Chapter 31: The Voice of the Attic

"Well, okay, Mom, I know, okay, then I'll clean up first." A young woman is holding a phone over her shoulder, talking with her hands as she straightens her clothes.

After hanging up the phone, the woman began to tidy up other clothes, this young woman had just moved from the suburbs to the city center, the woman was rewarded for her excellent work, and now she was transferred to work in the city center store with a better environment and better treatment, and served as the store manager, busy in the pharmacy during the day, and returned to the rental house alone at night, because of her special position, so the company took the money to let her rent another house, and did not let her live with other colleagues, saying that it was to avoid getting too close to her colleagues and not easy to manage.

On this day, she cleaned up the room, this house is on the sixth floor of the relatively old community, there is an empty attic upstairs, choosing to rent here is nothing more than cheap, if you want to go up to the attic, just go up from the iron stairs on the left side of the door, she lives in one of the rooms on the sixth floor, there is no one in the other rooms, the attic is not rented, there is a rusty green painted iron door on the stairs, the lock on the door is the kind of U-shaped lock, very old.

At 9.40 in the evening, the woman returned to the dormitory to rest after washing up, lay on the bed after washing, closed her eyes and prepared to sleep, was woken up at about 12.00, and heard the sound of wine bottles falling to the ground upstairs, as well as the sound of chairs colliding, which made the woman feel very annoying, but after all, a woman was a little afraid of things and endured it, the next day the woman bought earplugs, went home to sleep after work, and when it was about 12.00, the sound came again, but this time the woman didn't feel anything, just felt a little vibration, but it didn't affect her too much and fell asleep.

This situation lasted for more than two weeks, and one day she went out to hang out with her colleagues, a company party, and everyone drank and ate together, and then went to sing. I didn't go home until one o'clock in the evening, and when I got home, she opened the door crookedly, took off her shoes and lay on the bed, without earplugs, and heard the sound of someone running barefoot upstairs, and kicked a beer bottle and a chair or something, and the sound made made her very angry, taking advantage of the strength of the wine to strengthen her courage, scolded a few words loudly, and got up to confront her, but when she stood up, a wave of dizziness hit, and she ran to the toilet to vomit.

After spitting up, rinsed his mouth, went to bed and fell asleep, and forgot about it, and woke up the next day with a headache, which made her very unhappy, and went to work in the store and was angry, and when I took a break at noon, I remembered that I didn't sleep well at night, and I was angry at work during the day, and the more I thought about it, the more angry I was, so I took out the phone and called the agent to lose my temper, and the agent said that it would help deal with it, and contact the landlord to deal with it, but after hanging up the phone, the agent inquired and found that the attic was not rented, did it enter the thief? In order not to startle the snake, I contacted the landlord, and the landlord said that no one had lived there for a long time, and the attic had been locked for a long time, so how could anyone live without water or electricity.

After an investigation and verification, the intermediary went to the house with the key, opened the door on the sixth floor and went in to see, and went up to the attic, the attic itself could not go up, because it was locked, the intermediary shook his head and thought that the tenant was looking for fault and left, and the woman came back at night to wash and sleep, just in case she put on the earplugs but still felt an obvious vibration, which made the woman very unhappy, took off the earbuds, heard the vibration sound of running and jumping, coupled with the sound of the wine bottle chair kept hitting and kicking, which made the woman angry, Several times when she was about to fall asleep, she was woken up again, the woman was angry, went upstairs and slammed the door and scolded a few words, the sound gradually stopped, but the door did not open, and when the woman went downstairs, she found that the door was locked.

Although the woman felt very strange in her heart, when she heard the sound stop, she returned to her room and continued to sleep. When she woke up during the day, the woman told the agent again over the phone, and said that the door was locked. I know it's locked, so how can there be a voice, although I kept scolding this woman for being neurotic in my heart, but on the surface I kept making amends with apologies, and promised to contact the landlord to deal with it, but at the same time, I tactfully said that since the door is locked, how can there be a sound?

The woman heard the meaning of the intermediary, hung up the phone very angrily, didn't sleep at night, calculated the time, and when the time came, she recorded as soon as there was movement, and then used it as evidence to find the intermediary, the plan was very good, at about eleven o'clock in the evening, the woman had already nodded like pounding garlic, but she also said in her heart that she couldn't lie down, and she fell asleep when she lay down, insisted on sitting awake, but she could also fall asleep while sitting, leaning on the bed and sitting, and slowly fell asleep, and when it was twelve o'clock, the woman was already asleep, It was at this time that the sound of the upstairs began again, the sound of running and jumping barefoot, the sound of beer bottles falling to the ground, the sound of tables and chairs colliding, the woman immediately woke up and pressed the record button, recording all this, and then the sound slowly disappeared, and the woman slowly fell asleep.

The next day, the woman came to the intermediary company angrily, found the intermediary who rented a house for herself, took out the recording, let him listen, the recording was turned on, in addition to the sound of running and jumping barefoot, the sound of beer bottles falling to the ground, the sound of tables and chairs colliding, there was also a man's voice shouting and crying, the sound of shouting was close and far away, the crying voice has always been the kind of low crying, and this bit of hoarseness, these voices are mixed together to make people very uncomfortable, the intermediary and the woman are in a cold sweat, especially women, I was so scared that my legs were weak and I almost fell, although the agent was also scared, but I still beat up my spirit and asked the woman what was going on, the woman told him about the past few days and last night, and finally the two found the landlord, and played a video to the landlord, the landlord did not speak after listening, and returned all the rent to the woman, sealed off the house, and never rented it again, only prayed that it could be demolished one day.

Later, the woman moved away, and the intermediary inquired in many ways to find out that there was a man living in the attic of the house, who was a depressed patient, and came here to pursue his artistic dream, a few years have passed, and the edge of the dream has not been touched, and he collapsed first, drinking and hiding all day and crying, crying looking at his works, losing his temper, lying on the bed and looking at the light bulb and crying, the other people who rented with him couldn't stand it and moved away, thinking that he was a psychopath, and finally only he was left in the room, these people's leases did not expire, but because he couldn't stand it, he was gone, He was left alone in the house, he had depression, and the whole house was empty and he was alone, and finally he chose to commit suicide, and he had been dead for several days when he was found.

Since then, the landlord has blocked the attic and rented out the house below, until now after this incident, the downstairs has also been blocked, and some people have asked the landlord why he didn't find someone to do things or something? What the landlord means is that if he does, he will tell everyone that there is something wrong with the house, and what will happen to the residents downstairs? After that, everyone was silent and did not mention the matter.