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Chapter 17 - The Old House
update icon Updated at 2023/3/8 15:41:08

In the dimly lit corridor, the walls were painted in black and white, the ceiling hung with crystal lamps had traces of peeling wall skin, and the heavy dark gray lead doors on both sides were engraved with intricate patterns, with mercury-like golden liquid metal flowing between the patterns.

Although An Qing couldn't see what was being held in the room behind the door, but being in the corridor, she could feel the strong malice coming from behind the lead door.

Jiang Li finally used the stain of "you misappropriated D-level spiritual energy items for personal use" to calm Bai Kai and left the dissection room with them.

However, An Qing thought that it would be okay to let him roll around on the floor for a while longer, and it would save her the effort of cleaning up this week.

Through the lengthy corridor, up the spiral staircase carved with odd beast patterns, she doesn't know how long it took to see the light again, just then, Bai Kai suddenly stopped walking.

"Why did you stop?" An Qing looked at Bai Kai suspiciously and said, "Didn't you say that the person involved was your godson? Wouldn't it be better for you to handle it personally?"

"I thought about it, I won't go, I don't want Xiao Bei to know that I'm doing this."

Bai Kai leaned against the wall of the stairway, lit a cigarette, and slowly exhaled smoke.

"Pop-pop-pop-!"

"Hiss--whew--!"

"If I hadn't run into this crap, I wouldn't even want him to know that kaidan exists!" Bai Kai said, glancing at Jiang Li in the afterglow as he spoke, his eyes surging with a sharp light like a sword.

"Why?" An Qing wondered, "Is it bad for a son to inherit his father's business? I heard that he also had a precognitive dream, I see that he seems very high! Flower City is now so tight, one more cadre is also good!

"What do you know?" Bai Kai skimmed his mouth, just wanting to say something else, but Jiang Li stole the conversation.

"I understand his thoughts, he doesn't want his junior to be locked up forever one day like those guys downstairs, so he doesn't let him get involved in The Night of Justice Association's things, right?"

Bai Kai, holding a cigarette, glanced at Jiang Li, rolled his eyes, and coldly snorted, "Humph! You finally said something human! But don't think that I can forgive you just because you did that!"

"You misunderstand me, I understand you, but I don't completely agree with you."

Jiang Li shook her head gently.

"You are putting shackles on him and blindfolding him like this, do you think he can really live your life happily without knowing anything?"

"He as a person with an independent mind, this kind of thing, you should leave it to his own choice."

"And then what?" Bai Kai asked rhetorically, his voice raised a few points, "Like us, turning into a monster, fighting and killing all day long, not knowing when he will die? He is only eighteen years old!"

Saying that, Bai Kai looked at Jiang Li's childish face, and suddenly remembered that she was also just a teenage girl, even younger than Lu Yi Bei, only because she was involved in a very harmful strange story incident, she survived and became spiritual psychic now.

Although some sympathy for her, but she is the best evidence of what will happen after joining The Night of Justice Association! Some people are living, but she's dead inside!

Thinking of this, Bai Kai stopped talking, coldly snorted and left.

"Humph!"

Apology is impossible! There is no way to apologize in this life! This will tarnish the cold and arrogant image of Flower City's most beautiful man! Bai Kai thought.

An Qing watched Bai Kai walk away, looked at Jiang Li, blinked her big eyes, pointed at the tip of her nose, and laughed bitterly, "Do I look like a monster? I feel pretty good myself! Outside, many little brothers are asking for my number!"

The smooth porcelain-like face was stained with a few tiny blood spots, the dark brown eyes were vaguely scarlet, two sharp tiger teeth were revealed between the bright red lips when she smiled, and a hand was full of dark red blood after the blood had dried out.

Jiang Li sized up An Qing, nodded expressionlessly, "You do look like a monster!"

......

After asking and taking notes, the little maid led Lu Yi Bei to the parlor located next to the interrogation room and said, "You just wait here now!" and left.

The moment the wooden door closed, there was a clear sound of locking the door, as if she was afraid Lu Yi Bei would run away.

"Humph! To judge a gentleman with the heart of a villain!" Lu Yi Bei muttered, and his gaze involuntarily looked at the window.

Through the gap of the blinds, could vaguely see the falling leaves of the ginkgo trees in the garden outside falling with the wind, as if a fine golden rain was falling.

"Ka-da-da-da-!" The sound of prying windows sounded in the parlor, then fell silent.

Lu Yi Bei, "......" I was just checking to see if their windows were sturdy, and wasn't trying to escape!

Lu Yi Bei did not know how long he had been in the parlor, only that he had "checked" the solidity of the doors and windows, looked through the displays on the bookshelves, and was finally ready to determine if the golden terracotta army model on the coffee table was made by real gold, the door opened, a silver-haired girl with a delicate face and an icy temperament limped in.

When Jiang Li walked into the parlor, she saw Lu Yi Bei, who was holding the terracotta army's heads in his mouth and had a bewildered look on her face, and lightly said, "It's not made by gold." And then, as if she had not seen anything, she walked over and sat down on the opposite of him.

Lu Yi Bei shrank his neck, slowly spat out the terracotta army’s head, carefully put his hands back on the coffee table, and returned to the sofa to sit upright.

"Hello, my name is Jiang Li, next I will give you an account of the follow-up matters, after that, you can go back."

Lu Yi Bei tilted his head and asked in amazement, "Just go back? What if that Mr. What's-his-name Rabbit comes back to the door?"

"So you're just going to leave it? It's not that I'm a small-minded person! It's because you've been too unkind before, I can't feel at ease!"

Lu Yi Bei said in a serious tone, the words are quite some "I can not sleep peacefully if the thief does not die" meaning.

"The deformed species is not a malevolent species, usually speaking, it will not overly focus on one target." Jiang Li explained. “I am not your nanny, can’t stay up all night stay on your side. If I saw something personal, that would be awkward, right?”

"You recently have three illegal websites browsing records, thirty-two fan fiction comics website browsing records, and......"

Lu Yi Bei’s face was calm, but his cheeks have long been red, can not help but interrupt, "Stop! Stop! Are you guys a household checker? Don’t say out this kind of thing, okay! I'll go back, I'll go back, okay?"

"Yes!" Jiang Li nodded, "Don't worry, I didn't say I didn't care about you, did I?"

"According from the information, your family used to live in Peony Street? If you can, please return to your family's old house to live in the recent period, so that we can guarantee your safety."

"What do you mean ......" Lu Yi Bei frowned, glanced out of the window, and wondered, "Is your place very close to Peony Street?"

"In fact, it's right on Peony Street." Jiang Li said.

"Uh ...... "Lu Yi Bei froze, moved slightly closer towards Jiang Li, put up a palm, and whispered, "You told me where the address of the organization's base is, you won't kill me in the future, right? "

"No." Jiang Li calmly said, "In the eyes of outsiders, we are just a subordinate unit of the Administration, if you tell, I can contact my colleagues from the Yun Kang Psychiatric Hospital to take you away said that you are a psychiatric patient."

"Hiss...!"

Hearing that, Lu Yi Bei gasped and said.

Lu Yi Bei had heard about the reputation of the Yun Kang Psychiatric Hospital, and heard that all the people locked up there were severely mentally ill, and once they got in, they almost never got out.

Could it be that the people locked up in the Yun Kang Psychiatric Hospital are actually people who have been attacked by the kaidan and have mental issues? Maybe they are even the kaidan itself!

Lu Yi Bei thought, thinking carefully, could not help but some chills on his back.

"So, then you guys here, don't you have any recruitment plan?"

Lu Yi Bei had originally planned to count on this mysterious organization, and now that the opportunity came to him, he naturally would not let it go easily.

Of course, he didn't want to be the kind of man who would charge into the battlefield, but the type of man who would silently support a successful woman.

"Yes, but if you want to join, you must have at least one or two specialties, we don't feed idlers." Jiang Li said, a look of embarrassment appeared on her face as she spoke, "In addition, if you lie and we found out in the future, you will also be sent to Yun Kang Psychiatric Hospital."

"......" Lu Yi Bei wanted to say something but stopped, his heart secretly thinking up.

The dream of seeing Mr. Rabbit kill someone may only appear by chance, and I don't know if it will still be true in the future, if not, it will be a problem if it is taken as a lie.

I don't know what effect the back of the young girl I saw in my dream has, and telling her may also end up in a mental hospital.

So what else am I good at? Cooking?

The idea of this, Lu Yi Bei weakly said, " Is cooking considered as a specialty? If it doesn’t, I can split my legs."

"Yes." Jiang Li nodded, and as she spoke, she took out the contract and pen she had prepared from the small bag she carried with her, and handed it to Lu Yi Bei, "Then let's sign the temporary employment contract first, in duplicate, for a month, and after Mr. Rabbit's case is resolved, it's up to you whether you want to renew it or not."

Lu Yi Bei looked at the contract on the coffee table and scratched his head, secretly sighing, "Doing splits will do? Why do I feel that she intended to let me join from the very beginning, just waiting for me to say it myself?

Jiang Li seemed to see what Lu Yi Bei was thinking, and after seeing him sign on the contract, she said faintly, "That's right, yes."

Lu Yi Bei, "???" Why do I have a bad feeling? It was like signing a contract to sell myself.

Jiang Li put the contract away properly and looked at Lu Yi Bei and said, "Now you are a temporary member of The Night of Justice Association, in order to ensure your life safety, you can choose a D-level psychic energy item to defend yourself."

"Well ......" Lu Yi Bei thought for a moment, "Then can you return the statue of the Ming King to me? I heard that little maid say that one is a D-level spiritual energy item, right?"

"Won't you pick it again?" Jiang Li frowned slightly, "In fact, we still have thirty-three D-level spiritual energy items for you to choose."

"Among the many D-level spiritual items, the [Blessed Great Ming King Statue] can be considered the largest in size, so I'm afraid it's not convenient for you to carry it around."

"No, I am fond of the old." Lu Yi Bei said expressionlessly, "Recently I've been sleeping with the statue of the Ming King, without it, I'm worried I'll have insomnia."

......

Half an hour later.

"Phew, finally out!"

Standing on the green stone of Peony Street, Lu Yi Bei stretched his back and exhaled a long breath of foul air, breathing in the humid and fresh air with a feeling of rejuvenation.

Jiang Li did not lie to him, Flower City Folk Culture Research Administration is not far from his old house, the direct distance is not more than two hundred meters, even if the ancient street road twists and turns, it took him less than three minutes to return to the front door of his house.

White walls and green tiles, the ancient architectural style is not very different from other houses on the street.

Under the flying eaves, there are two stone drums, nailed with a brass ring on the door locked, the top has accumulated a thin layer of ash, above the door hangs a wooden plaque, written [Lu’s Sichuan Cuisine] on it, such a simple name of the store.

This is where the Lu Yi Bei family's old house is located, a long time ago his home is not so big, the first floor is a breakfast store, upstairs attic is a living place, the two together is only 30 square meters, his childhood is spent in this slightly cramped house.

Two years ago, his old man spent most of his savings on the three or four stores next to them, broke through the wall, with a lot of decoration, just ready to open their own restaurant, but did not expect ......

standing in front of their own door, Lu Yi Bei gently shook his head, sighed, "Hey! The late emperor's business is not halfway but ended in the middle way!" He took out the key and open the door.

The old house has not been lived in for a long time, since Lu Yi Bei was discharged from the hospital, he has been living in a new home on Xuefu Road, even if Shui occasionally came over to help clean it, but can not stop it from becoming cold, Lu Yi Bei opened the door, there is a faint musty smell mixed with dust came to the face.

Seeing this, he sighed, put the statue of Ming King on the dining table in the hall, rolled up his sleeves and walked to the bathroom, fetching a broom and a rag to clean up.

Just halfway through the cleaning process, there was a light knocking on the wooden door behind him.

"Dang Dang--!"

"Ho! Why is your house so dirty? How long has it been since you've cleaned, you little brat?"

Lu Yi Bei heard the sound, put down the broom in his hand, turned around, and saw the dark and strong man in a coat, with a fat waist, and full of beard.

The man with a tough guy look, but he has a beautiful name, Su Mi, his family has been running a handmade Shu embroidery business for generations, living across the street, and he is an old neighbor of Lu Yi Bei's family, the same age as him.

"Tch, I haven't been back for a long time. Isn't it normal for it to be dirty like this?" Lu Yi Bei skimmed his mouth, "You didn't help me to clean up?"

Su Mi froze at the words, "It's been a long time? No, why do I keep hearing sounds in your house? The other night, I heard a girl singing! I thought you had girlfriend ......"

Halfway through the sentence Su Mi noticed that Lu Yi Bei looked a little abnormal and stopped talking abruptly.

"No?"

"No ......"

"Hiss--!"

Lu Yi Bei expressionless look around, the store decorated with ancient and quite a few idyllic style, for a time there are a few grim air.

This kid can't be joking, and he's trying to scare me, right?

This is so close to The Night of Justice Association, there are also kaidan dare to do things?

But what if?

Lu Yi Bei thought, throwing the broom in his hand, expressionlessly carrying the statue of King Ming, walked to Su Mi's side and said, "Forget it, it's too dirty, I won't clean it first, I'll stay at your house tonight! This is not scary, we have not seen for so long, I just want to catch up with you."

After saying that, he nimbly locked the door and ran into Su Mi's house in a flash.

Su Mi turned back to look at Lu Yi Bei's old house, through the gap in the window, seems to see a shadow of a person flashed in the house, he thought of the other day he intended to eavesdrop on Lu Yi Bei and his "girlfriend" to do private things, can not help but felt chills on his back, he turned and ran away.

"Hey! You bastard, you wait for me! Wait! What kind of friend are you!!"