Chapter 154: Quest Rewards and Speculations About My Previous Profession...
Main quest 2 is complete...
Upon seeing this system notification, Zhou Fangdong opened the task panel.
As he was about to check the rewards for Main Quest 2, he suddenly noticed that a new Main Quest 7 had appeared on his quest panel.
[Detected that the evil god has finished devouring, a key ghost quest has been triggered, the pollution of the Evil Dog Village has been cleaned up, and the main quest 7: Restoring the Underworld has been unlocked.]
Main Quest 7: Repairing the Underworld
Mission Description: The keys to the apartments on floors 16, 17, and 18 of the building have been devoured by the apartment's ghosts, and projections of ghost messengers have also participated in the key-devouring activity. You may encounter them while searching for the key ghosts at night. Accept the mission issued by the ghost messengers' projections: cleanse the pollution of the underworld's facilities, repair the underworld, reopen the gates of the netherworld, and restore the cycle of reincarnation in this world to normal.
The pollution in Vicious Dog Village has been cleaned up... Zhou Fangdong recalled the key ghost he encountered the night before last.
After accepting her mission, he used his Nightmare clone to pass through the collapsed cracks and arrive at the Gates of Hell. Then, in an abandoned village, he dealt with a handsome big dog with many heads.
Is this village the village of vicious dogs in the underworld? Is that dog the pollution of the vicious dog village?
The key ghost that looked exactly like his colleague was actually a projection of a ghost messenger from the underworld.
Now that the truth is out, we can confirm that he used to work for the underworld... his colleagues were ghost messengers, which is why the wedding needed paper figures, since it was a ghost marriage.
From the ghost bus driver, we learn that although he works as a ghost messenger who captures souls, he has the body of a living person, and his soul can leave his body at will.
He must have been a messenger of the underworld during his lifetime.
"Walking through the impermanent" refers to the practice in the underworld of summoning living people to work when there are not enough people available.
Based on his own personality, Zhou Fangdong thought that the reason he used to work two jobs in the mortal and underworld worlds was probably because he felt that sleeping at night was a waste of time and wanted to make use of his evenings to earn more money.
It's baffling how someone like him, who's at best a minor contract worker in the underworld, not even a proper civil servant, suddenly started saving the world... and then inexplicably lost his memory, got bound to a system, and ended up playing a haunted house management game in the Liwan Apartment.
Zhou Fangdong recalled what the ghost bus driver had said.
...This is probably the second time he's done something like 'managing an apartment'.
The ghost bus driver once said that the furniture store manager had tried to use ghost furniture to screen people who had the ability to solve paranormal events, and then have them become tenants in the apartment.
Then these supernatural talents were intercepted by the main god, who could only use another method to 'save the world'.
Something must have gone wrong during the process of 'saving the world,' so he now has to start all over again... His memory problems are very likely related to this accident.
Given the system's undisguised hatred for the evil god and the main god, this accident is most likely related to these two bastards.
Zhou Fangdong sighed.
Now that the evil god has been dealt with, all that's left is to focus on the main god.
Compared to the evil god who is always dragged down by his own followers, arrogant, and easily vulnerable, the main god is much more cunning.
After suffering several setbacks, the main god continuously learned from its failures and updated its dungeon mode.
Moreover, it won't appear in this world in person; it will only send out supernatural instances whenever it can.
We need to find a way to completely isolate the power of the main god...
Main Quest 6 is to expel the Main God and prevent the endless dungeon from descending. Repair the collapsed areas of the Liwan Apartment building and strengthen its defenses. Clear the collapsed areas connecting to the Main God's dungeon and remove the external god's projections that entered the apartment from the collapsed areas.
Based on the text information of the main quest 6 provided by the system, the key to stopping the God's invasion of the world should be related to the progress of repairing the collapsed area of the apartment.
It seems we need to work hard to repair the cracks in the collapsed upper floors.
Zhou Fangdong closed the windows for other main quests and began to check the rewards for main quest 2.
Main Quest 2 Reward: ① Unlock new lamp oil products
【Lamp Oil Hand Cream】: Made from solidified lamp oil. To make this item, you need to place a lamp oil solidification device in the basement first.
Materials needed to make a bottle of hand cream: one-fifth of a jar of lamp oil, 1000 points of incense value from the City God Temple or 100 points of reputation value from the apartment, and 1% of the host's health bar.
Effects of use: ① After a human uses this item, if that human is caught up in the main god's supernatural dungeon, during the item's effective period, this human can be used as a medium to invade the main god's space and steal the main god's source power (the item's effective time is randomly generated based on the dungeon's difficulty).
②After being used by humans, it grants unconditional immunity to attacks from all levels of vengeful spirits for ten days, and has a deterrent effect on low-level vengeful spirits.
Although this hand cream uses a lot of ingredients, its effects are really strong.
After running the City God Temple for a while and accumulating enough incense offerings, Zhou Fangdong decided to produce a few more bottles of hand cream to distribute to the tenants, and then have Xiao Xiaoyu take different tenants out for a walk every day.
Since the supreme god enjoys abducting people so much, then let's go for it.
Losing a few supernatural instances is of no consequence to the main god; only by stealing the main god's source power can it know what pain truly is.
I just don't know how many times a bottle of hand cream can be used... I'll make a bottle in a couple of days and see how it goes.
The reward for the second main quest is a land deed: [Ghost Market Land Deed - Blacksmith Shop]
After using the land deed, you can designate an area in the Ghost Market to build a blacksmith shop.
The land title deed only allows for the construction of shops and does not include a blacksmith. Please actively recruit suitable tenants to become blacksmiths.
The blacksmith shop in the Ghost Market can repair damaged Ghost Messenger equipment. The higher the level of the blacksmith shop, the higher the level of equipment that can be repaired.
It seems there's hope for those dilapidated things in the hidden room on the fourth floor. When he goes to the ghost market to collect the money from the funeral shop owner for the cult members' goods, he can build the blacksmith shop at the same time.
The third reward for main quest 2 is a new skill:
Landlord's exclusive skill: [Forced Expropriation]
Skill effect: Consumes mental energy to directly transform areas with strong supernatural energy fluctuations into facilities around the apartment.
Previously, Zhou Fangdong would add facilities around the apartment by having ghost tenants erode the main god's instance. With this skill, he can skip the main god as an intermediary and directly convert them manually.
Most of the time, when the main deity descends upon a realm of supernatural beings, it selects areas with strong supernatural power to minimize energy consumption. Transforming an ordinary area into a supernatural realm would require a significant amount of energy.
Zhou Fangdong thought that once he transformed all the supernatural areas in this world into apartment-related facilities, the main god would probably find the cost of creating supernatural dungeons too high and thus abandon this world.
This is probably what it means to walk the path of the supreme god, leaving the supreme god with nowhere to go.
The main quest rewards after defeating the evil god only consist of three items, two of which are related to the main god... It seems the system is also eager to defeat the main god as soon as possible.
After Zhou Fangdong closed the task panel, he suddenly remembered that the entertainment company that the X Gang's Heirs Association had spread curses about yesterday had not yet been dealt with.
When he checked the cultists using the mark of the evil god, he didn't seem to see any staff members related to that entertainment company.
Although they are not cult members, they are still aiding and abetting evil—the entertainment company staff have done a lot of work to get so many citizens infected with negative states.
You have to pay the price for doing bad things.
Remembering that Miao Zheng had participated in the entire operation yesterday, Zhou Fangdong decided to contact Miao Zheng and ask her to report the matter of the entertainment company to the supervisory bureau, so that the company's staff could be dealt with, detained or fined as appropriate.
Zhou Fangdong habitually opened the tenant preview interface to see if Miao Zheng had gotten up.
To his surprise, Miao Zheng's pixelated figure was not in room 109.
It's only a little past six in the morning; she's never left the apartment this early before.
After glancing at the floor plan, Zhou Fangdong realized that Duan Wenyu and Hong Zhong were also not in the room, and he roughly understood what was going on.
He opened the special tenant watchlist and glanced at the tenants' activity patterns, confirming his suspicions.
—Miao Zheng didn't leave the apartment early this morning; she hasn't come back since she left yesterday.
She's been detained at the Supervisory Bureau and is currently helping out at the Investigation Department's office building.
Yesterday, Zhou Fangdong was in a hurry to go back to his apartment to deal with the evil god, so he left Miao Zheng at the unfinished building.
After waiting for a long time without receiving any further instructions from the landlord, Miao Zheng took the initiative and reported the entertainment company's actions directly to the Investigation Department.
After receiving the report, the supervisory bureau assigned several investigators to work with Miao Zheng on the matter.
While investigating the entertainment company, the investigators also happened to rescue He Yansheng, who was sitting blankly inside, and took him along on their mission. They used He Yansheng as bait to lure out many cult members.
Because the entertainment company was investigated yesterday, and many low-level staff were lost, all the mid- to high-level cult members were particularly vigilant when Zhou Fangdong activated the evil god's mark today, and did not go to the ghost market as instructed by the 'evil god'.
Miao Zheng didn't return to his apartment all night because after dealing with matters at the entertainment company, he was conscripted to deal with the ghosts and monsters in the city.
Linjiang City is too large, and relying solely on investigators wouldn't be enough. Furthermore, given the uncertainty of how long this confinement zone could last, the Surveillance Bureau also recruited all the paranormal news anchors contracted with the Paranormal Investigation Department to help deal with the city's ghosts.
It took all the staff of the Inspection Bureau working through the night to finally deal with all the ghosts in the city.
After this massive cleanup, the living environment for ordinary people in Linjiang City will be much safer. Once the City God Temple is upgraded to a level capable of protecting the entire city, and several other temples are activated to fill any gaps, ordinary people in Linjiang City will have even less to worry about being disturbed by ghosts and monsters.
However, Zhou Fangdong noticed that the suburbs had not been dealt with in time... There were too many ghosts in the suburbs and too few people living there, so it was normal for the supervisory bureau to prioritize cleaning up the ghosts in the city.
When he had some free time in a few days, Zhou Fangdong decided to have the tenants bring their nightmare clones on a trip to gather the ghosts and monsters in the suburbs.
He planned to artificially create areas with strong supernatural energy fluctuations, and then designate all areas where ghosts and monsters gathered as facilities around the apartments, so that ordinary people in the suburbs would also be safe.
Then, randomly select a few surrounding facilities to upgrade into temples, which will shelter people living in the suburbs and solve the problem of lonely ghosts, creating a perfect positive cycle.
However, when it came to the City God Temple and the Temple of the Realm... Zhou Fangdong looked up and found that his mental value was still steadily dropping.
Seeing this, he opened the City God page, randomly selected two ghost tenants from the Izumo Temple in the back building of the apartment, and put them into the positions of Day Patrol God and Night Patrol God, while removing his own Nightmare clone.
There's also a nightmare clone that's draining my mental energy in the temple near the nursing home... I wonder how Li Ou's statue is coming along.
Zhou Fangdong switched the tenant preview interface to the third floor and checked room 303.
In room 303, Li Ou's pixelated figure, still dressed in yesterday's outfit, was making a statue in the living room, with the child ghost in the room helping him.
The child ghost was still attached to the doll, but instead of wearing the gorgeous Lolita dress from yesterday, the doll was now wearing a short-haired wig and a gentleman's tailcoat.
Under its control, many heavy materials floated directly around Li Ou, making them readily available and much more efficient.
The fact that the child ghost would proactively help make the statue suggests that he gets along well with Li Ou's family.
Although the child ghost from room 303 helped, the statue was too big and the project was very large. At present, Li Ou has only made a rough outline.
Judging from this progress, it will probably take another two days to complete.
Seeing this, Zhou Fangdong was no longer in a hurry. After all, the mental value dropped by a Nightmare clone was not too much, and it wouldn't waste too many Ghost Coins.
He teleported to the third floor, ready to finish the progress he had fallen behind on yesterday.
Zhou Fangdong stood in front of the elevator on the third floor, hesitating for a moment between the two options of cleaning room 306 and checking the hidden room, and finally decided to check the hidden room on the third floor first.
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Author's Note: Bonus chapter at 9 PM tonight.
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