Chapter 28 My Landlady

“He can’t stay here!”

“Mom, just think of it as renting him a room, even a basement is fine. He’s pitiful; he’s been framed and has nowhere to go.”

“How much did they give you to buy off your filthy soul! You actually brought a stranger into your home!”

“There are many things, I must admit, but that’s not the point… The point is that his uncle is in charge of logistics in a place very close to the upper city. Those who are in charge of logistics are not small figures. As long as my younger siblings can get along well with him, they will have someone to take care of them even if they go to the middle city to develop their careers. It’s a kind of exchange, Mom!”

“They don’t need to go to Midtown! Midtown is a prison that stifles humanity! You’ve changed! Flower! You’ve changed!”

In the study on the first floor of the small wooden building.

Thomas the Goat was having a heated argument with his kind landlady.

Outside the wooden door with a few cracks, several children pressed their ears to listen to what was happening inside the study.

Wang Jixuan stood in the corner of this living room/dining room, his hands behind his back, awaiting his ‘fate’.

He seemed somewhat lost in thought as his mind raced.

gas;

Qi is the origin of all things;

Anger doesn’t lie;

Wang Jixuan was even more certain that he would not mistake the mass of energy within Wen Heisen’s body.

The old woman, Thomas’s foster mother, had a trace of Wenhesen’s aura on her hands; they had recently been in contact. This wisp of aura was slowly dissipating, and if he had arrived here tomorrow, he would likely have missed this crucial information.

However, this is the heart of the Wanlijin gang’s ‘Jade Manor’.

Wanli Jin and the Blackfire Gang were still exchanging sporadic fire. He even heard gunshots like popping beans when he and Thomas were driving across the border between the two gangs’ territories.

Although the actual distance between the two gangs is not very far, both have large, continuous dark areas.

But the old woman’s body had begun to decay; she had no vital energy left and was just an ordinary person, making it unlikely that she could cross those ditches, barbed wire, and hidden mines.

Thomas’s words echoed in Wang Jixuan’s mind:

‘They can keep expanding their territory downwards, digging tunnels.’

Dig a hole?

Wang Jixuan looked down at his feet, closed his eyes to sense, and ten meters below, a two-meter-high arched tunnel gradually appeared.

It really is authentic…

Hello! My name is Ye Zi!

A slender hand, pale and overly white due to prolonged lack of sunlight, came into Wang Jixuan’s view.

Wang Jixuan looked up and saw a small, clean, smiling girl’s face.

As Thomas just introduced, her name is Ye Zi. She is the leader of this group of orphans. She is thirteen years old and has just entered puberty. She has already grown to a good height.

“Hello, my name is Zhou Tian.”

Wang Jixuan smiled and shook his head: “Men and women should not touch each other.”

“Huh? What does that mean?”

Ye Zi blinked, looked Wang Jixuan up and down, and asked in a low voice:

“Are you really from Midtown?”

“Yes,” Wang Jixuan replied softly.

“Is Midtown surrounded by lights? Can you see light everywhere?”

“More or less,” Wang Jixuan nodded in response, trying to appear more talkative. “However, the lights in many places are at their lowest brightness, making it look rather dim.”

“That’s much better than here. There’s no light in many places… Do people in Midtown also regularly receive anti-darkness drugs and vitamins?”

“The anti-dark medicine is obtained periodically, while vitamins are purchased with a quota,” Wang Jixuan explained. “Moreover, vitamins are classified as food quotas.”

Ye Zi let out a few ambiguous exclamations.

Then, wanting to warm up the atmosphere, she couldn’t find a suitable topic.

After a while, Ye Zi asked again, “Do you want to sit down and rest?”

“fine.”

“Why did you come down here? Isn’t Midtown great?”

“I was framed and offended powerful people,” Wang Jixuan still remembered the script Thomas had given him.

Ye Zi muttered to herself, “Wow, it’s like you’ve offended all those gangs here… I really hope you can stay.”

Wang Jixuan was puzzled: “Why?”

“That way you can help me with the work!”

The leaf whispered:

“I have to learn a lot of things every day, such as arithmetic and world geography. I also have to clean the first and second floors, help my mother take care of the younger children, and bathing them is the most tiring part.”

“I’m busy with all sorts of things as soon as I open my eyes, and I can’t go out to play.”

She complained with her head down, her ponytail swaying gently.

Wang Jixuan noticed that Ye Zi had a barcode tattoo on the back of her neck that had been mostly worn away.

He asked, “Could you introduce your adoptive mother?”

“Of course! Mom is our mom. She lived here a long time ago, before the Wanlijin Gang was even established, and she has helped more than three hundred children! More than three hundred!”

When Ye Zi talked about these things, her eyes lit up, and she emphasized the quantity.

“Although she may seem to have a bad temper, she is actually very gentle at heart. When we are sick, she will stay up all night to stay by our side.”

“Before I was five or six years old, I was with the Black Fire Gang and treated like livestock, serving as an organ reserve for the high-ranking officials and nobles in the city. If those elderly people’s organs failed, I might have my organs harvested.”

“Later, during a gang conflict, Wanlijin’s people rescued me… Many of us were rescued.”

“Look here, the barcode here is proof of the Black Fire Gang’s materials. When I was a child, my mother used a lot of force to scrub it off when I took a bath.”

“Then, my mother raised me, taught me to read, and taught me many principles of life. My mother often said that even if we are in the dark, we must not give up hope. As long as we hold hands, even if we are just weak individuals, we can change the world step by step.”

Wang Jixuan nodded and raised an eyebrow: “That makes a lot of sense.”

He glanced at the study, his gaze somewhat complicated.

A person’s eyes can’t lie; Ye Zi’s gaze was pure and kind, without a trace of malevolence.

The elderly woman inside, who had acquired a certain air of descent from Hessian, also possessed no trace of malevolence.

What is malevolent energy?

In short, killing someone creates malevolent energy. The malice emanating from oneself and the resentment of the killed creature intertwine, thus creating malevolent energy.

Many demonic arts specifically cultivate malevolent energy and use it to forge vicious magical artifacts such as the Myriad Soul Banner.

He must be radiating murderous aura right now, but… it seems only he can sense it.

—Master Wang’s exclusive right of interpretation.

So what exactly is going on? Who is this old woman?

“What kind of work did you do in Midtown before?” Ye Zi asked in a low voice.

Wang Jixuan casually replied, “Assembly line worker.”

“Then I’ll call you Brother Tian,” Ye Zi muttered. “I really hope Brother Hua can convince Mom. I desperately need a helper for housework.”

“Then you might not be able to get what you want,” Wang Jixuan said with a smile. “I might have to go out and do some work to earn some guild coins.”

“No! Please!”

“I have to support myself.”

The study door suddenly opened, and the children who had been eavesdropping were thrown into chaos.

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Thomas winked at Wang Jixuan: “It’s settled! You can stay here! My mom will arrange a job for you later. She has a lot of connections in the area. But two-thirds of the supplies you earn must be used to buy food for the children, okay?”

Wang Jixuan immediately nodded: “Yes, this place is very nice, and… very interesting.”

“Very good” refers to the surrounding spiritual environment.

The interesting part refers to the tunnel beneath our feet.

“Yay!”

Ye Zi jumped up and down with joy.

Although most of the children didn’t understand what was happening, the eldest sister had already started jumping, and they jumped along with her.

“Commission complete! Bang bang bang bang!”

Thomas cheered, pointed two index fingers at Wang Jixuan, and then swayed his sexy, big, round buttocks as he walked toward the dining table, his body swaying in rhythm with the sounds of his mouth.

You can tell he’s really relaxed here.

“Yezi, go fry me some donuts! I’m leaving after I eat them!”

Ye Zi grabbed Wang Jixuan’s arm and dragged him toward the kitchen next door: “Go and help me out! The rule in the kitchen is that those who work can sneak three bites of food!”

Wang Jixuan chuckled to himself.

She’s so lively.

…

This was the first time Wang Jixuan had ever tasted a dessert made entirely of flour since he came to this world.

Ye Zi’s skills are quite good.

Thomas ate two donuts and left in a hurry. Something had happened at his shop in the weird district of Pleasure City; apparently, someone was causing trouble.

Thomas also needed to get that alluring makeup back on his way back.

While Master Wang was enjoying the fried desserts, the diligent Xiao Yezi had already led her younger siblings, who were eight or nine years old, to clean up the corner room on the second floor for him.

His room was right across from the girls’ rooms, so it was inevitably a bit noisy on weekdays.

Fortunately, Wang Jixuan was not picky about this; he usually meditated rather than slept.

He is now very interested in the hostess here, Kong Lianmei, who is 69 years old.

Underground passage;

A kind old lady who has lived here all her life and continues to help orphans;

The aura of Wen Heisen, the third leader of the Blackfire Gang and a hidden psychic.

What connection lies behind all this?

His new room wasn’t large, only a little over two meters long and wide. The roof sloped down from left to right, making it impossible to stand up straight near the exterior wall. A narrow single bed and a desk beside it already filled two-thirds of the space.

Several posters with the word ‘TER’ written in large letters hung on the wall.

Wang Jixuan had no idea what those three letters meant.

From Ye Zi’s incessant chatter, he learned what the original owner of the house looked like: a 24-year-old young man who left the family three years ago to work for the Silver Party gang on the 46th floor. He had returned half a year ago, bringing them some cosmetics that were about to expire.

The bed was covered with clean old sheets, and the dim light on the desk was barely burning.

Wang Jixuan sat down, wanting to meditate and experience the speed of cultivation.

Before going to Thomas’s tavern, he had already sent his luggage to the 49th floor, where he hid it in an abandoned shack near the edge of the Blackfire Gang’s territory.

He planned to go over there later to pick up some small items that wouldn’t attract attention.

Knock knock!

A sound came from the drafty door, and a pair of bright, sparkling eyes peered out through the crack.

Wang Jixuan said, “Please come in.”

Squeak—

Ye Zi jumped in carrying several loose cotton and linen clothes, and placed them and two pairs of patched cloth shoes on the bed.

“I noticed you didn’t have any luggage, so I found some of your older brothers’ clothes and shoes for you. They should be about your size. If they’re too small, I’ll go exchange them! There’s a lot of them in the basement.”

Ye Zi instructed:

“But you must take good care of them. After you leave, I will wash them clean and put them away.”

Wang Jixuan smiled knowingly: “Thank you.”

“Hehe, you rest then, I’ll go give the little ones a bath first.”

Ye Zi waved her hand, her ponytail swaying slightly, and quickly left.

‘What a cute little girl.’

Wang Jixuan made a simple assessment in his mind: it was truly rare to see such a spirited young girl in this place.

It’s just unknown how long Xiaoyezi can retain this agility.

Thump, thump thump.

There was a knocking sound coming from the doorway.

He felt it again… that wisp of energy that was about to dissipate completely.