Chapter 430: Investigation Mission (Part 2-2)

【Name: Apartment of Parasitic Spirits (Miracle, Protection)】

【Appearance: An old, ordinary apartment, with an elderly woman with dense white curly hair, a slightly hunched back, and bow legs sitting in the duty room of the lobby all year round.】

【Ability: Evil Extermination, Accident Avoidance】

【Cost: When going out in the morning, please smile and greet the manager. When you have time, it is best to chat with her. If possible, please also treat her husband, who is in poor health, kindly.】

【File: The predecessor of this apartment was a poorhouse built at No. 35 Jianqiao Street in the old city of the capital. The poorhouse was donated by an old couple who lost their daughter in their later years. It provided free shelter for war orphans and the disabled all year round and provided them with shelter and basic living benefits.】

About ninety-five years ago, the old couple who donated the poorhouse passed away one after another. Because the Road Administration Department did not register it as a legal welfare facility and no one continued to pay the real estate tax, the poorhouse was banned and taken back. After forcibly clearing all residents and renovating it, it was renamed "Happy Apartment" and rented out.】

However, strangely, although it is located in the sub-center of the old city of the capital, adjacent to a large number of enterprises and institutions, and the location is livable, transportation is convenient, and the price is low, the occupancy rate of Happy Apartment is extremely poor, less than 30% of similar apartments. Most tenants will move out voluntarily within one month of moving in, and only a very small number of tenants can live here for a long time.】

【Evaluation: This is a good apartment suitable for ordinary people to live in for a lifetime. It is enough to protect their home, everything goes well, and disasters do not disturb. It's just a pity that the compatibility between this apartment and you is really too poor.】

【Infection Value: 0.1】

"..."

So... this time the whole building is an anomalous object? Even the manager aunt who insisted on taking me upstairs is part of the anomalous object?

After reading the information that appeared before his eyes, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but shudder, and then changed the subject, immediately asking the middle-aged nurse couple in front of him:

"How long have you lived here? Do you know how old that auntie just now is?"

"Ah?"

Being a bit stunned by Hearing Li Ang's sudden question, the middle-aged nurse couple looked at each other, and the man with a scholarly air hesitated:

"How long... I had already moved in when I first started teaching at Jianqiao Public School. Later, I met Hanna who was also renting here... it should have been twenty-seven or twenty-eight years, right?"

"As for Auntie Mary, she already had white hair when I first moved in. Now she must be ninety years old, but she has nothing to worry about, so she is well-maintained, so she looks relatively young."

"..."

Ninety years old... Can a ninety-year-old climb stairs faster than me? And when she grabbed the shopping bag just now, her hands and feet were very nimble. I almost didn't dodge it? How does this look like someone in their nineties?

Hmm... wait a minute! Although the information given by 【Materialist Soul】 didn't say it directly, the meaning revealed between the lines, plus the name 【Apartment of Parasitic Spirits】...

She and her husband, who is in poor health, wouldn't be the old couple who donated the poorhouse and died ninety-something years ago, right? However... I am meeting her for the first time, why does she seem to be guarding against me?

Holding this question, Hearing Li Ang's brain turned rapidly. After seeing "compatibility is really too poor" in the evaluation, he suddenly reacted.

With some ominous premonition, Hearing Li Ang clicked on the panel, found the 【Demon's Follower】 badge obtained from the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang, and looked directly at the hidden trait at the bottom.

【Hidden trait (no need to wear): Your soul is stained with a trace of demon aura, making it easier to be noticed by certain evil existences.】 "..."

Understood...

Whether it was being grabbed and questioned repeatedly as soon as he entered the door, or the manager aunt refusing to bring him over, or why she suddenly grabbed the shopping bag, this series of problems has been solved.

For this apartment with 【Evil Extermination】 ability, he, whose soul is stained with demon aura, is a standard "unwelcome guest," and the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang, who is a great demon, is a "malicious object" through and through!

"Knock! Knock, knock!"

Just when Hearing Li Ang suddenly realized and gradually understood everything, a dull, loud knocking sound suddenly came from outside the room. After the middle-aged man opened the door, a tall, strong old man with a cigar in his mouth stood outside the door.

After nodding slightly to the somewhat surprised middle-aged man, the old man, who was bulging with muscles like an explosion even though he was only wearing a small vest in late autumn, pinched out the cigar in his mouth with two fingers and said with a hoarse voice:

"I heard from Mary that a stranger came, so I came to see specifically."

After explaining his intention, the strong old man, who was carrying a large basket on his back, twisted his neck, which was about as thick as Hearing Li Ang's thigh. With that face full of burn marks and knife scars, his two deep-set greenish-brown eyes stared at Hearing Li Ang with ill intent.

"..."

Does this still count as being in poor health?

Stared at by the strong old man who couldn't be stronger, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle. He thought that with his height of nearly 1.9 meters and those biceps bigger than his head, he could probably hunt bears in the deep mountains if he just carried a fruit knife?

"This is Uncle John, Auntie Mary's husband."

Seeing Hearing Li Ang's nervous expression, the middle-aged man smiled and explained:

"Don't worry, Uncle John looking at you like this isn't because he has any opinion of you, but because he was a marine when he was young. He was injured by the residual flame of the muzzle when fighting pirates, and he also suffered some injuries, so the muscles on his face are a bit stiff and he can't make too many expressions."

"Usually he is responsible for cleaning the apartment, clearing weeds, repairing water pipes and gas pipes, etc. He is very serious and careful and refuses to accept fees. In summer, he also likes to catch butterflies for the children in the building, so don't look at Uncle John's fierce appearance, he is actually a very kind person."

He... is very kind? Why don't I think so?

Looking at the strong old man who was staring at him, Hearing Li Ang's throat couldn't help but move up and down, and he swallowed instinctively. The middle finger of his right hand holding the shopping bag poked out quietly and touched the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang's horn.

Fierce! Flame! Towering!

Looking at the dark red "firelight" that almost filled the entire corridor in his soul vision, and the towering murderous aura in the firelight that was colder than the polar glacier, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but feel a chill on his back. He retreated two steps silently and stood honestly behind the middle-aged couple.

Kind my ass!

If you couple weren't still here, he would probably reach for the basket on his back in the next second, then take out that garden shear more than a meter long, rush up, and snap, directly turning me from Hearing Li Ang into Li·Ang!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 431 =====