The President's Weapon

It wasn't anyone else, it was Shata's voice.

Gao Tian turned his head and called towards the door:

"I'm here."

Shata's voice rang out again:

"I have some things to discuss with you. Are you free to open the door now?"

Gao Tian got out of bed. Out of caution, he still looked through the peephole. He confirmed that standing at the door was Shata, dressed in her finest attire. Strangely, Yusheng and Jiangyang were not with her. Beside her stood a middle-aged man with a large belly, clad in a white shirt, who was impatiently waiting while wiping sweat with a handkerchief.

Gao Tian clicked open the door and his gaze passed through Shata, landing on the middle-aged man behind her:

"And who is this?"

Shata and the middle-aged man walked into Gao Tian's room. The latter didn't stand on ceremony, sat down as if it were his own place, picked up the kettle on the table, and poured himself a cup.

Shata's usually expressionless, delicate little face showed a rare slight curve of her lips:

"Money God."

Knowing Gao Tian wouldn't understand, she further explained:

"Money can buy many things, even in the Living Person Apartment.

"Some newcomers to the apartment can spend money to hire us, the older residents, to guide them through Green Text Missions.

"The Living Person Apartment doesn't care how you survived the Green Text Mission.

"Boss Jin here, his second Green Text Mission starts tomorrow. He spent money, a lot of money, to hire Jiangyang and me to escort him during this mission."

Boss Jin muttered incessantly. Clearly, after agreeing on the price with Shata, he didn't want to linger for a second and just wanted to leave this damned apartment immediately. In fact, residents of the Living Person Apartment only needed to stay once a month, so his behavior was completely permissible.

Gao Tian:

"So how does his second mission concern me?"

Shata said:

"His Green Text Mission tomorrow is in a place called Sapphire Mall. I thought I'd invite you to come and see the process of a Green Text Mission.

"You don't need to participate in this Green Text Mission. You just need to watch from the sidelines, observe the potential accidents and situations that might arise during the mission, and how we older residents deal with them. This is a very rare experience and learning opportunity. It's better to see it once than to be lectured a hundred times.

"Of course, the final decision is yours. If you feel there's no need to participate, then I apologize for disturbing you, and we'll take our leave."

Gao Tian had a rough idea in his mind. Shata's true intention was to consciously cultivate the next generation of administrators for the apartment, in case something happened to her and there was no one to guide the newcomers.

To Gao Tian's surprise, the location for Boss Jin's second Green Text Mission, Sapphire Mall, was the same as Xu Yuan of the Jialan Society's corpse hiding spot.

Was this merely a coincidence... or was there some connection between the two?

As their gazes met, Gao Tian seemed to make a decision in his heart:

"Alright, I'll go."

The moment he agreed to go to Sapphire Mall, it was equivalent to him simultaneously accepting Xu Yuan's mission in the chat group.

If he didn't accept the mission in the group and another Vengeful Ghost took it, and happened to run into the apartment residents doing their mission at Sapphire Mall...

Then Shata and the others might very well be wiped out.

This mission, he could take it himself, and he had to take it himself.

Shata didn't say anything, just nodded:

"I'll add you on WeChat later. I'll send you Boss Jin's Green Text Mission requirements in a file.

"Tomorrow morning at nine, we'll gather on the first floor of the Living Person Apartment. See you there."

Boss Jin glanced at Gao Tian, wanting to smile, revealing a mouth full of gold teeth:

"Kid, although it's just observation, if you can give me a hand at a crucial moment tomorrow, I, Big Elephant Jin, am not an ungrateful person. You'll definitely get paid too."

To show off his wealth, he painstakingly pulled out five red bills from his pants pocket and placed them under the water cup he had drunk from:

"My mouth was a bit dry, so I drank five cups of your water.

"One hundred yuan per cup."

Gao Tian looked at the money, unmoved.

People who had fallen to the Living Person Apartment, did they still care about money? Money was the most useless thing in the world.

From another perspective, this Boss Jin wasn't as foolish as he appeared. He was good at winning people over, a method that would definitely work in the outside world.

The two left one after the other. Before leaving, Shata's back paused at the door. As if remembering something, he turned his head and said again:

"Oh, right.

"The welcome party for new residents at the Living Person Apartment is at eight-thirty tonight. Besides you, there are a few other interesting newcomers this month.

"You can consider coming down to chat and hang out. Your batch of newcomers will most likely be carrying out your first Green Text Mission together."

Gao Tian said:

"No need. I'm already very tired today."

"There's still plenty of time later, we'll have time to get to know each other slowly."

Shata didn't try to persuade him further:

"Then get some good rest."

After the two left, Gao Tian was once again alone in the room. He opened his phone and navigated to the chat group interface. The Black Packet sent by Living Person Apartment (Xu Yuan) was still there, unclaimed by any ghost.

Gao Tian pondered for a moment. He first changed his ID to [Memory Ghost], then typed a line of text into the chat box and hit send.

[Memory Ghost]

I'm going to Sapphire Mall tomorrow. I can take a look for you.

[Living Person Apartment]:

Thanks.

After you've handled it, tag me in the group. The weapon in the Black Packet will be your reward. You can keep it.

[Memory Ghost]:

Where did you leave your corpse?

These were questions Burning Death Ghost had asked before. Ghosts could ask them, and it wouldn't reveal his identity.

Of course, when Burning Death Ghost asked, Living Person Apartment and the others had completely ignored him, showing clear disdain.

In the chat group, Living Person Apartment went silent for a moment. Watching his phone, Gao Tian's heart was in his throat, terrified he might have said something wrong.

A moment later, Living Person Apartment's avatar popped up again. He began to reply.

[Living Person Apartment]:

This is a small test for you.

You will be the only one to handle my corpse. If any other ghosts in this group find out, it might cause some trouble.

If you can't even find my corpse, then you don't need to take on this task.

Xu Yuan was likely worried that some ghost user might follow the trail of his corpse back to the pot in his hometown.

Little did he know, his commission had fallen into the hands of a living person.

Do you wish to claim the Black Packet [Ghost Transformation Spear]?

Claiming this Black Packet requires the payment of 0 years of lifespan.

(Gao Tian's fingertip selected confirm.)

So, Xu Yuan's trusty weapon in life was called the Ghost Transformation Spear.

Less than 0.1 seconds after Gao Tian pressed confirm to claim it, an unfamiliar number called directly.

Looking at the vibrating number on the screen, before he could even choose to answer, the phone number actively answered for him.

Immediately after, a muffled voice, indistinguishable as male or female, rustled on the other end of the phone:

"Your... delivery... is placed at the apartment entrance...

"Please come... down... and get it yourself..."

After saying these words, and before Gao Tian could react, the person on the other end of the phone hung up.

The rules of the Living Person Apartment were absolute. Even ghost couriers couldn't enter, only able to leave his things at the apartment entrance.

The collision between the Living Person Apartment's rules and the ghost courier's rules seemed to show the Living Person Apartment was stronger.

Gao Tian put on his clothes, got out of bed, and took the elevator to the first floor of the apartment. On the stairs outside the lobby, he indeed saw a black paper box, wrapped with tape.

He carried the delivery sent by the ghost back to his room on the third floor, found a pair of scissors, and easily cut open the tape. Amidst a pile of waste paper filling the cardboard box, he quickly found a silver-gray broken spear. The broken spearhead lay diagonally within, emitting a cold, moon-like glow.

The moment he touched the spearhead, countless streams of information converged into Gao Tian's mind. The effects of the Ghost Transformation Spear were displayed to him.

The Jialan Society's group leader, the only person to pass ten Green Text Missions in the Living Person Apartment, Xu Yuan's primary weapon in life, it should have very good effects--

"After killing a living person with this spear, the deceased will 100% become a ghost."

That's it.

This was the effect of the Jialan Society's group leader, Xu Yuan's primary weapon in life.

Gao Tian could hardly believe his eyes.

What kind of effect was this?

Shouldn't the effects of Supernatural Items be about restricting ghosts' rules? This guy, on the other hand, guarantees that everyone killed by it becomes a ghost?

Was he afraid enemies would die with lingering resentment, unable to seek revenge, and was deliberately giving them a chance to return from the dead?

Gao Tian felt he'd been scammed. He suddenly understood why so many ghosts had been hesitant to accept this Black Packet mission posted by Xu Yuan, and why no user, besides the Burning Death Ghost, was willing to help him with it.

Everyone knew what the group owner's main weapon was in life. What a crazy weapon; whoever took it would be the big idiot.

Gao Tian even engaged in self-PUA, thinking of many extreme scenarios where the Ghost Transformation Spear might be useful...

For example, during a Green Text Mission, if a teammate was definitely targeted and cursed by a Vengeful Ghost, doomed to die, Gao Tian could quickly deliver the finishing blow, turning the teammate into a ghost to evade the curse...

Forget it, he couldn't make up any more excuses.

At that moment, the anger of being deceived by Xu Yuan as a big idiot made Gao Tian surpass even his fear of the ghosts in the chat group.

[Memory Ghost]: No, bro. Is that the only function of your weapon?

[Living Person Apartment]: Yeah. Just one effect. Living people killed by it will immediately turn into ghosts after death. I tested it several times; the longest transformation time was no more than 5 seconds, definitely fast enough.

[Ghost Infant]: (Covering mouth with a smiling emoji) Hahahaha, the first time I learned this was the effect of the president's main weapon, I was just as surprised. I thought with the president's strength, how heaven-defying could the Supernatural Items he wielded be? Hahahaha.

[Memory Ghost]: Are there really no other hidden functions? For example, if a person is killed by it and turns into a ghost; can we reverse that, if a ghost is killed by it, will it turn back into a person...

[Living Person Apartment]: You're dreaming... Turning a ghost back into a living person? You can't even dream like that. Do you want to try turning a fried chicken leg back into a hen?

[Memory Ghost]: So, why, exactly, did you choose this thing as your main weapon?

Any decent Supernatural Item with even a slightly positive effect would be better than this.

[Living Person Apartment]:

This weapon was given to me by my teacher.

According to the legends of their elders, this weapon is one of the strongest Supernatural Items, containing secrets that could overturn an entire era.

However, the secrets of this weapon have been lost. My teacher's grandfather and his great-grandfather spent over fifty years together trying to figure it out, but they still couldn't find the correct way to use the Ghost Transformation Spear.

Gao Tian suppressed the urge to complain.

Truly, this was the most useless Supernatural Item he had ever obtained, not even a fraction as good as an Urn.

He had been tricked by Xu Yuan. After accepting his Black Packet, the tasks he assigned had to be done, whether he wanted to or not.

Gao Tian didn't dare to go back on his word with Xu Yuan. The other party was a ghost, a genuine Vengeful Ghost. No one knew what would happen if he angered the other party.

[Living Person Apartment]:

Alright, my time is almost up, and I have to go.

Good luck. Let me know when you find my body. It will put my mind at ease.

In the chat group, Xu Yuan went offline after saying this last sentence.

At this moment, Gao Tian's WeChat notification flashed again.