Chapter 82: A Plenty of Content: The Landlord Smashes the House, Tenants Have a Team Building Event...
Zhou Fangdong took the abacus possessed by the debt collector and walked out of the bedroom. He placed the abacus on the violin display stand, bought an intermediate fully automatic cleaning tool from the mall, and prepared to clean the room.
However, the fully automatic cleaning tool failed to work, and a system pop-up window suddenly appeared:
Please clean up any remaining ghostly debris in the room and find all the corpses hidden in room 207; otherwise, the automatic cleaning tool will not function.
Upon seeing the system pop-up, Zhou Fangdong frowned slightly.
What is the trash left behind by the ghost? The debt-collecting ghost does not produce grease like the cat ghost in room 106, and there is no trash in the room at all.
Room 207 was arguably the cleanest room on the second floor, except for the one where the ghost old lady lived.
The last jigsaw puzzle enthusiast who rented this place must have been a germaphobe; the body was disposed of very cleanly, and the house was also very clean. The Liwan Apartment had been locked down for so long, and there was only some dust in the room.
He also needs to find all the corpses in the room... Could it be that there's more than just the one on the master bedroom wall in the room?
Looking at the fairly clean living room, Zhou Fangdong suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
Room 207 has had over fifty tenants, each time the next tenant killed the previous one… Could all those tenants' bodies be in this room?
It's unbelievable that those psychopathic serial killers were so in sync, choosing not to dispose of the bodies but instead hiding them in their rented rooms.
Zhou Fangdong wasn't sure what the ghostly remnant was, so he decided to find all the corpses in the room first.
Unexpectedly, after all the twists and turns, we're still playing hide-and-seek in the room... except this time we're not looking for the ghost in the room, but for the corpse.
The body of the musician who used human intestines to make strings was made into a jigsaw puzzle and hung on the master bedroom wall. The puzzle enthusiast was eaten by a flesh-eating mushroom, leaving no trace; the bodies of these two are not worth searching for.
He hasn't checked the secondary bedroom, bathroom, or kitchen in room 207 yet.
Zhou Fangdong first opened the door to the secondary bedroom closest to him.
Compared to the empty master bedroom, which contained only corpses and internal organ specimens, the second bedroom resembled a normal bedroom, complete with all the necessary furniture.
Based on his experience watching horror movies, Zhou Fangdong went straight to the bed in the bedroom, lifted the covers, and touched the mattress.
There was indeed a body inside the mattress.
Since all this furniture was going to be replaced anyway, Zhou Fangdong picked up the folding knife on the bedside table, cut open the mattress, and pulled out the body.
Zhou Fangdong fell silent as he watched the corpses roll out of the mattress.
He was being too naive. It wasn't a mattress hiding a corpse at all; it was a mattress made from a pile of corpses.
There were eight mummies in total, neatly sewn together, and then cotton was stuffed into the gaps to make a mattress.
As expected, normal people can't understand what those psychopathic killers are thinking.
Zhou Fangdong bypassed the mummified corpses on the ground and continued to examine the other bedding.
Fortunately, the serial killer who once lived here wasn't so deranged as to sleep under a corpse; there was no corpse under the blanket...
But there was a shriveled head inside the pillow.
This really is a 'pillow'.
These murderers in Room 207 love using puns so much, no wonder they're being chased by debt collectors who keep deducting money from their accounts.
Zhou Fangdong continued searching the bedroom and found several more bodies wrapped in vacuum-sealed bags on the top shelf of the wardrobe.
Looking at the three suspicious suitcases under the wardrobe, he opened them one by one, and sure enough, they all contained corpses.
The only difference was the different shapes of the corpses, which clearly indicated that they were handled by different people. Some were curled-up mummies, some were dismembered and made into specimens, and one had all the flesh removed, leaving only bones.
Evil people will be punished by evil people; indeed, the methods of a psychopathic killer should be used on other psychopathic killers.
As Zhou Fangdong unearthed more and more corpses, the smell of disinfectant and formaldehyde in the room became stronger.
Although it smells pungent, it's much better than the smell of blood and rotting corpses.
Although the killers in this room are all perverts who like to live with corpses, they still have high requirements for hygiene. They would rather inhale the formaldehyde emitted by formalin than endure the smell of rotting corpses.
With all the visible bodies found, Zhou Fangdong started rolling up his sleeves and smashing the wall.
Because the bedroom was fully equipped with tools, including saws, machetes, hammers, and other essential tools for murder and dismemberment, he used these tools to smash the entire bedroom.
He had added six attribute points to his stamina bar, and swinging a hammer to smash the wall was no longer even a warm-up for him; he didn't even break a sweat.
The entire bedroom is now like a ruin, with both the furniture and walls damaged. Zhou Fangdong even removed the ceiling.
Thirty corpses were found in this bedroom alone, all of them embalmed and packaged in compressed form.
Looking at the mess in the room, Zhou Fangdong casually tossed the hammer aside and dusted off his hands.
He felt like he was a demolition crew all by himself. Luckily, the [landlord's clothes] he was wearing had a self-cleaning function, otherwise he would have been in a terrible mess.
There are still more than twenty bodies left... Let's go check the bathroom next.
Just as Zhou Fangdong was about to leave the second bedroom, he suddenly remembered something, turned around, and picked up the hammer again.
...It's estimated that the bathroom walls will need to be broken through again; the automatic cleaning tools can only be used properly after all the bodies have been turned over.
Oh well, just smash it. Consider it exercise.
While Zhou Fangdong was smashing up his room for his morning exercise, all the human tenants on the first floor unusually gathered together.
Xiao Xiaoyu learned from Miao Zheng yesterday that Zhu Di's mental state was not good, so she wanted to visit her in the ward.
After all, it was when she and Miao Zheng went to Penghu Home that they discovered Zhu Di had a cursed talisman. Xiao Xiaoyu felt she should take responsibility for this... She regretted it a little, thinking that she shouldn't have thought that taking the talisman would make Zhu Di safe. If she had protected Zhu Di back then, the girl wouldn't have had to go through so much pain.
Later, Miao Zheng comforted her and told her not to blame herself too much.
After all, they didn't know at the time that Zhu Di was being targeted by the madmen of the Bone Inheritance Society... The most effective way to prevent ordinary people from getting involved in supernatural events is to deal with the source of the supernatural events, and they did nothing wrong at the time.
Miao Zheng planned to visit Zhu Di at the hospital with Xiao Xiaoyu. Since only internal staff could enter and exit the hospital, Xiao Xiaoyu could only get in smoothly with Miao Zheng present.
When Zhao Dawei went to the convenience store to buy something to eat in the morning, he happened to run into Xiao Xiaoyu and Miao Zheng in the corridor.
Hearing them say they were going to the city center, Zhao Dawei remembered something he wanted to do yesterday but was interrupted by the God of War... He had planned to go to the mall yesterday to buy two changes of clothes.
Although the convenience store in the apartment had a wide variety of products, including underwear, it didn't have any suitable work clothes for him.
He didn't bring many clothes with him when he moved into the apartment, and the two white shirts he was wearing had turned yellow from repeated wear.
Moreover, a couple of days ago when Zhao Dawei was working in the furniture store warehouse, a furniture ghost rejected him. The ghost said he smelled like an old man and would rather lie on the ground than let him stuff it into the furniture.
Zhao Dawei was deeply hurt.
Although the furniture vendor was beaten up by the store manager, he was still quite hurt.
So he decided to buy some clothes and tidy himself up... and then yesterday he got off the bus and was swept into the main god instance.
After bumping into two tenants in the hallway this morning, Zhao Dawei had the urge to go out and buy clothes again.
This time he went out with his tenants, so he shouldn't be as unlucky as yesterday when he was kidnapped by the God of God as soon as he got off the bus, right?
Zhao Dawei mustered his courage and shamelessly asked the two tenants, who were old enough to be his daughters, if it would be convenient for them to accompany him to the mall to buy some clothes.
Miao Zheng patted him on the shoulder and readily agreed, and Xiao Xiaoyu also said there was no problem.
The two women decided to accompany the man to the mall first, and after he finished buying clothes and put him on the ghost bus, they would go to the hospital to visit Zhu Di.
While the three of them were chatting in the corridor, Hong Zhong and Duan Wenyu also came out of the room.
Today is Duan Wenyu's internship assessment day. He is currently an intern investigator in the Paranormal Investigation Department. After a week of internship, he will need to go on a mission with the formal investigator team to experience the process of investigating paranormal scenes, and then the team leader will score him.
If you fail to meet the requirements, your internship will be terminated.
Duan Wenyu's internship assessment this time involved going out with Hong Zhong's team. They were going to a small village called 'Fengrao Village' in the Conghua District on the northern outskirts of Linjiang City.
Yesterday, a pregnant woman came to the supervisory bureau to report that her husband had disappeared after returning to his village to pay respects to his ancestors. Because there have always been rumors of 'human sacrifice' in that village, the woman suspects that her husband has been murdered and hopes that the supervisory bureau personnel will accompany her to search for him.
She was received by Li Zhe, an investigator who detected supernatural energy fluctuations on her and immediately began searching the intranet for information related to Fengrao Village.
The intelligence he found startled him.
The supervisory bureau once sent three paranormal news anchors to this village, which was rumored to have practiced human sacrifice, to investigate and confirm whether the paranormal events were true or false.
However, the three paranormal anchors who were carrying the Bureau of Supervision's communication equipment all disappeared, their fate unknown, and no news has been sent back to this day.
The investigators who sent them there seemed to have forgotten that they had once sent three paranormal anchors to that village... Everything related to Plenty Village seemed to be blocked by some strange force, and if this lady hadn't reported it, they might have continued to forget about it.
Li Zhe immediately reported the matter, and the task of this tentatively classified Class B paranormal event was assigned to Hong Zhong's team.
Since it was just an investigation, not a formal investigation, and in order to avoid attracting the attention of the villagers and to make it easier to leave, only Hong Zhong, Duan Wenyu, Li Zhe, and the woman who reported the case went to Fengrao Village. The four of them could fit in one car.
After Hong Zhong and Duan Wenyu came out of the room, they greeted Miao Zheng and the others, and then waited for Li Zhe from the second floor to come down in the entrance hall on the first floor.
Miao Zheng, Xiao Xiaoyu, and Zhao Dawei left the apartment first and took the ghost bus to the downtown shopping mall to buy clothes.
After Li Zhe came down, Hong Zhong led Duan Wenyu and Li Zhe to the Supervision Bureau. They planned to go to Fengrao Village with the woman who had filed the report.
While all the tenants on the first floor were out, Zhou Fangdong was demolishing the secondary bedroom in room 207.
Just as Zhou Fangdong finished smashing the bathroom with a hammer and dragged a corpse out from behind the bathroom mirror, several pop-up windows suddenly appeared in the system:
[Beep—Tenants in rooms 101, 105, and 109 have been detected to have entered the main god's supernatural instance! Instance erosion function can be activated!]
[Beep—Tenants in rooms 102, 106, and 201 have been detected to have entered the main god's supernatural instance! Instance erosion function can be activated!]
[Beep—Tenant in Room 203 has entered the Main God's Supernatural Dungeon! Dungeon Invasion Function Activated!]
Zhou Fangdong: ? ? ?
What's going on today? All the tenants in his apartment went out for team building? How come they all triggered the main god instance at the same time?
Zhou Fangdong opened the dungeon erosion interface and quickly checked the three live dungeon broadcast videos that popped up at the same time.
The tenants of rooms 101, 105, and 109 are Zhao Dawei, Xiao Xiaoyu, and Miao Zheng, respectively. The three of them triggered the main god instance in a shopping mall in the city center.
Zhou Fangdong remembered that he had replenished the lamp oil at Zhao Dawei's door last night, and then the uncle was dragged into the main god instance again... Could it be that his bad luck was not because of the lack of lamp oil, but because he was just unlucky?
However, when Zhou Fangdong saw Xiao Xiaoyu and Zhao Dawei together, he understood everything.
...This time, the arrival of the main god instance was probably Xiao Xiaoyu's fault. She forgot to tell this unlucky uncle not to go out with Xiao Xiaoyu.
The tenants of rooms 102, 106, and 201 are Duan Wenyu, Hong Zhong, and Li Zhe, respectively. Their residence is located near a remote village in the northern suburbs of Linjiang City.
Zhou Fangdong wasn't surprised that the three of them were caught up in the God Realm instance. All three worked for the Bureau of Surveillance, so encountering a God Realm instance while investigating paranormal events was quite normal.
The tenant of 203 is Hou San... Zhou Fangdong discovered that Hou San's location overlapped with the location of Hong Zhong and the other two, both in that small village in Zonghua District.
Strangely, although they were in the same location, Hou San appeared in a separate instance of the main god, and his instance was not the same as Hong Zhong's.
I don't know what's wrong with that god, suddenly sending down so many dungeons... Is he furious because he stole the Mirror Dungeon yesterday?
...It might be even angrier after today, since it has already accepted these three copies.
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