Deep in the Living

Chapter 82 Bachelor Apartment
[Pluto City]

A coastal city located in the northernmost part of the country.
There are relatively few Chinese immigrants here, less than 10% of the city’s total population.

Although there are not many people, they all choose to live in the same area and take care of each other, forming a unique Chinatown.

Both the architectural style and the types of shops are very similar to those of ordinary blocks in Jupiter City. You can even see resettlement communities similar to the one where Rody once lived.

≮Chinatown is about to arrive, please prepare to get off in advance≯.

The moment Luo Di got off the bus, he felt like he was back in Jupiter City. It was very lively and people were communicating in Mandarin.

Although Chinatown looks lively on the surface, a closer look reveals something amiss.

At the entrances of the streets, you can see a lot of scattered paper money and burnt braziers.
There are missing person notices posted on telephone poles and in front of shops.

There was not a single young man to be seen on the entire street.
【Lan Jie Noodle House】

Luo Di, who had not eaten yet, walked into an ordinary noodle shop. It was past lunch time, and the female boss, who was nearly 40 years old and wearing an apron, had just cleaned up the shop and was about to lie down on the table to rest for a while.

When he saw the guests coming in, he stood up immediately.

When he found out that the guest was actually a young man, his expression immediately changed. He looked at the mountaineering bag on the table and roughly guessed his identity.

"Coming from out of town?"

"That's it."

"I don't want to do business with you. Hurry up and pick up your bag and walk away. Don't come here. It's not that I'm rejecting you. It's mainly because something strange has happened here recently. It's easy for a guy your age to get into trouble.

Don't stay in the Chinatown area, just go somewhere else."

"I'll eat the noodles and leave."

"alright."

The proprietress was also a good person. Seeing that Rody looked thin and listless, she added a lot more beef to the dish.

Perhaps it was because he had not eaten the noodles from his hometown for a long time, Luo Di felt a little emotional when looking at the red oil noodles that were served to him, and tried to pick up the chopsticks with the bionic arm that had just been attached.

I didn't expect that the effect of using it is actually the same as a normal arm. There is no sense of incongruity in the action of holding the chopsticks.

Just when he was staring at his extremely real left arm, Rody's thoughts seemed to go back to the past.
Back to a newly built cemetery,
I smelled the smell of burning meat.

I remembered a photo of a friend carved on the surface of a tombstone.

He shook his head vigorously to bring his thoughts back to reality, glanced at the slightly bulging mountaineering bag on the side, and quickly buried his head in the bowl of noodles, sucking it up in big gulps, even drinking up the soup base completely.

Get up and pay.

Even though he stayed in a mental hospital for three months, he still had money.

The "No. 4 Middle School Incident" earned Luo Di a lot of compensation, and the Research Bureau also applied for a talent fund for him, which was enough for him to spend normally for several years.

When scanning the code to pay, Luo Di also asked casually: "Boss, do you know what these young people's disappearance is related to?"

"People from the Investigation Bureau have come to investigate several times. What can a noodle shop owner like me know?

I just heard some rumors. Some elderly people nearby talked about that maybe some widow coveted the blood of young men and kidnapped them by some unknown means.

You'd better leave quickly, and if any woman talks to you, don't respond."

"Thank you."

This kind of rumor is mostly unreliable. In a city where there are cameras everywhere, anyone the missing person came into contact with during his or her lifetime would inevitably be captured on camera, and the investigation bureau could immediately follow up and catch the suspect.

Luo Di, who looked like a tourist, was walking on Chinatown and soon attracted a lot of attention. Many kind-hearted people came up to remind him, but he just smiled and replied that he would leave soon.

【Youth Apartment】

According to the housing location given by the Investigation Bureau, Luo Di arrived at the bottom of this densely populated apartment building, where most of the residents were single or double occupants.

The Investigation Bureau had already registered his identity information in the local community, so Roddy only needed to pack his bags and move in.

While waiting for the elevator,
There was also a lady pushing a baby stroller who came back from outside. She wanted to come forward and say hello, but after looking at Rody's young face, she immediately took a step back.

Even when the elevator came, the lady showed no intention of going up.

This lady simply didn't want to be involved in a disappearance case, and she couldn't take such a risk as she had a newborn baby.

The elevator door closed.
Luo Di, who was sitting alone in the elevator, had a smile on his face.

Now that the disappearance incident has become so well-known, young men who meet the characteristics of the victim should either stay at home or move away.

In this way, he is almost the only male who meets the characteristics, making it easier to lure out the facts behind the incident, thus saving a lot of time.

only,
Luo Di's thoughts were not on the disappearance incident. He had another matter to deal with. After exiting the elevator, he hurriedly walked to the door of the single apartment arranged for him by the Investigation Bureau.

Swipe the card with the bracelet~ding!
As soon as you open the door, you can smell a fresh smell mixed with a little formaldehyde.
Although the furnishings in the house were old, they were cleaned very well and even the walls were repainted.

It's a one-bedroom, one-living-room single apartment of about 40 square meters, small but complete with everything.

The TV in the living room has integrated computer functions and many different types of interfaces on the side, which can perfectly accommodate the memory card in the file bag.

Luo Di was not in a hurry to watch the video of the missing person.

He first locked the door several times, closed all the windows and drew the curtains.

Check every nook and cranny in the house very carefully.
He even searched the corners that were easily overlooked.
I'm absolutely sure there are no cameras or recording devices here.

Everything is ready,
He carefully opened his schoolbag and took out some soft clothes, towels and other things at the top one by one.

Finally, stretch your hands down along the edge of the inner bag.

When the cold touch touches your fingers, use a little force to move them outwards, trying not to let the valuables be scratched by the zipper of the backpack.

"Thank you for your hard work along the way."

The soft black hair gently touched Rody's arm.
A pale head of a high school girl with many suture marks was taken out.

Eyes closed, lips colorless,
The whole thing was lifeless and showed no signs of waking up. It was completely like a dead head.

Roddy had already placed two layers of paper towels on the sofa, and gently and slowly placed the head on it, facing the TV.

"Before watching the TV program, please accompany me to watch the video information of the four missing people."

Roddy deliberately dimmed the lights in the room, inserted the video card of the first missing person into the TV, and played the long and boring video footage at four times the speed.

Perhaps it was because of the Fourth Middle School incident.

Maybe it was because he spent a long time in a mental hospital.

Maybe there are other reasons.

His concentration is now very high. He can capture every picture clearly and is very interested in the event itself.

When a suspicious scene appeared, Rody would pause to observe carefully and talk to the head next to him, trying to keep his voice as low as possible so that it would not be heard by those outside the door.

If someone could peek into the house from the window, they would probably be scared to death.

……

Downstairs of the youth apartment.

Because one elevator was under maintenance, only one was functioning properly, and every time you missed one you had to wait a long time.

The woman pushing the stroller finally got the elevator after more than ten minutes. Just as the elevator door was about to close, a hand was suddenly stuck in the gap of the door.

A middle-aged man with white hair and dark circles under his eyes walked in. The surface of his eyeballs was covered with bloodshot. He was unable to press the floor button until the elevator door closed.

The woman had lived here for several years and had never seen this man. She subconsciously pulled the stroller back, with her other hand already on the bracelet, ready to report the case at any time.

Suddenly, a voice came:
"Do you know which floor that person went to just now?"

There was no emotion in the voice, but it made the woman feel uncomfortable. She subconsciously recalled the scene of waiting for the elevator and remembered the place where the numbers paused for the first time after the young man took the elevator.

"11nd Floor."

"Thank you."

The middle-aged man reached out and pressed the button [11], then moved his arm back.

The nails that had not been trimmed for a long time turned a little black, and they gently touched the stroller, almost touching the baby inside.

The woman was so frightened that she couldn't breathe.
suddenly,

The finger stopped in front of the baby, and the middle-aged man's voice came again:

"Don't report it to the police. I just have something to do with that young man. Otherwise... I might come to find you."

"I know...I know."

Ding!
11th floor to

As the middle-aged man left, the woman was almost frightened to the point of collapsing on the ground.

Recalling what had just happened, she didn't dare to report the case. She just wanted to go home and pack her things quickly. She probably wouldn't live here for the time being until the disappearances in Chinatown were dealt with.

(End of this chapter)