As if Lin Sanjiu wanted to make sure that she was doing the right thing, the conversation she had with the other occupants of the apartment flashed across her mind as she slowly walked out of the apartment building.
The occupant of unit 207 was a slender woman. When she stood up, she was a head taller than Lin Sanjiu. When she lowered her head to speak, Lin Sanjiu immediately thought of a giraffe. "Yes, that's right. You are not an official occupant yet."
She paused for a moment before continuing expressionlessly, "To become an official occupant, you have to meet an official occupant twice or more. I heard that there is another way … I don't know what it is. "
The occupants of unit 304 were a young couple. When the husband came to open the door, the petite wife called out to him with a smile, "I'm still in my pajamas. Close the door first." However, Lin Sanjiu had already experienced this scene once. She immediately stretched out her leg to block the door and let the husband finish his sentence.
"You're asking me if I can climb out of the window? Are you kidding me? Why would I climb out of the window instead of using the door? The girl in unit 320 didn't say it out loud. That's because she is also an outsider. She couldn't find the exit, so she decided to stay in this building … Of course, there is an entrance here. "
The occupant of unit 411 was a young man who seemed to be preparing for his exams. When he opened the door, he was holding a pen between his fingers. He spoke impatiently, "I don't know what you want to know. Can you wait for a few minutes? Come back when my mom is back. Huh? Will there be a second time? "
The young man lowered his head when he heard Lin Sanjiu's words. After a while, he said faintly, "… Well, if that's the case, I'll tell you what I know. The security outside this apartment building isn't very good. Recently, there have been some thieves and vagrants climbing in from the outside. It has affected us quite a lot. What? Of course, you can also go out the way they came in … But if you go out, you will become a vagrant. Our apartment doesn't allow people like that to live in it. Oh, shall I take you to see them? You can see those people from my window … "
After Lin Sanjiu came out of unit 411 as if she had just escaped death, she knocked on the door of unit 608.
"You are still a preparatory occupant. There must be a lot of things missing in the room, right? " A chubby middle-aged man greeted her enthusiastically, "Would you like some coffee?"
Lin Sanjiu immediately shook her head. The middle-aged man put down the coffee pot and squeezed his body through the half-opened door. He stared at Lin Sanjiu without blinking, "The security in this apartment building isn't very strict. Not only do thieves come in through the windows, there are also people who knock on the door. Forget about the first time he knocked on the door. The second time I knocked on the door, I got angry … Last time, I shoved a guy into the fire escape outside the window. After that, I found out that he was a friend of the new tenant on the first floor. "
There was a total of six floors in the building. Lin Sanjiu did not go down to the first floor because she was worried about "Geran". She avoided the doors that she had knocked on before and tried her best to get some information from the other occupants. As she got more information, she realized that the information she got was categorized into a few categories. Of course, all the occupants that she knocked on tried all sorts of tricks to trick her into opening their doors a second time.
Regardless, Lin Sanjiu managed to get a general idea of the situation from the information she got.
Firstly, the attraction was divided into two parts. One was at the back of the apartment building that she was very familiar with. Actually, there was a hidden and more dangerous "Outside the Window World". From what the occupants said, this "Outside the Window World" only contained "thieves and vagrants". Once the occupants of the apartment building went out, they could never return. On the other hand, the "people" outside the apartment building would occasionally appear in the apartment building and cause a lot of "trouble" for the occupants. On the other hand, the occupants of the apartment building could act like the middle-aged man. They could force or trick posthumans to go out through the window...
Even though Lin Sanjiu had no way of knowing the truth, she still managed to piece together a timeline that she believed was very close to the truth.
After she entered the attraction, the "Outside the Window World" should be a new death trap that appeared after the difficulty of the attraction increased. When she knocked on the door of unit 601, Geran turned around and ran up to the seventh floor. Geran turned around and ran up to the seventh floor. From the spot where the glasses had fallen, he guessed that he had seen the posthuman that the middle-aged man had shoved out of the window. According to the way the middle-aged man addressed him, Geran should have a certain level of trust in that posthuman.
However, at that moment... Naturally, the "person" outside the window was no longer a person.
Geran was a very cautious person. Lin Sanjiu believed that he would not enter a painting recklessly. Perhaps it was because of his cautiousness that he eventually died inside the apartment building. Just like what the slender woman had said, he fulfilled the second condition to become an "official occupant" and moved into unit 101.
After him, Livia finally left through the window for some unknown reason. There was a high possibility that she was frightened as she said and jumped out of the window of the old lady's room. From then on, she was trapped in the "Outside the Window World".
If Lin Sanjiu did not enter the apartment building, she and Geran would not have died at the window. From a certain point of view, the series of actions that they took after that could be considered as revenge. As the information given by the residents of the apartment building was random, the previous person and the next person might not be referring to the same thing. For example, what the girl in unit 320 said was actually a way to differentiate between the official occupants and the preparatory occupants. As for the old lady, she was talking about the "Outside the Window World". As a result, Lin Sanjiu had the misconception that the window in one of the units was the exit. She almost fell for Livia's trick.
The "neighborhood meeting" should be the last hurdle in this apartment building.
At least, that was Lin Sanjiu's guess.
She would probably never forget the feeling of walking among her "neighbors" for the rest of her life.
Lin Sanjiu could even see the insides of her eyelids. The gazes that fell on her seemed to be real. Even though there was nothing around her, Lin Sanjiu could somehow feel that she was walking through the "crowd".
The "residents" were very close to her. In fact, they were a little too close. Lin Sanjiu felt a slight itch on her left cheek as if she had been brushed by a strand of hair. When she thought about it carefully, she felt like she was blinking her eyelashes.
A pair of eyeballs was glued to her face.
Lin Sanjiu shuddered when she thought about it. She couldn't help but open her eyes immediately.
"Geran, are you here?" Ye Zichen closed his eyes and slowly walked out based on his memory. Lin Sanjiu suddenly called out to him in a low voice. She did not dare to stretch her hand forward as she was afraid that she might touch something. Therefore, she took every step very slowly. Her eyelids and her voice were trembling, "You must be here."
There was no response from the surrounding air.
"I'm sorry," Lin Sanjiu thought for a long time, but that was all she could say in the end.
Even though she knew that it was not her fault, every time she thought about Geran's expression when he walked up to her and stopped her from calling the door, she would feel like crying. Her throat felt a little dry.
If he had just stood by and watched, Lin Sanjiu would have been the one to die instead of him.
Geran was probably there, but even after hearing the apology, he didn't say anything.
Lin Sanjiu sighed deeply in her heart. She tried her best to suppress her mixed emotions of fear and guilt as she tried her best to sense everything around her.
The hypersensory state, which was originally chaotic in the apartment building, had been activated after Zhang Zian closed his eyes. Somehow, it became clearer and clearer. As his senses became clearer … Lin Sanjiu knew that she was heading in the right direction. Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and a gust of wind blew against her face. Her hair fluttered in the wind, and at the same time, her heart calmed down.
"Congratulations! You have completed it!
The first round of the 'Haunted House Dare'. "
Lin Sanjiu waited for a few seconds like a bird startled by the mere twang of a bowstring. She only opened her eyes with trembling eyes when she felt the sunlight shining on her shoulders.
The broad-shouldered young girl that Lin Sanjiu had met before was now sitting behind a glass window in front of her. "You didn't do anything special this round. You only got six Stamina Points. Come and collect them."
Lin Sanjiu turned around to look. In front of the warehouse-like building, the shutter door was slowly rolling down. There was no trace of the apartment building, the dark red wooden door, or Geran's existence.
In the next second, Lin Sanjiu dashed toward the window with the word "Ticket" written on it.
Her large skeletal wings were fully extended in her rage. They formed a sharp angle in midair. Wrapped in the momentum of her momentum, she smashed the ticket window with the sound of glass shattering. The panic-stricken young girl fell to the ground in the shadow cast by her bony wings, as if she didn't know what to do at all.
However, in the next second, Lin Sanjiu's attack froze when she heard a female voice from the loudspeaker.
"Player 57, please take note. If you do not stop attacking the staff of this park, you will receive a penalty of 50 Stamina Points. There will be a penalty of 50 stamina points deducted … Player 57, please take note … "
Even though Lin Sanjiu had stopped her attack, she couldn't suppress her anger. She swung her arm and a few large pieces of glass flew past the young girl's face. "Haunted House Dare? Is this a f * cking haunted house? What is it?
What is this' sightseeing program '? "
"Well, according to the rules, I can't tell you in advance," the young girl gulped. Her actions and expression were no different from a normal person. She didn't look like a creature from a pocket dimension. "Besides, how many people in this world have seen ghosts? Isn't this more worth sightseeing than some famous mountains and rivers?"
Lin Sanjiu's chest rose and fell due to her anger. She stood rooted to the ground for a long time before she finally let out a long sigh.
"No wonder …" Mrs. Manas finally spoke, "No wonder! Since you can't attack them, they can't attack you! "
"Yes," the young girl sat up amidst the shards of glass. "Which haunted house would allow you to beat up the staff members? Of course, the staff members can't touch you. "
"Staff members …"
Lin Sanjiu felt a bitter taste in her mouth.
"Geran and Livia are two living lives trapped behind this shutter door forever as if it's a joke?"
"What will happen to the posthumans inside if they don't pass the first stage?" Lin Sanjiu asked softly.
The young girl shot a glance at Lin Sanjiu but didn't answer her directly. It was as if she was afraid that Lin Sanjiu would lose 50 Life Points to vent her anger on her. After pondering for a long time, the young girl picked a few words and said, "That depends on their luck. There are some people who aren't in a hopeless situation, but it doesn't mean that they won't be able to get out … "
… Even though it sounded hopeless, it was still better than having no way to turn the situation around.
Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath and wiped her face. She raised her head and surveyed her surroundings.
She was still at the entrance of the warehouse when she came out. Her surroundings looked exactly the same as when she first entered, so she couldn't tell how long she had spent in there.
When Lin Sanjiu asked that question, the young girl rummaged through the broken glass and overturned tables and chairs. Then, she took out a watch.
"It's not that long. You only spent less than four hours."
"Four hours …" Lin Sanjiu frowned.
She didn't know if Puppeteer could finish his attraction in that amount of time. In any case, the past was the past. What she needed to do now was to pass the stage and catch up to Puppeteer as soon as possible.
"Alright, give me my Stamina Points now. I want to participate in the next round," Lin Sanjiu said to the young girl. Then, she stretched out her wrist.
The girl, whose broad shoulders were stuffed to the brim with clothes, quickly picked up a device from the ground and scanned Lin Sanjiu's wrist. Perhaps the girl was a little afraid of Lin Sanjiu's temper, she added, "This time, it's a different scenario. Don't mess around."
As the shutter door slowly opened again, Lin Sanjiu glanced at the girl. She took a deep breath and was about to walk into the warehouse.
However, to her surprise, before she could take her first step, a pair of feet appeared from the shadow behind the shutter door. Then, a person walked out from behind the shutter door.
"Eh? Miss Lin, why are you here? I was looking for you everywhere. What a coincidence! "
Aker said, his eyes widening in surprise. (To be continued.)
PS:
Thank you to Sinful Dream's Wall of Heshibi and the monthly ticket. Tell him I received it! I'm getting a little tired of receiving so many gifts … Looks like I have to come up with a new chapter as soon as possible …
Thank you to Squirrel's Egg Tarts, Wings of Gold (and the monthly ticket), Hashimoto Man.
Winter Sunbathing, 2 of Mikasayou (I'm really used to it …), Obedient Kitty, Heartless Specter, Fat Bird, HFYYYY the Speechless, Shadow § Xueruo, Green Jasmine Wange, Bread and Milk House, Honey Meow Meow Meow's Protective Charm ~!
Thank you to Shy Face, Heartless Specter, Feisheep, Whisper of Worms, Windy Road, and Nausica for the monthly ticket!
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