Inside the room, roaming night-time eerie roamed everywhere.
They wandered in every corner, just like NPCs that only walked in single paths in a video game.
Ji Yan and Liu Yitong walked out of the guest room hallway, and several eerie crowded over, carefully sniffing the scent on their bodies.
Finally, upon smelling that privilege badge, they dispersed in annoyance, just like delicious food that had suddenly been labeled as forbidden to eat.
After several consecutive nights of night actions, Ji Yan was used to it.
Liu Yitong at the side, however, was frightened quite a bit.
It was her first time seeing the apartment after midnight.
Looking at the room full of eerie, the color drained quite a bit from the girl's pretty face.
"Don't panic. If you don't initiate a conversation with them, they won't touch you."
Compared to Liu Yitong, the apartment at night was more like Ji Yan's home turf.
When he first arrived at Crimson Apartment, the girl had not spared effort in explaining the rules to him, so Ji Yan chimed in with a few words, telling her to pay attention to the night action and the few minefields that needed to be avoided.
Liu Yitong nodded, then asked, "Are you going with me to the capture squad's assembly?"
"No, you guys go ahead with your plans."
"I'm heading to the eighth floor."
Ji Yan declined. Putting aside whether he wanted to or not, there was no telling if that fellow Long Yuan was in the team.
This fellow was no different from a mortal enemy to him right now, and he didn't want to get entangled with the other party and waste time now.
After Liu Yitong left, Ji Yan didn't linger, walking briskly up to the eighth floor.
Just as he stepped out of the hallway, he saw a bald eerie running toward him in a panic, constantly begging for mercy.
The next second, its shoulders were grabbed by a pair of small hands, and with a gentle tear, it was split into two halves.
Thick blood plasma splattered against the corner of the wall...
Looking again at the little one who had torn the bald eerie apart with her bare hands, it was unexpectedly Xi Xi!
After this girl tore her mother apart on the rooftop, she seemed to have fallen in love with this feeling. At this moment, she wore oversized, floor-length white pajamas, and half her body was covered in blood.
In the dim light, matched with that expressionless, pale little face, it was exceptionally hair-raising!
She gazed at Ji Yan and asked, "Older Brother, are you coming up to find Older Sister again?"
Ji Yan raised his flashlight and forced a dry smile. "Yeah, your Sister Xu made an appointment with me tonight."
Hearing this, Xi Xi stepped aside and pointed toward the doorway. "Older Sister is waiting for you."
In the corridor, corpses torn to shreds were scattered about.
The degree of bloodshed was comparable to a slaughterhouse.
Ji Yan's mouth twitched.
Good grief, after sacrificing her parents to the heavens, this girl was so ferocious that she seemed to have no rivals left in the apartment!
He couldn't help asking, "Xi Xi, is she just tearing them apart to play with?"
Xi Xi wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and stroked her fluffy hair. "Sister Xu is in a bad mood."
"She said the things in the corridor are too noisy and told me to come out and clean them up."
As she spoke, she squatted down and began inspecting those torn corpses to make sure they were thoroughly dead...
Watching Xi Xi, who was utterly obedient to Xu Xin, Ji Yan seriously doubted whether that woman possessed some kind of brainwashing kit for children.
Stepping into Room 801, Miss Xu was still lying on that daybed.
Under the moonlight, her graceful figure was hazy.
Miss Xu held a book, turning the pages. "It's very lively tonight; I heard a lot of footsteps downstairs."
Ji Yan: "That thief targeted almost all the residents, and Old Landlord even posted a notice."
"Many residents plan to wait for that thief to show his head tonight."
Miss Xu smiled and retorted, "Do you think with such a big commotion, the thief would still dare to come out?"
"If his brain hasn't been kicked by a donkey, he shouldn't dare."
"On the contrary, he will definitely show up tonight."
Ji Yan was puzzled.
Miss Xu didn't explain clearly, closing the book as she said, "I won't go with you to catch the thief tonight."
"You go and follow those people. Follow them, and that thief will definitely show up."
"On the table is a gift I'm giving you."
"Remember, catching a thief isn't something you can do just by having a crowd or brute force; you have to use your brain."
Ji Yan looked at the table, where there was only a big-headed doll.
It looked messy with numerous lines and rough workmanship.
Ji Yan picked it up in his hand and heard the game prompt.
"Congratulations to the player for obtaining the Screaming Doll, rare quality."
"Description: A doll that has witnessed bloodshed and slaughter. When danger appears, it can emit a scream to give a warning and carry out a certain degree of obstruction."
Ji Yan wanted to store it in the tool bar, but the doll crawled onto his shoulder on its own. The two flickered with eerie light, looking quite spine-chilling.
Ji Yan hadn't really expected to interact for an eerie item reward from Miss Xu. Although it sounded like its effect was average, it was at least rare quality.
"Do you have something to do tonight?"
Ji Yan asked in return.
"I'm worried that thief will continue to come tonight."
"So, I'm having Xi Xi wait at the door. The moment those resident rats get close, she'll tear them apart."
Ji Yan nodded, didn't say anything, and turned to leave.
Miss Xu continued with a reminder: "This thief must be caught as soon as possible."
"If this drags on, he'll steal more and more things. At this rate, this apartment will soon collapse and eventually cease to exist!"
Ji Yan's expression changed. "It's that serious?"
"Haven't you noticed that what that thief steals is either rent, or directly excavating the flesh and blood of the aborigines?"
Miss Xu turned her head, her eyes exuding cold light. "That thief's goal is to destroy this apartment!"
Hearing this, Ji Yan's expression couldn't help but turn solemn.
Liu Yitong had once said that only tasks that severely threatened the safety of the entire dungeon could be defined as main quests.
He had initially wondered how a thief stealing things could be defined as a top-level S-rank side quest.
Now he understood.
What this thief was stealing was the entire lifeblood of Crimson Apartment!
Once Crimson Apartment collapsed, all the eerie residents would be wiped out.
They, the players, would also plummet into an even more terrifying dungeon...
Emerging from Room 801, Ji Yan inexplicably felt immense pressure.
He rushed downstairs, and when he reached the fifth floor, he suddenly noticed a great commotion coming from the passageway.
Walking over to take a look, he discovered to his surprise that several players had surrounded and executed two resident eerie.
The blond man leading the squad wore a pair of sunglasses, bit down on a cigarette, and carried a black handgun in his hand.
Without a second word, he blew apart the heads of the two eerie.
The other party was suffused with a murderous aura. Seeing Ji Yan, he raised the muzzle slightly, tilted his head, and left with several players.
Slaughtering eerie?
It was Ji Yan's first time seeing such ferocious players in a dungeon.
The eerie at night were extremely savage, yet this squad actually hunted them like prey!
Ji Yan turned around and happened to run into Liu Yitong.
The other party was stunned. "Weren't you going to the eighth floor?"
Ji Yan: "Just came down."
"Is it so lively downstairs right now?"
Liu Yitong nodded. "Right now, many players are participating in the main quest."
"In order to catch the thief, they've even branched into several squads with different ideologies."
"The squad you just saw—the blond man leading them has a clearance ranking in the apartment second only to that Long Yuan. He's extremely brutal, and they obtained a piece of intelligence about the thief."
"I heard that eerie thief has no hair."
"After that, they started a slaughter."
"They believe that as long as they kill all the hairless resident eerie in the apartment, the thief will definitely be gone."
After hearing this, Ji Yan couldn't help laughing. "What a big smarty."
"That blondie looks like a genius at first glance. After all, what normal person wears sunglasses in the middle of the night?"
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