Chapter 111 The Frugal and Thrifty System Creates the God-Capturing Device, Xiao Xiao...
Looking at the reputation value on the system interface, Zhou Fangdong fell silent.
The increase in reputation is actually zero.
The number displayed is still a bright red -999... Just how low is the reputation of Liwan Apartments?
It's also possible that the [Lamp Oil Pendant] only arrived yesterday, and its protective effect hasn't been activated yet, resulting in minimal increase in reputation.
Once customers have posted their reviews of the [lamp oil pendant], the reputation should increase significantly... Zhou Fangdong silently comforted himself.
After turning off the system panel, he first went to the 104 convenience store to check on Xiao Lei.
This player has made the convenience store his home, using the teddy bear as a mattress on the floor. He sits on it, counting the props and gold bars in front of him.
The time between entering the third-floor dungeon and the Evil God's clone invading the dungeon was too short. Xiong Lei only had time to take out his important items and a small portion of gold bars; the rest were still in his storage space.
However, these gold bars are enough. The convenience store items are free, so he probably doesn't need to spend any money.
The only thing that worried him was the rent.
The rent in the God's Space is particularly expensive. Player rooms in the God's Space are rented by the day, and you have to pay 200 points to rest for a day. If you can't afford to pay, you have to keep clearing dungeons.
Clearing a B-rank dungeon only yields 300 points. Ordinary players are reluctant to waste their points on resting, so they generally won't choose to rent a room in the God Space. Instead, they can only keep clearing dungeons and looking for a place to rest in the supernatural dungeons.
Thankfully, redeeming food and other necessities through the points system doesn't require points, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to survive.
I wonder how much the rent is for this apartment room, which is even scarier than a ghost story...
I hope that by improving my relationship with that landlord, he will be able to give me a discount on the rent.
Seeing that Xiong Lei was concentrating on taking stock of his assets, Zhou Fangdong did not go up to disturb him.
After hearing Zhang Qingyang's loud and clear wail and confirming that the young Taoist priest was also safe, Zhou Fangdong teleported directly to the basement.
He is preparing to create the [God's Decoy].
I just used an evil god clone to corrupt a main god instance, so I need to quickly divert the main god's attention and stop it from staring at the apartment.
It's quite normal for the 'evil god' to wander around the apartment before leaving, since it wouldn't stay in one place for too long in order to expand its followers.
...Sigh, he's so enthusiastic, he arranged the entire itinerary for the evil god so clearly.
After crafting the [God's Trap], use [Ritual Inquiry] to select an area with many cultists and use it to get the God to help clear out the cultists... If you can find an evil god, even better, just let them fight like dogs.
I wonder if that evil god is still in the Mirror World. Yesterday, it snatched away the remains of the ancient god right in front of it. I wonder how furious that guy must be.
Zhou Fangdong wasn't afraid at all about settling accounts with the evil god and the main god after they met. Leaving aside whether the main god, having been tricked like this, would still be able to communicate properly with the evil god, in the current situation, even if the evil god explained, it would be useless; like mud dripping down one's crotch, even if it's not shit, it's still shit.
—If it looks like an avatar of an evil god, and its aura is that of an avatar of an evil god, then it is an avatar of an evil god.
When Zhou Fangdong arrived at the basement, he discovered that Yingmei's aesthetic sense had become increasingly distorted, as she seemed to have learned it from someone else.
God knows how terrifying it was when he searched left and right but couldn't find the Shadow Demon, and then looked up to find a humanoid spider with its own face stuck to the ceiling.
Upon seeing that Zhou Fangdong had discovered her, Yingmei grinned from ear to ear and happily lowered her head to snuggle up to her master.
Zhou Fangdong took a step back in disgust, and expressionlessly pushed the head of the humanoid creature whose body was pressed against the ceiling and whose neck was more than a meter long to the side.
This is so strange. It's time to buy some children's books to correct Yingmei's aesthetic sense.
Zhou Fangdong bypassed the pendulum-like head of the Shadow Demon and arrived near the two large iron pots in the center of the basement.
The corpse that was boiled yesterday has been used to extract lamp oil, which has been placed on the long table. Two jars of oil were extracted this time as well.
Zhou Fangdong put the two jars of lamp oil into his inventory.
He now has a total of 4 jars of lamp oil and 12 corpses in his possession.
He doesn't plan to make any more lamp oil or lamp oil byproducts until all the feedback on the [lamp oil pendant] is available.
The current lamp oil reserves are sufficient; we cannot waste the corpse resources here.
Zhou Fangdong opened the by-product manufacturing page and instructed the corpse worker in front of the workbench to create a [God Decoy] using supernatural props and two lumps of evil god derivatives.
The [God's Trap] is a black, spherical object, about the size of a palm, and as hard as a rock.
There's a human face on the surface of the black sphere, with curved eyes and a curved mouth, and the pupils slanted to one side... exactly the same as the [funny] expression, maximizing its satirical power.
Zhou Fangdong opened the ritual query interface and found a place in the suburbs with a lot of cultists, and directly used the [God Decoy].
While Zhou Fangdong was busy in the basement, Xiao Xiaoyu, a courier sorting worker on the first floor, saw her parents in the colorful room of the express delivery station.
She wasn't born blind; her inability to see normally is the price she pays for using the [Yin-Yang Eyes] skill.
Upon entering the courier station, she was first amazed by the dreamy combination of pink floors, green walls, and blue shelves, and then she noticed three people in the station... to be precise, three ghosts.
Apart from the middle-aged male ghost in a military green uniform with dark skin whom she didn't recognize, she was familiar with the other two.
After many years, Xiao Xiaoyu, whose body has remained forever in the form of a child, met her parents again.
The two figures she had been longing for day and night were now standing in front of the express delivery shelf, smiling at her.
Her father looked much older than she remembered. His back was hunched, his hair was gray, and wrinkles were spreading around his eyes. His large hands, which had once held her up during her childhood, now had many small scars and thick calluses.
Her mother stood beside her father, her short hair carefully combed, her graying temples tucked behind her ears with an old hair clip. Her warm eyes were fixed on her, filled with the joy of something lost and then regained.
Their figures would occasionally become slightly blurry, like the image of an old television with a poor signal. Although they had all changed into brand-new deliveryman uniforms, bloodstains were still spreading outwards from their chests.
Everything has changed, yet everything seems the same.
...They are already dead, and she will never grow up again; time has stopped for them.
After a ten-year separation, Xiao Xiaoyu did not break down in tears and throw herself into her parents' arms.
She simply blinked hard to clear the blurry tears from her eyes, then forcefully pulled at the corners of her mouth, revealing a wide smile to her parents.
She was like a little girl who had come home late from school, pushing open the door that had kept her away for ten years, and smiling at her parents as she always did when she came home from school:
"Dad, Mom, I'm home."
The couple, now ghosts, gently embraced the little girl running towards them with their intangible hands.
They didn't ask why her body hadn't changed in ten years, nor did they recount what they had gone through to find her over the past decade. They simply smiled and said, "It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back."
The couple held their child tenderly in their arms, feeling an unprecedented sense of contentment.
The decade-long search was worthwhile for them.
Although we went through a lot of pain, as long as the final outcome is good and the family is reunited, that's enough.
In her parents' illusory embrace, Xiao Xiaoyu closed her eyes contentedly.
This little girl, who struggled to survive in the God Realm, traversed mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and endless cycles of reincarnation, has finally returned home today.
The ghost postman watched the family of three with envy on his face. The seemingly stern middle-aged man even had a hint of tears in his eyes.
He thought of his family, of his wife and children who were trapped in the back building of the apartment building because of the live pile driving, and who were still acting as human pillars in the foundation of the back building.
If the landlord was able to find the human tenant's family, he must be able to find his family as well, right?
Just then, the ghost postman noticed that someone seemed to be loitering at the entrance of the courier station.
In order to prevent the visitor from disturbing the family's reunion, the ghost postman walked out of the courier station and found a female tenant wearing a hat and mask lingering at the door.
The ghost postman approached him and asked, "Hello, are you sending a package?"
Tang Huili withdrew her gaze from the package and handed the wrapped manga manuscript to the ghost postman: "Yes, I need to send something. The address is written on the package. If you can't see it clearly, I can send it to you via my phone."
When Tang Huili arrived at the courier station, she hesitated for a while at the entrance. She initially thought she had come to the wrong place, but it turned out that this place, with its playground-like color scheme, really was a courier station.
"The next city?" The ghost postman looked at the address on the package and nodded slightly. "I understand. It will be delivered within half an hour."
Tang Huili was surprised again.
...It can be delivered in half an hour. It's really worthy of being the express station of Liwan Apartment. The efficiency is too high.
The ghost postman stuffed the package into the hole in his chest, his eyes burning with a fierce fighting spirit.
He needs to work hard from now on! As long as he can improve his relationship with the landlord, one day, that landlord will surely be able to reunite his family!
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[Ghost Postman Cai Yizhan's favorability has reached 80. Please claim your favorability reward in time.]
Upon receiving this notification, Zhou Fangdong, who was still in the basement, paused for a moment and carefully examined the pop-up window.
Yes, the Ghost Postman's favorability rating has indeed increased... but he didn't do anything just now, how could that increase his favorability rating?
Zhou Fangdong stroked his chin, lost in thought.
The only thing he just did seems to be sending Tang Huili to the apartment's courier station to mail the original comic manuscript.
...I understand. The Ghost Postman must be the kind of hard-working person who really loves his job. It seems I should assign him more work in the future, so his favorability rating should rise faster.
Zhou Fangdong closed the by-product manufacturing page and opened the public area beautification page.
After cleaning up room 302, digesting the core of the evil god's clone, and eroding the main god's instance, he earned nearly 20,000 ghost coins that morning. It was time to start the renovations.
Now that both the evil god and the main god are eyeing the apartment, he must quickly increase the apartment's renovation value to enhance its defenses.
Just as he was filtering through which decoration options were more affordable, another pop-up window suddenly appeared in the system.
The evil curses on the corpses of the two employees at the 104 Convenience Store, the ghostly corpse in room 201, the ghostly corpse in room 301, and the ghostly corpse in room 401 have all been cleansed. All five corpses can be retrieved and used at any time from the warehouse under renovation.
The six coffins, as special decorative items, are also stored in the decoration page's warehouse and can be retrieved and used at any time.
Five corpses purified by ghosts? Six coffins?
Zhou Fangdong was stunned. He never expected that the system would not only bring back the ghost's corpse and coffin, but also recycle and reuse them.
...Speaking of which, they shouldn't be that poor now, so why is the system still so frugal?
And why are the ghost corpses and coffins placed in the decoration interface after purification? Does this mean that these ghost corpses and coffins can be used as apartment decorations?
After a moment of silence, Zhou Fangdong finally couldn't help but ask, "Commander, do those ghosts know about what you're doing? Although I'm currently short of decorations to improve my apartment's renovation value, I don't think I'm that desperate... This is a bit too hellish."
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