Chapter 363 The beginning of a busy day

At the same time, stairs also need to be erected between the attic and the roof, so that Chen Yan can go up to the roof without relying on Ogami's strength.

Not long after Chen Yan took over this house, he once wondered why there was no escalator to the roof of this apartment building?

Only just now did I accidentally see from Raz's records that the designers of the apartments in the old city never thought about this. At the beginning, these apartments were also built in a hurry. What was rain-proof and leak-proof, what was the follow-up?

The roof repairs were not considered at all.

It was only then that Chen Yan understood why the sunny side of the apartment was almost destroyed by the ivy——

When the building materials were originally designed, the designer did not consider the longevity of the apartment at all, and how to save money. The walls were full of mud and sand, so wouldn't they be easily penetrated by creepers?

Now that the wall has not fallen down, it is already a blessing among misfortunes!

He even saw Raz complain about this in the record:

"The builders of Yanan City have not considered whether these houses are dangerous.

There are too many people giving birth to children, too many people coming from the countryside, too many people coming from the sea...

With so many people, crushing some to death won't have any impact.

The builders do not need to spend their own money to build new houses on the ruins, because Yanan City is developing too fast, and the money for building houses is provided by the municipal government.

Builders only need to spend municipal funds to build houses, sit in their offices and wait for some people who are willing to buy houses to take over, and they can make a lot of money.

Their wishes usually come true, and wealthy business bosses from outside Yanam are eager to step through their doors.

And those people who are trapped under the house, who cares who they are?"

Seeing this, Chen Yan felt more and more that he was at a loss.

'In other words, when I took over this apartment from my third uncle, this apartment was almost nothing but a shell. This shell was still a rotten and inferior product and will be finished in a few years!'

When he paid ten pounds to buy this apartment, Chen Yan felt something was wrong. The price was too cheap. This was a three-story apartment building!

Until today, he was finally able to confirm that he was the receiver.

Now that the matter has come to this point, it is useless to complain. It is unrealistic to buy another building. There is only one way to stop the loss in time:

Use the money earned in the past few days to repair the apartment.

…

The middle part of Walker Street is dotted with hardware stores, building materials stores and furniture stores. These stores were once popular during the rapid development of Yanan City, and then reaped the second wave of era dividends when the population exploded.

Until today, when there is almost no major construction in Yanan City, these stores that provide construction supplies are no longer as popular as they were in the past, but they still feed a large number of people——

At the intersection in a densely populated area with building materials stores, there are always people who want to do coolies, holding up small cardboards with their skills written on them, waiting there all day long, waiting for an employer who needs temporary workers to hire them.

When Chen Yan came here, a group of hard workers swarmed up to sell themselves to him.

Asian bosses are always popular. Most of them are kind and wealthy, and will not easily deduct workers' wages. Some people interpret this trait as timidity and fear of offending strong workers.

In any case, Chen Yan easily recruited ten construction workers and returned to the apartment after purchasing enough building materials.

After giving a brief explanation to Jack Baldo, the builders began to renovate the apartment.

Their tasks are:

Clean up the creepers on dangerous walls and reinforce the walls;

Build stairs from the third floor to the attic;

Build stairs between attic and roof;

Repair the windows in Room 304 that were once broken by wishes.

What makes Chen Yan incredible is that the entire project cost less than 1 shilling - a day's work and 10 pence per person, which made these workers burst into tears!

After giving some money to Jack Baldo, Chen Yan asked him to help provide two meals for the workers.

Jack Baldo kindly reminded that according to the market price, the rough work done by these hard-working mud-legged people is not even worth a piece of bread. 10 pennies can already allow them to work hard, and there is no need to worry about food.

Chen Yan just smiled at this idea and said nothing.

The average wage of workers is determined by the market, and the wages of workers hired by Chen Yan are determined by Chen Yan. There is no conflict.

Whatever Chen Yan thinks the price of labor should be, he will pay the workers how much they want. This is his decision and has nothing to do with the market.

…

At about nine o'clock in the morning, Chen Yan borrowed Ogami's other knife, the wedge ball, for self-defense, and then took six registration forms and headed to Walker Street Mission School.

Messiah insisted on following him, but Marina couldn't help her daughter, so Chen Yan lost to the little girl's stubbornness.

"Let's agree first that when we get out, you can't run around and you must follow me closely."

Messiah obviously understood, she nodded to him, and her eyes brightened after leaving the apartment——

Chen Yan saw from her eyes that she seemed to want to take a look at the outside world.

After arriving at the dean's office at the mission school, he explained his purpose, and Vidya Gandhi showed great enthusiasm for what he told her.

After once again showing her loyalty to Arahant, Vidya Gandhi inadvertently glanced at Messiah who was following Chen Yan, and then led Chen Yan to the admissions office to register her student status.

Apparently the director of the Admissions Office has been replaced. The new director is a little girl who obeys Vidya Gandhi.

Chen Yan was not interested in the office war that took place in the church school, so after completing the registration, he took the admission notice and prepared to leave.

"grown ups……"

As if she had made a difficult decision, Vidya Gandhi gave Chen Yan a pleading smile and said to him:

"I have something to ask you."

He saw the "crying for help" look in her eyes and the fear that was not successfully concealed in her tone.

She... seems to be threatened by someone?

Chen Yan was silent for a moment, weighing her value. After thinking about the fact that Nuomi Guo and Messiah were going to spend three years in a missionary school, he decided to help her.

"This is not the place... let's go back to the apartment and talk..."

The three of them came to the teacher's apartment of the mission school and entered Vidya Gandhi's room.

She said she wanted to get something for Chen Yan and left in a hurry.

When she left, Chen Yan heard the door being locked.

He felt a thump in his heart and felt bad.

He held the handle of the Kakimaru knife hidden in his waist and waited anxiously for a few minutes, but nothing weird happened around him.

This confused him.

What Chen Yan couldn't see was that not far from him, in Vidya Gandhi's closet, in a hidden compartment, a one-eyed boy was staring at the eye that was completely different from that of a normal human being.

With the Messiah.

'what is that?'

The one-eyed boy did not dare to move because the Messiah reflected in his pupils did not look like a human being.

He trembled inside because of what he saw in his pupils, and everything he had originally planned was forced to stop——

He originally wanted to get one of the man's eyes and perform a secret ritual on it so that he could observe the world through the man's eyes.

After the secret ceremony, he will use the processed ram's private parts to erase this part of the man's memory, allowing the man to return to where he came from without noticing.

In this way, he can observe the girl with the twin soul through the eyes of a man without any scruples.

But now...

Now, he doesn't dare to move at all.

'When did this girl appear?'

'Obviously not last time!'

'Yes...yes! She is the monster born last Sunday night!'

The one-eyed boy observed everything that happened near No. 33 Walker Street last Sunday night from beginning to end, but he never noticed the Messiah.

He originally thought that Marlena's child would be a baby so ordinary that he would subconsciously ignore it, but he never expected that it was not "his subconscious neglect" from the beginning, but "he couldn't see it at all"!

'How is it possible? How can it not be seen? How can my eyes...not be able to see things that exist in this world?'

'Could it be that...that girl comes from outside this world?'

'How is it possible! There has never been such a thing! Even in the Ice Age when the world was damaged, there could not be any existence that could cross the world's barriers!'

His already unstable mood almost collapsed.

'Monster! Monster!'

Outside the closet, Chen Yan looked at Messiah who looked at him with doubtful eyes and shrugged:

"Don't look at me, I don't know what happened."

Messiah looked at the closet expressionlessly.

For a moment, the one-eyed boy in the closet felt cold.
To be continued...