The protagonist chased the villain, and Tiandao screamed in anger

A voice so familiar that it made the white-collar man tremble. It was a voice that he had tried hard to forget but always popped up in the dead of night...

The white-collar man was shaking like a sieve, his whole body was stiff, he slowly opened his eyes, and saw the burned face close to him.

His mind went blank for a moment, and then he suddenly realized that it was the tone of sobbing and begging for mercy.

"Xiaomei... I'm sorry... I'm sorry, don't blame me... Aren't you dead? Why did you come here... You're already dead... I love you, I just had no choice..."

In his horrified pupils, he saw the ghost's hideous face that was twisted to the point of melting, more and more hair tangled around her body, and a severely burned hand that was gradually approaching...

"what!"

Qin Jue, who was wandering outside the door of Room 105, suddenly turned his head after hearing a shrill scream. He realized that the sound came from the second floor, so he turned around and ran upstairs to check.

There was no knock on the door at midnight, and Qin Jue felt a little uneasy. He tried to look for someone next door, but room 106 was still dead silent, with no movement at all.

Just as he was hesitating between breaking the door and calling the system to inquire, the sharp and painful scream pulled his thoughts away.

Qin Jue ran very fast and went up to the second floor, where he met the woman in red who came out of the white-collar man's room.

He collided head-on with the other party and stopped in his tracks, thinking to himself that something was wrong. He moved on his heels but did not dare to act rashly.

When he first met the tenant, he had no idea of ​​his background.

The woman was still floating forward, getting closer and closer. Qin Jue calmly summoned the scimitar, trying to use it to defend himself. But he was unsure whether the scimitar could do any damage to the female ghost.

Her breathing slowed down, her heartbeat slowed down, and the female ghost opposite her moved forward at a steady speed, and did not seem to be in a state of rampage.

As they got closer, the air pressure dropped suddenly, and the whole body became cold. Qin Jue clenched the scimitar and moved his wrist slightly.

Just when he was ready to fight, the female ghost... passed by him.

The red corners of the clothes disappeared, and Qin Jue's nervous heart suddenly relieved. He looked around, and the black shadow was still lying on the corners of the wall and the roof, ready to move in every corner.

Probably due to the ghostly aura of the female ghost, these phantoms did not dare to move forward easily, as if they were all watching and waiting for an opportunity.

Qin Jue ignored the moving shadows, quickly stepped forward to check on the dead white-collar man, and then walked down the stairs to his room.

The dark shadows lying in the corner of the stairs were frightened by something and fled in all directions when Qin Jue passed by.

Of course he would not ignore this situation. These phantoms seemed to be very afraid of him, or rather, afraid of the aura around him.

Before, the ghost hand that emerged from the floor was the same. It only touched him for less than a second before it loosened its shackles on him as if it had been electrocuted.

He didn't think that there was anything about his flesh and blood that would scare ghosts and monsters. He was just unlucky, and the cards he obtained from normal draws were not as high as Xu Huang's, so naturally he had nothing to save his life.

Then there is only...

Qin Jue reached out and touched his lower lip, the feeling of last night's kiss seemed to still be there.

It was the other party who left an aura similar to a mark and brand on his body, which dispelled these low-level ghosts.

Perhaps, even the fact that the red-clothed female ghost ignored him just now was due to this mark.

...was protected.

Realizing this, Qin Jue couldn't help but feel a hint of joy amidst his increasingly heavy emotions caused by the difficulty of the game.

On the third day, the other two learned about the tragic death of the white-collar man. Just as Qin Jue had guessed, the liver of the white-collar man was missing from his burnt body.

The three of them gathered at the door of Room 205 and fell into a strange silence.

"I didn't hear anything last night..." The dancer's eyes flickered and she spoke in the silence.

In fact, it wasn't that she didn't notice anything. After she fell asleep last night, she vaguely felt someone touching her face.

But this perception is too vague and should have nothing to do with the death of the white-collar man, so... there is no need to say it out loud.

"I didn't hear any noise over here either. Maybe it's some ghost doing this. But... the coughing next to me is getting louder and louder. It seems to be urging me to..." Xu Huang was very annoyed. It was difficult for him to get a good rest because of the coughing of the old man next door. He was also worried about his life and had two dark circles under his eyes.

Following his own guess, Qin Jue discovered that the dancer seemed to be a special case among the people who accepted the tenant task.

He was a little confused, so he turned to look at the dancer, getting closer and his eyes fell on the necklace on her neck. Maybe he had the answer to what he had been wondering about.

"Can you tell me what's in your necklace pendant?" It looks like a glass bottle, and I wonder if what's inside is the key item that helped the dancer escape.

The topic spanned a bit. The dancer was stunned for a moment, then reacted, reached out and touched the small bottle between her collarbones, and answered in a low voice:

"This is... my sister's ashes." Her parents divorced when she was young, and the divorce lawsuit was very tense. Both parties were determined to never contact each other again, and as a result, she and her sister were also forbidden to contact each other.

They each followed their own side, lived in different places, and had no news for many years. The only time they received news from each other was news of death.

A big fire burned the other person to death. When she arrived, the body had already been burned, leaving only a pile of ashes in the hospital's crematorium.

The dancer's hand holding the pendant tightened slightly. When talking about private matters, her expression was no longer calm and expressionless, but rather a little sad.

She always felt that the death of her relatives was too sudden, but before she had time to investigate, she was dragged into the game.

"Perhaps this is the reason why you can avoid the attacks of ghosts." Qin Jue understood and became more certain of his speculation.

"The monster in Room 204 was definitely targeting you at first, but when it got close, the pendant interfered with its sense of smell and senses, so it regarded you as a new neighbor and chose to eat the box lunch as a second choice to fill its stomach."

"Perhaps the system has set a trap for us. It says that every player needs to accept tasks from the tenants. Only after completing the tasks can they pass the level. But these tasks that connect players with ghosts are more like a mark or a contract. Once signed, the ghosts may take our lives at any time."

For example, the yellow-haired man and the white-collar man who died last night. No matter how their mission progressed, as long as they were forced to accept the mission, it was equivalent to putting their lives in the hands of ghosts.

Qin Jue leaned against the window in the corridor, turned his head to look at the incessant rain outside, and expressed his guess.

"Ah...Qin Jue, then I'm going to die!" Xu Huang's face turned pale and he became even more panicked.

Qin Jue looked up at Xu Huang's weak legs, but didn't scare him too much. He continued:

"You are different from them. The tenant who gave you the mission is still alive and half-dead. I think...his purpose is probably to exchange his life with yours."

"Exchange lives? How do you mean that?"

"He lives in great pain, and he wants to exchange bodies with you, and use your soul to bear the torture on his behalf." In fact, it is not difficult to understand that dead ghosts need the souls of living people to replenish and maintain their own state, and the greatest desire of an old man between life and death is to get rid of these tortures, to seek death or to be reborn.

The medium for soul exchange should be the eyeball that Xu Huang needs to hand over.

"I was kind enough to help him find his eyes, but he not only wants my life, he also wants my body!" Even though he was extremely frightened, Xu Huang couldn't help but scream and scold the old man for being shameless.