Don't follow the rules

Chapter 14 Double Happiness Apartment ([-])
Watching the old man cry is a very suffocating thing.

He is helpless, and you are helpless.

The apartment is indeed owned by the landlord.Like all tenement-focused tenements, it's cramped and kitschy.

Until this ordinaryness was ignited by a fire.

In retrospect, it was almost inevitable.

The original design of the apartment building distinguishes between large and small units, which are spaced apart and scientifically designed.But according to the original apartment type, a normal first floor could not accommodate many people at all, so the landlord secretly opened up each household, and then unified them into dense small-sized apartments of the same size and layout.In this way, the renovated one floor can even accommodate more than ten families.

Residents become dense and mixed.

After a serious late-night burglary, the landlord decided to implement mandatory locking at night to facilitate management.The security guard stationed at the gate is responsible for the entry and exit of the entire building after dark, confirms identity, and manually unlocks the door.

Geng Xun is mainly responsible for the security work of the evening shift, and sometimes also works as a day shift. To be precise, the stingy landlord didn't hire a few security guards who could take turns.

Uncle Geng's popularity has always been good. All the residents in the building are familiar with him. Those who are more enthusiastic will pass by to say hello and have some food; those who are more introverted will basically nod to Uncle Geng with a smile.

If a young man works hard overtime, Uncle Geng will leave a street lamp for him; if a child studies hard, Uncle Geng will also prepare a few cheese sticks as a reward.Everyone likes this kind security guard very much.

But Geng Xun is old.

Like all old people, he gradually became deaf and fell asleep.So Geng Xun asked the residents who returned late to recommend a few TV series, thinking that watching TV series at night might make them less sleepy.

Residents complained that someone opened a small restaurant on the second floor, which was very smoky and smoky every day.

Lao Geng reported these opinions to the landlord, but the landlord waved his hand indifferently: "Isn't it normal for a commercial and residential apartment to have a restaurant? Besides, what they do is only for takeaway, and they don't let guests Come over to eat, and it won't bother anyone at all."

Although Lao Geng felt it was wrong, he was just a security guard and couldn't interfere too much.

It was night, but the TV series used to refresh oneself became a hypnotic weapon. Lao Geng fell asleep more deeply than usual in the white noise of the TV series music.

He was so deaf that he couldn't hear the fire alarm and the screams of the residents.

The landlord renovated the apartment and added the kitchen to the balcony. The pets kept privately in the illegal restaurant ignited the clothes hanging on the balcony, followed by the stacked debris and gas bottles.

Deflagration is an instant thing.

Residents on the lower floors were engulfed in flames before they knew what had happened, while people on the upper floors fled in a panic under the alert of the alarm bell.

Someone held the hot doorknob, and was blasted into a scorched corpse by flames and air waves the moment the door was opened;

Someone clutched a thin wet towel and tried to walk through the thick smoke, and lost consciousness after taking a step;

Some people managed to escape to the safe passage, but found that the sundries accumulated in the stairwell had been ignited, and the wide-open safety door made the stairs a chimney for exhaust.

Downward is the sea of ​​fire, upward is poisonous smoke.

People fell in layers on the way to escape.

Double Happiness Apartment is like a vertical purgatory.

When Lao Geng woke up, he could no longer hear people's cries.He looked up and saw that the whole building was silently burning.

……

After a moment of dead silence, Chunyu stopped taking notes and asked, "So you were on the first floor at the time. You should not have been affected by the fire, so how did you die?"

Old Geng: "I walked into the fire by myself... It was my fault, I couldn't survive..."

Chunyu: "Then when did you find your consciousness re-condensed? What's the state of the apartment now? What's going on with the overhead floor and the landlord?"

Ning Yao quietly tugged at the corner of Chunyu's clothes: "Don't ask in such a hurry, Mr. Ren is suffering right now."

Chunyu glanced at him: "Shut up, don't interfere with my thoughts of questioning, or I will make you feel uncomfortable too."

Ning Yao quickly covered her mouth to show her kindness.

Lao Geng waved his hand: "It's okay, let me continue."

With so many people dead, this place has undoubtedly become the most vicious house known far and wide.

No one dared to live in it, and the landlord himself died here, and no one took over, and the surrounding area was slowly abandoned.But the story of Shuangxi Apartment has never been forgotten, and it has been told repeatedly.It is always easy for people to forget the pain in the memory, and only remember the exciting part of the plot. The security guard who escaped from birth and then turned into the fire is the protagonist of the story that is easy to diverge.

When Lao Geng concentrated his consciousness again, he sat comfortably in the security room, watching the noisy TV series.

He couldn't believe it.

The young man who always worked overtime was begging himself to open the door with an apologetic expression on his face, and promised to come back early in the future.

Business as usual.

Lao Geng suppressed the consternation in his heart, and helped the young man press the unlock button, and the boy thanked him and ran away.

He wanted to catch up and explain something. As soon as he left the door of the security room, the calm hall in front of him suddenly burned into a sea of ​​fire. He could hear the roar of airflow in his ears, and his body was in pain like tearing. When he lowered his head, he saw that his hands, The feet, or it should be said that the whole body was burnt black and crispy, with mottled fly ash falling.

It seems that he is indeed dead.

So what is this now?Ghost?

But Lao Geng was widowed and lonely all his life, without any resentment or concern, how could he become a ghost?

Could it be that God redeemed himself in this way?
Then this time, I must protect these residents who died in vain!
Old Geng endured the scorching pain to find the landlord who lived on the top floor. The landlord still looked lazy and scoffed at the apartment renovation plan he proposed.

Lao Geng accidentally discovered that his will can affect the rules of the apartment.

Before he was alive, Lao Geng was a little security guard who had no right to speak, but now, Lao Geng is the core role of this strange talk.

After observation, he found that the operation rules of the apartment were completely in accordance with the landlord's incomprehensible manual. After all, the landlord was the owner of the apartment before his death, and he had no right to write on it, nor could he delete it.

Lao Geng secretly copied the manual. The copies were not subject to the landlord's control but could still affect the operation of the apartment, and he also had the power to modify the rules.

Lao Geng first banned the illegal restaurant, but was changed back by the troublesome landlord.

Even after his death, the landlord couldn't hide his greedy nature, and even became more greedy because he lost his humanity after death.

In the repeated confrontations between the security guard and the landlord, Lao Geng used his will to build a firefighting overhead layer out of thin air and imprisoned the landlord.And he was separated from the original manual and built into a cement pillar, so that he could no longer use the power of the manual to interfere with himself.Then he continued to strengthen the overhead layer in his manual in order to completely seal off the landlord.

In the days that followed, Lao Geng devoted himself to renovating the apartment, inspecting the building on time every day to check for dangers, regularly overhauling fire-fighting equipment, and carefully writing a new "Apartment Safety Instructions"

Old Geng thought that life would go on peacefully like this.

Until one day, a new [resident] came to the apartment.

This is a landlord trick.After being detained by security guards, the landlord has been waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.The landlord found that the [residents] who violated the [rules] would be dissipated into pure energy, and as the owner of the apartment, he formulated the initial rules with the highest authority and had the right to enjoy these violating energy.

The landlord quietly absorbed some [residents] who violated the regulations without alerting the security guards, and then rented out the vacated rooms online again.

And the new [residents] are all extremely delicious living people.

Chunyu looked at Ning Yao, and the meaning was obvious, you are the delicious fool who took the bait.

Once the landlord increases his power by absorbing living souls and breaks through the security control, the apartment will escalate into an extremely dangerous out-of-control ghost story.

It will continue to lure living people into apartments without restraint, and then devour them.

Then before the situation completely got out of control, Chunyu decided to reach a cooperative relationship with the security guard Lao Geng to eradicate the landlord together.

"Let's go." Chunyu stretched out his hand to the security guard, "Let's go to the overhead floor and beat people together."

Old Geng was a little dazed.

Chunyu: "You regained your consciousness and repairing the plumbing here is not God asking you to atone for your sins, it's just that you have been talked about as the protagonist of ghost stories too much. But stopping the landlord from continuing to do evil will really help you atone for your sins and remember meritorious deeds. "

Ning Yao's eyes lit up: "Have merit? Count me in!"

Lao Geng leaned against the wall and stood up slowly. His breath was weak but his eyes were firm: "I'm not going with you for merit. I want him to spit out all the residents he swallowed!"

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