Chapter 112 Absolutely Safe Zone: Corpse Renovation Apartment, Lamp Oil Pendant...
The ghosts and monsters at Liwan Apartments are all happy to contribute to the building's development.
...To use one's own corpse to contribute to the construction? That would be quite a spirit of selflessness.
Zhou Fangdong opened the decoration interface warehouse and saw the five corpses and six coffins inside.
The body is classified as [Apartment Decoration], and the coffin is classified as [Garden Decoration].
The corpses were arranged according to the floor order. Zhou Fangdong clicked on the corpses of the Long-Tongued Ghost, the clerk of the 104 Convenience Store, and the Wedding Dress Ghost to check the decoration effect.
The curse of mutual destruction between the corpses of the 104 convenience store clerks has been lifted; the two vengeful spirits no longer need to be bound together.
Placing two corpses on either side of the convenience store entrance will increase the decoration value by 50. When two ghosts do not wish to share the same space, the corpses can take their place in performing tasks.
Zhou Fangdong noticed the key point at a glance.
50% off renovations!
Are ghost corpses really such useful decoration materials? It only gives you 150 decoration points after spending 20,000 ghost coins to decorate the walls of an entire floor.
Zhou Fangdong felt that he was gradually being assimilated by the system... There was nothing he could do, it was giving him just too much, even if decorating with ghost corpses would turn his apartment into a haunted house, he didn't care.
Zhou Fangdong then checked the effects on the other corpses.
The curse on the corpse of the sick ghost in Room 201 has been lifted. The ghost's corpse will no longer spread plague or tempt people to use the [Longevity Elixir]
The ghost's corpse can be placed in the corner of the second-floor corridor to enhance its security.
[Longevity Pot]? So that's what this supernatural item is called in the system. He remembered that the Bone Inheritance Society cultists called the pot in room 201 [Blessing Pot].
The remaining two bodies also need to be renovated on their respective floors.
The curse on the charred corpse in room 301 is that when the evil god's resurrection ritual begins, it will automatically attract its blood relatives to find it and directly transport its daughter to the mirror world.
Even if Hong Zhong hadn't brought Lu Mingbian to the Liwan Apartment, as long as the Fusu Ceremony began, she would have found the location where her mother's body was buried, and then, because her mother's body was transported to the Mirror World, she would have become the sixth body.
The curse of the pregnant ghost in room 401 is that it can create ghost babies... This ghost was tricked into becoming a surrogate mother in life, and even after her death, the cultists did not spare her corpse.
Fortunately, the curse on its corpse has now been removed.
Before decorating the apartment with the ghost corpses, Zhou Fangdong teleported to the convenience store in room 104.
The pixelated floor plan on the system interface didn't show any decoration effect, so he decided to observe it in person.
Inside the convenience store, Xiong Lei was already asleep, his hands clasped over his stomach, lying peacefully under a long table against the wall, with food crumbs still around his mouth.
Zhou Fangdong paused for a moment.
...This child is so pitiful, he looks like a homeless street child, it makes his conscience hurt.
Once the renovation is finished, I'll go write the tenant rules for room 302 and try to get the room ready for Xiaolei to move in as soon as possible.
Zhou Fangdong walked out of the convenience store and stood in front of the door. He used the decoration item [104 Convenience Store Employee Corpse] on the decoration interface.
As he operated, two pale white stone pillars slowly emerged on the walls on either side of the convenience store's entrance.
The stone pillars appeared to be embedded in the wall, with only half of them visible. They were not ordinary curved pillars, but rather sharply angular, as if composed of four rectangles joined together.
These two stone pillars are very tall, reaching all the way to the ceiling. The base of the left pillar is carved with many hideous and vivid demon faces. The distorted faces seem to be alive, layered and overlapping each other, making it look at first glance as if countless evil spirits are being suppressed beneath the pillar.
The base of the right pillar is covered with reliefs of deformed limbs, with grotesque hands and feet twisted together like ropes, forming bizarre swirling patterns.
Although it's a bit plain, it's not bad-looking.
Zhou Fangdong had assumed the system would simply and crudely stick the two ghost corpses onto the convenience store door like door gods. The convenience store's glass door was a double door, one on each side, so he could just pull the corpse's hand to open the door to enter—quite unique.
But to my surprise, the system only turned the corpse into a stone pillar.
Well, the basic style is fine, it's just that the color is a bit too white and doesn't quite match the messy walls of the apartment.
Decorating a basic white wall costs 5,000 Ghost Coins...
Zhou Fangdong looked at the two white stone pillars and the wall next to them covered with stains and graffiti. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to renovate the wall with the tenant's room door.
Even when the stone pillars were no longer there, and the ceiling and floor were already finished, Zhou Fangdong never considered renovating the walls.
But the contrast is too stark now; with these two pillars leaning against the wall, the dirt on the wall looks glaringly obvious.
After clicking to decorate the wall, stains such as bloodstains and graffiti on the wall disappear instantly, as if an invisible eraser quickly wiped away these marks.
Zhou Fangdong glanced at the decoration points given for renovating the walls...
Sigh, 5,000 Ghost Coins for a single wall only gives 37 decoration points, that's so stingy.
Zhou Fangdong continued to teleport to the second and third floors, and in the same way decorated the corridors with the ghost corpses of those two floors, while also decorating a wall on each floor.
Because the purification and protection equipment for the fourth floor has not yet been installed, the renovation of the fourth floor has been temporarily suspended.
This series of actions resulted in a total increase of 311 decoration points, with the four corpses contributing 200 of them.
Just as Zhou Fangdong finished renovating the ghostly corpse in the third-floor room, the system's electronic voice suddenly sounded:
[The system has detected that corpse pillars have been installed on floors one through three, and the installation value has been increased to over 1300, thus enhancing the protective effect. The elevators from floors one through three can be used normally during the day. Floors one through three will be isolated from the main god instance and protected from the evil god's invasion.]
The security measures on the third-floor doors have been strengthened, preventing the ghostly aura from spreading further into the hallway. Furniture can now be purchased normally at the Guijia Furniture Store.
It seems all the hard work paid off. The tenants on the first to third floors are now safe, and they can even place new orders with Guijia Furniture Store.
After all, it wasn't a good idea to keep bothering Hou San to help with getting furniture; he also needed to mind the paper-craft shop. Guijia Furniture Shop was a legitimate furniture store, not only selling high-quality furniture with a consistent style, but most importantly, they could use money from his bank card, without needing to use ghost currency.
Zhou Fangdong then checked the effect of the six coffins in the [Garden Decorations] section.
These six coffins are the exterior of the flower bed, but they can only change the appearance of the long, narrow flower bed. The two flower beds he built in the apartment garden are both circular.
The coffin gives 50 decoration points each...
Zhou Fangdong checked the amount of ghost coins needed to repair the long, narrow flower bed.
Compared to the basic round flower bed, this long, narrow flower bed, which acts like a partition, costs 100 Ghost Coins more. It costs 600 Ghost Coins to repair one and increases the decoration value by 60.
After changing the appearance of the coffin, it's equivalent to a flower bed having 110 decoration points, which is very cost-effective, considering that it only costs 1,000 ghost coins to build a fountain, which only gives 100 decoration points.
After just finishing the renovation of three walls in the apartment, I still have 5,000 Ghost Coins left from the morning's earnings, which is more than enough. Let's build six long, narrow flower beds.
To avoid blocking the way, Zhou Fangdong adjusted the layout of the flower beds, moving the long, narrow flower beds to the iron railings on both sides of the garden.
The moment the flower bed was completed, three mahogany coffins emerged simultaneously from the ground on both sides of the garden.
Unlike the round flower beds filled with fresh flowers, these long, coffin-shaped flower beds are filled with succulents and mushrooms.
Inside the coffin, in the black sludge, scarlet mushrooms resembling the skinned hands of children circled the edge of the flower bed, and in the center of these hand-shaped mushrooms were clusters of dark red flesh.
These fleshy pieces seemed to be alive, their bluish-purple veins pulsating as if they were beating with an unknown heart. They were arranged in layers like lotus petals, as if deliberately placed in the soil, disguised as succulent potted plants.
Whether it's the coffin or the 'succulents', they're all uniformly red, which looks quite monotonous.
Looking at the familiar scarlet chunks of flesh, Zhou Fangdong said helplessly, "They look familiar, System. Isn't this the mutated flesh Ganoderma from room 209? I thought it disappeared after the Ghost Postman took over the room, but I didn't expect it to find a new job in the apartment's flower bed."
"By the way, did these fleshy Ganoderma lucidum grow voluntarily, or were they captured by you to be used as laborers? They didn't look this delicate before, did they?"
[The system doesn't understand what the host is saying. It's normal for the flowers in the apartment's flower bed to change depending on the appearance of the flower bed.]
"Fine, whatever makes you happy."
After the renovation was completed, Zhou Fangdong first placed an order with Guijia Furniture Store through the furniture purchasing app, then sent the order back to his room and began to devise the rules for renting room 302.
While Zhou Fangdong was writing the tenant guidelines, a shared post quietly climbed to the top of the trending list on a certain social media platform.
The post title is: [After encountering a ghost in my rented apartment, my life was saved by a small product promoted by a 'easy money' livestreamer]
Original Poster: This is based on my own experience; my hands are still shaking.
Yesterday, I saw a paranormal streamer post an advertisement video. Because the streamer's promotion of the stuff was so outrageous, and it seemed like he was just trying to make easy money after becoming popular, I bought one, thinking I'd make a debunking video.
But I never expected that this outrageous thing would save my life.
To recap, I was really unlucky. A while ago, I encountered a really stupid landlord when I rented a place. I reminded him several times, but he still didn't help me apply to the Bureau of Supervision to replenish the energy of the room's protective device. As a tenant without a property certificate, I couldn't apply to the Bureau of Supervision myself, and then the device's protective effect failed, and I was attacked by a vengeful ghost.
Fortunately, the lawyer I found was very helpful. He not only helped me win the case, but also made the landlord and the supervisory bureau compensate me for emotional distress and reimburse my medical expenses. I heard that the supervisory bureau will also adjust the rules, so that tenants can apply to replenish the wind chime energy themselves with their rental contracts in the future.
But that's not the point. The point is, until yesterday, I realized that I've never truly escaped that paranormal event!!
Luckily, I managed to snag the [lamp oil pendant] from the link recommended by that paranormal streamer last night, otherwise I wouldn't even know how I died.
1L: Front sofa
2L: Blow your tongue, share your made-up story.
3L: Are all these product placement ads coming here? That's terrifying, isn't this supposed to be a rental forum?
OP: I swear I didn't make up a story, and I'm not selling anything. There were only 100 product links, and they were all snapped up long ago.
Let me first tell you about the paranormal events I encountered because of that idiot landlord.
After realizing that the landlord hadn't helped me apply for energy replenishment, I planned to move out of the house first. However, I didn't expect it to be too late; something sinister had already set its sights on me.
Before I moved out that day, I ordered takeout and then received a call from the delivery person.
At first, he asked me where I was. I thought the delivery guy was almost there and wanted to confirm the address with me, so I told him my rented address.
However, to my surprise, less than a minute later, the delivery guy called me again. This time, he didn't ask me where I was, but said he was at the intersection of Jinxi Street.
I thought this guy was really interesting, why was he broadcasting his address in real time? I was about to tease him a bit, but he hung up right after he finished giving his address.
Less than two minutes later, the delivery guy called again, this time saying he was outside my apartment complex.
The original poster felt something was strange, but assumed he was being stopped by security and couldn't get in. Just as he was about to tell him to come in through the side door, the man hung up after giving his address.
Then, a little while later, the delivery guy called me again and told me that he was outside my building.
My first reaction wasn't that it was haunted, but that I'd encountered a lunatic. I was planning to tell him to leave it downstairs and I could pick it up myself later, but he just hung up on me again.
The original poster was worried that the guy might be a mentally unstable psychopath or something, and was about to file a complaint with the food delivery platform when their phone rang again.
I didn't answer the phone this time, but my phone answered by itself. It was the same delivery guy on the other end. He said he was right at my doorstep.
There was only a door separating us.
Even if I were the most oblivious person, I would have realized something was wrong in this situation. Without saying a word, I immediately climbed out of the living room window.
...
11L: The original poster is so stupid. Knowing that the room's protective effect was almost gone, they still ordered takeout. Why didn't they go out and find a hotel to stay in earlier?
12L: Serves him right. If he had bought a house earlier, none of this would have happened. Why did he have to move around so much and complain about the landlord? It's exhausting to watch.
13L: Who can afford a house these days? It's easy for you to say that when you're not in the same boat. This forum lives up to its reputation as garbage; there are so many trolls. I'll just stick to reading the original poster's posts.
OP: Luckily, my house is on the third floor, and there are big trees below to stop me, so I only fractured my left foot.
Although my feet hurt a lot, I didn't dare to stay near my home, so I called the supervisory bureau and told them that I had encountered a ghost and asked them to send someone over to handle it as soon as possible.
To my surprise, the voice on the other end of the phone was still that of the delivery guy... He said, "You went out? Then I'll come down and find you."
I was so scared I almost peed my pants!
I threw my phone away and ran towards the gate of the residential area, but to my surprise, even after throwing it away, I could still hear the phone ringing. No matter where I ran, the delivery guy's voice followed me everywhere.
Later, I was rescued when I encountered a patrolling investigator from the Paranormal Investigation Department on the street.
After that came the lawsuit with the landlord. During this time, I stayed at the hospital affiliated with the Inspection Bureau. Perhaps the Inspection Bureau's protective measures were effective, because I didn't hear the phone ring again. After the lawsuit was over, I underwent a lot of tests, then left the hospital and found a hotel to stay in temporarily.
Now let me talk about the [lamp oil pendant] I bought.
I placed the order at 5 pm yesterday and it was delivered at 7 pm... It was terrifying. You know, the shelter equipment in the hotel rooms is updated and maintained by the Bureau of Inspection, so there shouldn't be any energy shortage. But that middle-aged man in the old-fashioned postman uniform still appeared out of thin air in my room!
He's definitely a ghost! A normal person can't possibly survive with half their body turned into a piece of paper and a huge hole in half their body!
But he didn't hurt me... After the middle-aged man appeared out of nowhere, he simply tossed a small box to me, then left with the words, "Remember to write a good review for Liwan Apartment after you're done," and disappeared.
I didn't plan to open the box at the time, since my fracture hadn't fully healed yet, and I really didn't want to cause any more trouble.
But to my surprise, even though I didn't open the box, the contents still worked... A dark shadow jumped out of my shadow!
The humanoid shadowy figure screamed and left the room, as if it had encountered something extremely terrifying.
And its voice was exactly the same as that of the delivery guy from that day.
As it left, a note fell down, which read, "I am right behind you now."
After the shadowy figure left, the note spontaneously combusted without a flame.
While I was still in shock and didn't understand what was happening, the inspectors rushed in.
It turns out they've been secretly observing me all along... They've been chasing this ghost for a long time; this ghost is a combination of some kind of curse and monster with a physical form. The supernatural fluctuations emanating from it are also very strange, undetectable by ordinary equipment, and it can even disguise itself as a human to live.
Many citizens have already fallen victim to this monster without anyone knowing.
After discovering that I was also being watched, the supervisory bureau began to closely monitor me.
The investigator said that if it weren't for that lamp oil pendant, I would most likely be dead tonight... I still feel scared when I think about it now.
Later, the inspectors told me that I must wear this lamp oil pendant with me at all times. This pendant can ward off ghosts and prevent them from easily approaching the wearer. If placed at home, it can also protect an area of about 100 square meters from being invaded by ghosts.
Listen to my advice, everyone! Go check out that online store called 'Liwan Apartment' for your own and your family's safety! When the [lamp oil pendant] is released, be sure to grab it immediately! It could save your life!
That's all for today's sharing. If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do. Good advice can't persuade a damned ghost.
[6666 likes, 3455 favorites, 18888 shares]
Zhou Fangdong was halfway through writing the tenant rules for room 302 when the system suddenly emitted a notification sound:
[Gained 100 reputation points... 200... 300 reputation points!]
[Automatically stabilize Yin energy with reputation... Absolutely safe zone successfully established]
[Absolutely safe zone: 1st floor of the apartment building]
[The comprehensive protective structure on the first floor of Liwan Apartment has been successfully completed. Regardless of day or night, ghosts or extraterrestrial projections from above cannot reach the first floor via the elevator. The first floor of the apartment has been removed from the area targeted in the Night Raid by a Hundred Ghosts mission.]
[Please continue your efforts to improve the reputation of Liwan Apartments and maintain its stability.]
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