civilwarnovels Chapter 648: Residents from Other Countries Arrive at Alice Apartment
Chapter 648: Residents from Other Countries Arrive at Alice Apartment
The bespectacled girl silently exited the private room.Gu Lan still hadn't taken off her sunglasses and scarf, not until the restaurant staff had finished serving all the dishes.
Only then did she remove them.
After taking them off, she didn't eat much either, as if she was distressed about the various messy compensation lawsuits that would follow.
"Actually, even after you pay all that compensation, you should still have quite a bit of money left, right?"
Gu Lan ate little, and Wang Qingzhao also ate very little. Of the large table full of dishes, Jiang Ran ate the most.
Gu Lan looked at Jiang Ran with annoyance: "With liquidated damages, lawsuits, and all sorts of messy things, there's not much left."
"I'll have to live a tight-fisted life from now on, can't just buy whatever I want anymore."
"Do you understand that feeling? Utter agony!"
Jiang Ran shook his head: "No, I don't."
Gu Lan held up five fingers: "Let me put it this way, the custom-made face cream I'm currently using costs five figures, over thirty thousand for one jar."
"After this whole incident, I definitely won't dare use such expensive stuff anymore, understand? At most, I'll only dare to use stuff costing a few thousand yuan!!!"
Jiang Ran really wanted to slap her.
He didn't know if Gu Lan was being sarcastic or if her brain was poisoned, having become excessively detached from the ordinary class.
He suddenly remembered something from the past couple of days.
He had scrolled past a female actress in her fifties, crying poor, saying her son only earned a few hundred thousand a year, which was completely insufficient.
Jiang Ran had been truly speechless when he saw that.
Many people can't even earn fifty thousand a year, and your son earns several hundred thousand a year, and you're crying poor to us?
While Jiang Ran was having lunch with the two beauties.
Over at Alice Apartment.
Several more cars arrived.
These past few days, because the Artist had pulled off a big move, trapping and killing twenty to thirty people.
It led to a large batch of fresh blood moving in.
However, the fresh blood delivered by these few cars this time was different from the other fresh blood.
They were similar to the two foreign cultists that Xiao Q, Xiao Peng, and the others had encountered at Alice Apartment a long time ago.
One white man, one black man.
The black man had died back then.
The white man was captured alive, and then, like the subsequent Jin Baiying and Zhao Jue.
He was taken away by the fake police of Alice Apartment, to be sent to Alice Apartments in other countries.
Currently, the fresh blood appearing in the few cars at the Hua Country Alice Apartment.
Were, like the three mentioned above.
Also residents who had been eliminated from Alice Apartments in other countries.
They were sent to the Hua Country Alice Apartment by lottery.
This time, there were four such residents.
The first to get out of the car was a white woman. Judging by her appearance, her age was roughly in her thirties, approaching forty.
She wore padded jeans on her lower body and a black down jacket on her upper body.
Her hair reached her shoulders, a dull, dark golden color.
Her looks belonged to the type that was neither ugly nor pretty, the ordinary kind.
Her name was Eileen North.
She came from the American Alice Apartment.
She had very little luggage, only a backpack with the American flag on her back.
The bag, from its appearance, wasn't bulging either, containing very few things.
After getting out of the car.
She stood in front of the Hua Country Alice Apartment for a long time.
Then, frowning, she ducked under the vehicle barrier arm.
And walked towards the building with the iron "No. 2" sign in front of the apartment building.
Building No. 2 Manager Wu Meiling had already received notice that special residents would be moving in today.
Therefore, she had been waiting downstairs at the apartment building according to the scheduled time.
When she saw Eileen North and confirmed she matched the photo on her phone.
She strode over.
"Hello, I am the manager here, my name is Wu Meiling. This is your key. I hope you enjoy your stay here."
Manager Wu Meiling hadn't even gotten close yet; she took out her phone in advance and used a translation app on it to speak this string of words.
Clearly, she didn't know English.
In fact, in Hua Country, English is one of the three main subjects alongside Chinese and Math.
The effort and energy invested are definitely not insignificant.
But many students learn it as if they never learned it at all.
Even those who learn English well learn 'mute English.'
Using English for actual communication, their level is a complete mess.
Doing test papers is still okay.
Actually, this can't be blamed on the students.
After all, Hua Country's English education focuses on 'paper English,' and they make even that paper English extremely complicated.
Have a foreigner who knows English take a Hua Country English test paper, and they wouldn't even pass.
Clearly, spoken language should be emphasized. After all, isn't learning English for communicating with foreigners?
Are you going to use a pen and paper to write things down to communicate with them?
A typical case of putting the cart before the horse, formalism.
The American, Eileen, stood in place, listening to the English translated through Manager Wu Meiling's phone.
The more she listened, the deeper her frown became.
She seemed very annoyed by this kind of AI-translated voice.
After listening, without waiting for Manager Wu Meiling to hand over the key, she snatched it over.
After snatching it, she gave Manager Wu Meiling a very contemptuous look, then strode purposefully towards the building entrance.
Manager Wu Meiling also needed to return to the management office.
But it wasn't clear if this Eileen had misunderstood something.
She suddenly turned around, pointing her right finger at Manager Wu Meiling's face.
With an extremely angry expression, she started cursing loudly: "Get away! Don't follow me! Asian bitch! (In English)"
Although she couldn't understand English, Manager Wu Meiling could tell this American woman was cursing at her.
Manager Wu Meiling immediately stopped walking, wanting to see what this person intended to do next.
She saw Eileen finish cursing that sentence with an angry expression, then mumble something incomprehensible, cursing and grumbling as she walked into the elevator. It wasn't the physical fight Manager Wu Meiling had expected.
"What a lunatic."
Manager Wu Meiling cursed, then took out her phone.
Managers have the authority to check residents' basic information.
Therefore, she stood there, wanting to see what was up with this American woman?
The situation was as follows:
Eileen North.
Born in Michigan, USA.
Her mother married her 18-year-old father when she was 15.
The 18-year-old father suffered from severe schizophrenia and raped a 7-year-old girl.
After being arrested, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Later, he hanged himself in prison.
Before her father did this, her parents had already divorced. She was born a few months after the divorce.
Then, when Eileen was 4 years old, her mother abandoned her and her brother. Yes, she had an older brother.
In America, you can often see foster families. Also, many Americans even come to Hua Country to adopt children.
Therefore, whether the foster family you encounter is good or bad is just like whether your fate in rebirth is good or not.
Eileen and her brother clearly belonged to the unlucky category.
Even though the ones who adopted them were their mother's biological parents.
That is, their maternal grandparents.
Both grandparents liked to drink, often getting dead drunk.
Especially the maternal grandfather, who was a psychopath, liked to torture and kill cats and dogs in front of them.
Put yourself in Eileen's shoes. Your maternal grandfather, in front of you, torturing and killing small animals. You're only a few years old. Facing that situation.
What would you feel in your heart?
Fear? Terror? Or...