38 Haunted Apartment 2
◎The first tenant◎
The players of the Eternal Night Cult looked around the seventh floor. From the corridor, they saw that it was filled with rooms, and the carpet under their feet was bright red, as if it was painted with red paint.
Situ Mingliang asked kindly, "Have you chosen your room?"
Sang Mian shook the key in his hand: "I am the only one who has chosen. The landlord is really good to me."
Shen Guang of the Eternal Night Cult asked in surprise: "Did you bribe the landlord?"
The landlord couldn't stand it any longer. Didn't he look like someone who was bribed by money? So he glared at Sang Mian fiercely.
Sang Mian smiled shyly, leaving everyone with a thought-provoking back view, and then walked towards her room.
A strange smile appeared on the landlord's gloomy face. Let's start. Blind box games are so interesting.
"Oh, right, Mr. Landlord!" Sang Mian suddenly turned around: "Is this room the tenant's room?"
She had thought about this problem when the landlord gave her the key just now. The landlord clearly told them that there were tenants on every floor, so why could he let everyone choose a room at will? Wasn't he afraid of bumping into someone?
The landlord's smile froze on his face. He forced a sad expression and said reluctantly, "The Haunted Apartment hasn't received any guests for a long time. I don't know which room they live in."
The weird game really has bad intentions! The players looked at the landlord angrily, wishing they could eat him alive.
Unfortunately, they couldn't beat the landlord, so they could only buzz and ask, "Do the tenants have room keys?"
The landlord's sad eyes showed an incongruous excitement: "My spare key disappeared a month ago."
Everyone: “…”
Isn't this a big deal? It means the room is not safe at all. What if the tenants open the door with their keys at night? They will either be scared to death or dismembered. It's too dangerous.
Situ Mingliang hesitated for a moment, and then said, "We know. Thank you, Mr. Landlord, for letting us know."
Landlord: "Here are the keys for you. I will give you the tenant's unpaid bills at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning." After saying that, he threw down the keys and left.
There was another silence, and Situ Mingliang considered, "Why don't we just stay in the corridor tonight? It's safer with more people."
His proposal was accepted by the vast majority of people, and everyone sat in a row in the corridor.
The players gathered together, and the terrifying atmosphere was much less. Xia Qing exhaled and sighed, "Fortunately there is a carpet to lie on, otherwise I would not have been able to survive tonight."
Bai Tang murmured in a low voice, "I hope the tenants don't go out in the middle of the night."
Sang Mian remained silent, seemingly thinking about something.
After an unknown amount of time, the corridor gradually became colder. Xia Qing rubbed his arms, his teeth chattering with cold. "What's going on? Why is it getting colder? This damn apartment doesn't even have the heating on!"
Bai Tang: "It's normal that tenants don't have money to pay for heating if they don't pay rent."
The temperature dropped dramatically, and the three of them cuddled a little closer.
"Sister Sang, we won't freeze to death here, will we?"
"Puh, phuh, phuh!" Bai Tang covered Xia Qing's mouth: "What nonsense are you talking about? Say something auspicious."
"We really won't freeze to death here." Sang Mian, who had been silent all this time, spoke up: "Do you remember that the landlord asked us to choose a room before he left?"
Bai Tang: “Remember.”
Sang Mian: “Sometimes, the weird game will force us to do something, and if we don’t do it, it will use another method.”
Xia Qing's teeth rubbed against each other, making a "crunching" sound: "Sister Sang, what are you talking about? Why don't I understand?"
Bai Tang lowered his eyes, "So next, the system will remind us."
Sure enough, as soon as Bai Tang finished speaking, the system's voice made a sound in all the players' heads.
[Side quest: Please ask the player to successfully move into the apartment tonight]
[Side quest reward: 20 million ghost coins]
[Penalty for failure: Death]
Everyone looked up at the same time, and the system's cold reminder sounded like a death knell striking everyone's heart.
Xia Qing bit her lip. She seemed to understand what Sister Sang had just said.
Situ Mingliang got up from the ground and looked at the closed door with a serious expression: "It seems that I have to stay here today."
Shen Guang rolled his eyes and put his hands in his pockets: "If we have to move in, we must think of the safest way, or minimize the number of casualties."
Bai Tang frowned, her intuition told her that nothing good could come out of Shen Guang's mouth.
Shen Guang pulled out a tissue from his pocket and tore it into 18 pieces.
"Who has a pen?"
"I don't have a pen, but will lipstick do?" The speaker was Qin Feng from the Twilight Cross.
"Okay." Shen Guang took the lipstick and put a red dot on one of the scraps of paper. "Let's draw lots. Whoever draws the colored one will open the door. It's fair and just. Even if something unexpected happens after opening the door, it's her fate."
The players had different looks on their faces and acquiesced to Shen Guang's suggestion.
Situ Mingliang: "Are you three okay?"
Sang Mian shrugged: "Of course, I have been lucky since I was a child."
Situ Mingliang smiled slightly: "I hope the God of Good Luck is with you now."
Xia Qing said, "Eh?" "I don't like the way this guy talks. He sounds like a hermaphrodite."
Situ Mingliang was not angry when he heard this. He even smiled at Xia Qing with his eight big teeth showing.
Xia Qing felt even more uncomfortable.
I don’t know if Shen Guang did it on purpose, but Sang Mian and the other two were the last to draw lots.
Sang Mian's heart skipped a beat. She glanced at Chen Guang's half-smiley face and cursed in her heart, "This is a scam!"
In full view of everyone, she picked up one at random, and Xia Qing was so nervous that she didn't even dare to blink.
As Sangmian slowly unfolded, a red mark appeared in everyone's sight.
Xia Qing and Bai Tang said at the same time: "Fuck!"
Situ Mingliang sighed: "The God of Luck seems to have skipped work"
Sang Mian stared at Situ Mingliang and said dimly, "No, you are wrong. The God of Luck told me that I will take his place today."
Situ Mingliang raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"
Sang Mian walked back while muttering loudly: "Because the God of Luck is afraid of dogs, there are more dogs today, so he said he won't come."
Xia Qing: "Where is the dog?"
Bai Tang suppressed his laughter: "The dog put on clothes and looked like a human."
Shen Guang's face suddenly turned red, and he opened his mouth but said nothing.
Xia Qing still didn't understand, she muttered to herself: "What... Why is Sister Sang talking like a riddle?"
Situ Mingliang handed the key to Sang Mian with a normal expression: "God of Luck, I hope every room you open is safe."
Sang Mian glanced at the key and didn't take it, then turned around and knocked on the nearest apartment.
"Is anyone there? Is anyone there?" Sang Mian knocked and shouted outside the door.
The players were shocked. Was Sang Mian looking for death? Was he trying to wake up all the tenants? Was he not dying fast enough? Why didn't he use the key to open the door but knocked on it? Opening the door would give him a glimmer of hope, but knocking on the door would definitely lead to his death, and he might even drag other players down with him.
Fu Yan couldn't help but stop Sang Mian's actions: "What are you doing?"
Sang Mian was confused: "I'm knocking on the door. How can I know if there are tenants inside if I don't knock?"
Although Bai Tang didn't know what Sang Mian was thinking, she believed in him: "It's okay, I still have skills, just feel free to knock!"
Fu Yan turned her head and glared at Bai Tang. What was wrong with her? She didn't stop him but encouraged him. Aren't they teammates?
Sang Mian: "If you don't want to help, then don't make trouble, okay?"
Fu Yan: “?” Were you trying to commit suicide?
Situ Mingliang said softly, "Sang Mian, let's try another method. Life is the most important thing."
Shen Guang said unhappily, "Don't worry about her, let her do whatever she wants, we just need to run away."
Xia Qing made a cheering gesture and shouted, "Sister Sang! Ignore them, I believe in you!"
With the support of her teammates, Sang Mian gained confidence and started knocking on the door again: "Is anyone there? Is anyone in the room?"
Shen Guang complained: "We will see the consequences of seeking death later."
Sang Mian knocked for a long time but there was no response, so she chose the second room.
Everyone was puzzled. Why didn't she open the door when it was safe? Was she going to commit suicide?
The second one opened after two knocks.
The players held their breath as they saw a man in a grey bathrobe walk out. No, it was a white bathrobe, as it had not been washed for a long time, so the bathrobe was covered in dust, which led to everyone's mistaking it for his appearance.
The man's hair was messy, there was blood at the corners of his mouth, and yellow spots covered his white cheeks. From the moment he came out, a rotten smell followed him.
The man stared at Sang Mian with his hollow eyes. A white maggot crawled through his eyeball. He said, "You disturbed my sleep, so I'm going to eat you!"
"Wait." Sang Mian said seriously, "Are you still worried about not having enough money to pay the rent? Congratulations on winning the Angel Prize. The God of Luck is here to give you benefits!"
Everyone was shocked by Sang Mian's nonsense. They thought the man would just take action, but he actually asked, "What is the Angel Award?"
Sang Mian pointed at herself and said, "I am the God of Luck, and you are the winner." She smiled and said, "Is 1 billion ghost money enough to pay your rent?"
"Mr. Duo! One billion!" The man's eyes widened: "Are you really going to give me one billion ghost money?"
Sang Mian: “Yes.”
The man was so excited that one of his eyes fell out. He quickly picked up the eye from the ground and put it back into the eye socket: "God of Luck, how do I pay?"
Shen Guang's jaw dropped in shock. Is this what they call money power?
Not only Shen Guang, but all the players were surprised after seeing Sang Mian's operation. Situ Mingliang touched his chin and said, "Can we play like this?"
Shen Guang: "This is a fucking foul!"
Situ Mingliang: "No, the game does not prohibit using money to buy off weirdos."
"How much is your account? I'll transfer it to you right away." Facing the man's eager gaze, Sang Mian asked while holding her phone, "Can you tell me the room numbers of all the tenants on the seventh floor? Because everyone has won the lottery, the God of Luck is going to distribute benefits door to door."
"That's too much. How could the tenant tell her?" Shen Guang said disdainfully, "Does she really think she is the God of Luck?"
But he was soon slapped in the face.
The man scratched his messy hair and looked into the depths of the corridor with cloudy eyes. "710, 715, 719, 720, 725, they live in there. Can you transfer the money to me?"
Sang Mian readily transferred 1 billion ghost money to him. After the transfer, she casually asked, "Now that you have money, can you pay the rent?"
Hearing the word "rent", the man went back to his room and closed the door, still mumbling: "I will never pay the rent, absolutely impossible, the money is all mine, only a lunatic would pay the rent."
The movements are smooth and the door closes very smoothly.
Sang Mian was disappointed and said speechlessly: "...He has money, why doesn't he pay the rent?"
Shen Guang sneered: "Why should people pay rent? Isn't it better to live here for free?"
This makes sense. They have lived here for so long without paying rent, so they have long lost the concept of paying rent.
Sang Mian, who received nine years of compulsory education, condemned this behavior. She said angrily: "I thought they didn't pay the rent because they didn't have money, but it turns out they don't pay even if they have money. This is too much!"
Players: "......" Is this the point? The point is that she really succeeded! !
Shen Guang, whose cheek was aching, couldn’t help but ask curiously: “How do you know that the weirdo won’t attack you, and even tell you the room number?”
"I don't know." Sang Mian spread his hands innocently: "But if he doesn't pay the rent, he must have no money. Since he has no money, I can just give him money. As for the room number, I was just trying it out. I didn't expect him to really tell me."
Such a reasonable explanation, Shen Guang began to doubt his own IQ. Why didn't he think of using money to lure tenants?
Xia Qing seemed to see through his thoughts. She said with a sympathetic look, "Don't doubt your intelligence. After all, you don't have that much money."
Shen Guang: "..." Fuck! Is it so great to be rich?
It turns out that being rich is really a big deal.
Shen Guang asked blankly: "Then do you want to continue giving benefits?"
Sang Mian looked at him as if he were a fool: "Are you a spendthrift? You can't squander money like this. Besides, we already know the tenants' rooms. We just need to avoid them next time."
As she spoke, she took out the key and opened the door of 701: "Why are you still standing there? Complete the side quest."
At this time, everyone reacted and came forward to get the keys to choose a room.
Before everyone entered the room, Situ Mingliang called everyone and said, "Let's set up the group chat first to facilitate communication."
Sang Mian opened the other party and created a group chat. Xia Qing muttered, "I really want to live with Sister Sang, but unfortunately the landlord won't let me."
Bai Tang: "To be safe, it's better to listen to the landlord. It will be quick at night. Just lock the door and don't open it easily." She gave a lot of instructions, fearing that Xia Qing didn't understand.
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