Chapter 84 Imperial Apartment 11

After the six players who went to the world of the living left, the players who stayed in the underworld immediately filled the stairs and restored the altar.

This was what they had planned before, and staying here might not be completely safe. At first they thought that the people here would change at night, but in fact they were ghosts living here. This was the underworld, and there was no difference between day and night, but if the altar was destroyed, they, as ghosts, might riot.

After tidying up the altar, Yang Mei and Ling Changye were about to go back when they saw the door of room 209 was opened.

Xiaoqi walked out of the room.

Ling Changye entered the room and said to Yang Mei, "Go talk to her."

Yang Mei knew what he meant and nodded.

"Are you going to find your boyfriend?" Yang Mei walked up to Xiaoqi and asked her.

It's not even twelve o'clock yet, it's still the time when yin and yang are changing, so this is a good time to go find her boyfriend.

Xiao Qi shook her head blankly, "I should go see him, but I don't know why, I suddenly don't want to go."

Yang Mei was stunned for a moment. He turned around and saw that the door of Room 202 was still ajar. It was Ling Changye telling him that he was there and he could talk to Xiao Qi without worry.

Xiaoqi walked around Yang Mei and went forward to the end of the corridor, looking at the altar in the stairs.

Yang Mei breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately they had restored the altar in advance.

Xiao Qi stood there quietly looking at the altar, and after a long while she said to Yang Mei, "My boyfriend is really possessive, but he doesn't seem that handsome."

Her love brain seemed to be slowly disappearing.

Yang Mei asked hurriedly: "Then what do you like about him?"

Xiao Qi frowned slightly, as if lost in memory, "He's not that handsome, but he's kind of handsome. The kind that makes a deep impression the first time you see him."

Li Shiqi has always been known as a good girl since she was young. One of her parents is a civil servant with a good position, and the other is an associate professor at a university. Her family is not rich, but well-off.

She is the only child in the family. While being spoiled by her parents since she was young, she also bears the pressure of their expectations. Since she started elementary school, her day has been full of arrangements, including what time to get up in the morning, what time to get out of school in the afternoon, and what talent to learn in the evening.

Day after day, she felt depressed and always wanted to escape.

At school, her classmates were the same. The class monitor who confessed to her had already finished all the courses in high school before entering high school. When he confessed to her, she felt breathless when she thought of this.

That's when her boyfriend showed up.

He had bad grades, didn't listen to the teacher, and was called out to stand in the Chinese class as punishment. In the blink of an eye, he appeared on the basketball court and hit the basketball against the classroom window in provocation.

She was sitting by the window. The sudden noise frightened her and she opened her eyes wide, and at the same time she saw his wanton and ostentatious smile.

Her heart was beating very fast and loud at that time, and she thought it was a heartbeat.

He opened her cage.

Because of him, she was released from the repression she had been under for more than a decade. She was addicted to the feeling of being free and breaking free from all the constraints of rules and regulations. She always wanted to do things that would rebel against her parents, teachers, and the environment.

She followed him to this Dihao Apartment, which might be the biggest resistance she had ever made.

But when she came, she regretted it.

When she saw the people here and their lives, she realized what she had and how ridiculous and childish she was.

Her parents must be looking for her anxiously. At this time, her father should be sitting at home watching the news with her, and her mother should be preparing a table of delicious food for her. Then they will eat together and discuss which university she should apply to.

"It doesn't matter which university you choose to attend. Don't worry, Xiaoqi. Your parents have been saving money for you for the past 20 years. It's enough to buy you a house in any city where you can settle down."

"If you feel lonely, wait until your parents retire and we will come to accompany you. Wherever there are good kids, that is our home."

She wanted to find her parents and tell them not to worry.

She wants to go home.

Xiaoqi suddenly looked towards the altar, ran over hurriedly and picked up something.

Her eyes were red. "Where are mom and dad? I can't find them."

"Why would I listen to him and not take the college entrance examination?"

She tightly grasped the object in her hand, tears welling up in her eyes, "Because Chen Xiyuan cast a spell on me!"

“Bang!”

A heavy crash broke the silence of the night.

Xia Bai and Lin Xiang immediately sat up from the bed.

Xia Bai looked at the time, 03:02.

Lin Xiang had already run to the window, opened the curtains and looked out. When he saw the person on the ground, his heart trembled, "Xia Bai, Xia Bai... come quickly..."

Xia Bai walked over immediately. The ground could be clearly seen from the second floor. On the moonlit night, Ma Xinjia's body was clearly visible in front of them. Even his eyes, which were open and filled with fear, could be seen clearly.

Ma Xinjia died more than three hours after coming here.

At the same time, they heard a crazy laugh of relief.

Lin Xiang asked nervously: "What should we do?"

It's too dangerous here. At around eleven o'clock, Lin Xiang came to Room 202 and didn't leave. Fearing something might happen, he and Xia Bai took a nap here for a while. Sure enough, someone died in just three hours.

Xia Bai recognized the laughter of Xiaoqi's boyfriend coming from upstairs, and he didn't know what to do for a moment.

They didn't know what had just happened. This place was too weird. It might be dangerous to go out rashly. But if they didn't find out the truth about Ma Xinjia's death, they would still be passive and in danger.

Xia Bai took out the little paper man. He was still lying on the steps, and all he could hear was the whimpering sound of the wind passing by the stairs.

Lin Xiang said, "I'll go down and take a look. I have the ability to purify, and I'm not afraid of these evil things."

"Don't go." Xia Bai said, "I'll go test Xiaoqi's boyfriend first."

Xiaoqi's boyfriend was still laughing wildly on the rooftop of the fifth floor. The apartment was quiet and desolate at three o'clock in the morning. His laughter spread from this dilapidated apartment, creepy and refreshing.

Xia Bai remembered that when Ma Xinjia was trying to trick him, he let out a cry of pain. He must have done something to Ma Xinjia at that time, and this might be the cause of Ma Xinjia's death.

He just wanted to test what Xiaoqi's boyfriend had done to Ma Xinjia.

Lin Xiang asked: "How to test?"

A person appeared behind Xia Bai. Lin Xiang also knew this person. He was Qi Yan, the player in the Wugu Village map, the player who was cursed to death for bullying a classmate at school.

Lin Xiang: “…”

Qi Yan looked at Xia Bai several times and set off reluctantly.

He climbed from the second floor to the rooftop of the fifth floor and saw Xiaoqi's boyfriend on the rooftop. He asked, "Did you just kill someone?"

Xiaoqi's boyfriend was still laughing, his waist bent, and when he heard the sound, he glanced at Qi Yan and said, "Idiot, hahaha!"

Xia Bai: “…”

Qi Yan: "You are the fucking idiot, the stinking idiot! Are you crazy?"

Xia Bai: “…”

During this period, Xia Bai had a deeper understanding of his skill, the Reviving the Dead. The Reviving the Dead means that, under the premise of the mission object's consent, after obtaining the other party's body, he can retain his soul. After a person dies, the soul flies to heaven, and a part of the soul can be preserved. The soul is mostly evil. Without the restraint of the soul, after "living" again, it is really the original nature of human beings, and the nature is evil.

Childish and cruel.

Unexpectedly, this guy looked quite decent when he was alive, but he was even more violent than Gu Quankun when he was alive.

He quickly controlled Qi Yan's body. Qi Yan said, "You shameless bastard, you cast a spell on your girlfriend, right? You're getting your comeuppance, right? You deserve it!"

“…”

Xiaoqi's boyfriend was stunned for a moment, then he started laughing, "Yeah, I cast a spell on her, can you blame me?"

He really liked Kiki and had liked her for a long time. He even threw a basketball towards the classroom on purpose on the playground just to attract her attention.

He liked her so much that he started planning their future. Kiki had such good grades. If she got into a top university, would she still be with him, a gangster who couldn't even get into university?

Of course not, even if she would, her traditional and snobbish parents would not agree.

So, during her senior year of high school, he frequently wrote her notes during class, took her to skip classes, and even took her away from home to come to this Dihao Apartment, where the matter was done.

But she was leaving, she still had to leave her.

She didn't know what he had done for her. How could she leave now that it had come to this?

The old man in 308 brought back a sorcerer, but in the end he did nothing. When the sorcerer was arguing with the old man, he heard it, so he gave all he had and asked the sorcerer to put a sorcerer on her.

Li Shiqi wants to stay with Chen Xiyuan forever and love him until death.

He gave everything he had and finally earned their eternal and stable love.

They spent a very wonderful time here. Even though they could only drink porridge and eat steamed buns, Qiqi never complained. She always loved him and regarded him as everything.

However, he gradually became a little bit unable to bear it. She did what he originally asked, only loved him, didn't look at other men, and stayed with him forever. But he just couldn't stand this kind of love he once longed for. He felt that she was always staring at him and sticking to him, which was very suffocating.

He started to scold her and hit her, but she would still stick to him with a smile.

He is going crazy.

Finally, during a beating, he accidentally killed her.

After the panic, he felt relieved. He had finally gotten rid of her who was suffocating him.

He buried her in the garbage dump behind the apartment building, and lay down on the bed with only him, feeling relieved, and finally able to stretch his body freely and easily.

That night, he felt a chilly breath and the familiar feeling of someone hugging his waist.

He opened his eyes stiffly and saw Li Shiqi holding him, lying in his arms, looking up and smiling at him: "Xiyuan, I love you."

He jumped up screaming on the spot.

He moved her body ten kilometers away, and that night she appeared in his bed again, hugged him and said she loved him.

He sent her body to the next city, and on the night he returned, she appeared in his bed again, lay on top of him and said she loved him.

He chopped up her body and fed it to the dogs. That night, she crawled out from under the bed, took his hand and said she would never leave him.

He brought the dog to Li Shiqi's home. That night, she hugged him from behind while he was taking a shower and said she missed him very much.

…

He is really crazy.

When Li Shiqi was alive, the ever-present love had suffocated him. After her death, she still clung to him all the time and he could never get rid of her. Who wouldn't go crazy?

“Hahahahahaha!” Chen Xiyuan stood on the dilapidated and muddy rooftop, with a tangle of messy wires above his head. “I was wrong. I shouldn’t have cast a spell on her. Now I have finally corrected my mistake. I am finally free.”

"What are you laughing at, you lunatic?" Qi Yan asked irritably.

"I'm finally free, hahaha!" Chen Xiyuan was still laughing.

"What have you been relieved of?" Qi Yan asked, jumping up and down.

Chen Xiyuan: “Hahahahaha!”

"You're still laughing!" Qi Yan finally went berserk, kicked Chen Xiyuan down and started fighting.

Xia Bai: “…”

He was about to take Qi Yan back, but stopped again, wanting to see what Xiao Qi's boyfriend would do to Qi Yan.

Five minutes later, Xia Bai took Qi Yan back.

After being beaten for five minutes, Xiaoqi's boyfriend was still laughing. He didn't do anything to Qi Yan even when he was beaten, so it seemed that he didn't need it anymore.

When Lin Xiang saw Qi Yan coming back, he hurriedly asked Xia Bai what happened.

Xia Bai told Lin Xiang what he had heard.

Lin Xiang said: "He is freed... In other words, he originally cast a spell on Xiao Qi, asking her to stay with him forever. Later, Xiao Qi died and came back to stay with him. He was almost driven crazy. Now, through Ma Xinjia's death, the spell was lifted?"

Xia Bai nodded, "That should be the case. We need the players in the underworld to confirm it for us."

As he said this, he looked at Ma Xinjia's body again, wanting to perform an autopsy, but found that it was gone.

He asked Lin Xiang: "Where is Ma Xinjia's body?"

Lin Xiang looked down hurriedly, "It's gone! I didn't notice it either."

The two looked around but didn't see any human figures, only a black dog lying in the grass not far away.

"Forget it." Xia Bai said, "Let's get some sleep first, conserve our energy, and then check again during the day. The human apartment may be safe during the day."

Lin Xiang: "Okay, I'm also very sleepy."

It's dawn.

The players had breakfast at the fast food restaurant owner's on the first floor as usual.

Ling Changye took a sip of water, glanced towards the stairs, and his gaze suddenly froze.

Yang Mei followed his gaze and paused for a moment. Then he immediately looked away and lowered his head to eat the bun.

The other players had similar reactions, all because of the person walking down the stairs.

Ma Xinjia.

Ma Xinjia, who had originally gone to the human world, appeared here early in the morning and came to have breakfast.

It goes without saying that he, like Lan Xiang and Yu Chao, is dead.

Die in the world of the living and your ghost will appear in the world of the dead.

It's only been one night, no, less than one night, and someone has died over there.

Some players were glad that they did not go to the world of the living, while others began to worry about the players in the world of the living.

As soon as they returned to the room, Yang Mei asked anxiously, "Captain, what should we do? Will they be in danger?"

"Don't worry. The fact that they didn't show up here at least proves that they are not dead." Ling Changye said, "Go check on Xiaoqi right now."

Yang Mei nodded and left.

Last night, Xiaoqi picked up something from the altar and said that Chen Xiyuan cast a spell on her and then went back to her room. Yang Mei wanted to follow her and continue asking her questions, but she closed the door.

This time, just like before, Xiaoqi opened the door as soon as Yang Mei knocked.

There was a schoolbag on the bed with two sets of clothes next to it, and Xiaoqi was putting textbooks into it.

Yang Mei asked: "Xiao Qi, are you going out to find your boyfriend?"

Didn’t everything seem normal last night?

Xiao Qi shook her head and put the textbooks neatly into her schoolbag without the two sets of clothes. After zipping up, she stood up and said to Yang Mei with a smile, "Meimei, I'm leaving here."

Yang Mei was stunned for a moment, "Where are you going to leave here?"

Xiao Qi thought about it blankly, and finally figured it out. She tilted her head, and her ponytail slid down from her shoulders, revealing two cute dimples. "Just leave here."

Xiaoqi left.

She was the first person they saw walking out of the apartment after they moved in, no, it was a ghost.

When she left, it was around eight in the morning, the sun was high in the sky, she was wearing a blue and white school uniform, with her hair tied in a high ponytail, carrying her textbooks, and walked out of the shabby and dirty apartment step by step, never looking back.

Yang Mei asked Ling Changye: "Captain, what happened to Xiaoqi?"

Ling Changye said: "The thing that trapped her here is gone, her black magic has been removed, and she is going to where she should go."

Yang Mei asked: "How was her black magic removed? Was it Xia Bai and Lin Xiang?"

Ling Changye thought for a moment and said, "It could be them, or it could be related to Ma Xinjia. We should pay attention to Ma Xinjia."

Before, when they realized that Lan Xiang and Yu Chao were dead and that it was the real ghost, they went to their rooms to check, but they never said anything to Lan Xiang and Yu Chao.

On the one hand, people have a natural fear of ghosts. On the other hand, they are also afraid of touching something that might cause them to riot, so they just leave them alone quietly.

When Ling Changye was talking about this with Xiong Xiyuan on the third floor, Xia Bai and the others also gathered together.

When they came to the apartment in the world of the living last night, they all appeared in their respective rooms in the apartment in the underworld. They all guessed that they were also tourists renting rooms here, but it was too dangerous at night, so they did not dare to come out. After hearing human voices at dawn, they came out and confirmed their guess.

There is no fast food restaurant on the first floor anymore. After the boss died, there may be no one to take over this unprofitable stall.

They took a look and then went to Room 202 where Xia Bai lived and exchanged information with each other.

Lao Qian has figured out the residents here.

Second floor: There is a man living in room 204 next to Xia Bai, he is about 30 years old, he should be Lao Wang’s son. He was wandering around the building early in the morning, no one knew what he was doing.

No one lives in 209 anymore.

There is a boy living in Room 211, he is Xiaoqi’s boyfriend, he didn’t go back to bed until four o’clock last night.

In addition, there is a deaf-mute elderly couple living in Room 208.

No one lives in room 303 on the third floor.

There lives a woman in Room 305 who is mentally unstable and might be the little girl’s mother.

308 A corpse, an old man.

In addition, a young woman lives in Room 301.

On the fourth floor, room 405 lives a man in his fifties.

No one lives on the fifth floor.

Everyone who heard it was focused on the body of 308.

Old Qian said, "Yes, the female corpse is the old lady named Xu Mei in the underworld 308. Although the body has rotted, you can still tell from her clothes that the old man should be her husband. He is lying next to her, holding her hand motionlessly, and looks like he is about to die."

Xia Bai told them about their findings.

Wei Jingyun said: "That's right, Ma Xinjia went over to pretend to be Xiaoqi last night."

He lived in the same room with Ma Xinjia.

"After he cried out in pain, he didn't come back. I heard that he ran upstairs, followed by Xiaoqi's boyfriend. He didn't ask for help, and the situation was very strange, so I didn't chase him." Wei Jingyun said: "I waited for more than two hours, and I couldn't wait any longer. When I was about to go find him, I heard him fall from the building."

Xia Bai asked: "Did you see how his body disappeared?"

Wei Jingyun shook his head, "At that time, I heard the sound upstairs again, but I only paid attention to it upstairs, and when I looked again, it was gone."

Xia Bai looked at Lao Qian and Yang Yi again, and they both shook their heads.

Xia Bai asked Lao Qian again, "Did you see what Xiaoqi's boyfriend did to Ma Xinjia last night?"

Lao Qian said: "What we saw was the same, from the same little paper man on the stairs. The little paper man was originally standing behind Xiaoqi's boyfriend, and was crushed by him from behind."

Xia Bai: “…”

No wonder when he looked back, he only saw a flight of stairs from his perspective lying on the ground.

Yang Yi analyzed, "From what Xiaoqi's boyfriend said last night, the black magic he cast on Xiaoqi has been removed. Do you know anything about black magic? Under what circumstances can a black magic be removed?"

Xia Bai immediately looked at Lao Qian. His grandfather knew a lot of superstitious things. As a corpse driver, Lao Qian, who was in the same group as him, should also know a lot.

Lao Qian: "...it also depends on what kind of curse they cast. Different curses have different solutions. Generally speaking, there are two common solutions to curses. One is to find another more powerful curse master to solve it, commonly known as a battle of curse masters. The other is to kill the curse master, but if the curse master is very powerful, killing him will be useless, especially if the curse master uses the method of raising ghosts to cast curses."

After saying that, Lao Qian added: "The sorcerer who cast the spell on Xiaoqi must be this kind of extremely powerful sorcerer, who can't even escape becoming a ghost after death."

Lin Xiang: "Neither of these two situations seemed to fit last night."

Xia Bai: "Are there any other bizarre and rare methods of removing the curse?"

Lao Qian: "Yes, it is, but it is not orthodox and not necessarily true."

“…”

Is there any orthodox way to perform head-descent?

Xia Bai was used to it. They often argued in the group about whose corpse-driving style was orthodox. He remembered that Lao Qian's corpse-driving technique belonged to the Maoshan school.

"I'm just saying that I'm not responsible for anything else." Lao Qian made a disclaimer and then said, "Kill the person who asked for surrender, transfer the head curse, and exchange blood..."

"I know!" Lin Xiang said, "It's a transfer of black magic! Xiaoqi's boyfriend must have transferred the black magic to Ma Xinjia last night."

Wei Jingyun said, "That's not right. The one who was cursed was not Xiaoqi's boyfriend, but Xiaoqi. How could he transfer the curse to Ma Xinjia?"

Lin Xiang suddenly realized and exclaimed "Ah".

Xia Bai said: "He can help Xiaoqi transfer the curse. He is almost tortured to death by Xiaoqi and regrets casting the curse on Xiaoqi. When Xiaoqi expresses her desire to remove the curse, he will definitely help Xiaoqi."

Xia Bai had this guess because of Ma Xinjia's death.

"If the curse is transferred to a living person, Ma Xinjia doesn't have to die, but Xiaoqi is already dead, so if she wants to transfer the curse, the other person must also die?"

Yang Yi questioned: "If that's the case, Lan Xing and Yu Chao are already dead, why didn't Xiao Qi use them to transfer the black magic?"

Lin Xiang said on behalf of Xia Bai: "Their deaths may have been caused by someone's black magic being transferred? They have been taken advantage of by someone else, so Xiao Qi can't use them."

Xia Bai said: "It may be necessary to transfer something from the person, perhaps from the person when he was alive."

Lian Lao Qian also said: "It is possible. Even the magic of the gods requires something from the human body, and the transfer of the magic of the gods also requires something from the human body. So, the possibility of the magic of the gods being transferred is very high."

"If the black magic is transferred." Xia Bai said, "The content of the magic should not change. This is a love spell. Is it possible for Ma Xinjia to go find the person he likes?"

Old Qian: “It’s possible.”

Xia Bai: "...Then you should be careful."

Lao Qian was at a loss: "What does it have to do with me?"

Xia Bai: "I noticed that Ma Xinjia might like you."

Old Qian: “?”

Old Qian: “???”