Chapter 41 Lottery Function Unlocked (Bonus Chapter for 9,000 Chapters) In Xiao Xiaoyu's eyes...
Zhou Fangdong looked at the reward pop-ups again in disbelief.
He actually got a tenant out of nowhere, and Duan Wenyu even brought him out of the dungeon...
I'm so touched. Other people's traveling frogs only bring back souvenirs and photos, but his frog went out and brought back a living person for him.
Moreover, these are tenants for whom he doesn't need to formulate tenant rules.
Now only room 106 is left on the first floor. All you need to do is find the cat ghost in room 106, formulate the tenant rules to let Hong Zhong move in, and he can complete the first main quest.
I'm suddenly so excited! After all this time, I'm finally about to complete a main storyline. I'm a little curious about what the main storyline rewards will be.
Zhou Fangdong swiped the system interface to continue viewing the other rewards after successfully completing the erosion dungeon.
Completely destroy a B-level main god dungeon; reward: 2000 Ghost Coins.
It was actually higher than the reward from using the Ghost Tenant Erosion Dungeon, by a whole thousand Ghost Coins.
However, using the ghost tenant to corrupt the instance will grant you an apartment-related facility...
Zhou Fangdong touched his chin.
He felt that ghost coins were more useful at this stage, since the facilities around the apartment seemed more like places for tenants to stroll around and had no other value. Moreover, for every additional facility, he would need to arrange for a ghost tenant to work there, and he didn't have that many ghost tenants to allocate right now.
In the future, if we can destroy the instance directly, we should do so; it's more profitable that way.
He now has a total of 7,930 Ghost Coins. Apart from the lamp oil that costs 30,000 Ghost Coins per jar, he can buy most of the items in the shop without worrying about the price.
Zhou Fangdong continued swiping the reward pop-up window.
[System energy is sufficient. [Zombie Taoist Priest Zhang Zhiwu] has successfully checked in. Lottery function in the back building of the apartment is now unlocked.]
[One guaranteed lottery ticket will be awarded (guaranteed to draw one ghost tenant)]
[Highlighted in red: The ghost tenants and items produced in the back building are extremely unpredictable. Please ensure you have a sufficiently powerful means of attack to suppress them before drawing.]
Zhou Fangdong raised an eyebrow.
What kind of reward is this? A lottery, a game of drawing ghosts from the back building of Liwan Apartments?
What kind of crazy person would use this function? Does he think there aren't enough ghosts in the building?
Zhou Fangdong wasn't even interested in opening the lottery interface. He directly closed the reward pop-ups and then opened the tenant profile.
This time he unlocked another special tenant, and the collection rewards should yield items.
[Special Tenant: An Infinite Flow Player Being Hunted Down by the Main God]
Illustration Description: A little girl who worked for the main god for ten years traveled through various supernatural instances, never giving up her search for her way home. Fortunately, she has finally returned to her own world. Unfortunately, her departure has attracted the attention of the main god, and the main god system will focus its efforts on hunting down this player who has strayed from its system.
Traits: Stubborn, bold yet meticulous, loves to risk her life, ruthless to others and even more ruthless to herself, habitually thinks of everything from the worst possible perspective. She will never give up her lease in order to stay in this world.
Note 1: Try not to put the tenant in mortal danger, otherwise she will choose to die together with the enemy.
Note 2: This tenant's [yin-yang eyes] can see the hidden side of the apartment. The host may be able to take her with him when exploring the apartment.
Note 3: Due to the characteristic of being hunted by the main god, it is more likely to trigger the main god instance when other tenants go out with this tenant. When there is a need for instance erosion, other tenants can take her out.
Zhou Fangdong's gaze fell on the sentence [Note 2] 'You can see the hidden side of the apartment.'
Does Liwan Apartment have some hidden space?
After eroding the [Yin Yang Town] instance, the system gave him a [key to the activity room of Liwan Apartment]... Does the hidden side of the apartment refer to these hidden rooms?
After cleaning room 106, you can try showing this tenant named Xiao Xiaoyu around the apartment.
Zhou Fangdong continued to check the encyclopedia to unlock rewards.
Special Tenant Encyclopedia Unlock Reward: [Cursed Item - Life-or-Death Dice]
[Cursed Item: Life-or-Death Dice]
Item Description: This is a die made from a gambling ghost. After setting the conditions in advance, you can use it to gamble with the ghost for your life. The lifespan you win from the ghost can be used to pay off karmic debts or to create a substitute doll. If you lose... you will become the second die to gamble for your life.
It was another item that came at a very high cost and was of little use to him.
Zhou Fangdong wasn't sure what repaying a debt to the underworld meant, but the substitute doll system was available in the shop. It was a newly unlocked item, costing 500 ghost coins each. If he needed it, he could just buy it directly from the shop; there was no need to gamble with ghosts using these dice.
Zhou Fangdong remembered that the last cursed item was a human skin mask that Mu Yuechan got when she had 80 favorability points... After thinking for a moment, he took out both items and casually threw them on the table so as not to take up inventory space.
His desk in his room was quite messy, piled with all sorts of things: ordinary props unlocked by Zhao Dawei, Miao Zheng, and other tenants with 80% favorability, two large bags of incense, candles, paper money, and gold ingots that Duan Wenyu had bought for him, as well as a jumble of books and props that he didn't need for the time being...
Looking at the mess, Zhou Fangdong scratched his head.
He was too lazy to tidy up and was thinking about finding a new room to mark as the landlord's property, so he would have more space to store his belongings... His room was only 50 square meters, which was indeed a bit small.
After completing the first main quest, go upstairs and see if there are any extra rooms you can spare for him.
After seeing the rewards he had received, Zhou Fangdong was teleported directly to Room 102.
At this moment, in room 102, Duan Wenyu took off his shirt and stood in front of the bathroom mirror, looking at his stomach with a look of utter disbelief.
He simply couldn't understand why such a terrifying thing would emerge from his abdomen.
When Zhou Fangdong teleported to his room, Duan Wenyu was still standing in front of the mirror, gesturing to his abdomen.
"What's wrong? Did you hurt your stomach?" Zhou Fangdong asked. "Have you felt unwell since coming out of the dungeon?"
"Oh, no," Duan Wenyu said somewhat embarrassedly. "Thank you, Mr. Landlord, for saving me again this time."
He paused, then asked hesitantly, "Um, Mr. Landlord, what was that thing that crawled out of my stomach in the dungeon...?"
Zhou Fangdong replied casually, "Don't worry, that's a ghost in your room. I only let it out when you're in danger."
So that's how it is. It seems the landlord controlled the ghost in his room to save him.
Duan Wenyu sighed softly.
Although he had a vague suspicion that the room was haunted when he saw the rental agreement, he was still a little scared after the landlord confirmed it.
Oh well, let's take it slow, we'll get used to it eventually.
"By the way, Mr. Landlord, I remember I brought back a little girl from that instance. How is she doing?"
Just now, in the funeral home, as Duan Wenyu was thinking about how to get out, he noticed that the key to room 102 around his neck was faintly getting hot.
His first reaction was to grab Xiao Xiaoyu's arm.
Then, just as he had predicted, the scene before him began to flash by rapidly, and when the image froze, he was back in room 102.
But Xiao Xiaoyu, whom he had grabbed, did not appear in the room with him.
Zhou Fangdong said, "She's in room 105, and she's currently a tenant in room 105. Would you like to come with me to take a look?"
"Okay!" Duan Wenyu quickly put on his clothes and took out the gold bars and longevity lock that Xiao Xiaoyu had given him from his breast pocket... Now that she's back, she should give these things to her family herself.
Duan Wenyu's blind trust in the landlord made him completely oblivious to the possibility that Xiao Xiaoyu might not be able to escape the God System.
In his mind, the landlord was omnipotent, a minor deity, and not worth fearing at all.
*
In room 105, Xiao Xiaoyu stood blankly in the center of the room.
She was still in a daze, unable to believe that she had so easily left the supernatural instance created by the main god.
When I called out to the points system in my mind, the system didn't respond as promptly as before; it was as if... as if it had disappeared!
Xiao Xiaoyu's heart was pounding.
She couldn't believe that her long-held wish had come true.
Is that newbie who accidentally wandered into the dungeon really that strong? Not only could she control the ghost baby to destroy a B-rank dungeon, but she could even help her get rid of the main god...
Xiao Xiaoyu suddenly felt like crying.
Although we don't know where she is now, at least she's still in this world, and maybe she can find her parents.
She tried to take a few steps forward to find out where she was.
The sensation of her left leg touching the ground told her that the leg she had cut off had grown back and could be cut off again to use the Soul Bond.
This relieved her.
Although the points system has disappeared, the skills she exchanged for from the main god with those points have not disappeared. Her Yin-Yang Eyes and the Soul-Binding Lock on her legs can still be used.
Although Xiao Xiaoyu's ability to see ghosts and spirits caused her to lose the ability to see normally, it gave her the ability to see ghosts and the flow of yin energy.
In her field of vision, the environment she was in was pitch black—she had never seen such a dense and intense Yin energy before, not even in a B+ level dungeon.
For a moment, she felt like she had nowhere to put her feet... She had no idea where the newcomer had taken her.
The place where someone could raise such a terrifying ghost infant must be incredibly scary.
Just as she was thinking this, Xiao Xiaoyu noticed a ghost suddenly appear in her field of vision.
The ghost was disemboweled, its chest cavity completely open, and all its internal organs were nowhere to be found. Judging from its physique, it must have been an adult male in life, wearing a white coat stained with blood.
The ghost seemed to notice Xiao Xiaoyu's gaze and slowly raised its head.
Its upper half of its face was still intact, but its chin had been forcibly torn off, leaving only the top row of teeth, and its tongue was hanging down its neck.
The two stared at each other for a moment. Just as Xiao Xiaoyu was on the verge of collapse and was about to chop off her leg again to retrieve the Soul-Binding Lock, the ghost seemed to have confirmed something and nodded to her.
The guillotine raised his right hand and pointed in a direction for her.
Compared to the calm and dense yin energy around her, the yin energy in that direction was somewhat restless and took the shape of a door... Was that the exit? Was this ghost guiding her?
Before Xiao Xiaoyu could figure out what the ghost was trying to say, she heard the door open and realized that it had moved.
A familiar figure shrouded in eerie energy walked in from outside—it must be the newcomer who raised the ghost baby.
And standing next to him was...
Xiao Xiaoyu was startled and reflexively took several steps back.
In her vision, which was filled with dense black yin energy, a blinding crimson suddenly surged in from the direction of the door.
The crimson color instantly engulfed everything around her. She was like a tiny speck of dust, helplessly watching herself being swallowed up by the boundless, churning, roaring sea of blood, with no chance to resist.
The disemboweled demon in the room was completely submerged in the crimson, and countless ghostly phantoms appeared in the sea of blood. They carried a huge shrine, like sludge being stirred up, floating and sinking in the sea of blood... docile, numb, completely subjugated to this crimson color, carried forward by the surging blood.
Not only that, but even more terrifying ghostly phantoms appeared one after another, trying to merge into this sea of blood and jointly support that shrine.
After just that brief moment, Xiao Xiaoyu felt an intense stinging pain in her eyes, as if warm liquid was sliding down her cheeks. Her eardrums also began to throb, and the boundless crimson seemed to penetrate her brain through her eyes, creating a thunderous roar of surging blood in her mind.
Xiao Xiaoyu's body began to tremble uncontrollably.
How terrifying! What is this? What on earth is this??
The fear originating from the depths of her soul caused her to shut down her [yin-yang eyes], and her vision returned to darkness.
This is the first time Xiao Xiaoyu has actively turned off the [Yin-Yang Eyes] skill since she acquired it.
The darkness that she once loathed now brought her an unparalleled sense of security.
Xiao Xiaoyu hugged her knees and curled up into a ball.
She would rather remain blind for the rest of her life than face that terrifying crimson again.
That was practically an endless hell.
After Zhou Fangdong led Duan Wenyu into room 105, he found his new tenant standing blankly in the middle of the room.
Seemingly hearing the door open, the little girl in the room looked over with her empty, unfocused eyes.
Immediately afterward, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying, she took several steps back. Then she stumbled and fell to the ground, hugging her knees and curling into a small ball, trembling against the corner of the wall.
Duan Wenyu was taken aback by her reaction and looked around in confusion.
They didn't bring any ghosts with them, so why did Xiao Xiaoyu react even more strongly than when she saw the ghost baby on him... What exactly did she see?
Zhou Fangdong also felt something was off.
His tenant's personality traits are 'bold yet meticulous', and she's also a player who has experienced many dungeons in the infinite flow game. What could possibly scare her like this?
"Xiao Xiaoyu?" Duan Wenyu tried calling out. "Don't be afraid, we've already escaped the instance. You're safe now and will no longer be controlled by the main god."
Upon hearing Duan Wenyu's voice, Xiao Xiaoyu paused, then took a deep breath, trying to calm her wildly beating heart and force herself to pull herself out of her fear.
However, she still didn't dare to activate her [yin-yang eyes], but subconsciously looked in the direction from which the voice came and asked, "Where am I now? Who is next to you?"
Duan Wenyu said softly, "You are in the Liwan Apartment now. Don't worry, you are absolutely safe in the apartment. The main god will not harm you, and neither will the ghosts. The person next to me is the landlord of the apartment. He is the one who saved us... The ghost baby was controlled by the landlord. It was because of him that we were able to be saved."
No wonder, it turns out this person is the true owner of that ghost baby.
Only such a terrifying being could snatch her away from the Supreme God.
Duan Wenyu helped Xiao Xiaoyu up and sat her on the bed in the room. He then placed a bag of food he had taken from the convenience store on her bedside table.
"You must be exhausted. Take a good rest first. I put some food on your bedside table. Eat whenever you're hungry. I'll go out and buy you a cell phone later. That way, it will be easier for you to contact other tenants or the landlord."
Xiao Xiaoyu nodded silently.
Zhou Fangdong took the key to room 105 from the [landlord's keys] and handed it to Xiao Xiaoyu: "You are now a tenant of Liwan Apartment. This is your room key. Keep it safe. Carrying the key with you will allow you to freely enter and exit the apartment and avoid being attacked by ghosts in the building. If the key is lost, it will be considered an automatic termination of the lease."
Xiao Xiaoyu obediently reached out and took it.
She didn't dare question how she became a tenant at Liwan Apartments, nor did she dare ask the landlord what his purpose was in making her a tenant.
She simply accepted the keys in silence.
In the face of absolute power, the weak have no right to question.
After taking the key, Xiao Xiaoyu gently stroked the numbers on it with her fingers—Room 105?
From the landlord's words, it's clear that although she has become a tenant in this apartment, she is free to come and go as she pleases, and he will not restrict her freedom.
Moreover, since wearing the key can immunize her against attacks from ghosts inside the building, perhaps the ghosts outside will also be deterred from attacking her because of the key's existence.
Not only is she free to move around and safe, but most importantly, the landlord stripped her of the points system, allowing her to successfully escape from the clutches of the main god.
Xiao Xiaoyu's heart gradually calmed down.
Currently, being a tenant is entirely beneficial to her.
Although the landlord was terrifying, he was much better than the supreme god, and she would rather submit to such a powerful being.
Seeing that Xiao Xiaoyu's emotions had stabilized considerably, Duan Wenyu breathed a sigh of relief: "I've placed your longevity lock and gold bars by your pillow. Once you've rested, you can go home and check them yourself... Of course, I can also accompany you anytime."
Xiao Xiaoyu smiled at him: "Take the gold bar, consider it a thank you for taking me out of that instance."
“But this is too precious…” Duan Wenyu was interrupted by Xiao Xiaoyu before he could finish speaking. She tried to put the gold bar back into Duan Wenyu’s hand: “To me, what you have done for me is far more precious than gold bars. You have no idea how much I have sacrificed over the years to get rid of the Main God…”
Unfortunately, Xiao Xiaoyu is now completely blind, and Duan Wenyu skillfully avoided her hand.
Then he quickly changed the subject, as if he had just remembered something, and slapped his forehead, "Oh no, I have to go out again. The equipment the Supervision Bureau gave me and the car they sent me to drive are still in the southern suburbs. That equipment is very valuable, I have to get it back. I'm not talking anymore, you get some rest!"
After saying that, he jogged out of room 105.
“I also have things to do, so I won’t stay here with you. You should get some rest today,” Zhou Fangdong said, then casually added Xiao Xiaoyu to his list of special tenants. “If you need anything, just go in and out of room 105 a few times, and I’ll come right away.”
Hearing him say that, Xiao Xiaoyu was stunned.
The landlord was much gentler than she had imagined, almost like a normal person, which made her start to doubt whether the sea of blood she had just seen was an illusion.
But she still didn't dare to open her psychic eyes in front of the landlord.
Hearing the footsteps fade away and the doors close one after another, Xiao Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief and lay heavily on the bed.
Alright, whatever the case, she's free now! She never wants to see that damned God again in her life!
*
After leaving room 105, Zhou Fangdong went directly to room 106 next door.
More than an hour had passed between Duan Wenyu's accident and him bringing Xiao Xiaoyu back to the apartment.
Zhang Qingyang recited the "Supreme Guardian Cat Spirit Chapter" more than ten times in room 106 before the grease in the room dissipated. After doing all this, he took the ghost bus back to Chuyun Temple.
Zhang Zhiwu is currently staying in room 106 because he can teleport to Chuyun Temple at any time.
He looked around the room with his hands behind his back, holding four drawn talismans in his hand, seemingly waiting for Zhou Fangdong to return.
As soon as Zhou Fangdong arrived at the door of Room 106, Zhang Zhiwu turned around as if sensing something.
As he turned his head, the purple talisman on his forehead floated up slightly, revealing the layers of yellow talismans pasted on the upper half of his face.
Zhou Fangdong wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but even though it had only been a little over an hour, the talismans on the zombie Taoist priest's face seemed much brighter, without the tattered, rough edges they used to have.
Zhou Fangdong didn't dwell on such a trivial matter and continued to ask the Taoist priest the question he hadn't finished asking earlier: "Taoist priest, how do I find the cat ghost in this room?"
Zhang Zhiwu slowly stroked his beard, first handing him the four talismans in his hand, then said in a deep voice, "To find the cat ghost, you need to find the 'seedling core,' which is the core of the cat ghost's resentment... Young friend, do you know where the bodies of the tenants who died with those cats ended up?"
Zhou Fangdong put the talisman into his inventory and pointed to the door of room 106: "It's right here."
Zhang Zhiwu nodded, bent down slightly, rolled up his sleeves, and gently tapped the floor of the room with his thin, dark fingers, which were as withered as twigs.
With each tap, one after another, tiny, palm-sized, misty black cats emerged from under the floor, scattering around the room as if startled.
After about twenty or so emerged, another huge black cat, resembling a small leopard with eyes gleaming with a deep green light, crawled out from underground.
Wisps of black mist rose from its body as if its fur had been bristled, and it paced around Zhou Fangdong and Zhang Zhiwu, its eyes full of vigilance.
“This is the cat ghost in this room…” Zhou Fangdong sighed and asked again, “Daoist, is this cat ghost simply resentment, or is it an aggregate of ghosts… Does it have a ghost inside it?”
Zhang Zhiwu shook his head: "No, this cat ghost is just a simple expression of resentment."
"The ghost of the tenant who died in this room must have been freed after killing the murderer who killed her." Zhang Zhiwu sighed heavily at this point. "Freedom is good, it's good. Thank goodness we weren't trapped in this building, otherwise..."
Before Zhou Fangdong could ask, Zhang Zhiwu changed the subject, seemingly unwilling to say more about the matter: "In short, what remains here is the resentment of those kittens. These cats have no human thinking ability. They don't know their current state or what has happened. Their thinking is stuck on the obsession of 'protecting this house and not letting bad people in,' so they will kill every tenant who moves in."
Zhou Fangdong gasped and quickly asked, "Will they kill every single tenant who moves in? Isn't there any room for harmonious coexistence?"
If that's the case, then it's terrible. If the cat ghost won't let anyone move in, room 106 won't be rented out, and his main quest can't be completed.
Then he would have no choice but to get rid of these kittens and replace them with another ghost in room 106... To be honest, he didn't really want to do that.
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