New Arc .

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Companionship is the longest emotion.

Huang Dan followed Nie Wenyuan, starting from the spring in City B, moving forward without looking back. Moving from place to place, stopped when tired, and continued moving when rested enough.

They always only have each other and only need each other.

In the tenth year, Nie Wenyuan’s health failed. After years of suffering from illness, it finally came to an end and he could no longer take his little nephew to see the scenery. He lay in bed regretfully, feeling that God had given them too little time and there were still many things they wanted to do that they had not done.

The days during that period were difficult. Huang Dan stayed with Nie Wenyuan almost every step of the way. Whenever there was any movement, everyone would be in a panic. Whenever his name was called, he held the man’s hand and responded “I am here” over and over again.

Nie Wenyuan breathed a sigh of relief, reluctant to leave. The inside of his body had stopped working and was rotting, it’s only supported by an obsession.

No one knew how long he would last, nor why he was being tortured, stubbornly holding on to that breath, and refusing to give up.

Huang Dan was skin and bone, with a sharp chin, but a pair of eyes full of tenderness. He suffered from severe anorexia, and would vomit even bile after eating a little food. He did not tell Nie Wenyuan.

Nie Wenyuan still knew, and his obsession was suddenly eaten away by love and care. No matter how reluctant he was to give up, he still gave up and let his little nephew go for the time being, waiting for the next life.

Huang Dan was prepared before leaving. He sent an email to Zhou Weiwei, asking her to make arrangements for their funeral, and also spent all his remaining savings.

Whether to keep it or donate it is up to Zhou Weiwei.

When Zhou Weiwei came with her husband, her BiaoDi and Jiujiu were lying next to each other with peaceful faces. She lay in her husband’s arms and cried bitterly. It was better not to see them.

After a few days, there was a grave inside the green mountains. There were two people living in it. They were a couple.

In this world, there may be someone else named Nie Wenyuan, and there may also be someone else named Chen Yu, but Nie Wenyuan and Chen Yu, who really loved each other, are gone. They went to another world, where they will meet again.

When he regained consciousness, Huang Dan returned to the real world. He stood in front of the cashier and heard the little girl’s doubtful voice in his ears, “Sir?”

Huang Dan took the change from the little girl, raised his eyes and smiled, “Thank you.”

The little girl was stunned for a while, feeling that the man was really good-looking, with soft and picturesque features, yet still heroic. When people saw him smile, they wanted to take out their heart and hold in front of him, letting him do whatever he wanted.

The sky after the rain was blue and clear, as if it had been washed by water, and the water marks left on it were carefully wiped off with a piece of cloth, like a calm lake, reflecting the glitz and hustle and bustle of the city.

Huang Dan carried the bag and walked to the parking place. He was so distracted and thinking about something in his mind that he didn’t notice a motorcycle driving over.

Severe pain came from his left leg, Huang Dan’s vision went dark, the bag in his hand fell down, and he fell to the ground, the blood on his face instantly faded away.

The motorcycle owner stabilized the vehicle and ran over. He panicked and said sorry incoherently, “Sir… sir, how are you? Are you okay?”

Huang Dan was not so good.

If it had been someone else, they would have been rubbed on their leg and could stand up despite the pain, but he couldn’t. He was covered in cold sweat, his limbs were weak, and he collapsed.

Passers-by came around, one or two, more and more, forming a circle around the place where the accident occurred.

It is human nature to watch the excitement, no matter what it is, they have to get closer and take a look, it seems that those two glances will make them more fleshy. Even if they know that it is best not to look at the excitement, and it will easily cause trouble, they still can’t control themselves.

At this moment, almost all the people gathered around were staring at the person on the ground, guessing his age, guessing his job, and guessing where he bumped into.

Huang Dan doesn’t have a temperament of screaming loudly, and he suppresses pain when he is in pain. However, the tears on his face still scare passers-by. If he cries like that, it must be more than just a scratch on his leg, or a broken bone. Maybe he hit his head also.

It’s a few thousand yuan now, and it’s gone. Everyone looked at the owner of the motorcycle and sighed.

The owner of the motorcycle was sweating profusely. He hurriedly took out his mobile phone, swiped for a long time to unlock it, and called 120 with shaking hands, “Sir, I have already called 120, you hold on first.”

Huang Dan was speechless, his brows were furrowed, his lips were tightly pursed, and his expression made others feel like he was dying.

120 was neither too fast nor too late.

The owner of the motorcycle did not leave. He sent Huang Dan to the hospital. On the way, he called home and said that he had hit someone and asked his family to send him money. “Stop asking, hurry up!”

After making the phone call, the owner of the motorcycle looked at the person on the stretcher, blamed himself and said anxiously, “Sir, don’t worry, I won’t run away, and I will pay for any medical expenses.”

Huang Dan’s consciousness was fuzzy, and he said hoarsely, “It’s okay.”

The owner of the motorcycle was in tears.

The atmosphere in the ambulance was quite strange. The medical staff looked admiringly at the owner of the motorcycle, who didn’t run away after hitting someone. Instead, he stayed and took responsibility. Not bad.

Huang Dan’s tears didn’t stop along the way. When he arrived at the hospital, he was in so much pain that he was about to go into shock.

The owner of the motorcycle thought that it would be a most unfortunate occurrence to knock a person out, and was ready to take out family’s fund and contribute money and efforts for a month, but he didn’t expect the other party to have only a gash in his leg all over his body. His eyes widened. If he hadn’t seen that the person was well-dressed, looked like a celebrity, and didn’t complain about pain from the beginning to the end, he would have thought it was a porcelain.

“Sir, you, this is……”

The owner of the motorcycle didn’t know what to say. If he had such a gash in his leg he wouldn’t cry. What would he do? At most, just wiped it with toilet paper, but this man was really crying and in pain. Don’t know if there are any other illnesses.

Huang Dan lay on the small bed, covered his eyes with his hands, and comforted him, “I’m just afraid of pain.”

The motorcycle driver felt that he had hit a good man. Just as he was about to speak, his cell phone rang. The boss urged him to go to the store. He copied the phone number and handed it over. “Tell me the medicine fee later and I’ll wire you. Sir, I’m really sorry.”

Huang Dan didn’t say anything. He listened to a set of hurried footsteps leaving, and then another set of footsteps came in from outside the door, neither fast nor slow. There was a calm voice in his ear, “Sir, please take off your pants and I will treat your wounds.”

Hearing this, Huang Dan took off the hand covering his eyes and looked into a pair of dark eyes. His inquiry was fleeting, “I’m only injured on my calf. Do I need to take off my pants?”

“Then don’t take it off.”

The man lowered his head, the black hair hanging down on his forehead, sweeping over the delicate eyebrows. He stretched out a hand and rolled up Huang Dan’s trousers leg. The hand was thin and white, with a sickly look, just like his face and lips.

That kind of paleness set off his loneliness and coldness, and made people feel distant.

But there were light spots jumping in his eyes, bright and full of heat, a very contradictory person.

The wound was touched, Huang Dan inhaled, his body tensed, and the veins on his forehead jumped.

The man stood up straight and looked down condescendingly. He showed a strange expression for a while, and seemed to smile a little, “Don’t worry, it won’t hurt after a while.”

Huang Dan closed his eyes tightly, it’s impossible, it will hurt for a long time.

As he thought this, the pain suddenly stopped.

Huang Dan opened his eyes suddenly when he realized something was wrong. The top of his head was not a man’s face, but a whitewashed ceiling. This was not a hospital. There was no smell of disinfectant in the air. Dust was floating in the air, mixed with a faint musty smell.

Huang Dan’s opened eyes lowered slightly, and there was a gash in the same place on his left leg, which was bleeding, but to his horror he couldn’t feel any pain.

It was as if the pain nerve had been pulled out.

Huang Dan quickly looked around. The place where he is a bedroom, not too big or too small. Whether it was furniture or decoration, it had an old smell corroded by time.

This is an old house of some era.

Huang Dan looked at the wound on his leg that was only bleeding and didn’t feel pain. He pursed his lips and shouted in his heart, “Mr. Lu?”

No response.

Huang Dan was taken aback, did Mr. System come back from the exam? He said, “Mr. System?”

Still no response.

Huang Dan frowned. Could it be that there was no system to receive him during this time travel? Just when he was so doubtful, a belated “ding” sounded in his head, which sounded like a grand appearance of a big shot.

“Hello.”

Huang Dan understood that the host had changed this time, “Hello.”

System, “333, my work code, you can call me San Ge.”
(San Ge=Third Older Brother)

Huang Dan understood that the personality of the receptionist was different from the previous two. Between cheerful and dull, people would not feel nervous, very relaxed, and at the same time, would feel trust. His eyelids suddenly twitched. The contradictory and complicated feeling was very familiar, as if he had experienced it not long ago.

A certain thought flashed by, and Huang Dan caught it just in time, and he asked, “San Ge, were you the one in the hospital who said he would treat my wound?”

System said, “Uh-huh.”

Huang Dan’s mind was racing. When he first came across Mr. System and came into contact with him, he thought about how he would receive him and whether he would be like ordinary people outside of work.

Now it seems that they are the same office workers, but they are engaged in different professions.

Huang Dan thought calmly. Neither Mr. System nor Mr. Lu had appeared before. If the San Ge appeared in his world this time, would he have a higher position than Mr. Lu? Main system?

Let’s not speculate on the identity of the new receptionist for the time being. Why did he appear there? He was there to pick him up.

Huang Dan pinched his fingers. Are the little boys, old men, and middle-aged women he met during the previous time travel…… all human beings? Will there be any tricks in it?

Or is he overthinking it?

System said, “Don’t think too much. It’s meaningless. Why don’t we talk about something meaningful? Huang Xiao Di, you failed in your last mission. The punishment is to erase the pain nerves.”

Huang Dan，“……”

He put his hand on the wound, digging his fingertips into the flesh and blood, it didn’t hurt.

System said, “Xiao Di, your pain nerves are different from ordinary people. Now that it has been erased, it will be a new experience for you. I am optimistic about you.”

This time even the surname Huang was omitted.

Huang Dan said, “If I don’t feel pain, I won’t know that I am sick. It is very dangerous and I may not live long.”

System, “You won’t die until you have to leave.”

Huang Dan said, “Yeah.”

System, “Well, fighting!”

Huang Dan heard encouragement from the mechanical voice. This San Ge had a human touch and talked more than Mr. Lu and Mr. System combined. He was a little unaccustomed to it.

System said, “You will get used to it gradually. This time San Ge will take you to complete the task. With San Ge here, Chrysanthemum spirit can be used casually.”

Regardless of whether it was true or not, Huang Dan said, “Thank you.”

System said you’re welcome, “Although you can’t feel the pain, the other person can, and the chrysanthemum flower spirit is still very useful. Xiao Di, the task has been sent to you, please take a look.”

The first half of the sentence is still talking about the chrysanthemum spirit, but the second half of the sentence turns to the task. It is obviously impossible to hit the target, but it can be connected seamlessly.

A task screen appeared in front of Huang Dan.

【The appeal of the elderly couple: Some time ago, the slippers that we, the old couple, put outside the door were always missing, no idea who secretly took it away. One night, we, the old couple, were awake and secretly listening at the door. When we heard a rustling sound, we immediately opened the door and saw that one pair of slippers on the ground was missing. Sure enough, someone had taken them away. We hurriedly ran out to chase and found a man sitting in the corridor, Old Zhang, who lived next door to us. He was dead and was wearing the pair of slippers we lost. The police can’t find anything, and we’re very panicked. We want to know what’s going on. Please. 】

When the time is up, the screen disappears.

Huang Dan went through the mission content from beginning to end, and everything was weird. If this was the Supernatural Area 120, he would definitely blame the ghost.

A lot of memories flooded into Huang Dan’s mind, completely disrupting his thoughts.

The owner of this body is Ji Shiyu, twenty-one years old. He is also an orphan, and grew up in an orphanage. He walked the path that most people would take. Although that road is monotonous and boring, it is also smooth, reading, taking exams, going to school, graduating, and working, step by step.

A month ago, Ji Shiyu received a phone call and met a stranger who claimed to be his grandmother’s friend. Only then did he know that he still had a relative, but the person was no longer there.

It is said that Ji Shiyu’s grandmother only found out about his existence when she was about to die. Probably out of a desire to make amends, she left the old house to her grandson whom she had never met.

Ji Shiyu didn’t even have enough time to mull over and sigh with sorrow, and was forced to plunge into discussing papers. As soon as he finished his debate and got his graduation certificate, he came here dragging a suitcase.

Although the house is a bit old, it still has two bedrooms and one living room fully furnished. It can save a lot of money on renting a house, so Ji Shiyu will naturally not refuse.

Unfortunately, something happened to Ji Shiyu in less than a week after he moved in.

Huang Dan reached out to touch the back of his head and felt sticky blood on his hand. He searched the memory of the original owner and found out that the other person came out to use the bathroom and heard something unusual in the living room, so he cautiously went out to check.

There was no light in the room, it was pitch black, and the original owner was very scared. The more nervous he was, the more prone to mistakes he made, like accidentally injuring his leg.

The sound also disturbed the person who broke in. Before the original owner could react, he was hit on the back of the head by that person from behind and fainted. He didn’t know who it was.

Maybe it’s the same person who killed Old Zhang.

The injury on Huang Dan’s leg doesn’t matter, the one on the back of his head is a fatal injury. The original owner was killed by someone like that. Now he needs to stop the wound from bleeding. “San Ge, I still have some points, can I buy medicine to stop the bleeding?”

System said, “I will give you 10 million points for the first meeting, and I will also give you medicine to stop the bleeding. There are still a lot of bits and pieces that you will need later, so keep them.”

Huang Dan was taken aback by San Ge’s generosity, and he thanked, “Thank you.”

It was around four o’clock in the morning, wait a little longer, and it would be daylight.

The summer was extremely hot, and Huang Dan lay motionless on the floor. He didn’t know what kind of medicine San Ge got for him, but the bleeding stopped and there were no abnormalities in any aspect of his body.

It may also be the reason that he was reborn in this body, and so vitality was restored.

Huang Dan’s body can’t feel pain and feels like a corpse.

A thin ray of morning light came in from the balcony, and Huang Dan’s eyelids moved slightly. He opened his eyes, looked at the ray of morning light, and got up to boil water after a while, and changed his blood-stained clothes.

The house was a bit old, and the original owner didn’t clean it carefully. There was a lot of dust. Huang Dan took a breath and brought some dust into his lungs. He ate something casually and started mopping the floor.

There was a large bloodstain where the original owner fell. It had turned black and seeped silently into the cracks in the floor. Strangely, there was a string of bloodstains on the floor, from that position to the door.

It seemed like someone had something in his hand, and there was blood dripping all over it.

Huang Dan dropped the mop and went to open the door. There were blood stains on the inside of the door, but there wasn’t even the smell of blood on the walkway. He frowned. Was the blood on the ground left by the murder weapon?

If it can kill someone at once, the first thing Huang Dan guessed was the hammer.

He is not dead, and standing in front of the murderer, the other party may be able to reveal some flaws. It would be best if this is the case.

The red-painted door opposite opened, and a plain-looking middle-aged man walked out. He was wearing an ordinary striped T-shirt and trousers, with a briefcase on his waist. His hair was greasy, there was cyan under his eyes, and he had stubble on his chin, not shaved. It seems that he stayed up all night and his spirits are not very good.

The original owner had just arrived, and liked to stay at home. The number of times he went out was less and irregular. He didn’t know much about his neighbors, and the neighbors didn’t know much about him either.

The middle-aged man met Huang Dan face to face, and he nodded politely as a greeting.

Huang Dan opened his mouth, “Going to work so early?”

The middle-aged man turned his head in surprise, and after confirming that the new neighbor was talking to him, he smiled, “There is no other way, working for others is to sell your life.”

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged man pointed to the gauze on the new neighbor’s head, “Are you okay?”

Huang Dan said while observing the middle-aged man’s expression, “There was a thief who entered the house last night and I was beaten .”

The middle-aged man inhaled in surprise, and his expression changed, “Young man, it’s not a big deal if something is lost, but people’s safety comes first. Please call the police as soon as possible and see if you can catch the person.”

He glanced at his watch, said he was in a hurry, and muttered, “A man died on the third floor last week, and a thief came out again this time. Everything was fine before, but why is it so unstable recently……”

The sounds in the corridor gradually became blurry. Huang Dan was about to close the door when suddenly a baby’s cry came into his eardrums. It came from the opposite door. He thought for a moment and returned to the house.

In the morning, Huang Dan went to the hospital to have his wound re-treated, and a patch of hair was removed. The doctor also taught him that he could not risk his life just because he was young, and that the wound on his head was not a joke.

The doctor looked at Huang Dan with disbelief as he saw that the injury on his head was so serious and yet he could still walk and stand without being hospitalized. It was as if the injury was not on his head at all and had nothing to do with him, and felt nothing.

“Young man, do you want me to call the police?”

The doctor believed that someone else had done it deliberately. It looked like the wound had been hit with something, so ruthless and wanted to kill him.

“No need.”

Huang Dan shook his head, and when the doctor finished speaking earnest and well-meaning advice, he took the medical record, took the medicine and left.

The lack of pain means that when the body is injured, it is impossible to judge the extent of the injury. Even if death comes, he will not feel it. Huang Dan didn’t make any comment on this punishment. He could only try to develop a habit and check this body from time to time.

Huang Dan did nothing else for the next few days and devoted himself to finding out the situation of his neighbors.

There is no elevator in this house, and it has five floors.

The original owner’s grandmother’s house is on the fourth floor, opposite the door is a middle-aged couple, the man is an ordinary office worker, the one Huang Dan met that morning, the woman is a housewife, they just had a baby boy, who is less than three months old.

The man gets up early to work every day, works overtime on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays until he comes back around 10:00 p.m., adds an extra day on Saturdays, and only leaves work after 6:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays.

It’s hot, so the woman doesn’t take the child out during the day. At four or five o’clock in the afternoon, she would go out with a stroller and take the child to breathe the outside air. She is an elegant and intellectual woman. Huang Dan met her twice and they both had good conversations.

There is a single young woman living in the middle house. She is tall and thin, about 1.7 meters tall, and a bit fierce. The house is probably rented, and there is not much decoration inside. She has severe mysophobia, and she will cover the doorknob with a paper towel and wipe it vigorously several times before touching it to open and close the door.

About that point, Huang Dan happened to have witnessed it with his own eyes.

The first house on the third floor is the deceased Old Zhang and his son. The son is in the second year of high school. The father and son had a bad relationship. Even after his father died, he was not sad and did not even cry. This is what Huang Dan heard from the old man chatting in the community, saying that Old Zhang’s son was a white-eyed wolf and had no conscience.

The man who lived opposite Old Zhang was a middle-aged man who was originally a businessman. He bought an RV, got married, and was living a prosperous life. Unexpectedly, something happened, and his life turned upside down. The business failed and he couldn’t afford it. He became a homeless man and smoked alcohol all the time. His wife couldn’t stand him and ran away with someone.

He has a bad temper, especially after drinking. He will yell at anyone he catches and even hit them. He has a bad relationship with his neighbors and is not popular with them. The neighbors often ridicule him in private.

The house in the middle is an old couple. Their children have started a family and started a business outside, and rarely come back. The old couple are the ones who announced this mission.

The first house on the top floor was an empty house, unoccupied. Huang Dan heard about it and it was said that the house was bought, but no one had moved in. Maybe something delayed it.

The house opposite the door was originally empty, but there was light inside just half a month ago.

The homeowner’s family has been abroad for the past few years, and the son has recently returned to China. He must be doing something. He drives a good car, has a successful career, is handsome, tall, well-dressed, and speaks well and very polite to the neighbors.

In the middle room lived a young man wearing glasses. He was not tall, just less than 1.6 meters, and very thin. He ran Taobao, and there were always cardboard boxes piled up in a mess at the door and on the balcony.
( Taobao is a Chinese online shopping platform.)

Huang Dan only got this information in the past few days. He was hiding from the sun under a tree, sweating profusely.

There are five floors in a building, and Huang Dan cannot check them all at the moment. He first picked the two floors upstairs and downstairs. He will investigate the first and second floors later. As for the other floors, he has to take his time.

System: “Xiao Di ah, why don’t you ask me?”

Huang Dan said, “Ask you what?”

System, “Details of those neighbors.”

The corner of Huang Dan’s mouth twitched, “If I ask, will you tell me?”

System, “Of course.”

Huang Dan，“……”

He asked at first, but Mr. System’s answers were that he had no authority and could not answer. Mr. Lu was a very principled person and would not disclose it to him. As time went by, he stopped asking.

System said, “I’ve sent it to you, take a look at it carefully, remember the ones that are useful, and ignore the ones that are useless.”

There was more information in Huang Dan’s mind, which was similar to what he knew, except that there was personal information for every household, and he noted them down one by one, ” San Ge, thank you.”

System, “Ask me next time if you need something.”

Huang Dan suddenly felt uncomfortable and said, “Okay.”

System asked after a ding, “Xiao Di, do you like listening to ‘Nunchaku’?”

Huang Dan said, “I don’t like it.”

System fell silent.

Huang Dan sorted through the information, wiped his face, shook off the sweat on his hands, walked out from under the tree, and wandered around the community under the scorching sun.

It’s past three o’clock in the afternoon, and the sun is still so strong that it makes one’s head and skin hurt.

Huang Dan didn’t feel pain now, he just felt hot. As he took a step, his body was dripping with water. From a distance, he saw a few old men playing chess downstairs, so he quickly walked over and stood sideways at the corner to eavesdrop.

Chess is played in a fixed team, and dragged down by having a family to feed.

Some brought their grandchildren, and some brought their wives, including the old couple on the third floor.

Huang Dan knew that the old man’s surname was Liu, almost seventy years old, and his wife was a few years younger than him. The old couple had pensions, so they could make do without spending their children’s money.

Liu DaYe took off his presbyopic glasses, wiped them with the hem of his undershirt with a sigh, and said worriedly, “Tell me, Old Zhang’s death is unclear, so just forget it?”
( DaYe= uncle/ polite term for older man)

“What else to do? Even the police can’t solve the case. I think it probably is like that.”

“Old Zhang is also pitiful. It is said that raising children will protect you from old age. The boy from his family came back to clean up and went back to school. He never came back even once after that day.”

“It’s almost the end of the term, so hurry up to study hard, right?”

“Which of the good-educated children is not filial? He is not grieved or sad when his father dies, isn’t it true?”

“I’m not happy to hear what you’re saying. What do you mean, if you don’t study well, you’re not being filial?”

“It’s just a joke. As for you? We all know that your Niuniu is not only good at studies, but also filial and a good child.”

“Humph!”

The chess game was already tense, and the atmosphere became dull for a while.

Liu DaYe shook his cattail leaf fan and wiped his face with his arm, “When Old Zhang died, his feet……”

Before he could finish his words, his elbow was suddenly hit and all the chess pieces in his hand fell out.

Liu DaNiang winked at her husband.
( DaNiang = Aunt/ polite term)

The anger on Liu DaYe’s face disappeared. He picked up the chess piece and pressed it to the lower left corner.

Everyone was waiting for the next sentence, “What’s wrong with Old Zhang’s feet?”

Liu DaYe pretended to be confused, “What?”

He stood up, picked up the small bamboo chair and said, “It’s very hot, I’m going back to the house to lie down.”

Liu DaNiang didn’t stay too long either, and followed her husband swiftly.

Those present were very dissatisfied.

“Old Liu is really, halfway through the words, the older he gets, the more annoying he is!”

“Forget it, Old Liu is not like that for a day or two. Come on, let’s continue playing chess.”

Huang Dan knew what the old couple was hiding. It was included in the mission. He was just curious why the old couple hid it from their neighbors.

Is it for fear that the police will find out and the news spread, and the neighbors will gossip?

After thinking for a moment, Huang Dan entered behind them.

Liu DaNiang was muttering to Liu DaYe. As soon as she turned her head and saw the young man behind her, wrinkles appeared on her face.

“Xiao Ji, it’s you.”

Huang Dan has been wandering around a lot these days. He looked for opportunities to show his face in front of the neighbors. The old couple who issued the task were his special care objects, and he had a lot of contact with them.

He greeted, “DaYe didn’t seem to be very happy.”

Liu DaYe didn’t make a sound, then Liu DaNiang said, “Leave him alone, donkey temper!”

She changed her tone and said kindly, “If you have a head injury, it’s better to lie down more, if you have any headache, then…”

Liu DaYe interrupted her, “You can speak to anyone, right? How can Xiao Ji know less than you, an old woman?”

Liu DaNiang glared at him and went upstairs.

Liu DaYe was so angry that he shook the cattail leaf fan loudly.

Huang Dan said tentatively, “DaYe, the case hasn’t been solved yet and I don’t have a safe place to live. I feel like someone is following me when I go upstairs, and I feel very uncomfortable.”

Liu DaYe said earnestly, “Don’t incur hatred from others, live your own life well, and trouble will not come to your door.”

Huang Dan said, “Thieves will.”

“That’s how I got the injury on my head. If I hadn’t been lucky, I wouldn’t have survived that night.”

Liu DaYe sighed, “There’s nothing a thief can do. Check the doors and windows before going to bed. If you have friends, call them over and let them take care of you.”

Huang Dan asked, “I just came here, so I don’t know the situation here, have you ever been robbed before?”

Liu DaYe said yes, “It’s okay in normal times, but there are a lot of them during the Chinese New Year. Thieves don’t have money to celebrate the New Year, so they steal from other houses. It’s very wicked!”

Huang Dan groaned and said as he walked, “Then you and DaNiang must be anxious.”

Liu DaYe walked in front, “We, the old couple, have no money and no valuables, so thieves won’t notice.”

Huang Dan said, “It’s better to be careful, all the slippers I left at the door were stolen.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the old man paused and stopped on the steps.

Liu DaYe turned around, “Have your slippers been stolen?”

Huang Dan nodded, and said seriously, “Two pairs, I don’t know who got them.”

Liu DaYe asked, “When did it happen?”

Huang Dan continued to make up random things, “Just a few days ago, I lost a pair the night Zhang Shushu died.”

Liu DaYe frowned, “It’s better not to leave slippers at the door in the future. Now that a person is dead, and the murderer can’t be found, the slippers are even less likely to be recovered.”

Huang Dan hummed, and suddenly said, “People died at this place.”

Liu DaYe looked in a wretched manner, climbed up several steps in one breath, stood on the third floor and looked down.

Huang Dan stood on the second floor, his feet at where Old Zhang sat that night.

Liu DaYe cursed something, “Xiao Ji, come up quickly, don’t stand there for too long, it’s unlucky.”

Huang Dan walked upstairs. When the neighbors saw him, no one showed anything unusual.

But he knew that the murderer who killed the original owner must be the neighbor, and most likely the person who killed Old Zhang and stole the old couple’s slippers.

Liu DaYe returned to his house. Huang Dan went up to the fourth floor and saw that the door opposite was open.

Zhou Chunlian came out with a stroller, apparently wanting to take the child out for some fresh air.

Huang Dan heard a crisp sound, but he couldn’t see the baby, which was blocked by a small mosquito net. “It’s very sunny outside and there’s no wind.”

Zhou Chunlian said, “It’s okay, I’ll be in the corridor and I’ll go out later.”

She closed the door, hesitating to speak, “Xiao Ji, do you not feel normal pain?”

Huang Dan was stunned.

Zhou Chunlian said, “I see you have gauze wrapped around your head and you are still walking around. This situation is a bit like a friend of mine. He doesn’t know the pain and can’t even notice the wounds on his body.”

Huang Dan said, “I’m not.”

He remained calm, “I just can’t stay idle.”

Zhou Chunlian breathed a sigh of relief, “That’s good, it’s dangerous to feel no pain.”

The cry of the baby sounded, Zhou Chunlian bent over and coaxed softly, her eyes were filled with the halo of maternal love.

Huang Dan opened the door, entered the room and locked it, lying on the bed without moving, “San Ge, I have met the same person in the past few time travels.”

System, “Fate can be determined by God or man-made.”

Huang Dan sat up, “You mean……”

System, “Strive for it and cherish it.”

Huang Dan lay back on his stomach again, and said softly, “I know.”

At around eleven o’clock that night, a middle-aged man staggered into the corridor, climbed the stairs to the second floor, and then vomited out.

The smell of alcohol mixed with food residue was instantly pushed around by a gust of night wind.

The middle-aged man was Sun Siqing, the one who lived opposite the deceased Old Zhang. He sang loudly and yelled, and the corridor was filled with his wails and howls, and he didn’t think it would disturb the neighbors.

Sun Siqing climbed to the third floor. He took out the key from his pocket and fiddled with the lock for a long time, but the door didn’t open and the key slipped from his hand.

“Fuck, even you’re against me!”

Sun Siqing kicked the key vigorously against the wall. He stared with scarlet eyes, took a few breaths, and then went to pick up the key.

Don’t know if he drank too much, but Sun Siqing seemed to see a pair of feet. He couldn’t turn his head around, so he lowered his head. As a result, he couldn’t stand still. He knelt on the ground and didn’t get up for a long time.

By the time Sun Siqing reached the key to open the door, it was already past midnight. He was delirious. He poked the door with the key a few times and the door opened.

Sun Siqing drunkenly smashed the door, kicked off his leather shoes randomly, took the slippers by the door to the room, fell on the bed, and fell asleep.

The next morning, Liu DaNiang went to the rear of the building to buy vegetables. She saw that the pig’s knuckle was good, so she bought an extra one and sent it to Zhou Chunlian upstairs to drink the soup so she can have enough milk for the baby.

The man who came downstairs was Sun Siqing. He yawned and looked like he hadn’t woken up. He had an unkempt beard and his eyes were full of red bloodshot.

Liu DaNiang’s expression changed immediately when she saw the gray slippers on Sun Siqing’s feet.