0p0 Chapter 59 Special Hobbies
Chapter 59 Special Hobbies
When light returned, Jian Yuqing found herself on a street.
"what?"
Jian Yuqing looked down at herself.
When she watched the game trailer, she thought that when she entered the game, her character would be the child in the trailer, but... she was still in her own body.
However, the clothes she was wearing were a bit old and faded from washing, and she was holding a few... well, flyers?
Jian Yuqing glanced at the flyer.
The flyer, printed in black and white, read "Building No. 4, North City" and "Single Room for Rent," followed by the rent, contact address, and phone number. Next to the exceptionally low rent, a large red circle was drawn around the "No Deposit Required" sign.
"So this building is called a 'tube-shaped building'..."
Jian Yuqing looked up at the gray building not far away, bathed in the setting sun, exactly the same as the one in the game trailer—
It seems that her identity this time is that of a tenant going to rent a room.
Jian Yuqing rummaged through her pockets again and found, sure enough, only enough banknotes for one month's rent in the pocket of her clothes, as well as a bag of luggage behind her.
Jian Yuqing picked up her luggage and walked towards the tenement building.
Because of the trailer, Jian Yuqing wasn't too bothered when she saw the dilapidated iron gate of the tenement building. However, perhaps because the trailer was from a little boy's perspective and he wasn't tall enough, after stepping through the iron gate, before she could even decide who to rent a room from, she was startled by a sudden bark from a dog.
It was at this moment that she noticed a room hidden in the shadows behind the iron gate.
The sign on the door read "Security Room". But through the gray and dirty glass, Jian Yuqing struggled to make out what was going on for a long time and could only see an old man with gray hair sitting in a chair behind a table by the window, his head drooping so that his face was not visible, as if he was sleeping.
Right around him, in the not-so-spacious security room, lay four large, muscular dogs. Of course, because of Jian Yuqing's appearance, they had all stood up and were barking fiercely at her.
Jian Yuqing was caught in a dilemma, unsure whether to advance or retreat.
She did want to ask the old doorman about renting a room, but the loud barking of dogs in the doorman's ears couldn't wake him up. Jian Yuqing didn't think that her voice through the glass could produce a miracle.
Just when she was in a dilemma, a middle-aged woman came out of the tenement building and saved her: "Oh dear, I was wondering why it was so noisy all of a sudden, so someone has come..."
Jian Yuqing immediately recognized her as "Aunt Wang" from the promotional video. However, unlike her kind and warm image in the promotional video, she was now holding a huge stainless steel basin filled with bloody fresh meat and large white bones that had not yet been cleaned of meat.
As she approached, the stench of blood filled the air.
Jian Yuqing instinctively tried to back away.
As a result, Aunt Wang turned to the security room without stopping, pushed open the door, and placed the stainless steel basin on the floor.
The four large dogs that had been barking at Jian Yuqing immediately surrounded her and began to wolf down the meat.
"Little girl, what do you need?"
Seeing that the dog had stopped barking and started eating, Aunt Wang finally came out from inside.
Oh, so that's dog food...
Jian Yuqing breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm here to rent a room." She showed the flyer in her hand, "Excuse me, who should I contact?"
"Oh, so you're here to rent a room!"
Aunt Wang, familiar with the place, rummaged through the security room and found a set of keys. Holding the keychain, she warmly greeted Jian Yuqing, "Come, come, I'll take you there..."
As she walked inside, she turned sideways to introduce herself to Jian Yuqing, who was following behind her: "You can just call me Aunt Wang. I've lived in this building for a long time... Don't let the age of the building fool you, all the infrastructure is in good condition, look..."
Jian Yuqing listened attentively while carefully looking around.
The interior of the tenement building was almost identical to that in the promotional video. However, Jian Yuqing noticed that in addition to the original door locks, many of the doors had an old-fashioned, heavy iron lock hanging on the outside.
"Aunt Wang, I'd like to ask, what are these rooms with locks on their doors...?"
"Oh, those..." Aunt Wang continued walking. "Those are rooms that no one lives in. We locked them up because we were worried about thieves breaking in."
"Come on, what do you think of this one?"
Aunt Wang stopped in front of an unlocked door, took out her key, and opened it: "The previous owner of this house just left not long ago, it's spotless!"
Jian Yuqing looked into the room:
The room was small, only about twelve or thirteen square meters, with walls covered in posters and calendars, and the furniture was crammed together but looked old...
What a shabby house...
Jian Yuqing even began to suspect that the woman in red might have some kind of peculiar fetish for making players live in dilapidated houses.
Otherwise, why would the earthen houses in "Double Happiness" look like this, while the newly designed tenement buildings in "Reunion" look like this?!