Arriving at the gate of the community, Bai Qiquan looked around.

This place should be near the university. Food and accommodation are very cheap and the environment is not bad. However, the photos taken before made Bai Qiquan feel a little uneasy.

There was indeed a face on the curtain, as if there was someone standing behind it, but how could there be anyone else in this new house besides Lu Ban?

Bai Qiquan didn't dare to ask, so he could only pack up his things anxiously and report to Jiangcheng.

He waited at the gate of the community for a while, and then he saw Lu Ban and a girl walking over.

The girl looked petite, and looked like a junior high school student next to Lu Ban. The weather at the end of May had become a little hot, and she was wearing a thin pink sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers. If no explanation was given, Bai Qiquan's first reaction would be that she was Lu Ban's sister who was in junior high school.

"This is Qin Tiantian. You can think of him as our company's mascot."

Lu Ban introduced it.

"Fuck mascot, let's call him spokesperson, okay, spokesperson."

Qin Tiantian immediately retorted.

"……Hello."

Bai Qiquan didn't dare to say anything or ask more questions. He followed the two people to his two-bedroom, one-living-room dormitory.

"There will be another person staying here. Two people in one room, that should be okay, right?"

Lu Ban asked.

"No problem, no problem."

The two rooms were about the same size, so he chose the one farther from the front door, put down his luggage, and returned to the living room.

The opened curtains were still there, but Bai Qiquan did not see the face on the curtains. He hoped it was just an illusion.

“It feels quite quiet here.”

Bai Qiquan pretended to check out the scenery outside and glanced behind the curtain, but there was nothing.

"Well, in this kind of community, many renovated properties are rented out, but we don't have to worry about that problem here."

Lu Ban added.

"Because these floors have been renovated?"

Bai Qiquan turned around and asked.

"That's not the case, because I bought all these floors."

Lu Ban answered immediately.

"???"

Bai Qiquan looked at Lu Ban seriously.

"Don't panic, stay calm, that's the basic operation."

Qin Tiantian reminded him from the side.

Bai Qiquan nodded blankly, he really couldn't understand Lu Ban's train of thought.

After he went to the bedroom to pack his things, Qin Tiantian pulled Lu Ban to the corner and asked in a low voice.

"Did you really buy it?"

“It’s not much.”

Lu Ban answered as a matter of course.

A house here only costs three or four million, and buying a few floors would cost less than 100 million, which is very cheap for Lu Ban.

“…”

Qin Tiantian felt that Lu Ban’s concept of money was very wrong. After thinking about it, she said again.

"Then why don't you just buy the house I rent as well, so I don't have to pay rent in the future."

"Um?"

Lu Ban made a questioning sound.

"When did you get the illusion that the rent you paid wasn't for me?"

"ah?"

Qin Tiantian was speechless for a moment.

So this guy not only bought the house he was renting, but also didn't tell me and has been collecting rent from me for the past few months?

Is this something a human can do?

"You, you, you, you, Lu Ban, doesn't your conscience hurt?"

Qin Tiantian complained.

"Don't worry, your rent is not actually paid to me."

Lu Ban said again.

"...Don't lie to me."

Qin Tiantian said suspiciously.

"Really? Your rent is paid to the agent, and the agent pays me every few months, so in theory your rent is not paid directly to me."

Lu Ban was serious.

"I want to find a train to run you over and kill you on the spot!"

Qin Tiantian was indignant.

"I'm doing this for your own good. If a person has no worries about food and clothing and can count money even when lying down, then he will inevitably lose motivation and eventually get tired of everything and become a muddle-headed person."

Lu Ban explained seriously.

"Fuck, I just want to be a muddle-headed person. My biggest dream in this life is to be a salted fish!"

Qin Tiantian hit Lu Ban lightly.

"Am I disturbing you?"

Bai Qiquan's voice came from the door of the room.

Qin Tiantian immediately took several steps away from Lu Ban.

"No problem."

Lu Ban glanced at the time.

"You don't have to go to the company today. Report tomorrow morning. In addition to you, there are a few other people who should be arriving in the next two days. We will then assign accommodations."

After saying that, Lu Ban and Qin Tiantian left the room.

Bai Qiquan made the bed, cleaned the house, sent a message to his girlfriend, went downstairs for a walk, had dinner, bought some daily necessities, and returned to the house.

As soon as he walked in, he saw that the curtains in the living room had been drawn up at some point.

"strangeness……"

Bai Qiquan put down what he was holding and opened the curtains.

Outside the window, a face was looking at him.

The face was pale and bloodless, like a corpse that had been dead for a long time, and the eyes were dull and lifeless. Just looking into them made people feel despair and discomfort.

“What the hell!!!”

Bai Qiquan shuddered all over and jumped back a step.

But when he looked out the window again, he only saw his own reflection in the glass.

After dark, the glass formed a mirror-like state under the indoor lights, reflecting his own face.

"Did you see it wrong..."

Bai Qiquan muttered to himself.

He returned to the bedroom and looked out the window. The lights were on the opposite side, full of life.

“This neighborhood is really nice.”

Bai Qiquan closed the curtains and prepared to take a good bath.

While packing his clothes, he felt something was wrong again.

"When did I put these clothes in the closet?"

Seeing the neatly arranged wardrobe, Bai Qiquan felt more and more that something was wrong.

He walked into the bathroom with a change of clothes and glanced at the bathroom mirror.

The person in the mirror looks normal, there is nothing wrong with him.

He started to take a shower. When he finished washing his hair, Bai Qiquan took the towel, wiped his face, and suddenly felt a sense of incongruity.

"Um?"

An indescribable feeling of disharmony enveloped Bai Qiquan. He looked at himself in the mirror. He looked ordinary, with nothing unusual about him.

But the more he washed, the more he felt there was a problem.

After finishing washing, turning off the shower and changing his clothes, Bai Qiquan looked in the mirror.

The person in the mirror had wet hair and some water stains on his face, but there was nothing wrong with him.

"An illusion?"

Bai Qiquan walked out of the bathroom, washed his clothes, turned on the computer, played two games, and watched a few videos.

After finishing the video call with his girlfriend and saying good night to each other, he played two games on his secondary account before lying down to sleep.

Some classmates may ask, didn’t you say good night, why aren’t you sleeping yet and are you still secretly playing games?

Friends who have never been in a relationship may not know that after a couple says good night to each other, usually neither party will really go to sleep. Only this time can they not be disturbed and it is completely their own time.

So Bai Qiquan was very sure that his girlfriend must be playing with her mobile phone now.

As soon as he put down his phone, the room fell into darkness. The quiet atmosphere made Bai Qiquan's thinking become active, and he finally figured out the source of his previous sense of disharmony.

"I use hot water to take a shower, so there should be a layer of mist on the mirror, but just now when I washed my hair, the mirror was very clean, without any mist at all."

"Also, when I was washing my hair, I clearly received the towel from someone, but I should be the only one in this room, right?"

"so……"

In the silent darkness, Bai Qiquan could only hear his own heartbeat.

thump--

thump--

Plop, plop——

In between, there seemed to be another heartbeat.

"???"

Bai Qiquan couldn't sleep.