Chu Yao came to the location indicated in the notes. It was a cheap rental house. In order to make money, the landlords would divide a house into several single rooms and rent them out separately.

Each single room is only a few square meters in size. It can only accommodate a bed at most. If you put a table in it, it will become crowded. The bathroom has to be shared by several people, and you have to queue up to take a shower every day.

With space being squeezed to the limit, tenants have to live a prudent life.

The question is, how could Bai Ningle appear in such a place?

Chu Yao was suspicious and walked into the elevator, only to find that there was no button for minus two.

In the elevator, a tall girl asked: "Which floor are you going to?"

"Doesn't this building have a second negative floor?" Chu Yao asked.

"You want to go to the basement? The elevator can't go down there, so you have to walk down." The girl said patiently, and glanced at Chu Yao worriedly, "There have been a lot of troubles in the basement recently, and there was a robbery not long ago. Little sister, Even if you have financial difficulties, you still have to pay attention to safety.”

It seems that this girl thinks of her as a tenant.

Facing the girl's kindness, Chu Yao smiled and said, "Thank you, I'm not here to rent a house, I'm here to find my friend."

"Oh, that's it." The girl didn't ask any more questions. The elevator was slowly rising. She thoughtfully helped Chu Yao press the button for the first floor.

After a lot of twists and turns, Chu Yao finally arrived at the basement on the second floor.

Compared to the ground, it was more depressing and humid here. The entire floor had a stinking musty smell, and the corridors were filled with garbage bags.

The door of the rental house is only equipped with a simple lock, and an adult can force it open with a slight force. Many rooms do not even have locks, and the doors are only half-open.

If you weren't a desperate person, why would you choose to live here?

"B201, B202,...B206, this one."

Chu Yao wanted to knock on the door first, but he vaguely heard the girl's cry.

The door was unlocked, so she didn't care too much and pushed it open directly.

As soon as she heard someone coming in, the girl who was lying on the bed and sobbing immediately crawled and hid under the bed.

She was extremely frightened, but there was nothing to protect herself under the bed. She had no choice but to pick up a clothes hanger that had been thrown under the bed at some point and held it tightly in her hand.

In just a few seconds, although Chu Yao could not see her face clearly, he could also see her skin color and body shape.

The girl is dark, short and thin, while Bai Ningle's skin is as white as milk. She is slightly shorter than Chu Yao, but she is still about 1.65 meters tall.

Judging from the appearance, she is definitely not Bai Ningle, but more like Chu Yao's former roommate, Zheng Shengnan.

Did I look in the wrong place, or were the instructions given in the notes false?

Chu Yao called tentatively: "Lele? Bai Ningle?"

The girl poked her head out from under the bed. After seeing Chu Yao, she crawled out aggrievedly, hugged Chu Yao and cried loudly.

"How do you know I'm here! Wuwuwuwu... Yaoyao, you don't know, I was scared to death when I woke up!"

She cried for a while and asked pitifully: "Did you bring any paper?"

Chu Yao handed over the handkerchief in the bag. Bai Ningle wiped his tears and said with a headache: "What is going on? How did I become Zheng Shengnan?"

"Did you wake up this morning and find yourself transformed into Zheng Shengnan?" Chu Yao asked.

Bai Ningle nodded obediently.

"Did you feel anything special before going to bed? Did you find anything strange when you woke up?"

Bai Ningle recalled it carefully and said: "I felt it! But it was not before going to bed, but when I was about to wake up this morning, I suddenly felt cold sweat all over my body. I thought it was because the windows at home were not closed..."

She suddenly thought of something, fumbled for a dark gadget from the bedside, and handed it to Chu Yao.

"When I woke up, I found this thing in my hand." Bai Ningle's hand trembled. For some reason, she always felt that this thing was a little scary.

"This is a monkey's paw." Chu Yao frowned slightly.

"Monkey's paw? What is it? Monkey's paw?" Bai Ningle asked in confusion.

"This is an evil object used to make wishes. Each person can make three wishes, but it will charge a certain price accordingly." Chu Yao explained.

Bai Ningle's eyes widened and she asked nonstop: "Zheng Shengnan's wish is that I want to become her? No, no, no... I should say, she wants to become me? What does she want to do? She doesn't harbor hatred. , Do you want to harm my parents?"

"I can feel that her wish is to exchange bodies with you, only for today." Chu Yao said in a heavy tone, "The price is her entire lifespan."

"Then...then she will die tomorrow?" Bai Ningle said in surprise.

"Yes." Chu Yao held the monkey's paw, and there was another familiar scent on it, which seemed to be...Chu Wanying.

But for some unknown reason, the monkey's paw fell into Zheng Shengnan's hands.

"What is she trying to do? There's no need to... uh, commit suicide, right?" Bai Ningle scratched his head, "Speaking of which, why is she here after dropping out of school? Shouldn't she be going home?"

Chu Yao went straight to Zheng Shengnan's bed, found her mobile phone under the pillow, and handed it to Bai Ningle.

Her phone was unlocked with a fingerprint, and Bai Ningle opened it with a tap of her index finger.

In an instant, hundreds of messages popped up on the phone, and people kept calling.

From her chat history, it is not difficult to see what she experienced during this time.

After dropping out of school, she didn't dare to go home, so she rented this house with the only two thousand yuan she had.

She did not tell her parents that she was dropped out of school, but found a job in a milk tea shop, intending to make some money first and make plans later.

The idea was good, but soon Zheng Shengnan found that he didn't have enough money to spend.

The lunch break is only one hour, so she can only order takeout; her colleagues around her wear makeup, and she is embarrassed to go bare-faced; her colleagues ask her to go shopping on weekends, and she will buy a few pieces of clothes from time to time; and some small things she needs after renting a house, although Each one cost only a few yuan, but she bought a lot of them one after another, which was a huge expense.

After receiving her first month's salary, she realized she didn't have much money left.

But you still have to pay next month’s rent, so you can’t live on the street, right?

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