"Xiao Lin-kun is finally back. Has your body recovered?"
"Yes, the doctor said I'm almost healed and can go back to school tomorrow."
"Then you have to work hard. Sayuri will be very happy if she knows."
With the sound of the security door closing on the opposite side, Paine let out a long breath.
This is already his third day in the new world. Different from the previous world, he has been given an identity in this world: Shinichi Kobayashi, a 16-year-old male high school student whose parents both died. They participated in a courage test together, and were sent to the hospital due to an accidental fall during the process. The person who just talked to him was Mrs. Inoue across the door, who seemed to be an enthusiastic housewife. When Paine woke up from the hospital, it was Mrs. Inoue and her daughter Sayuri Inoue who came to visit him, and Sayuri Inoue was Xiaolin. Shinichi's high school classmates, the two of them are kind of like childhood sweethearts.
Mission World: Haunted House World
Start mode: Single player free mode
World Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Mission: Survive for 60 natural days
The world introduction and tasks provided this time are extremely brief, but the "extremely difficult" difficulty of the world is no joke. Paine asked his smart assistant, and basically the answer was wrong.
This world is a "haunted house world". As the name suggests, it is a world where unclean things should exist. However, in a place like a hospital that is traditionally "yin-y", Paine did not encounter any strange things, nor did he find this. What's dangerous about the world.
Paine opened the door to his "own" room, and as soon as he entered, he smelled a faint stench - the smell of a male high school student.
Paine opened the door to ventilate the room while tidying up the clutter in the room. A stack of neatly folded newspapers and a note on it in the corner attracted Paine's attention. Those neatly arranged newspapers and notes were incompatible with the messy surroundings. Things seemed out of place.
Paine quickly picked up the newspaper and notes and flipped through them. He found that he could understand the meaning of the words on them. After flipping through them for a while, Paine finally learned something about the world. There was nothing surprising in the newspaper. Those circled in red pen were all vicious homicides or suicide cases, but there was a lot of interesting information in the notebook.
According to the notes, Paine is located in the East 9th District, which is a place where ghosts exist, but the ghosts here do not roam wild, they are all tied to a fixed location, and houses where people have died may be Ghosts are born, so many residents worry that the house they buy or rent will be a house where a murder has occurred. Such a house is also called a "haunted house."
Even daring madmen will often choose to stay away when encountering a "haunted house", let alone ordinary living beings who are usually as timid as mice and talk about ghosts. Unless they are mentally ill, no one is willing to buy or rent such a "haunted house" at normal market prices. Unlucky homeowners often have to bear the pain of discounting the price to get rid of their haunted houses.
As a homeowner, of course, you are not willing to accept that the value of your property has dropped significantly. Therefore, once an outsider encounters an unknown situation, he or she will take advantage of the information asymmetry and sell the haunted house to the unsuspecting outsider as an ordinary house, which will also trigger a protracted lawsuit.
However, this method is usually difficult to achieve. Because the residents of the entire East 9th District are very taboo about haunted houses, a voluntary organization even sprouted up and built a special website "Isolated Island" dedicated to recording haunted houses, which constantly updates and records information about the haunted houses in the East 9th District. All you need to do is go to this website and spend some money to check it out, and you will know if it is a haunted house.
Because it is too unlucky to dislike a "haunted house", people in the East 9th District often refer to haunted houses as "accident objects". Of course, it does not mean that a house where a person died will be deemed an "accident object." According to the definition of a website "isolated island", the "incident objects" that can be entered into the website must meet at least the following two requirements:
1. There have been suicides, homicides, fires and other abnormal deaths in the house.
2. There have been strange events in the house that are definitely not man-made.
The website will frequently update haunted house information, using question marks or fire symbols as marks, and detailing the address of the haunted house, the type of accident, date of occurrence, photos and content on the map. If you log on to the "Gudao" website, you will find dense red dots on the entire East Nine District territory - each red dot represents a haunted house.
Such a haunted house website with such detailed information naturally makes those homeowners who want to hide unexpected news and sell the haunted house at a normal price gnash their teeth with hatred.
Of course, homeowners are not willing to let their houses depreciate in value, so another profession has been born. They are responsible for "whitewashing" these haunted houses - as long as someone proves that they have spent a month in the haunted house safely and soundly, they can report it to the monks of the local temple. Apply for a "supernatural certification". If there are no problems, the monk will issue a "certificate of no spirit". As long as there is a certificate from the monk, the haunted house website will have to delete the information about the "haunted house" so that the house can be sold at a normal price. Or rented.
Then someone may ask, why does the owner of the house not live in the "haunted house" for a month, but also pay others to "cleanse" it?
According to the note, the owner of the house owns the deed and title and is the real owner of the house. When an evil spirit invades the house of a homeowner in the Yang world, even if it has harmful intentions, it cannot harm the homeowner in a short period of time. But if it's an outsider, it's different. Therefore, only if an outsider spends a month in the "haunted house" safely, can it be regarded as "whitewashing" the house.
In this way, the business of trying to live in haunted houses has stabilized here - East 9th District has a lot of people but little land, and there are many people who have died abnormally due to various reasons. With housing prices rising higher and higher, this This business has a very "money-making path"!
In Dongjiu District, people who engage in this profession are called "house masters".
As long as you are brave and not afraid of death, the profession of house master can become a lifelong career. Because more than half of the "haunted houses" have no major problems, if you are lucky, you may not encounter any danger if you work for three to five years. But the remaining "haunted houses" are really problematic. If you encounter a strange and evil house, your own life will be considered a light thing, so most of the people in this industry are poor and crazy people working part-time.
However, in view of the relatively generous remuneration, there are not a few people who choose to take the risk of becoming a "house master". After all, there are no entry barriers to this profession ~ You must know that such a job is not easy to find in the East Nine District!
And Paine's identity as Kobayashi Shinichi is a fledgling "house master"!
