The hunchbacked old man with a very strange smell in Wang Zhifan's perception came to the three of them from the elevator in a few seconds. Before the three of them could say anything, the old man turned his head and shouted towards the young man in school uniform who was walking to the sofa leisure area in the lobby:
"Young man, come here quickly."
The old man's voice was not loud, even with a sense of weakness of the elderly, but his words seemed to have extraordinary penetrating power. As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Zhifan and others standing in front of him saw that the young man in school uniform who was walking towards the sofa area with his back to them immediately turned around, and then quickly ran back all the way to stand in front of the hunchbacked old man with them.
"Well... now that you are all here, old man, as the building manager of this building Apartment 444, I will tell you the rules here. I hope you won't interrupt. When I finish speaking, I will give you time to ask questions."
As soon as the young man in school uniform came back and stood still, the hunchbacked old man first revealed his identity as the building manager, and then began to speak in an older man's slightly slower but still clear voice.
As players of Supernatural Game, Wang Zhifan and the other four were very familiar with this situation and knew that this was an NPC explaining the background of the mission, so none of them deliberately interrupted the old man's speech at this juncture to avoid any unpredictable consequences.
"First of all, you must remember clearly that you are going to stay in the building Apartment 444 that I manage, not anywhere else."
"Then, since you are here, you should be aware of certain evil existences. I don't think I need to waste more words on this. You can call those evil existences ghosts for the time being."
"Finally, you can be convinced that in Apartment 444, as long as you do not violate the rules, you will be very safe, and at the same time, you can enjoy completely free water, electricity, Internet, food, accommodation and other services."
"But correspondingly, there may be terrible dangers everywhere outside Apartment 444, so I hope you will never leave the apartment during non-mission periods, and don't expect to find a way back to the real world outside. If anyone goes out without obeying the rules and encounters any danger and cannot come back, I will not take care of it, old man."
"Now let me talk about the mission, which is very important to each of you."
"First, all residents of Apartment 444 are potential candidates to complete Blood-Word Mission. Every morning at nine o'clock in the lobby on this floor, I will read out a certain number of residents' lists and publish at least three Blood-Word Mission. Each resident whose name is called must choose to participate in any Blood-Word Mission within a limited time. Those who refuse to cooperate will bear the consequences."
"Two, residents who have chosen Blood-Word Mission will take the Bus 444 to the task execution location before ten o'clock in the morning. After completing the task, they will take the same bus back to the apartment. I hope you will not take the wrong vehicle."
"Third, Blood-Word Mission has a certain degree of danger. Some tasks are even more dangerous. These dangers mainly come from those evil beings, which are the ghosts in your concept.
Regarding these ghosts, you need to remember that they are far more powerful than humans and cannot be destroyed. It is very stupid to confront them head-on. What you need to do is to avoid them as much as possible. Unless you have Ghost Artifacts, you can compete with them briefly, but only briefly. "
"Fourth, any resident of Apartment 444 can choose to take the final test as long as he can complete 30 tasks in total. Once he passes Final Trial, he can leave Apartment 444 permanently and truly return to a stable real life."
"Okay, old man, I've basically finished what I'm going to say. If you still don't understand anything, just ask, while I'm still relatively free."
After finishing the conversation, the hunchbacked old man looked at the Wang Zhifan trio in front of him and said.
"I want to ask three things. First, have we moved into this apartment now? Second, what is Blood-Word Mission? Third, what is Ghost Artifacts just mentioned?"
As soon as the old man finished speaking, Wang Zhifan, who had listened to a lot of what he said, spoke up and said that he would not miss this opportunity to ask for information.
"Well... Regarding your first question, you have to wait until I allocate your respective rooms before you can actually check in; the second question, Blood-Word Mission has a variety of contents, some are arriving at a certain place to spend the night, some are to retrieve a special thing, and some are just to visit a grave. I will explain the specific tasks to everyone at nine o'clock every morning; the third question Question, Ghost Artifacts is the collective name for those objects that have mutated under the influence of evil beings. It can be a pen, a knife, or even an inconspicuous piece of mud, but they will all have the ability to temporarily resist evil beings, so if you can find a Ghost Artifacts during the mission, it will significantly increase the chance of completing the mission.
But old man, I have to remind you that the use of Ghost Artifacts will come with some costs, some of which will be relatively small, and some of which will be very high. You must not think that Ghost Artifacts can be abused casually, otherwise you will definitely regret it. "
The hunched old man answered the questions raised by Wang Zhifan one by one, and then glanced at the other people listening and thinking in front of him.
Wang Zhifan was digesting the information the old man just said in his heart. The young man in school uniform next to him then asked the old man, "Captain, I want to know how strong the evil beings you mentioned are. Can a person like me fight against them?"
As the young man in school uniform spoke, he raised his right hand and stretched it out in front of the building elder. Then a ball of blue-white fire suddenly rose from his hand out of thin air. Although the fire was very small and faint, the powerful heat was transmitted to several people around him in an instant.
"Young man, what are you..."
When the elder Lou saw that the young man suddenly performed a magical trick on himself, he suddenly became a little surprised. However, his slightly surprised expression only lasted for a short second, and then he shook his head and responded to him, "Young man, I don't know how you did this. That's a thing, but based on my understanding of those evil beings, if you want to rely on this kind of fire to deal with them, it won't have much effect. As I said just now, evil beings cannot be eliminated. Don't go head-on with them. That is always the stupidest behavior."