"Of course not! I've already told my parents, and they want to meet you as well. " Li Ruonan grabbed the man's arm. The warmth that she had not felt for a long time caused a smile to appear on her face.
She dragged the young man to the second floor of the building. When she pushed open the door, her parents were already seated at the dining table.
"Mom, Dad, this is our new tenant."
The dim light lit up the warm room. The father, who sat at the table, raised his head to look at the young man. He pushed on his glasses and signaled for the young man to come in. "Come and sit."
"Hello, uncle, auntie." The young man was very polite. He hugged the urn and sat down at the table.
"Why are you wandering outside alone at night? Do you have nowhere to go? "Li Ruonan's mother had her hair tied up, and she looked very virtuous.
"I need to go to the end of the street, and the road might be dangerous, so I need to find a few safe places to stay. If I run into any danger, I can temporarily hide in one of the safer buildings. "
"You want to go to the end of the street?" The father frowned. "I advise you not to wander around. Why don't you stay here for now?"
The father's voice was authoritative. As the head of the family, he seemed to be used to speaking like this.
"Won't I trouble you? I don't have much money on me, so I might not be able to pay the rent. "
"The rent is fine, you just need to promise us one thing." The mother stood up and walked to the young man's side. At that moment, there was the sound of a door closing. The chain slid, and Li Ruonan locked the front door. "We can protect you, give you food, and a place to stay, but from today onwards, you are not allowed to leave this room."
"I can't leave?" The young man hesitated. "If I'm alone, it's fine, but I need to ask for my friend's opinion."
The lights in the room started to flicker. When the lights came on, the family of three had normal expressions, but when the lights went off, all three of their eyes were rolling back, and their faces were pale.
"Since you're already here, you should stay here." The father's voice was scary. He lifted the upside down bowl on the plate. "Eat, you'll get used to life here in the future."
The light twisted, and the young man looked at the dining table. The plates were filled with worms and rotten meat.
"Eat, don't be shy! There's a lot more in the kitchen! " The mother looked at the young man, picked up a piece of meat with her chopsticks, and put it in the young man's bowl. "Eat, eat, it's delicious!"
"Auntie, why don't we just forget it? I won't trouble you anymore. "The young man wanted to get up, but the lights in the room went out completely.
Strange sounds came from the darkness — bang, bang, bang …
Li Ruonan walked out of her bedroom with a chain in her hand. She had changed into a new dress and had an incomparably happy smile on her face. "This time, I won't let you disappear for no reason again."
"Chains can't bind a man's heart. As long as he has hands and feet, he will still escape." Li Ruonan's mother lovingly rubbed her head. She took out a kitchen knife from the kitchen. Both mother and daughter's faces were drained of all color. Their expressions were twisted and cruel. Their rationality was slowly being consumed.
"Stay, we'll raise you until you're fair and plump." Li Ruonan looked at the young man's neighbor and said to herself with a smile, "It doesn't matter. I can feed you in the future."
Seeing that the woman had taken out the knife, the young man knew he could not refuse. "Are you sure I can stay here? I can stay here as long as I want? "
"Yes, you can stay here forever! You can stay here forever! "
The skin on the family of three's faces started to rot. When they walked to the young man, the nervous young man suddenly calmed down.
"This is the first time I've heard such a strange request." He opened the broken urn in his arms. "Come out, the landlord said we can stay here forever and treat this place as our own home."
The only light in the room was twisted and the temperature inside the small room dropped to freezing point.
"Who are you talking to?"
The father was the first to sense something was wrong. As he asked that question, a child's crying echoed inside the room. Then, many arms crawled out from the urn!
The resentment grew. The thick stench of blood washed away the stench inside the room. Many resentful spirits filled the living room.
Sitting on the chair next to the dining table, the young man put down the chopsticks in his hand. He leaned against the back of the chair and his eyes scanned the family of three calmly. There was a gentle smile on his face.
"Auntie, from now on, we're a family."
Surrounded by so many resentful spirits, the family of three almost split apart.
"There's no need to be so formal between family members, feel free to take a seat."
The family of three was forced to sit at the dining table. They looked at the young man before them, not knowing what to do. After a long time, the bespectacled father coughed drily. "Our home is too small, I don't think it can accommodate so many people …"
"It's fine, we don't mind." Han Fei tapped on the table as if contemplating something.
He did not say anything and the family of three did not dare to make a sound. However, the father and mother communicated with each other through their eyes. Then they glared at Li Ruonan. The girl seemed to be tired of living off her parents so she started to trick them.
"Actually, I really mean you no harm. Even though you wanted to hurt me, I've always been a forgiving person." The young man's words lit up the family of three's hope. "Let's settle a score. You threatened to kill me and I let that go. Now, I have the chance to destroy your family of three but I chose not to do so. Doesn't that mean I've saved your family's lives? Does that mean every single one of you owes me a life? "
The young man's tone was quick but he did have a point.
"Like I said, my goal is to get to the other side of the street. I need a few safe places to stay. If you're willing to cooperate with me to repay me for saving your lives, then we'll be friends and family. But if you're not willing to cooperate, then there's nothing I can do … "
"Of course! Of course! You're welcome to come back anytime. This is the safest place for you to stay. "Li Ruonan's father responded quickly.
"You'll know in the future what a correct decision this is." The young man took out a blood red paper doll from his pocket. He tore off a small piece of paper that was soaked in blood and fed it to Li Ruonan's father.
At the same time, a cold voice echoed in the young man's mind.
"Notification for Player 0000! You've completed Grade G Hidden Mission — The Inescapable Home.
"Mission completion rate is less than 90 percent. Obtained basic reward: 1 free skill point, + 10 friendliness level with Li Ruonan's family of 3, + 1 building to light up! Light up another 10 buildings and you'll get the basic map exploration reward! "
The young man sitting at the dining table was Han Fei. He knew that this method of completing the mission with overwhelming power would result in a lower completion rate but he did not have the time to explore every single mission in detail.
Furthermore, he was already level 10, the EXP reward for completing Grade G Hidden Missions was not that high.
Han Fei's appetite had grown, he needed to try Grade F Hidden Missions.
Walking to the window, Han Fei looked out at the street. Li Ruonan's 2 storey apartment was on the other side of the junction, the location was crucial.
'This will be the first building I occupy on this street. I'll slowly clean this place up and make more friends.'
After completing a mission, Han Fei was free to quit the game. His courage grew.
Han Fei summoned all the spirits back into the urn and left the second floor. He was not a bloodthirsty person. As long as the spirit was sane and he could communicate with it, he would try to befriend it.
If the spirit was unwilling, then he would consider using other ghosts and spirits to persuade it.
In reality, Han Fei already had his own way of identifying ghosts. He would use himself as bait to test the spirit's lingering rationality.
It was said that one shouldn't easily test one's character. Han Fei had a deep understanding of this saying.
Actually before he met Li Ruonan, he had already encountered several lingering spirits and one lingering spirit but they had all been stuffed into Weep's and Drake's stomachs.
After following Han Fei around for half a night, Weep and Drake's power level increased rapidly.
Drake's wounds had fully healed. The resentment that radiated from his body was scarier than before. His single eye appeared to have gained a new power.
Weep's performance was even more shocking. This tortured boy was different from other spirits. The stronger the spirit, the bigger they would grow but Weep was the complete opposite. He suppressed all his pain and hatred inside his body.
He kept suppressing his resentment. By then his body had changed slightly. The crying was much scarier than before.
"Come on, let's go to the next building. Tonight, I want to light up 10 buildings on the map."
Most ghosts in the cryptic world would stay in one place and allow their resentment to slowly seep into a certain corner of the room, just like the tenants at the Happiness Neighbourhood.
But now Han Fei was here. He did not care about the rules. In his eyes, there were only friends and enemies. To survive, he could become an angel or a demon.
After all the spirits returned to the urn, Han Fei's expression returned to normal.
He was about to move forward when the door to the barbershop opened again. The man's face poked out carefully. "You managed to escape alive?"
When he heard the man's words, Han Fei's expression turned into one of panic. He gasped for air as he raced toward the barbershop. "The whole family wanted to kill me. It took me so much effort to escape!"
"Then they'll definitely come after you. Why don't you come into my shop to hide?" Greed and venom flashed across the man's eyes. An excited smile appeared on his face.
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