"It is said that if people live on upper floors that are too far from the ground, they will gradually feel
lonely and become anxious."
Christina lived on the fourth floor, which was not a typical higher storey.
At that moment, she stood on the small balcony, looking at the sun rising in the east.
However, she did not feel the vitality of the morning sunlight.
Instead, she felt exhausted, as if she could not pull herself together after a tiring hight.
Her head was heavy, and she didn't know if it was because she had slept too much.
Yesterday, she met Judy and the others who urged her to sign the divorce agreement.She performed
calmly, but in fact, she felt rather uncomfortable.
When Christina took out a bottle of anti-depressants and was about to open it, she stopped.
"Who put up this?"
There was a small white sticker on the bottle which said, "take medicine after dinner".
She remembered that the last time she took this medicine was in Crystal's apartment, and there was
no such sticker on it at that time.Christina did not think much about it.
These four words did work well as a psychological hint.
She put the bottle down, took a long woolen coat from the bedroom and put it on.
After tidying up her makeup, she went out to have breakfast.
When she had just locked the door, she found a white drone on the left side of her door.
It was the size of a small square stool and had been unsealed and thrown there with the remote
control.
Most residents in this area were families with children, so it should have been a kid who left the drone
here.
"This kind of drone seems quite expensive"
Christina just glanced at it but didn't care about it too much.She went into the elevator and went straight
to the first floor.
Outside the residential area, there was a Cantonese restaurant across the road.
The food there was not bad, and the price was reasonable.
The residents nearby were used to coming over early in the morning for breakfast.
Christina also liked these exquisite and tasty Cantonese snacks.
During her time in the Hopkins family, she developed the habit of getting up early.
It was only 6 o'clock in the morning.
Most of the people in the restaurant were elderly, chatting and having breakfast.
Christina sat alone at a table in the corner.
Then she ordered a few shrimp dumplings, barbecue buns, and a pot of hot sweet chrysanthemum tea,
eating slowly.
She thought if she could forget those vexations and live a carefree retirement life just like this, that
would be really enjoyable.
"I heard that the 402 of Building F has been renovated and rented out."
At the table on her right, five or six old residents were chatting.
Usually, Christina would not pay attention to them.
However, they seemed to be talking about her, as she just lived in that apartment.
"I happened to see her in the elevator a few days ago.She was an adorable woman but didn't look
well.She looked rather thin as if she had a serious illness before."
That person lowered his voice, and his tone sounded a bit mysterious.
"Don't mystify that deliberately.You just said she was seriously ill before, but not after she lived here"
"You can't say like that.It must still have an impact."
"That's right.See how strange it is.402 was rented out the afternoon before that day, and the one
upstairs, 502, was also vacant for more than half a year.However, someone just rented it after that
day.This kind of thing would rather be believed to be true than false.In any case, a person died."
They were still chatting.
Christina felt a chill on her back, and her chopsticks fell on the table with shrimp dumplings.
"As for that thing, didn't the manager of the property ask us not to mention, lest it would affect the price
of our apartments? And we all would suffer."
"Even if you don't mention it, others would still know.Now, with the Internet, people can search for the
name of this residential estate effortlessly.Besides, the usual rent for an apartment with one bedroom
and one living room here is more than $4500 per month.However, the rent for 402 is only
$2500.Anyone would know that there must be something tricky"
Christina looked at the pork bun in her hand and felt that she had no appetite anymore.
"Originally, 502 could only be rented out at a discount.Unexpectedly, the tenant was very generous.At
that time, the landlord just casually offered a price.However, that person didn't even bargain and signed
the contract immediately"
"That landlord was also unlucky.The apartments in this area are so popular, but his 502 remained
vacant for more than half a year.Besides, the owner of 402 even said that he would ask for
compensation from him"
Christina listened to these people with a high degree of concentration, and her scalp tingled. alf a year
ago, a couple lived in 502.
One day, the couple quarreled and fought.The woman wanted to escape, but the man locked the door.
Then she went to the balcony and got down through the water pipe to the balcony of 402, trying to ask
for help.
At that time, the woman had already been stabbed several times in her chest.
She was very weak, and her clothes were stained with blood.Her hands and floor were also covered in
blood.
The scene was terrifying.
She screamed and tried her best to hit the glass door on the balcony of 402.
But at that time, the residents of 402 were frightened by her appearance and did not dare to approach
her.
At first, they wanted to call the police to deal with it.
However, before the police arrived, that man just jumped down from the balcony upstairs ferociously,
grabbing the woman's shoulders and pushing her off fiercely, and in the end, that woman fell to death.
At that time, the woman's body looked very miserable, and her blood splashed all over the balcony of
402.
Occasionally, residents nearby would say that her soul still haunted around, and she died with a
remaining grievance.
Then, over time, no one dared to live in 502 and 402.
Christina suddenly stood up with her limbs stiff.
Because she moved too fast, she pulled the tablecloth and knocked over a pot of chrysanthemum tea
on the table.
The sound of banging attracted the attention of the people around her.
"Ah, she's the new resident in 402" One of the men looked at her in surprise.
Christina was in a rather complicated mood.She turned to look at them and saw that the old men had
all looked away.
The waiter came to clean up the overturned tea set.
Then Christina paid the bill, took away the fried rice and left.
Others might not know.
In fact, Christina had a secret that she was afraid of ghosts. Her grandfather, General Eisenhower, said
that there was nothing to be afraid of as long as she didn't do anything wrong.
However, she was just afraid.
When she was a child, she often heard some faint scary noises.
Also, she often saw some dreadful dark shadows.
She had told those to her grandfather seve-al times, but her grandfather just vaguely told her those
were her illusions, and she thought too much.
Even though she had grown up now, she was still afraid of these things.
Charles would probably laugh at her if he knew this.She went back to the so-called haunted apartment
402 and felt a little uneasy all the way.
Just as she was about to open the door, she noticed that the white drone at her door was still there.
No one had taken away such an expensive toy.
She had no mood to meddle in other people's affairs now.
After she entered the room, she took the drug and wished to sleep for a while.She quickly fell
asleep.She didn't know if it was her illusion.She seemed to feel a faint smell of burning herbs in the air.
Then her whole body became weak and heavy, and she felt sleepy immediately, It felt like someone
was restraining her limbs and pressing her down.
At first, she just wanted to take a nap, but she didn't expect that half a day had passed after she fell
asleep.
When it was almost evening, a sudden thunder woke her up.Then it rained heavily.
The rain slammed against the glass window, and the room temperature suddenly dropped.
It became so cold that Christina quickly felt fresh.
Christina got up from bed.
The first thing she wanted to do was to check whether doors and windows were locked.
Her apartment was so small that when she left the bedroom, she could see the tiny living room and
balcony.
Suddenly, she stopped and looked at the glass door in front of the balcony in horror.
A dark shadow had just flashed over there.
It was raining heavily outside, and the thunder was incessant.
She hated this kind of rainy night and suddenly became emotional.
Not only did she fear the rumors about the haunted apartment, but she also recalled the night when
she underwent cesarean birth.
She took a deep breath and calmed herself down.She turned on all the lights in the apartment.She told
herself that there was nothing to be afraid of.
Most things she feared would happen will never happen.
Once people faced them, they were not that horrible.She summoned up her courage to run to the glass
door and open it.
Then the wind and rain hit her face wildly.The rain was very cold, making her calmer.She looked
around carefully and found there was nothing unusual.
Perhaps the shadow that had just passed by was just her illusion.
However, just as she calmed down and was about to go back to the room, she stepped on a small
screw.
She bent down and picked it up, and then found the metal handle of the glass door was obviously
loosened by someone.
The rain was blown into the room by the severe wind, and Christina was drenched with a pale face.She
looked up at 502 upstairs along the pipe.
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