Chapter 24 The Crybaby's Endless Escape (Part 5)
“Tsk… 414,” Mo Wuchang clicked his tongue softly, “This is clearly a death sentence!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed his thigh—the slender, delicate, and often tearful Si Yisi staring at him with teary eyes.
Mo Wuchang: "???"
He immediately changed his tune: "Ah, you'll gain experience from dying a lot, okay!"
Si Yisi looked at him as if he were mentally challenged.
The cheerful, joyful voice didn't stop; it continued broadcasting like a continuous melody:
"You are delighted with the arrival of these four new tenants, and the new tenants are equally delighted. They have prepared generous New Year's gifts every night to welcome you~ And the tenants are welcome to visit often~"
No sooner had the words left his mouth than a crackling sound of electromagnetic interference rang out.
A mechanical, formulaic female voice replaced the cheerful one.
The female voice said—
[Welcome to the six players of the New Year's Rental Room Game. Your mission is to survive for seven days! Have fun! Hehehehehe...]
The hee-hee-hee ending sound sent chills down one's spine.
However, some players noticed the information in the female voice! Six players?! But there were seven players standing there!
Who isn't human?
Many players have picked up on this information.
For a moment, the entire room fell silent, and every player looked at the other players with the same wary and suspicious gaze.
The game hasn't even officially started yet, but the players' hearts are already scattered!
Si Yisi pursed her lips. Suspicion is the most deadly thing. This damn game is quite well played!
However, this also made Si Yisi think. He wondered... was it really okay to design this kind of small world?
Why was he pulled in by Shen Chen himself, instead of being entrusted with a mission by the small world?
The door to the rented room was pushed open, and a thin, withered old man came out leaning on a cane.
The old man's gaze was cold and terrifying, looking at the players as if they were dishes being cooked.
“I’m the landlord of this rental property. You’ve all been very busy during the New Year, so you haven’t had a chance to meet your new tenants. But tonight, your four roommates will be back. However, they paid a high price this time, so you’ll have to make room for them.”
“Our rental property has three floors. There is one vacant room on the first and second floors, and two vacant rooms on the third floor. Each room has two beds and is for two people only.”
"You can distribute it yourselves." The old man slowly walked back, and the players heard him mutter maliciously under his breath, "Pah, what a load of crap, paying such a pittance in rent to fool people? They might as well just die!"
Do you find the rent too low?
What kind of notification would I receive if I proactively increased the rent?
Shen Chen's memories are mostly vague. Si Yisi knows he passed, but she is not very clear about some of the specific processes.
In this particular game level, Shen Chen was lucky and managed to survive in a daze.
The landlord had disappeared, so the players had no choice but to squeeze into the rental room as well.
The seven players sat around a round table, their gazes heavy.
A bespectacled, ordinary-looking man was the first to raise his hand and suggest, "How should we assign rooms?"
There were four rooms for them to live in, and two sets of keys were left on the table, four of which were marked "Old".
However, it is a strict rule that only two people can live in a room, which means that one of the players must live in a room alone.
Qi Muyang was the first to make a move, pointing his gun directly at the other players and making an undisguised threat: "I won't participate in your room assignments. I just need to protect my interests, such as... living with him."
He chose Qi Yang, the blond-haired kid with unconventional long hair who had been following behind him.
The players looked at each other, and only reluctantly agreed under the absolute threat of force.
How should the remaining players be assigned to rooms? Jia Yingrong, the player with glasses, suggested drawing lots, and this method was unanimously agreed upon.
After one round of selection—
Si Yisi looked at the note with the order written on it in her hand, and tears immediately welled up in her eyes.
...happy.
Seeing her cousin's utterly devastated expression, Chen Mengxi comforted him, saying, "Chenchen, don't be afraid, your older cousin is here."
This sentence is like a panacea; it sounds comforting, but it has no real practical use.
Is she there? What is she doing here? Could she possibly run into Si Yisi's room in the middle of the night to share his hardships?
Si Yisi pretended to be very touched, ignoring the suggestive look Mo Wuchang gave him, and remained determined to live alone.
Isn't it more fun to be alone?
The results of the draw came out one by one: Mo Wuchang and the bespectacled player Jia Yingrong shared a room, a young woman and Chen Mengxi shared a room, and Si Yisi had a room to herself.
The young female player who shared a room with Chen Mengxi was splattered with blood by the old man who died on the bus. Her face was covered in black bloodstains, and she was in a daze, which was a sign that she would die young.
Si Yisi could tell that Chen Mengxi harbored a hidden dissatisfaction.
She was probably hoping to be paired with a more capable character, but instead, she ended up with a burden.
Chen Mengxi appeared friendly on the surface, and no one could see through her dark thoughts.
The landlord wasn't there, and the new, inhuman tenants didn't arrive until evening, meaning they had time to look for clues.
The landlord said the players were too busy to meet the new tenants, implying they had actually been living there for a while. The cheerful noise also encouraged them to visit other tenants—
This is something that can be easily discovered, but it depends on whether you have the courage to dig it out.
Si Yisi naturally wouldn't just sit idly by, but he was also one of the more unusual players who decided to look for clues—
He really was crying the whole time! He was sobbing uncontrollably! He even had the leisure to pull out a whole box of tissues from somewhere to wipe his eyes and tears!
Si Yisi completely ignored the strange looks from the other players.
Endure, endure!
I'm the fattest system!
Si Yisi experienced the host's hardships for the first time, but that didn't stop him from still disliking the host.
If you can't even handle such a small setback, you might as well go home and farm!
However... well, it seems that many of the former hosts of the 414 system were indeed sent to waste recycling labor reformation.
"Squeak."
Si Yisi started looking from the third floor of the rented house, thus avoiding the other players who were looking for clues from the first floor.
Each floor of the rental house has three rooms: one room on the first and second floors, and two rooms on the third floor, which are allocated to players.
One of the rooms on the first floor is a storage room, so the rooms allocated to the "new tenant" Ghost are one room on the first floor, one room on the third floor, and two rooms on the second floor.
The room on the third floor that Si Yisi looked at was simply furnished, and he only smelled a strange odor in the toilet.
He then went up to the second-floor room and bumped into Jia Yingrong, who was wearing glasses.
Si Yisi nodded to Jia Yingrong, and the two of them searched the rooms on the second floor together in perfect unison.
“Here.” Si Yisi pulled a tangled strand of black hair out from the crack of the worn-out sofa.
“I have one here too.” Jia Yingrong found a strand of long hair tangled around the showerhead in the bathroom.
Aside from having an unusually large amount of hair, there were no other clues.
As for the room on the left side of the second floor... Si Yisi found nothing this time.
It was spotless inside, as if nothing dirty had ever lived there.
On the first floor, Si Yisi found some scraps of paper, but the meaning of the paper was very vague.
Si Yisi narrowed his eyes. He wondered if the players who arrived here first would secretly hide some clues.
Of course, this is just speculation.
Si Yisi returned to his room on the third floor, where his neighbors were Qi Muyang and that blond-haired kid.
To be honest, Si Yisi's searches were all just precautions; if a night raid were to actually happen...
The ghost might be torn to pieces by him in his sleep.
In the dead of night, Si Yisi opened her eyes in complete darkness.
Suddenly, an eye filled with bloody tears appeared right next to Si Yisi's eyes!
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