Chapter 599: Chapter 601: The Hand Under the Bed Pale and Ghastly
The entrance to the mottled apartnt looked very old, and standing at the door, one could feel a bone-chilling coldness.
“It’s probably not warm in winter, but definitely cool in the sumr, which could save quite a bit on air conditioning bills.” Qin Muye pushed open the door and walked in. This ti it was a bit better, there was no receptionist who wanted to devour him, not even anyone in charge of reception; the entire ambiance was straight out of a horror film.
Let’s put it this way, even if this apartnt was located just outside the city center and also in a school district, just its aura alone could knock ten or twenty thousand off the original price. As for the remaining price, well, that’s another matter entirely.
“It doesn’t seem like there are many people, but there should be so,” Qin Muye sensed that this apartnt was probably similar to a Horror Apartnt Abnormality that had already been contained by the All World Protector Organization, it’s just that it had probably only started not too long ago—making it like a junior to that Horror Apartnt.
The number of people caught inside should be not many, at most just a dozen or twenty.
“I wonder if they are out on a mission…” Qin Muye road around and didn’t find a soul, neither living nor dead.
These kinds of apartnts usually forcibly find a few tenants, and then at a set ti, transport people to designated areas for outdoor survival while also facing so terrifying ghosts. They generally give tenants a survival ti or mission target, and once the criteria are t, they pull the people back.
If one doesn’t et the criteria, then they just wait until they do. If they die, another batch of unlucky ones gets brought in.
Anyway, the chanism is just like this, and Qin Muye understood all such sches because the patterns derived under the control of the Abnormality known as Ghost fundantally shared the sa nature.
People are captured, sent into a dangerous environnt for survival; et the ti or event criteria, and they are sent back. For now, the principle behind this is unknown.
If it’s just for the sake of killing people, why bother with such trouble, or even adding various rules to bind them? If it’s for profit, that’s even less reliable—what benefit is there in such a small number of people?
Luckily, Qin Muye doesn’t need to figure out what Ghost really wants to do. That’s a concern for the All World Protector Organization to deal with. His goal is to survive the 7-day challenge of the national shock ga.
“I’ll pick a nice room to sleep in and wait for tomorrow…” just as Qin Muye was thinking, suddenly the door was pushed open, and five people rushed in looking very disheveled.
One man and four won, all with wounds on them, but still looking ticulous, such as the four won, whose injuries didn’t involve their faces or figures—just minor wounds. Yet each one curvaceous and sexy, still in high heels, capable of escaping without falling, which was evidence of their extraordinary abilities.
The man was also very handso, evidently exceptional, and what’s more, he had an incomplete version of Ghost’s chosen talent, Oga Level.
“Who are you?” The mont the man saw Qin Muye, he beca wary.
“Just passing by, planning to stay here for the night. No worries, you do your thing, I won’t disturb you,” Qin Muye saw at a glance that the relationship among these five people was extraordinary, that they faced a common life-or-death threat; otherwise, those four won wouldn’t hold back from fighting each other.
Qin Muye picked up the key to room 404 and then turned to go upstairs.
The man wanted to say sothing, but seeing how decisively Qin Muye walked away, he could only give a bitter smile and touched his nose, “Looks like a new tenant, must have just passed the apartnt’s novice assessnt, the reward must be pretty good, else he wouldn’t be so arrogant.”
From the man’s initial impression, indeed, he felt the other person was arrogant. After all, he himself was a senior tenant too, ‘just staying one night’. Any tenant selected by the apartnt had to complete ten attendance tasks to cancel the lease, but how many could successfully do it?
Even he had only just completed the third attendance task, almost losing his life in the process.
“Don’t worry about him; even if you warned him, he wouldn’t be grateful for your kindness,” a cold and elegant woman spoke up to comfort him.
Nowadays, the five of them had ford a small group. If they were to add soone new, it could ss things up, so naturally, they wouldn’t disrupt this balance.
Qin Muye didn’t care about these people and just lay down on the bed as soon as he entered the room.
“It seems every Abnormality derived from Ghost is allocated a chosen one, but because it split it into so many, each chosen one is imperfect. Is it trying to mimic the All World Protector Organization?”
Slice one protagonist into countless pieces, then control them all; isn’t that just another version of the All World Protector Organization, composed entirely of protagonists?
The idea isn’t bad, but it overlooks another problem, that of scale. Can a drop of ink turn an entire ocean into an ink sea when added to it? No, it will only dilute the ink until it becos part of the ocean.
The protagonist is just a drop of ink; they may be special to the world as the vast ocean, but Ghost’s act of dividing that drop into countless smaller droplets and scattering them won’t change anything.
Do they really think a protagonist in this world is omnipotent? It’s just that they’re better at control than most people.
Otherwise, all that great stuff would have been for nothing?
Lying on the bed, Qin Muye felt sowhat sick to his stomach; he hadn’t felt it before, but now he did.
“It can’t be another unknown AOE about to hit , can it?” Qin Muye grumbled as he got up and lifted the bedsheets.
What he saw was not a mattress but a layer of neatly aligned stark white bones.
“This is too much, the mattress was perfectly normal when I lay down just now, and you swap it out in less than a minute? Are you really that stingy?”
Qin Muye truly felt that this thing was just not willing to see him well-off.
Suddenly, an icy cold hand clasped his ankle, and when he looked down, he saw a pallid arm reaching out from under the bed in a very creepy manner.
So, Qin Muye decisively stepped back and saw the arm elongate as he moved.
“???”
“Can this thing actually keep growing?”
The arm seed to open so strange door for Qin Muye.
He stepped back again, and the arm grew longer; another step, and it stretched further.
Crouching down, Qin Muye grabbed the arm, and in an instant, countless shadows flickered throughout the room, and the arm was stretched to its limit, ending with a crisp snapping sound.
The bone-covered bed seed as if it had been torn apart by a trendous force, instantly shattering into pieces, while a pale arm piled up and filled half the room.
“There is a limit after all, I thought it could grow indefinitely,” Qin Muye said with deep regret in his tone. If it could grow indefinitely, he would have considered taking the bed ho for research.
“It can’t last even this many ters, sigh, too weak.”
Qin Muye then turned his gaze towards the wardrobe, which seed to have moved just now. An illusion was impossible, so the wardrobe must have moved.
“Everything’s already 404, how co there are still so many monsters and evil spirits around.” Qin Muye complained, before casually reassembling the bed and sweeping away the inappropriate decorations, like bones and plasma.
Thankfully, the mattress was still there, though it seed sothing had been stitched inside.
“A mummified corpse, huh? I’ll stash it in the wardrobe for now; it’ll be just right to squeeze it in with the other.” Qin Muye boldly pulled the dry corpse out of the mattress and stuffed it into the wardrobe. Since the wardrobe had moved, he needed to show who was boss, otherwise, what would he do if it decided to run away while he was asleep?
So it’s best to be a bit more cautious in your actions to avoid accidents.
After all this, the temperature in the room imdiately rose, as if stepping out of an air-conditioned room.
“The air conditioning is off, and this apartnt is really stingy. Looks like I need to have a good talk with the apartnt’s electricians, building managers, and the like,” said Qin Muye as his gaze swept over the room, and the eerie chill beca perceptible again.
“Tsk, at least there’s so intelligence there.”
Qin Muye couldn’t help but marvel; Ghost, this Abnormality, was truly deserving of the Oga Level. He wasn’t sure when it had appeared, but the Abnormality it had spawned each had their own distinct characteristics.
He suspected that they were not created by Ghost, but rather collected by it.
For instance, these fierce ghosts might have died in just such ways in reality, otherwise, it would be hard to explain why the fierce ghosts within Ghost had self-awareness and thought processes.
Creating a space was indeed no problem, but to create so many lifelike fierce ghosts was not an easy task.
Although Qin Muye was capable of doing it, the cost was too high. By the sa token, considering the scope of Ghost, doing all these setups would exhaust the budget.
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