Chapter 20 Use death as the price!
Ren Liming looked at the sky outside. It was early morning. Ren Liming was very tired. The jet lag had not completely reversed, so she ate something to rest.
At 11 o'clock noon, Ren Liming slowly woke up. Her stomach felt a little uncomfortable, so she got up and walked to the window, opened the window and blew a cool breeze, feeling better. Chen Jing told her that the community in the video was at Jiangbei Department Store. Ren Liming looked at her watch, changed her clothes, and went downstairs to take a car and headed towards Jiangbei.
Jiangbei is an old industrial area in Jiangbei City. There are many factories here and the environmental pollution is relatively serious. Many elderly people are unwilling to live in Jiangbei. After a certain amount of savings, they all go to Jiangnan to buy a house and settle down. Over time, most of the people living in Jiangbei are poor elderly people, as well as employees working in Jiangbei factories. The biggest feature of this group is poverty. Therefore, the communities developed in Jiangbei are also "Sany" communities with average quality, average environment and average service.
Jiangbei Department Store is the central commercial area of Jiangbei. It is quite good to be close to its community.
Ren Liming is not very familiar with Jiangbei. Although Jiangbei Academy of Art also has a campus in Jiangbei, because there is really nothing to come here. Ren Liming has never been to Jiangbei except by car in Jiangbei City.
After several years of development, there was only one community around Jiangbei Department Store. This allowed Ren Liming to find this inconspicuous place as soon as he got off the car.
Standing outside the dilapidated gate of the community, Ren Limin took a deep breath of air: The air in Jiangbei is indeed much worse than that in Jiangnan. No wonder many old people say that after going to Jiangnan once, they are never willing to return to Jiangbei again.
Ren Limin walked into the community and was stopped by the old man who was guarding the door: "Girl, who are you looking for? It looks like you are so handsome!"
Ren Limin hurriedly took out the press certificate he had prepared long ago - this press certificate was just a temporary press certificate, which was obtained by Ren Limin when she participated in an event, and this time it came in handy.
"Oh! Comrade reporter!" The old man smiled when he saw Ren Liming's ID: "I haven't seen a reporter for many years. Is there anything you have to do with you here?"
Ren Liming smiled and put her reporter's certificate back in her bag: "Uncle, I came here to learn about the life of our community and also for the development of our Jiangbei. After all, the living environment in Jiangbei is not very good, and we also want to do a program to let citizens and leaders pay attention to our Jiangbei's livelihood."
"Okay!" The old man clapped and said, "This is a good show! We should have been well regulated here long ago. Jiangbei is in chaos now, and not many people dare to go out at night!"
Ren Liming was not interested in these things: "Well, uncle, how is the living conditions of our community?"
"You can take a look!" The old man came out of the hut and pointed to the residential buildings and said, "You can take a look. Our building is so broken, the paint is almost gone, and you can't see what it is now! It's even more powerful inside, with water and power outages every day, circuits are aging, pipelines are unreasonable, and there are too many problems! But we can't do anything about it. There are all poor people here and I can't afford a new house. I can only wait for the government to develop here and let us relocate. Only in this way can we change our living environment!"
Ren Limin smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, uncle, I will write these into manuscripts! By the way, I heard that there is a large piece of open space behind our community, right?"
"Yes!" the old man nodded and said, "You also know that this place was originally a large industrial area. The open space behind was originally from someone else's factory. Later, a community was built here, but the ownership of the land behind was always controversial, so a storage area was built. If there are any big objects in the factory, they will still be stored there!"
"I heard that there are people living in the storage room behind?" Ren Liming said: "Can the storage room behind be living in it?"
The old man had no doubts about the reporter in front of him and said everything he knew: "Yes, there are some people living there. But most of them are poor people who can't even eat, so they live there. Just like you said, how can people live there?! There are all kinds of things inside, most of them are industrial supplies, the smell is very big, and there are almost few small windows, and there are not much sunshine... But there is no way, it's better than sleeping on the street!"
Ren Liming nodded: "Thank you, my uncle. I'll go inside and find some residents who live here to ask, and see their reactions!"
"Well, go ahead, will you use me to lead the way?" The old man let it go very readily.
Ren Liming smiled and thanked: "No need, uncle, you are busy with your own things, I'll just go by myself!"
After saying goodbye to the old man, Ren Limin walked into the community. It was indeed as the old man said, and there was a smell of dilapidation everywhere. After walking around several residential buildings in front, he saw the large open space.
The four rows of bungalows around surrounded the open space. Some things were piled up on the open space. Most Ren Liming couldn't name it, but when she smelled it, she knew that it was some industrial supplies with severe pollution.
Ren Liming thought about the route in that video, walked to the innermost row of bungalows and knocked on the third iron door.
The knock on the door was like a knock on Ren Liming's heart. She was very nervous. You have to know what kind of family she would be facing! Ren Liming suddenly felt a little regretful, regretting that she had come without making any preparations. What if the family was to her...
Just as I was thinking, the door opened with a creaking sound.
It was dark inside, Ren Liming looked inside. As the old man said, there was only a very small window on the wall facing him, and I guess he couldn't even get into it.
A smell of mold appeared from the black room, making Ren Liming cough a few times: "Is anyone there?"
No one answered. Ren Liming looked inside with her body slanted, and the situation under the window could see some outlines. There was a sofa and a small bed there.
"Who are you looking for?!" A very old voice suddenly rang out. Ren Limin followed the sound and almost screamed in fear!
An old man's head suddenly stretched out from the dark room. The old man's face was like what he saw in the video: pale, bulging eyes, collapsed cheeks, shriveled skin, and sparse hair...
Ren Liming couldn't help but take a step back: "I, I am a reporter..."
"Reporter?" The old man's old voice seemed to have just come out of the ground: "Is there anything wrong?"
Ren Liming tried hard to calm herself down: "I'm here to investigate our living conditions!"
"Haha, really?" The old man was a little disdainful in his words: "There are so many houses here, you can knock on someone else's door!"
As he said that, the old man pretended to close the door. Ren Limin hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the door: "Uncle, can I talk to you?"
The old man turned around and grinned with his shriveled lips: "What are you talking about? Come in!"
Ren Liming didn't dare to go in. She was afraid that she wouldn't come out if she went in: "Uncle, to be honest, I found this place through a video!"
The old man's body, which was originally walking into the room, stopped and turned around and asked, "What video?"
"My boyfriend, I once took a video for your family!" Ren Liming was a little nervous and spoke quickly: "Two days ago, this video popped out from somewhere, just for me to see it. I was afraid that my boyfriend would have something to do, so I came to take a look..."
"He is missing?" the old man suddenly asked.
"No..." Ren Liming didn't know what to say, but the strange things about the tablet she encountered led her here.
"Yes, our family hasn't gone out for more than ten years. Your boyfriend is the only person who has entered my house in the past few years!" The old man said quietly: "Since you want to know so much, come in!"
Ren Liming was a little hesitant, and the scene of this family eating raw meat appeared in her mind. Besides, that bone looked very much like a human!
"Haha, don't worry, my grandfather won't do anything to you!" A young man's voice suddenly sounded. Ren Limin looked at the voice, but saw the same face. Only from the voice could he hear that this man was a young man. It seemed that he was the old man's grandson.
The video from a few years ago can also distinguish the age of the family from their faces, but now they all have grown into such a horrifying look!
"We have actually been alive for a few years. We can survive until now, thanks to your boyfriend!" said the old man: "Come in, I want to know anything. I will tell you. I have never told anyone, including your boyfriend!"
Su Jianjun?! Ren Limin once again had a little doubt about this man. She suddenly realized that she didn't know much about this man, although he was the person she loved the most.
The two brought Ren Limin into the house. In order not to make Ren Limin too nervous, the young man did not close the door. The sunshine outside the door made Ren Limin feel a little relieved.
"My name is Youshan, he is my grandson, Youchao." The old man named Youshan said: "My wife, my son and daughter-in-law are all dead, yes, I have killed him!"
When Youshan said this, a trace of pain could still be seen on his face: "The food you see in the video is not the bones of someone, but the bones of some cows, sheep, and horses. We eat raw meat, but we are slowly changing to make ourselves no longer so perverted, but the price of this change is our own death..."
Chapter completed!