Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 10 Glutinous Rice Crackers

The girl and the man looked at each other.

After seeing the water-like calm in the man's eyes, she nodded to Chen Yan.

"Yes, no one followed."

Her tone was firm.

"Ogami can feel the murderous intent, he said no, he just didn't."

Chen Yan got a little bit of pitiful comfort from her words,

But he doesn't believe that there is such a thing as "murderous intent" in this world.

He realizes one thing—

Now, he is in a situation where there is no way out.

They cannot be driven away because the risk is too great.

This man named Ogami would throw a knife at the slightest disagreement.

If Chen Yan refused their stay, he might have to confess here today.

He is a real murderer!
It's the same murderer as the mysterious murderer who killed Geralt Sif before!

Fear reached its peak, but Chen Yan calmed down instead.

For a moment, countless thoughts flashed through my head——

These two people took the way of the third uncle, so they must have sneaked in.

Since it was illegal immigration, there must be no visa.

Judging from their clothes, they must have suffered a lot when they smuggled in.

Having a fight with the police, more or less has to pay a physical price-they need a rest now-at least that girl must need a rest.

Walking past the third uncle's once, the wallet must have been drained.

If you kill a police officer, you will definitely be wanted, so you must not show your face on the street in broad daylight.

Cornered belongs to yes.

Chen Yan swallowed because of nervousness.

The meaning of desperation seems to be similar to that of extreme evil.

Such a person should not be provoked.

He took a deep breath, and in a moment, he had made a decision.

"You guys just stay here first."

Leaving aside the matter of money,
First, Chen Yan dare not mention it.

Second, the two of them looked like the kind of poor ghosts with no money at first glance, and they were squeezed by the third uncle again, and now they definitely have nothing to gain.

Third, when Chen Yan took over the apartment building, he thought about it:

Doing business and earning money, if the word "money" is always on the lips, it's too fucking shabby.

Thinking of this, a "goo~~~" sound suddenly came from my ear.

The girl lowered her head in embarrassment.

It was her stomach growling.

Chen Yan scratched his head, and gave them the black bread that he had planned for breakfast this morning.

Ohgami handed the girl the black bread, and the girl broke off a small piece and stuffed the remaining large piece back into his hand.

Ogami held the black bread and stared at the girl.

Chen Yan rubbed his forehead: "I don't have anything to eat today, I'll go buy it tomorrow."

Chen Yan sensed another thing from their performance:

Judging from their reactions, the relationship between the two does not seem to be father and daughter...

Perhaps siblings?
The girl's eyes were shining, and she knelt on the sofa and bowed to him: "Then thank you sir!"

She turned her head and said to Ogami: "Patriarch さんはいい人よ, 食べるのを心配しなくていいよ!"

(The landlord is a nice guy, don't worry about the food!)
Ogami nodded, cast a grateful look at Chen Yan, and then slowly ate black bread with boiling water.

Although Chen Yan couldn't understand what they were saying, she clearly felt the joy in the girl's words and the kindness in Ogami's eyes.

what……

Kindness from a murderer?

Chen Yan shivered vigorously.

After trembling, although I was still apprehensive, the tension did ease.

Chen Yan glanced at the two knives on Ogami's back,

A strange thought popped into my head:

With such a fiercer guy in the apartment, at least, he doesn't have to worry about that note killer going back to kill again.

Chen Yan touched his chin.

This is called fighting poison with poison?

Speaking of note killers...

"correct."

Chen Yan became nervous again.

"There was a murder case in this house just now. The deceased was a thief. The body has been handed over to the community police department...

The murderer has escaped, and I am afraid that the murderer will come back. "

Several thoughts condensed in his mind:

If he comes back, please don't kill him, and try not to be killed by him.

Because if too many people die, my apartment will become a haunted house, and I won't be able to rent it out in the future...

A sentence composed of several thoughts came to my lips, but it became:
"You guys have to be careful."

After listening to the girl, she translated it to Ogami.

Ogami stopped eating, listened carefully, turned towards Chen Yan, folded his hands together, and said in a flat tone:

"あなたの家の安全は、私に仁せてください."

(Leave the safety of your house to me.)
The girl also made this gesture: "Please rest assured, with Ogami here, the murderer will not come back."

Chen Yan nodded suspiciously.

Hmm...it doesn't seem like an unreasonable murderer either.

A reasonable murderer...

A thought suddenly popped into Chen Yan's head:
Ogami was forced to kill because he was pointed at by a police officer?
There is this possibility.

The police pointed their guns at them. There was nothing wrong with this practice. Who carried two knives and brought a little girl around at night in dark alleys?
Looking at it from another angle, it seems that there is nothing wrong with Ohgami killing the police officer with the gun for his own safety.

Anyone who is pointed at a gun will more or less have a stress response.

Not to mention a clearly trained Sakura country samurai...or a ninja?
There is a motive for murder.

Countless thoughts flashed through Chen Yan's heart.

This kind of murder motive seems normal...at least not like the murderer in the note murder case, a perverted murderer who likes to scare people to death.

But even so, he still cannot relax his vigilance.

After all, he killed someone.

……

Under the dim kerosene lamp, Chen Yan looked at the two people who were eating black bread slowly,

Something came to mind, and there were mixed feelings in my heart.

Since he let the two of them in, he had fulfilled the condition of "covering the black household",

Heihu, the official scientific name is "illegal immigrant".

By taking in black households, he violated the "Crime of Covering Illegal Immigrants" in the Empire's "New Immigration Law".

The "New Immigration Law" is quite strict on black households, and it is even more merciless to those who shield black households.

Once it is confirmed that the cover-up of black households, the cover-up will face:
Minimum ten years' imprisonment, plus deportation; maximum electrocution for immediate execution.

The crime of homicide also faces a minimum sentence of ten years in prison; the maximum penalty is immediate execution by hanging.

That is,

In the legal sense of empire,

Chen Yan and Ogami are criminals with the same level of crime.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan felt like crying.

When he bought this apartment, he told his third uncle that he must not introduce black households.

He never thought of taking in tenants like them!

Everything is the third uncle, that old Gui Yin Laozi!

Chen Yan felt that his head was as big as a bucket, but he had to solve the immediate problem.

These two people couldn't be driven away.

Just stay here for now and think of a way later...

Big deal, spend some money, find help from people who run shops and do business in the old immigrants, and sign a labor contract with them.

Take this labor contract and see if you can find a relationship with the Immigration Bureau, and spend some money to help them get an employer visa.

Although the whole process was cumbersome and troublesome, it was better than being arrested and taken to the electric chair after the incident...

"Your identities are more sensitive, don't live on the first floor, live on the third floor...Room 303 on the third floor, there are exactly two cubicles and two beds."

Room 303 is at the end of the corridor on the third floor.

Turn left when you go out to the bathroom, and turn right when you go out to the balcony without glass. The balcony is next to the wall occupied by the ivy.

Whether the room is broken or not, and whether the windows are leaking or not, Chen Yan didn't think about it.

It is not because they have no money that they are allowed to live in the dilapidated house on the third floor.

The biggest advantage of this room is that if something goes wrong, it is convenient to jump off the building and run away.

Walker Street is basically a small three-story building. The gap between the roofs is not wide, and the eaves are huge and continuous, which is very suitable for rooftop parkour.

For a samurai like Ohgami...

Whether he's a samurai or a ninja, rooftop parkour doesn't seem to be a big problem.

Chen Yan was even looking forward to this,

If Ohgami took her away, it would be as if nothing happened tonight...except for that piece of black bread.

Such a loss is completely acceptable.

The two had no objection to Chen Yan's arrangement, and didn't even ask about Walker Street's information.
This made Chen Yan feel very uncomfortable.

The two of you have just arrived in a foreign land and are unfamiliar with the place, so there is nothing you want to know?

This is not normal.

He couldn't help it, and said to them:
"A homicide happened in my apartment last night. People from the street police department will definitely be watching in the next two days. You should not go out for the time being."

The two nodded like garlic.

Chen Yan glanced at Ogami and rolled her eyes inwardly.

It's fine if the girl nods, but you can't even understand what I said, so nod your head with a hammer.

He took a breath.

"...I will find a way to bring back the ingredients needed for three meals a day,

Although this apartment is old, there is a separate kitchen in each room.

You can cook something to eat in your room. "

The two still nodded vigorously.

"As for the separate bathroom..."

Chen Yan remembered that after he took over the apartment, he heard from the agent:

At the beginning of the apartment design, each room was equipped with an independent bathroom.

However, since the original landlord had no money to tidy up, he turned the independent washroom in each room into a cloakroom.

"If you need a separate bathroom, I can arrange it as soon as possible to remodel the room."

Chen Yan looked at the two people who kept nodding, but still didn't say the second half of the shabby words:

If you pay your rent as soon as possible.

The two finally finished eating the black bread and knelt down on the sofa.

That at a loss posture, very much like Chen Yan, an old uncle who came to the city for the first time from the countryside and didn't know how to use the toilet.

Chen Yan even felt some damn intimacy because of this.

"I have to go to work during the day, and the place where I go to work is not far away, in the Byron Weiss Zoo in the center of Yanan...

But if you have something, I may not be able to come back in time to deal with it. "

As a landlord, I'd better explain everything to them.

After I have finished explaining the matter, if they cause any trouble on their own, I will not have any moral condemnation in my heart.

"This street is called Walker Street, and there is a police station, which is small in size, about ten people.

But everyone carries a gun, it's dangerous, don't mess with them. "

"The chief of the police force is called Klein Justus. He looks like a white-skinned blond bull. He is very strong. He is half crazy. He is difficult to deal with. If you see him, you have to detour. .”

The girl kept translating Chen Yan's words to Ogami.

Ogami kept nodding, but did not show disapproval.

He listened very seriously, and Chen Yan was very satisfied with this attitude.

"By the way, I haven't asked your name yet."

Chen Yan looked at the girl.

The girl froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "Mr. Chen will just call me glutinous rice fruit."

Glutinous rice fruit...is the name transliterated from the language of Sakura.

Chen Yan nodded.

"My first day at work, maybe overtime."

"Glutinous rice fruit, if I don't come back today..."

(End of this chapter)