"Knock knock knock!"
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door of the old rental house.
On a black leather sofa covered in cracks, a young man lay fast asleep. When he was woken up, he looked bewildered and surprised.
Looking up and around, I saw dilapidated tables and chairs, moldy and peeling white walls, and yellowed calendars.
"This room... seems familiar!"
He muttered to himself, then suddenly his eyes widened.
Isn't this the house I rented five years ago?
I've been reborn?
I quickly looked around and found my phone in the sofa cushions.
"At 11:38 PM on June 30, 2028, two days before the strange event occurred, it truly was a rebirth!"
Xia Tianqiong was overjoyed and almost cried out in surprise.
In the previous life, countless strange things suddenly descended, using various means to induce humans to trigger the rules of death, and then taking the opportunity to devour human bodies and souls.
The world was plunged into apocalyptic panic, and countless people died.
Cities were even turned into haunted cities, and humans became domesticated food.
Xia Tianqiong struggled to survive in the apocalypse for five years, and by chance became a monster hunter. He also killed some weak monsters. His life was full of ups and downs and unbearable suffering.
He ultimately died at the hands of a powerful and eerie being.
I never imagined that I would be reborn and have to start over.
He had memorized many strange pieces of information and how to deal with them.
You can form contracts with various powerful supernatural entities in the early stages of their arrival, which will help you survive better in the future.
"Right, the most important thing right now is to burn some ghost money for myself!"
Xia Tianqiong suddenly had a good idea.
After the strange occurrences, people discovered that the coins they used were the same as the paper money burned for ancestral worship at graves.
As the saying goes, money makes the world go round.
As long as you have enough ghost money, you can make strange creatures serve you at your beck and call.
"The strange event will occur the night after tomorrow. There's still a day left, so there's enough time."
Xia Tianqiong was planning to go to the funeral shop to buy some ghost money first thing tomorrow morning when suddenly, the knocking sounded on the door again.
"Knock knock knock!"
In his previous life, strange occurrences had been occurring for a long time, but he had not encountered any strange occurrences, so he did not think much about it now.
Thinking it was his female neighbor across the hall asking him to fix the pipes or change the light bulbs again, he got up to open the door.
"Sir, your takeout is here."
In the dimly lit stairwell, a food delivery driver in a blue shirt stood with a white packaging bag in his hand.
The aroma of meat wafted out, and just a whiff made Xia Tianqiong's mouth water and his appetite increase.
He subconsciously swallowed and reached out to take the takeout.
But he held back in the end, since he hadn't ordered takeout.
"I didn't..."
Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly remembered a strange piece of information.
Suddenly, my whole body tensed up, and my heart pounded wildly.
There is a kind of eerie creature called the "Takeout Ghost," which can use its netherworld power to condense tempting food and randomly deliver it to others in the form of takeout, enticing them to take advantage of it. If someone eats the takeout, it will trigger a death rule.
Xia Tianqiong stared at the delivery guy.
I wondered if he was some kind of delivery scammer!
But that doesn't make sense. According to the official announcement that was later released, the strange occurrence should have happened the night after tomorrow. How could it have happened now?
There is another very serious problem.
On this day in his previous life, no one or anything strange came to knock on his door.
Why is my rebirth different from my previous life?
"Sir, your takeout is here."
Seeing that Xia Tianqiong was in a daze, the delivery guy repeated himself.
He spoke sincerely, looked genuine, and appeared perfectly normal; he was just an ordinary person.
Am I mistaken?
Xia Tianqiong's heart skipped a beat, and she took the takeout. "Oh, thank you."
The delivery guy turned and walked down the stairs. He stood at the door until the other person disappeared before closing the door.
"I'll see if this delivery service is a scam."
Xia Tianqiong suddenly became interested, placed the takeout on the coffee table, but did not open it.
The supernatural cannot kill people indiscriminately, supposedly because it is forbidden by the rules of the supernatural realm.
They must use various means to induce or force humans to trigger the rules of death in order to have a legitimate reason to eat people.
Xia Tianqiong had already triggered the death rule of the delivery ghost, but only the prerequisites were met.
As long as you don't open the food delivery app, the delivery ghost will come knocking on your door again in a while. Just return the food to it, and the rule will be terminated, and nothing will happen.
However, this doesn't confirm whether the other party is a delivery scammer; it's possible that the delivery person genuinely delivered the wrong food.
The takeout food, condensed using the power of the underworld, has a unique taste and special effects.
Xia Tianqiong can tell whether the other party is a delivery scammer just by taking a bite.
However, before eating, you need to prepare some ghost money.
Otherwise, it's truly a case of food delivery fraud. If you demand compensation from him, he might kill you if he can't produce ghost money.
The so-called ghost money can be the colorful paper money sold in funeral shops with a face value of hundreds of millions, or it can be ingots made of gold or silver paper.
By burning the paper money through a special ritual, one can receive ghost money for oneself or one's family.
Xia Tianqiong didn't have any ready-made ghost money to burn, but she could fold ingots herself.
The materials are very simple; any gold or silver paper will do.
He sat on the sofa, found the half-smoked pack of cigarettes, removed the inner silver paper, wrote his birth date and time on the back, and then folded it up very skillfully.
In the blink of an eye, a small ingot was folded.
"Not bad, you haven't forgotten your skills."
Looking at the silver ingot in her hand, Xia Tianqiong was very satisfied.
In the previous life, countless people lost their jobs, and to survive, many stayed home full-time to fold paper ingots. Some were burned for their own use, and some were exchanged with the government for food and supplies.
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