Thanks for the help of the Cleanup Bureau? It means that someone in the bureau has actually been in contact with the happy apartment for a long time?

But according to the records of the Cleanup Bureau, the first person who discovered this apartment was himself, so that person did not report it after discovering it? Or is it ......

After pondering the words of the administrator's aunt for a moment, Leon tentatively spoke:

"Excuse me, do you mean some more ordinary help, or do you mean the most fundamental 'help' that makes the two of you what you are now?"

"The most fundamental kind, of course."

The most fundamental kind...... In other words, this happy apartment was actually "made" by someone in the Cleanup Bureau?

But...... How is this possible?

Thinking back to the "common sense" that the red-haired director and Emma's seniors told him, Leon's brows couldn't help but wrinkle subconsciously.

For anomalous objects, "making" and "forging" are two completely different concepts.

Most of the anomalies "made" by the Cleanup Bureau are made by forging the wreckage recovered after completing the cleanup task and retaining the core competence like the directors of Taurus, which is actually "modifying" the uncontrollable existing anomalies into basically controllable anomalies.

And if the administrator's aunt's statement and her own understanding are not wrong, then this happy apartment ...... This [Spiritual Residence] no longer follows this common sense, it was created from scratch!

Such an important thing must be asked! But......

"Anna ......"

"Let's talk first."

After receiving Leon's embarrassed gaze, the sick girl, although very curious, smiled understandingly, stood up and walked inside.

"It's been weirdly cold lately, I'll go see if Melanie and the others have kicked the quilt, don't catch a cold."

"Thank you for your hard work......"

I didn't want my family to have too much contact with the "world below the water", and after Anna entered the room and closed the door, Leon breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a serious face:

"If you may, can you please tell me how that person 'helped' you in the first place?"

"What's wrong?"

Looking at Leon's suddenly serious expression, the administrator's aunt also seemed to notice that something was wrong, and said with a somewhat hesitant expression:

"Young man, tell me the truth, is there any rule in your bureau that doesn't allow us to be what we are now?"

"It's not so much that it's not allowed, it's that it can't be done at all......"

After briefly describing the difficulty of doing so in a language that the other party could understand, Leon spoke comfortingly after looking at the administrator's aunt who looked a little worried:

"Don't worry, you don't have to worry about that person being punished, this is the first time I've heard of this ability to create anomalies, and there are no relevant regulations in the bureau.

Besides, it's been almost a hundred years since you became anomalies, and although the physical fitness of our people in the Cleanup Bureau is much stronger than that of ordinary people, most of them have a lifespan similar to ordinary people, and most of them are long gone.

Also, because it's involved in creating anomalies, it's really, really important, and I'd like you to go into as much detail as you can if you can. ”

"That's ......"

Hearing that it would not cause trouble to the "benefactor", the administrator's aunt suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and after recalling it a little, she said with some hesitation:

"There's not much we can't say, but we don't know a lot...... Well...... The predecessor of this apartment was a workhouse that the old man and I converted into with our own property, so you should have found out about this, right? ”

"Hmm."

Seeing Leon nod, Aunt Administrator touched the white curls on her head, and continued to recall with a calm expression:

"My hair wasn't white, it was boiled white little by little after a serious illness at that time.

The disease caused constant pain, and I had to rely on excessive amounts of sleeping pills and painkillers to get through it, and I was only able to stay awake for three or four hours a day, but during those three hours of wakefulness, I had to vomit and diarrhea because of the drug reaction......

Alas...... Although I was reluctant to give up the old man, after being tortured for a few years, I really didn't want to live anymore, and I was ready to apply for the workhouse to be converted into a municipal facility in the establishment, and then I quickly stopped taking medicine and died. ”

After talking about the origin of her hair in a flat tone, the administrator's aunt's eyes gradually became fierce, and she continued in a cold voice:

"I have made more than 30 calls for that application, and my old man is also lame, and he has gone to the municipal government two or three hundred times in total, but the answer I get is always to go back and wait.

At that time, I knew that the municipal side probably didn't want to take over, and if the two old guys died, the people who were kept in the workhouse would not end well. ”

Aunt Administrator said with a resentful face:

"At that time, the property of the workhouse was in my name, and the old man was not qualified to inherit the property because of some things in the past, so I really didn't dare to die, so I could only carry it like this, and put some time to try to help the people in the workhouse find another way out.

In the end, although some people were successfully sent away, most of the workhouse were unable to work, and I still had no place to go, and I was not in good health at that time.

According to the old man, my heart stopped beating three times in the last month, and I couldn't count the number of respiratory arrests, but even if I didn't die in the end, little by little I reached the limit......"

Cardiac arrest...... Did you even survive this......

When he heard about the Administrator's past experience, although it was a little out of place, Leon remembered what he had heard from the red-haired chief.

Only extremes can be remembered, only paranoia can dare to move forward, and only madness can understand greatness.

In other words, whether positive or negative, only those purest and most extreme things can leave a mark on this world.

……

"But I really don't want to die, and I don't dare to die."

I didn't know Leon's thoughts, and recalled the administrator's aunt who had a painful time, and her expression was a little hideous:

"On the last day, apart from the occasional opening of my eyes, my heart and breathing stopped completely, and I was almost a pure dead person, and even my soul was briefly detached from my body and saw myself in a hospital bed......

But I finally got back into it! Nothing else, I'm just unwilling! I wondered why, why no one was willing to stand up and approve my application, even though so many people could be saved with just one signature! ”

After a few quick breaths, Aunt Administrator's expression softened a little, and she held the hand of the strong old man who walked back from not knowing when and was standing behind her and holding her, lowered her voice and continued:

"But although my soul has been drilled back, my body is indeed completely dead, and the old man, who had already prepared it, called the person in charge of arranging the remains.

Well...... I don't remember exactly, but the mortuary was a young man, and he looked quite ordinary, except that the corners of his mouth were turned downward, and he looked like he was crying, but his eyes were bright, and he seemed to be able to see things that others couldn't.

His eyes looked directly through my corpse, saw my still lingering soul, and then asked me with some surprise why I had been holding out so much that I was reluctant to leave. ”

A young man with a crying face and bright eyes?

After carefully jotting down these traits and preparing to ask the red-haired director tomorrow, Leon asked softly:

"This is ......"

"Well, that's him."

After giving an affirmative answer, the administrator's aunt said with a complicated expression:

He asked me what I wanted, but I was full of hatred, and I couldn't turn into a mad spirit and kill everyone in the city, so I yelled at him.

But when the young man had heard the reason, he did not pay attention to me, but asked the old man of my family if he wanted to see me again, but at the cost of dying at once. ”

When she said this, the administrator's aunt paused, then shook the old man's hand vigorously, and said with a soft look in her eyes:

The old man didn't agree directly, but asked the young man who was born with a crying face, if he wanted to see more than just one face, then what did he need to give?

After hearing his question, the young man was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, he still told the old man that in addition to meeting him, he could also let the old man's soul stay with me forever.

But because my soul has been tormented for so many years, it is much stronger and more tenacious than his, so if our souls are bound together, the old man will lose most of his humanity and wisdom, and become a simple vassal of my soul......"

So...... He agreed, didn't he?

Looking at the strong old man who was holding the palm of the administrator's aunt with one hand, and secretly reaching for the big scissors with the other hand, Leon, who was both moved and speechless, couldn't help blinking, and didn't know what to say for a while.

"Don't move!"

I had already discovered the old man's movements, and pinched the back of his hand hard, so that the old man Zhuang was honest again, and the administrator's aunt said slightly apologetically:

"Don't worry, with me watching, he can't cut you."

"Ah...... It's okay, it's okay. ”

After sneaking around the pendant on his chest to make sure he could react in time, Leon couldn't help but ask:

"And then, your souls were tied up by him and put into this apartment?"

"Pretty much."

When the administrator's aunt heard this, her eyes darkened slightly, and her expression was a little low:

"But we didn't have the strength we have now, we didn't eat and drink like living people, and we couldn't even talk to the people inside.

Until the workhouse was reclaimed by the municipal government, and the rest of the people inside were forcibly evicted by the police department, we could only barely show a little in the middle of the night. ”

Leon nodded when he heard this, and after thinking for a while, he asked:

"So you're getting stronger over time?"

"No...... We're going to be like this, but it's just an accident. ”

After hearing Leon's question, the administrator's aunt turned her head silently, buried her face in the arms of the strong old man, and said in a somewhat dull voice:

"There was an orphan who had been kicked out of the workhouse, and he wanted to come back in the middle of the night to see, and when he almost fell off the wall, the old man and I were so worried that we briefly showed our figure and helped him.

The kid probably sensed something, was startled at the time, and ran away screaming, but then he couldn't help but come back a few times, and we ...... The news that we may be 'still there' spread among those who have been taken away. ”

After clenching her palms with great remorse, Aunt Administrator trembled and said:

And then ...... When many of the children heard the news, they came back with hope and wanted to see us again, and we both had some ...... He made a few more appearances.

After someone really saw us, more and more people came back, and even those who had already found a way out and were sent away in advance were also rushed back from other counties.

But...... But...... It's winter ahead...... The winter of that year was surprisingly cold, and they were all ...... So in the end, there are fewer and fewer people who can come, and the physical condition is getting worse and worse every time, and then ...... Then ......"

“……”

And then...... Did most of them freeze to death in the first winter of being taken away?

When he heard this, Leon, whose eyes were a little sour, tilted his head slightly, and couldn't help but think of the relevant files he had seen before.

In the end, more than 100 people were expelled from the workhouse, and because they were unable to work, most of them did not survive the winter of that year, and froze to death near the happy apartment.

But when the cold, shriveled bodies were found, most of them had smiles on their faces, and the incident was in the news at the time, and a few newspaper clippings were kept in the archives.

I originally thought that those people would laugh because of the hallucinations before they froze to death, but now it seems that their laughter is probably genuine.

"Mourning ......"

Looking at the administrator aunt who buried her face in the arms of the strong old man, who was obviously crying silently, Leon, who regretted asking these questions, pursed his lips, and didn't know what to say for a while, but the strong old man, who was patting the aunt's back, opened his mouth at this time.

"One hundred and three."

After spitting out this number with an expressionless face, the old man Zhuang said a few more words rarely, and said in a hoarse voice:

"I received the last thoughts of those children."

“……”

So...... The reason why you two are alive now is because the one hundred and three people who were evicted from the Happiness Apartment that year and froze to death outside, and many more who used to live in this apartment, believe from the bottom of your heart that you are still there......

After roughly understanding what he meant, looking at the administrator's aunt who had already begun to sobb lowly, Leon clenched his fists a little at a loss, and then quickly changed the topic and said:

"What about the young man with a crying face? Did he come back? ”

"Been here...... Came once. ”

After rubbing her tears in the arms of the strong old man, the administrator's aunt whispered:

"After that winter, almost three years later, he came to see us once.

After seeing our situation, he was a little surprised, saying that we were 'progressing' faster than he could have imagined, and asked me what I had done in the past few years, why I had become stronger so quickly, and whether I had killed the people he hated.

But after we told us why, he seemed a little disappointed, and asked us why we didn't want to take revenge, and then we never came...... Oh yes! ”

After trying to recall it for a while, the administrator's aunt said with some uncertainty:

"At that time, we also asked him about his current situation and asked him if he was still working as an undertaker, and he said that he had stopped doing the work of the undertaker and joined the clean-up bureau as an officer? Deacon? Or what's going on...... Do you have this position in the Cleanup Bureau? ”