Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 17 Rent
It was four o'clock in the morning, and we walked out of the dark street, and although the light was on in our room, the doors and windows were closed, and no light could come through at all.

The summer night was extremely sweltering, and the two of us took our parcels and walked out in the deserted old alley, preparing to take a night taxi back to the apartment that Tofu rented before.Tofu on the road was very unconvinced, and said to me: "Comrade Chen Xuan, you are so useless in handling today's affairs, I look down on you!"

I asked back, "Why are you so useless?"

Tofu's face turned red, and he said: "The mushrooms that I dug out so hard, why let them miss it? It's fine to miss it, at least be polite. Look at what we look like now, why do I feel like it? The rat that got kicked out?"

I said, "If it were you, what would you do?"

Tofu immediately said: "There is a saying that a man can bend and stretch. If I was the only one, I would admit it. But the situation is different today, isn't it because you are here? You have never been a shy boy, and the sky has fallen as a quilt. According to your previous temper, you must have fought against them. When I was in high school, which time did you not grab my pocket money with your fists? As a blessing, you just..."

Seeing that the tofu was showing signs of being far away, I coughed quickly and said, "Stop it, don't mention the past. At that time, I was working on the construction site, eating steamed buns every day, and never had a full meal. You young master , What’s the matter with sharing some pocket money with me, as for now, do you still miss it? Listen to me, at the beginning, I also planned to fight with them, but didn’t you realize that they brought something?”

"Something?" Tofu asked a little confused, "You mean that photo?"

Tofu also knows something about me, so he said: "It's strange enough that the photo suddenly appeared, but it's not difficult for us to find out its origin, as long as we subdue them. I remember you in 08 After chasing those two little thieves, they just beat them indiscriminately, making them cry for their father and mother. One-on-two is no problem, right? With me, how can we settle the three of them? When the time comes to extract a confession, we will be fine. Afraid they won't reveal the truth?"

After I heard it, I couldn't help but sneered, and said, "How about you, you are like tofu, you are too idiotic to think about things. You think I should deal with those two people, and then you deal with that old man, don't you? Big mistake! They've got real guys in their arms, guns."

Then, I told Tofu what I found at that time.

During the confrontation, I was just like Tofu guessed at the beginning, I am not a person who is afraid of getting into trouble, and my heart is relatively dark, thinking that if these three people want to be black and black, then I am sorry, I am not the fourth brother of Bai and the fourth. My subordinates, playing hard with me, I was in a hurry and threw the three of you into the robbery cave and buried them alive.

But then, during the observation process, I found something was wrong.

Xia Tian's clothes are easy to fit. On the side of the three people, I vaguely saw the same outline, a bit like a pistol. Because of this, I held back my breath and didn't come hard.

Tofu was dumbfounded after hearing this, and said, "It's terrible, these people dare to carry guns." After speaking, he seemed a little scared.Now we have reached the middle of the road, we waited for a while, and a night taxi came, Tofu and I stopped and reported the address.

The driver of the taxi was from the Northeast, and the characteristic of the Northeast is that he can talk. In addition, it is a night bus at the moment, and the road is spacious, so he is not afraid of accidents, so the driver let go of the chatterbox, and asked us all kinds of things. His lips never stopped on the road.

He looked at our luggage and said, "Why are you still moving in the middle of the night? I see that the place where you got on the bus lived in that old alley building. Could it be that you can't live anymore because you met a ghost?"

My personality is relatively random, and I can talk nonsense with a stranger when I am in the mood. When I am not in the mood, I don’t want to say a word, so I don’t say anything.

After hearing this, Tofu probably thought of the ghost contract, and wondered, "Dude, you're so smart, you can guess all of this? That's right, that place is haunted, we couldn't live there, so we moved overnight."

When the driver saw that someone was willing to cooperate with him, he became even more enthusiastic, and said proudly: "That is, if you tell others that you have encountered a ghost, they will definitely treat you as a crazy person. I am different. I have been driving taxis for decades. Old Alley Lou’s strange incident, I’m overwhelmed by hearing about it.”

This kid, Tofu, has always been ignorant. Sometimes when he speaks, he is really angry.After listening to this, he blinked and sighed: "Then you are not doing well. As far as I know, most of the first batch of entrepreneurs who came to Shenzhen ended up rich. Why are you still driving a taxi? It’s too out of tune.”

I choked for a bit, thinking how this kid would sprinkle salt on someone's wound, just wanted to remind him, but the Northeast master was more magnanimous, he laughed twice, and said: "I've been thinking about this problem from time to time. After thinking about it, it must be that I have a bad horoscope, and I am not destined to be rich. However, it is good for you to move out of that house earlier. Those buildings will be demolished soon. Haven’t you heard of ghost house rent? matter?"

Ghost rent?
Tofu and I looked at each other, some monk Zhang Er was puzzled.The master became excited when he saw this, and immediately chatted with us.

There is an old saying in the folks that when a person's luck is low, it is easy to get entangled in some dirty things.

The previous landlord of Laoxiangzilou was surnamed Jia, who was very greedy for money. There was a fire in Laoxiangzilou, which burned his wife and son to death. After that, he committed suicide by jumping off the building.

I heard this from the little girl who ate barbecue before.

After hitting there, there was the matter of ghost house rent.

Of course, not everyone who lives in the old alley will meet them, but those whose luck has declined to the extreme will be rented.

Someone may ask, what is air luck?

Qi luck refers to a person's luck and fate; if a living person accumulates virtue and does good deeds, he can improve his luck; on the contrary, if he does evil for misfortune, no matter how prosperous your horoscope is born, it will be slowly suppressed.

Of course, I don't really believe this. My ancestors said: A good man doesn't pay for his life, and it's a disaster that lasts for thousands of years.

So what exactly is the origin of the ghost house rent?It is said that a couple who collected rags lived in the old alley building.That couple was unlucky enough. They had done business before and set up a pancake stand. Their lives were going smoothly, but I don’t know if it’s because of their bad horoscope. In short, bad luck continued, and gradually everything started to go wrong. , Later, life became more and more difficult, so I moved from the previous new community to a cheap old alley building.

Strange things happened.

On the first night of renting in, a person knocked on the door. It is said that the person had a bald head, was dressed very old, and was muttering. He claimed to be the owner of the building and wanted to collect rent.

The couple became angry, and the rent had already been paid during the day. Where did the insanity come from at this time, and they came to collect the rent again?Now that he is unlucky and living in poverty, he is already angry enough. He immediately became angry and scolded the rent collector bloody.

The man didn't refute, standing in the dark corridor outside the door, waiting for the couple to finish cursing, and then said: "I'll collect it in five days."

"Crazy!" The hostess cursed and slammed the door.

I didn't take this matter to heart, I just thought that I met a homeless man with neurological problems, and collected the tatters as usual in the next few days.On the night of the third day, there was another knock on the door, and someone asked through the door, "Is the rent ready?"

The two were having dinner at that time, when the wife heard it, she complained, "It's that crazy again, what kind of bad luck did we have?" The husband snorted, thinking that since this person is ignorant, he can't blame himself After venting his anger on him, he slammed the door open, ready to beat up the psychopath outside the door, but guess what?

As soon as the door opened, there was a man covered in blood standing at the door, half of his head was gone, the other half of his eyes were still staring at the host, stretched out his bloody hand, and said, "The rent..."

The man was so frightened that he had a myocardial infarction. He couldn't get up and fell to the ground and died. The woman was also frightened and fainted, and went crazy the next day.Now this story is the crazy thing that woman said.

While the driver was telling the story, he moved on to other places, but I felt my scalp go numb all of a sudden, and cold sweat broke out on my forehead.I remembered, the guy who gave me the ghost contract.

At that time in the security room, I paid half of the deposit because I didn't have enough money at the time. The man said that it would be picked up in five days. It wasn't until a landlady came that night and looked at the ghost contract again that I realized that I was in trouble. , so this matter was also left behind, and now, after careful calculation, isn't tonight just the fifth day?

In the night, the road ahead is brightly illuminated by the street lights on both sides. In this bustling city, even at night, the lights are still brightly lit, but in such a bright environment, I feel a little hairy.At this moment, I have left the old alley building, so the ghost thing should not be able to find me, but at this moment... the old man is still there!

Should I go back and remind them?

Why do I encounter such things one after another recently?Could it be that, as the northeast master said, my luck is already extremely low?That wretch cat actually has such a great ability?
I just went into the water to save a child, how could it lead to such a lot of shit!

(End of this chapter)