The landlord is a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties. He looks very bold and can't stop talking.
"Speaking of it, I feel really wronged. Originally, my house here was clean, but two young people came here two years ago. They are both young men. At that time, my house was not very peaceful."
"I heard they said there were three people together, but one of them didn't work nearby, so he separated from them. The two young men rented a two-person room here."
"One of them is named Li Dongqiang and the other is named Wang Erwa."
"Originally they were fine, but within a month, I saw their friend coming, panicking, and his face turned white!"
"That friend took the two young men away in a panic, as if they were going to live with him for a few days."
"They came back a few days later, talking and laughing, nothing happened.
"But two months later, I saw that something was wrong with them, and their faces were gloomy. When I asked, it turned out that their panicked friend died outside..."
Qing Huan looked a little excited when he heard this. The friend the landlord mentioned was probably Zhao Wen!
"It is said that there was something wrong with the death," the landlord said while shaking his head: "Since then, things have been wrong with the two boys."
"I don't know what kind of mischief they committed. They have been suspicious since then. They always say that someone is spying on them."
"My nice house was ruined by them. They nailed the windows shut with wooden boards! Not a single crack was left!"
"The ventilation window on the top of the door is also tightly taped with newspapers. Even the cat's eye is blocked with toilet paper. It just... doesn't leave any gaps. Do you understand?"
Gu Mian nodded.
"But even if that doesn't work, Wang Erwa always feels that no matter where he goes, there are people staring at him from all directions, and he even went to find a goddess."
"The goddess is also unreliable. She made him a paper man named Lao Gao and asked him to carry it on his back, saying it was to ward off disasters!"
"Then Wang Erwa doesn't go out every day. She carries a pale paper man at home all day long. It's very scary."
"And that Li Dongqiang is even less reliable than Wang Erwa. He feels like someone is staring at him, so he crawls into a small space, just like a cat. Do you know that?"
Gu Mian nodded.
"He hid in the closet at first, but the closet was too big, so he hid under the table, but there was space under the table."
"Later, he stuffed himself into a small cabinet on the table. You know that kind of cabinet, right? Oops! It's hard for a child to get in, but he, a 1.7 meter tall man, managed to get in."
"I don't know how he got himself in. His whole body was so balled up that a layer of his skin was peeled off!"
"But he still thought the small cabinet was too big and even wanted to get into the sewer! Wouldn't that be fatal?"
"We tried our best to hold him back, but he looked so annoyed that he stopped living with me and moved to another apartment not far away."
"Li Dongqiang moved away, but Wang Erwa still stays here. I keep an eye on him, just because I'm afraid that one day he will suddenly lose his mind."
"But I couldn't keep him even though I was careful. Not long after the young man Li Dongqiang moved away, Wang Erwa died on the bed."
"When we saw his body, we saw that he had tied himself and the paper man tightly with a rope, as if the paper man was growing on his back."
"well……"
The landlord sighed when he said this.
Qing Huan's face looked very ugly.
He is quite smart and can guess with his feet who is following him - Wang Erwa.
The tall and twisted white figure behind him is Wang Erwa's paper man. I am afraid that when the paper man completely touches his back, it will be the day of his death.
Thinking of this, Qing Huan's back felt chilly.
Gu Mian asked: "What about Li Dongqiang? Do you know which apartment he moved to?"
The landlord thought for a while: "It seems to be the Hejia Apartment not far to the east. I heard that he also died later... It's really evil..."
The two looked at each other and saw that it was the apartment where Lin Yue'er lived.
It's now five minutes past three, and they still have time.
Immediately, they hurried to the nearby Hejia Apartment where Lin Yue'er lived.
It seems that Yu Wenhao and the three of them haven't found this place yet. The landlord here was a little curious when he saw them coming.
"Hello," Gu Mian said to the landlord: "We are friends of Lin Yue'er. She seems to have encountered something dirty here recently. We want to ask you something."
The landlord is a young woman who seems to be unmarried. The house here is probably an ancestral inheritance.
She nodded very cooperatively: "What's the matter?"
"It was about two years ago. Do you remember that there was a tenant named Li Dongqiang two years ago?"
Upon hearing this name, the young woman reacted greatly. She nodded vigorously: "I remember, of course I remember. Although my father hadn't given me the house here at that time, I remember this person clearly!"
"When this man came, I felt something was wrong. He looked too nervous, like a fugitive on the run."
"But there was nothing wrong with the ID card, so we couldn't refuse him, so we asked him to pay and live here."
"He paid half a year's rent at once. I was quite surprised at the time. The tenants living here basically pay monthly, but he paid half a year's rent at once."
"I was surprised at first, but then I understood why he paid for half a year at a time."
"He is sick! He is afraid that we will kick him out when the lease is over!"
"This person doesn't go out very much all day long. If he really wants to go out, he wraps himself up tightly and turns his head around for fear of being discovered."
"That's nothing. What's more terrible is that he has a bit of a hobby. He likes to get into small places. Once he gets in, he spends the whole day."
"In the house we rented to him, he would break all the cabinets on the table, shoe cabinets, and cupboards!"
"You also know that our industry is not easy. Once something happens to one house, the entire building will be in trouble."
"He was so weird and scary. My dad was scared when he saw him and wanted him to move away."
"I paid him back and compensated him for liquidated damages, but he refused to move and wanted to live here. My dad would run to him every two days to persuade him to move."
"until one day……"
"My dad went to look for him again, but he was nowhere to be found in the house."
"At first we thought he had gone out, but we waited for several days without seeing anyone. It was summer and the smell was very strong, you know?"
"We didn't see him for a few days, and then the house started to stink."
"My dad suspected that he died in the house, so he searched everywhere he could, but found nothing."
"After a few days, the smell in the house got worse and worse. It was so smelly that we had no choice but to call the police."
"Later the police found him under the bed..."
"There is only a gap of less than ten centimeters under the bed. I don't know how he got in."
"The room was sealed, and there was no one else except him, but when we found him, he was huddled in the back, as if...he was hiding from something."