Alien Creatures

Chapter 2 Then suddenly things were not normal!

Hao Ren stared blankly at the note in front of him. It had the address of a remote place in the suburbs. He was very familiar with this address: Isn't that his home?

"Why are you looking for this place?" Hao Ren didn't know why a strange girl he met for the first time would hold his home address in her hand. To be honest, he was quite excited at this moment, but he was also very self-aware. He knew that all his luck in love in this life had been used up when he sat at the same table with a girl before the third grade of elementary school, so he still looked indifferent and just looked at the beautiful girl in front of him with a little curiosity.

She has a nice figure and good looks. Although her height is a bit disappointing, her lively and cheerful appearance can definitely make up for it...

"I'm looking for a house to live in!" The beautiful girl answered very straightforwardly, "I've been looking for a whole day, and I couldn't find one, so I decided to ask someone - but you are the only one left in the park to ask."

Hao Ren always felt that the girl in front of him was a little too familiar, but his attention was quickly attracted by the three words "looking for a house" mentioned by the other party. His head, which was groggy from the summer nap, was slightly cleared up, and he suddenly remembered something: Oh, he is a landlord, and he just put an advertisement in the city tabloid two days ago saying that there is a house for rent. So is this girl looking for a house to live in?

After not opening for a long time, I can finally receive rent today!

Hao Ren folded the paper and handed it back to the other party: "Of course I know this place, I'll take you there."

The beautiful girl immediately showed a happy expression, stuffed the paper into her bag, and patted her purse: "Thank you! I've been looking for it for a long time..."

Hao Ren stood up and stretched, and just as he was about to walk out of the park, his head suddenly jumped and he finally remembered that something was wrong: "Wait! You said you spent a whole day looking for this address in the city center?!"

The beautiful girl nodded vigorously, revealing a kind of honest and cute: "Yeah, yes! This place is quite hard to find."

"Of course it's hard to find!" Hao Ren almost couldn't control his tone. He suddenly wondered if the girl in front of him knew him before and had a grudge against him, and came here to tease him today, "Didn't you notice that the address on it said Nanjiao?! Nanjiao! You spent a day looking for an address in the suburbs of the city?"

"But it says here that it's in Baishi Building," the pretty girl raised her hand and pointed in a certain direction. Hao Ren knew that it was the location of a commercial building in the city center. "Isn't Baishi Building in the city?"

Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted: "It's Nanjiao Baishi Road, not Baishi Building in the city center!"

He didn't say half a sentence: This girl, do you only look at the first two words when you look at the place name?

"Aha," the pretty girl quickly recalled, and then she looked a little embarrassed, "I forgot, I'm usually a little careless. You know this Nanjiao Baishi Road, right? Take me there."

Hao Ren still felt that there was something wrong with the girl in front of him, but he was a person who didn't want to think too much when encountering things. Besides, the other party was just a tenant who rented a house from him. He had been a landlord for the past two years, and he had long been accustomed to not interfering in the tenants' affairs, so he raised his hand and pointed at the entrance of the park: "You have to take the bus. Nanjiao is far from here. It should be almost evening when we get there. Oh, by the way, I am the landlord you are looking for, and the house you are looking for is mine."

The pretty girl was surprised when she heard it, and the whole person was startled: "Ah!? Are you serious?"

Hao Ren just nodded, and the energetic girl in front of him almost jumped up: "Oh, what a coincidence! How can there be such a coincidence in the world, landlord, we are destined to be together, right?!"

Hao Ren rubbed his forehead. He felt that the girl in front of him was a little jumpy. At this time, he finally couldn't help but say what he wanted to say: "Aren't you afraid of being kidn*pped? What if I lied to you?"

This is still a more euphemistic way of saying it. In fact, he really thinks that this girl in front of him is a little bit stupid... No, very stupid! Not only did she spend a whole day looking for a suburban address in the city center, but she also believed a stranger after just a few words, and even let the stranger lead her to a deserted suburb. How come girls' awareness of prevention is so weak these days? Is she very lucky or are the human traffickers passive recently? How come this girl didn't get kidn*pped?

Hao Ren muttered a lot in his mind, but it was only a second or two, and the i***t girl opposite seemed to have just reacted. She looked at Hao Ren vigilantly: "Kidnap? Then you are a human trafficker, are you going to kidnap me?"

Hao Ren: "...Of course not!" He felt that he should stay away from this girl. If it weren't for the fact that she was a "client", he would definitely not communicate with such an i***t for so long!

The i***t girl nodded with satisfaction: "That's fine, I'm afraid of being cheated. Then let's go?"

Hao Ren sighed weakly, and suddenly felt his steps were particularly heavy when he walked out of the park.

The two of them quickly took the bus from the city to the suburbs. This journey was really not boring at all: Hao Ren found that his new tenant was not only familiar, lively, and suspected of being idiotic, but also a character who couldn't stop talking! In the car, he listened to the other party chatting with him enthusiastically all the way, from the current situation of second-tier stars at home and abroad to the housing prices of second-tier cities everywhere. Basically, there was nothing she didn't talk about. Hao Ren didn't know where these topics started. Anyway, when the other party was not embarrassed or couldn't continue, as long as he could nod and agree slightly, the i***t girl would find the motivation to continue talking and then continue blah blah... But this was not a big problem. Listening to her talk was just to relieve boredom, and Hao Ren also took this opportunity to roughly understand the situation of his new tenant. This is a compulsory course for landlords: to roughly know the situation of the tenant in the shortest possible time, in order to prevent some very troublesome things.

The i***t girl's surname is Liu, Liu Lili, and she generously let Hao Ren call her "Lili" directly. She claimed to be a pet doctor and idle writer who traveled all over the country. She just came here from another city and planned to live here permanently. She didn't care about the place to live, as long as it was sheltered from the wind and rain, clean and convenient. Anyway, the work was free...

Based on this information, Hao Ren judged that his new tenant was a very enterprising person who did not have a stable job for the time being, but would not cause trouble for him. He was quite satisfied with this. In fact, no matter how you look at such a little girl, you can't cause much trouble. Although her personality seems a little silly... But that's her own problem, isn't it? Hao Ren just needs to be a good landlord.

Just as expected, when this extremely long bus stopped at a small bus stop in the southern suburbs, it was almost dark outside.

Hao Ren led Lily out of the car, and before he could catch his breath, he heard the latter yelling: "Is this Baishi Road?"

"The sign says this is Nanjiao Station! Baishi Road is an old street, and you have to take a small road. Have you ever seen a bus drive into an alley?"

"Oh...haha, I tend to make mistakes, please bear with me, landlord," Lily laughed dryly, and after talking a lot along the way, she seemed to have become more familiar with Hao Ren. She turned her head to look at the surrounding environment, frowning slightly, "It's quite deserted here."

The bus stop is located on a road that looks quite old. All the surrounding buildings are in the style of 20 or 30 years ago, with bumpy roads, closed and narrow shops along the street, and old and cramped five-story apartment buildings behind the shops. These things alone can reflect how desolate and old a place is, and this street and the surrounding area are the only "urban area" in Nanjiao. Sometimes Hao Ren himself would doubt whether this area has been completely forgotten by modern society, but at the end of every month he would regain confidence in society: Don't panic, the water supply bureau will not forget you, the power supply bureau will not forget you, the gas company will not forget you, even China Unicom and the insurance company will not forget you, there are so many people who are always thinking about you in the suburbs, what else is there to be unhappy about...

"Hurry up and go," Hao Ren motioned Lily to follow, "Although the public security in this city is good, this place is remote after all. It's inevitable that there will be drunks hanging around outside at night. Go back to my place to help you settle down first. By the way, I'd also like to remind you to try not to run around at night, so that you are safe and I can save trouble."

In theory, these few words should not be said. As a landlord, saying this sentence can easily scare tenants away or make them suspicious, but Hao Ren has always been a sincere person. Although he is afraid of trouble, he is even more unwilling to deceive or take advantage of others, so he explained the situation here as soon as he opened his mouth. This is also one of the reasons why he couldn't rent out his house recently: after much effort, two people came to see the house, but they were scared away.

However, Lily, a petite girl, didn't take it seriously at all: "Don't worry, landlord, I'm a good fighter."

Hao Ren felt that he had definitely met an abnormal guy today: "I'm not talking about this... Hey, let me be frank, you're not afraid of meeting bad guys at all?"

As a half-stranger who had just met for a day, Hao Ren knew that he shouldn't be too nosy, but this was the first time in his life that he had met such a strange girl, who was so outgoing and unguarded that she was almost stupid. As a good person, he really couldn't help it.

However, Lily just shook her hand happily and nonchalantly: "Landlord, you are such a good person, but I'm not afraid of bad guys. I'm very strong and good at fighting. I beat away all the bad guys I met before."

Hao Ren couldn't help but mutter: You really met bad guys... Because you beat them away, so you are so unrestrained and unguarded now?

Seeing that Hao Ren didn't say anything, Lily smiled to herself, stretched out her hand to pull up her extra-large suitcase and followed him. However, she only heard two "gulp gulp" sounds, and the two rubber wheels on the suitcase fell off and quickly rolled away.

"Ahaha, it seems that the things are a bit heavy." Lily scratched her hair awkwardly.

"No, it's the road that's a bit potholed..." Hao Ren's eyebrows jumped, and he couldn't help sighing at the potholes on the broken road, thinking that as a man, he should do something, "Come, I'll help you carry the suitcase... Hey, what on earth did you put in it?!"

As soon as he touched it, he felt that Lily's suitcase was very wrong. The weight was as if there was an equal volume of cement in it. He, a big and strong man, couldn't lift it!

However, Lily didn't notice the strange look on Hao Ren's face at all. She just laughed and picked up her big suitcase with one hand and carried it on her shoulder. The whole process was as easy as grabbing a bag of cotton.

Hao Ren opened his mouth and watched this skinny girl, who was a head shorter than him, carrying a box of at least 100 pounds on her shoulders and walking briskly. He almost doubted whether there was something wrong with his worldview. It was not until Lily urged him to lead the way that he reacted and muttered as he walked: It's okay, I'm just born strong, don't I watch too many variety shows...

The two of them walked like this, one blababala and the other a little worried, and soon left the relatively wide road and turned into a dark path: the end of this path is the so-called "Bai Shi Road", and Hao Ren's family mansion is in front.

It was already dark, and one of the two street lights on the side of the path was broken. The old and dilapidated houses around made the atmosphere here even more gloomy and terrifying. If there was not a nearly full moon in the sky, even Hao Ren, a big man who is familiar with the environment, would feel creepy when walking outside. He couldn't help but glance at Lili who was following him: this girl was still following him without any suspicion, and she seemed to be in a good mood.

The dark night, the sparsely populated path, the unfamiliar environment, and a strange man with unknown background, any of the above four points would be enough to make a girl with normal values ​​alert, but this "Liu Lili" was not nervous at all, was she really stupid or what?

"Puff la la -"

Just as Hao Ren was thinking about worrying about a strange girl, a strange flapping sound suddenly came from the sky.

When the surroundings were quiet, there was a sudden movement, which of course scared him. He immediately looked in the direction of the sound, but just happened to see a strange black shadow instantly passing through the narrow night sky between the high walls on both sides.

The black shadow seemed to be a bat, but the size... didn't seem right?

"Heh...what in the middle of the night?" Hao Ren certainly didn't want to lose face in front of a girl, so he deliberately shouted loudly to show that he was not scared at all, and then looked up at Lily. He thought he would see the former being scared, but...

At that moment, he saw a pair of wolf-like ears suddenly appear on Lily's head!