Li Changan took a sip of instant noodles and stared at the computer screen without blinking.
Even though I chose modern society, unfortunately, modern society is not perfect either.
To put it simply, Li Changan ran out of food. He originally had a job with a monthly salary of over 2,000, but unfortunately he had a conflict with his boss when he asked for leave to attend the funeral of his old man. After traveling back through time, Li Changan discovered that although the time between the two parties was not synchronized, the time over there was not synchronized.
At the end of a month, seven or eight days have passed here. Every time I come and go, the company is overdue.
As soon as he returned to the company, Li Changan was informed that he had been fired.
Misfortune never comes alone.
Just when Li Changan was estimating how long his meager savings would last, he received a call from his landlord.
"Xiao Li, haven't you slept yet?"
Li Changan looked at the time, it was 20 o'clock sharp.
"You have something to say."
"Your phone has been unreachable the past few days, and I can't find you..." The landlord on the other end of the phone babbled for a while before saying what he really wanted to say, "In a few days, my son will get married."
"Ah? Oh, congratulations..."
"Thank you, I mean, my wife there doesn't want to live with the old man..."
"..."
"That wedding room..."
Well, Li Changan understood after hearing this. He had to move, and according to the landlord's wishes, he had to get out as soon as possible. Although he was a little caught off guard and angry, the rental contract was going to the end, and Li Changan had no intention of arguing with the other party.
What? I agreed readily.
But if this happens, Li Changan will have to find a new house and job as soon as possible.
He opened the website for renting a house and looked at the rental information one by one.
The price is expensive if the conditions are satisfactory.
The price is right and the conditions are poor.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and a piece of rental information that had just been swiped appeared in front of him.
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The next day, afternoon.
Li Changan looked up at the large gilt characters on the door of the community.
“Chunhua Apartment.”
"It should be right here."
He opened the message on his mobile phone and it said Chunhua Apartment Building 2, 14-4.
This is the address where Li Changan saw the rental information last night. He was very satisfied with the house for rent in the information. It had three bedrooms and two living rooms, complete appliances, one deposit and one payment. The environment was good, the transportation was convenient, and the most important thing was that it was cheap.
A little over a thousand yuan is almost nothing.
Although Li Changan didn't believe that such a good thing would happen, he still tried his luck and made a call at that time.
The person on the phone agreed readily and said that the house could be inspected at any time, but there was a condition that the inspection must be during the day, preferably at 12 noon.
So, after Li Changan had a bowl of instant noodles for lunch, he took the bus and came to Chunhua Apartment.
This Chunhua Apartment is an old community. The unit buildings in the community are also buildings without elevators, and there is no sign on each building.
Li Changan was thinking about whether to call the landlord and ask him to come down and pick him up.
As soon as I took out my mobile phone, a sentence was inserted next to it.
"Young man, I'm here to rent a house."
Li Changan turned around and looked around. Next to him was a pavilion. In the pavilion, there were a group of old men and women playing cards. An old woman who was watching the game spoke to Li Changan.
"You are so accurate. I came to see the house." Li Changan nodded, but he was a little curious, "How did you see it?"
"Hi, it's nothing. There are many people renting houses in this community." The aunt waved her hand and said it was no big deal, but her face was full of pride, "I see you looking around, I know you are probably looking for a house too.
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"Young man, which house are you planning to rent? Let me show you the way."
"Thank you, auntie."
Hearing this, Li Changan quickly took out his phone, pointed at the screen and read.
"Building 2, 14-4."
He read out the address, but didn't hear a reply for a long time. He looked up in confusion, and was surprised to see that all the aunts and uncles in the pavilion were looking straight at him. The aunt who was going to guide Li Changan had an even more complicated and weird look on her face.
, she hesitated for a while before saying:
"Young man, this house is a bit..."
"You are Li Chang'an, Mr. Li." Halfway through her words, the aunt suddenly appeared next to her.
This man was as thin as a bamboo pole, with a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose. He introduced himself: "My surname is Liu. I am the one who called you on the phone last night. I have been waiting for you for a long time. Come here..."
The man hurriedly urged Li Changan away.
Li Changan followed with a smile, but he was wondering in his heart, looking at this posture, could there be something fishy about the house?
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Room 4-4 is at the end of the corridor on the 4th floor.
Its door is very old, and the paint has peeled off in many places, revealing rust stains underneath. The ground in front of the door is also full of dust. It seems that this section was deliberately avoided during the cleaning of the corridor.
"No one has lived here for a long time."
The man surnamed Liu said with a sneer, turned his head and muttered a few words softly, as if he was complaining about the property management.
Li Changan didn't take it seriously. He looked up at the door, where a mirror and a brush handle hung. This was a local custom, used to ward off evil spirits when moving to a new home. Many elderly people still adhere to this habit.
only……
Li Changan's gaze returned to the door.
Normally, most people would put the word "福" on them, but there was a picture of Zhong Kui on the door of room 4-4.
The man surnamed Liu saw that Li Changan's expression was getting weirder and he quickly explained: "My father-in-law used to live in this house. As an old man, he is quite feudal and superstitious..."
As he spoke, he took out the key.
"Hurry in and look at the house."
Let's talk, he inserted the key and knocked on the door a few times before opening it. As soon as the door opened, a musty smell went straight into people's noses.
"It's been too long since it's been unoccupied. It'll be good if it's ventilated."
The man surnamed Liu turned around to explain and took the lead into the room.
Li Changan did not follow immediately. He stopped in front of the door and glanced around the room.
No wonder it's so cheap, it turns out the house is full of "dirty things".
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"My house is large in size and well decorated... If I wasn't in a hurry for money, how could I rent it out so cheaply?"
As soon as the man surnamed Liu entered the house, he kept selling melons to Wang Po. Little did he know that Li Changan's attention was not focused on him at all.
He kept looking around the house. There might be a dozen ghosts hiding in a small room.
The one in the corner on the left has a black ring around its neck and a long hanging tongue. It should be a hanged man.
The one on the right next to the TV is swollen and blue, looking like a water stick.
The person following Landlady Liu was walking around behind him. His waist and abdomen were covered in blood and flesh, and his intestines and liver were vaguely visible. He might have been run over by a truck.
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The world has never seen so many ghosts crowded into one room.
Li Changan looked at it as a novelty. Those ghosts had never thought that there was an ability called "Tongyou". They just thought that Li Changan's eyes kept rolling around as he was looking at the house.
After a while, the water stick huddled next to the TV said hello.
Several ghosts gathered towards him, forming a small circle, whispering to each other. Li Changan pulled a chair and sat next to them, crossed his legs, and listened openly.
"How can we scare these two living people this time?"
“This time I’m going to use ‘ghost to cover my eyes’.”
"Is it...useful?"
"Why is it useless? There are a few people in the city today who have seen real darkness. Then they suddenly blindfolded their eyes, and suddenly they couldn't see their hands and fingers. They were scared to death."
"Who should I scare first?"
"Then let's kill the bamboo pole." The Hanged Man decided, "Make him more miserable this time so that he doesn't have to go to our house to take someone back."
The man surnamed Liu, who had no idea about his next fate, finally stopped talking.
"Mr. Li, if you miss the quality of my house, you won't be able to find another one in the whole of China."
He patted his chest and vowed, but Li Changan was noncommittal. Indeed, it is rare to find another house with so many ghosts in it, not to mention the whole of China, let alone the whole world.
"What do you think?"
Li Changan smiled and didn't answer, but pointed in the direction of the living room window.
The man surnamed Liu thought Li Changan had discovered some damage, so he quickly looked over, but at one glance, he broke out in cold sweat.
There is a large window on the sunny side of the living room. When the two of them entered the house, they opened the window to let in some air. But now, the window was closing by itself, and the curtains were also being drawn.
Finally, the thick curtains were lowered to block the sunlight outside.
"It's... it's windy outside... it's very windy, and the windows... the curtains are broken." The man surnamed Liu was shaking all over, and he was trembling even as he spoke, "I... we'd better go... go outside
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"boom."
The door to the room that the man surnamed Liu had kept open suddenly closed.
His face suddenly turned pale.
"Li...ah!"
He wanted to say something again, but Shui Da Bang was already hiding behind him, covering his eyes, and his words turned into a scream.
His pants became wet at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his body went limp and fell to the ground. He fainted from shock all of a sudden.
The ghosts in the room suddenly cheered. The water stick raised his hand to signal for silence, and then winked at Li Changan.
The hanged ghost who had been guarding Li Changan for a long time received the order. It seemed scary for the first time, very nervous, and like a living person. It took a deep breath and swayed its long tongue in front of its chest.
It stretched out its hands and walked around to Li Changan's left.
Li Changan turned to look at it, with a half-smile on his face.
It froze for a moment, took another breath, and moved to the right.
Li Changan's eyes also followed to the right.
It blinked and hesitantly moved back to the left. This time, Li Changan's gaze didn't follow him, and it breathed a sigh of relief.
It almost thought the man in front of it could see it!
It swung its long tongue a few times, then bravely stretched its hand toward Li Changan's eyes.
But suddenly.
On the contrary, it itself first went dark.
A fist as big as a casserole was imprinted on the center of its basin.
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"Pah! Pah!"
The burning pain on his face woke Liu Zhugan up.
He opened his eyes in confusion, and the first thing he saw was Li Changan with a smile on his face.
"Mr. Li?" He looked blank, "Are you dead too?"
"You're not awake yet?" Li Changan's face darkened, and he raised his hand to strike twice more.
Liu Zhugan quickly protected his thin face and shouted repeatedly: "Wake up! Wake up!"
At this time, he finally noticed that he was on the corridor and the gate of 4-4 was not far behind him.
He shivered and suddenly felt his lower body was chilly.
"Mr. Li, that ghost..."
"What the hell?" Li Changan interrupted him with a smile, and said without blinking, "You suddenly fainted just now. I wanted to send you to the hospital, but I didn't expect that you woke up just as I dragged you out."
Drag? He must have used the word "drag" just now!
Before Liu Zhugan could think about it, Li Changan continued:
"What kind of ghosts are there in broad daylight? But your situation is also dangerous. You suddenly fainted. It's either a heart attack or a cerebral hemorrhage. You are so young..."
Li Changan shook his head and sighed, and then asked Liu Zhugan, who was in a state of despair.
"Have you brought anything?"
"What?"
"The rental contract." Li Changan patted him on the shoulder, "Your house is nice, I'll rent it!"