Chapter 180 Extra 3: Players Moving into the Apartment: The Apartment Through the Players' Eyes, Tenant Fishing Competition

Ah Liang is a retired infinite flow player. Because his original world has collapsed and the main god has disappeared, he was left in this strange world.

This world was basically the same as his original world, except for slight differences in the monetary system and laws. After brushing up on some basic social knowledge, he successfully completed the assessment.

In addition to written tests such as social common sense tests and psychological assessments, players also need to look at themselves in a mirror next to the exit on the first floor before leaving the building.

Once reflected in this mirror, players will consecutively complete one hundred illusionary dungeons. These dungeon scenarios range from trivial matters like whether or not to help an old lady cross the street, to major events like discovering a package of explosives on a busy street or what actions to take after discovering a vengeful ghost attacking the city.

The questions change every few seconds, and you can't think if you want to complete them all. They are basically made by the player's subconscious. You can only leave the building after you have completed all of them.

However, these illusionary choices are nothing to players with normal moral standards and values, and A Liang passed them on his first try.

After leaving the building, Ah Liang realized that the place he had been staying in for the past few days was actually a leopard-print building.

The building next to them had a zebra stripe pattern.

Having regained his freedom, Ah Liang looked at the two wild buildings in front of him and fell into a long silence.

Perhaps aesthetics differ from world to world, and he couldn't say anything, only expressing respect and understanding.

Outside the leopard-print building, there were people arranging jobs for players. When one of them saw Ah Liang come out of the building, he handed him a flyer listing the positions the Bureau of Supervision was currently looking for.

Players who pass the assessment can work in the Bureau of Supervision, or they can simply lie down and do nothing, but they need to live in the Liwan Apartment to lie down.

While checking out the work positions, Ah Liang saw several investigators with zebra-print makeup on their faces walk past him.

He remained silent for a long time, then decided he should just go to the Liwan Apartment and lie down... The aesthetic sense of the investigators in this world is truly frightening.

After Ah Liang was taken to Liwan Apartment by the ghost bus, he realized that he had been too naive.

The light-polluting building in front of us is even more outrageous than the Bureau of Supervision's wild aesthetics.

But it was too late to back down now; a person had already come out to greet them at the entrance of Liwan Apartments.

The man looked quite normal; he was a man wearing a blue and white uniform, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a very strong physique.

After noticing Ah Liang, the man said to him, "Are you the tenant who came to see the apartment today? I'm the manager of Guijia Furniture Store, you can just call me manager. The landlord has been busy with renovations these past few days, so he asked me to come and help show the apartment to tenants."

Ah Liang was stunned.

What kind of renovation?

Hell? Is it the hell he's imagining?

Before coming here, he had vaguely heard that Liwan Apartments was the pillar of this world, guarding the gate between Yin and Yang. The fact that these living players lived in the apartments was a way of contributing to the balance of Yin and Yang in this area.

The one who rescued them from the clutches of God was the owner of the Liwan Apartments.

It now appears that the apartment's owner was a deity associated with the underworld.

After a brief self-introduction, the store manager led Ah Liang into the apartment.

Before entering the elevator, Ah Liang felt a momentary blur before his eyes. Then, the magnificent hotel-style lobby transformed into an extremely bloody scene—the luxurious crystal chandelier became a pile of countless skulls and human heads, the red carpet on the floor became a pattern of woven internal organs, and even the elevator not far away turned into a giant demon's head.

Good heavens, this apartment has an alternate world?!

Ah Liang has a high Inspiration attribute, and his skill is related to precognition and observation, called [Eye of Truth]. Although it is a passive skill, low level, and random triggering, it is not as controllable and comprehensive as [Yin Yang Eye], but the occasional glimpse of 'truth' can still give him a way to survive in dungeons.

The bloody and terrifying scene in the apartment lasted only a moment before it quickly returned to its magnificent and opulent appearance.

Looking at the seemingly normal luxury apartment in front of him, Ah Liang's Adam's apple bobbed, and he felt inexplicably nervous.

As expected of a pillar of the world, it certainly exudes a sense of pressure.

It feels like being a tenant at Liwan Apartments would be even harder than working at the Inspection Bureau. It seems like I can't just relax and do nothing in the apartment anymore.

The store manager led Ah Liang into the elevator and pressed the button for the 5th floor.

While the two were still in the elevator, the manager began to explain: "You'll be staying in room 505. Turn left after you exit the elevator. There are the rental rules and room key on the shoe cabinet on your right as you enter the room. Just sign your name on the rules, and then follow the rules and keep the room key safe. You don't need to pay rent."

"The ghosts in the room are all very easy to get along with. Signing the tenant rules is like signing a contract with the ghosts in the room. From then on, you are family. If you are bullied outside, your roommate ghost will help you fight back. During your stay in the apartment, it will always protect you."

"While violating the rental rules won't kill you, it's best to follow them. The rules aren't difficult. Try not to anger the roommate ghost, or it might cause you social death."

In the past, landlords racked their brains to write tenant rules themselves; now, room ghosts write their own rules.

Although it's now possible to directly prohibit room ghosts from harming people, since tenants and room ghosts will be living together for a long time, some rules still need to be followed in order to maintain harmony and amicability.

After listening to the store manager, A Liang nodded, indicating that he had remembered.

As the elevator made a soft 'ding' sound, the store manager reflexively squinted his eyes: "Alright, we've reached the fifth floor, I won't go down."

After saying that, she gently pushed Ah Liang out of the elevator.

Ah Liang felt something was off and was about to say something when he was suddenly stunned by the scene before him.

He stared blankly at the scene before him, speechless for a moment.

The fifth floor looked even more terrifying than the bloody world on the first floor.

The moment the store manager pushed him off the elevator, he thought there might be some danger on the fifth floor, which was why the store manager didn't get off the elevator, but he never expected it to be this dangerous.

Ah Liang rubbed his eyes in despair.

He felt like he was going blind; even with his eyes closed, the dazzling light could still shine through his eyelids.

The fifth floor is decorated with a large red and green floral pattern reminiscent of Northeast China, the walls are covered with a dynamic and cool peony wallpaper that keeps blooming in a loop, the ceiling is a starry sky covered with neon light strips, and there is a huge disco ball that is spinning wildly.

What kind of light pollution attack is this? The thought of living on this floor in the future made Ah Liang feel hopeless.

So this is what the legendary living conditions inside the World Pillar are like? It's truly terrifying!

At this moment, Ah Liang misses the leopard-print building of the Inspection Bureau, and even feels that being covered in zebra paint from head to toe doesn't seem like such a big deal anymore.

He didn't want to stay in the corridor for even a second longer.

The elevator was running, and he didn't know where the stairs were, so he closed his eyes, turned left as the manager had told him, and relied on his superhuman intuition to find his way to room 505, then quickly closed the door.

The rooms are all already decorated and fully furnished.

Ah Liang lay in the entryway, feeling as exhausted as if he had just finished a supernatural dungeon.

After signing the rental agreement, Ah Liang lay in the room for a while, when he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

He walked to the entrance and opened the door a crack.

A man wearing an eye patch stood outside the door, holding two fishing rods in his hands.

Upon noticing Ah Liang open the door, the man said, "You're the new tenant who moved in today, right? I live in room 504, you can call me Xiao Fei. The apartment tenants are having a fishing competition today, would you like to come?"

Ah Liang was a little confused: "A fishing competition?"

“Yes.” Xiao Fei waved his fishing rod. “My teammate stood me up, so I was thinking of finding another teammate… You’re also a retired Infinite Flow player, right? We should have great chemistry.”

As Xiao Fei spoke, he took a black object out of his pocket and handed it to him, saying, "Here, a little something to mark our meeting."

Ah Liang took a look and found that it was the same eye mask as Xiao Fei's.

Xiao Fei explained, "This is an absolutely opaque supernatural prop that I found at the ghost market."

Ah Liang was a little touched.

This brother is too kind and righteous.

Holding his blindfold, Ah Liang said somewhat embarrassedly, "My fishing skills aren't very good. If you don't mind me holding you back..."

"It's alright, it's alright." Xiao Fei said in a relaxed tone, "The fish are 100% guaranteed to bite, we just need to be strong enough."

Hearing him say that, Ah Liang stopped making excuses, put on his blindfold, and the two of them took the elevator to the first floor.

Xiao Fei, who moved into the apartment half a month earlier than him, also introduced him to the location of the apartment's facilities, such as the gym, courier station, and convenience store.

After the elevator arrived on the first floor, the two removed their blindfolds. With Xiao Fei's guidance, A Liang then noticed an inconspicuous narrow door next to the elevator.

Xiao Fei handed a fishing rod to A Liang and pointed to the door, saying, "This is the door to the apartment garden. We're going to go fishing in the garden next."

After saying that, Xiao Fei took the lead and walked into the door.

Ah Liang followed behind him, and after walking for a while, the view suddenly opened up before him.

In front of me was a particularly beautiful garden with neat lawns, fountains, ponds, flower beds, and ornamental trees, and a small plot of farmland not far away.

Ah Liang felt that his eyes, which had just been exposed to light pollution, had been healed.

As his gaze swept over the beautiful scenery, he suddenly noticed something.

...Wait, something's not quite right.

Those red trees, the patterns on their trunks, how come they look so much like human faces?

Are those dahlias in the flower bed made of eyeballs in their stamens?

And the water flowing from the fountain... He thought he saw long black hair mixed in with the water.

The succulents on both sides of the fence stopped acting altogether and looked exactly like children's hands, with some even crawling around on the fence leaves.

The scarecrow in the planting area was a completely bizarre mummified corpse! It was even smiling at him!

These unsettling little details in the garden gave Ah Liang the feeling of being back in a supernatural movie.

But before he could think it through, Xiao Fei dragged him to the pond.

A chubby middle-aged man was already sitting on a rock in front of the pond with a fishing rod in his hand, and a tall girl with short hair was standing next to him.

However, the fishing line of the girl's fishing rod was not hanging in the pool, but placed in the fountain not far from the pond.

Ah Liang stared blankly at the fountain pool filled with the pile of long hair.

Are fish being raised in the fountain now?

"That uncle is Zhao Dawei, and his teammate is Miao Zheng," Xiao Fei introduced briefly, then pointed to the pond and said, "You can catch fish anywhere there's water in the garden, let's get started."

After saying that, he sat down directly next to the middle-aged man.

Ah Liang thought about it and felt that one-on-one would be fairer, so he stood opposite the tall girl named Miao Zheng and cast his fishing line into the fountain.

Zhao Dawei and Miao Zheng were both focused on the water, and neither of them reacted to the arrival of A Liang and Xiao Fei.

A moment later, A Liang noticed Miao Zheng standing opposite him; her fishing float had moved.

The next instant, her fishing line taut, the fishing rod bent into a terrifying arc, and a large number of bubbles rose from the surface of the fountain pool.

At the same time, Miao Zheng exerted force with his arm muscles and swung the fishing rod sharply—

Surrounded by a spray of glistening water droplets, a swollen, pale corpse leaped from the water. It was biting the hook, its long, seaweed-like black hair covering most of its face, and gurgling sounds coming from its throat.

Miao Zheng shouted excitedly, "What a huge fish!!"

Ah Liang was stunned; the fishing rod in his hand had fallen to the ground without him even noticing.

...You call this a fishing competition??

If he wasn't mistaken, that 'fish' should be a water ghost, right?

Are the tenants of Liwan Apartments really fishing for water ghosts for leisure?! What kind of terrifying place did he end up living in?!

This is more than just a problem with aesthetics; it feels like the people in this world not only have distorted aesthetics, but their cognition also seems a bit warped... Is this the world of supernatural resurrection? It's absolutely terrifying.