Chapter 6: Dead Boys
More than twenty minutes later, Yi Chen returned to the community where he lived.
This is a typical civilian community of this era, with rows of old buildings very close together, with very poor lighting, dark and damp.
These buildings are not unit buildings, but tube buildings, with more than a dozen households on each floor, connected by a long and narrow corridor.
After locking the bicycle, Yi Chen went up to the second floor along the public corridor. The room on the second floor closest to the entrance of the stairs was his home.
Glancing next door, he saw that the door was closed, hesitated, but he still withdrew his gaze, and then took out the key and inserted it into his rusty anti-theft iron door.
With a "creak", the iron door opened, and another key was taken out and inserted into the thick wooden door.
The security here is not good, and every house has two doors.
"It's dirty."
Glancing at the scene inside the room, Yi Chen couldn't help frowning.
Are you sure this is where people live? It was filthy and messy, and unwashed clothes were thrown everywhere. On the table were empty drink bottles, half-eaten buckets of instant noodles, damp biscuits, upside-down paper, and a mess of bags.
These were all from at least a week ago, and the faint musty smell in the air kept irritating his olfactory nerves.
What to do?
Yi Chen felt a little tricky. As a legendary mage, he hadn't done housework in the Morgren Continent for nearly a hundred years, and he would always be accompanied by at least one servant whenever and wherever he was, so much so that he didn't know where to start in this filthy house now.
That's right!
He remembered something, and his frowning brows finally relaxed, and then he urged the contract model in his body to summon the little Naga.
Little Naga's heart was still full of uneasiness, and after being summoned, he immediately vigilantly checked the surrounding environment. When he saw Yi Chen, the panic in his eyes finally subsided a little, and then he stretched out his delicate hand, tentatively pulled the corner of his clothes, and looked at him with pitiful big eyes.
Yi Chen gave her a reassuring smile and said in Naga language, "Don't be afraid, from today onwards you are my contract beast, and I will protect you." By the way, what's your name? โ
"Sea ...... Hazel, Hรฉzel Vecchio Gorgon. Little Naga replied cautiously.
"It's a nice name, then I'll call you Hazel from now on. My name is Yi Chen, if you don't mind, you can call me the master in the future. Now I'm going to give you the first task, clean up this room. โ
"Huh?"
Looking at Yi Chen's handsome face, Hazel's head fell into a two-second shutdown state, which was a little different from what she imagined......
In her impression, this human boy was very gentle, and he also made an ancient vow that he would inevitably treat himself as a relative, but now......
For some reason, she suddenly felt like she had been deceived.
After hesitating for a moment, she plucked up her courage and said weakly: "Dear Your Excellency Yi Chen, although I have signed a master-servant contract with you, you have also made an ancient oath to cherish each other, you ...... You can't call me like that, or you'll ...... Otherwise you will be cursed by the goddess Medusa......"
Yi Chen was not annoyed, he still had a faint smile on his face, "You are right, I did make an oath, but there is no Medusa goddess here." This is the Earth, not your homeland. Do you remember that you need to change your mindset as soon as possible so that you don't be deceived by the bad guys? โ
Hazel froze in place. After a few seconds, her mouth was deflated, and her big watery eyes were filled with tears, unspeakable grievances.
Mom is right, humans are the most cunning creatures in the world, woo woo, the kind Hazel was deceived by the cunning human, and also signed a master-servant contract with him, woo woo woo......
Seeing her tears falling like pearls with broken threads, Yi Chen rubbed her head and wondered, "Why are you sad?" I'm not cheating, I'm just trying to teach you a lesson and make you grow up as soon as possible. Although there is no Medusa here, I will still treat you with kindness and treat you as a relative. โ
"Really? That...... Then why do you want me to do things like cleaning houses? โ
Hazel, who had already been fooled once, was not so easy to fool, and the eyes that looked at him were full of distrust.
"Labor is a virtue, and doing housework not only helps you adapt to the world, but also makes you independent. I hope to improve your ability to survive in this world through these exercises. Yi Chen said seriously.
"Is that so?" Hazel was still a little skeptical.
"Don't doubt it, you're going to get a lot out of cleaning this room.
See those dirty laundry? Collect them, then use your Naga racial talents to control the water elemental to soak them, dissolve the stains on them, and then drain them.
There's a packet of alchemical products called laundry detergent that can help you dissolve stains on your clothes. Come on. โ
After speaking, Yi Chen lay down on the bed, took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and no longer paid attention to Hazel.
Hazel originally wanted to ask him for something, but seeing him like this, he still didn't say anything after all. With a sigh, Hazel began to clean up the dirty laundry.
"Is there only so much money left?"
Looking at the deposit balance displayed in the mobile phone, Yi Chen was a little speechless, and he had a new understanding of the original owner's ability to die.
You must know that before the start of school, the original owner's parents gave him 100,000 Tang Yuan, but now it has only been a little more than a month since the start of school, and there is only one piece of six cents left! That's three years of tuition and living expenses!
Two months ago, "Yi Chen" still had a complete home, but his parents had their own pursuits and ambitions, after he was successfully admitted to the provincial key high school, they said to him seriously: "You are already an adult, you must be independent, you must learn to take care of yourself." โ
Then, the couple left, saying that they wanted to realize their life values......
The parents "ran away from home", which caused a big blow to "Yi Chen". What made him even more unacceptable was that half a month later, the police suddenly found the school and interrogated him about many things. Only then did he realize that his parents, who had disappeared for less than a month, had actually committed a crime outside and had become a wanted criminal on the run in Tang Kingdom!
As for what exactly happened, Yi Chen still hasn't figured it out.
This incident hit him very hard, and he did not recover for a long time. Fortunately, he found his "true love" in school, Liu Shiyun, and his soul has a new sustenance.
Then, buy magic crystals, buy psychotropic potions, buy hallucinogenic herbs...... In a short period of time, he spent all the money left by his parents, without thinking about the consequences.
No, I seem to have missed something very important......
Yi Chen frowned and recalled carefully. At this moment, the mobile phone "dripped" and received a message:
"Hello! Your cash loan owed to Squeak is overdue, and due to your malicious default on the debt and refusal to communicate, we are now officially notified that you are required to settle the loan before 14pm on October 20, 108. If it is not settled, our company will transfer the debt to a third party, Dark Hunt Financial Innovation Co., Ltd., and you will have no debt relationship with our company after that. At that time, any accidents that occur in the door-to-door debt collection of third-party companies have nothing to do with our company, please know! โ
Come to think of it, this joke has also borrowed money from several online loan companies......