After the man in black had completely entered the restroom, Jiang Ran slammed the door shut. This door was a rare double-locking door, which could be locked from both the outside and the inside; it was practically custom-made for the rules.
The man in black then kept banging on the toilet door, signaling Jiang Ran to open it. Jiang Ran took a deep breath and leaned against the door.
A minute passed, and the banging in the toilet gradually subsided. Jiang Ran didn't dare to open the door rashly. Before the world notified him that he had successfully passed the level, anything could happen!
Two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes.
There was no sound from the toilet. Had the man in black been dealt with? Why wasn't it reported?
Meow~
The cat's meow came from behind, seemingly reminding Jiang Ran to open the door and check the situation inside.
Jiang Ran turned around and found that the cat's fur had turned pitch black, even more eerie than when she first saw it!
If you don't understand—just open the door and take a look!
A voice was beckoning Jiang Ran to open the door, and his hand inexplicably reached for the handle!
"wrong!"
Jiang Ran quickly regained consciousness and realized that her body was surrounded by wisps of black energy!
In the world of ghost stories, he came into contact with several things that were tainted by black energy, including potted plants, cat food, and other items. However, he forgot to cleanse himself during the process!
Fortunately, there were no major mistakes along the way, so they were not completely dominated by the black energy!
"You little brat, I fed you cat food, and you're still trying to trick me?!"
Jiang Ran raised his hand and fired a shot at the cat. Although the cat tried to dodge, once the SSS-level gun was aimed, whether it could escape or not was no longer up to the strange creature!
The cat was shot and fell to the ground, its body wreathed in black energy. Unlike other strange creatures that died instantly, it lay on the ground, glaring at Jiang Ran with resentment!
"You hate me? Yes, of course you should hate me."
The cat's skin and flesh were torn apart, and a mass of flesh and blood emerged from the extreme twisting, reforming into a human shape—a man in black!
"If I'm not mistaken, you were locked in the bathroom, but you turned back into a cat and went back to the other rooms through the ventilation ducts, right?"
This bizarre scene made everyone in the live stream gasp. No wonder the cat disappeared inexplicably this morning; it had just changed its identity!
"Wait a minute! Doesn't the rule say that as long as the intruder is locked in the toilet, that's all that matters? Is that rule wrong?"
"I'm a little confused too. Let's keep watching what Brother Jiang does!"
The man in black lay half-reclined on the ground, his body covered in sores, and it was clear that he had no chance of survival.
"Isn't it just because of that gun?! I think this guy from your Dragon Country can't do anything without a gun. On the third day, he actually guessed right with a 60% probability!"
A South Korean netizen was still furiously typing away in the live chat, saying that even though their people had already died while searching for the key, he was a contrarian and couldn't stop typing!
This time, Lin Changqing personally stepped in to debate with him!
"You've only seen the surface. Even if he hadn't fired that shot, the man in black had already lost."
Lin Changqing's words left everyone bewildered, but thankfully Jiang Ran stepped in to explain.
"I didn't think about this at first, perhaps because the rules made me prejudiced." Jiang Ran twirled his pistol and smiled. "Actually, I'm the one who intruded!"
This is indeed a nice single apartment, but that doesn't mean that the role of the ghost storytellers in this world is that of the apartment owner.
The man in black didn't say a word to Jiang Ran from beginning to end, because that rule was meant to restrict him!
His final move was to lure Jiang Ran into the toilet. If he could lock Jiang Ran inside, he would be swallowed up by the eerie atmosphere inside!
From the moment that rule was announced, intruders could no longer be harmed by other means. Cats were not protected by this rule, which is why they fell to the gun!
But it didn't matter anymore. When Jiang Ran realized his own identity, he naturally guessed the cat's identity as well. In other words, from that moment on, the cat had already lost!
The "black aura" represents the will of the apartment's owner, and all creatures or objects imbued with it are potential threats.
The black cat is not trustworthy because its purpose is to drive away Jiang Ran, the intruder.
The white cat signifies that the apartment's spirit has been cleansed from it, and it will turn against the strange creatures in the apartment, thus making it trustworthy.
The gray cat represents an intermediary; it will neither lead Jiang Ran to death nor protect her.
The cat doesn't have a high level of intelligence; it only knows that eating cat food will give it the power to kill intruders, which is why it craves cat food. Once the cat food is purified, it loses its appeal.
However, under the influence of the rules, the cats still eat cat food and become Jiang Ran's helpers.
The final showdown between the two sides was actually based on the question of whether to infect or purify the black energy.
[Congratulations to Jiang Ran, the Chinese ghost storyteller, for clearing the S-rank ghost story world: The Mysterious Apartment, with an overall score of 91, Excellent!]
You will receive 99% of the rewards and the opportunity to change your talents. The three talents you draw this time will not be lower than your current talent levels.
Meanwhile, Wips, who was still guarding the toilet entrance, was forcibly interrupted and kicked out of the world. He realized that someone had completed the game before him, so the ghost story world was shut down.
Fortunately, even so, he was still able to receive the second day's completion reward, which was one-seventh of the total reward.
"Is the one from the Dragon Kingdom who's ahead of me?"
Perhaps I'll be able to team up with him in the next raid.
Looking at the three SS-level talents in front of him, Jiang Ran thought to himself that it was indeed not so easy to draw an SSS-level talent; those things were really too difficult to draw!
Either you have to get a 100% pass rate, or your ancestors' graves must be incredibly lucky.
There was nothing particularly appealing about these three talents to Jiang Ran, so he simply didn't change them.
[The world is ending, 10, 9, 8...]
Gwen ran out of the bedroom: "Hey! Are you leaving?"
"That's right, don't you know who I am? Passing the level is a piece of cake for me!"
A ghost story master has no authority to take a strange individual away from the ghost story world. However, even if he did, Jiang Ran wouldn't take him. In the next world, his talent wouldn't be physical exorcism anymore. Without a means of deterrence, Gwen wouldn't be a truly harmless little girl.
"Hmph." Gwen put her hands on her hips. "If we meet in another world, remember to keep telling me stories! Otherwise, don't blame me for demanding my payment back!"
"Hehe, then let's hope we never run into each other again."
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