They nodded to Yuan Yunfang, whose screen name was ‘Egg Roll‘. 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’s clarify first that no one has entered your bedroom, and we didn’t move anything. Don’t blame us if anything is missing.”
‘Egg Roll‘ knew it was not good to make up a lie, and this matter also concerned other people who shared the house, so she told the truth.
“What did you say? Haunted?” Xiao Gao raised her voice, her eyes widened, and after a while, she said: “You, you are kidding…”
But her and Xiao He’s expressions were not natural, and they obviously thought of their roommate’s strange fall 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 you are talking about should be the tenant who fell from the building before? Running here in the middle of the night just for this kind of thing, isn’t this nonsense?”
“We are all adults, but you still believe in those illusory ghosts and gods?”
Another introverted woman echoed in a low voice:
“I think Sister Xu is right.”
“We have lived here for a few days and found nothing wrong. The house is spacious and bright, the rent is cheap, and the landlord is nice… Sister, are you overthinking?”
The two new women knew that the reason why the rent of this house was cheap was that someone had died there;
They also knew that ‘Egg Roll‘ and another tenant called Sister Ye were scared and moved away one after another.
But the man jumped off the building because he was depressed and couldn’t think straight, and it was not murder.
They had never seen the death of the deceased, so they were not afraid. They didn’t take Egg Roll‘s words seriously and thought she was too timid.
On the contrary, Xiao Gao and Xiao He were hesitant and uneasy, and their eyes kept scanning Egg Roll‘s haggard, tired, and dull face.
When ‘Egg Roll‘ didn’t know how to explain, a plain but particularly pleasant voice suddenly came from her mobile phone:
“The girl in pink pajamas, you didn’t notice anything unusual.”
‘Egg Roll‘ was stunned, and hurriedly raised her mobile phone to show the screen to several tenants.
“Gu Zhisang?!” Xiao He exclaimed, recognizing the “mystic master” actress who has been very popular recently.
The other three also knew Gu Zhisang’s name, and more or less watched her live broadcasts or netizens’ clips, and the stories reposted by various marketing accounts.
Then, the faces of several girls changed again and again, realizing that something was wrong.
Due to the popularity of “Spiritual Affairs”, 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 rain. Still, most of them were scammers who had no bottom line to take advantage of the popularity.
There were often reports of being deceived, and some platform officials had to send reminders to users not to trust the so-called “mystic masters” on the Internet.
When ‘Egg Roll‘ stated her intention, they thought the other party had just found a ‘fortune-telling master’ on the Internet and was tricked.
Who would have thought that the person who said this place was haunted was Gu Zhisang?
Then the nature of this was instantly different!
Xiao He immediately took out her mobile phone and went directly to Gu Zhisang’s live broadcast room from the hot search entry. Seeing the familiar furniture and clothes on the screen, she finally panicked.
“It’s true! Sister Yuan is connecting with Gu Zhisang!”
The others couldn’t sit still anymore. When they looked at each other, they all felt that their environment was not so comfortable. The living room was too quiet, and the architectural style was too cold, which made them feel cold for some reason.
The woman called Sister Xu was about 26 or 27 years old. She broke the silence with a grim look on her face:
“If it’s haunted like Xiao Yuan said… wouldn’t we all be unsafe?”
Xiao He, one of the female college students, noticed her friend’s grim face. Thinking that Xiao Gao was the girl in the ‘pink pajamas’ that Gu Zhisang just mentioned, she couldn’t help asking:
“Did you find anything?”
“I, I don’t know…” Xiao Gao panicked, her palms were cold, and the strange things that happened not long ago that puzzled her suddenly came to her mind, making her more and more scared.
“But when I went to my boyfriend’s house a few days ago, there was indeed something strange.”
She stumbled and told her experience.
It turns out that a police academy was across from the university where Xiao Gao and Xiao He were studying. Her boyfriend was a student at the school across the street. His family lives in the local area and his father was also a police officer.
The two met by chance when they were freshmen students and have been dating for two years. Their relationship is very stable, and their parents know each other and have contact information.
Not long ago, her boyfriend took her home to meet his parents and have dinner.
That day, she specially dressed up and carefully selected gifts to go to her boyfriend’s house. As a result, she didn’t expect that something unexpected would happen as soon as she entered her boyfriend’s house.
Xiao Gao said: “My boyfriend has an old dog at home. It is a retired police dog with injured hind legs. His parents meet the adoption qualifications in all aspects and his father is an old police officer, so he adopted it.”
“I walked into the living room and sat on the sofa. The old police dog was lying on the carpet not far from me, and it suddenly…”
After a pause, Xiao Gao pursed her lips and said: “It suddenly pounced on me and kept barking.”
This scared Xiao Gao, and she got up from the sofa.
But the old police dog was particularly excited, barking and jumping on her, biting the edge of her skirt tightly and refusing to let go. Her skirt would have been torn into pieces if it weren’t for her boyfriend and his parents helping her.”
At that time, she heard her boyfriend muttering: “How strange! It’s usually very well-behaved, so why is it so excited when you come?”
Her boyfriend’s parents also smiled and said that the dog at home liked her very much. Who would have thought that as soon as the old police dog was released, it would run to Xiao Gao and bark nonstop, jumping back and forth?
In the end, there was no choice but for her boyfriend to lock it up in the bedroom.
That day, Xiao Gao looked at the hem of her bitten skirt and listened to the dog barking in the bedroom. She felt very embarrassed. She always felt that her boyfriend’s parents looked at her strangely. She hurriedly said goodbye after dinner and was upset for two days.
Afterward, her boyfriend explained: “How could my parents have a bad impression of you because of this? Don’t overthink, they asked me to comfort you.”
“The police dog we adopted was a cadaver dog. After special training, it is most sensitive to the smell of corpses and only gets so excited by the smell of corpses. It is usually very docile and obedient, but that day, it suddenly got excited…”
A cadaver dog was a type of police dog.
Generally, dogs with a particularly sensitive sense of smell, a strong appetite, and a personality that likes to dig the ground were selected for training.
Trainers often encourage dogs to find raw meat, bones, or rotten meat buried underground when hungry.
When cadaver dogs find and dig out the meat, they can eat it to strengthen their sensitivity to raw meat, rotten meat, and blood.
Trainers will also repeatedly change the depth, time, location, and other conditions of the buried meat to increase the difficulty continuously. Excellent cadaver dogs can even find meat buried 1-2 meters below, as well as highly rotten corpses.
The old police dog at Xiao Gao’s boyfriend’s house was an excellent dog.
When it was young, it found the bodies of dozens of injured victims buried under the rubble of an earthquake in a certain city. For this reason, its paw was cut off by a stone edge during the digging, leaving a leg injury.
Even though it has been retired for a long time, the years of training in the past have already made the reflex arcs of some cadaver dogs engraved into the bones of the old police dog.
For example, the excitement of finding rotten meat and the urge to dig.
After hearing about the type of police dog in her boyfriend’s house, Xiao Gao said in disbelief: “What do you mean?”
The boyfriend explained: “Don’t get me wrong, cadaver dogs don’t necessarily only target corpses. Rotten things nearby will affect their sense of smell and judgment…”
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