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I furrowed my brows slightly as I looked at Zhang Chao, nodding in confusion, unable to understand why he had suddenly changed so much.
But what he said next made my face turn as pale as his. He claimed that there were no residents on the seventh floor of this building because the people living there had died twenty days ago.
"That's impossible."
Although Zhang Chao's words frightened me, I shook my head. If what he said was true, then it meant my girlfriend wasn't human.
Who, then, had been sleeping beside me all this time? Was it a ghost?
Zhang Chao, however, looked serious. Seeing my disbelief, he quickly asked for my girlfriend's name.
I replied that her name was Mu Yan. To my surprise, his face turned even paler at the mention of her name; it was beyond mere panic.
He grabbed my hand with a look of terror and said in a trembling voice, "Haozi, your girlfriend is not human! The girl who died on the seventh floor is named Mu Yan—exactly the same name as your girlfriend."
I had always considered myself an atheist, but hearing Zhang Chao say this made me feel uneasy. His serious expression didn’t seem like a joke.
Still, I was reluctant to believe it and replied, "Maybe the previous resident just shared the same name as my girlfriend."
"Shared the same name?"
Zhang Chao looked at me incredulously. "What are the odds of that? Not only sharing a name but also living in the same place one after another?"
I wanted to argue further, but Zhang Chao didn’t give me a chance. Before I could speak, he held out his phone and said, "Haozi, take a look. Is this your girlfriend?"
Reluctantly, I took the phone from Zhang Chao's hand. But after just one glance, I was so startled that I flung his phone away.
"Whoa! Take it easy, man! That’s an Apple Plus I just bought a few days ago! It took me three months of savings!"
Zhang Chao picked up his phone from the ground with a pained expression. Fortunately, it hadn’t broken. He didn’t say much else but looked at me and whispered, "Haozi, do you believe it now?"
I nodded numbly, feeling a deep sense of fear and trembling all over. What ZhangChao showed me was a news search on Baidu on my mobile phone. The content of the news was the same as what he said before. It was about the mysterious death of a young girl at home. It also came with a few pictures. I recognized the person in the picture at first sight. She was my current girlfriend Mu Yan, and even her name was exactly the same. If I didn’t believe it based on ZhangChao’s words before, now I can’t help but believe it in the face of facts. In other words, Mu Yan is really dead. As for the person who slept with me during this period, it is not a human being at all. In other words, the devil knows the result. Even if he borrows a hundred courages from me, there is no way I can go up there. , so I followed ZhangChao with a panicked expression. In the next few days, I was very nervous even when I was working, always afraid of what would happen, but I was still relatively calm. I originally thought that this matter would be in the past, but I didn't expect that once I mess with something, I can't get rid of it at all. That was a week later. I had just returned to the company to get off work, and then I received a text message, and I took my phone out of my pocket without paying attention. But when I pressed the button to light up the screen, I was completely frightened because the name displayed as the sender turned out to be Mu Yan. When my hand shook, I almost dropped the phone to the ground. The colleague next to me saw that I was acting strange and asked me what was going on. I hesitated for a long time but didn't know how to speak, so I shook my head and said it was okay. Then I opened the text message with trembling hands, and it showed six words, "I'm going to find you tonight." Find me. She's going to come to me. When I saw the content of this text message, I almost collapsed.
Mu Yan was not human; she was already dead, and this was almost a certainty. Could the news still deceive people?
At that moment, I felt like a headless fly, completely at a loss about what to do.
Then I thought of Zhang Chao. He was the only one who knew the truth. As soon as I opened my mouth to tell him that Mu Yan had sent me a text message, his face instantly turned grim.
But when I prepared to show him the message, a strange scene unfolded: the message had disappeared. No matter how hard I searched, I couldn't find it.
Seeing my struggle, Zhang Chao's expression darkened as he asked, "Haozi, did you delete it?"
I replied, "No."
He frowned slightly and waited for a while. When he saw that I still hadn't found it, his expression seemed to lighten considerably. He sighed in relief and said, "Haozi, maybe you've been under too much stress these past few days and are just imagining things."
"Imagining things?"
I shook my head. I had clearly received the message and even read its contents. Could it really be that I was just imagining it?
"How about this: I'll take you out for a drink tonight, and then you can go home and get some good rest. Don't think too much; maybe you'll feel better after recharging," Zhang Chao suggested when he noticed my lingering confusion.
I thought for a moment and nodded. Indeed, I hadn't been sleeping well lately. During work hours, I often felt dazed. Perhaps I really was just too exhausted and had imagined it all.
So after work, Zhang Chao and I found a nearby food stall where we ordered several buckets of cold beer and some dishes to go with it.
I genuinely wanted to drink myself into a stupor so I could sleep when I got home. Zhang Chao was nice enough to stay with me, but whether it was because of my good alcohol tolerance or his poor one, by the end of the night, I was merely tipsy while Zhang Chao was completely drunk.
There was no other option; I had to call a taxi to take him home.
However, when we got into the car, the driver's comment startled me. He said, "Hey buddy, let your girlfriend sit in the front. Your friend drank so much; you should keep an eye on him in the back."
He unexpectedly opened the front door of the car, and I looked at him in terror, asking, "My girlfriend..."
"Uh, that's his girlfriend," he replied.
His words sent chills down my spine. I didn't respond but quickly glanced around me. Aside from a few passersby, it was just me and Zhang Chao.
Seeing that I was ignoring him, the driver felt a bit awkward and closed the front door, saying softly, "Then let's all sit in the back."
I thought he must have misseen things and didn't dwell on it. I helped Zhang Chao into the back seat and told him to take me to Silipeng.
Throughout the ride, the driver's gaze kept darting to the back through the rearview mirror. Eventually, I got a bit annoyed and asked, "What are you staring at, driver?"
He shook his head and said, "No particular reason. I'm just curious why you aren't talking to your girlfriend sitting next to you. Is she really not your girlfriend?"
"What do you mean 'my girlfriend'?" His words made me uneasy, and I couldn't help but shout.
"Well, she's sitting right next to you," he said, even turning around to point beside me.
I suddenly felt all the hair on my body stand on end and quickly looked beside me. But aside from Zhang Chao sitting across from me, there was nothing there.
Yet I sensed that the driver wasn't joking; he seemed serious.
In that moment, I recalled the text message Mu Yan had sent me earlier that afternoon. She said she would come find me tonight. Could it be that message wasn't just my imagination? Was she really here?
And was she sitting right next to me, invisible to my eyes?
The more I thought about it, the more terrified I became. My face turned pale as fear washed over me.
Noticing my sudden change in complexion, the driver seemed to understand something instantly; his expression also turned grim.
Through the rearview mirror, I could see a gaze filled with deep fear. Without saying much, he drove straight to the location I had previously indicated. After I helped Zhang Chao out of the car, he didn’t even wait for me to settle before speeding away.
The more he acted this way, the heavier the fear in my heart became. It felt as if something was following me, sending chills down my spine.
I forced myself to suppress that fear and hurriedly took Zhang Chao to his apartment complex. After retrieving the keys from him, I opened his door and without hesitation, helped him inside.
I quickly slipped into his home and locked the door tightly behind me. Turning on the living room light, I finally let out a long sigh of relief.
But that relief was short-lived, as a gentle knocking sound came from outside.
In the stillness of the night, the "knock knock knock" sounded so jarring.
Startled, I jumped and peered through the peephole. The hallway outside was pitch black, with not a single shadow in sight.
Suddenly, I felt a tingling sensation in my thigh. With a sharp gasp, my legs nearly gave way beneath me. It turned out to be just my phone vibrating. I pulled it out to find another text message.
The sender's name read: Mu Yan.
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