After viewing the achievements in Chapter 143, the dungeon sweep mode is unlocked. Arrogant...
Seeing the long list of achievement system pop-ups that appeared after unlocking, Zhou Fangdong didn't check them immediately, but instead closed them all.
The most important thing now is to check the condition of those newly created ghost tenants... He had just finished making them when the system automatically placed them into the vacant rooms in the back building.
Zhou Fangdong arrived at the door of room 101 in the back building, took a deep breath, and pushed the door open forcefully as if opening a blind box.
Inside the room was a Taoist priest who looked to be in his thirties or forties. He had a stern expression, clear eyes, a square face, and appeared very composed.
He noticed Zhou Fangdong opening the door and coming in, and nodded to him.
"I am Zhang Shouyi, and I thank the landlord for giving my fellow disciples a second life. Please feel free to ask for anything. As long as it is not something immoral or unethical, we will do our best to do it." The Taoist priest accepted his identity as a ghost tenant of Liwan Apartment without any questions.
Zhou Fangdong finally felt relieved.
He's rational! Even if he's the only rational one among the eight ghost tenants, he's still ahead!
Zhou Fangdong briefly explained the current situation to him and told him that his master and junior brother also lived in the apartment. If he wanted to return to Chuyun Temple, he could take the ghost bus back at any time.
After saying that, he didn't linger in the room and began to check the second room.
After looking around, Zhou Fangdong found that all the newly created ghost tenants were in a rational state and seemed to be reliable adults.
He was completely relieved.
The matter at the City God Temple isn't urgent; he can still use his Nightmare clone to last another day.
Today, let these ghost tenants return to Chuyun Temple to reunite with the zombie Taoist priest. Tomorrow, we'll arrange for two more people to work at the City God Temple.
After all, he's not a heartless boss; he should show some humanistic care to the employees who work for him.
After checking the status of the ghost tenants, Zhou Fangdong stood in front of the elevator in the back building and began to check the newly unlocked achievements.
The achievement system's overall page resembles a book, with pixelated achievement illustrations. Clicking on an illustration allows you to view the achievement's description, claim rewards, and obtain titles.
Zhou Fangdong started reading from the beginning.
The first icon is a pixelated gold ingot, which signifies "Successfully rented out a room, unlocking the landlord achievement, [First Pot of Gold]", and grants a reward of 300 Ghost Coins.
The second one is a thumbs-up pixel icon. [Ten tenants have reached 100% favorability, unlocking the tenant achievement, [100% Positive Feedback]]
This achievement rewards you with an apartment decoration [star lights].
Starry Night: Adds 20 decoration points. Decoration points only take effect once and cannot be stacked.
String lights that can be hung on the walls of an apartment hallway emit a warm, comforting yellow light that is believed to attract ghosts. The distribution of ghosts in the hallway can be adjusted by changing the position of the fairy lights.
Applications: The string lights are long enough to cover an entire corridor and can be divided and adjusted as needed.
20 decoration points are equivalent to a basic crystal chandelier costing 300 ghost coins, which is not bad and quite cost-effective.
The third achievement is an icon of five pixelated figures tightly embracing each other: [Having five or more tenants related to the Bureau of Supervision, unlocking the tenant achievement, [Bureau of Supervision Staff Dormitory]]
Once this achievement is unlocked, it will increase the rate at which the favorability rating of relevant personnel in the Supervisory Bureau increases.
The fourth icon is a bit strange; it's actually a pixelated head of a green frog.
Zhou Fangdong nodded in confusion.
[With 20 single tenants, highlighting tenant achievements, [Single Apartment]]
[Light up the landlord title, [Master of Solitude]]
Achievement Reward: Garden Decoration - Little Frog.
After wearing the title of [Master of Solitude], all the tenants you recruit will be single. If a tenant has a lover, they will also revert to being single after entering the apartment.
Zhou Fangdong was speechless.
What the heck is this title... The system is really twisted. What's the point of this garbage achievement?
Zhou Fangdong received the little frog decoration and checked its effect.
Garden Decoration - Little Frog: A decoration that can be placed in the garden, increasing decoration value by 20 points. Placing it in the garden will periodically spawn a frog to feed the flowers in the flower bed, making the flowers more vibrant.
(Hint: Frogs are not on the fountain's menu, so do not place this decoration in the water.)
This decoration also costs 20 decoration points; I can just put it anywhere on the ground when I go back to the garden.
The next achievement is a small house icon: [Successfully repaired one floor of the collapsed area, earning the title of Landlord, [Post-Disaster Reconstruction Pioneer]].
Zhou Fangdong was stunned for a moment when he saw the achievement description.
The collapsed area on the fifth floor has already been repaired? It's only been one night, how fast!
He opened the rental preview page and found that the collapsed area on the fifth floor had been completely repaired, but there were no repair workers to be seen.
He opened the lamp oil worker creation page again and found that the repairman he had created had disappeared.
...It seems that, unlike the other corpse workers, this repairman created by the Nightmare clone is a one-time use.
But this is still a good deal, as it will free up my hands completely in the future.
Zhou Fangdong checked the effects of the title [Post-Disaster Reconstruction Pioneer].
Wearing the [Post-Disaster Reconstructor] title increases the efficiency of repairing collapsed areas by 10%, whether you repair them yourself or have workers do it.
The effect is okay. If the effects of the following titles are not good, he will just wear this one.
"System, can I wear several titles at the same time?"
[Currently, two titles can be worn simultaneously. As the apartment's reputation increases, the number of titles the host can wear will also increase.]
Zhou Fangdong nodded and continued reading.
Below is a pixelated achievement icon for a Taoist temple: "[All members of Izumo Temple have moved into the apartment, and the tenant achievement [A Family of Loyal Martyrs] has been unlocked]."
Achievement Effect: When tenants of Chuyun Temple work at the City God Temple or the Temple of the Realm, their incense offering value increases by 10% (stackable).
Zhou Fangdong's eyes lit up when he saw the last one, "can be stacked".
Including the zombie Taoist priest and Zhang Qingyang, there are a total of ten people in Chuyun Temple. If we pack them all up and place them in the Jingmiao or Chenghuang Temple to work, wouldn't the profits double?
...By the way, he vaguely remembered that there were more than thirty ordinary people living in the Izumo Temple. If they all moved into the apartment, would they be considered as tenants of the Izumo Temple?
Just as Zhou Fangdong thought of this, the system notification sounded:
[No, the only tenants associated with Chuyun Temple are Zhang Zhiwu and his nine disciples.]
...The system is really well-guarded, not allowing any bugs to cause any issues.
Zhou Fangdong silently muttered something to himself and continued browsing through his achievements.
[Owning five different industries, unlock achievements, [Liwan Chain Empire]]
Unlock the landlord achievement title: [Business Prodigy]
Wearing the title of [Business Prodigy] will increase the reputation points, incense points, and ghost coins earned during the operation of your businesses by 10%.
Upon seeing the potential for increased profits, Zhou Fangdong accepted the title without hesitation.
His current businesses include online stores, paper craft shops, ghost market auctions, Liwan Hospital, and the City God Temple. These shops earn him reputation points and ghost coins every minute. Wearing them even a second late is considered disrespectful to money.
The next achievement icon is a card icon: [100 consecutive draws in the hospital morgue, fewer than 10 of which are Ghost Doctors, unlock achievement: [The Tragedy of the Unlucky]]
Once this achievement is unlocked, you are guaranteed a pity pull every nine draws.
Zhou Fangdong fell silent.
The system was definitely subtly mocking him.
Next is a pixelated gold coin pattern. [Account balance exceeds 150,000 Ghost Coins, unlocking the achievement title: [Pixiu]]
After wearing this title, you can see the amount of Ghost Coins held by each ghost.
...This title is useless; being able to look but not compete for it is even more torturous.
[I actively created nine ghost tenants, unlocking the landlord achievement, [I want them all]]
Unlock achievement reward: Mark feature. If you don't have time to create a ghost tenant right now, you can use this feature to mark the ghosts you like, and later find them using the floor plan in the rental preview interface.
[Apartment renovation value exceeds 2,000, unlocking the landlord achievement, [Renovation Expert]]
This achievement reward also includes a decorative item: [Decorative Item - Garden Path].
Garden path: A path paved with greyish-white pebbles. Don't ask what the greyish-white pebbles are made of; you won't want to know.
Only apartment tenants can walk on it. Tenants walking on the path have their movement speed increased by 5%.
The final achievement is a pixelated icon combining a gear and a wrench: [Find more than three ghostly corpses in the apartment and more than three ghostly tenants in the garden to unlock the landlord achievement title: Resource Management Master].
[Resource Management Master]: When wearing this title, there is a chance to double your Ghost Coins when collecting them from the apartment's garbage dump. The garbage dump also has a small chance of spawning corpses that can be used for renovations.
Hmm... forget about that title. He currently has 170,000 Ghost Coins in his account, so he doesn't really need those few Ghost Coins from the garbage dump.
Furthermore, the probability of doubling Ghost Coins and spitting out corpses at the garbage dump is not 100%, so there's no need to waste a slot for wearing it.
Zhou Fangdong ultimately chose to wear the titles of "business prodigy" and "disaster reconstruction pioneer".
After seeing these achievements, Zhou Fangdong walked out of the back building and into the garden.
As soon as he stepped out of the back building, he paused, surprised to find that most of the garden floor was covered with grass.
The newly sprouted grass blades still bore the morning dew, and many small white flowers were interspersed among the green grass.
The gardener squatted at the edge of the lawn, the brim of her straw hat casting a rounded shadow on her nose.
She was intently tending to the soil on the ground. With the help of her gardening shovel, the seeds in the soil instantly took root and sprouted, growing into patches of lush green lawn.
...The garden showed no signs of intrusion by outsiders; on the contrary, it became even more beautiful.
Just then, the system notification sounded:
The dahlias in the flower bed have provided you with garden surveillance video. Would you like to view it?
The scarecrow in the field and the weeping lady statue offer you fragments of cult memories. Do you want to receive them?
Zhou Fangdong snapped out of his daze and replied, "Check, receive."
After watching these videos, Zhou Fangdong frowned.
The evil god is causing trouble again.
He said that after this guy disappeared in the mirror world the day before yesterday, there had been no further news. It turned out that cultists had been arranged to come and arrest the tenants, but the cultists were not efficient enough and only arrived at the apartment today.
Fortunately, the ghost bus driver had already woken up and activated the protective measures for the ghost bus. If these people had come to cause trouble yesterday, it would have greatly affected his handling of the main god.
After reviewing the fragments of those cultists' memories, Zhou Fangdong discovered that the evil god had also forbidden those cultists from holding rituals... No wonder he hadn't been able to find any new locations where cultists were active on the ritual query interface lately.
Zhou Fangdong's expression was very serious.
He didn't know what the evil god had guessed... He had a feeling that the evil god must have mistaken him for someone else.
The evil god wanted the tenant's corpse, possibly because it wanted to impersonate the tenant and come to the apartment.
Unfortunately, the tenants of Liwan Apartments are not so easy to disguise. Even if he doesn't recognize them, the ghost in the tenant's room will.
This intrusion into the apartment was a test. If it fails, the evil god may continue to send cultists to infiltrate the apartment, or may directly attack tenants who are out during the day.
However, there's no need to worry about any of that. The apartment isn't easy to break into, and he also provided the tenants with protective paranormal devices.
Speaking of supernatural props... Zhou Fangdong looked at the bench in the planting area.
The mature supernatural props that he had casually tossed onto the bench were not lost; in fact, there were quite a few more—He Yansheng pulled out all the mature supernatural props and placed them on the bench, and was continuing to plant supernatural props in the field.
Xiao Di was farming with He Yansheng, and this pile of new supernatural props must have been found by the child in the back building.
Zhou Fangdong stroked his chin, lost in thought.
Speaking of which, Ke Yan was able to clean up the corpses in the back building before becoming a ghost tenant, and after becoming a ghost tenant, she could easily find supernatural items in the back building.
Xiao Di is the same.
Excluding the two ghost tenants who are going to work at the City God Temple, there are now six idle ghost tenants in his back building. Can he automate the dungeon runs by using these idle ghost tenants?
Of the rooms in the back building, only the item room is useful; his [Heavenly Eye] skill's appraisal function comes from the items in the item room.
All other resources are either ghost coins or irrational ghost tenants.
...It seems he could easily get those six idle ghost Taoist priests to help clean the rooms in the back building and collect supernatural items and ghost coins for him.
If you encounter an irrational ghost tenant, you can ask them to help capture him alive and then deal with him when he comes over.
Thinking of this, Zhou Fangdong said to the system, "System, please make me a function to assign ghost tenants to sweep the back building dungeon."
【……？】
Seeing that the system remained silent, Zhou Fangdong began to list his daily tasks:
“Tongzi, look how busy I am right now. During the day, I have to renovate the garden and apartments, clean up the rooms in the front building and rent them out, and I also have to keep an eye on the tenants who go out. I don’t have to worry too much about the paper craft shop and the auction in the Ghost Market, but the operation of the apartment online store and the hospital is related to the apartment’s reputation value, so I have to keep an eye on them at all times.”
"The operation of the City God Temple has just been unlocked. Next, I need to work hard to build it, expand the protection area of the City God Temple, activate other community temples... and I also need to deal with those polluting ghosts that escaped from the cracks in the top floor."
"If the main god or evil god causes trouble, I'll be even busier. I have so many things to do every day, I really don't have the energy to go to the back building and deal with those ghosts room by room. Other games have a dungeon sweep function when players have overwhelming combat power, you can make one for me too."
Although Zhou Fangdong could personally communicate with those ghost tenants and ask them for help.
However, it would be more convenient with the system assistance. You only need to check the system interface to see the progress of the ghost tenant's dungeon sweep and collect the resources obtained by the ghost tenant in the dungeon, so that he doesn't have to run back and forth between the front and back buildings.
[Under systems thinking...]
[The host's request is reasonable, and there are idle ghost tenants available for dispatch. The function to dispatch ghost tenants to sweep through the back building instance is under development. Please wait...]
[Successfully completed; the back-building dungeon sweep page is now unlocked]
[Note: After clearing a floor, you need to pay each ghost tenant 1% of your ghost coin earnings as a service fee.]
Zhou Fangdong did a rough calculation.
After completing the dungeon on the first floor last time, he earned a total of 30,000 Ghost Coins.
If the resources on the second floor are roughly the same, a 1% reward would be 300 ghost coins per person. Even if six ghost tenants act together, it would only be 1,800, which is very cost-effective.
Just as Zhou Fangdong was about to open the dungeon sweep interface to try out the new feature, a pop-up window for the special tenant's watchlist suddenly appeared:
[The tenant of room 303 is cursed by a ghost; life countdown: 2 days]
Zhou Fangdong was stunned.
Room 303 tenant... Li Ou?
...How could it be Li Ou? Didn't he tell me this morning not to leave the apartment?
Zhou Fangdong frowned and opened the rental preview interface and the special tenant watchlist to check Li Ou's movements this morning.
Judging from his movements, Li Ou hadn't actually left the apartment; he had simply gone to the apartment entrance to retrieve some materials for making the sculpture. The rental preview showed Li Ou still in the first-floor lobby, a pixelated figure bearing his name sweating profusely as he struggled to carry the materials into the elevator.
In the morning, when Zhou Fangdong asked the director of the Supervision Bureau to help purchase materials for making the statue, he mentioned that these materials were for Li Ou's use.
Before coming to the apartment, Li Ou was detained in Liwan Hospital. The cell phone and SIM card he is currently using were purchased with the help of the Supervisory Bureau. Therefore, after the Supervisory Bureau delivered the materials, they contacted Li Ou directly and asked him to come down and pick them up.
After all, the investigator who came to deliver the goods was not an apartment tenant and dared not enter the apartment at will.
But unexpectedly, Li Ou was cursed just two steps away from the apartment door.
...The tenants who bullied him have even come to his apartment door. What the hell is going on, acting so arrogantly?
Because of what happened last night, Zhou Fangdong was already in a bad mood, and now that this ghost has appeared, he's really walking into a trap.
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