"The woman whose ear you cut off died in the laundry room on the fourth floor!"
Sun Tiantian pulled Lu Sheng to her side and whispered in her ear.
The mother of that brat is dead?
"How did he die?" Lu Sheng frowned slightly.
Each floor of Dingxianglou has a communal laundry room, equipped with a restroom and five fully automatic washing machines. You can wash your clothes simply by inserting coins.
The laundry room on the fourth floor is on the other side of the corridor, and is separated from Lu Sheng's side by an iron gate.
"I don't know the specifics either. I just heard a commotion on the other side of the corridor. I looked everywhere for you and couldn't find you. I was so worried."
Sun Tiantian linked arms with Lu Sheng, and the two followed the commotion to the entrance of the laundry room.
A number of people had already gathered in the corridor, mostly students living on the other side of the fourth floor, and some girls from the fifth floor.
"What a damn bad luck, seeing a dead person first thing in the morning."
A girl in the dormitory opposite the laundry room complained, covering her nose.
"This woman is so annoying. She comes up to the fourth floor to use the toilet every day. It's bad enough that her poop smells bad, but she died here. How are we supposed to use the laundry room now?"
"What should we do with this body? We can't just leave it to rot here, can we?"
The girls living on the fourth floor were all complaining, and none of them were willing to clean up the body.
Someone in the crowd suggested that she should call her husband over.
The group looked at each other, none of them wanting to take the lead, and each made an excuse to retreat back to their dorm, leaving only the unlucky guy whose laundry room faced the dorm.
The unlucky fellow looked around blankly, and finally had no choice but to resign himself to going downstairs to look for someone.
"There's something in the laundry room; its combat power index is 6!"
As soon as the person left, Zhuangzhuang poked its head out of its cat carrier and grabbed Lu Sheng's shoulders with its two paws.
Lu Sheng drew his knife and shielded Sun Tiantian behind him, saying, "Stay away from me. If anything happens, go back to the dorm immediately."
After saying that, Lu Sheng slowly walked into the laundry room.
"Inside the bathroom." Zhuangzhuang cried out in a frightened little voice, clinging tightly to Lu Sheng.
The restroom was in an inner stall, and half of the motion-activated light on the ceiling was broken, flickering on and off with Lu Sheng's footsteps.
The water was shut off because the smell was a bit pungent.
Lu Sheng took out a Kuromi-patterned mask from his spatial storage, put it on, and snapped his fingers.
Only under the light of the flame at my fingertips could I finally see the situation inside the bathroom.
The mother was only wearing a floral nightgown, lying on the floor in a twisted position, clutching a pack of tissues in her hand.
The fatal wound was on his leg, a bloody hole the size of a bowl that ran from his thigh all the way down to his back.
The edges of the wound were jagged, unlike what one would expect from a human.
This group of people didn't even come in to examine the body closely today, otherwise they would have been terrified.
“It’s nearby…” Zhuangzhuang meowed softly twice.
Glug glug...
A muffled sound suddenly came from the squat toilet next to the body.
Lu Sheng gripped the hilt of the knife tightly and silently condensed the electric arc onto the blade.
Splash!
A dark shadow suddenly darted out of the sewer, emitting a foul stench.
By the firelight, Lu Sheng glanced at it and felt a wave of nausea wash over him.
It's a mutated centipede, colloquially known as a "money centipede." It typically lives in damp, dark places like bathrooms or kitchens.
The centipede was a full meter long, and it opened its mouth and rushed toward Lu Sheng.
Bang!
Lu Sheng nimbly dodged the attack, but the spot where he had just been standing had been smashed into a crater half a meter in diameter by the centipede.
Having failed in its first attack, the centipede angrily twisted its body and lunged at Lu Sheng again.
"Holy crap! Kill it already! Hurry, hurry!"
Zhuangzhuang was so frightened that it meowed and howled as it strangled Lu Sheng's neck.
"You're going to strangle me to death." Lu Sheng glanced at the centipede's foul-smelling shell, pulled out his crossbow, and fired at its open mouth.
If you use a knife, you have to wipe it clean; if you use a crossbow, you can simply discard the arrow.
The crossbow bolt, carrying a strong gust of wind, pierced the centipede's mouthparts and pinned it firmly to the wall.
The centipede writhed wildly, then died within seconds.
[Reward: Skill Upgrade Book]
[Bonus loot: Cartier Ballon Bleu watch]
[Bonus loot: 1000 points]
What is a skill upgrade book?
Before Lu Sheng could examine it in detail, a noisy commotion came from outside the door.
It was the unlucky guy who arrived with the wife's husband.
As Lu Sheng walked to the door, he heard two people arguing.
"What makes you say she's my wife? Do you have any proof?" The man, with a stubble beard, retorted with a stiff neck.
The unlucky guy on the fourth floor was furious, his face turning red. "We all saw you two taking care of the child together, why are you denying it? Get your wife's corpse out of here right now!"
"Who said that? Which eye did you see that with?" The father of the brat acted like he had nothing to lose, hugging the woman next to him tightly. "This is my wife, that ugly thing inside isn't her!"
Lu Sheng raised an eyebrow slightly and glanced at the woman in the man's arms.
It was Liu Zihan, who was live-streaming from the fourth floor before?
Liu Zihan looked embarrassed and reluctantly tried to push her father away with both hands.
"What are you hiding for? I'll find you a pack of instant noodles later." Dad Xiong stared at Liu Zihan lecherously, almost drooling.
Lu Sheng chuckled softly.
This man was too cowardly to rush in with Xu Yi last time, and he even managed to escape with his life and find some resources. Instead of spending time with his wife and kids, he's found a second spring in this apocalypse.
I wonder if the viewers in the live stream will be furious when they see this.
Things are different now. A beautiful female college student who used to be so expensive that you couldn't even touch her could now be with just a pack of instant noodles.
If you add a sausage, you might be able to unlock it in a different way.
"Fine, you won't admit it, huh? Surely a kid wouldn't lie, would he?" The unlucky guy grabbed the brat. "Come on, tell me, is that your mom inside?"
The little rascal has lost a bit of weight these past few days; I guess his dad gave all his things to Liu Zihan.
"Inside...inside is the old mom!" The brat glanced at the disheveled corpse in the laundry room, then turned and threw himself into Liu Zihan's arms, hugging her tightly and refusing to let go. "I want a new mom! The new mom is pretty!"
Sun Tiantian hugged Lu Sheng's arm tightly, feeling a pang of sympathy, "How could this child not even want his own mother?"
Lu Sheng sneered, feeling sorry for this woman.
A middle-aged, aging, and overweight housewife not only faces the prospect of her husband's fickle affections, but also the refusal to even claim her body after her death. Even the children she painstakingly raised despise her ordinariness.
The unlucky fellow's voice rose three octaves in anger, "Your son has already admitted it's his mother! I don't care, you have to get rid of the body today."
The father, enraged, slapped the child hard across the face, then turned to see Lu Sheng standing at the door.
"Hey! It's you again!" Bear Dad pointed a rough finger at Lu Sheng. "You chopped off that woman's ear last time, so you're going to kill her today, huh?"
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