The man wrapped up like a black crow looks suspicious no matter how you look at him.
Baili Xin glanced at the man out of the corner of his eye. The collar of the man's windbreaker was very high, and when it was turned up, it almost covered half of his face.
The man stood motionless in the corner behind the elevator, and no one knew where he was looking because of his dark sunglasses.
Inside the fairly spacious elevator, the two of them stood in a corner each.
No one spoke. Apart from the sound of the elevator motor, the only thing Baili Xin could hear was probably his own breathing.
s419: My Lord Host, this person doesn’t look like a good person at first glance.
…, Baili Xin, how did you know that
s419: As for how you dress, who would dress like that? Covering yourself up so tightly in the elevator, it's shameful.
Baili Xin: How about I help you recall the image of Samael
s419: Uh, no... Then why do you think he is dressed like this
Baili Xin: There are many reasons, maybe vitiligo, or social phobia, or some celebrity profession that requires concealment.
s419:…
The elevator stopped on the 16th floor and the door slowly opened.
Baili Xin turned his head to glance at the wooden man and was the first to leave the elevator.
He looked for the house number in the corridor and soon found Room 802.
Of course, he didn't need to look hard for it. The big blood-red words "Pay Back the Money" on the door of Room 802 were enough to attract all his attention.
The door of Room 802 was splashed with red paint, and the red liquid flowed down and solidified on the ground.
On both sides of the door, many words were written in red paint.
Pay back the money, debt, die, kill you...
Etc., etc.
Baili Xin took out the key from his backpack and opened the door. When he pushed the door, he glanced at the corridor out of the corner of his eye and found that the man in black walked to the diagonal opposite side of him.
When Baili Xin entered, the man in black just unlocked the door with his fingerprint, walked straight into the room and closed the door without any delay.
After the man in black walked into the room, Baili Xin pushed the door and walked into this seemingly improper house.
The moment he walked in, he felt something coming towards him. His body moved flexibly and Baili Xin dodged the thing easily.
After groping for the switch on the wall and turning on the light, the first thing that came into view was a fat, white figure with big ears.
That's a pig's head.
A sharp hook pierced through the pig's head and hung at the entrance.
As the door is pushed, the pig's head will move with it.
Baili Xin felt something just now, and it was this little thing.
s419: Ahhhh, I'm so scared, ahhh!
Escape System: Woo woo woo, I’m scared too, brother.
Blissin: …
Aren't you two the system?!
Baili Xin shifted his gaze from the pig's head to inside the room.
All the furniture in the room was covered with a layer of white cloth. The room was very clean, except for a circular circle of blood splashed on the wall above the ceiling fan.
Under the fan, there were also some black blood stains that had not been cleaned up.
Escape system: Someone just died in this room not long ago. The person who committed suicide was a college student. This house is not his, but a rented one. When he was in college, he was deceived and led astray. He borrowed high-interest loans without knowing why. Later, he couldn't pay back the loan, and the interest increased by dozens of times. The debt collectors came to his house every day to collect the debts. They not only called his parents, but also called his classmates, teachers, and relatives.
Firstly, the student had never entered the society and had never seen so much money. Secondly, he felt so humiliated that he chose to commit suicide when he was under extreme pressure. The method of suicide was hanging from the ceiling fan above his head.
When people found him, the ceiling fan was on. Because he had been hanging for too long, his neck was broken. The lower part of his neck fell to the ground, and his head was still hanging on the ceiling fan. As the head rotated with the ceiling fan, blood splattered on the roof.
The college student’s parents took the body home in tears, but the house became a haunted house. The landlord wanted to ask the college student’s parents to pay compensation, but when he saw that the parents were farmers, he realized that they might not even have the money to bury their son, so he could only admit that he was unlucky and let them go.
Good news doesn’t travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles. After this incident, the house became a haunted house and could neither be rented out nor sold.
That's why I let you stay here for one night to change the fate of this house.
Baili Xin glanced at the ceiling above his head and said, "Okay, I know the whole story. Thank you."
The time at this moment was exactly 8 o'clock.
The system voice sounded again.
Time to work. Congratulations to the players for clocking in on time.
Please have a good rest tonight and do not leave the room under any circumstances.
See you tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock.
As the system voice fell, Baili Xin began to observe the room.
The house is about 50 square meters, with one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom, and you can see the end at a glance.
Baili Xin walked into the bedroom, where there was a notebook on the desk.
There are two or three simple sets of shirts in the closet.
Baili Xin walked to the desk and sat down. He opened his notebook and found that there was no password set on it.
s419: Host, what are you doing
Baili Xin held his chin with one hand, his eyes lazy and casual: I can't sleep at this time, let me see if the computer can connect to the Internet, I want to check the historical background of this urban copy.
As he spoke, he opened the browser and quickly typed a line of words into the search engine: What year is this year
The search engine jumped, and soon hundreds of thousands of entries popped up.
The top one is the answer that Baili Xin wants.
s3010 May.
Baili Xin clicked on the current affairs news and got a general understanding of it.
Then he entered new search information: Jinhai luxury apartment suicide incident.
As the search engine jumped, many more entries popped up.
Baili Xin randomly clicked on the top entry, which was a news report from a few days ago. The content and system reported in the article were similar to what he described.
However, the news also added some warning statements at the end, reminding everyone to handle finances with caution and not to overspend.
What was said in the system was also said in the news, and what was not said in the system was also said in the news.
This person borrowed a total of 30,000 yuan in cash. After six months, the interest increased to 60,000 yuan, and after a year, it directly increased to 200,000 yuan.
Just ask, if he could come up with 200,000, why would he borrow money for 30,000
Perhaps because the death scene was too bloody, the news did not include any pictures.
Then Baili Xin opened new news.
This time he clicked on a forum.
Forums are different from rigorous news that emphasizes factual basis, but forums also say things that cannot be reported in the news.
There are many other versions of the story about the death of this college student in the forum.
—The man who died was a classmate of ours, did you know that? He was a very good student in our school, studying for both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and was signed by a top-tier company before he graduated. He was also the vice president of the student union, and his girlfriend was the principal’s daughter. We all thought that he must have saved the world in his previous life, so he was so lucky in this life. I never expected that such an excellent and smart boy would be ruined by 30,000 yuan. What a pity.
—Yes, I am also from this school. I heard that the principal's face turned green when he received the debt collection call.
—But how did those people know their phone numbers
—Insert Trojan software on the phone and directly copy the phone address book. You mark the principal and leader on it, and worship them like a bodhisattva, but they don’t call you once a year. They don’t care about that, they start calling you from the first person, and keep calling you until you are socially dead.
—Yes, I know someone who was like this. He only borrowed 5,000 yuan at first, thinking he could pay it back quickly, but when he was about to pay it back, he found that the amount had risen to 20,000 yuan.
—I have a rumor that he committed suicide not mainly because of this, but because someone found some embarrassing photos of him. These are the routines of loan sharks. They specifically target beautiful girls and boys and trick them into borrowing money. When they can't pay it back, they use coercion and inducement to make money by shooting some kind of video or live broadcast to repay. At the beginning, they were told to cover their faces, but later when it officially started, no one cared whether they covered their faces or not. They were completely manipulated.
—I have heard of something even scarier, borrowing money. Although they are all college students, they are still too naive. The borrowers have to take nude photos with their ID to prove their identity. At the beginning, they are told that they will delete the photos as soon as they pay back the money. But in fact, from the moment they take the photos, they fall into an abyss of no return.
Those photos were said to be saved, but in fact they were put on secret platforms for illegal transactions, and some organizations even put these people up for auction with a fixed price. While those who borrowed money were still smug about getting money without any effort, they didn't know that they had already become commodities with a fixed price and profit-seeking by others.
When these people cannot pay back the money, they will ask them to pay back the debts from the auctioneers as collateral. What is even more terrifying is that when the borrowers have paid off their debts, they will turn around and thank the "businessmen" who have already made a fortune by using them, thank the loan sharks for letting them go and thank them for giving them money.
It's really stupid, annoying and pathetic.
—Oh my god, this is so scary. I am shaking, help me, mom, I want to go home.
—This senior seems to be in a similar situation to the one on the previous floor.
I heard that in order to pay back the money, he was tricked into secretly filming. Later, those people asked him to accompany guests, and he naively thought that it would be okay if he hid. As a result, the other party couldn't find him and directly bombarded the phone numbers in his address book. This is what happened later.
—Oh my god, it turned out to be like this, it's such a pity. If time could go back, he would not have borrowed the 30,000 yuan in the beginning. He is very capable and good at artificial intelligence. He also participated in many competitions on behalf of the school and won good rankings. Otherwise, he would not have been favored by the No. 1 company.
If it weren't for this incident, he would have had a very bright future.
What a pity.
—Yes, it's a pity. His biological parents are the worst off. He died, and his biological parents were left with nothing to do. The old couple were farmers, and they had to save money to pay for tuition and living expenses. His parents probably only spent two or three thousand yuan a year. They were afraid that their son would be looked down upon, cold and hungry outside, so they sent all the money they earned to their son.
—But why is he so short of money
When Baili Xin saw this floor, he looked up and around. For a college student who is still in school, even if he has a graduate student subsidy, it shouldn't be that good. But he is renting such a nice house. How can he not be short of money
In addition to renting a house, there are high-quality electric toothbrushes in the bathroom.
This computer looks expensive.
Besides this, are there any other expenses? The post just now said that this person’s girlfriend is the principal’s daughter, so is it possible that he rented a house and bought this outfit in order to match the principal’s daughter
Baili Xin thought for two seconds and turned his attention back to the forum.
—Don’t you see where he lives? That’s the Jinhai high-end apartment. The rent for a small three-bedroom apartment is five or six thousand yuan a month. What’s more, he has been living there since he started dating his girlfriend.
It must be material, but my senior is really good at hiding it. Before I met his parents, I really thought he was the child of a rich family. Last time I saw him, he was wearing sports shoes worth 10,000 yuan.
You haven't made any money, but you still squander it. It's just vanity.
— I'm stunned. Is he crazy? This is all his parents' hard-earned money. How can he bear to spend it? It is really easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
There were many more floors behind him. Baili Xin took a quick look and closed the webpage after finding nothing.
Then he browsed through the current affairs news. Just as he was watching it bored, a strange and abrupt ringtone suddenly rang, instantly waking Baili Xin up with a start.
He followed the sound to the closet and quickly found a somewhat old-looking cell phone among a pile of clothes.
The ringing had stopped when Baili Xin walked over. The sound didn't sound like a phone ringtone, but rather like a text message ringtone.
Although this old-fashioned mobile phone does not have very good functionality, it has a strong battery life.
This person committed suicide seven days ago and was discovered five days ago. The battery level of his phone in the upper right corner was still around 70%.
The phone was not locked, and when he opened the screen he saw more than a dozen unread text messages.
The most recent one was just a few seconds ago.
After getting his phone and sitting back in his chair, he opened his inbox.
I clicked on the top one first, and there was only one sentence in it: Little dog, reply.
Baili Xin stared at these two words for two seconds, closed the page in a daze, and clicked on the next one.
It was still just a short sentence, but with a few more words: What's wrong with you, little dog.
Baili Xin closed the phone and scrolled down again. Each text message was just a few short words, and the words "little male dog" were included in them.
The person opposite obviously didn't know that the boy had passed away, and sent text messages at a frequency of two times a day.
One in the morning and one in the evening.
The content sent is calm and self-controlled. He does not get anxious because of the other party's lack of response, but he does not give up either.
There wasn't much information in the message. He scrolled down and clicked on the previous text message: I want to hear the good dog bark.
It’s still just a short sentence.
He opened another one: I am in a bad mood today and I want to see a bitch today.
Baili Xin narrowed his eyes.
Bitch
Judging from this person’s previous address, the other party assumes that boys are male dogs.
Bitch may be referring to another person.
These are the only two messages left.
After closing the inbox, Baili Xin opened the outbox again, hoping to find some clues from it.
There was only one message in the outbox, sent from the same number: OK, master.
…
This mobile phone should be a communication device used by boys to communicate with mysterious people. Baili Xin flipped through it and found that there was only this number on the other end of the phone in the communication record, and the messages were only exchanged with this number.
Baili Xin studied the phone for a while and then turned off the screen without making any reply.
He didn't want to delve too much into it because he had vaguely guessed something, and it was obviously not a good thing.
Walking out of the bedroom again, Baili Xin saw the fat pig head again.
The pig's head was cooked, and all the hair on its body had been cleaned up long ago. It was facing Baili Xin with its slightly open mouth, which looked weird no matter how you looked at it.
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Studio.
Hiss, ah, this pig head is so scary. Why do you hang a pig head at the door
Maybe it's to ward off evil spirits. I remember there was a saying that hanging a pig's head at the door can scare away ghosts and keep the area safe.
It's so funny. A pig can't even live its own life, yet it wants to keep others safe. It's too superstitious.
I guess others don’t believe it either, so I hang up just to feel at ease.
Do you think the boy who committed suicide was stupid? After hearing his resume, I realized that he was a winner in life, but he really ruined himself.
Alas, one wrong step leads to another. His good academic performance does not mean that he has a strong ability to distinguish right from wrong. Do you think this suicide incident is related to the main quest
I don't know, but I'm scared, woo woo woo. It's clear that Xin Shen is the only one in the room, but I always feel that someone will suddenly jump out from the side. Help, I'm scared, I dare not sleep at night, who can take me in for one night, woo woo woo.
Fortunately, I had already used the quilt sealing technique.
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As the time got closer to twelve o'clock, Baili Xin found a sofa to sit down and did not choose to go into the bedroom to rest.
At the moment when twelve o'clock arrived, the sound of splashing water suddenly rang out in the quiet room.
s419 was startled and screamed instantly: Damn, I'm scared to death.
Baili Xin was startled by s419:…
I wasn't scared to death by the sound of running water, but I was almost scared to death by you.
The water splashed loudly, with no sign of stopping.
Baili Xin stood up and walked towards the kitchen where the sound of water came from. When he got closer, he found that the faucet on the sink was turned on.
Clear water flowed out of the faucet and was about to overflow from the sink.
Baili Xin walked to the sink and was about to reach in to pull out the plug.
And the moment his fingers touched the surface of the water in the pool, the originally clear and transparent water instantly turned into a thick red.
Even the water in the pipes turned to blood.
The scarlet liquid rushed out and was about to overflow onto Baili Xin's legs.
Baili Xin's fingers paused slightly, then he reached into the sink with an expressionless face and pulled out the plug.
Then he casually shook off the red blood on his hands and turned off the faucet.
When he left the kitchen, the red liquid on his hand turned transparent again in an instant, and the scene in front of him just now seemed to be just an illusion.
Baili Xin sat back on the sofa, resting his chin on his hand in boredom.
At this moment, something unexpected happened in the room again.
The TV show suddenly started on its own.
The snow screen flickered for a moment, and the impact soon appeared on TV.
It was a narrow hall.
All the furniture in the hall was covered with white cloth, and a pig's head was hung at the entrance of the hall.
On the sofa in the picture, there is a figure sitting with his back to the camera. Even without looking carefully, you can tell that the content played on the TV is exactly in this room at this moment, and the voice with his back to the camera is Baili Xin.
Baili Xin also noticed what was on the screen.
He turned around and looked behind him blankly, but there was nothing behind him.
On the TV screen, the figure in the picture also turned around at the same time, with the same expression as Baili Xin.
Baili Xin didn't notice anything and turned his head away again.
"Baili Xin" on the screen also turned his head back.
The audience in the live broadcast room held their breath, and even the barrage of comments decreased a lot.
Just when the audience was getting nervous, the picture on TV suddenly moved!
The picture was shaking slightly from side to side, as if someone was walking with a camera in his hand, slowly approaching Baili Xin from behind.