In-game.

Bai Liu patted Tang Erda's shoulder and said, "Hurry up and finish this game so that we can return to reality and deal with these problems."

"Yes." Tang Erda took a deep breath, stood up and gripped the gun handle tightly, "Don't worry, I won't affect the state of the game."

Bai Liu looked away and looked at the other three people who were sleeping: "It's almost time, wake them up and take their shifts, so we can rest."

Tang Er nodded and looked at Bai Liu: "Actually, I thought that with your personality, you would choose a more direct and quick way to pass this dungeon."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Captain Tang, you think I would choose to massacre everyone, right?"

"Yes, but not entirely." Tang Erda hesitated for a second. "I don't know if I understood it wrongly. In this copy, the old buildings have owners. The time cost of seizing them is indeed high, but there are also new buildings. The ownership of the new buildings is in the hands of the agent developers. Why not just kill the developers on the day the new buildings are sold and seize the ownership of the new buildings?"

"For example, if you want this new property in District C, you can do it."

Bai Liu kept smiling: "Because this is not the correct game path."

Tang Erda was stunned: "Isn't this the correct game path?"

"This is a horror game, Captain Tang." Bai Liu opened his eyelids and smiled faintly, "If you can win simply by killing people, then wouldn't it be scary at all?"

"If a path seems to complete the main quest without any scary factors, then this path is probably not the right one."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "This should be considered something similar to the design principles of horror games."

Tang Erda was led astray. He frowned and thought deeply: "But this path does seem feasible."

"Then there is only one possibility." Bai Liu smiled, "That is, the terrifying elements of this path have not yet been discovered."

Area C, 3 a.m.

Shi Qian and Yuan Guang hid in the crowd and followed Director C all the way. Shi Qian also activated a small-range mist skill to hide, and followed behind Director C waiting for him to be alone.

They currently have no plans to snipe NPCs on a large scale. These NPCs will turn into ghosts after death, and may also pull hatred on their heads and the map, so it is best to cause as little damage as possible, with precise sniping, and only kill the target NPC. Even if this C director turns into a ghost after death, there will only be one ghost.

It's easy to deal with one monster, but a group of monsters is not easy to deal with for a two-person team like them.

Abandoning three teammates reduced the risk of death, but at the same time the risk of death for them also increased, so they had to act more cautiously.

After leaving the new property, Director C went to four or five celebration parties in a row, and there was never an environment where the number of people was less than 100. Yuan Guang and his colleagues followed him for almost three hours in a daze, and only then did they see that Director C went to the last venue and got on the car back to Area C with a lingering look on his face.

Shi Qian, who was following behind, was shocked: "It seems like he is going home."

Yuan Guang smiled a little, he let out a long breath, and stared at the luxury house parked at the gate of Area C: "This idiot wasted the whole night, and finally made us wait until now."

When they arrived at the parking lot, the NPC Mr. C suddenly said hello to the bodyguards who had been following him and walked towards the bathroom in the parking lot. At this time, there was only one bodyguard following him.

Shi Qian and Yuan Guang looked at each other, and both saw the words "the best time to take action" in each other's eyes, and then quickly separated into two sides. Shi Qian quietly used the cover of the mist skill to get behind the bodyguard.

Yuan Guang went around and walked quickly along the wall. Just in case, he pulled down the hood of his pullover to cover his face, and the utility knife in his hand was pushed out a little.

After seeing out of the corner of his eye that the bodyguard was knocked down quietly and cleanly by Shi Qian who used the mist skill, Yuan Guang walked out from the corner of the wall, lowered his head and bumped into Director C who was about to go to the restroom.

Director C drank a lot of wine at various celebration banquets, and now he is a little confused, and can't even speak straight: "You, you, why are you confused? Are you a family who came to me to buy a house..."

Yuan Guang did not answer him. He lowered his head, stretched out a utility knife, grabbed Director C's neck from behind, and slashed it diagonally without any effort.

The thin utility knife in Yuan Guang's hand exploded with tremendous attack power, and blood spurted directly onto the mirror in front of the bathroom. Director C had no strength to struggle at all, and fell straight down, holding his neck.

[System prompt: Player Yuan Guang uses skill weapon (box cutter) on NPC C Dong]

【NPC C Dong was killed】

Shi Qian used the mist skill and ran quickly from the mist. She squatted down to pick up the body, muttering as she picked it up: "ID card, keychain, cigarettes, condoms... F*ck!"

Shi Qian looked up at Yuan Guang with shining eyes. She shook the stack of certificates in her hand: "The property rights certificate of the new building!"

[System prompt: Congratulations to player Shi Qian for being the first to obtain the ownership of an entire building in the new building complex in Zone C! ]

[Main Mission (Own Five Buildings) Completion Progress (1/5)]

Yuan Guang, who was squatting nearby, finally relaxed completely. He helped Shi Qian up and said, "Let's retreat and find the next agent developer."

But before they could completely put away the smiles on their faces, they heard the system prompts one after another:

[System prompt: The new property you two own is currently under development and requires a steady stream of capital injection to maintain ownership. According to the current market price of the property, you two need to raise 60 billion in funds within one hour, otherwise the new property will have a funding chain break and construction will be stopped, turning it into a single building——]

【——The last floor is ruined. 】

The smiles on Shi Qian and Yuan Guang's faces froze.

[Countdown starts: 59:59]

Shi Qian quickly calmed down and went to a nearby ATM to check the cash in Mr. C's ID card. Then her face quickly darkened: "The balance is less than 300 million."

Yuan Guang took a deep breath and said, "These people must have other ways to get cash. They won't keep all their money in their ID cards."

"The ID card of the NPC living on the top floor, Director C, only has 300 million." Shi Qian's nerves twitched several times when she heard the three words "rotten-finished building". She took two deep breaths and spoke quickly, "If we want to collect 60 billion in an hour, we have to rob at least 200 NPCs living on the top floor."

Yuan Guang recognized the reality faster than she did. He held the blood-stained utility knife, the tip of the knife dripping blood, and said hoarsely, "It doesn't fit together."

"In the better environment of reality, we haven't been able to collect 1 billion in three years. How can we collect 60 billion in one hour in Sunshine City?"

Shi Qian closed her eyes tightly and clenched the property certificate in her hand: "The house is already in our hands. We can't run away. We have to buy it even if we can't get it. We can't give up."

The two of them just sat there in silence facing each other.

Yuan Guang exhaled a breath of foul air, raised his head, and his eyes were a little red: "I am emotional, you are right, let's go, let's find a solution."

Shi Qian nodded, and the two of them left the parking lot.

Behind them, the body of Director C, lying in a pool of blood on the ground, squirmed. His fingers moved and a purple suction cup grew out of the fingertips.

Director C's body squirmed and stood up. He became fat and his arms stretched out to become huge, arthropod-like tentacles, more than three meters long. At the top of the tentacles were slippery suction cups like an octopus, and circles of teeth could be seen inside.

His body began to swell, with layers of fat wrapped around his neck, belly, and legs. At first glance, he looked like a Michelin tire man made of human flesh. His skin was shiny because it was stretched so tight that it looked like a giant blister that had grown on the skin after being burned. It felt like a light yellow slurry would burst out if poked with a needle.

[System prompt: The dead NPC's body has been transformed into a monster (Hungry Developer)]

[System prompt: This monster will roam around in the floor it developed, attacking anyone who enters the floor, eating their flesh and drinking their bone marrow.]

Mr. C's eyes and nose were piled up in layers of fat, forming three invisible gaps. Only his mouth became extremely large, with saw-like teeth that were extremely sharp. Saliva kept dripping from them, and a strange, muddy sound came from his throat:

"My delicious guests..."

It stretched out its incredibly long tongue and licked its lips. Its eyes glowed red. “Where is it?”

New property in Area C.

Although it was already midnight, the place was still brightly lit, and residents who were waiting for the transaction results were anxiously waiting outside the sales office.

In Sunshine City, buyers first apply for a loan from a loan agency under the developer, and then hand the money over to the developer. After that, they have to wait for 6 or 7 hours for the developer to review the amount of money and the buyer's qualifications before gradually issuing property certificates.

But today the waiting process was particularly long. It was almost four o'clock in the morning, and not even one person's property certificate qualification had been issued.

People are getting more and more anxious as they wait. Most of them cannot buy the house in full, and all of them buy it with loans. They have owed loans for decades before they even have the house. These few hours of giving the money but not getting the house are hard for everyone.

They looked up at the huge black shadow in the darkness that was just a reinforced concrete shell. A banner decorated with a circle of LED bulbs was swaying on it, with the words "Home of Sunshine, Home of Happiness" written on it.

Seeing this slogan, the anxiety in their eyes was suppressed, and a kind of yearning and hope appeared - that is the new property in Zone C, their future home.

Someone looked down at the clock and couldn't help but mutter, "It's almost four in the morning. Is the process so slow today?"

Just as he was saying this, a huge red countdown light screen projection appeared on the building.

【00:10】

【00:09】

The people waiting below looked at this huge light and shadow and began to discuss with each other in confusion:

"What is that?"

“Is this a light show for the new property?”

When the light and shadow countdown jumped to [00:01], it turned into a huge [rotten] sign.

Xiaodong in the sales office opened the door. Her face was pale. She forced a smile and bowed to apologize to everyone: "I'm sorry, something happened to our property and we need to close it temporarily. Please come tomorrow to get your certificates."