Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 363 The Beginning of a Busy Day

At the same time, stairs need to be erected between the attic and the roof, so that Chen Yan can go up to the roof without relying on Ogami's strength.

Not long after Chen Yan took over the house, he wondered why this kind of apartment building didn't have an escalator leading to the roof?

It wasn’t until just now that I happened to see from Raz’s records that the designers of the apartments in the old town hadn’t thought about this at all. At the beginning, these apartments were also built in a hurry. The repair of the roof was not considered at all.

It was also at this time that Chen Yan understood why the sunny side of the apartment was almost destroyed by the ivy——

When designing the construction materials of this building, the designer never considered the lifespan of the apartment at all. How to save money? The wall is full of mud and sand, so it is easy to be infiltrated by creepers?

Now that the wall has not collapsed, it is already a blessing in misfortune!

He even saw Raz's complaint about it in the record:

"The builders of Yanan city didn't consider whether these houses were dangerous at all.

Too many people are giving birth, too many people are coming from the country, too many people are coming from the sea...

With so many people, crushing some to death will not affect anything.

The builders don't need to spend their own money to rebuild houses on the ruins, because Yanan City is developing too fast, and the money for building houses is all paid by the municipal government.

The builders only need to spend the municipal money to build the house, sit in the office and wait for some people who are willing to buy the house to take over, and they can make a lot of money.

Their wishes usually come true, and wealthy business owners from outside Yharnam City are eager to break their doors.

And those who are under the house, who cares who they are? "

Seeing this, Chen Yan felt more and more at a loss.

'That is to say, when I took over this apartment from my third uncle, there was almost nothing left of the apartment but a shell. This shell was still a rotten inferior product, and it would be finished in a few years! '

When Chen Yan paid ten pounds for this apartment, Chen Yan felt something was wrong. The price was too cheap. This is a three-story apartment building!

Until today, he was finally able to confirm that he became the receiver.

The matter has come to this point, it is useless to complain, and it is unrealistic to buy another building. There is only one way to stop losses in time:
Use the money earned a few days ago to repair the apartment.

……

A part of the middle of Walker Street is full of hardware stores, building materials stores, and furniture stores. These stores were once popular during the rapid development of Yanan City, and then enjoyed the second wave of era dividends when the population exploded.

Today, when there is almost no construction in Yanan City, these shops providing construction supplies are no longer as popular as they were in the past, but they still support a large number of people——

At the intersection of the densely populated area of ​​building material stores, there are always people who want to be coolies holding small cardboards with their skills written on them, waiting there all day long, waiting for an employer who needs temporary workers to hire them.

When Chen Yan came here, a group of hard workers flocked to sell themselves to him.

Asian bosses are always welcome. Most of them are kind and wealthy, and they will not easily deduct wages from workers. Some people interpret their characteristics as timid and afraid to easily offend strong workers.

In any case, Chen Yan easily recruited ten construction workers, and returned to the apartment after purchasing enough building materials.

After briefing Jack Baldo, the builders began to renovate the apartment.

Their tasks are:

Clean up the ivy on the dangerous wall and reinforce the wall;
Build stairs from the third floor to the attic;

Build stairs between the attic and the roof;

Repair the window in room 304 that was smashed by the wish.

To Chen Yan's surprise, the entire project cost less than 1 shilling—one day's work, and 10 pence per person, which made these workers so grateful!

After handing over some money to Jack Baldo, Chen Yan asked him to help solve the two meals for the workers.

Jack Baldo kindly reminded that according to the market price, the rough work done by these hard-working mud legs is not even worth a piece of bread, and 1 pennies can already make them work hard, so there is no need to worry about food.

Chen Yan just smiled at this thought and didn't speak.

The average wages of workers are determined by the market, and the wages of workers hired by Chen Yan are determined by Chen Yan, which is not in conflict.

Chen Yan thinks that the price of manpower should be how much he pays the workers. This is a matter for him to decide and has nothing to do with the market.

……

At about nine o'clock in the morning, Chen Yan borrowed Ogami's other knife, the wedge ball, for self-defense, and then took six registration forms to Walker Street Missionary School.

Messiah insisted on following him, and Marina couldn't talk about her daughter, so Chen Yan lost to the little girl's stubbornness.

"Let's agree first, after you get out, you can't run around, you must follow me closely."

Messiah obviously understood, she nodded to him, and her eyes brightened after leaving the apartment——

Chen Yan saw from her eyes that she seemed to wish to see the outside world.

After arriving at the dean's office of the church school, he explained his purpose of coming, and Vidya Gandhi expressed great enthusiasm for what he explained.

After expressing his loyalty to Arhat again, Vidya Gandhi inadvertently glanced at Messiah who was following behind Chen Yan, and then led Chen Yan to the Admissions Office for student registration.

The director of the admissions office had apparently changed, and the new director was a little girl who obeyed Vidya Gandhi.

Chen Yan was not interested in the office war in the church school, so after completing the registration, she took the admission notice and prepared to leave.

"grown ups……"

As if making some difficult decision, Vidya Gandhi showed a begging smile to Chen Yan, and said to him:
"I have something to ask you."

He saw the look in her eyes representing "help" and the fear in her tone that she couldn't hide.

She... seemed to be threatened by someone?
Chen Yan was silent for a moment, and weighed her value. After thinking about the fact that Nuomi Guo and Messiah would spend three years in a church school, he decided to help her.

"This is not the place... Let's go back to the apartment and talk..."

The three came to the teacher's apartment at the mission school and entered Vidya Gandhi's room.

She said she wanted to bring something to Chen Yan, and left in a hurry.

When she was leaving, Chen Yan heard the sound of the door being locked.

He thumped in his heart, feeling bad.

Holding the handle of the wedge ball hidden in his waist, he waited anxiously for a few minutes, but nothing strange happened around him.

This puzzled him.

What Chen Yan couldn't see was that not far from him, in Vidya Gandhi's closet, in the dark compartment, a one-eyed boy was staring at the eye that was completely different from normal humans, staring at him intently. Messiah.

'what is that? '

The one-eyed boy didn't dare to move, because the Messiah reflected in his pupils was not human.

His heart trembled because of what he saw in his pupils, and everything he had planned was forced to stop——

He originally wanted to get one of the man's eyes and perform a secret ritual on it so that he could observe the world through the man's eyes.

And after the secret ceremony, he will use the processed ram's lower body to erase this part of the man's memory, so that the man will return to where he came from without noticing.

In this way, he can observe the girl with twin souls without any scruples through the eyes of a man.

But now...

Now, he didn't dare to move.

'When did this girl appear? '

'Last time obviously not! '

'Yes... yes!She is the monster that was born last Sunday night! '

The one-eyed boy watched everything that happened last Sunday night near 33 Walker Street, but he didn't notice the Messiah from beginning to end.

He originally thought that Malina's child would be a baby so ordinary that he would subconsciously ignore it, but he didn't expect that from the very beginning, it wasn't "his subconsciously ignoring", but "he couldn't see it at all"!
'how can that be possible?How could it not be seen?My eyes...how could it be impossible to see things that exist in this world? '

'Could it be...that girl, from outside this world? '

'how is this possible!There has never been such a thing!Even in the glacier generation when the world is damaged, there can be no barriers that exist across the world! '

His already unstable mood almost collapsed.

'monster!monster! '

Outside the closet, Chen Yan looked at Messiah who was staring at him with puzzled eyes, and shrugged:

"Don't look at me, I don't know what happened."

Messiah looked at the wardrobe blankly.

For a moment, the one-eyed boy in the closet felt a chill.

At this moment, he was extremely certain in his heart: She must have seen me!
The next moment, Messiah turned his head and looked at Chen Yan again, as if turning a blind eye to the one-eyed boy hiding in the closet.

The one-eyed boy was stunned for a moment when he saw her inexplicable behavior.

'What happened...she didn't expose me...why? '

Gathering his courage, he looked at her with his one eye again.

This time, he could see clearly. The moment his eyes fell on her, she frowned and slapped his shoulder like a fly.

Chen Yan saw her actions and asked her: "What's wrong? Are you uncomfortable?"

Messiah just shook his head, and his frown quickly relaxed.

Inside the closet, the one-eyed boy looked hideous.

'How dare you not take me seriously! '

The fury in his heart could not be released, because he was too weak now, apart from being able to use the power of his eyes, this weak body would even be knocked down by a punch from his peers.

He had to be patient, he had to lurk, and he had to wait until he became a classmate with the little girl who had a twin soul and got her before he could regain some of his former strength.

By then, he wouldn't have the same dread he has now about the red-haired girl outside the closet.

(End of this chapter)