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Zhao Mingyue was lying on the dining table eating her freshly made bowl of egg noodles, her cheeks puffing with each bite, and she couldn’t help but sneak a peek at Bai Yu, who was standing in front of the TV.

After gobbling down the noodles in a few big mouthfuls, Zhao Mingyue couldn’t hold back any longer, “Um, is there something wrong with this staff of mine? It feels like you’ve been looking at it the whole time. If it’s not good, I can look for another weapon?”

Ever since she took out this staff, Bai Yu seemed very interested in it, and indeed he was. Hearing her voice, Bai Yu shook his head: “No, no need to change, this staff is completely sufficient.”

This thing was a full meter long, not to mention solid, and weighed an astonishing seven or eight pounds. It could be used as a hammer. If it didn’t hit a ghost, but if it hit a person, the other party might not be able to take it. One blow could break a leg.

“I’m curious, why do you have this thing?”

If Zhao Mingyue had brought out a hammer, Bai Yu wouldn’t have been surprised, but it was this thing.

The cuter the appearance, the greater the lethality of this thing, and you can’t say it’s not suitable for young girls to use. He couldn’t help but imagine: Zhao Mingyue holding the “staff” and standing face to face with a bunch of cross-dressers, then knocking them down one by one with a hammer.

Zhao Mingyue became somewhat embarrassed, walked over, and grasped the staff in her hand, “This is something I bought when I went to a comic convention back in the day. I didn’t expect it to be so heavy. I usually use it to hammer nails. Also, you said you needed a weapon, I think this can be used as one.”

“Weapons are needed because it’s not just ghosts coming tonight. I can’t protect you all the time. You must have something to defend yourself with.” Bai Yu’s gaze returned to Zhao Mingyue.

It was certain that tonight it wouldn’t just be Lu Liangting and his “cousin” coming over. There would definitely be other game participants joining in. These people might be there to protect Lu Liangting or to assassinate Zhao Mingyue. In any case, no matter what the other party’s purpose was, they were enemies.

“Ah, not just ghosts? Are there other people, like Lu Liangting and his group?”

“There are other people. I can tell you, they are a bunch of complete lunatics. Compared to them, ghosts are nothing.”

As Bai Yu finished speaking, Zhao Mingyue suddenly remembered the look in the eyes of Lu Liangting’s cousin named Xia Han. It was truly chilling and indescribable.

“What should we do then?”

“Just be careful. Remember, tonight, no matter who you meet, if they intend to approach you, you must keep your distance and counterattack.”

“Okay, I remember!” Zhao Mingyue nodded vigorously, already nervous, and Bai Yu’s words made her even more so.

“Trust no one. The only one you can trust is yourself.”

He reminded her one last time. If it weren’t for her first task, Bai Yu wouldn’t have told her these things. He walked a few steps into Zhao Mingyue’s shadow, and the room returned to silence.

Now at nine ten, Zhao Mingyue saw that Bai Yu was ignoring her, so she tidied up the dining table and went back to her bedroom. She turned on her computer and began searching for all information related to Tomorrow Apartments.

She had searched before but never found any useful information. However, when she replaced the keyword Sunshine Apartments with Tomorrow Apartments, a lot of old posts came up. It was either about the fire that happened years ago or the supernatural events that netizens encountered here.

For example, someone saw a person jumping off the fifth floor of Tomorrow Apartments in the middle of the night. After calling the police, the person mysteriously disappeared.

Some people saw Tomorrow Apartments catch fire in the middle of the night, and in a blink of an eye, it disappeared, replaced by a woman standing on the fifth floor staring at him.

Others passed by here at night and suddenly felt a chill. When they turned their heads, they saw a dozen people standing on the fifth floor staring at him in unison, a very eerie scene.

One netizen said that he had stayed here for one night. That night, he was awakened by a series of footsteps. At first, he didn’t care, but the footsteps got louder and continuous.

When he opened the door to see who was walking there, he saw a headless old man walking upside down on the stairs, going up and down non-stop. When the headless old man noticed him, he approached rapidly, almost running down from upstairs backwards.

The netizen was so scared that he quickly closed the door, and then he heard knocking.

This knocking lasted all night until dawn, and the netizen was so frightened that he didn’t sleep all night and moved away the next day.

The more she read, the more frightened she became. If she had known about these things before renting, no matter how cheap, she wouldn’t have rented here. It was too scary. Since the incident, this place seemed to have become a taboo, and netizens wouldn’t easily mention it.

Thinking that she would have to deal with these ghosts tonight, Zhao Mingyue’s face turned a bit bitter.

She was just an ordinary high school girl. How could she open the door to another world in just two short days of vacation?

“Don’t be afraid, I have help, don’t be afraid, it’s okay, it will be okay!”

She cheered herself up in her heart and was quite relieved that she lived here on the fourth floor. For such a long time, she hadn’t encountered any strange incidents, but speaking of which, the footsteps of going upstairs and downstairs, she seemed to hear them often.

After shutting down the computer, Zhao Mingyue opened the curtains and stood by the window. After a while, she saw a car driving towards here and stopped downstairs.

“Lu Liangting?”

At this time, taking a taxi to Tomorrow Apartments, she first thought of Lu Liangting.

“I don’t know what he’s doing in such a weird place. Is he also looking for someone?”

“The sky is completely dark now, and in a little over an hour, the task will begin.”

“The task requires me to survive in Tomorrow Apartments until dawn. What if I don’t go out all night? Staying at home is also inside the apartment, right? But in this way, the completion rate will be very low, like in a game.”

Zhao Mingyue kept pondering, thinking about the details of the task.

“To complete the task with a high completion rate, those ‘sub-tasks’ should be key. How should they be completed? The task target isn’t stated, or is it just to experience it once?”

“Wait, does it mean I have to kill these ghosts, or fulfill their wishes?”

“Forget it, don’t think about it. There will be a way when the car gets to the mountain. Just don’t stay at home, trust yourself!” ¹

“That’s not right either. Since I’ve taken the task, staying at home is definitely not safe. Rather than letting these ghosts enter my house, it’s better to go out.”

After thinking it over, Zhao Mingyue decided to drag out the time first, listen to the movement outside, see what Lu Liangting and his group were doing, and it wasn’t urgent to go out until twelve o’clock.

Just as Zhao Mingyue thought of this, the lights in the room suddenly went out, and the room, including the corridor outside, plunged into darkness.

“Another power outage?”

1. 车到山前必有路, means that there’s always a solution to any problem.