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Wang Juncai turned his head but saw nothing.
"The chairman of Xinghe Group."
"Oh, it's him!"
Wang Juncai suddenly realized, but then immediately made a few sarcastic remarks: "He's just lucky. Even a pig can fly if it's standing in the right place at the right time."
Jiang Chen didn't speak, but he agreed with Wang Juncai's words in his heart.
If he were to inherit the Galaxy Group, he would surely rise to great heights.
As for the technological products developed by Xinghe Group, those are all the result of the efforts of scientific research talents, and have nothing to do with Lingyun.
"Jiang Chen, you're way more awesome than him," Wang Juncai flattered him. "If you threw Ling Yun into the horror apartment, I think he wouldn't even be able to get past the beginner level; he'd be dead for sure!"
Jiang Chen was quite confident about this, but he was very modest: "I'm not as good as you think... Although most of the beginner levels are not difficult, they are not easy for the average person to pass."
"That's it!"
The sports car started, and Ling Yun glanced at the two people who walked into a club, a slight smile playing on his lips.
Name: Jiang Chen
[Combat Power]: 8
[Special]: Perilous Insight (Purple)
[Identity]: Male lead in "The Terrifying Apartment"
[Fate]: An ordinary white-collar worker in the capital city, unfortunately chosen by the terrifying apartment complex to become a resident, room number 1454. Possessing a strong heart, even when faced with seemingly certain death, she will not fall into despair, but instead unleash a powerful survival instinct. She has repeatedly led her team through the Blood Letter Trials, ultimately clearing the hellish mission and becoming the apartment's supervisor.
[Recent Opportunity]: Cleared the 8-star level - Huangshan Village and won a lot of rewards.
[Luck]: 6000/6000
Insight in dire situations: Under extreme fear and pressure, the mind becomes exceptionally clear and calm, enabling it to analyze information at a speed far exceeding that of ordinary people, and to capture subtle anomalies and clues to survival that are often overlooked in the environment.
Horror Apartment, Bloodstained Test, 8-Star Level...
Even if Xiao Ai didn't say it, Ling Yun could roughly guess what kind of protagonist Jiang Chen was.
It's surprising that such apartments exist on Earth. However, judging from the "Plague Source" incident, the terrifying apartment might also be a product of the spirit world.
Huangshan Village?
Ling Yun felt the name looked familiar, but couldn't remember where she had seen it before.
He was reminiscing as he drove.
Since it's a test written in blood, it must involve the supernatural, that is, ghosts.
There are ghosts and a village...
"I thought of it!"
Ling Yun suddenly spoke, startling the two women in the back row.
The car was well-heated, and the women, already feeling a bit oxygen-deprived after their meal, were just about to fall asleep when Ling Yun woke them up.
"What happened?"
Xiang Yao quickly sat up and grabbed Ling Yun's backrest with her hands.
"It's nothing, you guys go back to sleep."
"You scared me so much my heart was pounding, how am I supposed to sleep?" the tycoon's wife complained. "I don't care, you have to sleep in my room tonight to make up for it!"
"Row."
Ling Yun answered readily, saying that he quite enjoyed having fun with the mother and daughter in the manor, and that was nothing special.
Huangshan Village, isn't that the haunted village in "The Haunted Village"?
This movie terrified countless viewers at the time. Lingyun watched it on her computer, which scared the women in the orphanage half to death. At night, more than ten people would squeeze into one room to sleep, and they even had to team up to go to the toilet.
The plot is simple: the female ghost Chu Renmei is still resentful after her death, and anyone who drinks water from the river near Huangshan Village will be haunted by her.
Unlike other horror movies, Chu Renmei in The Haunted Village was not sent to the afterlife; instead, she survived until the end.
At the end of the movie, the male protagonist, Amin, dies at the hands of the female ghost, while Fa Mao, who secretly loves Amin's sister, resolutely drinks the river water to face the female ghost in order to save his beloved.
The female ghost transformed the person he secretly loved into a terrifying form, but Fa Mao still firmly held onto the other person.
This scene touched Chu Renmei, who believed that the two were truly in love. So she let them go and turned to deal with the woman's husband, which could be considered a kind of "dumpling-like" ending.
The female ghost Chu Renmei has become a household name in Oasis, and many people are used to calling her "Aunt Chu Renmei".
If it's the "Old Corpse in a Mountain Village," then the difficulty is indeed very high, and an 8-star rating wouldn't be surprising.
Unlike other female ghosts who seek revenge for wrongs, Chu Renmei kills indiscriminately. She will attack anyone who drinks the river water, with exceptions like Fa Mao.
If they don't figure out the trigger mechanism for the female ghost to kill, they will probably all be wiped out, except for the protagonist Jiang Chen.
Ordinary exorcists can't deal with Chu Renmei unless Ling Yun intervenes.
However, Ling Yun didn't care about Jiang Chen's life or death; what he cared about was who the female lead in "Terror Apartment" was.
Is it the eeriness of the test in blood, or the residents of the apartment?
He glanced back at the two women who had closed their eyes to rest again. There was no new information in their identity section, so it seemed that it wasn't them.
Back at the manor, Ling Yun took the opportunity of giving his harem members a goodnight kiss to check on all the women.
The fact that none of them were involved means that none of them have any connection to the haunted apartment.
He even made a video call to the two girls in Taoyuan Village, but couldn't find anything amiss.
Listening to the sound of running water in the bathroom, Ling Yun took off his clothes and walked in barefoot.
Who cares? We'll definitely run into this in the future anyway, we'll deal with it then. For now, let's just enjoy ourselves!
Then, a chaotic fight broke out in the bathroom...
In a private room at the club, Jiang Chen sat on the edge of the bed, smoking a cigarette.
This was Jiang Chen's first time, and before he could even get a taste of it, it was over in a flash.
The heavily made-up woman picked up her bag and left, seemingly quite satisfied with making money so quickly.
He turned on his phone, intending to ask Wang Juncai when he would be ready, but instead saw blood-red words on the opposite wall that made his pupils tremble!
wrong!
There was clearly at least a two-week interval between the two tests, and there was no guarantee that I would be chosen. Only a few days have passed, so why have new blood-written words suddenly appeared?!
Chapter 218 The old corpse in the mountain village
[Please return to your apartment before midnight tonight to check the specific mission details and take the Hell Bus to Huangshan Village.]
[Difficulty of this mission: 8 stars!]
When Jiang Chen saw the difficulty of this Blood Letter Trial, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets!
According to other residents' experiences, the difficulty of the Blood Letter Trial increases with the number of times you complete it, in a step-like manner. It is unlikely that you will encounter a mission with more than 5 stars in the first few attempts—that would be almost like suicide.
But he only passed two tests and went straight to 8 stars?
Something unusual must be going on. Jiang Chen didn't believe that the Horror Apartment was deliberately targeting him; there must be other reasons!
Just as he got up to put on his clothes, a scream came from outside.
"Someone's dead! Someone's dead!"
It was a woman's voice, sharp and shrill, clearly indicating extreme fear.
Jiang Chen immediately put on his clothes and ran out, where he saw a young woman sitting slumped on the floor, her clothes disheveled, staring in horror at a certain room.
Upon seeing the room number, Jiang Chen's heart leaped into his throat.
If I remember correctly, this should be Wang Juncai's room.
He rushed to the door and saw Wang Juncai bleeding from all seven orifices, lying naked on the bed in a starfish position.
On the wall opposite him, blood-red words appeared that could only be seen by the apartment residents.
[Leaking apartment information is a violation of regulations, punishable by death!]
No wonder!
Jiang Chen wondered why his vacation was so short. It turned out that this guy had been talking carelessly while having fun with a prostitute, revealing the existence of the terrifying apartment.
Although the apartment complex would mute this part of the content, the punishment still came.
This is a disaster I didn't deserve.
The haunted apartment also has a hidden "collective punishment" mechanism. For example, if any one of the residents who passed the test in the same batch violates the rules, then the others will be punished accordingly.
Previous punishments were mostly limited to confiscating some of the rewards or increasing the difficulty of the next test. Overall, they were mainly punitive and not too extreme. But this time, they are clearly serious.
He glanced at the approaching staff, exchanged a few words with them, and then hurriedly left.
Wang Juncai is dead. His death has nothing to do with me. What I need to do now is to return to the apartment as soon as possible and prepare for the next test.
When he drove back to the apartment, the building manager was already waiting for him in the lobby.
"Jiang Chen." Zhang Yu's expression wasn't good. "Situ Jing just said she saw new blood-written characters. Is there a problem on your end?"
Zhang Yu, as expected of a hardcore player who has cleared the dungeon eight times, saw through the essence of the problem at a glance.
"Wang Juncai violated the regulations and is now dead."
Zhang Yu sighed: "I knew he was unreliable before, but I didn't expect him to be so audacious... It's just tough on everyone, they'll have to take the test again soon."
Jiang Chen looked up at the wall of the hall, where blood-red characters slowly appeared.
[Blood Letter Quest: The Long-Standing Feud in Huangshan Village]
[Mission Level: 8 stars]
[Mission Time Limit: Three days and three nights (72 hours)]
[Mission Objective: Travel to Huangshan Village, survive until dawn on the third day amidst the increasingly eerie and intensifying resentment, and find the pear blossom comb that the mysterious creature cherished before its death, returning it to its grave.]
[Restrictions: ① You cannot enter any villager's dwelling after dark (instant death if triggered); ② You cannot respond to voices calling your name directly (including companions); ③ You must remain under the ancient locust tree at the village entrance during midnight (23:00 PM - 1:00 AM) every day.]
The 8-star challenge was so difficult that even the building manager, Zhang Yu, had only managed to clear it once. Even with a strategy guide, she almost lost her life there.
He relied on the items he had accumulated from the previous seven missions, and barely managed to pass the test after going through a lot of hardship.
Right now, Jiang Chen and Situ Jing, two newcomers who have not yet matured, need to face the 8-star anomaly, and they will most likely die there.
Fortunately, most of the Blood Letter Trials involve multiple people in a team, so Zhang Yu could only hope that the other participants were elderly, as this would give her a chance to pass the test.
Less than five minutes later, Situ Jing and two other people arrived in the hall.
After Situ Jing arrived, he sat on the sofa without greeting anyone else, appearing somewhat aloof.
She was in a very bad mood. She was comfortably snuggled in bed watching videos, and no one would be happy to be chosen to participate in such a difficult task.
Zhang Yu breathed a slight sigh of relief upon seeing the other two.
Fortunately, one of them cleared the game seven times and the other six times; they're both veterans.
It seems that the horror apartment still has some bottom line; although it claims to be random, it didn't send four newbies to their deaths.
"I don't need to elaborate on how difficult an 8-star mission is."
Zhang Yu glanced at the four people in front of him: "As for why this test was brought forward, I can only say that someone violated the regulations. As for who it was... I think there's no need for everyone to pursue the responsibility of a dead person."
"Gentlemen, the Huangshan Village instance has never appeared before, so I cannot give you any useful information."
"But please remember one thing: every Blood Letter Trial has its 'core killing intent' and 'hidden escape route.' As long as you don't violate the corresponding rules, the monsters generally won't target you..."
Zhang Yu spoke eloquently, sharing her experience with everyone without reservation.
In the past, he would carefully explain the new blood-letter test, but this time he explained it in even more detail.
There was no other reason than that he had high hopes for Jiang Chen and did not want such a promising talent to die in the third test.
"Miss Situ?"
"what's up?"
Looking at Situ Jing, who seemed detached from the situation, Zhang Yu also felt a bit of a headache. Situ Jing was quite unusual, but she didn't like talking to people and didn't have the aura of a "leader".
In a four-person team, the leader must possess this kind of temperament and ability to lead the team to survival. Otherwise, if they are disorganized, even if they manage to complete the level, very few will survive.