Chapter 4 The Bloody Apartment (4)
Brooms, rags, buckets and cold lunches.
When the guard left, the man with a flower tattoo kicked at a bucket, and vented and cursed: “Keep Lao Tzu in this broken place and eat this faulty box of lunch. Only one hand is left and you have to work for them. Clean up his mother’s hygiene!” The rest of the people were not surprised at his violent temper. No one cared about him, only his yellow haired sidekick was still supporting him.
Helping a handicapped person who can’t walk up the stairs, the two went to the center of the hall and wanted to take the elevator.
However, with the elevator’s doors tightly sealed, obviously no one was inside it, yet the number displayed was constantly changing. Therefore the elevator must be moving between floors.
Only now did the man with the flower tattoo remembered this: the administrator had said yesterday that the elevator had broken down.
“Mother, if you have bad luck, you really have to drink cold water!”
He cursed in his mouth, and finally sat down in the hall. He was motionless like an uncle, just instructing his little brother: “A-huang, you take my share of life. Let’s do it together!”
Yellow hair’s eyes flickered, but he thought that after he got out, he would have to continue to eat under the boss’s hands, and finally agreed.
The rest of the people, following the previously laid out plan by the administrator, went to different floors to clean.
After leaving the crowd, Shen Yu went to a hidden place, took out his black book and looked through it.
He’d looked through Boss Qian’s book before and had unexpectedly discovered that their every move in the apartment might turn into a new story on the pages of the book.
Sure enough, the analytic information he wrote by himself last night had changed and turned into a brand new story.
[Thirteen brave cleaners moved into the pink apartment complex. 】
[ Mint heard the movements outside the window, but did not open the window; he heard the knocking on the door, but did not open the door to the visitor. So the visitors said that he is not a hospitable person! 】【Mint only questioned the rules of the apartment, so Anonymous lent him a pen, and he wrote the first part of his story. ] Shen Yu looked down slightly, rubbing his slender fingers over the text, and finally stopped on the two names that’d appeared.
Mint?
It should be the pen name given to him by the story.
Then the “Anonymous” who lent to him refers to…
He lowered his head and stared at the little boy in front of him.
The little boy had been quietly following him, sensible and obedient, and had a very weak sense of presence.
At this moment, he raised his round face obediently and his dark eyes met Shen Yu, as if asking silently: “What’s the matter?”
Anonymous refers to people who are unidentified and people who do not want to reveal their names… In literary works whose author is unknown, they are also signed as anonymous.
Shen Yu was silent for a long time, then suddenly shot forwards and grabbed the little boy from behind.
The little boy was slightly startled, but his body jumped up lightly, like a dexterous cat, avoiding the palm of his hand.
But Shen Yu’s goal was not him.
The little boy leaned across the schoolbag, unable to dodge, and the bag was grabbed by him and turned upwards down.
With a “click”, a book fell to the ground.
Unlike a child’s schoolbag, there was no paper, pens, homework or textbooks as imagined, only a black book exactly like his.
And judging from the child’s always calm expression, this is definitely not the first time he has entered a horror novel.
Before Shen Yu could look away from the book, the side of his neck suddenly felt cold.
The child’s voice came from behind him: “Don’t move.”
His expression remained unchanged: “You lied to me.” The little boy was silent for a moment: “I didn’t lie to you, but you misunderstood.”
Shen Yu: “You lied to me that you were a primary school student.”
The little boy: “…I really lied to you.”
Shen Yu: “You are not only a novelist, but also a veteran.”
The little boy behind him seemed to laugh. After a while, he replied: “Others think you are a veteran, but I can see that you are actually a newcomer.”
A newcomer means that their combat effectiveness is not high, and the real rules were not even clear yet.
Shen Yu also understood what he meant by allusion, and couldn’t help cursing inwardly.
The current situation really had come to a standstill.
But soon, the cold touch on his neck disappeared.
The little boy put away the blade, turned around and came to him: “I don’t want to hurt you.”
“I’m sorry I misunderstood you before.”
Shen Yu touched his cold neck, looking inexplicable, and asked: “Your pen name is the word Anonymous?”
The little boy said lightly: “Every novelist’s pen name is given by a novel.”
Shen Yu: “Tsk.” If you love mint, it’s called “Mint”. If you’re obese, it’s called “Fat”, “Anonymous” if you are too lazy to name it, this novel is really bad!
The little boy named Anonymous continued to ask: “I’ll ask again… You chose me, do you regret it now?”
Shen Yu looked down at him, and after a long time, he smiled and didn’t make any other expressions. He then turned around and left.
“We still have a task to complete, don’t be stunned, let’s go!” He still held the cleaning tools in his hand and called out to him in a very cool manner.
Anonymous looked at his back, a smile appearing in his eyes, and followed.
…
Since the identities of the two had been confessed to each other, Anonymous no longer kept himself back.
He directly made a suggestion to Shen Yu: “Cleaning the apartment may not only be cleaning the corridors, but the rooms of the residents are also within the scope of the apartment complex.”
By cleaning the rooms of the residents, you can communicate with the residents and collect useful information from them.
This proposal was very good, so the two began to knock from door to door to provide free cleaning services.
Shen Yu looked sunny and refreshing, and had a cheerful personality, which made people feel good at first sight. He used to eat well wherever he went.
It’s a pity that when he ran into the residents in the pink apartment complex, they were an unprecedented group of people.
The residents here looked very strange, just like the administrator they had seen before, and their turbid eyes were covered with a gray film.
In addition, the residents were either deaf or dumb, and there were almost no healthy people, and everyone was very vigilant and very unfriendly to outsiders.
Often, after Shen Yu kept knocking on the doors for a long time, the residents would slowly open a crack in the door and use their muddy eyes to look at the people through the crack in the door. Before the two of them could speak, they would bang the door closed hard again.
The two persevered in promoting themselves time after time, and finally met a family willing to open the door to let them in.
The owner of this family was a middle-aged woman, not dumb-looking, and her ears were not impacted so strongly, so she could hear the voices of both of them clearly.
Shen Yu worked hard to clean up, while keeping on chatting to the resident.
“Auntie, the decoration of your house is so beautiful, it is pink and tender, it matches your complexion!” he praised.
When the owner heard the praise, she covered her mouth and smiled: “Oh, you child, you’re really hardworking and sweet. The decorations of our apartments are the same, all made by Master Wu.”
“Oh? Master Wu’s craftsmanship is so good.” He captured the key information, but he still asked casually, “Then how much did this decoration cost? I want to ask Master Wu to decorate my house when I go back.”
The owner laughed even more openly: “This, I don’t know! The decoration of our apartment was done for free by Master Wu, no money involved at all.”
Shen Yu pretended to be surprised and asked: “If you don’t need to pay, then Master Wu will lose money?”
Listening to him the owner laughed so much that all her teeth were visible.
The residents in the pink apartment complex, for some reason, all had sparse, yellow, rotten teeth in their mouths, as if all the good teeth had been plucked out of their mouths.
She proudly said: “Master Wu owns a construction site. He is the foreman on the construction site. He grew up in our complex. He wanted to give back to the old neighbors in here, so he renovated the whole apartment complex at his own expense.”
Shen Yu pretended to admire: “So, Master Wu is really a good person!”
“But I’m wondering, why did he only renovate the west building; why didn’t he renovate the east building of the complex, too?”
This was originally just an offhanded remark, but when the owner heard this, her face suddenly changed: “What East Building, who told you that our apartment has an East Building?”
“Our apartment complex obviously only has a West Building, how could you not know? What exactly are the two of you? People?” The more the owner said, the more embarrassed her face became. The aura of the whole body gradually became terrifying: her figure stretched tall, her muddy eyes began to convulse and her mouth grinned in a wide split.
The sparse, yellow teeth also began to grow longer and sharper, until finally they resembled those of a wild beast.
Anonymous stood up and got in front of Shen Yu, pressing his palm on the black book and flipping it calmly, and three sharp scalpels were suddenly sandwiched between his fingers.
Seeing the physical changes of the homeowner, Shen Yu suddenly remembered that the administrator had once said that he must be very polite when speaking with the apartment residents.
So he turned his mind sharply and said, “Auntie, did you hear me wrong? What is this about a East Building and West Building? I am talking about repairing the stairs. The stairs in the apartment can be made wider.”
“I got it wrong?” The owner soared. She was still in the momentum, but the people here are more or less hard to hear, it is difficult to say whether she had been mistaken.
She hesitated for a moment, then looked at the blades between the anonymous fingers, and finally, reluctantly, returned to her original figure.
However, after such an episode, she didn’t have any good feelings left for both of them and directly drove them out of her home.
Once again, the two people, who had been turned away from doors before, turned around and looked at a closed door.
Shen Yu smiled and touched the Anonymous fluffy head: “It doesn’t matter anyway, we have already aquired a key information.”
“Master Wu”, who renovated the entire apartment for free, matched the information given at the beginning of the black book. They can work from this breakthrough point.
Anonymous had an expressionless face and he tore the other’s hand from his head.
This person, after knowing his true identity, actually became presumptuous, and even started to touch his head.
Outrageous!
One day was quickly spent while everyone kept cleaning.
In the evening, everyone gathered in the lobby on the first floor again, looking at the administrator with complex expressions, waiting for the keys to be redistributed.
Two people had died last night, and now there were eleven of them left.
Tonight, there will yet again be a single person.
Sure enough, the administrator looked at their number and smiled, his face all wrinkled up, then licked his fingers and counted out six keys.
Five pink keys and one red key.
“Two people per room, and you assign them by yourselves.” The manager left with this sentence behind.
With the previous experience, everyone present at the scene started to grab at the pink keys in unison.
In the chaos, the man with glasses was focusing intently on a particular key, yet suddenly suffered a pain in his wrist at the moment he was about to touch the key.
“Ah!” he yelled, seeing that Xu Jiaojiao had suddenly rushed up and was biting him desperately on his wrist.
Looking at Xu Jiaojiao’s red eyes, he instantly understood that the other party was trying to avenge her sister.
The chaos was over, all the pink keys were gone and only the red key was left, which had been thrown to the ground with disgust by everyone.
The man in glasses, who hadn’t gotten the key he wanted, looked at the red key gloomily, and suddenly lashed out and hit Xu Jiaojiao’s face with a severe slap: “You stinky girl! Crazy woman!!”
She was slapped in the face. Xu Jiaojiao’s originally beautiful face quickly swelled, the corners of her mouth were bruised and her eyes bloodshot.
But she looked in the glasses man’s eyes with delight and joy, and cursed fiercely: “Go to hell! You deserve to live alone in the East Building and pay for my sister’s life!”
He’d completely removed that layer of gentleness; the man with glasses was anxious and hateful right now, his face flushed and he reached out to grab Xu Jiaojiao’s hair: “I will kill you crazy lady first!”
“Dare you!” Threateningly, the short-haired girl suddenly shot up and confronted the man with glasses who had been displeased by her.
The two were about to fight again.
“I’ll change with you!” A voice suddenly shocked everyone present.
When everyone turned their heads and looked, they saw Shen Yu picking up the red key and throwing the original pink key from his hand to the ground.
Facing everyone’s shocked eyes, he smiled slowly: “Suddenly, I want to move into the East Building.”
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