[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-the-cleanup-crew":3,"chapter-i-m-the-cleanup-crew-i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-27":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm the Cleanup Crew!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2285863,4472,"Chapter 27","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-27",27,"\u003Cp>27 Investigation Task (Part 2)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Name: Dwelling of the Hosted Spirit (Miracle, Protection)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Appearance: An old, ordinary apartment building; a frail elderly woman with white curly hair, a hunched back, and bowed legs sits permanently in the lobby reception room】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ability: Expulsion of Evil Entities, Avoidance of Accidents】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Cost: When leaving in the morning, smile and greet the administrator. If possible, spend time chatting with her. If you can, treat her ailing husband kindly】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【File: This apartment was formerly the Poor Relief Institute, built at No. 35 Bridge Street in the old district of the Royal Capital. It was donated by an elderly couple who lost their daughter in old age, and for years provided free shelter and basic welfare to war orphans and the disabled】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About ninety-five years ago, the couple who donated the institute passed away one after another. Since the Department of Road Administration never registered it as a legal welfare facility, and no one paid the real estate tax, the institute was shut down, all residents forcibly evicted, the building renovated, and renamed Happy Dwelling for public rental】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet strangely, despite its location in the secondary center of the Royal Capital, adjacent to numerous businesses and institutions, with a livable environment, convenient transportation, and low rent, Happy Dwelling’s occupancy rate is abysmal—less than a third of comparable buildings. Most tenants voluntarily move out within a month; only a tiny fraction stay long-term】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Evaluation: This is an excellent apartment for an ordinary person to live in for life, capable of protecting their home from harm, ensuring smooth affairs, and keeping disasters at bay. Unfortunately, your compatibility with this apartment is extremely poor】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Contamination Level: 0.1】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So... is the entire building an anomaly? Even the administrator who insisted on bringing me upstairs—is she part of the anomaly herself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading the information that appeared before him, Li Ang involuntarily shuddered, then immediately turned to the middle-aged nurse couple and asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How long have you lived here? Do you know how old that woman just now was?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Startled by Li Ang’s sudden question, the middle-aged nurse couple exchanged glances. The man, steeped in scholarly air, hesitated:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How long...? I moved in when I first started teaching at Bridge Street Academy. Later I met Hanna, who also rented here. It’s been about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As for Aunt Mary, she already had white hair when I moved in. She must be nearly ninety now. But she has no worries, takes good care of herself, so she looks younger than she is.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ninety years old... How can someone that old climb stairs faster than me? And just now, when she snatched the shopping bag, her movements were swift—barely missed me! She doesn’t look ninety at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm... wait a minute. Though the 【Materialist Soul】’s information didn’t say it outright, the implication in the wording, plus the name 【Dwelling of the Hosted Spirit】...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could she and her ailing husband be the very couple who donated the Poor Relief Institute and died nearly a century ago? But... I’ve never met her before. Why does she seem so wary of me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this question in mind, Li Ang’s mind raced. When he saw the evaluation’s phrase “extremely poor compatibility,” he suddenly understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a sense of foreboding, Li Ang raised his hand and opened his panel, locating the 【Demon Follower】 badge he obtained from the Black Goat, and directly checked its hidden trait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Hidden Trait (No Need to Wear): Your soul has been tainted with a trace of demonic essence, making you more susceptible to the attention of certain evil entities】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I understand...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was being grabbed and interrogated the moment I entered, or the administrator refusing to bring me up, or why she suddenly snatched the shopping bag—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All these questions have been answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For an apartment with the ability 【Expulsion of Evil Entities】, I, whose soul is tainted with demonic essence, am a classic “evil guest.” And the Black Goat, born of a great demon, is pure “evil entity!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Knock! Knock-knock!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Li Ang realized everything, a heavy knock sounded outside the door. The middle-aged man opened it to find a tall, burly old man smoking a cigar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After giving a slight nod to the surprised middle-aged man, the old man—wearing only a sleeveless vest despite the autumn chill, his muscles bulging like explosives—pinched out his cigar between two fingers and rasped:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mary said a stranger arrived, so I came to take a look.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After explaining his purpose, the muscular old man, carrying a large basket, twisted his thick neck—thick as Li Ang’s thigh—and fixed his sunken green-brown eyes, scarred and burned across his face, with a hostile stare toward Li Ang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guy calls himself ailing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the burly old man’s glare, Li Ang’s scalp prickled. He thought: at nearly two meters tall, with biceps bigger than his own head, this man could probably hunt bears in the deep mountains with just a fruit knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is Uncle John, Mary’s husband.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Li Ang tense up, the middle-aged man smiled and explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry. Uncle John isn’t staring at you because he dislikes you. He used to be a marine, and during battles with pirates, his face was scorched by cannon blast residue. He also suffered lingering injuries, so his facial muscles are stiff and he can’t make many expressions.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He usually cleans the building, clears weeds, fixes pipes and gas lines—very thorough, refuses payment, and in summer likes catching butterflies for the children. So don’t let his appearance fool you—he’s actually a kind man.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kind? I don’t feel that at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the burly old man’s unblinking stare, Li Ang’s throat moved as he swallowed nervously. His right hand, clutching the shopping bag, subtly extended his index finger and lightly tapped the Black Goat’s horn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fierce! Fiery! Overwhelming! Terrifying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his soul’s vision, the entire corridor was filled with dark red “flames,” and within them, a killing intent colder than polar ice. Li Ang’s back chilled. Without a word, he stepped back two paces and quietly stood behind the middle-aged couple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kind my ass!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren’t for you two being here, he’d have reached behind his basket in the next second, pulled out that one-meter-long gardening shears, and sliced me from Li Ang into Li·Ang!\u003C\u002Fp>",1054,"2026-06-20T03:18:28.556Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","fc03ee5e426bc0aebc43e5cebcce10e19d57873cb39336a936ab277c31e0e12a","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-28","i-m-the-cleanup-crew-chapter-26",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-the-cleanup-crew-cover.jpg"]