Chapter 15
Jiang Yunu is a person with an unrestrained personality. When she is really in trouble and is temporarily unable to earn sufficient resources on her own due to various personal and external reasons, she generously accepts help from others and is good at giving emotional value to those who provide her with help.
"Thank you, boss!" The white-haired girl smiled until her eyes curved, her voice was crisp, and her tone and expression were sincere. It was obvious that she was praising him sincerely, "You are such a good person!"
The pastries and dried fruits and vegetables were both inexpensive and filling, and the little girl cradled them as if they were once-in-a-lifetime delicacies. While Shatt City wasn't as rapidly developed and advanced as other cities, its residents were self-sufficient, and those who could afford to open a shop enjoyed an even more comfortable life. Jiang Yunu's appearance made the shop owner eager to give her something more, and he lowered his head to browse the shelves.
In the end, the white-haired girl was not greedy. She got two bags of food, gave the boss a really nice card, and left a message: "I wish you a prosperous business! Happy every day!"
The boss who received the blessing looked up. The last few words of the blessing were obviously farther away when they floated into his ears. He saw the little girl's back running away, the wind lifting her uneven hair that looked like it had been bitten by a dog. She was probably running towards the recycling box that he had pointed out.
The boss put down his hands that were rummaging through the shelves and started thinking, why not donate something to the recycling bin tonight.
What if this little girl comes again tomorrow and needs to continue searching through the recycling bins on this block?
Jiang Yunu didn't know that she had triggered other people's continued kindness. She only noticed that it was getting darker and it was almost dusk, so she had to speed up her pace.
Because once dusk falls, within two or three hours, Chat City will enter the deep night again, and the damn "Children's Nighttime Activities Management Regulations" will come into effect again!
While exploring today, Jiang Yunu also found out the specific application time of this management regulation: it takes effect from 9:30 pm every night and ends at 5 am the next morning.
From 9:30 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. the next day, children are not allowed to stay alone in public places. This is a rule that has been in effect in Chat City for almost ten years.
However, the "black street" where Jiang Yunu stayed last night seemed to be an exception.
Jiang Yunu still hadn't figured out what kind of place the street she stayed on last night was. While she was wandering around outside today, she also paid attention to information about that street, wanting to hear what the local residents had to say about it.
However, it cannot be said that few people mention it, it can only be said that no one mentions it at all.
Jiang Yunu passed by many shops. Almost every shop here had a sign saying that they could deliver goods to the door. A three-dimensional map was floating on the electronic sign at the door, and the map showed the delivery range of the entire city.
Jiang Yunu looked at the maps in front of several stores and found that the area where he lived last night was not circled.
It seemed to be an area where no business would deliver goods to the door, and it was shunned from the bustling commercial life of Chat City.
"Could it be that this is the legendary 'no man's land'?" Jiang Yunu muttered to himself when he first discovered that no one mentioned the street and the shops avoided it.
But even though it was a "no man's land", it did not prevent Jiang Yunu from wandering around several blocks, "sweeping" the recycling bins in the blocks one by one, and then returning to the "black street" with her full harvest.
No matter what kind of place it is, it is now willing to give her an empty room and a proper bed. Jiang Yunu thinks her little garbage house couldn't be cuter. Even when she watches "Black Street", she feels it is inclusive and generous.
She came back at the time when the city coordination robots started chasing children all over the street. The location of the last love box was a bit far from the "black street". Jiang Yunu currently had no identity identification and could not take any public transportation in Xiate City. She relied entirely on her two legs to travel back and forth. Fortunately, she had a strong physique and could run fast with her two short legs. Not only could she avoid the robots that started work on time at 9:30, but she could also run back from two blocks away with the wind without even getting out of breath.
Jiang Yunu, who had run two blocks without even breathing, groped his way into the house again, his movements as light as last night.
She was carrying a lot of things in her hands today, but she was still agile and light when she jumped onto the stairs. Her feet landed on the iron steps without making much noise.
The floor on the second floor was simply washed last night when the bed was washed. Today, the dust on the floor is not so thick, and the bed is still clean according to the "Jiang Yunu standard".
There was not even a table in this empty room, so part of the bed became Jiang Yunu's table, and she put all her gains of the day on it.
In addition to a bag of pastries and a bag of dried fruits and vegetables kindly given by the store owner, she also reaped a lot from the charity recycling bin: another set of clothes that she can wear as "loose casual wear", a black hat, a pair of home sandals that the original owner bought in the wrong size, a set of unopened water cups and toothbrushes that someone else had outgrown, and a tablecloth that the original owner no longer liked the pattern of, so she gave it to the robot to wash and then sent it to the recycling bin.
Of course, Jiang Yunu didn't have a table to put a tablecloth on, but she gestured with the cloth above the bed and felt that as long as people didn't stick to the label purpose of an item, they could make it flexible and versatile in the home.
She used the thick tablecloth to make the bed, adding a little warmth to the originally empty and hard bed board.
"Every night when I go to bed, I will feel like I am being served a meal." Jiang Yunu commented, admiring her brand new bed for a moment.
Jiang Yunu lifted up a corner of the tablecloth that served as a bed sheet, leaving the bed board exposed in this corner so that she could store the supplies she brought back from outside.
Because he received new clothes today, Jiang Yunu could finally change out of the clothes he had been wearing for two days outside. He stepped on the slippers that were also "love supplies" and walked into the bathroom on the second floor.
She gave herself a bath, which was also her first real bath since coming into this world.
The bathroom was still dim and dark, and there was only cold water running out of the tap. Jiang Yunu had spent so many days on the deserted island, and had swum many times in the cool, salty sea water. The problem of water temperature and the environment that seemed like it could be used to shoot a horror movie were just minor issues for her. She washed quickly and efficiently, and even used the water pipe to flush the bathroom floor while she was showering.
It can be considered as a further improvement of the cleanliness index of my small garbage room.
All this was done in darkness.
Among all the supplies Jiang Yunu found today, there were no electronic products.
Fortunately, her eyes adjusted to the darkness. She took a shower in the dark, changed into new clothes, and clattered back to the bed in her wet slippers. She then opened the pastries and dried fruits and vegetables that were kindly given to her and started eating her dinner.
Joyson, who lives across the street, has been secretly keeping an eye on the rubbish empty house across the street all day since he "saw a ghost" last night.
Joyson's house is No. 78 on the dilapidated street, and the house opposite his house is No. 80.
During the day today, Joyson insisted that he really saw a ghost on the second floor of the abandoned garbage house last night, and insisted that his mother accompany him to the opposite side to take a look, but in the end, the mother and son did not actually enter House 80.
When Joyson's mother, coaxed out by her son, finally stood at the door of No. 80 with Joyson, the red-haired woman didn't look at the lock that could be easily unlocked with a tug. Instead, she looked down at her son and warned him, "Joyson, what are the three rules everyone who lives on this run-down street must understand?"
Joyson was stunned for a moment. He slowly let go of his mother's arm and replied softly, "I never take the initiative to meddle in other people's affairs, never pry into other people's secrets, and never bring up a topic that others haven't mentioned."
Simply put, the survival principle of the run-down streets is to keep out of each other's way.
Joyson grew up here and knew these rules by heart. His mother had told him over and over again since he was a toddler.
"But," Joyson knew the truth, but he couldn't help but argue for himself, "these rules apply to people."
Joyson still insisted that the person who smiled at him on the second floor opposite was not human.
So since the other party is not a human, then the rules for humans should not be followed... right?
Joyson thought his idea was very innovative, so he carefully asked his mother for this "innovation" - in return, his mother slapped him on the back of the head.
"No entry," the red-haired woman said coldly.
Joyson just had innovative ideas, but he had never rebelled in front of his mother, so he had to put his ideas aside and go back to his bedroom on the second floor, where he would unconsciously stare at the opposite window all day long.
When Jiang Yunu went out early in the morning, he closed the window again to avoid the dust at the end of the day. So Qiao Yisen waited there all day, only to see that the window on the second floor opposite was the same as it was closed every day, with no sign of it ever being opened. He watched for a long time and began to doubt whether he had just had a nightmare last night, in which he saw the window opposite open and a "ghost" smiled at him.
Joyson was on vacation and had been at home all day, and he didn't see anyone coming in or out of the house opposite.
However, just as Joyson gradually put aside his doubts, he went to bed at around ten o'clock in the evening, ready to treat what happened last night as a nightmare.
"Squeak."
It was a slight sound, yet it was extremely clear in the quiet night.
The window on the second floor opposite is open again?!
Joyson sat up with a somersault, and cautiously moved towards his own window. He pushed it a little wider like a thief, then huddled under the windowsill, slowly poking his head upwards, and peeking out from the edge of the window with a mixture of curiosity and timidity.
The window on the second floor opposite really opened again, revealing the dark space behind it.
The open window looked like a strange hole that only opened late at night. Just looking at it made one's scalp tingle.
But soon, Joyson discovered that there was no "ghost" standing behind the cave today, and the figure he saw last night did not come to the window tonight.
This...what does this mean?
Joyson was so frightened by what he saw that he imagined many horror movie scenes in his mind.
Then, he hid under the window sill of his house and heard a mysterious sound coming from the "black hole" on the second floor opposite.
Crunch.
Click, click.
It sounded like some creature was grinding its teeth, or slowly biting into something hard, one after another, enjoying it.
Joyson:……!!
Is this a ghost eating human bones?!
Joyson was so frightened that he dared not move.
Jiang Yunu was eating dried fruits and vegetables in the dark room.
The dried fruits and vegetables sold by that boss may be homemade. They are thick and hard, and require a certain amount of bite force to chew.
But delicious.
Crunch, crunch.
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