Chapter 76 [(*^▽^*)]

"What if someone knocks on the door, but doesn't find anyone outside?"

The team leader replied immediately, "It's best not to go out outside of work hours. Just stay home and rest."

Lin Leyou said, "Captain, tell me about it."

The team leader replied instantly, "The neighborhood has become increasingly unsafe lately. There were six security guards patrolling before, working one day and resting the next, but several of them have been injured and sent to the hospital. Now there are only the three of you left."

Lin Leyou: "I understand, thank you, Captain."

The team leader said, "It's good that you know. Take a rest. Be on your way to work at eight o'clock sharp tomorrow morning."

Lin Leyou: "No problem, Captain."

He put away his phone and looked through the peephole again; the woman outside was still there.

He now understood that the female ghost's target was probably him from the beginning, not the player, and that she was trying to attract his attention.

Then, appear near him after he gets off work, lure him out, and that's how you kill him.

Security guards are not allowed to be attacked during working hours; that's the rule of the game. They can only try to take him down during their off-duty hours.

Unfortunately, I have a place to live, a home, and I am the sole owner of this home. No one is allowed to enter or leave at will.

Lin Leyou is now certain of one thing: even if the BOSS has probably taken control of this instance, the rules that the instance is set up cannot be changed. Even if the BOSS wants to completely control this instance, he has to do it step by step, like the security guards who maintain order in the community.

This is the BOSS's most pressing target to eliminate; in fact, even players need to wait their turn. Lin Leyou felt he was in some danger.

He paced back and forth in the living room, pondering a solution.

It's hard to say whether the female ghost I killed before or the female teacher outside now is stronger or weaker.

According to his previous tests, the cursed dagger can only be used to strike three times at most. The fourth strike must not be made, otherwise his sanity will be lost.

It wouldn't be surprising if he went out by himself and got killed.

He stroked his chin, and finally, just to be on the safe side, he didn't open the door or pay any attention. Instead, he went back to his room to rest and planned to go out again at eight o'clock the next morning.

The female ghost teacher standing outside the door clearly had no intention of giving up so easily. Lin Leyou saw her through the peephole, and she knew it, standing outside waiting for Lin Leyou's reaction.

However, after discovering that there was no response from inside the house for a long time, she could not pretend not to know. Not long after, Lin Leyou heard a sound coming from outside the door.

It sounded like something was hitting the floor tiles; it was a dull sound, somewhat like someone's head hitting the ground. In short, it was noise.

To be honest, the thing Lin Leyou can't stand the most when he's sleeping at night is noise.

So what do we do now? Stop sleeping?

No way, he still needs to sleep. What he needs to do now is figure out how to kill or drive away that female ghost outside.

Without his invitation, even if he opens the door, the female ghost outside cannot enter. So should he try opening the door?

Should we stab her a few times?

Wait a minute, Lin Leyou suddenly realized something. Why did he go out by himself? Couldn't he just contact the captain directly? Or have the security guards on duty come and handle it?

He then sent a message to the team leader.

The captain replied, "It's no use. These things will hide before the patrolling security guards go by, and then come out again after the guards leave."

It's impractical for security guards to spend all eight hours of their workday squatting outside Lin Leyou's house.

So what should he do now?

"Xiaolin, don't worry, these things can't get in anyway. Just rest well and ignore them. They'll disappear on their own after a while."

"The more you pay attention to them, the more likely they are to lure you out, and they will keep bothering you and keeping quiet in the house."

Lin Leyou blinked when he saw the message. It seemed that the security team had gained some experience in dealing with these kinds of things.

He then put down his phone, lay on the bed, and quietly stared at the dark ceiling, waiting for things to quiet down outside.

The dull knocking outside the door continued intermittently for over an hour, until it stopped, probably because it thought Lin Leyou wouldn't respond anymore.

Just when Lin Leyou thought he could finally get some rest, he heard a very serious knocking on the door, along with a woman's voice.

Is anyone home? Is anyone home?

Lin Leyou sat up abruptly, walked to the door and looked out through the peephole. Sure enough, he recognized her. In fact, he had already recognized her by her voice. She was the female teacher he had seen at Liu Liu's house.

Now she was dressed normally, and smiled at the peephole. "You're home, right? Please open the door, I need to talk to you."

Lin Leyou: "What is it?"

He wanted to see what tricks this female teacher could pull. Putting aside her acting skills, she got the order wrong. Shouldn't she have knocked on the door in a normal way to trick him into leaving?

If this method fails, then you should dress up as a female ghost to scare yourself, right?

No, no, the other person probably didn't expect to look out through the peephole beforehand, so maybe they intended to knock first?

Realizing this, Lin Leyou suddenly felt quite lucky; he had unwittingly tricked them, haha!

The female teacher said, "You're the security guard from during the day, right? I have something I'd like to talk to you about."

Lin Leyou: "Just tell me directly."

"Aren't you going to invite me in? I want to talk to you about Liu Liu's family."

Lin Leyou: "After get off work hours, I don't receive guests. Just talk to me if you have something to say."

The female teacher said, "I can see that you care a lot about Liu Liu, and it seems you've misunderstood me about what happened during the day. I'm not the kind of person who refuses to admit their mistakes..."

Lin Leyou: "Okay, I know everything you said, but I want to ask you, Liu Liu's mother said she doesn't know you at all, how do you explain that?"

"..."

How do you explain that?

Lin Leyou waited a while before getting her reply. "She's just a child. Being left at home by her only mother and not seeing her every day, she transferred her affections to me. Although she calls me auntie, she actually sees me as her mother."

Lin Leyou blinked. Good heavens, this female ghost is actually acting and playing around with the NPC owner?

"Then go and have a good talk with Liu Liu's mother, and the misunderstanding will be cleared up."

"That's what I was thinking too. Could you come with me? You were the one who went to Liu Liu's house during the day. If it were another security guard, I'm afraid he wouldn't be familiar with the place."

Lin Leyou's first thought was that this female ghost was trying to trick him into going out, which was very strange...

This female ghost should have known long ago that her identity had been exposed to her, so why did she still go to such lengths?

Logically speaking, she knew she wouldn't go out and couldn't possibly be tricked into leaving. If she hadn't witnessed the strange events involving the female teacher during the day, and if the security captain hadn't warned her, she might have actually been fooled.

Are you listening?

Lin Leyou: "I'm off work now. Come find me again during work hours tomorrow."

I'll wait until I get to work and see if I manage to kill this female ghost.

"Right now, I don't want to bother you during work hours."

Lin Leyou frowned slightly. Why would he wait until Lin Leyou was off work to disturb him during work hours instead of during his off-get off work hours?

"No, it's time to go home after get off work. If you have work-related issues, talk to the security guard who's on duty right now. The team leader went during the day too, so go to the security booth and find him; he's always there."

The female ghost probably realized that Lin Leyou wouldn't come out, and soon stopped talking, leaving the area outside the door completely silent.

quiet.

Lin Leyou sat quietly on the sofa and waited for more than two hours, but there was no movement at all. Could it be that he left?

However, sitting on the sofa and waiting isn't a solution. Since he won't make a move and won't go out, I might as well go back to my room and lie down.

Maybe I'll fall asleep soon.

Lin Leyou returned to his room and lay down. As he drifted off to sleep, he heard a voice in his ear!

The moment I heard that sound, the hairs on my body stood on end!

Lin Leyou suddenly sat up in bed, his heart pounding. He looked around nervously while panting, but he soon realized that the voice was not really in his ear.

Instead, the sound came from outside the bedroom balcony window—a sound like fingernails scratching at the glass. It was extremely jarring, and its sudden appearance in the quiet night gave him the illusion that the sound was right next to his ear.

Damn it!

His lips twitched, and he cursed silently in his heart. Very good, very good, they've got him cornered, haven't they?

He's really angry now. Come to think of it, he had a really bad temper in his past life, and basically no one dared to mess with him when he was working outside.

After all, those who have nothing to lose are not afraid of those who have something to lose. Everyone was afraid of him, a person who had nothing at all.

He found that his temper had improved a lot since he was reborn. Killing a female ghost last night didn't seem to be enough of a deterrent to these things. In that case...

Should we do it again?

He got up and pulled back the bedroom curtains. The bedroom also had floor-to-ceiling windows. He walked out to the balcony and looked through a window at the female ghost clinging to the windowpane.

It was pitch black outside, with no lights, no moonlight, and no starlight. Lin Leyou could roughly make out the outline of the female ghost, but her pair of eyes, glowing red, were very striking.

Lin Leyou saw her face pressed against the glass, giving him a big smile. Her teeth were quite white. He also heard the ghostly laughter in his ears, which was rather eerie and ethereal.

Of course, it's also accompanied by the sound of fingernails scratching glass, which can really annoy people with bad tempers.

He knew that the female ghost was forcing him to open the window. As long as he left the house, even if he opened the window and tried to hit her or stab her with a knife, the ghost could grab any part of him that was outside the window and drag him out.