"Sister Gu, do you think this apartment is a little weird."

As she walked upstairs slowly, Yu Zhuzhu asked in a low voice, her eyes looking unnaturally around.

As a newcomer who does not have any advantage in "One Hundred Thousand", although this is only the first time she has come into contact with this bizarre world, she knows that here, neither law nor morality can be used as a weapon to restrain human nature, Yu Zhuzhu deeply He realizes that if she doesn't show her worth, she is very likely to be the first to be abandoned when danger comes.

So she fought back her fear and tried hard to prove her ability.

"How to say?"

Gu Chu glanced at her casually, focusing more on the observation of the corridor.

There's something eccentric about this apartment, and it's not just its old, inaccessible doors and windows.

Gu Chu noticed when he went upstairs to look for his own room before. The shapes and materials of each floor of stairs, handrails, and materials were somewhat different.

"The layout, the layout of this apartment is very strange."

Yu Zhuzhu took a deep breath and said that this was something she accidentally noticed when they were communicating with each other just now.

This is an old apartment building that looks very old, not to mention that the houses in those days didn't have so many design tricks at all. Even now, all the apartment buildings will maintain the same layout in the interior design of the house.

At least vertically down the same side, the same column, the unit type should be the same.

Among the seven readers, Yu Zhuzhu, who lives in 203, and Gu Chu, who lives in 403, should be in the same vertical column, but she noticed that in Gu Chu's description just now, the bathroom of her room is on the right side of the door. But Yu Zhuzhu was not. The bathroom in her room was on the left side of the door.

This is too strange. The layout of the toilet is related to the arrangement of the sewer. During the construction, the layout of the longitudinal toilet is not in the same line, which will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of arranging the sewer and consumables.

If the bathroom on the left side of her room and the bathroom on the right side of Gu Chu's room are actually on the same straight line, it means that their rooms with the same number as 03 are vertically inconsistent. All the rooms will bulge out horizontally when they are the same size, but when they enter the apartment building, what they see is the square shape of an ordinary apartment building.

In addition, there are doors to each room.

Yu Zhuzhu said that she was a third-year student, but she never introduced her major.

She is a junior at the Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in oil painting. She minored in modeling design during college. She has a high sensitivity to color and design since she was a child.

Every door here looks the same, but in fact, there are many discrepancies in the details.

It stands to reason that in the same apartment building, every door used should be ordered in batches, with the same shape, and even the degree of fading of the surface paint over the years is very similar, unless after moving in, the residents are not satisfied with the original The doors are all replaced according to their own wishes.

Yu Zhuzhu had thought about this possibility, but at least among all the doors she observed along the way, no two doors were exactly the same.

How likely is it that all occupants will replace their doors?

Yu Zhuzhu felt that this was too coincidental.

She talked about her findings carefully, and didn't know whether the clues she observed were helpful to an experienced reader like Gu Chu.

After she finished speaking, Gu Chu also thought of the different handrails on each floor that she observed.

"When I was a kid, I loved building castles with blocks."

Gu Chu stood at the corner of the stairs between the fourth and fifth floors. The fifth floor had no lights and looked pitch-dark.

Yu Zhuzhu was a little dumbfounded, wondering why Gu Chu didn't go up, and also wondered why Gu Chu suddenly said such a sentence.

Bricks...build a castle...

Suddenly, she thought of something, and wanted to open her mouth to confirm, but because she was too nervous, she bit the tip of her tongue, and tears almost burst out in pain.

Doesn't this quirky apartment look like a patchwork building!

So every room, every floor, there are so many strange and unexplainable differences.

Yu Zhuzhu didn't know whether this guess was correct. If it was correct, how would it help to complete the task if he found it.

But at least it proves that she is not a waste, right? She looked at Gu Chu with some trepidation.

It's just that the other party seemed to have fallen into contemplation after saying the building block theory, and Yu Zhuzhu didn't dare to speak again, for fear that her voice would interrupt her flash of inspiration.

The lights in the corridor on the fourth floor exude a dim yellow halo. The afterglow that can be enjoyed in the corridor connecting the fourth and fifth floors is limited. The corridor on the fifth floor is dim, and the faint light on the fourth floor can't benefit there at all.

Time passed little by little, and the fear in Yu Zhuzhu's heart gradually intensified.

That thing on the fifth floor, come out soon...

Xu Chaoqiong and Liu Lin chose to check the fourth floor, but the speed of the two of them going upstairs was much slower than that of Gu Chu and Yu Zhuzhu. It seemed that Xu Chaoqiong, who was walking in front, deliberately slowed down, even Jiang Zhenghe, who was targeting the third floor. Zhang Fengnian had already surpassed both of them.

Xu Chaoqiong walked slowly on the stairs from the second floor to the third floor, where the sound of the two people who had reached the third floor slamming against the door could be vaguely heard.

"Why are we people selected?"

Liu Lin didn't urge her either. Xu Chaoqiong seemed to be the kindest of these old readers. This was one of the important reasons why Liu Lin chose her. She felt that perhaps she could find out more information from Xu Chaoqiong's mouth.

"Part of it is randomly selected, and another part is because of fetters, whether it is blood or affection, the probability of triggering new readers around readers is the greatest."

Xu Chaoqiong glanced at her, her eyelids drooped slightly, and her eyes could not be seen clearly in the dim light, only the gentle and kind voice resolved the horror in this gloomy environment.

"Don't be afraid, Mr. Liu. Maybe after going through a few missions, you will find that being selected by "One Hundred Thousand" is the luckiest thing in your life."

Xu Chaoqiong stopped, her voice was still gentle, but when she raised her face exposed to the light, she was no longer as kind as before, instead there was an indescribable madness.

Liu Lin is also a woman who is used to seeing strong winds and waves, but she was also frightened by Xu Chaoqiong's face change.

"You don't have to be afraid of me, Mr. Liu, as you said, your advantage is your wealth in the real world, the world is inherently unequal, you used to be qualified to be high, and for the same reason, we are like this Those who are selected by "100,000" and have special abilities should also have a superior status, this is only fair!"

Xu Chaoqiong raised his eyelids slightly, the light hit the brow bone, and the sunken eye sockets due to his age were trapped in a thick shadow.

She was watching Liu Lin's reaction.

That's right, this 50-something, seemingly innocuous woman is one of the readers of the largest organization fair, and in addition to some real-life tasks, they're also responsible for selecting the right ones for each story. Candidates absorbed into the organization.

It was an unexpected joy for Xu Chaoqiong to meet the billionaire who participated in the story mission for the first time.

Liu Lin is a newcomer. In this way, if she can leave this world alive, she will definitely spend a lot of money to buy some life-saving items for the next mission. Fair will have its own internal trading rules. Liu Lin buys those items through them. Add a lot of money to the organization.

Moreover, as a benchmark female entrepreneur in Kaiyang City, Liu Lin has always maintained a friendly and close relationship with the government. The rich network behind them is a huge wealth.

As a "gang organization" that has been blacklisted by the Special Affairs Bureau, what the Fair will need is a member with social influence like Liu Lin.

If you can attract the other party to join the club, this is definitely a great achievement.

Of course, Xu Chaoqiong was not afraid that Liu Lin would be disobedient. In this story, it was easy for her to kill a newcomer like her.

Liu Lin's expression quickly regained her composure, and Xu Chaoqiong couldn't see any emotion in her eyes.

"Tsk."

She smiled sarcastically. Sure enough, black-hearted capitalists like them are cunning foxes, but the more they do, the more confident she is in persuading the other party to join the fair.

Xu Chaoqiong turned around and continued to walk upstairs. She didn't notice that after she turned around, Liu Lin's eyes instantly became frozen.

Cheng Kun stayed on the first floor alone, and after everyone else went upstairs, he began to check each room on the first floor one by one, focusing on finding the old man's room.

His expression is still calm. In previous missions, he has seen many terrifying scenes, and his psychological endurance is far from what newcomers can compare. In addition, he has many means to save his life. This is why he dares to check alone. The confidence of the apartment.

Not every room can be opened. Cheng Kun bypassed the rocking chair that was still shaking and tried to turn the doors of rooms 105 and 106, but unfortunately they couldn't open.

He thought of the old man who had suddenly disappeared, raised his hand after thinking for a moment, and knocked on the doors of the two opposite rooms 105 and 106 one after another.

"Boom thump-"

"Boom thump-"

Echoes came from the corridor, but there was still no response from the room.

Cheng Kun walked inside. Next to the two rooms 105 and 106 were rooms 107 and 108. When he was ready to open the room without a key, he successfully turned the door handle of 108.

Cheng Kun didn't push the door directly, but let go of his hand, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door of this room.

Like the previous two rooms, there was no movement in it, as if no one lived at all.

Cheng Kun paused for a few seconds. During these few seconds, his skin quickly petrified. In the end, all the exposed skin turned into the texture of rock.

This is one of Cheng Kun's abilities - rock formation.

After the petrification, except for the heart and brain, the rest of the body has turned into stone. It is difficult for the ghost's attack to cause damage to him, unless the ghost has the ability to directly control the brain, otherwise, some can only be created by touching The ghost attack had no effect on him whose surface had been petrified.

When he was ready, he turned the doorknob and opened 108's door.

The moment he walked in, Cheng Kun felt that something had changed. He turned around abruptly, only to see that the corridor lights that were still on had been extinguished. The corridor on the first floor was dark, and the sides could not be seen.

Cheng Kun's heart lifted high, he held his breath, leaned sideways against the wall of the room, and slowly walked inside.

There must be something wrong with this room!

This judgment comes not only from the hallway lights that he turned off after entering the room, but also from the overly tidy and clean layout of the room.

The single folding iron frame bed was covered with a pink sheet with a peony flower pattern, the sheet had been washed white, and there were several patches on it, a flat cotton pillow, covered with an off-white pillow cover, A quilt was neatly folded and pressed under the pillow.

This type of bedding and furnishings was only seen by Cheng Kun when he was a child. In order to prevent the pillows from being soiled by hair oil, his grandmother would put a pillow towel on top. His mother also had this habit, but later, because every household installed a water heater, Frequent shampooing, it is not so easy to have hair oil and gradually change it.

In addition, there is a desk in the room, and a kettle is placed on the ground next to the desk.

This should be a woman's room. In addition to the peony-patterned sheets and quilt cover, Cheng Kun also found a few black hairpins and a few rubber bands in the drawer of the desk.

There are several posters on the wall opposite the desk.

Ling Zhiying, Su Youpeng... are all popular idols in his childhood. Compared with these things, Cheng Kun wanted to find some texts and photos recorded by the owner of the room that could provide more information.

He looked around, but in this room, apart from the narrow single bed and a wooden desk, there was no other furniture that could hide things.

If this is a girl's room, it would be too simple, without even a separate wardrobe, the girl's economic conditions must be very embarrassing.

and many more! Does this room have a separate bathroom?

Cheng Kun realized that this room seemed to be much smaller than his room.

"What are you looking for?"

A skinny hand suddenly appeared on his shoulder.