Novel Lived
Chapter 41 - Payment of 100,000! Other Players Appear!
Chapter 41: Payment of 100,000! Other Players Appear!
When Lin Yu placed 100,000 in ghost currency on the counter, the intense Yin energy made all the paper ghosts behind the counter turn their heads.
This amount of ghost currency was likely the result of diligent work over a long time for them!
Even for ghosts, survival in Beyond Apartments required money.
Their “salary” was already minimal, and with everything in Beyond Apartments costing money, how could they possibly save anything?
But this new resident casually took out 100,000!
They dared not feel even a shred of greed!
After all, Beyond Apartments had “security”… which was essentially an unspoken rule!
Fighting, and especially robbery or theft, were prohibited here!
Besides, anyone who could pay such an amount at once was a guest of the highest rank.
The paper ghost who had previously disrespected Lin Yu turned even paler, practically translucent, and began to tremble.
“You… you are, of course, an honored guest…” it stammered with a mournful look.
For a guest capable of a 100,000 top-up, if they were reported to property management for disrespect, the punishment for these ghosts… would certainly be more than just a fine or a pay cut!
More likely, it would mean extreme torment!
If Lin Yu didn’t relent, this ghost might even face complete annihilation.
However, Lin Yu didn’t bother to argue with this foolish ghost. Its fear was punishment enough.
He watched as the trembling ghost loaded the bills into a large, creaky, old machine, swiped his room card, and, after completing the top-up, returned his card.
The room card now had a new feature!
Below his room number, 1202, a balance of 100,000 was displayed!
“They actually show the balance!” Lin Yu was slightly surprised.
No wonder this little ghost had been so arrogant earlier, seeing his empty room card and bare hands, assuming he was broke!
Truly a case of the “ghost’s eye underestimating people.”
Shaking his head, Lin Yu decided not to make things harder for this minor character.
He took his room card and left the payment center.
Lin Yu decided to wait for a while in the hallway on this floor, realizing… he still had two “human companions” in this instance!
Although he didn’t know their exact floors, they’d likely come to this third floor to check the top-up process.
Staying here would give him a chance to see what kind of people the other two players were.
After the offline trading fair, Lin Yu realized one thing: some ghost handlers were far from ordinary.
Opportunities to meet other players or ghost controllers in the real world, as at the fair, were scarce.
That “add friend” and “freely enter horror instances” feature would only unlock after completing three instances.
For now, meeting others depended on encounters within “horror instances.”
Just as Lin Yu expected, after waiting for several minutes, he heard footsteps from the staircase.
He wasn’t surprised by this.
If he hadn’t had the confidence from Zhu Jiang and his upper-grade Yin weapon, he would also avoid using the elevator.
The confined space of an elevator was unsettling in a horror instance!
He waited by the entrance to the stairwell, and soon, the stairwell door opened!
Out stepped a young man with a sharp face, holding an old black-gold knife.
Dressed in a loose gray tracksuit, his right arm was pitch black, covered with blood-red eyes.
Clearly, his contracted ghost manifested through his arm!
Such ghosts, unable to exist independently, were typically “incomplete.”
Compared to full-fledged ghosts of the same level, they tended to be weaker in battle.
Lin Yu sensed that this young man was a fourth-rank ghost controller, and his ghost and black-gold knife were a vengeful-class ghost hand and a first-level low-grade Yin weapon, respectively.
The man’s wary expression suggested he’d encountered something in the stairwell!
Upon seeing Lin Yu, he looked startled.
“A ghost controller?” he asked cautiously, probing Lin Yu.
Lin Yu nodded, indicating he had no ill intent, and released a trace of spiritual energy.
The man relaxed and asked, “Is this floor safe?”
“It’s safe for now.” Lin Yu replied, and the man nodded, pulling a dirty cloth bag from his pocket.
He took out a piece of fresh, bloody beef and placed it on his right arm.
A large mouth appeared on the arm, swallowing the meat whole. The eyes closed, and the black color faded away.
It seemed fresh meat was what he needed to sustain his contracted ghost!
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