知道了。”顾之桑把低垂的视线从手机屏幕上挪开，“正好始作俑者过来了，你们有什么问题可以直接问她。”
还不等几个租户明白她这话的意思，大门再一次被敲响了。
声音从外传入：“您好，我们是x市警署大队的警员，此处涉嫌一起刑事案件，麻烦你们开门配合调查。”
打开门之后，几名便衣出示了证件表明身份。
看到紧跟着进门的、略显狼狈的年轻女性，几个租户都面露讶色。
“房东？”
“孙小姐？”
很快她们从这位年轻房东窘迫的处境和面色上反应过来，对方好像被警方当成犯人控制起来了。
想到顾之桑刚刚说的‘这屋子里有鬼’，几个租户再次看向年轻房东的目光中，就多了些警惕和怀疑。
孙姓房东有些恼怒，强撑着不安说道：
“你们警署什么意思？一上来把我当犯人似得抓住，我就是回自己房子看一看，犯了什么罪？网上那个顾之桑说我的房子有问题，你们就信了？”
但没有人回答她。
因为抓捕命令是上级直接发布的。
似是这位顾之桑提前算到了她会出现在此处，提前让警署派人，去往小区门口蹲守。
果不其然，他们在小区门口蹲到了房东：孙玥玥。
奇怪的是对方不是从外面赶来，而是从小区里面往外出去。
把人扣押后，便衣便把人带到了出租房子。
终于见到了最想见的人，顾之桑仔仔细细端详此女的面孔，目光愈发冷冽。
她忽然笑了一下，“孙小姐既然就住在这小区里，也看到了我的求助人要往这边来，怎么不过来澄清一下，反而收拾了东西要走呢。”
众人视线挪到孙玥玥身上，发现她确实戴着帽子、穿戴整齐挎着一个不小的包，一幅要跑路的样子。
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.