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Chapter 600: The Hand Under the Bed Was Pale
Chapter 600: The Hand Under the Bed Was Pale
The entrance to the dilapidated apartment building looked very old, and standing at the door, one could feel a bone-chilling cold.
"Maybe it's not warm in winter, but it's definitely cool in summer, which saves a lot on air conditioning costs," Qin Muye said as he pushed the door open and walked in. This time, it was a bit better; he didn't see the front desk girl who had been eyeing him, and there was no one responsible for reception. The entire atmosphere was downright eerie.
To put it simply, even if this apartment was located in the city center and in a school district, its atmosphere alone could bring the original price down by ten or twenty thousand. As for the remaining price, that was a different story.
"There's not many people around, but there should be some." Qin Muye noticed that this apartment was similar to a certain terrifying apartment anomaly that had already been contained by the World Defense Organization, but it was probably just in its early stages, making it a younger version of that apartment.
The number of people captured and brought in shouldn't be many, at most a dozen or twenty.
"Maybe they're all on a mission." Qin Muye wandered around but found no one, neither living nor dead.
These types of apartments generally force a few tenants to come in, then at fixed times, transport them to a certain area for survival training, where they have to face some terrifying ghosts. They usually give the tenants a survival time or a mission objective, and once the conditions are met, they bring them back.
If the conditions aren't met, they just wait until they are. If someone dies, a new batch of unlucky people is brought in.
The mechanism is just that, and Qin Muye understood this routine well because the routines derived from the ghostly realm anomaly were essentially the same.
Capture people, send them into a dangerous environment to survive, and bring them back once the time or event is completed. The exact principle behind this is still unknown.
If it were solely for killing, why go through all this trouble and add various rules to bind them? And if it were for profit, it wouldn't make sense with such a small number of people.
Fortunately, Qin Muye didn't need to figure out what the ghostly realm was up to; that was the World Defense Organization's job. His goal was to survive the 7-day mission of the Universal Horror Game.
"Pick a good room and get some sleep, wait until tomorrow." As Qin Muye was thinking this, the door suddenly opened, and five people rushed in, looking very disheveled.
One man and four women, all with injuries, but the injuries were very particular. For example, the four women's injuries didn't affect their faces or figures, only minor wounds, and they were all curvaceous and sexy, wearing high heels. It was impressive that they could escape without falling, showing their remarkable abilities.
The man was very handsome, clearly extraordinary, and more importantly, he possessed the incomplete talent of the "Ghostly Realm's Chosen One."
"Who are you?" The man immediately became wary upon seeing Qin Muye.
"Just passing through, planning to stay here for the night. Don't worry, I won't bother you." Qin Muye could tell that there was a special relationship among these five people. If it weren't for the external life-threatening crisis, the four women would probably be at each other's throats.
Qin Muye took the key to room 404 and went upstairs.
The man wanted to say something but, seeing Qin Muye's decisiveness, he laughed bitterly and rubbed his nose. "Looks like another new tenant, probably just passed the apartment's beginner test. The reward must be good, otherwise, he wouldn't be so arrogant."
In the man's first impression, the other person did seem arrogant. After all, he was a seasoned tenant, and anyone chosen by the apartment had to complete ten attendance tasks to cancel their lease, but how many could actually complete them?
Even he had only successfully completed the third attendance task, and he had almost lost his life.
"Don't worry about him. Even if you warn him, he won't appreciate it," a cold and beautiful woman consoled him.
Now that the five of them had formed a small group, adding someone new might disrupt things, so they wouldn't want to upset the balance.
Qin Muye ignored them and went straight into his room, lying down on the bed.
"Every anomaly derived from the ghostly realm seems to have a Ghostly Realm Chosen One, but because they are divided too many times, each chosen one is incomplete. Is this a mimicry of the World Defense Organization?"
The entrance to the dilapidated apartment building looked very old, and standing at the door, one could feel a bone-chilling cold.
"Maybe it's not warm in winter, but it's definitely cool in summer, which saves a lot on air conditioning costs," Qin Muye said as he pushed the door open and walked in. This time, it was a bit better; he didn't see the front desk girl who had been eyeing him, and there was no one responsible for reception. The entire atmosphere was downright eerie.
To put it simply, even if this apartment was located in the city center and in a school district, its atmosphere alone could bring the original price down by ten or twenty thousand. As for the remaining price, that was a different story.
"There's not many people around, but there should be some." Qin Muye noticed that this apartment was similar to a certain terrifying apartment anomaly that had already been contained by the World Defense Organization, but it was probably just in its early stages, making it a younger version of that apartment.
The number of people captured and brought in shouldn't be many, at most a dozen or twenty.
"Maybe they're all on a mission." Qin Muye wandered around but found no one, neither living nor dead.
These types of apartments generally force a few tenants to come in, then at fixed times, transport them to a certain area for survival training, where they have to face some terrifying ghosts. They usually give the tenants a survival time or a mission objective, and once the conditions are met, they bring them back.
If the conditions aren't met, they just wait until they are. If someone dies, a new batch of unlucky people is brought in.
The mechanism is just that, and Qin Muye understood this routine well because the routines derived from the ghostly realm anomaly were essentially the same.
Capture people, send them into a dangerous environment to survive, and bring them back once the time or event is completed. The exact principle behind this is still unknown.
If it were solely for killing, why go through all this trouble and add various rules to bind them? And if it were for profit, it wouldn't make sense with such a small number of people.
Fortunately, Qin Muye didn't need to figure out what the ghostly realm was up to; that was the World Defense Organization's job. His goal was to survive the 7-day mission of the Universal Horror Game.
"Pick a good room and get some sleep, wait until tomorrow." As Qin Muye was thinking this, the door suddenly opened, and five people rushed in, looking very disheveled.
One man and four women, all with injuries, but the injuries were very particular. For example, the four women's injuries didn't affect their faces or figures, only minor wounds, and they were all curvaceous and sexy, wearing high heels. It was impressive that they could escape without falling, showing their remarkable abilities.
The man was very handsome, clearly extraordinary, and more importantly, he possessed the incomplete talent of the "Ghostly Realm's Chosen One."
"Who are you?" The man immediately became wary upon seeing Qin Muye.
"Just passing through, planning to stay here for the night. Don't worry, I won't bother you." Qin Muye could tell that there was a special relationship among these five people. If it weren't for the external life-threatening crisis, the four women would probably be at each other's throats.
Qin Muye took the key to room 404 and went upstairs.
The man wanted to say something but, seeing Qin Muye's decisiveness, he laughed bitterly and rubbed his nose. "Looks like another new tenant, probably just passed the apartment's beginner test. The reward must be good, otherwise, he wouldn't be so arrogant."
In the man's first impression, the other person did seem arrogant. After all, he was a seasoned tenant, and anyone chosen by the apartment had to complete ten attendance tasks to cancel their lease, but how many could actually complete them?
Even he had only successfully completed the third attendance task, and he had almost lost his life.
"Don't worry about him. Even if you warn him, he won't appreciate it," a cold and beautiful woman consoled him.
Now that the five of them had formed a small group, adding someone new might disrupt things, so they wouldn't want to upset the balance.
Qin Muye ignored them and went straight into his room, lying down on the bed.
"Every anomaly derived from the ghostly realm seems to have a Ghostly Realm Chosen One, but because they are divided too many times, each chosen one is incomplete. Is this a mimicry of the World Defense Organization?"
Lying in bed, Qin Muye felt a bit uneasy, something he hadn't noticed before but now felt acutely. "I hope it's not another unknown AOE about to affect me," Qin Muye muttered, then got up and lifted the bedsheet.
He didn't see a mattress but a layer of bones laid out seamlessly.
"Too much, the mattress was fine when I lay down. It's only been a minute, and it's already been replaced. How stingy is this place?"
Qin Muye felt that this place was simply jealous of his presence.
Suddenly, a cold hand grabbed his ankle. Looking down, he saw a pale arm extending from under the bed, looking very eerie.
So, Qin Muye very decisively took a step back, and he saw the arm stretch longer.
"???"
"Can this thing actually grow longer?"
This arm seemed to open a strange door for Qin Muye.
He took another step back, and the arm stretched longer. Another step, and it grew again.
Qin Muye squatted down and grabbed the arm. In an instant, numerous shadows flickered in the room, and the arm was stretched to its limit, ending with a crisp cracking sound.
The bed, full of bones, seemed to be torn apart by a great force, instantly shattering, and a pale arm filled half the room.
"There's a limit to it. I thought it could grow infinitely," Qin Muye said with a tone of deep regret. If it could grow infinitely, he would have taken the bed back for further study.
"It only grew a few meters, sigh, too weak."
Qin Muye looked at the cabinet. Just a moment ago, it seemed to move. It couldn't be an illusion, so it must have moved.
"This is room 404, and there are still so many ghosts and spirits," Qin Muye muttered, then casually put the bed back together and removed the inappropriate decorations, like bones and blood.
Fortunately, the mattress was still there, but it seemed to have something sewn inside.
"Dry corpse, let's put it in the cabinet for now. You two can squeeze in together," Qin Muye pulled the dry corpse out of the mattress and stuffed it into the cabinet. Since the cabinet had moved, he needed to show it who was boss, or it might run away while he was sleeping.
So, he needed to be cautious to avoid any mishaps.
After doing this, the temperature in the room immediately rose, like stepping out of an air-conditioned room.
"The air conditioning is off, this apartment is really stingy. I should find time to chat with the maintenance staff and building managers," Qin Muye scanned the room, and the originally cool atmosphere returned.
"Tsk, it's not completely unintelligent."
Qin Muye was impressed. The ghostly realm anomaly, being Omega-level, had its unique characteristics, each derived anomaly having its own traits.
He suspected that these anomalies were not created by the ghostly realm but collected.
For example, these ghosts might have died in real life, which would explain why the ghosts in the ghostly realm have self-awareness and thought.
Creating a single area is not a problem, but creating so many vivid ghosts is not easy.
Qin Muye could do it, but the cost would be too high. Given the scale of the ghostly realm, completing such a setup would likely exhaust its budget.
(End of Chapter)
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