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1113words2026-01-26 09:13

At 0:00 on January 1,2000,the whole world was celebrating the arrival of the millennium.
On this day of national celebration,no one noticed that a mass murder was taking place in a narrow alley in New York.
The adopted daughter of this family raised a shovel and killed her adoptive mother,then killed her adoptive father,and finally killed the younger brother who grew up with her.

When the police arrived,they tried their best to find the murderer,but unexpectedly,the murderer committed suicide by jumping off a building that night...
Everyone related to the case was dead,and no one knew what had happened that day.
Twenty years later,the heir of the haunted house found me.Because I have a special ability,and only I can tell him what exactly happened that day...
I am a haunted house sleeper tester,the only girl in the whole industry,a rare species in the industry.There are more than fifty men in the big group of haunted house sleeper testers,and I'm the only woman.Judging by the proportion,I'm even more precious than a giant panda.
The reason why there are few girls isn't gender discrimination.
On the contrary,employers of haunted houses prefer to hire female sleeper testers,especially those who look weak,helpless,and pitiful.

In the words of the employers,if a little girl isn't afraid to live here,then other people will be even less afraid.
But generally,haunted houses are houses that haven't been lived in for a long time,and the water and electricity have been cut off for a long time.
So when a haunted house sleeper tester gets such a job,they also need to prepare a lot of daily necessities.
Living in such a house,on the one hand,they have to overcome the psychological fear,and at the same time,they also have to adapt to the inconvenience in life.Therefore,few girls are willing to be haunted house sleeper testers.

But actually,I'm in this line of work not because I'm brave and have strong adaptability,but because I have a skill that other sleeper testers don't have.
When I get an object belonging to a dead person,I can recall some of the life fragments between the owner of the object and this object before their death.
For example,when I touch a cup,close my eyes,and count to ten silently,a picture will appear in my mind of a person holding this cup to drink water before their death.
But the life fragments that appear in my mind can't be chosen independently,they can only appear randomly.
For example,there was a murder case in a haunted house before.Only a dog leash was left at the scene.
After I touched that dog leash,what appeared in my mind were all pictures of a Husky running wildly,and its owner pulling hard on the leash trying to control the Husky.
To make up for the deficiency of my special skill,I found another person with a special skill in the vast sea of people to be my partner.
The partner I found is named Michael.His special skill is that he can hear the appeals of the deceased,but his skill also has a drawback.
The stronger the appeal of the deceased,the more his head will hurt.So when he perceives the appeals of the deceased,except for the headache,he can't do anything else.
The two of us hit it off immediately,formed a partnership,and started to take on the business of testing haunted houses.
A few days ago,a friend in New York posted a message in the group.He said he couldn't take on this job and asked if there was anyone with great abilities in the group who could take this order.
The employer offered an extremely high price.If the problem of the haunted house was solved,5%of the house price would be given as a commission.
When seeing this post,the group exploded.Everyone was eager to try and wanted to take this order.
But the friend in New York told everyone to hold on and wait for him to tell the story of this haunted house before making a decision.
"The thing happened twenty years ago in a 40-square-meter bungalow in a New York alley.
As soon as it passed 12 o'clock in the morning that day,the sky was filled with fireworks covering the night sky of New York.
The whole city was immersed in the joy of stepping into the millennium.Everyone rushed to Times Square to welcome the zero o'clock bell.
The collective celebration covered up the crime.No one noticed another kind of sound under the firecrackers.It was the sound of chopping.
The adopted girl in this family killed her adoptive mother in front of her paralyzed father,and then killed her adoptive father.When her younger brother came back from outside,she hacked him to death as well.
A week later,the neighbors smelled a huge stench and called the police.When the police arrived,they pieced together three corpses from the mess in the house,but they couldn't find the adopted daughter of this family.
When everyone was looking for this little girl,news came from the construction site opposite the alley that a little girl somehow climbed up and committed suicide by jumping off the building."
"The employer said that his little grandson was ill and urgently needed money,so he wanted to sell the house.
But as soon as he entered that room,he had a headache.The employer suspected that there were some evil things in that room.
So the employer not only needs a sleeper tester to test the house,but also needs the sleeper tester to get rid of the evil things in the house."
After the friend in New York said these words,no one in the group wanted to take this order anymore.Instead,they silently me and asked if my partner and I wanted to have a try.
Most people in the group have basically taken orders for testing haunted houses.Only my partner and I are an exception.
Because the two of us consider ourselves to have some special skills,and the quoted price for the testing orders is high,so we disdain to compete with these people for business.
I know what the friends in the group are thinking at this moment.They have never believed that Michael and I have special skills,and now is a good time to verify it.
However,whether they believe it or not is not important.I just want to know how much money I can earn if I take this order.
"You are in New York,and you must know the housing prices there.How much is the price per square meter of the house in the alley?"I asked.
"One hundred thousand dollars per square meter."
One hundred thousand dollars per square meter,a 40-square-meter house is four million dollars,and 5%of that is two hundred thousand dollars.Just thinking about getting such a large commission,I couldn't wait to reply,"I'll take this order."