Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 137 Leprosy Lane

After a moment.

In a dark alley at the corner of the street, Chen Yan watched two police officers escort Klein into the police car, stretched out his hand excitedly, and said to Ogami: "I won!"

Ohgami pouted, willing to admit defeat, put a penny in his palm, and said in disbelief: "How do you know he will plead guilty for you?"

Chen Yan waved his hand: "Actually, this does not count as pleading guilty for me, but once he pleads guilty, he will be responsible for the whole thing—the one who upholds justice will be him."

Ohgami asked curiously, "How can you be sure that he will do this?"

Chen Yan pouted: "I guess."

Ogami was a little exasperated: "Yan Jun, you are really perfunctory!"

Chen Yan glanced at the leaving police car, put away his smile, and put on a rather embarrassing tone:

"It's really a guess... I saw that he was so angry in the face of Belgium, and I guess there is justice in his heart... Countering violence with violence is also a kind of justice, and it is the most efficient, isn't it? And this is exactly Sergeant Cline Justus's favorite way!"

"I guess, the reason why he didn't take a shot against Belgium was entirely because of the constraints of the so-called [social rules] on his heart-it's not that he didn't want to, but he couldn't-he was eager to break the rules, but the rules had already bound him, so he couldn't Extricate yourself!"

"If he can't, I'll help him if he can—it's a virtue to help others, isn't it?"

Ogami looked at Chen Yan, as if in a trance, he saw those people who were blinded by hatred that he had seen in countless years.

Chen Yan was still talking to himself.

"I just helped him unleash his inner beast, broke the rules for him - you see, he didn't have to do anything, I was able to break the rules for him - he just had to suffer the consequences -

I'm betting he wants to take that because I think he's a complete lunatic at heart!A lunatic who deliberately suppressed his own nature - his usual atrocities have fully proved this point!
I bet he expects this to happen!

I bet he'd be willing to take the consequences just to make a name for himself for this atrocity! "

Ohgami said in a vigilant tone: "Yan Jun, don't lose yourself."

Chen Yan blinked, and immediately changed back to his usual kind look: "Ogami has worked hard! Tonight I will treat you to fried chicken!"

Ohgami saw that he had returned to normal state, so he didn't say any more, just raised his eyebrows: "This statement is true!"

Chen Yan put his arms around his shoulders: "It's absolutely true!"

He paused here: "However, before that, we are going to another place."

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Leprosy Lane is not far from where today's murder took place.

When Chen Yan came here, he not only smelled the smell of rotting garbage unique to dirty streets, but also smelled a bit of sea breeze—if the salty sea breeze hadn't blown away the stench on the street, he would have vomited a long time ago. come out.

This place is already on the edge of the lower city, and at a glance to the end of the street, you can even see the sparkle of the smokey lake.

The buildings here are also generally lower than other places on Dirty Street. It seems that the soil on the seaside is partially deserted and the foundation is not deep. Basically, the corner buildings in Leprosy Lane do not have more than 25 floors.

The corner building here is also much "shabby" than other places. From the outside, it is basically impossible to see the windows sealed with glass.

There is no paint on the exterior walls of the entire building, and the whole looks completely rough.

It seems that because of the long construction time, most of the roofs of these buildings are overgrown with weeds, and all kinds of unnamed vines are flourishing, as if wearing a huge afro wig on the bare corner building.

The closer the corner building to Smokey Lake, the longer the wig.

Some have even hung down, covering a small half of the building, becoming the natural windows of that lucky building.

"I remember that the Smoky Lake is quite big, and it is different from ordinary lakes... The people on the boat said that the Smoky Lake is the [inner sea] of the mainland."

Ohgami recalled what he heard when he came.

"This part of the Smoky Lake near Yanan City is equivalent to a certain [Bay], just a small part of the huge Smoky Lake, um... the whole [Inner Sea] seems to have another name, I forgot what it is called gone."

It was time to get off work, and the Leprosy Alley was extremely lively. Workers who had time to eat after work crowded all kinds of restaurants and small dirty stalls on both sides of the alley—workers collectively called these eating places [Fly Restaurant] 】.

Fly restaurants are usually established in places with a lot of people, regardless of the environment - Leprosy Lane has not been managed by the municipal government for a long time, the last time the street was paved was more than ten years ago.

Over the past ten years, the streets of Leprosy Lane have become potholed, dirty and smelly, full of garbage, and the most terrible thing is that there are no drainage ditches and sewage ditches-this leads to stagnant puddles everywhere. 【Note 1】

Workers usually don't care about this, it's better to say that they have to accept it-they want the cheapest housing, the shortest commute time, and they have to accept the squalid environment here.

On such a fine day as today, the streets are also used to dry clothes: from house to house, across the middle of the street, ropes are drawn, and wet rags are hung.

The clothes are tattered enough that even thieves have no interest in stealing them.

Workers sit on such a street, sitting in such a street fly restaurant, and solve their three meals a day——

They don't have to pay for every meal, and the low wages are not enough to support them to buy every exquisite meal. Dirty Street has a unique meal rule - [food included]. 【Note 2】

For just a few pennies, you can cover three meals a day for a whole month.

According to different cooks from different civilizations, the various types of food in the various fly restaurants are extremely diverse and prepared in a variety of ways.

The most important thing is to have a lot of food.

Although food safety, quality and hygiene are not guaranteed, and various small arthropods are often eaten, the workers don't care.

The mere fact of "being able to eat enough" is enough for the poor to pay a huge sum of a dozen pennies.

Not to mention that most fly restaurants actually taste pretty good, and some of the food from foreign countries taste surprisingly sweet, even better than the so-called "food" in Uptown.

It was the first time for Chen Yan to see such a novel scene, and finally suppressed the curiosity in his heart, and found himself standing at the entrance of the corridor at No. 247, Leprosy Lane, Dirty Street.

A certain location on the roof of this building should be the scene in a dream.

Chen Yan and Ogami entered the building one after the other.

Due to the tight working hours, even if the workers have time to leave work at noon, they can only hurry up to eat and cannot go back to the room for a lunch break, so the building is very empty, and no one can be seen.

Stepping on the steps all the way up, Chen Yan never saw the corridor in his dream, let alone the hut with a window.

He thought that he would meet a transcendent person at least, and even if he was lucky, he might meet the third uncle directly.

With Ogami by his side, if he can directly solve the hidden danger of the third uncle, he will have less to worry about.

But he didn't meet anyone.

Before he knew it, he had reached the top floor.

The scene in the dream finally appeared in front of my eyes.

After exiting the entrance of the corridor, one can see the scenery on the roof at a glance - all kinds of unnamed flowers are blooming in the cold winter, most of them have no flower pots, and grow in the soil piled up on the roof.

Occasionally, there are some containers, mostly plastic pots, plastic bottles, broken ceramic bowls, unusable chamber pots, small flower beds surrounded by scraps of synthetic boards, broken wine bottles...

These broken containers did not delay the blooming of flowers.

This is an open garden.

On the other side of the open-air garden, a corridor made of familiar wooden boards connects to the roof of another building—in Chen Yan’s dream, Jack Baldo walked over from the other side of the corridor.

He stood at the entrance of the corridor and looked towards the side of the corridor - it was a small house with glass windows, the door of the small house was closed tightly, there was no light source inside the house, and the scene inside could not be seen from the outside.

That's Marina's room.

　[Note 1]: The prototype of the environmental conditions of Leprosy Lane comes from Friedrich Engels' "Conditions of the Working Class in England" (1844.9-1845.3), the fifth part "Big Cities".

　　【Note 2】: The way people live is completely fabricated by the author.

　　[Friendly Reminder]: The world view of this book is completely empty, it is the author's conjecture and fabrication, and does not involve real history at all.

　　
　
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