The community where Zhou Wenli lives does not have the kind of central garden with a beautiful environment, spacious places and complete facilities. Land is so tight that the green belt was cut in half last year to add parking spaces. Residents of the community used to gather in the activity center for activities. However, there is a large tree with a dense canopy in the community that has been preserved because of the policy, and it is also planted in a huge cement flower bed with a sense of age, which can be used for people to take a rest.

Li Yun sat down on the cement flower bed, looked up slightly, and saw Shakai who was dragging his feet.

Shakai sat down, and did not shake the cement flowerbed in the slightest, but his whole body collapsed, like a mess of mud, hanging on the flowerbed.

Shakai sniffed, but without tears, opened his mouth, and made no sound.

Li Yun opened his mouth first: "Festival mourning." ”

That's all he can say. His abilities worked on Shakai, but the feedback he received told him that Shakai was empty in his heart, not so sad, and some were at a loss. His son didn't even have that room where the neighbors were emotional.

It's just that, thinking about the relationship between Sha Kai and Zhou Wenli, it seems to be understandable.

Shakai smiled bitterly, "I'm okay...... I...... When I was a child, I heard my family talk about her...... When I was a child, I thought that she might as well die like a kid on TV...... It's just that if you're dead......" he was a little incoherent, paused, and added, "I was a little annoyed with her the other day. It's not that when I was a child, I hated someone, and I hoped that whoever died would never appear. I just thought, stay away...... I thought about going back to my hometown and looking for a new job...... Ah, now I have to look for a new job. ”

His mindless words paused again.

"You've grown up. Moreover, actually experiencing the death of others is not the same as what you see on TV. Li Yun said softly.

Shakai bowed his head deeply, "Well, yes......"

The two sat silently.

After a while, Li Yun said, "I will solve the matter of that little ghost." ”

Sha Kai looked at Li Yun and stopped talking.

He felt like he was trying to get revenge on the imp. When he was chased and harassed by the imp, he patronized and feared, but there were also a few moments when he was irritable and wanted to beat the imp violently. Now that Zhou Wenli has been killed, he should want to avenge Zhou Wenli, right? Or, still afraid? Or do you feel relieved because Li Yun is by your side?

Actually, nothing.

When Li Yun said that, he thought of "Zhou Wenli shouldn't want revenge".

Zhou Wenli is a fool at all......

Shakai lowered his head again, and after a while, he seemed to have figured it out on his own, cheered up, and stood up, "I'll go back first." My uncle is alone...... I'm going to help. ”

Li Yun also got up and said goodbye to him.

The two went in opposite directions.

Before leaving the community, Li Yun took out his mobile phone and called Bai Wuchang.

Bai Wuchang didn't answer the phone as always.

Li Yun also sent him a message explaining the situation as usual.

As soon as the message was sent, the phone rang.

Caller ID is easy to carry.

Li Yun had a headache, but he still answered the phone.

"Where are you? Where did you go? Yi Xin opened his mouth and asked twice, and his tone was very bad.

Li Yun had no choice but to briefly introduce what happened here in Shakai, "...... I'm going to deal with that little imp—"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yi Xin, "That little ghost has killed someone, and black and white impermanence will take care of it." Come back soon. ”

"But I want to fix it myself." Li Yun's eyes flashed in front of Sha Kai's appearance of just sitting on the flower bed.

This sounded like an excuse to run away from her. Li Yun even heard the sound of Yi Xin grinding his teeth. I don't know if it's an illusion, Li Yun's neck is cold.

"It'll be solved soon. That little ghost doesn't have any special skills, and he has a naughty heart, not like that troublesome ghost. Li Yun said hurriedly, calming Yi Xin's emotions.

Yi Xin on the other end of the phone was silent, which made Li Yun more and more nervous, and subconsciously held his breath.

I don't know how long it took before Yi Xin squeezed out the words from between his teeth: "I'll give you one night." I'm going to see you early tomorrow morning. ”

Li Yun breathed a sigh of relief and agreed.

As for whether I will go back tomorrow morning...... Li Yun decided to talk about it tomorrow morning.

Hanging up the phone, Li Yun sighed.

The pressure that Yi Xin put on him was much stronger than the pressure brought by that little ghost. Yi Xin is now like a powder keg, and like an addict who can't be relieved, and he may explode at any time.

Li Yun thought, is this Yi Xin's original character, or is it ...... The influence of humans on her?

Vampires seem to have some weird charm in various works.

Although youkai monsters will have non-human characteristics, which is why their images are popular, different monsters also have different differences. The inhuman feeling of vampires is always a bit sickly.

Li Yun immediately thought of Yi Xin's room of collectibles, and shuddered. It's really a bit pediatric to use "sick Jiao" to shape the heart.

He sighed and felt the air around him.

The breath of the imp seems to be nothing.

It stayed in the neighborhood for a long time.

It's not just here......

Li Yun looked into the distance.

The surrounding residential area has its breath.

Li Yun took a step and walked towards the place where the little ghost's aura was the strongest.

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Rainbow Apartment, a 30-year-old high-rise building, stands in this former steel factory family courtyard, which is the latest residential building. It also has an elevator that was not available in the family homes of the former steel mill.

Over the past 30 years, the new building has become mottled and old, and although the elevator is still its advantage, it is inevitable that it will break down from time to time.

Li Yun came out of the steel south district where Zhou Wenli and Sha Kai lived, and stepped straight into the door of the rainbow apartment. There was a security booth next to the gate, but the uncle lying inside glanced at Li Yun lazily, and continued to swipe his mobile phone, and the laughter outside was harsh and sharp, repeating the cycle. Li Yun walked past the security booth, and then walked through the dense array of battery cars close together, and came to the main entrance of the apartment.

The door looked relatively new, with the latest access control system and an exaggerated display, but it was more of a complicated display — because the door was now open, and someone had bricked it against the door, and the display was playing an advertisement.

Further inside, in the water-cement lobby, one wall is nailed to the mailbox, and the other wall is a bulletin board. The mailbox and bulletin board are both old and new, and they look like they have been patched up, and they haven't even been uniformly styled. Some of these mailboxes were stuffed with advertising paper, while others were empty and had a clean surface that should be sorted out regularly. There are also new notices on the bulletin board and old notices whose paper has been yellowed and brittle. The traces of time show their presence in this relatively spacious hall. The same goes for the lights on the ceiling overhead, with fluorescent tubes of different models, and the light emitted is also bright and dark, giving people a not-so-good visual experience.

The elevator is right in front of the main door. The elevator doors are like a blurry mirror, and only a human figure can be roughly reflected.

Li Yun pressed the elevator button, and he could hear the rumbling sound in the elevator shaft. The numbers on the LCD screen change slowly. The elevator went down from the eighteenth floor to the first floor, and it took a lot of time to get to the first floor.

Before the elevator door opened, the sound of advertising in the car came out.

Li Yun ignored the sound, stepped into the car, surrounded by three advertising screens, and pressed the floor of the fourth floor.

The place where the ghost smell is strongest is on the fourth floor of this building. It should have been here not too long ago......

The elevator creaked up and stopped on the fourth floor.

Outside the elevator is a long walkway. Energy-saving lamps embedded in the ceiling are the only source of light here. The walkway extends to both sides and curves at the end to the rear of the elevator. At the corner, there are very conspicuous surveillance cameras. Unlike CFLs, the camera protrudes from the wall, which is obviously not planned to be installed in that location at the beginning, but was added later, and some of the wires can be seen exposed outside the wall.

The aisle is lined with doors.

Li Yun walked down the hallway, past the doors. Among the doors, some are anti-theft doors with smart door locks, some are ordinary anti-theft doors, and there are a few old-fashioned iron doors and wooden door structures, which are like the intersection of chaotic time, and the products of different times are gathered here.

Li Yun stopped at one of the iron doorways.

Next to the old iron door and copper lock is the latest smart doorbell.

Li Yun's gaze passed through the door and saw the people in the room.

He rang the doorbell.

The doorbell is crisp and melodious music. After a while, the people in the room shouted "Who", and came to the door with their slippers.

He stopped at the door, glanced at the screen that visualized the doorbell, and with a puzzled look, opened the wooden door behind the iron door.

Li Yun smiled and smiled at the old man with a slight bald head, "Hello." I just moved in downstairs and rented a 305 house. ”

His smile was not so contagious, but his spirit affected the old man in front of him.

The old man still looked puzzled, but he opened the iron door directly, "305? That one was rented out? What's the matter with you? Hey, come in and talk about it. Drink tea? ”

Li Yun nodded, "No need, thank you." I just have something I want to inquire about. As he spoke, he went into the house and closed the two doors.

The old man greeted as he walked: "You don't need to change your shoes." You sit here. What to inquire? Did you rent a house from 305, or did you rent a house from an agent here? ”

There are only sneakers for the elderly in the shoe cabinet at the door. The furniture and electrical appliances in the house are as new and old as the doors of this room: the large pieces of furniture are all old styles, the small appliances such as TVs and fans look new in recent years, the room is also equipped with monitoring and smoke alarms, and some different styles of plastic storage cabinets are filled in the gaps in the room. One of the fluorescent-colored storage cabinets, the doors of which failed to close revealed the front of two low-quality plastic cars.

Li Yun didn't squint, sat down and replied, "I rented it from an intermediary." I didn't see the landlord. ”

"Hmm. And no wonder. 305 moved away many years ago. The house was empty. Oh, it was originally going to be a marriage room for my daughter, but my daughter has never had a partner. There is no shortage of this house in his family. The old house was demolished, and the house was replaced by the new city. Her daughter also works there. The old man talked eloquently and seemed to know all about these things.

Li Yun was slightly surprised, "You know quite in detail. ”

"Hi, old colleagues from the past. It's not a workshop, but you can come across it every day when you commute to work. The old man waved his hand.

He is a veteran employee of the original steel plant, and originally lived in the family home of the steel plant, which is now the North Iron and Steel District. Later, when the Rainbow Apartment was built, he felt that it was more convenient to live in the elevator room, so he replaced the house here.

There are many such people in the rainbow apartment. In addition, the old employees of the steel mill live nearby, and when their children bought a house, they bought it in the newly built rainbow apartment.

The residents of this residential area are very close-knit.

Of course, over time, like a conspicuous trace of time in the Rainbow Apartment, the residents of this place have changed a lot. However, this kind of change is not like the demolition and new construction of some plots in a short period of time. It may take more "thirty years" for this subtle change to take place in a substantial metamorphosis.

Although Li Yun guessed that this old man must have lived here for many years when he stood outside and looked at the furnishings in the house, he didn't expect that he was still a "local snake".

Li Yun pondered and repeated his question: "Then I want to ask, it turns out that the house has been vacant and no one has moved in?" ”

"yes." The old man didn't mind Li Yun's repeated confirmation, and told him about the matter of room 305, but in the end, he changed his words, as if he suddenly remembered something, and said, "Oh! It's not that no one has lived all the time. When it was first renovated, their family lived in it for a while. Well, not a resident...... The house was very simple to decorate. At that time, I thought that when the child got married, I would see how the young couple was going to install it, so I roughly got the water and electricity and something, moved some old furniture and things piled up at home, and put it there temporarily...... The man lived there at that time, and he quarreled with his wife, and the quarrel was very strong, so they lived separately, and they didn't live long. ”

The old man said as he spoke, and his tone became strange, "His family packed up his things and shook them out. His wife is in charge of the accounts, secretly speculated in stocks, lost a lot of money, and kept it a secret. The money to buy this house was also secretly borrowed from her mother's family. The two in-laws almost fought. We're all going to be watching it all the time! Hey...... If it weren't for the demolition of the house at my mother's house later, they divided the house and the money, and I don't know what the trouble would have been! ”

Li Yun listened patiently, and then asked, "So, there have never been children living in the house?" ”

"Of course not. His daughter is still unmarried. The old man replied categorically.

"Are there any kids in the neighborhood?" Li Yun asked, asking the question he really wanted to ask, "I always hear the movement of children when I live here these days, it is a little boy, very thinly dressed, and there seems to be a wound on his stomach. ”

The old man who was still talking about it suddenly changed his face, "Have you seen Xiaobao?" ”

Li Yun raised his eyebrows, "Xiaobao? Is it your child? ”

The old man's face was cloudy, and he shook his head hesitantly, "No...... The kid ...... Alas...... Since you've seen it all, I won't hide it from you. Xiao Bao is not a human being. ”