Chapter 141 Invading the Apartment (Bonus Chapter) Opening a blind box leads to a ghost tenant...
Zhou Fangdong walked into the back building of the apartment.
He's cleared the first floor; it's time to go up to the second floor.
He stood in front of the elevator, glanced at the elevator with its indicator light off, and then looked at the dark stairwell not far to his left, hesitating whether to take the stairs or the elevator.
...Or maybe we shouldn't go to the second floor, but go to a higher floor instead?
With his current strength, he doesn't need to worry about dangerous ghosts on higher floors. Or rather, the more dangerous the ghosts he encounters, the better. This way, not only will the ghost tenants he creates be very powerful, but even if he can't become a ghost tenant, he can still get a lot of ghost coins.
Thinking of this, Zhou Fangdong pressed the elevator door open button.
As the elevator doors slowly opened, he stepped inside.
I took a step, and my foot slipped on the ground.
Zhou Fangdong: ? ? ?
Damn it, the elevator car floor is movable! Who designed this hellish elevator? This is outrageous!
After experiencing weightlessness, he instinctively wanted to use the [Return] skill to teleport back to his room.
However, because the [Heavenly Eye] he had just used to appraise the supernatural item hadn't been turned off, Zhou Fangdong sensed something was wrong the moment he fell and forcefully suppressed his urge to teleport.
...It's not that there's no floor; the feeling of weightlessness is because this elevator is a teleportation point.
Because he could teleport back to his apartment at any time, Zhou Fangdong made no further moves and followed the teleportation power to a place that was both strange and familiar.
This place resembles Liwan Apartments, but it's not quite the same.
He was teleported to a corridor, the surroundings were newer than his current apartment, and the windows were not boarded up.
Judging from the room number in front of him, it's on the fifteenth floor, but he doesn't know if it's the front or back building of the apartment... He was transported here by the elevator in the back building, so it's probably the back building of the apartment.
This feeling...
Zhou Fangdong frowned.
Oh right, that three-story apartment instance that the main god created back then.
This place feels a bit like that dungeon he was in.
The main god's third-floor apartment instance has now merged with the Mirror Slime Street and become a special apartment peripheral facility [apartment hidden mirror space], which is a place where ghost tenants can be imprisoned.
Not long ago, when Zhou Fangdong was clearing the first floor of the back building, he imprisoned the Ghost Postman's wife in order to complete the level.
Could the space he's in now be a similar place?
Could it be a hidden mirrored space on another floor of the apartment, but it wasn't invaded by him, so it can't be considered a facility around the apartment?
Zhou Fangdong first tested whether he could use the [Return] skill. After confirming that he could teleport back at any time, he casually opened the door to the nearest room, 1501.
After he entered the room, the front door disappeared and turned into a wall.
Although the transformation was brief, Zhou Fangdong still realized that the front door was also a small teleportation point, and his action of entering the door teleported him to another space.
But it doesn't matter, he can explore wherever he wants, since he can always go back to his apartment.
This room is definitely not room 1501. The room is very large, almost the same size as the activity room on the first floor of Liwan Apartment.
The room was completely undecorated, just a bare concrete shell, with no furniture, only rows of blank, standing figures.
Those figures were all vengeful ghosts who had died tragically.
Their eyes were vacant, and they stood like statues. They wore uniform long robes with their hair tied up in buns, while others had their hair loose because they were missing half their heads.
Zhou Fangdong maintained his [Heavenly Eye] skill and saw the identities of these vengeful ghosts from the causal lines on their bodies.
—These eight vengeful ghosts were actually Zhang Zhiwu's disciples and Zhang Qingyang's senior brothers.
Zhou Fangdong had heard the Taoist priest who was a zombie say that he guarded the apartment alone and eventually died from exhaustion.
His disciples were not with him at the time, which means that their deaths were unrelated to the apartment. Why then were their ghosts here?
Although Zhou Fangdong obtained this space from a blind box, its exact location is unknown, but it should be within the apartment complex. After all, given his current physical condition, he would continue to die if he left the apartment area.
Forget it, whatever the origin of these ghosts, once he sees them, they're his. He's currently worried about not having a suitable ghost tenant.
Zhou Fangdong trusted the zombie Taoist priest. A great teacher produces great students, and the disciples taught by the Taoist priest must all be responsible, hate evil, and have a strong sense of righteousness.
...It would be perfect for someone to work at the City God Temple and protect the safety of the citizens.
The only thing that worried Zhou Fangdong was that these ghosts all seemed dazed, and he wondered if they would regain their senses after he turned them into ghost tenants.
If you're not rational, you'll have to keep them in the garden for a while.
Just as Zhou Fangdong was thinking about garden renovations, the system's electronic voice sounded:
[Intruder detected in the apartment garden. Decorations automatically change their attack form... no, they've activated berserk attack mode.]
"My apartment garden has been invaded? No, why did the decorations suddenly go into berserk mode? Is my garden renovation okay?"
[The renovation is fine, but the intruder will perish.]
Zhou Fangdong breathed a sigh of relief.
The system only indicated that the garden decorations had changed shape, without mentioning the tenants, which means that his tenants are all safe.
The system will issue a warning when a tenant's life is threatened, such as being attacked by cultists, being pulled into a main god instance, or being cursed.
Since the tenants are fine and the garden renovations are okay, it doesn't matter. He has so many ghost tenants in reserve in front of him, and he doesn't want to teleport back for the time being.
Zhou Fangdong's [Return] teleportation skill can only teleport him back to the apartment alone, because his room belongs to the landlord's territory, and neither humans nor ghosts can enter.
Having finally found such a vengeful ghost suitable to be a haunted tenant, he was not willing to give up easily.
Zhou Fangdong found this place where the ghosts of Zhang Zhiwu's disciples were kept purely by chance.
Whether it's the elevator or the teleportation point at the door, the teleportation is random. With his luck, he might not get these ghosts next time he opens a blind box.
Therefore, he could only try to find a teleportation point in this space that would allow him to return to his apartment and bring all the vengeful ghosts back through that point.
*
Zhao Dawei is on vacation today and did not go to work at the Guijia Furniture Store.
There were still two days until the weekend. Today wasn't supposed to be his day off, but because the furniture store manager needed to go out on business and the store was temporarily closed, he was fortunate enough to get a paid day off.
Yesterday, Zhao Dawei heard from the furniture ghosts in the warehouse that it seemed the store had added a new business of supplying goods to Liwan Hospital, and the store manager had gone to the ghost market coffin shop for further training to learn new skills.
Although he didn't know why supplying hospitals required learning at a coffin shop, Zhao Dawei wouldn't question his boss since he could get paid leave.
Ever since moving into the apartment, he's had bad luck every time he goes out on vacation. So Zhao Dawei decided not to go out this time; he wouldn't leave the apartment all day.
He refused to believe that he could encounter danger without leaving his apartment.
After washing up and getting ready, Zhao Dawei left room 101.
Yesterday, when he went to the convenience store after work, he heard an announcement that the store had added a new supply channel and that new products would be available the next day. He was going to buy breakfast later anyway, so he decided to check out what new products the store had stocked.
He also heard from Xiao Miao that the newly built garden in the apartment complex had been completed and was said to be very beautiful. However, due to work, he always returned to the apartment close to dark and never had a chance to see it.
After breakfast today, I can take a walk in the garden to digest my food.
Upon arriving at the 104 Convenience Store, Zhao Dawei was startled by the changes inside.
Simply put, it transformed from a convenience store into a mini-supermarket.
The most noticeable change is that the room's area has more than doubled, and the variety of goods has also increased significantly. In addition to retaining the original ready-to-eat food and daily necessities, new large-capacity family-sized items, fresh ingredients, and daily necessities such as grains and oils have been added.
What surprised X people the most was that the store even set aside two shelves to display basic clothing, from loungewear to seasonal T-shirts, in all sizes for men and women.
Looking at these clothes, Zhao Dawei's eyes filled with tears—he remembered that during his last vacation, he was forced to get involved in two main god dungeons just to buy a change of clothes.
Although I don't know where the convenience store got its new supply channels, it's really thoughtful.
After taking the food from the shelf, Zhao Dawei also grabbed a few changes of clothes in his size and headed towards the apartment garden.
He planned to have breakfast in the garden while enjoying the scenery, which he thought would be very pleasant.
As Zhao Dawei walked towards the apartment garden, the group of five arrived near Liwan Apartment, looking travel-worn.
These five people are cult members of the Bones.
Originally there were fifteen people, but only five remained because when they tried to summon the ghost bus by standing under the bus stop sign and thinking of Liwan Apartment, ten of them were killed when the ghost bus suddenly rushed over.
The ghost bus went crazy for no reason, and with the roads around Liwan Apartment strictly blocked by the Supervision Bureau, making it impossible to drive, they had no choice but to walk.
These cult members dodged security cameras and patrol officers from the supervisory bureau, walking for a day and a night before finally reaching the vicinity of the apartment.
Of the five men, four were bald, and only the young man in the lead had hair.
When the young man saw the two buildings of Liwan Apartments, he burst into tears.
They've finally arrived! He finally has a chance to turn his life around!
Two days ago, a head of the Ossuary received a divine message that all sacrificial activities and ceremonies were temporarily prohibited within the church. The message stated that an evil spirit was vying for power with the gods and would infiltrate the church through rituals and sacrificial activities.
Then the deity said that whoever could bring back a tenant's corpse from the Liwan Apartments would be the next priest of the Bone Society.
Although the reward looks tempting, the higher-ups of the Bone Inheritance Society are not fools and will not be tricked into going to their deaths just because of the title of priest.
On the one hand, they are well aware of the situation at Liwan Apartments. On the other hand, the tenants who dare to rent Liwan Apartments and are personally targeted by the evil god must be powerful.
So the senior members of the Bone Inheritance Society sent out some members to scout out the situation and check on the condition of the Liwan Apartments.
This young man with long hair was originally designated as the next priest of the Origin Society.
From infancy, he was personally raised by the priest. His diet was moderate, his clothing exquisite, and he was cared for according to the strictest standards in every aspect.
Moreover, he neither had to recite those difficult prayers day and night like other believers, nor did he have to learn complicated ritual symbols, nor did he have to participate in tedious blessing ceremonies.
While other believers were busy collecting ritual materials and attracting new members, he only needed to stay by the priest's side and receive offerings.
Even if he does nothing, the priest will always look at him with a very satisfied look.
The high priest never scolded him, never took his anger out on him, and never kept anything from him... This young man knew many secrets of the high-ranking members of the Bone Society, and he also knew that the evil god and the Bone Society were purely mutually exploitative, treating each other as tools.
If he hadn't known that he wasn't related to the priest by blood, he would have thought he was the priest's biological son.
But everything changed three days ago when the High Priest forcibly initiated the ritual to revive the evil god—the High Priest mysteriously disappeared.
After the rituals disappeared, the treatment of young people underwent a dramatic change.
Because he always stayed by the priest's side, he rarely came into contact with other people in the church. He had no friends, his own power was not strong, he had no supernatural artifacts or assets, and he didn't even know how to draw the simplest ritual to pray for blessings from an evil god.
Because of his unusual birth chart, he was arrested and used as ritual material, locked up with ordinary people.
The contrast between being a high-ranking priest who receives the support of the entire church and being a prisoner who is starving and ragged is quite stark.
If it weren't for this mission, he would never have had the chance to come out.
The young man peered intently through the fence at the apartment garden.
The Liwan Apartments consist of two buildings with a garden in the middle. The garden is surrounded by a five-meter-high iron fence on both sides, with sharp corners at the top and wire wrapped around the corners.
It would be difficult for a normal person to climb over, but these cultists knew the layout of the apartment and had naturally made preparations in advance.
The young man gripped the supernatural artifact tightly in his hand, secretly making up his mind.
He not only has to complete this mission, but he also has to exceed it!
Killing one tenant isn't enough; he wants to kill all the tenants at Liwan Apartments and take their bodies back with him!
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