Chapter 50: Under the Bed (Part 1)

August 6, 2023Ai Hrist

Hearing that there was a ghost in the house, Jumping Mouse shuddered and felt the atmosphere behind her was eerie.

“Did I hit a ghost? Then what should I do now, Sangsang?” She was so nervous that she could not speak coherently: “Why don’t I go back to my hometown now.”

Gu Zhisang shook her head and said: “Generally speaking, ghosts don’t haunt living people for no reason. It should be because you committed some taboo and accidentally provoke it to get close.”

“It’s useless for you to blindly escape in this situation. You must resolve the accidental connection. Otherwise, if it is a fierce ghost, even if you leave this house or this city, it will still haunt you. Weaker ghosts are unwilling to linger here, and you can’t just give up this house.”

Jumping Mouse looks depressed.

Gu Zhisang said that she was worried about her heart. This house was bought by her parents who worked hard all their lives and spent all their savings, and they had no other residences other than this.

Even if it was rented out, who would want a haunted house?

She asked: “Then how can I resolve it and send the ghost away?”

“It’s simple.” Gu Zhisang said slowly: “You didn’t mean to offend, and it didn’t want to kill you. It probably just wanted to teach you a little lesson.”

“If there is an incense store near you, you can go to buy some incense, paper money, gold ingots, and other paper objects, and then prepare some sacrifices, and burn all the paper objects to it in the living room to express your apology. Doing this can get rid of the ghosts in the house.”

Jumping Mouse hurriedly took out a pen and paper, and wrote down everything she had to buy.

Gu Zhisang said: “This kind of ritual needs to be done for 3 consecutive days, and after 3 days, the ghosts in your house will be sent away.”

“Then I will refund the ticket for tonight first.”

Jumping Mouse said, then cancel the train ticket back to her hometown on her mobile phone, and sent a text message to her parents that she will not go back to their hometown.

The two elderly people were worried about her, so they called to ask.

Jumping Mouse’ hung up the phone after an explanation, looked at the camera, and apologized: “Sorry for taking up everyone’s time.”

“There seems to be a store across the street from our house that sells these things.” She said a little at a loss: “When I buy it, how do I burn it, where should I burn it, and when I burn it, do I need to say something to apologize? What ceremony should I perform?”

Gu Zhisang in front of the camera frowned slightly, as if a little impatiently:

“There is still a shooting task this afternoon, and I can’t wait for you here. Since that is the case, you go and buy the things now, and I will guide you to burn them.”

Jumping Mouse hurriedly got up with her mobile phone and walked towards the door.

“Okay, I’ll go buy it now, I’ll trouble you, Sangsang!”

At this time, there were more than 4 million viewers in the live broadcast room. Seeing Gu Zhisang’s cold and indifferent attitude, some black fans took the opportunity to pick things up, and they were very angry:

[I feel that Sangsang is acting weird today, she seems to be in a bad mood.]

[Hey, this girl has no eyesight. Can’t she see that some big star is getting impatient? Why she kept asking questions?]

[Black fans, don’t try to fish in troubled waters, okay? Originally, this is extra time for solving doubts. It’s been live broadcasting all morning. Isn’t it normal to be tired?]

[I just said that Gu Zhisang has been making fools of people, pretending to be so good. How can people pretend all their life? She’s just playing big names, and making the audience look bad.]

Jumping Mouse, who walked out of the house, saw some chaotic barrage and found that someone started to take advantage of her own business.

She apologized and said guiltily: “It’s true that I was too troublesome. Sangsang explained clearly what I have to buy. Why don’t I quit the live broadcast first?”

“No need.” Gu Zhisang said.

“Then I’ll hurry up and buy it.”

The camera swayed with the footsteps of Jumping Mouse, when she ran out of the gate of the community, Gu Zhisang suddenly called her.

Jumping Mouse panted and picked up the phone: “What’s wrong Sangsang?”

Through the screen, Gu Zhisang saw that the ‘blood’ on Jumping Mouse’s face had faded a lot and was still dissipating slowly. She knew that her intervention had played a role.

Gu Zhisang calmed down and said: “Don’t go to the incense shop, go to the nearest police station and call the police now.”

Jumping Mouse: “???”

The Audience: “???”

“Ah? Why?” Jumping Mouse looked at a loss.

Is it useful to call the police for exorcising ghosts?

She was suspicious, so she asked her voice.

Gu Zhisang’s eyes were cold, but the corner of her lower lip curled up: “Of course, you don’t need to go to the police station to catch ghosts, but there are no ghosts in your house from beginning to end.”

Under the astonished gaze of ‘Jumping Mouse’, she told the truth.

“The sounds you hear, the moved objects, and the injured cat are all man-made.” Gu Zhisang said: “The ‘ghost’ is just a pervert with a twisted mind.”

Jumping Mouse was stunned by these words, and she stammered after a while: “A per, pervert? How is it possible… No, there are no perverts in my family…”

As she spoke, she suddenly realized something, her pupils constricted, and she looked at the screen: “Sangsang, what you just said couldn’t be…?”

Gu Zhisang did not deny it: “I just made up a cover to give you a chance to come out from your house and call the police.”

“That person has been at your house all the time. When you started a live broadcast to communicate with me, he should be listening under your bed.”

Jumping Mouse: “?!!”

The Audience: “?!!”

{My gosh! I’m getting goosebumps, if that’s the case, we were chatting with that pervert just now, but he didn’t show up!]

[The murder scene came into reality, I said why Sangsang was so weird just now, it’s not the same as before, she was protecting Jumping Mouse!]

[Didn’t Miss Sister say that sometimes there would be some noises at the end of the bed at night? Doesn’t that mean the pervert is under her bed every night?!]

[It’s too scary! A big living person is hiding at home, did Jumping Mouse not find anything?]

[I suddenly thought of a terrible thing. If that pervert was by her side all the time, doesn’t that mean he also hear that she was going to leave this afternoon?! If the anchor didn’t see her comment, and she hadn’t had contact with the anchor, would she be able to leave her house alive tonight?]

[I thought it was a supernatural event, but it was a criminal investigation event.]

[Help me, I’m alone at home now, I’m afraid to watch the show, I dare not get out of bed!]

[… …]

Looking at the crazily refreshed barrage, Jumping Mouse’s back was drenched in cold sweat.

Her legs were weak now, and she was afraid that her face will turn pale after a while.

Gu Zhisang reassured her and said: “Don’t be afraid, that person probably believed my words, thinking that you just went to the incense store, so he didn’t chase after you. You go to the police station to call the police, and you will be once they catch him.”

But what she didn’t tell the girl was that in her original fate, her life would end in forty minutes.

If she didn’t connect with her, she will never know that there was a murderer with a seriously twisted psychology watching her under her bed.

When she was packing her luggage and was about to leave her room, she would be hit on the back of the head with a hammer by that person, tortured to death, and brutally dismembered.

She would be a victim of a homicide that will shock the whole city.

Jumping Mouse felt that Gu Zhisang’s voice had a magical power, which calmed her panicked emotions a little. She nodded repeatedly and ran to the nearby police station this time without feeling tired.