《Records of the Weakest Emperor》Chapter 7: The Demons of Las Felipinas
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"Boss, I'll be going to Rhea Apartments in Eastern Dabao." Calvin sat at the back of the taxi, and a look of excitement could be seen on his face. If he had the ability, then he would've already teleported directly at Rhea Apartments. Sadly, he didn't have such an ability, so he had no other choice but to hail a taxi.
"That place is quite secluded, and why are you going there this late in the night?" The driver studied Calvin through the rearview mirror. Calvin had this silly smile on his face, yet the light of his eyes seemed indifferent. These contrasting traits made the driver inexplicably nervous. But since Calvin was still his passenger and customer...
He felt that he had to advise him.
"I'm going for a late-night LAN party with my friend. Hahaha, I bet that guy misses me already." Calvin knew his answers beforehand, so he managed to maintain his polite smile as he answered.
"A LAN Party?" The driver was quite old. Of course, he knew about LAN parties. Upon hearing what Calvin said, the driver seemed to have relaxed a bit as he continued, "I hope that you don't mind me being a busybody, but it's not that safe within the vicinity of Rhea Apartments."
"Mind if you elaborate? What happened?" This was news for Calvin. His curiosity was piqued. Since he still had time before his arrival at Rhea Apartments, he decided to kill time by talking with the driver.
The driver audibly gulped. A hint of fear could be seen on his face as he replied, "There was a tenant from Rhea Apartments who died after accidentally falling from the rooftop. What's scarier is the fact that I was the one who drove that tenant home back to his apartment at that residential area!"
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"In any case, I hope you won't stay in that place for too long."
"It's strange, but that place just gives me the creeps."
The driver twisted the key and started the car.
"I don't really believe in ghosts or in the supernatural." Calvin shrugged, "My parents told me that a thieving neighbor is far scarier than ghosts! They would rather have a ghost as their neighbor than a thief!"
The driver was dumbstruck by Calvin's statement. But what he said made sense, so he didn't know how to refute.
In the end, he stopped on persuading Calvin and Calvin used the downtime to scribble some plans on another small notebook that he got from his presidential suite. About an hour later, the driver dropped Calvin off near the vicinity of Rhea Apartments and when Calvin paid the fare...
He swiftly rushed towards the apartments, astonishing the driver who immediately drove off from the area.
"The instructions told me that I must step foot onto the staircase of the first floor at exactly 3 AM." Calvin crossed the road and he soon arrived in front of the huge double gates of Rhea Apartments. The surroundings were dark and he felt quite isolated standing in the middle of nowhere.
He took a glance beside the gates and found that there was no one guarding the gates.
"This is such a big residential area, but they couldn't even afford a guard?"
Calvin walked forward and found the gate locked.
"Damn it, those people from Fivecent should really make sure that everything is prepared and ready beforehand. If I wasn't this resourceful to even know how to pick a lock. I would be stuck here outside and unable to go back to Las Felipinas." Calvin inwardly criticized.
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A click soon followed and Calvin went past the gates.
Walking in further, Calvin discovered that the place was quite filthy. The path was littered with all sorts of refuse, and only two streetlights were on near the ground floors. He looked up and discovered that there were some clothes hanging on the clotheslines outside the building, so in other words...
"There are people still living in Rhea Apartments. But why is it that there no lights above the third floor?"
Calvin furrowed his eyebrows.
He entered the stairwell and started counting.
"From what I can see here, each floor should have twenty-six steps and every thirteen steps. There is a landing for a turn, the height of each them is about..."
Calvin raised his leg up and down, so his legs could get used to the height of the steps.
He glanced at his wristwatch and took out the blindfolds that Fivecent gave to him.
The black cloth would render him unable to see the outside world, but that didn't mean that he couldn't sneakily peek through the gap between the bridge of his nose and the blindfold. However, even though he could do that. Calvin didn't dare to do so. Back then, he heard that the demons could detect the gazes of humans.
He reckoned that even if he tried his best to stare away from the scary things outside. He would still be discovered that he opened his eyes and succumbed to his curiosity. If that happened, then he would probably be killed. Despite Calvin's rich experience in battle, he was no match for the demons of Las Felipinas since he was still a mortal.
Until he could get his own Aspect, it was impossible for him to fight against them.
With little time left, Calvin took a deep breath and glanced at his wristwatch once again. There was still about twenty seconds before 3 AM, yet he already looked like he wanted to leap from the first floor directly to the top floor.
Though he knew that the demons of Las Felipinas tamed by Fivecent would be stalking him from the darkness to try and scare him...
He seemed unconcerned about their presence.
He only cared about returning to Las Felipinas.
Seeing that only ten seconds remained until 3 AM.
Calvin positioned himself and silently counted down to himself.
"Three."
"Two."
"One..."
Step!
He took a step forward and the world around Calvin seemed to have undergone a change.
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