The man in the closet

"There is really someone in my closet."

This is the seventh time Tian Tian has been late this month, but the reason she gave me was so nonsense. As the department head, , I really can’t hide it for her.

"Tian Tian, ??it's really hard for me to deal with you like this. It's okay if I helped you cover up the past few times, but the company has company regulations. If you continue like this, we really can't." I’ll keep you here.”

We are an advertising company, not too big or too small in this first-tier city. We have been struggling to survive. The boss is very young. He is born in the 1980s and started his own business. A few years ago, a college classmate, when he started his own business, he saw that the stories I wrote were pretty good, so he pulled me into a partnership, gave me some shares, and asked me to be responsible for the company's planning and copywriting. I happened to have nothing to do, so I jumped into it. I entered this pit and now I can't climb out even if I want to.

"Viagra, don't you even believe me?"

Tian Tian looked at me with aggrieved expression, tears welling up in his eyes.

Speaking of Tian Tian, ??I recruited her through a personal interview. The little girl has just graduated and is from the north. It is not easy for her to come to this southern city to work alone.

Her writing style is very good and her imagination is great, which meets our requirements very well. I made her a regular employee within fifteen days of the probation period.

In the few months after she joined the company, several cases she was responsible for became quite popular in the city’s advertising circle, and the public account run by the company also attracted over 10,000 followers. To be honest, as a newcomer, she is already very good.

"Have you watched too many horror movies recently?"

I doubted what she said. After all, she was very young and lived alone, so she tended to have random thoughts at night. Very normal.

Besides, this horror joke is too cliche.

"I really heard a noise in the closet, as if someone was scratching at the door, and someone was crying. I was so scared that I couldn't sleep all night."

Her The obvious dark circles under her eyes proved that she had indeed stayed up all night, but this did not prove that what she said was true. After all, there are countless reasons to stay up late. What if she just stayed up late to watch dramas and couldn't get up in the morning?

"How to prove it?"

I am a little impatient with this nonsense reason and want to end this conversation.

Unexpectedly, Tian Tian took out her mobile phone and opened a software.

"I recorded this last night, please listen to it."

Tian Tian pressed the play button, and what I heard next was an incredible recording. .

The crying voice was like a child, sometimes weak, sometimes strong, accompanied by a heartbreaking scratching sound on the door, as if someone was locked in a coffin and buried alive in the ground, struggling crazily to escape. Same.

In addition to pain, the cry was also mixed with a hint of unwillingness.

"Don't be afraid, I will protect you."

As soon as he heard that something happened at Tian Tian's house, Xiaopang, the editor who had always had a crush on her, volunteered to go to her house Help her catch ghosts. As Tian Tian's leader, in order to find out the truth of the matter and clear her name, I naturally had to go and have a look. I also called the company's photographer A Jun and asked him to get a DV for emergencies. .

A few of us dug through the closet she was talking about and found nothing except a few cockroaches that suddenly jumped out and scared the little fat man half to death.

The closet is empty.

"Is there really a ghost?"

Ajun lit a cigarette, feeling a little worried.

"Have you seen The Grudge? Coconut climbed out of the closet!"

"I'm going to die! You're crazy!"

Little Fatty Making a gesture like Gaoyao crawling, Tian Tian kicked him angrily.

"I checked on the Internet that this sound may be caused by thermal expansion and contraction between the gaps in the wooden furniture."

I tried to calm Shimoda's uneasy mood .

The wardrobe in front of you has been around for some years. Its wood-colored base makes it look very simple. There are no fancy carvings or complicated structures. It is just a flat door with inlays on the door. Wearing a floor-to-ceiling mirror as tall as one person. But there was an indescribable strange aura inside and out.

"How about we stay here tonight? We can find out what's going on."

"Okay, no problem!"

Xiao Fatty agreed to Ajun's proposal without hesitation. I guess he would have an orgasm just thinking about it. He could spend the night at the goddess's house.

"Is it appropriate?"

I still have some concerns. After all, it will always be awkward for us three grown men and a little girl to squeeze into this room.

"It doesn't matter, you can sleep in the living room."

Tian Tian's heart dropped when he heard that we were going to accompany her together tonight.

Ajun set up the DV in the bedroom at an angle just facing the closet to monitor it at any time.

The three of us were laying the floor in the living room, and we were discharging pesticides together.

Tian Tian is watching American TV series in the bedroom.

Our luck was not very good today. Our three blacks kept losing and were beaten to a pulp by the opponent. The match was probably poisonous. In order to avoid losing too many positions, I quit and browsed Weibo alone. Nothing happened during this period. I yawned and felt tired.

I don’t know how long it took, but a sound of scratching on the door woke me up.

The sound came from Tian Tian’s bedroom. I wanted to look up to see what was going on, but then I realized that I couldn’t move my body at all.

A very depressing breath came over me. I felt like my neck was being pinched tightly and I couldn't breathe. It was like there was a weight in my head, which was so heavy that I wanted to cry. It was like there was an infinitely deep black hole beneath me, dragging me down all the time.

But the sound became louder and louder, like a hundred claws scratching the heart, which was very uncomfortable. Mixed in with the sound of scratching the door was a faint sobbing sound, very soft, but carefully Listen, you will find that the voice seems to come from a child.

The voice recorded by Tian Tian turned out to be real.

I noticed that the two people lying next to me were motionless, sleeping like dead pigs, as if they didn’t hear the sound at all. There was no movement in the bedroom, which meant that Tian Tian was also asleep, Mom. Yes, I was the only one awake and suffering from this horror.

I tried my best to stay calm, and finally took a breath. I imagined all the gods in my mind, from the Tathagata Buddha in the West to Ultraman Japan, I could ask for blessings from all the gods. Please, just ask for quick relief.

"Fuck!"

I yelled and sat up like a spring. I finally broke free from this nightmare, sweating profusely.

I steadied my breathing and collected myself, only to realize that the two guys next to me were sweating profusely like me.

"I was pressed into bed by a ghost."

"Fuck, me too."

That night, all of us heard the sound in the closet But the four of us, including Tian Tian, ??were all pressed into bed by the ghost and could not move at all, so each of us thought the other was asleep and we were the only ones experiencing this terrifying process.

The strange thing is that there is not even a ghost in the DV, let alone the sound we heard.

We pulled the landlord off the mahjong table that day.

"What's going on in your house?"

"Is there something you're hiding from us?"

"You'd better tell the truth. ! ”

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Our endless questioning made the landlord very confused.

I asked my friends to help Tian Tian find this house. I thought that we are all young people and she had just graduated. I would help if I could, and I also wanted to cultivate a capable person. I want to share the work pressure in the future, so it is more or less selfish, and in this city where the average price is 40,000 yuan per square meter, a single room with one bedroom and one living room only costs 2000 yuan, which is like a lucky break. .

But unexpectedly, it was a disservice.

"There has indeed been a death in my house before."

The landlord was shirtless, with his legs crossed, looking very disdainful.

"If you don't want to live here anymore, you can move out. I won't refund you any money anyway."

"Why?"

< p> "It's written in black and white on the contract. If you don't accept it, you can sue me!"

Tian Tian felt aggrieved by the landlord's scoundrel behavior. Xiaopang rushed forward and wanted to make a move, but I grabbed him.

"Don't make trouble, Brother Wang. We are all Chen Mian's friends. We can't talk about anything properly. My brother has had brain problems since he was a child and is impulsive. Don't mind."

I smiled and lit a cigarette for Brother Wang. Seeing me like this, he couldn't act like a rogue again.

"Actually, I didn't mean to trick you, and I can't help it."

Brother Wang took a puff of his cigarette and looked at us helplessly.

About four years ago, a family moved into this house. The child had just entered the first grade. The man was working on engineering projects outside and the woman was working in a clothing store. Every now and then, men would hit women, and children would burst into tears. Neighbors also called the police many times, but the police came and did nothing.

One night, the man lost money in business and got very drunk. When he disagreed with the woman, he quarreled. In anger, he picked up a hammer and hit the woman on the head. The child was frightened. Hide in the closet in the bedroom.

After the madness, the man discovered that the woman’s head had been smashed like a smashed watermelon, and her brains were bleeding all over the floor. He was so desperate that he jumped from the balcony on the ninth floor.

The next day, when the police came, they found no sign of the child and the closet was empty. After adjusting the surveillance system, I found that no one came in or out after the man entered the door that night, and there was only a broken body of a man downstairs. The child disappeared out of thin air in the house. The police had no explanation and could only put the child on the missing list.

Brother Wang was unlucky. After this incident, he had to redecorate the room and erase all traces of the murder. He hoped that one day he would be lucky enough to rent it out. Time passed by. , this tragedy was gradually forgotten by people, and finally a foreigner moved in, but after less than a week, he packed up and ran away, not even asking for the deposit. He told Brother Wang that the house was haunted.

Since then, Brother Wang’s house has never been rented out. He was a gambler by nature and lost a lot of money playing big cards. He was in urgent need of funds, so he had to lower the rent of the house to the normal rent. half, hoping that some fish will bite.

Unexpectedly, we actually delivered it to your door.

"I've used all the money to pay off the debt. It's up to you to decide. If you die, take it if you want."

Brother Wang pinched out his cigarette and returned to his normal state. The state of being a scoundrel.

We had nothing to do with him, and we felt like we were losing money on half a year’s rent, because there is no law or regulation that stipulates that haunted houses are not allowed to be rented out. After all, this is an atheistic country.

"We burned it."

Finding the essence of the problem is the ultimate solution to the problem. The closet is the reason why it is haunted, so I made this decision.

Xiaopang drove the car, and the four of us took the wardrobe to the outskirts and found an empty space with no one around. Pour a bucket of gasoline on the wardrobe and light it on fire. I also asked Ajun to buy some paper money. After all, the misfortune of this family is really sad.

"What the hell, why are you burning this?"

Xiaopang saw Ajun throwing a large bag of Wangwang snow cakes into the fire.

"Ghosts are human beings, and little ghosts naturally like to eat what children eat."

A Jun laughed playfully.

The sun has already set halfway, and the four of us are standing in the wilderness, guarding a wardrobe that is lit with fire. The atmosphere is weird and absurd, like believers undergoing a sacrificial ceremony.

It was already late at night when we sent Tian Tian back home. We had been busy all day and were really tired. Because there is no elevator in this community, moving this wardrobe from the ninth floor would be life-threatening.

As soon as we sat down on the sofa, there were screams from the bedroom, and we rushed in. The sight in front of us stunned everyone.

The wardrobe is still in its original place.

That night, we found a hotel at the company, and four of us squeezed into a room. No one wanted to be alone, and no one wanted to go back to that house again.

There was a tacit understanding among everyone and no one mentioned it again. It was as if we had spent most of the day sweating and moving the wardrobe to the suburbs and it had never happened.

After all, no matter who we tell this to, everyone will think we are crazy.

For seven days in a row, Tian Tian slept in the company's editing room. She kept having nightmares at night, saying that the child was coming to find her. Her whole body was as listless as an eggplant beaten by frost.

I asked her to stop thinking so much that we would find a way for her to find another place to live.

After my persuasion, the boss finally agreed to find them a big house in the name of the company and let her share it with several colleagues who rented houses outside. Naturally, Xiaopang jumped in and joined. The team of tenants.

We drove the company car to help Tian Tian move. When I saw the wardrobe again, the weird feeling still lingered in my heart. But when I think about never seeing him again after this move, I feel a little more relaxed.

Everyone worked hard and moved Tian Tian's things downstairs in less than half a day. The height of the ninth floor was still very tiring.

We were about to drive to Tian Tian’s new home, but Tian Tian suddenly remembered something.

"Wait a minute, I didn't take the necklace."

"Forget it, a necklace, I'll give it to you at worst!"

Xiaopang wants it Take the opportunity to draw closer to him and Tian Tian.

"No, that was given to me by my mother. It's okay. Just wait for me here. I'll be down soon."

After Tian Tian finished speaking, he got out of the car. Walking towards the apartment, looking at her back, I felt an inexplicable uneasiness in my heart.

Ten minutes passed and no one came down.

Xiaopang called Tian Tian, ??but no one answered.

"Wait a little longer, maybe she is still looking for it."

I calmed Xiaopang's nervous mood.

Twenty minutes passed and still no one came down.

Xiaopang rushed out of the car, and I followed him.

"Hurry up and call the police!"

The colleagues in the car were stunned. After all, they had never experienced what happened to us, and they felt very strange about our unexpected request.

Xiaopang kicked open the door and called Tian Tian's name.

There was no one in the room. Xiaopang and I searched around, but there was still no one.

Only the wardrobe stood there, watching us like a ghost.

I dialed Tian Tian’s number, but there was no answer on the other end of the phone.

Xiaopang cried Tian Tian’s name in the room like crazy.

Suddenly, vaguely, I seemed to hear the phone ringing from the closet, very faintly.

I opened the closet suddenly.

The closet is empty.

The police arrived at the scene and searched but found no trace of Tian Tian. After calling the surveillance camera, they found that Tian Tian never came out after entering the room. A living person just disappeared out of thin air. In one house, after follow-up investigations yielded no results, the police had to put her on the missing list.

Since then, I have never seen Tian Tian again.

I gave the wardrobe at home to a friend, and I thought I would never use the wardrobe again in my life.