Chapter 109 The Supreme God's Scheme Room 302 The Ghost's Condition for Murder: Exchange...
While the ghost was loading for the instance, Zhou Fangdong teleported to room 103 to retrieve the [Ghost Disc].
When he teleported to room 103, he found that the zombie Taoist priest was also in the room.
The atmosphere in the room was tense, with a sense of impending conflict.
Even though half of the old Taoist priest's face was covered by layers of yellow talismans, one could still see the suppressed anger on his face.
Upon seeing Zhou Fangdong appear, Mu Yuechan felt as if she had seen a savior. She immediately darted to his side with a flick of her water sleeves. "This old Taoist priest is really fierce! I didn't mean to harm that young Taoist priest. I just wanted him to help me fix this thing that plays dramas. Who knew that the young Taoist priest would suddenly disappear after touching the disc—" She wiped away her tears as she spoke, her face so aggrieved that half of her skin fell off.
Zhou Fangdong pulled the water sleeves wrapped around his arms off, then comforted Zhang Zhiwu, "Don't worry, Daoist, I know where Zhang Qingyang went. He'll be fine."
Hearing this, the anger on Zhang Zhiwu's face gradually subsided. "With your guarantee, young friend, I'm relieved..."
He sighed deeply, “It’s all my fault. My little disciple was the last one I ever took in. His senior brothers have all died for their faith, so I spoiled him a bit. Now he’s all grown up, but he still has the mentality of a child and likes to shirk his responsibilities. Alas… how much longer can this old man with his frail body accompany him? When he comes back this time, I will definitely teach him properly.” After saying this, the old Taoist priest cupped his hands to Zhou Fangdong and left room 103.
Zhou Fangdong looked at Mu Yuechan: "Where's that disc?"
Mu Yuechan flicked her water sleeves and rolled up the video camera: "Look, it's still inside."
Zhou Fangdong took the disc out.
Just like last night, touching the [ghost disc] did not trigger any teleportation effect.
Zhou Fangdong handed the disc to Mu Yuechan, gesturing for her to touch it as well.
Mu Yuechan obediently did as she was told.
As expected, nothing happened to Mu Yuechan.
Zhou Fangdong fell silent.
...Does this mean that he and Mu Yuechan are both ghosts, so the teleportation effect of this disc has no effect on them?
He always believed that even if he wasn't completely resurrected, he should still be alive in the apartment building...
That makes sense, though; what living person can go without eating, drinking, or sleeping all the time?
After leaving room 103, Zhou Fangdong teleported back to the first floor and picked up the two stacks of manga manuscripts that Tang Huili had dropped on the ground.
When he touched [Ghost Letter], he was not teleported to the main god instance.
Just then, Zhou Fangdong saw Xiao Xiaoyu walking towards the lobby on the first floor. She was carrying several cans of drinks and looked like she had just come out of a convenience store.
Judging from her appearance, she's probably heading to work at the courier station over there in the hallway. The courier station officially opens today, and the ghost postman is already there. He hasn't returned to his room since delivering the [lamp oil pendant] last night.
Zhou Fangdong called Xiao Xiaoyu over and asked her to touch the [ghost letter] as well.
The teleportation effect of [Ghost Letter] did not work on Xiao Xiaoyu.
It seems that it wasn't just because neither he nor Mu Yuechan were human that it didn't work.
These [Ghost Letter] and [Ghost Disc] may only be able to be teleported into the main god's instance if touched by specific people.
To prevent any further accidents, he decided to put those two items away for now.
After putting away the [Ghost Letter] and [Ghost Disc], Zhou Fangdong teleported back to the third floor and stood next to the phantom image of the collapsed crack to continue observing the live broadcast of the dungeon on the system panel.
In the instance, Tang Huili and Zhang Qingyang joined that player's team, and they prepared to enter room 302.
In this instance, the requirement to successfully complete it is to unlock all rooms. You can enter any room at will, without having to follow the room order.
Although there is no penalty for player death in this instance, tenant injuries and deaths are highly likely to be unavoidable, and Zhou Fangdong couldn't help but worry about the two of them.
...Did Tang Huili's ability to foresee danger fail in the dungeon? Why did she also follow these players into room 302?
Or is it that the ghost in Room 302 of the main god instance is like the ghost in Room 302 in reality, and does not attack humans randomly, so Tang Huili did not notice the danger?
The cleaner once said that after the ghosts on the third floor were forcibly infused with yin energy by the apartment, their rationality was very low, so the entire ghost realm was out of control.
However, the ghost in room 302 was kind in life and remained gentle after death. It not only voluntarily withdrew its ghostly aura but also paid the rent. Moreover, it didn't have high demands on the tenants, and it didn't seem like someone who would lose control or act irrationally.
Perhaps Eri Tang's choice was not wrong.
Zhou Fangdong continued reading.
However, what these players experienced in room 302 afterwards shocked him deeply.
...The cleaner was right, all the ghosts in the third-floor rooms were indeed out of control, including the ghost in room 302.
Tang Huili and Zhang Qingyang were unharmed because they did not interact with the ghost at all.
But those players fared much worse; they were almost all killed by the vengeful ghosts of 302. The remaining two barely managed to escape with the help of Tang Huili and Zhang Qingyang.
The ghost in room 302 was always forgiving and understanding towards her boyfriend and his group of friends, forgiving them no matter what they did.
Even after death, this ghost still appears gentle and kind, and will even apologize on its own initiative.
But accepting its apology is tantamount to triggering its conditions for killing.
...especially since it was not its fault at all, and yet its apology was accepted.
Having accepted the vengeful ghost's apology, the ghost believed that whatever it did afterward would be forgiven... just as it had unconditionally forgiven those thugs who had harmed it for no reason in its previous life.
The more it apologizes, the more out of control it accumulates, and it will begin to recklessly harm those who accept its apologies.
Moreover, its loss of control is completely unexpected; one second it's apologizing, and the next it might be attacking.
It will try every means to make the people in the room accept its apology and what it gives them, and then it will have a reason to hurt them.
If we attack it directly, it will be even simpler, and the debt will be formed directly.
The vengeful ghost in room 302 and the debt-collecting ghost in room 207 have similar killing mechanisms. The debt-collecting ghost lures people to use an abacus to fulfill their wishes and make them indebted, while this ghost lures others to harm itself... Anyone who harms its body or damages its interests will be punished a thousandfold.
The best solution is to never have any interaction with this ghost, and never accept anything it offers.
Even if you accept, you must reciprocate with something of equal value. If you only accept what she gives without giving anything back, she will instantly lose control.
Zhou Fangdong originally thought that since the ghost in room 302 was so gentle and kind, the tenant rules for room 302 could be written casually. Now it seems that he was thinking too simply.
No matter how gentle it appears, it is still a vengeful ghost of Liwan Apartments... No wonder its weak nature allowed it to fight its way out from the other ghosts in the apartment and occupy a room on the third floor.
Because the ghosts in the room wouldn't attack Zhou Fangdong, the substitute doll had a time limit, and the vengeful ghost in room 302 entered the apartment after it was sealed off. She only retaliated against her boyfriend and those thugs, and didn't kill anyone else. [Soul Absorption] couldn't read its killing conditions... If it weren't for the players in the main god instance helping him figure it out, he probably would never have been able to guess the killing rules of the vengeful ghost in room 302.
In the corridor on the third floor of the dungeon, Tang Huili looked at the surviving team leader and another player, feeling a little guilty.
But the constant, piercing sense of danger that spurted her brain made her decide to kill the remaining two players as soon as possible.
As the team leader just mentioned, there is no penalty for dying in this instance. It was this statement that made Tang Huili make up her mind.
As soon as these players came out of room 301, the danger warning in Tang Huili's mind reached its peak, similar to the danger she had sensed back in Penghu Home.
She initially thought it was because of the ghost in room 301, but as she spent more time with these players, she became certain of the source of her sense of danger—the source of the danger was these players!
If these players are allowed to continue operating in the dungeon, she and Zhang Qingyang will most likely be the ones who die in the end.
So when the team leader was preparing to continue clearing room 301, Tang Huili, who was usually silent, took the initiative to suggest that they try a different dungeon.
The team leader agreed without much hesitation.
He actually wanted to try a different instance; they'd been beaten up by the charred corpses in room 301 so many times that they were almost traumatized.
To his surprise, the monster in room 302 was even more ferocious than the one in room 301, and only two members of their team survived.
The two surviving players, their faces bruised and swollen, sat down against the corridor wall.
Looking at the unharmed Zhang Qingyang and Tang Huili, the team leader sighed heavily: "It seems that you two newbies who dare not communicate with ghosts have accidentally found a way out of room 302... If you want to get rid of the ghost in room 302, you should not talk to it."
Another player gritted his teeth and said, "Leader, let's wait a bit longer and see if any other players join in. Once we have enough people and our attack power is up, we'll charge into room 302 and attack that fat bastard without hesitation! We don't have to finish the dungeon, but I have to kill this ghost today!"
Tang Huili tugged at her mask; the shadow of her bangs obscured her eyes.
...The sense of danger is growing stronger; I need to kill the remaining two players as soon as possible.
She was the one who suggested going into room 302. Although the team leader made the final decision, and the two of them didn't say anything after escaping from the room, they must have harbored some resentment towards her.
Even if she said anything more, those two players definitely wouldn't listen.
Just then, Zhang Qingyang suddenly asked curiously, "You just said that this welfare instance needs to maintain a certain number of players to operate. When the number of players drops to a certain level, will the instance close? If the instance closes, will the remaining players inside be directly teleported to the Main God Space?"
"The dungeon will close when there are only two people left." The team leader paused, giving Zhang Qingyang a strange look. "Only after clearing the dungeon will you be teleported to the God Space. If the dungeon closes, players will be teleported directly to their original location before entering the dungeon... Didn't you come here through the dungeon medium? We all obtained the medium reward after clearing a supernatural dungeon, and that's how we came to this dungeon."
Zhang Qingyang and Tang Huili both showed the same look of sudden realization.
...It turns out that the [ghost letter] and [ghost disc] were the mediums for entering the bonus instance.
Tang Huili finally understood why the source of the danger prediction was this group of players.
After clearing the dungeon, she will be teleported to an unknown God's Space. Since she is not a player and does not have any points system, being teleported there will definitely mean certain death.
Only when all these players disappear, leaving only her and Zhang Qingyang in the instance, will they return to the apartment.
Just then, Zhou Fangdong, who was on the third floor of the apartment, was watching the ghostly loading bar on the erosion dungeon interface when he suddenly realized something and turned around sharply to look at the collapsed crack phantom beside him.
No, we can't let the room ghosts continue to corrupt this instance!
—As the progress bar increased, the crack actually became real!
With the [Heavenly Eye] skill, he can clearly see the subtle changes, and he can confirm that the progress of the dungeon's loading bar and the changes in the cracks are synchronized.
Zhou Fangdong realized something.
Previously, the instances he eroded were all instances created by the main god based on reality. Eroding instances or turning them into facilities around apartments is essentially a struggle for ownership of supernatural scenes, devouring the supernatural power that the main god has projected into reality.
This welfare instance is a virtual instance created by the main god. This instance relies entirely on the main god for its existence, and the essence of the instance is the main god itself.
This instance is the former Liwan Apartments. Eroding this instance is equivalent to merging the Liwan Apartments of the past with the Liwan Apartments of the present, actively incorporating the main god into the apartment's scope, and helping the main god accelerate the erosion of the apartment.
The purpose of the main god in creating dungeons is to allow players to steal the power of the area by clearing the dungeons.
Its purpose in creating this copy was to steal the power of the apartment to replenish the energy it had lost to the cultists.
The main god definitely knew that the apartment had the power to corrupt instances, so he deliberately created this instance.
Perhaps the third-floor collapse last time was also because the apartment actively eroded the instance...
The existence of this virtual copy is a blatant conspiracy. Whether we let players complete the game unchecked or let the apartment actively encroach on the copy, it will lead to the collapse of the third floor of the apartment.
Zhou Fangdong, expressionless, aborted the Ghost Invasion instance and teleported to the second floor.
Since we can't use the ghosts in the apartment room to corrupt the instance, let's try a different method.
The evil god's power is essentially about corruption and assimilation, and his slime body is not only an incarnation of the evil god but also a ghost tenant of the apartment.
Anyway, the system said that the evil god would come to the apartment sooner or later.
Since that's the case, he might as well help the evil god make his presence known beforehand. Anyway, given their current irreconcilable conflict, it's quite normal for the evil god to discover the main god's instance when it comes to the apartment and choose to enter and cause trouble, right?
The main god must know that it cannot do anything in peace unless it gets rid of the evil god.
...Why come to the apartment to replenish your power, Lord God? Killing the evil god is the most important thing first.
Zhou Fangdong was teleported to the second floor and found his slime body in the hidden room.
He tried his best to compress it to the height of a person. Although he still couldn't conjure a detailed human figure, he could still make a dark human outline.
The next step is to figure out how to get this slime body into the dungeon.
Zhou Fangdong arrived at the 104 Convenience Store with the slime's body.
When he arrived at the convenience store, he found Xiong Lei sitting in a chair, eating voraciously. There were many food packaging bags on the long table against the wall of the convenience store.
It seems this player has adapted to the convenience store environment. He noticed Zhou Fangdong's arrival and gave him a silly grin covered in cream.
Zhou Fangdong was puzzled by Xiao Lei's drastic change in attitude. Just last night, Xiao Lei seemed ready to escape at any moment and was wary and fearful of him. He never expected that Xiao Lei's attitude would change so drastically in just one night.
I was originally thinking about how to persuade Xiao Lei to help me bring his slime body into the dungeon, but now it seems like it won't take too much effort.
The reason for choosing Xiao Lei is that he is still an infinite flow player and has an points system.
He might be able to actively enter the bonus instance through the [Ghost Letter] or [Ghost Disc] instances.
Zhou Fangdong walked up to Xiong Lei, "Xiao Lei, can you help me with something..."
"Sure, sure! Mr. Landlord, just ask, I'll help you with anything I can!" Before Zhou Fangdong could finish speaking, Xiao Lei wiped his mouth forcefully and agreed immediately.
“I need you to take this tenant into a welfare instance.” Zhou Fangdong pointed to the black humanoid figure beside him. “You know what a welfare instance is, right?”
"I know!" Xiao Lei jumped off the chair, dragging his teddy bear. "Landlord, do you have any dungeon media? If not, can you describe what the dungeon is like? I'll go back to the dungeon on the fifth floor and use the points system to help you acquire the media."
Speaking of going back to the fifth floor, Xiong Lei glanced cautiously at Zhou Fangdong: "Well, I absolutely have no intention of running away! I really want Mr. Xiao Xiaoyu, the landlord who rents here, to vouch for me!"
If he could re-enter the instance, Xiong Lei decided to immediately take all the items from his storage space and put them into his bag.
Upon hearing Xiong Lei mention Xiao Xiaoyu, Zhou Fangdong's expression suddenly dawned on him.
It turns out he was an acquaintance of Xiao Xiaoyu. It seems she had advised him, which is why his attitude changed so drastically.
Let's see if Xiao Lei can teleport into the instance through a medium.
If that didn't work, he could only try to control the slime's body to invade the unformed collapse crack on the third floor. Since the evil god could squeeze into the mirror world through a void rift, there was no reason why its clone couldn't invade an already formed collapse crack.
Sending Xiao Lei back to the fifth-floor instance was still a bit risky. Although he was an acquaintance of Xiao Xiaoyu, Zhou Fangdong was still worried that Xiao Lei might not return. Also, he wasn't sure if the time flow in Xiao Lei's instance was the same as in the apartment, which could easily waste time.
“There are two mediums, you can try them first.” With that, Zhou Fangdong took out the [Ghost Letter] and the [Ghost Disc], gesturing for Xiong Lei to come and touch them.
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Author's Note: There will be an extra chapter at 9 PM tonight.
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