So, human relationships are really strange.
They had only just met, but because of the third party, Lucas, things had escalated to this level.
Right now, in the courtyard.
Watching Huang Kaiyu busily pouring water and food for the stray cats and dogs in the yard,
Huo Yun was naturally helping out on the side.
While assisting, he asked, “I don’t quite get it. Why do you keep so many stray cats and dogs? If you like them, wouldn’t it be fine to just keep one or two? Keeping so many is just asking for trouble!”
Huang Kaiyu’s face still carried its usual coldness, but his tone was relatively gentle:
“Du Fu had two lines of poetry.”
“‘Could I get a vast mansion covering ten thousand rooms, to shelter all the world’s poor scholars and let them rejoice!’”
“He was talking about people, while I’m talking about cats and dogs.”
“The reason I do this is just that I think cats and dogs are better than people, more lovable than people.”
“At least, if you treat them sincerely, they’ll treat you sincerely in return.”
Huo Yun nodded: “That’s true. Human beings are just too disgusting.”
“But, I have a slightly different opinion.”
Huang Kaiyu straightened up, rubbing his lower back.
Ever since Jiang Ran pushed him off the third floor that time, and he fell,
his body was definitely not what it used to be.
For example, bending over for a long time would leave him feeling fatigued.
“What different opinion?” he asked.
Huo Yun said, “Not all things are exactly the same.”
“Take cats and dogs, for instance. Even though most will treat you well if you’re good to them, there are always those ingrates, those backstabbers.”
“You feed them every day, and they still think they’re your master, so if you do something they don’t like, they throw a tantrum and bite or scratch you.”
“Same with people. Even though human beings, those advanced creatures, are extremely disgusting, there are still those kind-hearted, good-natured ones.”
Huang Kaiyu said, “So do you think Dr. Lucas is one of those kind-hearted, good people?”
Huo Yun said, “He’s a kind-hearted, good person in my eyes, but I don’t think he’s that kind of person in the general sense.”
Huang Kaiyu nodded: “I think so too.”
Huang Kaiyu then sat down on a small stool. A few cats and dogs gathered around him, and one tabby cat obediently lay on his lap.
He gently stroked it, and the tabby cat squinted its eyes as if enjoying it.
Huang Kaiyu said, “Huo Yun, what do you think of Jiang Ran?”
At the sound of that name, cold sweat broke out on Huo Yun’s forehead: “Don’t get involved with him if you can avoid it. And, you’re not thinking of getting revenge, are you? I’ve told you about his deeds. If you go after him for revenge, it’s no different from walking to your death!!!!”
Huang Kaiyu shook his head: “I have no plans for revenge. I don’t have any grudge against him.”
“As for that time I followed Dr. Lucas’s orders to kill him, he was just acting in self-defense when he pushed me off. To be honest, I don’t hate him.”
“So I definitely won’t seek revenge. Even if he weren’t as incredible as you describe him and was just an ordinary person, I still wouldn’t.”
“When I ask you what you think of him, I’m asking what you think about him staying in Alice Apartment all this time?”
“Why do you think he keeps staying at Alice Apartment?”
Huo Yun smiled without hesitation: “Money! It’s definitely for the money! After all, who would be crazy enough to live in such a dangerous place?!”
“Guys like you and me, aren’t we all here for the money?!”
Huang Kaiyu pondered for a moment, then said, “I want to be like him, to live at Alice Apartment long-term. That way, with the daily income of ten thousand, I could support the cats and dogs without having to run deliveries, exhausting myself to death.”
“Sigh!”
He suddenly let out a sigh: “Running deliveries is honestly pretty dangerous.”
“If you just take one order at a time, it’s safe, but you don’t make much money.”
“But if you take several orders at once, you earn more, yet the danger factor skyrockets!!!!”
Huo Yun had also run deliveries before, so he deeply understood.
Huo Yun said, “Actually, if you hadn’t come, I was planning to leave Alice Apartment. After all, it’s too dangerous here. But if you plan to stay long-term, I’ll stay too.”
“But if we want to stay long-term, we need to plan things out properly at Alice Apartment.”
“We need to think of a long-term way to survive.”
“Too bad The Artist left. If he were here, we could coast by for as long as we wanted!!!”
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The various expansions of Alice Apartment had officially concluded by today.
Besides the gym, art gallery, shooting range, swimming pool, and garden, the apartment complex now had many more small buildings.
Among them, there was an area specifically set aside for planting trees.
But there were none of the towering giant trees one might imagine.
They were all saplings in their most initial form.
And there weren’t many saplings. On closer look, there were only five.
Beside the five saplings stood a middle-aged man in his fifties, wearing gray work clothes and holding a shovel.
In ancient times, due to underdeveloped medicine and technology,
this age would already be considered old, but in modern times, he was still considered middle-aged.
Yet this middle-aged man’s appearance clearly didn’t match his age.
His hair was a mix of black and white.
His face was heavily lined with wrinkles, like ripples on a calm lake stirred by the wind. When he extended his hands, they were covered in calluses and wrinkles.
His back was slightly hunched, making him look like an old man in his sixties or seventies.
He was digging a pit.
With every shovel thrust, fresh earth was scooped out.
Occasionally, it would bring up an earthworm or two.
Although he didn’t look young on the outside, when he worked, even a young man couldn’t keep up. Soon, he had dug a pit of modest size.
But he wasn’t satisfied with this pit; he continued digging.
He dug for about another half hour.
Then, a voice came from outside the pit: “Old Fang.”
Hearing this, the man called Old Fang, who was in his fifties, nimbly climbed out of the pit.
After climbing out, he patted the dust off his clothes.
Then, looking at the newcomer, he said, “This is my first time handling a foreigner.”
Old Fang grinned at the newcomer, revealing teeth that were very white—pure white.
Whiter than a black person’s, it seemed.
“Heh heh, so you’re in luck this time. Of course, it’s also because this foreign chick’s got a few screws loose herself!”
The newcomer was none other than Mao Li Zhishu, one of the two managers.
He had a large suitcase with him.
He opened the suitcase, and inside lay a corpse.
A female corpse.
Looking at the face of the female corpse, it was still quite rosy.
She probably hadn’t been dead for long.
But her body was covered in blood, especially around her mouth.
The identity of this female corpse was Eileen North, who had only been at Hua Country’s Alice Apartment for a few days.
This woman had caused a huge scene at last night’s welcome party because a man touched her thigh and butt, refusing to let it go.
Manager Mao Li Zhishu ordered a few people to restrain her and take her to the management office.
Manager Mao Li Zhishu wasted his breath trying to reason with her, telling her to calm down and let this matter be.
But this woman was truly a crazy shrew with a fiery temper. No matter what was said, she wouldn’t listen.
She kept screaming that she would kill the man who harassed her.
