Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 343 Monitor's Log
Ohgami followed him into the attic, and asked in surprise, "Huh? Is there another space here?"

Chen Yan's face was a bit ugly: "Didn't you notice this place when you were usually on the roof?"

Ohgami nodded: "Never, I thought this was the room on the third floor of the apartment."

Chen Yan said thoughtfully: "Can you take me to the roof of the opposite house?"

This is a very easy thing for Ohgami.

The night at 05:30 in the morning well concealed the two figures passing through the air.

Chen Yan watched as Ogami withdrew the claws fired by the bone prosthetic hand, and turned his gaze to the roof of No. 33 Walker Street.

The place where he is standing now is No. 34 Walker Street across the street, which is the same batch of buildings built in the old city as No. 33 Walker Street.

The two buildings are the same height, and when standing here, you can just look at the roof of No. 33 Walker Street.

From this point of view, the roof slope angle of the apartment building at 33 Walker Street is very small, and there is no attic at all.

But in the attic that Chen Yan and Ogami just saw, the floor-to-ceiling distance was at least as high as a floor.

Chen Yan pondered for a moment, and asked Ogami to take him to observe Apartment No. 33 from the perspective of various apartment buildings around No. 33 Apartment Building.

After comparing the viewing angles, Chen Yan found that the glass windows on each floor of No. 33 apartment building are lower than those of other apartment buildings.

The entire Walker Street is built on a fairly long gentle slope, and the height difference between the windows of No. 33 apartment and other apartment windows can be easily concealed by the slope. It is almost impossible to see the clues from the outside without careful observation.

Chen Yan frowned and said:
"When a problem with the window is found, and the height of each floor is determined by the position of the window, it is easy to find that the attic of No. 33 apartment building is actually very large."

He thought about it:

"For a normal building on this part of Walker Street, the attic and the main building are two parts.

That part of the attic is quite cramped, and the space in the entire attic is only a little over 1 meter high, so it cannot be used for people.

But apartment No. 33 is different. The attic of this building has been built with an extra part, and this part of the attic exists in the main building.

From the outside, the loft looks small and doesn't have a lot of space for people to live in.

But entering the attic from the inside, you can see enough space for people to live in. "

Chen Yan subconsciously looked at the base of the wall of the apartment building:

"With the same height of the whole building, the attic has more space.

Then, if the normal floors below the attic are to be maintained at the same height as other apartment buildings, the whole building should be higher. "

He looked at Ogami, and gradually realized the result of his speculation:

"But we just compared it. The part above the ground of the whole building is not higher, but the same height as other surrounding buildings."

Ogami expressed Chen Yan's inner speculation:
"In other words, this apartment must have a basement!"

But when they usually lived in the building, they didn't find any basement at all.

Chen Yan shuddered firmly, and said viciously:

"Third Uncle, you son of a bitch! What the hell was the apartment that was sold to me back then?!"

He was silent for a moment, and then let Ogami lead him to the roof, and saw what Ogami called "a chimney that can't be seen to the bottom".

Looking down from above in the dim light of the sky, I saw that the bottom of the chimney was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything.

Chen Yan found a broken tile from the roof and threw it in, but there was no sound of falling to the ground for a long time.

His face was so gloomy that he was about to drip water, and he was completely speechless.

"Yan Jun, there is no need to be so afraid."

Ohgami comforted:

"We've lived in it for so long, even after what happened last Sunday, the attic, the chimney down, and the basement that didn't know existed.

This has fully demonstrated that under normal circumstances, they will not go wrong. "

Makes sense...

Chen Yan was in a slightly better mood.

Ohgami said again:
"In my experience, whether it's down a chimney, or an attic, or even a basement—let's just assume there's a basement.

These places are likely to be research rooms or study rooms specially arranged by a certain mysticism researcher for learning. "

He added:

"There are also some beings who like to do experiments in the study, which is hard to say."

Chen Yan nodded, pondered and said:

"The basement is difficult to find, because the floor heating is laid underground. If you want to find the basement, you have to lift up the floor first, and remove part of the floor heating... that would be too much trouble, we have to find another way."

"Under the chimney... After experiencing certain things before, I don't dare to use my spiritual vision to look around, so I can't do anything for the time being."

"So, let's go back to the attic first."

Chen Yan and Ogami returned to the attic, and walked through the dust to the small desk under the east window of the attic.

The messy paper under the kerosene lamp was covered with dust, the thickness of the dust was about the same as the dust on the ground, so it should have been discarded at the same time.

Chen Yan picked up a piece of paper, and saw lines of beautiful imperial characters written on the scorched paper in almost faded handwriting:

"October 10, Year of the Cedar:
The husband and wife in Room 101 had a quarrel in the morning. It seems that the man lost his job and could not give the woman enough living expenses.

Their kid was huddled in the corner, and I thought he was terrified until I saw his eyes—the eyes of a murderer.

It's terrifying.

This is the third time for the girl in room 103 to bring a man back. I really didn't realize that she was so beautiful that she turned out to be a corner girl.

There have been more and more corner girls over the years, although there were quite a few in the history of the empire... but they are not as many as now, nor are they as blatant as they are now.

The tenant of Room 201... well... I don't know how to describe him, is he a man or a woman?Although I can't tell the difference, at least I know that he is "he" now.

He seems to be a follower of some evil god, and that evil god must be a foreign god, because the power to turn a woman into a man does not exist in the empire itself.

The tenant of Room 203 and Room 204 had their eyes on the tenant of Room 201, and they discussed how to attack him.

It's bad... Really bad, they're attracted to his beauty, but they don't know that he is far more powerful than he shows.

They're going to suffer, and they just hope the tenants of Room 201 play nice and don't make too much of a mess on the floor. "

After reading this piece, Chen Yan was really surprised:

"This is... the guy who used to live in the attic, but is actually monitoring other people in the building?!"

Ohgami added:

"Judging from this person's tone, it seems to be the original landlord."

The original landlord... The third uncle must know who the original landlord of the apartment at No. 33 Walker Street is, but the third uncle has disappeared now, and Chen Yan doesn't want to look for him at all.

"The year of the cedar is marked at the beginning of this diary...the year has a name, that is the year when the emperor still had real power...it should be at least 20 years ago."

He looked at the dusty kerosene lamp on the table:
"It's impossible for this light to be on for 20 years... There must be other strange things in it, let's see."

He couldn't wait to pick up the next piece of paper, feeling a little nervous and inexplicably excited:

"October 12, Year of the Cedar:
The little boy in Room 101 did something bloody.

That's not what he wanted to do, his body was taken over by some kind of necromancer that had mobilized his emotions during his parents' fight and made him lose control.

The people from the police station came, but they couldn't figure it out. Officer Justus was old, and his young son hadn't graduated from the police school, so he couldn't handle such a big case.

It's pretty much what I expected - it's the people from Byronwiss, and the people in this group see this kind of murder like vultures smelling rotten blood, damn it, what a bunch of bastards.

Due to what happened in Room 101, the tenant who had agreed to live in Room 102 was also scared away, and I lost another sum of income.

The girl in room 103 brought a doctor back, I thought she was there for treatment, well... I guessed wrong.

Room 104 and Room 105 are both vacant. If this continues, I will not be able to pay the rent. "

After reading the contents of this paper, Chen Yan said:

"Only from the content recorded on paper, the recorder's mind is quite normal."

Ohgami nodded:
"The appearance of an ordinary citizen."

Chen Yan heaved a sigh of relief. He was particularly afraid of seeing the diary of a perverted murderer. All kinds of weird events these days had already made him burnt out. If something weird happened to his apartment building... that would be really too painful.

Many things happened on December 12th of the Cedar Year, and the back of this paper is full of small characters.

"The tenant of Room 201 was really beyond my expectations. He was so good-looking, so weak, but he shot so neatly, without leaving any blood. It is worth mentioning that he was in the police station. It was shot during the investigation on the first floor.

This reminds me of an Asian slang: people with high skills are bold.

What's more worth mentioning is that the tenant of Room 201 is an Asian. He is about 20 years old and still in school. He seems to be an academic major at Miskatonic University on the High Street.

What a talent, the future can be expected. "

"The tenants in rooms 203 and 204 died, but I don't need to call the police, because the tenants in room 201 have already dealt with them without a trace, and secondly, because they are Geli without identity. Ya Heihu.

Now, I need to find new tenants for these two rooms. This process will not be very difficult, because there are many more black households in the past two years than in previous years. Into the empire--

Even through the caves under the smoky lake!
It's really weird, didn't the cave collapsed a few years ago?Was it cleared again later?I didn't know about it.

In any case, just the thought of rent gives me motivation. "

"It is the tenant of Room 305 that makes me feel quite stressed. "

Room 305... is now Chen Yan's bedroom.

"Room 305 has a new tenant. "

"His name is Chen Yan. "

(End of this chapter)