Chapter 40 Only the grotesque can deal with the grotesque
The light in the basement passage is very dim.
Fujino's stiff smile remained the same, "Miss Yuki, the loan you owe to my company has expired, please pay it back now."
"Ah, it wasn't me who borrowed it...it was my husband..."
Matsukita Yuki didn't have time to wonder why she suddenly appeared at the door of her room. She hurriedly took out the contract, opened it, and couldn't say a word at once——
In the borrower's column, written in front of Izawa's name is clearly Matsukita Yuki's name.
Fujino put away his smile and said with a straight face: "What, Miss Yuki, do you want to default on the loan?"
"of course not!"
Matsukita Yuuki felt cold all over and quickly returned to the house, intending to take money from the table to repay the loan.
When I walked into the house, I saw that the money on the table was obviously much less. It seemed that there was only about 500,000 yen.
"This is impossible!"
Matsukita Yuki collapsed on the ground.
Tomoko looked at Anda, "Quick! Give the money to Songbei!"
Anda hurriedly handed the box forward. Halfway through, he suddenly felt that the box was much lighter.
He opened the box and found it empty.
"Impossible!" Anda opened his mouth wide.
"Is there anything impossible," said Hong Shi: "This shows that Weirdness has taken into account all the loopholes in the repayment rules, and there is no need to take advantage of these loopholes. Huh, it does save the crow's capital limit."
Of course what Red Shirt said was right, but it would be too cold-blooded to say such desperate words in front of people who are suffering from disaster. Everyone agreed so.
“It’s only natural to pay back debts.”
Fujino bowed to say goodbye and closed the door.
The sound of roaring machines was accompanied by screams.
The tragedy happened again.
Matsukita Yuuki disappeared, and Izawa was not spared either.
The few death row inmates at the back who had signed the contract witnessed the tragic scene. Even though they had long been prepared to die, they were on the verge of collapse.
"It seems there are no loopholes in the rent contract,"
Hong Shi stood at the bloody door of D-002, holding a temporarily signed rental contract and looking up and down.
"Let these death row prisoners wait outside and cancel the contract we just signed. There is no need to replace the next owner for the time being. Well, this Fujino... is absolutely perfect."
Fujino's next target should be D-003.
In order to delay as much time as possible, the police contacted the tenants D-003 to D-009 in advance, explained to them the situation in the basement in detail, and taught them Yuki Matsukita and Fujino's methods of delaying time.
At first, the tenants did not believe the police's statement at all, but when the police found their workplace and showed the video recorded on the scene, they were so scared that their legs and feet became weak. They put down their work and rushed back to the basement as soon as possible to report to the Criminal Division.
The police officers reported.
The tenant of D-008 actually bought the nearest flight ticket to the United States and was already waiting in the waiting room for take-off with trepidation.
Sequoia does not have optimistic expectations for this approach.
Since anyone hiding in a nearby room can be instantly teleported back to the original room, it proves that Fujino's rules can break through the constraints of space.
In other words, for the tenants in the basement of the Nara apartment, no corner is safe as long as they are still on earth.
Of course, as a method of trial and error, Sequoia is happy to see someone try it and urges the police to give the resident the green light.
A lonely old man over seventy years old who rented in D-0021 and worked as a cleaner learned about Fujino's incident and took the initiative to report to the police.
"Please switch places between me and the young resident in front. Anyway, I won't live for a few more years. I have long wanted to go there to find her."
Faced with this situation, Police Officer Shiratori was a little hesitant. He was worried that the old man still didn't understand the horror of Fujino's weirdness.
"Agree," Red Shirt said, "Why don't you agree? We welcome any behavior that helps to further understand the strange laws, with both hands raised high——
Since outside death row inmates cannot be included in Fujino's rules, what about the households that originally rented in the basement? Can they exchange rooms?
Give it a try, it’s rare that this old man...well, is so worthy of admiration."
After learning about the old man's thoughts, several tenants who lived in front of the house came to negotiate with the police about changing rooms with the old man. They wrote the contracts one by one, and the terms were extremely meticulous and impressive.
A resident living in D-010 once wanted to spend all his savings for the opportunity to swap rooms with the old man, but the old man said: "I'm going to die soon and I have no children, so what's the use of asking for money."
Before the police could make arrangements, the old man had already discussed the exchange of rents with the young man who rented room D-003.
It is said that the old man took the initiative to find the young man to negotiate, because once the old man forgot to bring the key and was locked outside the house, the young man took the initiative to take the old man home to sit for a while, and also prepared tea and warm hospitality.
After learning about the sad situation of the old man, the young man always took good care of the old man. He often brought some fruits and cakes to express his condolences. Whenever he had time, he would cook and bring them to the old man.
Several times, when an old man fell ill and was hospitalized, it was the young man who ran around and paid for the medical expenses in advance.
The young man said that the old man looked very much like his grandfather. How could he bear to watch his grandfather live such a miserable old age? All these cares were taken for granted.
The police repeatedly told the old man about the dangerous situation he might face later.
The old man said: "Actually, I have been waiting for this day for a long time, but I have never been able to muster the courage. Whether this person is called Fujino or he is weird, I want to thank him for helping me make up my mind."
The young man refused to give up the room:
"Old man, if you continue to mess around like this, I will have no choice but to kick you out of my room!"
"Old man, I have always regarded you as a grandfather. How could I let my grandfather bear such a sin for his grandson?"
The red shirt of the mother-in-law who hated the man she hated most made the old man happy, and she slapped the young man unconscious——
"Pedantry, why are you so hypocritically humble at this time?"
Gu Xing stood on the side of the passage, watching the unconscious young man being carried by the police to the old man's room. The old man was sitting peacefully on the chair in room D-003, quietly waiting for Fujino's arrival.
"asshole!"
Gu Xing returned to his room and came to the small hole:
"I have made up my mind to find a way to solve the weirdness before Fujino comes next time."
【Very good, but what does this have to do with me?】
"You'd better give me some useful advice. I don't want to plug the hole with concrete."
[Hey, you can try it]
"Don't be so unreasonable..." Gu Xing knelt down, "Facing such a kind and respectable old man, how can you just watch him suffer such a crime?"
"I know you must have a solution, right?"
"Although Dongsang you are usually a sharp-tongued person, I know that you are actually very kind-hearted..."
[As a lonely old man, living means suffering. He is more tolerant than you]
"Dongsang...how about giving me a hint? No need for your weird weirdness, I just want a hint!"
【What do you give in exchange?】
"Lifespan? As long as I can afford it."
【How about you owe me a favor instead of your life this time】
"Are you going to do this too?"
【Do you owe it or not】
"owe!
Yeah, yeah, yeah! Just say it quickly."
[Let me tell you a truth - there are only two ways to deal with grotesques, first, find loopholes in the rules; second, only grotesques can deal with grotesques].