The furnishings in the living room are very simple, the varnish of the wooden furniture is polished, revealing a few traces of deep blackness, and when you look up, you can see that the wall near the ceiling has deep and shallow water marks, like hanging willow, and the old-fashioned long lamp tube is nailed to the TV wall, the light is not bright, as if it is shrouded in a layer of mist.

The landlord was an aunt about forty years old, she stood at the door with the key, and said lukewarmly: "Na, the house is not very new, so the price is cheaper, the first floor has been rented to others for storage, so only the second floor is rented, a total of three bedrooms." By the way, are you going to live alone or find someone to share a room?

"Let's find someone to share a room, although the price is cheap, it's not cost-effective for me to live alone." As I spoke, I walked to the bedrooms to take in the surroundings.

"Well, I also think you should find someone to share a room." The landlord followed me and said, "There's only one bedroom that's air-conditioned, so you can stay in that one." If you find someone else to share, let them stay in the other two. ”

"Okay, I'll think about it."

I am quite satisfied with the environment and price of the house. This summer, I plan to stay and engage in social practice, and the difficult conditions are just right for exercise.

"Besides、、、、、、 "The landlord walked briskly to me, her eyes hesitating for a moment, "if you really want to live here, I have two more points. You see, there's a small attic going up the stairs from the doorway, which is my personal belongings, so don't go in and look at it. Also, it's better not to find friends to share a house with you, it's better to find strangers. ”

I was stunned for a moment, the first thing she said was completely understandable to me, but why didn't you let me find a friend to share a house with, strange!

"Yes, you can." I casually agreed.

In the summer, the temperature is getting higher day by day, and there is no sense of stopping at all. The people from the moving company moved our things from the dormitory to the second floor here, and Bai Tao and Lin Qiaoxuan and I were guarding upstairs and downstairs to supervise them.

The three of us are very good friends, and from the very beginning we planned to find a place to move out of school together this summer. We split up to look for a house, and I was the first to find the right one. I moved my things into an air-conditioned bedroom, and I said I was willing to pay an extra hundred dollars a month in rent, and they didn't object.

After the things were moved, we did a big cleaning with great interest, as if we were going to change our minds and welcome a new life. The room was cleaned up, and it was much different from what I had seen at first, much clearer and brighter. After we took a shower, we went to a small restaurant next door to celebrate with dinner. Lin Qiaoxuan is worthy of being recognized by her classmates as a heroine in the middle school, she asked for two bottles of beer and drank it herself.

"In the future, we will live together, there are no brothers and sisters at home, and we will be sisters in the future." Lin Qiaoxuan spoke in a loud voice, attracting the customers next to her.

"Well, I agree, with a burly sister like you, see who will dare to bully us in the future." Bai Tao pursed her lips and smiled.

"You just say I'm fat." Lin Qiaoxuan pretended to be angry and said, "I really can't talk to someone like you who writes articles, thinking about sarcasm all day long." It's still Charve, and she speaks very carefully. ”

I smiled and said, "I'm just stupid, I can't help it." ”

Bai Tao shook his head and said, "You're not stupid, you're too ghostly." ”

"Look at Shav, I'm right, no one will let go of her mouth." Lin Qiaoxuan put down her wine glass and continued, "Come, don't say anything else, each of you will have a drink with me." Our sisterhood is really the fate of the previous life. ”

I nodded, and brought two disposable cups for Lin Qiaoxuan to pour full beer.

"By the way, I forgot to tell you something." I suddenly remembered what the landlord had said to me.

"What's the matter?" Bai Tao asked with interest.

"It's nothing, it just feels like the landlord is mysterious." I smiled indifferently, "She made a point of explaining that she had stacked her things in the attic on the second floor stairs and told us not to move." Also, she asked me not to share a room with a friend, and I casually agreed at the time. Anyway, if she really comes, we won't know each other, so as not to cause trouble. ”

"Whatever, can she still kick us out if she lives in?" Lin Qiaoxuan laughed.

"That's it, if it doesn't work, Sister Lin will solve her by force, and I will help collect the body." Bai Tao turned his head to look at me as he spoke, "Xiaf, it's good for you to be a cheerleader on the side." ”

"Can we stop talking about being so perverted during dinner?" I picked up my wine glass and approached Lin Qiaoxuan.

Bai Tao and I are both a bit of an alcohol allerg, and I don't remember much about what happened that night after drinking this glass. All I know is that I'm happy, like I've had a new beginning in my life. At such a wonderful moment, the good sisters are by their side, and the road ahead will be very bright!

I got a job as a cashier at a large supermarket, sometimes working the day shift and sometimes the night shift. This job can get in touch with all kinds of people, and it's easy to have fun. Compared to me, Lin Qiaoxuan found a job that didn't suit her very well. On such hot summer days, she wears a thick bear running suit to hand out flyers to passers-by, a cafeteria that is open at noon and night. Bai Tao didn't go out to look for a job, she spent all day in her bedroom writing novels.

We had agreed that the three of us would take turns cooking dinner, but unfortunately this system was not implemented. Sometimes it's because one person is lazy and pushes the other person to switch the time. Sometimes it's because I go out to eat on the night shift, and the two of them don't bother to do it. There are also times when we all forget who made the last meal, and occasionally there are some quarrels. In the first few days, we were still interested in eating out together, but then we ate separately, and we really couldn't make our own instant noodles.

One night ten days after moving here, I was resting in my bedroom. Bai Tao crept up behind me, and she suddenly screamed, so frightened that my soul almost flew out.

"What are you doing, sneaky." I stroked the chest, and I was shocked.

"Shav, do you think we're good sisters?" Bai Tao leaned his face over. Her face was white and bloodless.

"Of course!" I pulled her to sit next to me.

"Then I'll discuss something with you?" Bai Tao bent his eyebrows and said, "Shall we change the bedroom?" I could have paid for that extra hundred dollars. ”

"Is there any other reason for this 、、、、、、?" I couldn't figure out what was going on for a while.

"You know, I've been in my room all day writing, and it's too hot to be uninspired." Seeing that I didn't react, Bai Tao sighed unconsciously and said, "I know you're a little embarrassed. I thought I would be able to barely blow the fan to get through this summer, but I found myself still unable to overcome the shadow in my heart. ”

"What shade?" I was unconsciously aroused by the white peach's curiosity.

"Actually, when I was a child, I had a younger brother, I was six years old at the time, and my younger brother was only two years old. At that time, we installed a ceiling fan in our house, I don't know if you have seen it, it is an electric fan hanging from the ceiling, and the fan blades are very long. That summer my uncle came to the house to play, and he hugged my brother to play a game of throwing high. He was standing just underneath the ceiling fan, the blades spinning at high speed. Once he threw it too high, and his brother's head was cut off alive just through the blades of the fan. I watched the bloody little head fall in front of me, and I didn't even have time to close my eyes、、、、、、"

My heart suddenly went cold, and my whole body trembled. Bai Tao said, her eyes were red, and there was a hint of rapid choking in her voice. I squeezed Bai Peach's hand, not knowing how to comfort her.

"For a long time, I didn't dare to blow the fan, I couldn't even look at it, because there were always horrible images in my mind." Bai Tao paused, and then said, "Now that I have grown up, although I have overcome some psychological obstacles, I still have a strange feeling in the face of this kind of desktop fan, the fan is like an independent human head with a neck, I always feel that it is telling me something, but it is drowned out by the whirring wind that I blow." Don't you think a desktop fan is a lot like a human head? ”

"It's kind of like that." I looked at the white peach in horror and replied unconsciously.

"They were!" White Peach's face flashed a blue in the light, "They shake their heads slowly, silently looking at you、、、、、、"

"Don't talk about it, I'm afraid."

"I don't know if I'm too imaginative, can you help me?" Bai Tao said softly, "Xiaf, please." ”

I looked at Bai Tao's pitiful appearance and nodded.

We switched bedrooms that night, and Lin Qiaoxuan didn't get up to help us move things. Maybe it was because she was too tired from her day's work, and she slept so hard. After moving to Bai Tao's bedroom, I was half-asleep all night, I looked at the electric fan on the bedside table, and remembered Bai Tao's words, it really looked like a moving human head, it turned in the dark, looking back and forth at you、、、、、、

At noon the next day, I went out with Lin Qiaoxuan. The scorching sun seemed to vent the anger of the heavens, and the temperature in the air was so high that it creeped and floated like a curve. We turned sideways and hid in the shadows of the stop signs. Lin Qiaoxuan suddenly asked me, "Did you switch bedrooms with Bai Tao last night?" ”

"Hmm." I turned my head and asked, "You weren't asleep?" ”

"I'm asleep, I only found out in the morning, why change it?" Lin Qiaoxuan expressed her concern about this matter.

"She said that she had a psychological barrier to electric fans, and I felt furious when she said it." My slightly frightened expression made her curious, and I continued, "She said that when she was a child, one of her younger brothers died because of an electric fan, and his head was cut off. ”

Lin Qiaoxuan didn't talk immediately, as if she was thinking about something.

"What's wrong?" I asked her.

"Do you believe what she says?" Lin Qiaoxuan asked in a very strange tone.

I nodded.

"She's the one who writes articles, and she's the best at making up stories." Lin Qiaoxuan frowned and said, "She also told me about the strange thing about the electric fan before. She said that one night they were in a hurry to go out so they didn't turn off the fans, and when she came back, she stood at the door and heard a few people whispering in the dormitory. She pushed the door open, but there was no one in the dormitory, only a few electric fans that were spinning rapidly. ”

"Ah———— really?" I was surprised.

"Hell knows, just be careful." Lin Qiaoxuan saw that the bus she was going to take was coming, waved her hand at me and squeezed in. My scalp was a little numb, and I couldn't accept these strange remarks for a while. I was still out of body in front of the cash register that day, and I didn't know what happened between Bai Tao and Lin Qiaoxuan. I always felt that something wasn't going the way I thought it would, and it made me feel a fear of the unknown.

A few days later, I came home from work and brought a boxed lunch for Bai Tao, and I happened to meet Lin Qiaoxuan when I went upstairs. She opened the door and asked me, "Why didn't you eat out?" ”

Bai Tao sat on the sofa, heard Lin Qiaoxuan's words, and answered for me: "I asked Xia Fu to help me bring the rice." ”

Lin Qiaoxuan looked a little unhappy and said, "You are really lazy, you don't even want to go downstairs to eat." ”

"You're not much better, you see that your clothes have been soaked on the balcony for a few days and have not been washed, and there is a big smell of rotten vegetable leaves." White Peach shot back.

"If you don't think it stinks, you can wash it for me, really!" Lin Qiaoxuan's tone was very bad.

"I'm not the babysitter you hired." Bai Tao sneered.

"Forget it." I looked at this posture and hurriedly came out to play a round, "All such good friends, don't fall out for personal habits." It's going to rain, and the women are going to get married, so let's go their separate ways. ”

They turned their heads and didn't argue again. But when I was moving in the living room, I didn't talk to each other anymore, as if there was no one in front of me. Originally, I wanted to persuade and persuade peace, but after thinking about it, I forgot it, maybe tomorrow they will automatically reconcile.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, I was surfing the Internet in my bedroom, and Lin Qiaoxuan knocked on the door and walked in. She carefully closed the door and sat down beside me. I turned my head to look at Lin Qiaoxuan, her appearance made me feel a little strange, but I couldn't tell where it was, Lin Qiaoxuan first smiled, and then put her arm around my shoulder and said, "Are we good friends?" ”

"Of course, why do you ask this all of a sudden?" I said strangely.

"Alas! I always felt that Bai Tao was not enough friends, and the two of us had to go to work, and we were very tired every day, especially when I had to wear that thick and stupid bear clothes, and I was hot to death. Everyone takes turns to clean up and she always cuts corners, just fool around and pass, this house is where everyone lives, I really don't know what she thinks. Lin Qiaoxuan complained.

"Literati always have a different temperament." I didn't want to discuss it, so I didn't add to it.

"Actually, I didn't come to you mainly to denounce Bai Tao." Lin Qiaoxuan suddenly lowered her voice and said, "I suspect that there is something wrong with Bai Tao's body. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Do you know why she had to move to an air-conditioned bedroom?" Lin Qiaoxuan said mysteriously, "It's not because of the phobia of electric fans, but because if the temperature of the air is too high, her body will melt." Become like gummies. ”

"You're joking, aren't you?" I smiled awkwardly.

"I knew you didn't believe me. You'd rather believe in the ghost story of White Peach. Lin Qiaoxuan stood up suddenly, and said angrily, "I'm just giving you a heads-up, and I will definitely prove it to you." ”

I watched Lin Qiaoxuan walk out of the door, I didn't come back to my senses for a long time, what she said was incredible, although I didn't believe it very much, but she successfully planted a seed in my mind, so I couldn't help but doubt. The human body melted like gummies, and I suddenly felt a little scared when I remembered this metaphor.

The next day I went to work at night, and I came home late because of the supermarket's monthly accounting. After getting off the bus I walked down an alley, if there had been a little vendor pushing carts to and fro earlier, but now there was no one there, and the alley was quiet and scary, so I tried not to think about it and try to look as straight ahead as I could. The light of the alley was dim, as if it were wilting with heat, and I noticed a man squatting in the corner, bent over and burying his head in his knees. I guessed he was a weary beggar, so I slowed down and tried not to wake him. But just when I was only three or four meters away from him, he suddenly raised his head.

I was startled, and instinctively paused, only to see him stand up and stare at me coldly. I swear I don't know him, and I've never met a man as emaciated as he is. His cheekbones were extraordinarily high, and the skin on his face drooped like a Shar Pei, and it was evident that he had not been a thin man before, but very fat, and his skin had fallen because of his sagging skin. I saw that his sleeves and trouser legs were empty, and I imagined the shape of his arms and legs, separated from the skeleton by a layer of skin.

He didn't look like a man.

I kept my head down and walked on, not wanting to have anything to do with such a person, he didn't stand up, but his eyes followed me, and as I passed by him, I heard him say, "Get out of that house quickly." ”

The sentence was clear, and every word swam into my head like a fish's fin. I didn't understand why he said such a thing, and my head suddenly hurt. It wasn't until I got back inside and closed the door that my heart slowly calmed down and I felt safe.

Bai Tao was in the living room to catch water to drink, she didn't sleep, she was used to staying up late to write articles.

"Why did you come back so late today?" White Peach asked me.

"It's late for work." I replied lightly.

"It's really hot today, you see you're sweating profusely, go to my bedroom and take a rest." Bai Tao pushed open the bedroom door and made an inviting gesture, "It's cool." ”

"Okay." I followed her in, and suddenly remembered Lin Qiaoxuan's words: white peaches will melt if they are too hot, so she hid in an air-conditioned room and did not go out.

Bai Tao closed the door and pulled me to sit next to the air conditioner. I suddenly had an uncomfortable feeling that what was supposed to be my treatment had now become her affection.

"Let me tell you something!" Bai Tao said mysteriously, "Regarding Lin Qiaoxuan, I found that she has a problem. ”

"What's the problem?"

"Don't you think Lin Qiaoxuan has been a little weird lately?" Bai Tao gestured with her hands in the air and said, "She seems to have lost a lot of weight suddenly, and she is irregularly thin, but it feels weird." ”

"Well, it's kind of." I found that I couldn't describe the feeling that Bai Tao explained, and my body trembled at that time, and I hurriedly asked, "Do you know what's wrong with her?" ”

Bai Tao shook his head, then nodded again, "Maybe you won't believe me, I found that Lin Qiaoxuan was evaporating." ”

"Evaporation?" I couldn't believe my ears, "Your imagination is really rich. ”

"What I said is true. Seventy percent of our bodies are water, and the water in Lin Qiaoxuan's body is evaporating. Bai Tao said seriously, "I found that Lin Qiaoxuan hasn't blown an electric fan these days, don't you think it's strange that she doesn't blow an electric fan on such a hot day?" ”

"How do you know she doesn't blow electric fans?"

"I went to her bedroom while she wasn't at home, and her electric fan was covered in dust." Bai Tao whispered.

"You shouldn't do that, you're violating someone's privacy." I was a little angry, but I couldn't help but ask curiously, "What does this have to do with her evaporation?" ”

"Think about it, if the electric fan blows in one direction, that part will evaporate faster, and that won't make the body very uncoordinated? Lin Qiaoxuan discovered this, so she stopped blowing the fan. "The white peach analyzes the head of the road.

I was stunned and didn't know how to answer.

"Looks like you still don't believe it." Bai Tao said in disappointment.

"Maybe she's losing weight, taking a sauna can lose weight, she deliberately made the house look like a sauna." I argued.

Bai Tao wanted to say something, but I quickly got up and said that I was cool and was going to sleep.

When I got back to my bedroom, I felt a strange sense of fear lingering in my heart, and I tried to think back to what had happened during this time, something must have gone wrong. At first, Lin Qiaoxuan said that the white peach was melting, and then the white peach said that Lin Qiaoxuan was evaporating. And I met that weird man in the alley, he asked me to leave, let me leave、、、、、、 is it really impossible to touch the taboo of the landlord and aunt? But it's already happening, so what is going to be done?

I still can't forget the problem in my sleep, aren't we friends? Why did they suddenly denigrate each other?

In the next few days, I will unconsciously look at Lin Qiaoxuan's figure, her fat seems to have disappeared a lot, and I can't use the word "fat" to describe her. I didn't go to the day shift that day and went downstairs with her, and I pretended to say that I went shopping.

"You've been losing weight lately, have you?" I said it in a casual tone on purpose.

Lin Qiaoxuan was stunned, then nodded and said, "Yes, I sweat like rain in that stupid bear suit every day, it's strange if I'm not thin." And I'm still resisting the temptation of good food, so just wait to see me become a fair lady. ”

I paid special attention to her eyes, and she flickered a little.

"It's really hot this day, when do you say it's a head?" I sighed, "It's said that today's temperature has reached an all-time high. ”

"Really?" Lin Qiaoxuan seemed to be interested, and suddenly asked, "Why didn't you go out shopping with Bai Tao?" ”

"I guess she won't want to come out." I shook my head.

"Do you remember what I said?" Lin Qiaoxuan said mysteriously, "Bai Tao is afraid that he will melt, so he doesn't dare to go out, today is really a good day, I will definitely find out the evidence." ”

"Hehe, you're so interesting." I am noncommittal to Lin Qiaoxuan's words. We parted at the fork in the road, and when Lin Qiaoxuan was far away, I turned back into the alley, and I tried to meet the skinny man, and although I really didn't want to see him, I felt like I had to figure out what was going on. The alley was full of people during the day, and I didn't see the person.

I always hoped that Lin Qiaoxuan and Bai Tao would have a big quarrel at night, and then they would each find out the truth of the facts, and everything would come out. But they still treat each other as air as usual, without any intersection. I went back to the bedroom early and locked the door, I didn't want them to feed me any more strange messages.

In the middle of the night, the electric fan suddenly stopped turning, I was woken up by the heat, and I was immediately sweating profusely, I turned on the flashlight on my phone, found the switch of the light and pressed it, the light did not turn on, it seemed that there was a power outage. I suddenly remembered what Lin Qiaoxuan said to me during the day, she said that she wanted to find out the evidence of the melting of the white peach, then this must be Lin Qiaoxuan's ghost, she cut the wire, so that the white peach has no way to use the air conditioner, will she 、、、、、、 melt?

I sat on the edge of the bed, unable to suppress my excitement, if it was really what Lin Qiaoxuan said, then wouldn't she be murdering Bai Tao? Thinking of this, I didn't go out to stop it, I felt my bad taste, my mind was full of the situation after the white peach melted, lying alone on the bed, her body became like gummies, maybe thinner, she couldn't exert a little strength, her facial expression became loose, she was probably dead when the police came, her flesh sticking to the sheets, and bright red blood flowing everywhere. Perhaps、、、、、、 she would wake up suddenly, stand up and run out, and ask me for help, but as she ran, she found that her body collapsed like gluten, collapsed into a lump, her eyes burst out, rolling around on the flesh with blood、、、、、、 I looked at the door panel fixedly, what was Bai Tao doing at the moment? I pretended I didn't know anything and went back to bed、、、、、、

After waking up in the morning, I rushed to the living room as soon as possible, Lin Qiaoxuan was already sitting leisurely on the sofa, she stared at Bai Tao's bedroom intentionally or unintentionally, I don't know if she wanted Bai Tao to come out or die in the bedroom. Lin Qiaoxuan kept looking at her watch, she couldn't wait, because she was in a hurry to go to work. I sat down with a glass of boiled water and watched what happened. Lin Qiaoxuan couldn't hold it back, she stood up and walked towards Bai Tao's bedroom, at this moment, the door suddenly "creaked" open, and Bai Tao slowly walked out. Lin Qiaoxuan walked back awkwardly, pretending to be just a boring walk in the living room.

Bai Tao lowered her head and walked to the bathroom, but I still noticed the change in her, the skin on her face and hands had some irregular bumps, as if the flesh under the skin had flowed down a little because of melting, piling up into lumps, and the originally fair skin began to glow scarlet, as if the capillaries had burst. Her appearance reminded me of the red candle placed in front of the mourning hall, the melted wax oil spilling from the wick and finally solidifying on the surface of the candle.

"What's wrong with your face、、、、、、 I asked, horrified.

"Mosquito bites." Bai Tao replied weakly, and she walked quickly into the bathroom.

Lin Qiaoxuan walked to the door with her bag on her back, and she suddenly turned around and smiled weirdly at me. I know she's showing off her record. I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, and this was not the result I wanted. After Lin Qiaoxuan went out, I slipped into her bedroom, and although I knew it was immoral, there was no other way. It was stuffy in her bedroom, the windows were open, and the hot wind was blowing in. I saw a lot of empty mineral water bottles piled up at the head of her bed, and I could still feel some tiny droplets of water on the shelves of the iron bed.

Bai Tao quickly got out of the bathroom and went into the bedroom, and I didn't continue to ask anything. I simply cleaned up and went to work.

Since it was a weekend, there were a lot of people who came to the supermarket to shop. I scanned the barcode quickly, and my mind still reproduced the horror of the white peach in the morning. I now know that Lin Qiaoxuan is right, the white peach is indeed melting, but the temperature yesterday did not reach the point of complete melting. Her body just softened a little. After confirming this, my heart was empty, disgusted with my inaction last night, and terrified on the other.

I couldn't let Lin Qiaoxuan continue to mess around, so I decided to go to her.

Taking advantage of the lunch time, I rushed to Lin Qiaoxuan's place of work. The cafeteria is on the third floor, Lin Qiaoxuan usually distributes flyers on the first floor, I walked to a big stupid bear and patted her, she took off the bear's head, but it was not Lin Qiaoxuan inside.

"I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person. What about Lin Qiaoxuan? I asked embarrassedly.

"She's gone to dinner." The girl said, and then said, "That friend of yours is so blessed that he can eat and not gain weight." ”

I nodded awkwardly and took the elevator up to the third floor. Through the glass window, I saw Lin Qiaoxuan sitting in the corner, with a lot of empty plates piled up on her table, and the cutlery in her hands had not been idle. I didn't go in and call her, but turned and left. At that moment, I felt that Lin Qiaoxuan saw me, she stood up and waved at me, I didn't respond to her, and quickly went downstairs to leave. My heart was beating violently, and my body couldn't stop shaking. I suddenly felt that Lin Qiaoxuan was like a demon, and I was afraid that she would catch up and eat me.

It turns out that Bai Tao is right, Lin Qiaoxuan is indeed evaporating, what sauna, what diet, what weight loss success, all are nonsense. Because of evaporation, there are water droplets on her bed. She's lost weight to a normal weight, and she'll keep losing weight until she's a skeleton, so she's constantly replenishing water and food to gain weight to offset the weight she evaporates every day.

I felt cheated on me, living in the midst of two monsters, yet listening to their accusations and suspicions of each other. I was completely overshadowed by great fear and doubt, and I didn't know what to do next. They are devils, coming from hell, and I, like the devil's snack, are waiting to be tasted. I didn't know what the hell was wrong with all this, so I decided to go to the landlord and hope she would give me some answers.

"I can't find my rental contract, can I go to you and sign a new one?" I lied to the landlord.

"No problem, come to my house!" She said.

I rushed to the landlord's house, which was not too far from us. She was home alone and the living room was very clean. I sat on the couch and drank water, and the landlord crouched in front of the TV cabinet looking for her contract.

"The previous lease contracts were piled up on top of each other, and it was a bit of a mess." She smiled apologetically.

"It's okay, you look for it slowly." I took a deep breath and continued, "Auntie said last time that you shouldn't share a house with friends, is there any reason?" ”

She glanced back at me and said lightly: "Actually, there is no special reason, I always feel that no matter how good friends live together, there will be conflicts, and in the end, maybe friends can't do it, but friends with their own lives can last for a long time." ”

"Is that all?" I agree with her, but I know it's not a true answer.

"And what else do you think?" She asked rhetorically.

I shook my head, I didn't think it was wise to say the difference between Lin Qiaoxuan and Bai Tao. "I remember you said don't go to the attic, there's nothing important in it, right? Your house is so spacious, you might as well move the contents here, save yourself from losing it, I can't afford to pay the responsibility. ”

The landlord piled the pile of contracts on the coffee table, sighed, and said, "The things in the attic are not important when they are important, and they are important if they are not important." There are the shrines of my husband and two of his friends. ”

"Huh?" I stood up in fright, anxious and angry.

"You don't have to be afraid." The landlord took my hand and asked me to sit down, her voice sounding a little sad, "Actually, it was twenty years ago, I was working in the field at the time, so he lived in that building with two friends, they both worked in a nearby steel mill, and at that time their relationship was iron, and my husband was a righteous man." Later, there was a promotion index in the factory, and the candidate was between his two friends. The factory leaders wanted to hear my husband's advice. Because of this opportunity, the relationship between the two friends began to become bad, and even when they lived together, they were like strangers. Privately, they were trying to pull my husband into their own support camp, and my husband was distressed about it. They often ask him, do you think we are friends? This is actually a kind of emotional coercion, which makes it difficult to choose. ”

"And then?" I asked.

"One night, my husband invited the two of them to drink and wanted to make peace with them. But after they drank, they quarreled on the spot, and in front of my husband, they talked a lot about each other's nos. In my husband's opinion, these things are just trivial things, and they are not worth hurting the harmony between friends. My husband was helpless at the time, and he felt sad for such a friend's feelings. All three of them drank a lot of alcohol and my husband got drunk, and the two friends started pointing the finger at him and persecuting him, saying, 'If you don't support me, I'll kill you,' and my husband was so scared that he struck first and killed them. ”

"How did you kill it?" I asked.

"One was thrown into the furnace of the steel mill, and the other was stuffed into the coal tunnel." The landlord sighed and shook his head, "Later he was sentenced to death. ”

I listened in a daze, vaguely feeling that there was a strange connection between them.

"Before he died, he told me that he regretted it and asked me to set up the three of them in the attic. He said they were going to be together forever. The landlord smiled wryly.

An inexplicable sadness suddenly welled up in my heart.

The landlord didn't say anything more, she had already found the contract. I saw her stand up and walk to the study, "You wait here, I'll reprint a copy." ”

"Okay, thanks." I flipped through the other contracts on the coffee table, and a copy of my ID caught my eye, and the face in the photo seemed to have been seen there, but I didn't really want to see it.

I didn't rush back after leaving the landlord's house, my panic had reached its limit, the landlord's husband killed two of his friends, one was melted in a furnace, and the other was stuffed into the coal tunnel and dried raw, evaporating all the water on his body. The spiritual seats of the three of them were placed in the attic.

My forehead and palms were sweating non-stop, and I remembered the photo on the copy of my ID, it was that skinny strange man, he was also one of the tenants there, he must have been to the attic, his body was evaporated to become what it is now, people are not like people, ghosts are not like ghosts.

There was heat in my chest, and I stood in the alley, my mouth dry.

Time ticked by, and I was waiting for the man to arrive, because only he could give me an answer. There were fewer and fewer pedestrians in the alley, the streetlights were dim, and gray moths were bumping around it as if they were going to kill them. I saw a short shadow approaching me, and he came slowly, hunched and even thinner than before. His appearance reminded me of Lin Qiaoxuan's future, which made me feel a chill.

"You haven't moved out yet? You're going to die. His voice was still weak, like silk that could break at any moment.

"What the hell is going on?" I finally asked the question I wanted to know, and my heart was anxious and excited.

"Loft! There was a strange sound in that attic. He trembled and said, "That voice asks me, are you going to melt or evaporate?" ”

"You chose vaporization?" I asked, holding my breath.

He didn't answer, just couldn't help but sigh.

"What else does that voice say?" I asked.

He said that only if your friend chooses the same as you, the curse on you will be transferred to your friend. What a vicious curse, get out of here or you'll die too. He said.

My whole body began to chill after hearing this, and I finally understood that Bai Tao and Lin Qiaoxuan must have been to that attic, they guessed each other's choices, and then instilled in me the concept of terror. They had only one purpose, and once I went to that attic, I would choose another way because I understood how terrible one way was, and that would take over the curse that had been attached to one of them. Afraid of melting and choosing to evaporate, I will die for Lin Qiaoxuan, afraid of evaporation and choose to melt, I will die for Bai Peach.

They all tried to pull me into their camp and killed me.

The emaciated figure disappeared at the end of the alley, and he said, I have no friends, so I have to bear it myself.

I'm a friend of two good friends, and the voice that once said that I would be sisters forever still lingers in my ears, but now it's cold. I'm not going to go to the attic, so I don't have to be afraid of them.

When I got home, it was already past midnight, the light in the living room was still on, I pushed open the door and saw Bai Tao and Lin Qiaoxuan sitting at the dining table, there were sumptuous dishes on the table, I was stunned, as if everything was the same as before.

"We've reconciled." Lin Qiaoxuan pulled me to the table and sat down.

"Well, I'll never quarrel over that messy thing again." Bai Tao said happily.

"So we made this dinner together, and we remembered that we hadn't eaten together in a long time." Lin Qiaoxuan sighed.

"Shav, let's celebrate, everything will start again."

I couldn't figure out the direction of the sudden turn of the situation, and I abandoned my old preconceptions and kept suggesting to myself that this was real. We're really back to how we used to feel. At that time, we were holding hands, full of spirits and full of ambition.

I clinked glasses with Lin Qiaoxuan and clinked glasses with white peaches, and that feeling was very wonderful.

Before I fell asleep, I seemed to see Bai Tao and Lin Qiaoxuan's faces with weird smiles. I had a moment of sobriety, could this be a feast? They already knew I knew everything, so there was no need to disguise it any longer. Only one of the three of us will survive. So they banded together and left the decision to me, and I was the one who was destined to die. I drank too much, and the sudden fear didn't give me back the ability to think, and I was always overwhelmed.

When I woke up, it was pitch black all around me, I took my phone out of my pocket, and through the bright light, I saw my situation, and in front of me were three wooden spiritual tablets, and the writing on the spiritual tablets was like bright red blood. I know I'm done! Himself was locked up in the attic! I kept shaking and reached for the attic door, but I couldn't because it was locked from the outside. I imagined the two of them standing outside the door waiting for my decision. I banged the door and cried, "Let me out!" Let me out! ”

No one responded. Their ears felt as if they had gone deaf. I panicked even more, and bent my fingers to pick at the crack in the door, because I had tried too hard to peel off my nails, and blood kept dripping. I couldn't sit on the floor and had a splitting headache. I seemed to feel a ghostly aura in this narrow, confined space, and six pairs of invisible eyes peeking at me.

A gloomy voice suddenly came to mind from behind me————

Are you going to melt or evaporate? My friend.