In the narrow and gloomy corridor, the walls are mottled and the floor is cracked, like traces left by the passage of time, and there is a sense of decay.
The depths of the corridor seemed to be a black hole, swallowing up all the light that entered.
Vaguely, a slender figure stood in front of the door of the corridor. It was a slightly thin girl.
"Open the door and collect the rent."
Her voice was extremely cold and spread in the silent corridor.
However, there was no movement in the house.
When she received no response, the girl knocked on the damp door.
boom--
The wooden door made a heavy muffled sound.
The one who knocked on the wooden door was a sledgehammer half as tall as a man. The handle of the hammer was very thick, and the head of the hammer was wide and thick. There were dark red spots on it. It made people feel more stressed by just using it.
She looked silent, and when there was no response from behind the door, she swung the sledgehammer and banged again.
When she swung the sledgehammer for the third time, there was finally movement and the wooden door opened.
A ball of blue light floated from the door to the scale she held in her left hand, which read 1,000, which happened to be the rent on the second floor.
However, Xia Qimiao used the hammer head to block the door that was about to close. The thousand-jin hammer was like a toy in her hand, and she swung it easily.
She noticed the violation. She remembered that the second article of the "Code for Temporary Workers" was "There is a strict hierarchical order in this building. The higher the floor, the higher the level of the monsters." And her current title is "No. 3" Host - Temporary (you have a deterrent effect on ordinary monsters)".
This is the second floor, which should be where the lowest level monsters live.
If this was the lowest level monster, it should have been frightened by its title from the beginning and would not have waited for her to knock on the door twice before opening it.
If this was a high-level monster, it shouldn't be able to hand over the rent so easily.
You know, now is the best time to show off your power to newcomers.
It's so contradictory.
The dungeon world was full of pitfalls, and Xia Qimiao did not dare to take it lightly, so she bluffed, "You have a problem."
She could feel the force of closing the door getting stronger and stronger, but her expression remained unchanged.
Regardless of whether there is a problem with it or not, she is the landlord who collects the rent, and the final right of interpretation is hers, and she will have it now.
"Do you really think I don't know anything? Why do you think I am here?"
With these words put down, the force holding the hammer loosened a little. Article 3 of the "Code of Temporary Workers": "Don't think that monsters are completely rational, and don't think that they are completely irrational."
Xia Qimiao struck while the iron was hot: "You still have a chance now, if...ha."
She sneered coldly and moved the hammer away when she saw another ball of light floating out.
To be honest, she didn't expect to get an additional gain, another thousand.
She turned on the radio hanging on her waist, and the sound echoed through the entire building: "Final notice, when I inspect the building later, I will leave the amount of rent at the door. If you don't want to pay, we will see you in the house."
Rule 1 of the "Temporary Workers Rules": Stay on the first floor or in the corridor. Unless you are strong enough, do not enter the room of the monsters. That is their domain.
Her voice was steady but full of warning. After speaking, she went up the stairs with the hammer in hand.
It's not that she doesn't like taking the elevator, it's that the elevator is like a jumping machine, jumping vertically between 1 and 18 repeatedly, but this building looks like it only has nine floors from the outside. Ordinary jumping machines play with heartbeats, but they play with life.
In the stairwell, Xia Qimiao rubbed her face and was surprised to find that her palms were cold.
She wanted to scream, but couldn't, so she could only shout in her mind.
Ahhhhhh-she has been most afraid of ghosts since she was a child!
She never enters a haunted house, listens to ghost stories, or watches ghost movies, but now she has to face ghosts and deal with them to collect rent.
She just said she wanted to talk in the room, which was purely a psychological tactic to scare them. She always felt that she was reaching her limit.
Fortunately, this was a short-term mission, and she only had to get through 20 hours.
It can be said that Xia Qimiao was very unlucky. She was abandoned in the hospital when she was born and later sent to an orphanage. Although she looks good, she has no expression on weekdays and seems difficult to get close to, so no one wants to adopt her, so she can only grow up in the hospital.
She can also be said to be very lucky. She met a kind-hearted dean who gave her a bite to eat, and met a kind-hearted teacher who taught her to study. She was admitted to university, working and studying at the same time, and felt that her future was bright.
Seeing that her life was about to get better, she suddenly became a player in a strange game.
And this game is called "This World Has No Ghosts".
Put it.
Xia Qimiao's face went numb when she recalled the scene she saw when she was teleported into the dungeon for the first time.
That time ended quickly, and the five people came out in a daze.
She didn't gain much experience, but she successfully unlocked the game forum and gained a lot of useful information.
If you die in the game, you will die in reality. As long as you are alive and have enough source power, you can recover even if you are cut in half the moment you return to reality.
The game forces players to clear a dungeon every week. If the source power value reaches 100 million, then even if the goal is achieved, the player can choose to end the game and return to normal life.
Players who have just been selected will enter a very low-level novice copy in the first two games, and the difficulty is also very low. If they do not actively seek death, they will not die.
This is Xia Qimiao's second game.
She opened the panel and looked at the mission again.
【Character Panel】
Name: Xia Qimiao
Level: G level
Sanity: 77
Attack value: 6 (+105)
Defense value: 5
Talent: Coward (your fear will become your sword)
Title: Host No. 3 - Temporary (you have a deterrent effect on ordinary monsters)
Skills: None
Status: None
Props: Hammer (S), Foot Scale (S), Kitchen Knife (G)
Source power value: 50
【Task Panel】
Name: Temporary landlord replacement task
Level: S level
Details: Happy Home is a beautiful, friendly, and warm community. Making every resident feel happy is the purpose of community services. The owner of Building No. 3 has been in a bad mood recently. Because there is a problem with the rent payment system, this month's rent has not been collected yet. However, she has to participate in the upcoming annual building competition, and she has nothing to do. In order to solve this problem, the community has issued a temporary landlord recruitment announcement, and you are the employee who has come to apply.
Requirements: Survive until landlord No. 3 returns (countdown: 19 hours, 38 minutes and 44 seconds); collect rent for landlord No. 3 (progress 2000/50000).
Penalty for failure: Permanent loss of an eye.
Success reward: The favorability of the host No. 3 increases by 30, ■■*1, and the rating treasure chest.
The bright S-class seems to be mocking, who said there would be a novice protection period!
If you try hard to survive, you can still die.
Xia Qimiao rubbed her face twice more and raised her legs to the third floor. The corridor was very quiet and she could only hear her footsteps.
She stopped at 301, which was also a wooden door with clearly visible lines. But before Xia Qimiao had time to observe carefully, she saw a gap opened in the door, and a furry hand quickly stretched out and quickly retracted, leaving only a ball of blue light floating in the air.
She took out the scale and the item description was displayed.
[Props-S-level foot scale (temporary)]
Description: Able to measure the source power of most monsters.
Evaluation: You can put your eyes on it to see how light it is (from an unknown Qianmu).
This light group is worth 1500, which is just right.
The rent for the second floor is 1,000, the third floor is 1,500, the fourth floor is 2,000... and so on.
Initially, the part where the ghost fell from the second floor was worth a thousand, but she asked for an extra thousand just in case of emergencies.
She held a scale in one hand and a sledgehammer in the other, and walked from beginning to end.
[Props-S-level hammer (temporary)]
Description: It can cause real damage to monsters below the king level, but you need an attack power greater than 100 to pick it up.
Evaluation: Only real damage is the most real damage (from an unknown poster).
These two props, like her title, are temporarily issued in the dungeon.
Fortunately, she had these, otherwise she wouldn't know how she died.
The head of the hammer rubbed against the ground, making a dull and heart-wrenching sound. As it dragged along, light groups appeared at the door.
Only rooms with residents have doors, otherwise it is a black hole.
Xia Qimiao walked through the third and fourth floors and gained a total of more than 20,000 source power points.
It went very smoothly, but she didn't dare to let down her guard.
Although every door was closed, she could clearly feel that she was being watched.
Those eyes were glued to her back, following her closely.
She didn't look back, for fear of exposing her cowardice.
Her back was straight and she just walked forward and upward.
Finally, I was rejected at 504.
