One of the reasons why several girls were willing to share a house with a man was that he was gay, his makeup skills were better than theirs, and he was easy to get along with and had no messy problems at all.
In addition, the most important thing was that it was cheap.
For a house of the same size, location, and decoration, even if five people shared it, each person would have to pay 2,000 to 3,000 yuan, or even more.
However, the total rent of this apartment was less than 10,000 yuan, with an average rent of more than 1,000 yuan per person per month.
In such a prosperous area, it was possible to rent a house with complete facilities decoration, and excellent style at such a low price. It was also not available within ten kilometers nearby.
‘Egg Roll‘, 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 got familiar with the tenants in the apartment.
She had the best relationship with the white-collar worker, followed by the male internet celebrity, and the other two girls were originally roommates who moved out together and had a better relationship;
Although there were some frictions, it was generally very comfortable and pleasant.
Who would have thought that this peace and tranquility was suddenly broken ten days ago?
That day, when she finished work, the white-collar worker sent her a message saying that she was also going to get off work.
So the two of them made an appointment to have dinner outside and brought a few small desserts to take back to their roommates.
Who would have thought that just as they walked downstairs, they saw a black shadow from 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.
When ‘Egg Roll‘ reacted, she couldn’t control herself and screamed with the girl beside her, and even her legs went limp.
The one who fell from the sky was a person.
A man.
His body hit the edge of the flower bed, his arms were pierced by wooden branches, his spine was separated by the guardrail of the flower bed, and he lay softly on his back not far away like a pile of smashed mud, with blood flowing all over the ground and soaking the porcelain white flower bed wall.
The man’s cervical vertebrae were broken, his head tilted downward, and a lot of blood was flowing out of his mouth and nose, blurring his face;
At the same time, because the floor he fell from was too high, he almost died on the spot, his pupils, which had not yet dispersed, stared in the direction of the two people, his body twitched slightly, and his face was distorted, and his original appearance could not be distinguished at all.
But ‘Egg Roll‘ and the white-collar worker recognized him.
The man was still wearing the flashy shirt they were familiar with, and his iconic purple hair was stained with blood.
This was their roommate.
The only man!
‘Egg Roll‘ saw the tragic death of this man with her own eyes, and her whole body was trembling. When she realized that her palm was tingling, she had already fallen to the ground and her palm was rubbed raw.
Since then, she had nightmares for a week in a row, and as soon as she closed her eyes, she would recall the scene of that day.
As for the white-collar girl, the situation was even worse, her mentality collapsed, and she directly asked for a long vacation and moved out of the shared dormitory.
The dormitory suddenly lost two people, which made it even more empty and desolate. Fortunately, to express her apology, the landlord offered to reduce the rent by half in the second half of the year to compensate the remaining three people.
After calculating, the rent for each of them was less than 1,000 yuan a month!
For three girls who were still in school, it was indeed a good deal.
After hearing this, many viewers in the live broadcast room commented:
[Good fellow, this is a ‘haunted house’! It’s hard for the three of you to be so brave to rent it, especially you, the one who asked for help. You saw the scene with your own eyes, how dare you?]
[What was the cause of death of the boy?]
[You shouldn’t continue to rent it. No matter what the reason, a house where someone has died recently has evil spirits. The landlord should want to use you, living people, to add some yang energy to the house and revitalize it.]
[Otherwise, once something happens, the house will be empty, and it will be difficult to rent or sell it in the future.]
[Haha, isn’t this what you deserve? No one with a brain will continue to live in it!]
[Those who scolded the help-seeker as “stupid” and “greedy” in the comments should stop. As the saying goes, if you have done nothing wrong, you are not afraid of ghosts knocking on your door. The person who fell from the building has nothing to do with the help-seeker.]
[I have also worked hard on my own since graduation, and I can understand the sadness and consideration of ‘Egg Roll‘. Who would rent a single house with money and share a house with others? The house prices in the city center of first-tier cities are so expensive, and it is not safe for girls to live alone.]
[……]
‘Egg Roll‘ also saw the dispute in the comments. She smiled bitterly and said:
“Everyone’s scolding is reasonable. I also regret continuing to rent there.”
“But the house price is low. If I leave and go back to the dormitory, I will have to commute for at least 3 hours every day. I can’t afford it!
“If I change my residence, not to mention that I may not be able to find such a cheap and close apartment, I also have to consider the character of the residents…”
The internship was too important to her.
At the end of the period, other people in her period worked very hard and left at 7 or 8 o’clock every day. Naturally, she couldn’t fall behind others, otherwise her efforts in the past six months would be wasted.
In addition, the other two female college students who shared the house didn’t move out either – they also didn’t have much money. The university’s accommodation fee was paid once a semester. Even if they moved out, they couldn’t return to the dormitory and had to find a new place to live.
Moreover, they didn’t see the death of the male roommate with their own eyes, so they were not so scared. The two girls still lived in the same bedroom and could comfort and protect each other;
So they accepted the landlord’s ‘compensation’ and agreed to continue renting the house if they could meet the condition of “finding enough vacant tenants to move in as soon as possible.”
The landlord lowered the price again, and in just two days, she found two girls who were also attracted by the low price and were not afraid of the name ‘haunted house’ and signed a rental contract.
Seeing that the dormitory was filled up again, the room of the dead male roommate was also changed by the landlord, and moved in with a new roommate. After considering many aspects, ‘Egg Roll‘ also chose to stay.
Gu Zhisang spoke at the right time and asked:
“Since you chose to stay, why did you move out again?”
From the face of ‘Egg Roll‘, her last short-distance migration was three days ago.
She moved out of the shared rental place in a hurry and lost a lot of money for this. Gu Zhisang inferred that she violated the rental contract and had her deposit withheld.
After a moment of silence, ‘Dan Juan Juan’ said: “I feel uncomfortable and have been having nightmares.”
“The picture in the dream changed from the boy falling from the building at the beginning to a black shadow. Sometimes I closed my eyes and could feel something staring at me by the bed or beside me!”
“I swear this is true, not my illusion or hallucination because since that period, my body has been very cold. Even if I wear more clothes and cover myself with a thick quilt, or even under the sun, I still shiver.”
“Then what?” Gu Zhisang asked.
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