Ana Shen was at the door, looking out through the peephole.
The landlord stood in front of the door, with a smile on his face, staring at the pupils of the cat's eyes.
It felt like two people looking at each other through a door.
The landlord kept his smile unchanged, raised his finger and knocked on the door——
"Boom!"
"Xiao Shen, are you at home?"
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"Boom!"
"Xiao Shen, are you at home?"
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"Boom!"
"Xiao Shen, are you at home?"
The two people looked at each other across the door. The landlord outside the door kept a constant smile, knocked on the door every minute, and repeated lively and dull greetings.
Ana Shen stood still in front of the cat for a full ten minutes.
He thought of the diary that turned into ashes, and the warning recorded in it - "Never open the door to the landlord -"
He thought for a few seconds, then reached out and opened the door.
"Xiao Shen, you're inside. I've been knocking on the door for so long, and I thought you were out."
The moment he opened the door, the landlord's whole person became alive. If you ignore the scene seen in the cat's eyes, he is an extremely normal person.
Ana Shen coughed, with an apologetic smile on her face: "Sorry, I was too tired from moving, so I fell asleep on the sofa."
The landlord waved his hand cheerfully and said, "It's okay, it's okay. I came here because I didn't have anything else to do. I just thought that you might not be very familiar with the neighborhood after you moved here, and you couldn't find a place to eat, so I brought some food." Come here."
As he spoke, the landlord raised the soup pot he was holding in his left hand, and a rich and delicious aroma emerged.
It smells like chicken soup that has been stewed for a long time.
The soup was delicious. When Ana Shen smelled the smell, her saliva flowed out unconsciously.
The landlord watched Ana Shen swallow her saliva, and the smile on her face became even brighter: "This is the chicken soup your sister-in-law has been cooking all afternoon. Take it and drink it while it's hot."
As the landlord spoke, he reached out his hand into the house, but soon he felt his hand being pushed back.
There was a decent smile on Ana Shen's face: "Sorry, I'm allergic to chicken."
The landlord's face was filled with enthusiasm: "Hey...I'm so sorry, I didn't know this."
"It doesn't matter, I've already eaten."
"Oh, by the way, I suddenly remembered that the signal transmission node in this building is out of order. You may face network disconnection here. As compensation, I can reduce part of your rent."
"The failure of the signal transmission node is not your problem, so why are you embarrassed to spend money on it? Besides, your rent is already very cheap."
Ana Shen smiled and refused.
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After that, the landlord put forward many preferential conditions, which even made Ana Shen have the illusion that she was the landlord and the other party was the tenant.
He rejected all these offers one by one.
Finally, the landlord turned around and left with a smile on his face.
Ana Shen silently watched the landlord's back. There were no colors representing emotions on his head, nor were there any monsters symbolizing erosion. Ana Shen clearly felt the rotten aura from his body, but his Qi was even more calm than that of a normal person.
The person walking in this dark corridor was like a programmed body.
After watching the landlord disappear at the end of the corridor, Ana Shen closed the door and returned to the living room. The first thing she did was to take out her AP bracelet and dial Bai Ye's number.
A light screen appeared on the AP, and the light screen flashed with unstable snowflakes, indicating that the signal had indeed been greatly affected.
But I can barely make a call.
After a while, Bai Ye's face appeared on the light screen with a mask on it.
Ana Shen went straight to the point: "Colonel Bai, I encountered a new realm event!"
Hearing Ana Shen's words, Bai Ye was stunned for a moment, and then simply pulled off the mask on his face.
"Where are you? What's the specific situation?"
As she spoke, the woman in the light screen was already preparing to change her clothes and set off. Fortunately, she discovered in time that the two people were still talking on the phone and turned off the light screen projection.
Ana Shen looked at the darkening light screen and was silent for a few seconds. When the other party began to urge him impatiently, he continued to speak: "I am in Building C 2008, Fusion New City. I suspect that the land owner is the landlord of this house. It’s a middle-aged man named Sun Ye.”
On the other end of the phone, Bai Ye was talking with the AP in one hand. He could only hold the belt in his mouth and dress with his right hand: "Where is the realm?"
"The realm...has not been found yet..."
Ana Shen frowned: "It's not just a matter of realm, I didn't find any psychic fluctuations in the landlord's body. He feels like... a puppet to me."
"Puppet?"
Bai Ye was obviously a little surprised, but she still asked calmly: "Are you sure the realm master is really him?"
But at this moment, the signal suddenly cut off.
"Hello?"
"Doctor's reply? Hello?"
Bai Ye then called Ana Shen several times, but was still unable to reach him.
Seeing this situation, she made a prompt decision and directly contacted her cleanup team: "Hey, I'm Bai Ye. The doctor discovered a new realm in Fusion City! The cleanup team will set off immediately!"
"In addition, notify the members of Team B to capture Sun Ye! He is most likely a realm master who has not yet expanded his realm! All personnel must be careful!"
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On the other side, after Ana Shen discovered that the signal was completely cut off, she decided to go out directly to meet the members of the Special Bureau.
However, the moment he opened the door, the environment behind the door suddenly changed.
What should have been a somewhat dim horizontal corridor turned into a straight passage after opening the door this time. The dark passage had no end in sight, and only an indescribable sour smell kept coming from the depths of the passage.
"The problem was never the landlord, but... this house?"
Ana Shen recalled what she had read in the diary, and she suddenly figured out many things that she had not been able to figure out before.
Why did the landlord feel strange before, but his anger was not abnormal at all? Why did Li Rui continue to live in a house that was going to be replaced in three days?
Because the problem lies with the house, the realm has long been unfolded, and this house is a miniature version of the realm!
Li Rui was actually included in the realm the next night after the landlord came. However, he himself was eroded by the realm, but he still thought he was living in the original apartment.
Ana Shen glanced up at the empty room and said, "If I guessed correctly, the logical chain of realm erosion is to accept the landlord's 'gift', right?"
Li Rui's cost of construction, Shen Yan's chicken soup and the promise to reduce the rent were all 'gifts' from the landlord. Li Rui chose to accept them, so they were silently eroded by the realm.
Shen Yan chose to refuse, which was not in line with the logic of realm erosion. According to common sense, Shen Yan should not be the target of realm owner erosion.
However, for some unknown reason, the realm owner still chose to trap Ana Shen here.
And decided to forcefully erode.
Sure enough, as soon as Ana Shen finished speaking, the walls, floors, and roof of the room all twisted and softened in an instant.
Abscesses grew on the clean walls, jagged fangs sprouted on the light-transmitting floor-to-ceiling windows, and a stream of yellow-brown gas visible to the naked eye surged up from the bottomless passage at the door.
A well-decorated apartment of more than 60 square meters has turned into a monster's mouth full of rotten flesh, fangs, and a fishy smell!
All the tenants who move in live in the mouth of the monster the moment they enter!
