Chapter 2 Rental Housing
I climbed out of the window, it was dark, it was the quietest time of the day, but for me, it made no difference, I never felt tired, but why are my legs a little heavy now?
The next day, I was woken up by the noise of the street, which had never been possible before. In the past, when I woke up, it didn't seem to affect me whether the street was noisy or not, but today it was different, and when the incomparably loud sound rushed into my ears, the fire in my soul even trembled.
I slowly sat up from the bed, it was a basement, the air was dirty, and it was cold and damp, there was an exhaust window above my head, it was open, I don't know when it was opened, anyway, it didn't seem to have been closed since I moved in, it didn't bring any fresh air, but there was a foul smell coming in, because next to this basement was an open-air market, and there was a sewer next to this window.
The sewers were perennially filled with rotten leaves, dead cats, dead dogs, and the entrails of all sorts of animals, and every time there was a big flood, the street would be flooded, and the sewage would inevitably flow freely through the open windows.
However, the landlord here has never dealt with it, probably because I never complain. Anyway, for the dead, it's still much cleaner than the cemetery, and as for the smell, by the way, why can I smell it today?
I frowned at the smell, maybe I should have lived in a different place, I have lived in this place for five years, for a killer, this place is too long, so long that there is no sense of security at all, but for a dead person, where is not safe? Anyway, they can't kill me, who can kill a dead person?
I sat up, one hand on the iron shelf at the head of the bed, a trace of coldness passed into my soul fire, I raised my palm and looked, this is my right palm, since last year, it has grown flesh and blood, but until today, it has no feeling, to be exact, until today, my whole body has a feeling, it is really incomprehensible, the old man who can only be said to be a little stature, his vitality is so strong, so strong that it not only completes my body, but also completes my feelings.
Coming up the passage in the basement, the foyer was equally dark and gloomy, and in the hallway the female tenants were busy with their own business, all expressionless, decadent and depressed, and they cursed a few words in a low voice from time to time, almost all they heard could not be separated from their incompetent men.
When I first moved here, a few of those women took the initiative to post it, but unfortunately, I was just a dead person, so naturally I didn't have to deal with them, and when they knew where I lived, no one approached me, and for a long time after that, I became the person who was wrong with them, and I never understood why they took the initiative to post it.
However, the landlord here is a good person, and he was sitting at the door of this apartment at this time, and when he saw me coming out, he immediately greeted me: "Old Joe, you want to go out!"
"yes, get out. I replied casually.
When he saw me passing by the women over there, he deliberately glanced at them, thinking that those women were talking about me again, so he immediately comforted me and said, "Don't care about them, that's a group of power eyes, if it weren't for you wearing a mage robe, they wouldn't have paid attention to you, put it on themselves, and see if there was no oil and water to arrange people." ”
"Huh. I laughed dryly, it turns out that these people were in this kind of psychology at that time.
Seeing that the comfort had no effect, the landlord naturally stopped ringing, sat down slowly, continued to look at the pedestrians on the street boredly, and whispered to himself: "Why are there so few people on the street today!" I stood in the doorway and looked in both directions, it was a small east-west street, with the market on one side and the main road in the city on the other.
According to the Assassins, such a small alley is good for escape, which way to go? I was a little hesitant, for an undead creature like me, in fact, left or right, I was going to the other side of the city, I looked up at the sky, it was about ten o'clock in the morning, and I didn't know how this way of timing was transmitted from the deepest part of the soul fire, and I didn't know how it came about.
The person I had made an appointment with wouldn't be there until the evening, and I wouldn't have come out so early, but my recovered body function made me have to come out at this time, and the smell in the room was really unbearable, and it seemed that I needed to change places.
I glanced at the other side of the main road, where there was a lot of noise, and from time to time there were soldiers running around, and I don't know what was going on, and the movement over there also caused the landlord to look around from time to time, and at the same time, muttered to himself, "What is going on?"
However, I may be one of the insiders, I glanced in the direction of the castle outside the city, and believed that the hustle and bustle on the main road should be inseparable from the things in the castle.
"Hey, old Joe, wait a minute!" and just as I was about to walk to the market, the landlord shouted behind me, and I stopped and looked back at him.
"It's time to pay this month's rent!" the landlord looked at me a little embarrassed, I never understood his expression, what was there to be embarrassed about collecting rent, it wasn't until a long time later that I realized that he should be embarrassed, just his damp and rancid basement, no one wanted to rent it, except for me, the worse problem was that he asked me for five copper coins a month, and I never defaulted on the rent.
"Ah, look at me, I forgot, it's five copper coins. As if I had just remembered, I took five copper coins out of my pocket and put them in the landlord's hand.
The landlord put away the money and said flatteringly: "Old Joe, pay a few more months, I have a discount." "He also knows his house, and if he can rent it out, it won't count.
"Oh, I just have some money on hand, so I'll pay for an extra month. I took out five more copper coins and put them in the landlord's hand, and continued, "I don't need the discount. ”
"Okay, okay, won't you think about it? You see, if you pay for a year, I'll charge you fifty copper coins?" the landlord took the money and continued to mobilize me.
"No, you see I'm a down-and-out mage, it's good to get a hundred copper coins every month, after deducting the rent of five copper coins, and then deducting the daily meal money, there will be one or two copper coins left every month, I still have to save it, and I still want to marry a mother-in-law in the future! To be honest, I also want to rent it at one time, and save trouble for the next year, but ...... Hey, that's hard. ”