Chapter 33 Renting a House
"Hmph...... Hum...... Hmph......"
"Manager, manager, we're here."
"Uh, huh? Oh, oh," Li Pan rubbed his face when he was awakened by Ah Qi, "You guys wait in the car, listen to my instructions, and get ready." ”
Then he picked up the suitcase with his spine in it, opened the door and jumped out of the floating car, jumping up and down the various illegal buildings and the roof walkways, taking the ordinary road, and falling into the dirty street under the neurotic gaze of passers-by.
This is the so-called 'commuter area', in the era of New Tokyo, this area used to be a suburban urban village, a subway and bus hub, and the nearby six blocks were residential areas for social animals, small industrialists, and self-employed people, with small one-room yards, ground floor houses, and large apartment pigeon buildings, and the population density was extremely high, and it was once a very prosperous area.
It's just that now the industry as a whole is in a recession, and the company, factories, and the army are laying off employees everywhere, but in the end, they used to be the middle class, and they are all citizens who still have a little bit of a family background, and they can still set up their own stalls to do some small business when they are unemployed, or engage in a live webcast or something to support their families, so as not to go bankrupt directly like the suburban industrial zone. Coupled with the geographical advantages and the population base there, no matter where you go to work, you can live here to commute, the population mobility is also very large, the subway station is always overcrowded, Li Pan also thought about renting a house here, the monthly rent is about 10,000, well, just think about it.
Of course, there is no pure land in the capital of the night, and it is also one of the most competitive areas for gangs, there are six gangs in six blocks, but in the end, it is the main settlement of the working class, whether it is the night clan or Takamagahara, the red tengu or the three-headed dog, they are not crazy enough to go to war here and exterminate the social animals and worker ants that can still make money for everyone. Therefore, no one generally uses military weapons here, and the overall struggle in the 'commuter area' is maintained at the level of low-intensity assassination.
As soon as I put on my glasses and connected to the internal communication of the eighteenth company, I heard the two of them complaining.
Eighteen, "He actually slept with his eyes open, so disgusting......"
Rama, "I thought it was a blocked nose, it's a little scary......"
"Hey! Don't speak ill of your boss on the communication channel! Eighteen, show me something, if someone dares to hack Lao Tzu, immediately burn his brain with his backhand, you're welcome! ”
Eighteen, "Oh, I know, it's a wordy." ”
Tsk, this little imp isn't cute at all.
Li Pan squeezed through the crowd to a commercial street and found a Chinese restaurant, under the signboard of "Peace Hotel", there was an old man wearing glasses, pretending to have prosthetic legs, sweatshirts, shorts and flip-flops was settling accounts.
"Old Wu, business is not bad."
The old man took off his glasses and looked at him,
"Oh, broom, shave your hair. Why, why don't you come to work with me and put on a dog's skin? It's a pity, you're pretty good at killing fish. ”
"Hey wow, kill the fish, I have a nightmare to kill your 'fish'.
Okay, let's get down to business. ”
"Okay, it looks like you're doing a pretty good job. But since you're talking about business, you don't need me to teach you the rules. ”
"Hey, it's cheaper. Is it okay to call you uncle? ”
"Okay, you call me uncle, send you one more ladder of xiaolongbao to eat, and the rest will be one yard."
"Wow! Alright, alright, let's do it. ”
So Li Pan directly sent 20,000 cash over.
Of course, this money is not for xiaolongbao.
Lao Wu is similar to the priest in nature, and he is also a broker middleman, after all, trading in the night capital, no one can guarantee whether the other side will take out a guy to eat black, so this kind of intermediary guarantee with connections is indispensable.
And the 'commuter area' is actually one of the largest gang black markets in the night capital, where all families open their doors to do business and launder money, so no one wants to break their heads and affect the flow of water, and the gains outweigh the losses and offend people.
This time, in order to ship, through the eighteenth, he contacted the underground clinic that Li Pan knew before, and initially reached a consensus on the transaction, and then Li Pan found Lao Wu to be the middleman, so that the other party could believe in Li Pan's sincerity and come to see the transaction.
Li Pan also worked in the kitchen of this Peace Hotel before, and knew that this place was also a gang stronghold, a place for negotiations, as the name suggests, peace and peace, the gangsters also want to eat, if you want to fight, go out to fight, in short, don't fire in a place like a hotel.
Of course, black market trading is always risky, but with Lao Wu and the gang he represents, if the other party does not have the consciousness to go to war, it will not really play any tricks, and the risk can always be minimized.
Li Pan waited in the box of the Peace Hotel for a while, and the three of them finished eating the xiaolongbao, and the robot maid in the cheongsam also brought two guests to eat.
These two are black and white, the black man is obviously a gang member, with a gorilla arm, and a warband badge on his chest, he should be a veteran of the Space Marine Corps, this kind of person has fallen into a gang, I don't know if it is a drug addiction or a murder addiction. The white man was a bespectacled technician, who seemed to be an addict and had a lot of needles in his neck, but he was still in good spirits.
Li Pan didn't recognize these two either, but he also knew that the other party sent him to inspect the goods, so he didn't say hello, opened the suitcase, handed it to them to check, and began to eat a table of dishes he ordered for 20,000 yuan with his rice bowl in his arms.
Those artificial organs were swept with the equipment, and the data was exchanged, but the nerves were enhanced to test the effectiveness, and the white man took out various devices from his bag and tested the spine, while the light flashed in his pupils, and it was obvious that he was constantly communicating with the black people in the secret channel.
Anyway, the goods are real, the quality is good, Li Pan is not worried that they can't look down on it, so he eats hard, and when he adds two more meals, the opposite side is also optimistic.
The black man took out a black coin card from his bosom and said,
"I want all the things, a fixed price, two million."
In fact, those things are sold on the black market for about the same price, of course, they must be paid with illegal virtual currency, you can't expect the gang to buy and sell and pay taxes honestly on the public account.
Li Pan also took a look at the communication card, and the various virtual currencies in the virtual currency communication card were valued at between 500,000 and 4 million. According to the general rules of black market trading, taking the median value of a month, it is estimated that two million is about the same.
Li Pan just wanted to agree, but Eighteen said a few words in his ear, so he pursed his lips and smiled,
"Not enough."
The black man frowned, "Two million are not enough, you don't have enough?" ”
Li Pan smiled, "Don't you know, QVN doesn't know what to go offline, these virtual coins will definitely plummet, and these two million may be worthless." ”
The black man hesitated,
"And what do you want? Barter? You know what business we do, right? Do you want a Combat Enhancer? It's not allowed to sell on our premises. ”
Li Pan poured the rest of the gravy and miso soup into the rice bowl, stirred evenly, and snorted and ate the rice.
"Enhancement to cyberpsychotic enhancers, forget it......
I think about it, only virtual currencies are fine, but considering the risks in the current financial market, I want 10 million. ”
"You're asking too much."
The black man shook his head, but did not refuse.
So Li Pan knew that there was a play,
"You're in a hurry to trade, and you know that the black money in your hands is going to depreciate, don't you? But where is it so easy to launder money, if you increase the amount in a hurry, and the channel deviation value surges and is found out by the tax bureau, the gains outweigh the losses.
Instead of rotting this black gold in your hands, it is better to cash out now when you have the opportunity. My equipment is genuine, and you won't lose even if you eat it at the original price. What's more, it also directly saves the cost and risk of money laundering, and 10 million is very cheap!
You have earned, I have lost! ”
The black man hesitated for a moment, glanced at Li Pan, blue light flashed in his pupils, and he was clearly communicating with the gang boss. In the end, he nodded, checked the communication card into his neck and waited for a while, then pulled it out and handed it to Li Pan.
The other party added a bunch of account information, various channels of illegal currency, and now the virtual currency in this card is valued at between two million and twenty million.
"Okay, happy deal, give them airdrops."
So one black and one white sat down, watching Li Pan sweep the rice bowl and lick every plate clean.
On the other side, the floating car also went to the designated coordinates to deliver the goods to the gang's warehouse, but fortunately everything went smoothly and there was no black food or robbery.
Li Pan was also full of food and drink, so he left the suitcase for the black and white duo and walked out of the Peace Hotel by himself.
"Okay, all of them, now let's talk about the distribution of the harvest of this mission, in a word, I'm the general manager, I'll take half, and the rest will be divided equally among you, Kotaro also has a share, does anyone have any opinions, say now."
Ah Qilama didn't have any opinions, and eighteen was still well-calculated, "Directly divide it according to 10 million?" ”
"Where do I get 10 million now, the virtual currency I got this time, how many cents are left after washing.
This activity is a team building activity, deducting the necessary cost of cleaning, and then deducting 10%, which is counted as 18 of your operating commission, and the rest is used as the team's income distribution.
If anyone doesn't want to take cash for the time being, or if they have a virtual currency processing channel, they can communicate privately with Eighteen on their own, and accept no. ”
Eighteen thought for a moment, "Yes." ”
Kotaro also sent a private message to confirm his approval.
"Then my rules are so set, the people who join the group have a share, and there is not a penny if they don't listen to the command, the meeting is dismissed, cough cough, you go back to the office to report, I'll take a look at the monster."
This time, I borrowed the company's car to do private work, and I always had to go on a business trip, and I had to do a task or something to explain to the company.
So Li Pan came to the place where the mission took place, a real estate agent in the commuter area to look at the house.
"Haunted house? Is there still a haunted house in these years? Wow! Only two thousand a month? Are you sure! It's not a yin-yang contract, right? ”
"Alas, Mr. Li, do you think I have money and don't want to make it? I can make it clear to you, the tenants who live in that room have died fourteen times in a row, if it's really a gang vendetta, but the surveillance can't shoot the suspect at all, either jump off the building or cut your wrists or swallow sleeping pills, at most an accident will happen in a week, the property and the landlord don't care, anyway, we are forced to clean up with these agents, ouch is really troublesome. I really advise you to think clearly, cheap is not good. ”
Li Pan must admit that this middle-aged real estate agent is right, as soon as he enters the apartment, he feels a burst of cold air, this is a seven-story old-fashioned townhouse, the location is actually not bad, the average price starts at least 8,000 a month, and there are security guards at the door, but no addict homeless can flow in.
But this apartment is surrounded by dozens of high-rise buildings on all sides, there is no light at all, and it is dark and rumbling, especially the legendary haunted house, in the corner at the end of the corridor on the seventh floor, there is no light, and it is quite eerie to look at.
"The house is not bad, four bedrooms, two living rooms and two bathrooms, more suitable for a family to rent, the nearby transportation is convenient, shopping malls, hospitals, schools, police stations are ......"
The intermediary chattered and stood at the door to introduce, probably because he felt unlucky and didn't dare to come in.
Li Pan put his hand in his trouser pocket, walked in and turned around twice.
This mission is also a group of well-fed intelligence analysis masters in the head office who have nothing to do, and they have searched the Internet for urban weird stories. Made's haunted house is either a haunted house or a haunted house, and there are no new tricks at all.
But in all fairness, the feng shui of this house is not quite right.
As soon as Li Pan walked in, he felt that although the intermediary put some cheap furniture, it was clear that this apartment, with four bedrooms, two living rooms and two bathrooms, was perfectly symmetrical. It's as if a huge mirror was placed on the central axis, projecting one side of the apartment as it was, and deliberately hiding what was behind the mirror.
"Who was the first person to die in this apartment?"
"Who knows, what's so unusual about two people dying in the night capital, and it's also that this room is too frequent, and it took a while for three jumps to attract attention. Well, from the windowsill over there. ”
Li Pan went out to take a look, is it a seven-story building, to be honest, if you have a little prosthetic body this year, even if you are thrown out, you can't fall to death if you are headfirst on the ground......
"Can I try to stay for one night?"
In broad daylight, Li Pan couldn't see any problems when he looked around.
"Mr. Li, be considerate and considerate, it's hard for me to do it."
Li Pan called him a hundred.
"Here's the keycard."
Tsk, I don't know if I'll be reimbursed for 100 yuan......
But don't say it, don't think about ghosts, gods, monsters, or whatever, this house is really good, four bedrooms, two living rooms and two bathrooms, it's really quite spacious. The location is also quite suitable, the transportation is convenient, the living facilities are complete, and the seven-story building, he jumped twice, climbed up twice. You can also park a floating car on the rooftop of the top floor, and you can go straight to the roof after work, which is perfect! And really, it's only 2,000 yuan a month, and even if it's a warehouse, you have to rent it......
"Wow! That's great! Is it really only 6000! Well earned! ”
Uh, huh??
Li Pan walked out of the balcony, it was really a coincidence, there was actually another intermediary who took a customer to see the house. But yes, the landlord must be eager to rent it out and return the blood, who cares if you are a murderous house or not. And it's really ...... for you to shout 6,000 directly from other families It's probably easier to rent out......
"This gentleman, you are ......"
"It's unfortunate that you're here, I've already rented ...... first"
"Huh! It's you! The female tenant jumped up suddenly, "This suit!" You're the one from last night! ”
Li Pan was stunned for a moment, looked at her and recognized it, "Oh, it's you, little wild cat." ”
"Who, who's the little wild cat! How did you guys end up here! It can't be a stalker! ”
This girl is really the gothic department she met yesterday on the edge of the park rock night, and today she is still wearing the same heavy makeup, and she is dressed as a fashion royal sister, her whole body style is different, and she also wears a blonde wig, and the perfume necklace and earrings have been changed, and Li Pan also recognized it after looking at it twice.
"Damn! Who's following you, I'm sorry, I've already rented this room, hum, 6000, right, it seems that Mr. Intermediary, you didn't make it clear. ”
Li Pan stared at the intermediary, and the other party was also a little weak-hearted.
But the little wild cat jumped up, and his eyes flashed to search for real estate information,
"Wait, wait, wait! That's not right! I haven't registered for rent yet! You haven't done it yet, have you? I'll rent first, I'll rent first! Go through the formalities first! ”
"Ahh Feed! You're stupid! I don't know if I've been tricked! This house is not clean! ”
Li Pan hurriedly grabbed her.
But the little wild cat scoffed, "Isn't it just dead, the night capital will not die one day, 6000 yes, I rented it." ”
Li Pan took out the black kite and put it on the intermediary's head, "You dare!" ”
Intermediary teary-eyed ......
"Hey! Why are you like this! The little wild cat pounced and scratched, "I finally found such a cheap house!" At this price, I can only rent to the industrial area! Feed! Can you bear to let me live with Uzumaki! ”
"Tsk......" Li Pan also had a little headache for a while.
"Two, two ......" The intermediary stared at the black kite's muzzle waterfall sweat, "What, since you two know each other, this is a two-family house, why don't you share a house?" ”
The little wildcat was stunned for a moment, "Shared house? ”
The agent smiled, "Yes, yes, the rent can be cheaper, only 3......"
"Huh!? How much!? I didn't hear that!? Li Pan put the gun up and poked him.
"One thousand one thousand! I suddenly remembered that the landlord had recently lowered the price again, and if you share a house, you only need 1,000 per person! ”
"Oh Shet! A thousand months! This house is only a thousand a month in the commuter area! Hahaha! I rented, I rented! Hahaha! ”
The little wild cat laughed heartily and jumped up around Li Pan's neck.
"No, it's not, it's not about money! Well, it's really just a matter of money......"
Li Pan also made her dizzy, but she still tried to make one last effort,
"Hey, little wildcat, are you the first day you have been to the Night Capital? Is it really okay to share a house with a stranger? ”
When the little wild cat heard this, he looked at him seriously,
"You're not the kind of crazy person who buys and sells organs, are you?"
Li Pan's heart was weak, "No, no, I'm a serious company dog, this is my business card......"
The little wild cat laughed and stretched out his hand to Li Pan,
"That's good, that's good. Li, don't look at me like this, I have also practiced women's self-defense! Heha!
Anyway, first meeting! From now on, we'll be roommates, in formal attire.
My name is Nana, Nana Toyama, you can call me Xiaoqi. ”
"Small, small, small, hiss......"
Li Pan took a deep breath, controlled his expression, and shook hands with her with a serious face.
"I'll call you Miss Toyama. Thank you for your kind attention in the future. ”