Chapter 162 Unity Doesn't Necessarily Mean Strength 16th Floor Tenant, Gain...
Since it was already daylight, Zhou Fangdong quickly found the remaining three ghosts on the 15th floor and turned them into ghost tenants.
No wonder these six ghosts were able to survive the [Half-Body Shrine] skill; their survival ability is truly remarkable.
Of the three that Zhou Fangdong initially caught, one changed its body color and lay flat on the ceiling to hide itself, while the other two shrank to the size of fists and hung in the corner of the ceiling like spiders.
The three that were found later were even more formidable.
One disguised itself as a wooden plank nailed to a window, and the other disguised itself as a piece of wall plaster.
Moreover, this disguise is not just a transformation that changes appearance, but a complete change in the state of the soul, as if they are not ghosts at all, but just part of the apartment... they are practically innate building materials.
If Zhou Fangdong hadn't been using the [Heavenly Eye] skill to patrol around, they probably wouldn't have been discovered at all.
The last ghost must have possessed the ability to split its soul to save its life. When Zhou Fangdong found it, the ghost's aura was already very weak, almost indistinguishable from the ghosts in the lower-floor corridors.
Because they were all irrational and vengeful ghosts, Zhou Fangdong transformed them into ghost tenants and then imprisoned them in the hidden mirror space of the apartment on Slime Street.
The facilities around this apartment can be used to imprison ghost tenants; the ghost postman's family also briefly stayed here.
The reason they were locked up here first was because Zhou Fangdong didn't want to renovate the garden yet.
He's on the 15th floor now; one elevator ride will take him to the 16th. Having spent the whole night getting two keys, he wants to go check out the room on the 16th floor first.
Let's talk about renovations later; we can do it after we've checked the rooms.
Zhou Fangdong stepped into the elevator.
The floor number panel inside the elevator originally only had floor buttons from 1 to 15.
But after he obtained the first key to the 16th floor room, the number 16 appeared on the panel.
Zhou Fangdong pressed the button for the 16th floor, and the elevator began to sway and rise.
Despite it being only one floor away, the elevator took several minutes to ascend.
As soon as the elevator arrived and the doors opened a crack, thick blood mist eagerly rushed into the car.
The tiny droplets of blood that had condensed into mist refracted an eerie luster under the dim lights of the elevator.
Surrounded by the blood mist, Zhou Fangdong's temples began to throb, and a familiar stinging sensation spread from his temples to the inside of his skull—this pain was exactly the same as when he used the [Half-Body Shrine] the day before yesterday.
Just then, more than a dozen pale hands grabbed the door crack and forced the slowly opening elevator door open. Three overlapping faces, resembling white masks, squeezed into the elevator along with the mist.
After returning from the City of the Wrongfully Dead, Zhou Fangdong had been carrying the cleaver that had been restored to its normal size. Upon seeing this, he instinctively slashed at it.
The three eerie masked faces were neatly split in two from the middle, but they did not disappear. Instead, countless sharp teeth grew out of the cracks and continued to bite at Zhou Fangdong.
By this time, Zhou Fangdong had gotten used to the sudden pain. Seeing that the guy still dared to attack him, he used the [Judgment·Decision] skill to devour it instead.
I received 10,000 ghost coins... This guy is an Outer God projection.
Moreover, when Zhou Fangdong swung the giant blade, he discovered that after returning to his apartment, he no longer needed to recharge his Ghost Coins to use the knife, which was a pleasant surprise.
Zhou Fangdong walked out of the elevator with a cold face. As soon as he took a step, several more ghostly figures rushed over.
The ghosts and projections of the outer gods on the 16th floor are extremely aggressive and irrational.
They've gone so crazy they've lost even their basic survival instincts.
The powerful deterrent effect of the [Judgment/Decision] skill also works on irrational ghosts. Although these guys will feel scared, they will only freeze for a moment before changing from a frenzied attack state to a state of being scared and frenziedly attacking at the same time.
Although some ghosts on other floors have lost their minds, they still feel fear and will hide or play dead when they encounter powerful beings.
But the guys on the 16th floor were completely controlled by their bloodlust.
Zhou Fangdong had no patience for these mentally ill people... Since they never learn from their mistakes, he might as well just beat them to death.
After clearing for half a day, I obtained another 40,000 ghost coins and finally cleared a path to room 1601.
Looking at his Ghost Coin balance, Zhou Fangdong felt a bit emotional.
He still gets more resources from farming on higher floors. Now his Ghost Coins savings have returned to the 40s, becoming 420,000. Rounding it off, the renovation on the 5th floor was practically free.
Although he cleared away the evil spirits blocking his way, Zhou Fangdong still couldn't reach room 1601; he was lost.
Just a short distance from the elevator and around the corner, he ended up in the stairwell three times in a row.
Is the negative effect of being directionally challenged by a [white paper lantern] really that severe?
This is far more than just losing one's sense of direction; it's like being cursed by some god of getting lost.
After turning from the elevator into the stairwell once again, Zhou Fangdong bought a [Low-Level Curse Removal Potion] directly from the system shop and drank it down.
This time he finally arrived at the door of room 1601 without incident.
He now has three keys to the 16th floor. Zhou Fangdong opened the door to room 1601 first.
Surprisingly, room 1601 didn't feel dilapidated at all; the interior decoration was intact, and it was very cozy and had a warm, lived-in feel.
The living room was decorated like a wedding hall, with the character "囍" pasted on the wall. Two dragon and phoenix candles, half-burned, were placed on the mahogany octagonal table, and a piece of red paper that looked like a marriage certificate was pressed under the candles.
Two handsome paper figures with an artistic flair stand beside the table like butlers, awaiting their master's instructions.
Zhou Fangdong paused for a moment in front of the two paper figures, nodded approvingly, and then walked towards the bedroom.
The bedroom was decorated in a classic style. On the canopy bed in the bedroom, he saw the person living in room 1601—this tenant was the ghost messenger colleague he had first met in the hallway, the one he had helped arrange for his wedding.
The colleague, dressed in a black suit, lay on the bed with his eyes closed, in a state of being a spirit without a physical form.
Moreover, her soul's state was strange; it was constantly disintegrating, yet another force was continuously helping her reshape her body.
The healing process is now slightly outpacing the disintegration, allowing her to temporarily stabilize her human form.
To be able to break through so many dangerous ghosts and projections of other gods on the top floor and firmly occupy the room, it is indeed no ordinary ghost.
Zhou Fangdong suspected that the three rooms on the floors missing their keys were likely inhabited by ghost messengers.
He had a vague idea of what was going on and asked the system, "System, are the rooms on the 16th floor available for rent?"
No need, all rooms on the 16th, 17th, and 18th floors are already rented out.
Zhou Fangdong looked at the ghost messenger lying motionless on the bed.
...Can you really intimidate those madmen in the corridor just by lying still?
Moreover, this ghost messenger didn't seem like someone who was renting a place; rather, it seemed like he was using his own power to guard something.
If some ghost messengers didn't have time to return to the underworld after it closed and stayed in the mortal world, living in apartments, would there also be ghost messengers living in the back building of the apartment?
Thinking of this, Zhou Fangdong suddenly remembered that he hadn't checked the loot from yesterday's raid on the back building.
He left the bedroom, closed the door behind him, and checked the dungeon sweep page in the living room.
Successfully cleared the area, obtaining 30,000 Ghost Coins, one item, and one Ghost Tenant.
The system has made this sweep interface very user-friendly, because ghost tenants are also one of the rewards, and they are even stored in this interface.
This ghost tenant is also in an irrational state, so we won't claim it for now. We'll decorate the garden together with the six ghost tenants on the 15th floor when we go to the garden later.
After deducting 1,800 ghost coins from the 30,000 ghost coins as a hardship fee for the ghost tenants, I received 28,200.
The reward was an accessory, which Zhou Fangdong took out.
[Landlord Exclusive Item - Decorative Chain]: Wearing it on your pants grants you an extra weapon slot to store weapons.
In the weapon inventory... Zhou Fangdong looked at the large cleaver he had been carrying.
This knife was quite troublesome to retrieve because it couldn't be stored in the inventory; having a weapon slot now would make things much easier.
Zhou Fangdong used the prop directly and then tried to store the machete.
The giant blade instantly shrank to the size of a finger and hung on the chain at the waist.
This makes things much more convenient.
Zhou Fangdong patted non-existent dust off his hands and left room 1601.
He planned to check the other two rooms to see if they contained ghost messengers, in order to verify his idea.
However, just as Zhou Fangdong was about to check the second room, a notification suddenly popped up in the special tenant watchlist:
[Two tenants in room 307 are simultaneously trapped in a ghostly realm; the situation is critical, and their lives may be in danger.]
Upon seeing the Ghost Domain, Zhou Fangdong was startled and quickly retrieved their activity records.
The tenants of room 307 are twin brothers, Da Song and Xiao Song, who just moved into the apartment yesterday.
When Zhou Fangdong saw the words "Ghost Domain," he thought they had violated the rental rules and angered the ghosts in the room.
However, they never expected that they would find themselves trapped in a ghostly realm outside the apartment.
...Can ghosts outside an apartment create a ghost realm?
Zhou Fangdong opened the [Linjiang City Map] and checked the current location of the two people.
They actually went to the southern suburbs, to a small riverside village on the very edge of Linjiang City.
It's only a little past six o'clock, why are they out so early...?
Judging from their movements, Da Song and Xiao Song left the apartment at dawn and took the ghost bus to their home in the city center.
After staying at home for a while, the two went to the gym together.
Then they were moved from the gym to that small village.
Zhou Fangdong was a little confused by the movements of the two people.
Weren't all the ghosts in the city center cleared out? How exactly were those two moved from the gym in the city center?
Moreover, unless there is a life-or-death crisis, the tenant watchlist will not display an alert pop-up.
In typical paranormal events, ghosts in apartment rooms protect tenants using the room key... If even the room key can't protect the tenants, then the ghost that created this ghostly realm must be extremely dangerous.
Just as I was thinking of this, another pop-up window appeared in the special tenant watchlist:
[Unity is Strength] The tenant's passive buff is automatically triggered, and the tenant of room 205 is teleported to the Ghost Realm.
Zhou Fangdong fell silent.
The tenant of room 205 is Yin Xi... This girl is severely malnourished, moves slowly, and her blood can attract ghosts.
Her arrival changed the situation from two tenants being in danger to three tenants being in danger.
After receiving the achievement reward yesterday, Zhou Fangdong was so happy that he forgot that some of the special tenants in the apartment were also ordinary people.
Duan Wenyu in Room 102 is a [Special Tenant - Unlucky College Student], He Yansheng, who is weak and helpless, is a [Special Tenant - Passive Philosopher Doctor], Yin Xi is a [Special Tenant - Blood Sacrifice of the Bone Society], and Li Ou is a [Special Tenant - Strange Puppet Master]...
In a sense, the presence of these tenants may turn the "unity is strength" effect from a positive one into a negative one.
Zhou Fangdong sighed and prepared to see which tenant was free and could bring his nightmare clone along for a trip.
After Miao Zheng returned yesterday, she returned the doll that contained the Nightmare Doll.
As soon as I opened the floor plan, another pop-up window appeared:
Tenants 106 and 102 have been simultaneously drawn into the ghost realm; their situation is critical and their lives may be in danger.
Zhou Fangdong silently opened the [Linjiang City Map] and found that in the location of that small X village, there were five small red dots representing tenants neatly clustered together.
Hong Zhong and Duan Wenyu also went inside.
Looking at this setup for starting a group, Zhou Fangdong felt his vision go black.
Hong Zhong is fighting four opponents at once, how are we supposed to win...?
In this situation, why bother using a nightmare clone to investigate? Just [descend in your true form] directly.
“System, you said that the tenants are all extensions of my power. [True Form Descent] allows me to briefly descend to the tenants' side... Now there are five of my tenants in this village. Can I use the [True Form Descent] skill five times?”
【sure】
Okay, now we don't have to worry about not having enough skill duration.
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