Hidden in the folds of bustling modern cities are some "different" old communities. Wang Shouyi is the landlord and administrator of one of the seven-story tube buildings. His daily job is to collect rent, repair water pipes, mediate neighborhood disputes, and... Ensure that his tenants do not use extraordinary powers to cause trouble.
His tenant list can be called a directory of re-employment of mythical creatures: 302 lives with a dragon that sheds its skin for mortgage loans, 303's online game youth is actually using the keyboard to save the undead, and the starry sky painted by the rooftop painter is a barrier that seals away the demons outside the territory. The newly moved blockchain architect is trying to reconstruct the heavenly incense system using distributed ledgers.
Wang Shouyi is accustomed to this. Wearing faded overalls and carrying a frayed register, he used the knife he used to cut off Nantianmen forty years ago. Now he mainly uses it to pry cans for neighbors and repair air conditioners.
Until one day, the promotion force of "Crazy Thursday" in the next street accidentally broke a corner of the abyss seal; the flying sword of the swordsman upstairs and the soup spoon of retired Mrs. Meng downstairs caused a quarrel among the owners over the issue of garbage disposal; and the "Nine Prisons Town Spirit Stake" nailed in the pipe of the boiler room to suppress the luck of the entire neighborhood suddenly began to leak hot water.
Wang Shouyi sighed and took out the brass key from the drawer.
He knew that another rent collection day had arrived. The "rent" to be collected this time is probably an overdue "god" trying to drag the entire city into the myth of the past.
