Eerie Targeted, Grandmother Appears

Ji Yan thought of the sachet his grandmother had given him earlier. How could that be considered rent?

"That sachet was purely very important to me, the old man. I had that old woman sew it up, and considered it three days' rent."

"My sachet isn't something just anyone can sew. Only your grandmother has the skill to mend it."

The landlord sat up, rubbed his back, picked up his birdcage, and said to Ji Yan, "It's getting late. You should head back and rest."

"You've had a tiring night."

"Just a side note, distance yourself from the woman in 801 as soon as possible. You can't handle her."

Ji Yan gave a bitter smile. He wanted to distance himself too, but this wasn't something that could be resolved in a couple of sentences.

As the landlord's hunched figure disappeared down the corridor, game notification sounds echoed in Ji Yan's mind.

"Congratulations, player, for completing the landlord's assigned mission and successfully clearing the source of the cistern's pollution."

"Reward: 5 days of ordinary rations."

"Increased Eerie Power by 20 points, gained 220 experience points."

"Ding! Congratulations, player, for collecting a talent fragment."

"You have successfully resolved the water quality pollution issue and maintained the apartment's good environment, gaining 5% favorability from 9 residents! The landlord greatly approves of your abilities, increasing favorability by 2%."

"2%?"

"It's a dungeon boss, after all. I did two things for him and only got 2% favor. Trying to win over this old man will probably be harder than winning over the campus belle."

Ji Yan grumbled casually and closed the information panel.

But hearing that he had collected a talent fragment, Ji Yan felt that his hard work tonight wasn't entirely in vain.

It was now three-thirty in the morning.

After all the commotion, Ji Yan's excited state finally gave way to fatigue, and he started to feel sleepy.

Rubbing his eyes, Ji Yan didn't linger and headed back to Room 404 to rest.

In the corridor, Ji Yan walked up the stairs, briefly checking the information panel for his gains tonight.

But soon, Ji Yan noticed something was wrong.

These stairs... why were they so long?

He shone his flashlight on the wall and realized that after walking for so long, he was still on the second floor corridor.

"What the heck? A ghost wall?"

Ji Yan immediately sensed that something was amiss.

He continued to walk upstairs, passed the corner of the corridor, and found himself still on the second floor.

Knowing that some eerie entity was playing tricks on him, Ji Yan helplessly called out in the corridor, "Hey, brother, I'm just going upstairs. I didn't provoke you, did I?"

There was no response.

Ji Yan's expression turned cold, and he took out a second coffin nail. "There are limits to bullying. Just because I'm polite doesn't mean I'm a pushover."

At this moment, a glass bottle rolled down from above the corridor. It tumbled down the stairs and finally shattered at Ji Yan's feet, spilling its contents onto the floor.

A fat man, wearing a short shirt, with greasy hair and an extremely disheveled appearance, squatted above and mumbled to Ji Yan while gnawing on a chicken leg, "You broke my delivery wine."

"Do you know how precious that wine is?"

Ji Yan found it a bit amusing. "It rolled to my feet and broke on its own. What does that have to do with me?"

The fat man's face, covered in fleshy bumps, immediately turned cold upon hearing this.

His eyes were filled with belligerence. "All I know is my wine is broken."

"And the wine bottle is at your feet."

Ji Yan narrowed his eyes. It was clear the other party was targeting him, finding a ridiculously flimsy excuse to cause trouble.

When night falls in the apartment, the rules completely break down, and eerie entities can attack players with impunity.

However, given that Ji Yan was wearing a privilege badge on his chest, the other party still found a simple excuse to pick a fight.

Ji Yan shrugged. Since the other party was coming for him, there was no point in saying more. He simply asked, "What do you want me to compensate?"

Even as he said this, he tightened his grip on the coffin nail.

When dealing with these eerie entities, there was no need for pleasantries. If you got an opportunity, just hit them with a nail.

"You're talking, but why are you holding that nail?"

"Is that your attitude for apologizing?"

The fat man swallowed the food in his mouth and sneered.

The next second, the entire corridor shook violently, and the stairs slid like a slide.

Ji Yan stumbled, his right hand was grabbed, and the coffin nail in his palm fell into the fat man's hand.

Ji Yan was roughly pressed against the wall. The fat man, holding the coffin nail, immediately recoiled as if he were holding a red-hot iron.

"Where did you get this nail? It's so fierce!"

The plump eerie flinched, not daring to imagine what would happen if it got hit by the nail.

Ji Yan's expression was icy. He felt something was wrong. Even the fiercest eerie creatures didn't target so deliberately.

But this guy wasn't even trying to gain anything; it just wanted to kill him!

With this collision, the hidden information also appeared before his eyes.

Ji Yan glanced at it and narrowed his eyes.

"You're glaring at me? You broke my wine, and you dare to glare at me?"

The plump eerie's narrowed eyes revealed a cold glint.

One hand grabbed Ji Yan's abdomen, but the next second, it was repelled by the sweater he was wearing, tearing it open by a few inches with a swish.

"You've got quite a few treasures on you, you rat."

"But your sweater seems to be almost ruined too."

The plump eerie grinned, revealing yellow teeth, its eyes full of mockery. It grabbed the sweater with both hands and tore it forcefully. Under the erosion of Eerie Power, the sweater continuously ripped apart.

Finally, it was completely torn open.

With the sweater torn, its damage level reached 95%, immediately triggering the backlash effect.

The sweater glowed with blood-red light, and the plump eerie's hands were instantly subjected to intense burning. Flesh and blood rotted, emitting white steam.

Ji Yan was waiting for this opportunity. He took out the nail hammer with one hand and quickly picked up the coffin nails on the ground with the other. Aiming at the retreating, pained plump eerie's forehead, he struck with all his might.

Ding!!

A metallic clang.

The coffin nail pierced the plump eerie's forehead.

A piercing scream echoed through the entire corridor.

"I told you, being polite doesn't mean I'm a pushover!"

"You're not asking me to compensate, are you? I'll give you this nail as payment for the drinks!"

Ji Yan raised the nail hammer again, intending to smash the coffin nail completely into the plump eerie's forehead.

But as he raised it, his wrist felt like it was being wrapped around by something. A cement eerie emerged from the corridor wall, covered in cement, and directly pulled Ji Yan into the wall.

As the cement eerie pulled Ji Yan into the wall, it mocked the plump eerie, "Liu Feng, you almost got killed by a brat. Aren't you ashamed?"

"Kid, as for why we're targeting you, go reflect on who you've offended over there!"

Ji Yan's upper body was slowly being pulled into the wall.

He could clearly feel the cement squeezing his body!

The plump eerie on the ground, clutching its broken head, dared not pull out the glowing red coffin nail. Its eyes were bloodshot as it stared at Ji Yan, "I'm going to bite this rat's head off!"

Ji Yan's face twitched, and he cursed inwardly.

Just as the plump eerie was about to pounce, a hunched figure appeared behind it.

"Sigh, if my grandson makes a mistake, shouldn't you settle it with his elders? Why trouble a child?"

"He's still so young and doesn't understand anything."

Ji Yan was stunned.

The plump eerie froze and instinctively turned its head.

The next moment, a hand with thin skin covered in corpse spots reached out and pressed the coffin nail.

The coffin nail sank into the plump eerie's head as if it were nothing.

Like a hot iron dropped into foam, the plump eerie's head split open without even a scream, and its brain melted into a pool of blood by the coffin nail...

Its massive body toppled onto the steps.