Chapter 394: How to own five buildings

Zone E.

After Tang Er hit the real estate license to the kid, Bai Liu heard his system beep:

[System Alert: Congratulations to player Bai Liu for obtaining a cemetery building in Area E 0812, and for the progress of mainline quest completion (1/5)]

After making sure Bai Liu got the cemetery building, Tang Er asked, "Shall we go to the next one?"

"Wait!" The kid who got the real estate license pulled Tang Er hit hesitantly, "Did you get all the ghosts out of the building, and got their real estate license?"

Tang Er shot a glance at Bai Liu, and after getting a nod of agreement from Bai Liu, answered the boy, "Just took the deeds, didn't kick them out."

The boy breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that he wasn't kicked out."

Bai Liu raises an eyebrow, "You're not afraid of these ghosts?"

"I don't think they are ghosts." He looked into Bai Liu's dark eyes, "They're just people who live underground."

Bai Liu raised a little bit of interest, he walked over to him, "Actually I have a very curious point, you seem to know that after death, people become ghosts and still work all the time, so why do you only want to live until you are 26 years old?"

"It's harder to die than to live, so isn't it better to keep living?"

The boy was silent for a moment, he looked down and clasped his nails, and said softly, "Because I'm alive and I don't have a home."

"My mom and dad are dead, after I pay off the loan and die and become a ghost, I can live in the cemetery with them, it's okay to work hard, the family stays together, we can get through anything."

Bai Liu calmly asked, "Even if you die for it, you don't care?"

The boy looked up, and he answered Bai Liu seriously, "Actually, I don't think I'm dead."

"Though like corpses we can't eat, we don't have to sleep, and we sleep every day in cramped cemetery rooms, I feel that as long as we all stay together, and help and support each other, no matter where we are, no matter how hard we have to work, we'll never perish."

He smiled, "Because I think that someday we'll get out of the cemetery room and onto land and see the sunshine."

"Even if we die and our bodies rot, as long as we living ghosts exist and roam the underground, then there will always be a day."

Bai Liu asks, "Why were you just, why were you afraid that these ghosts living in the cemetery building would be kicked out?"

The boy gave a start and hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Don't you know?"

"People walk outside and living developers charge land management fees, ghosts walk outside and dead developers charge land management blood."

"Land management blood?" Bai Liu repeated, "What is this?"

The boy scrunched his head, glanced cautiously from side to side, came close to Bai Liu with his hand over his mouth, and said in a very low voice, "--Developers become ghosts when they die, too, and they suck the blood of the ghosts of the lower citizens and the second-class citizens."

Bai Liu drops his eyes, "Ghost blood is non-renewable, right? What if it gets drained?"

"When the blood is sucked dry, the bone marrow will be sucked, and when the bone marrow is also sucked dry, the skin and flesh will be eaten, and when the skin and flesh are also eaten, then there is nothing left." The boy's shoulders began to shake as he spoke, "If one is sucked to that point, one is truly dead, there is nothing left."

Bai Liu looked at the shivering child, "Do you know where these ghost developers hang out?"

The boy shook his head sluggishly, "I don't know, I've only lived over here for a year as well, some of it is information passed on to me by my dead parents, and some of it is conclusions I've drawn from my own observations."

"But if you're looking for dead developers ......," the kid looked up at Bai Liu, "you can try the crappy buildings in the districts."

Bai Liu ponders for two seconds, then nods his thanks and speaks, "The developer of this cemetery building, is he dead too?"

The kid was stunned, "...... This cemetery was developed back in the day by one of the five major developers, the developer of the landowner this side of Section E. He died many years ago."

Bai Liu's eyes turned deeper, "Is it true that every cemetery in every district is developed by a big developer?"

The kid nodded, "Cemeteries are part of the infrastructure, they were all developed by the big developers of the districts in the early days, but they're all long dead now, leaving their assets to their descendants, and now the properties in Sunshine City are all the five developer company groups derived from the descendants of the five big developers."

Bai Liu calmly asked, "Is there no subsequent additional development or transfer of title to this cemetery?"

The other party meditated for a while, "It seems to be a no, it's always been like this ......"

"Then the title of this cemetery building should still be in the hands of the big developer." Bai Liu paused for a moment, he quickly and calmly looked around the room and quickly ordered, "Team Tang, take this child with you, let's get out of here immediately now, something is coming out."

[System prompt: Congratulations to player Bai Liu for taking the title of 0812 Cemetery Building in Area E from the big developer in Area E.]

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has disturbed (Developer of Zone E), and the other party is enraged by your seizure of his assets, and is about to awaken from the ground to hunt you down!

[(Developer of Area E) is about to attack! ]

The ground shook violently, as if the feet of some extremely heavy species had slammed into the ground and moved this way, step by step, and a kind of hissing, muffled sound roared out of the ground, accompanied by a putrid stench so strong that it was sickening.

Bai Liu and the others were retreating rapidly, and Mu Ke and Mu Sicheng, who had broken the back, while retreating, looked back quickly at the mist in the cemetery behind them, and reported in unison, "The monster's movement speed is low, and there is no one coming after them! "

"No." Bai Liu looked down at the blood suddenly surging inward in the green veins under the skin on the back of his hand, the slightly bulging veins instantly deflating, "The monsters have already caught up."

[SYSTEM WARNING: Player Bai Liu is being sucked for blood and his life value is in the process of dropping drastically! ......87......73......]

Liu Jiayi quickly handed out a bottle of antidote to Bai Liu, Bai Liu took it and drank it, a violent cough came from behind Tang Er Ta, and the seventeen year old child being carried by Tang Er Ta whimpered and struggled in pain.

Tang Er hit quickly flipped him off his back, the child's face was blue, the skin of his mouth and abdomen were rapidly collapsing and drying out, the blood vessels on his body slightly bulging out of the skin of the burst skin, the blood inside was flowing rapidly as if it was being sucked by someone crazy greedy.

Mu Sicheng and Mu Ke's faces sank as they turned their heads once again to determine the source of the vibration that was chasing them, and after making sure that the other party was far away, they quickly turned their heads to Bai Liu to report, "The source of the vibration is still far away from us."

"That means this monster's attack doesn't even need to touch us." Bai Liu turned to the others, "Besides me and this npc, are there any other people showing symptoms of being attacked?"

Mu Sicheng, Mu Ke, Liu Jiayi and Tang Er played in unison: "No."

[System Warning: Player Bai Liu is being blood-sucked and his life value has fallen past 80 again......]

Tang Er hit the child in his arms by sucking blood to the scalp are dried up, he was so painful that he could not make a sound, his body spasmodic twitching, his eyes have begun to roll white, large drops of unconscious tears slipped down, his mouth softly murmured mother.

Tang Er hit hold npc's hand tightened, he looked at Bai Liu with a tense expression.

"I can't give my antidote to the npc." Liu Jiayi glanced at the NPC and her face turned ugly as she handed Bai Liu another bottle of antidote and looked up at him, "At the rate this monster is sucking blood, my stock of antidote will soon be cleared out."

"We haven't figured out this monster's attack!" Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu, whose face was pale and blood was flowing wildly under his translucent skin, and cursed the grass, "It's attacking without making contact, it's a judgmental type of attack, and this monster is of a high level."

Mu Ke forced himself to calmly analyze, "Definitely high, Area E Developer should be the top boss in this copy."

"Monsters that attack in the Judgment class only need the player to meet the range and criteria of its attack, and the player will definitely be attacked." Liu Jiayi quickly replied, "We only have this npc and Bai Liu being attacked here, what's the difference between you and us?"

Bai Liu scanned the child npc whose hand slowly dropped, "Housing issues."

Liu Jiayi reacted extremely quickly as she jerked her head up, "You mean!"

Bai Liu explained succinctly, "I and have a cemetery building in Area E. This npc is a house slave of the cemetery house in Area E. The houses in Area E are attributed to the land, and the developer of Area E owns the land ownership of Area E according to the setup, and so it can suck our blood with the help of the houses."

"The house is the conduit and medium through which he sucks our blood."

Bai Liu stops his small step backward and looks ahead with his eyes flat, "But this ruling is not good to lift for the time being, the housing turns to you guys you will also be sucked blood, it is not clear the activity range of this developer boss monster, if the other party's activity range is the whole map, there is no point to run, and the best way to not be sucked blood by this monster is to --"

"--Kill the monster."

Bai Liu drew out his whip and ordered with a cold gaze, "Stop retreating, Mu Sicheng, Mu Ke advance against the enemy, Liu Jiayi guard me and the npc's two wounded households and treat the defense, the Tang team maneuvering to wait for the attack."

Mu Sicheng and Mu Ke drew out their skill weapons at almost the same time, one coldly and the other showing their teeth, they rushed up to the mist, and after they rushed up, the two of them were almost at the same time in the mist at the same time.

There was nothing in the roaring mists.

There were no ghosts, no developers, a bare and still-open land around them, not even a body to be seen, only a far constant vibration and a slimy growl coming from beneath the ground.

Mu Sicheng dug up the land with one claw, it was still land underneath, he gritted his teeth and reluctantly dug again, it was still congealed earth underneath.

Mu Ke clenched his dagger tightly, his face so dark that it was about to drip, he stepped forward and held Mu Sicheng's shoulder, stopping him from continuing to dig downwards, "Don't dig, with our perception ability, we can sense that there is nothing underneath or around this land."

Mu Sicheng tilted his head and looked at Mu Ke with red eyes, "Then why does Bai Liu keep getting his blood sucked out?"

"What the hell is this monster?!"

"What the hell is this heresy?!"

In reality, Su Yang, his eyes red as he watched people being sucked dry and transported away from the Sunshine property, braced his hands on a makeshift tent table and took a deep breath, almost hoarsely questioning himself and the team around him.

The team looked at each other in silence.

Su Yang closed her eyes, propped her forehead up and opened them again, took a deep breath and once again combed through the test reports that everyone had presented to her from the top:

"Detection results for units one through six, heresy value detection fluctuation range 7340~134212, objects in the building totaling 5793, all objects leaving the building detected no anomalies."

"Units six through nine detection results, heresy value detection fluctuation range 7106~12985, objects in the building total 6903, all objects leaving the building detected no anomalies."

"Nine to ......"

Su Yang read until the last test report, then took another deep breath to adjust her emotions and spoke, "The range and amplitude of fluctuations in the heresy values of all the unit buildings are close to each other, but no heresy values have been detected in the objects in the buildings as well as the building materials."

He slowly raised his body and looked at everyone, "That is to say, all of the objects within the entire Sunshine development have no detectable heresy values, yet every single place is in the midst of heresy values as high as seven to thirteen thousand, and is currently expanding outward in a circular pattern at a rate of thirteen to fifteen meters per minute, affecting the surrounding occupants."

Su Yang's fists clenched as he was still for a second or two, a near blank look on his face, then quickly returned, "Did you have them evacuate all the surrounding occupants?"

"All the households in the surrounding radius of one kilometer have been evacuated." A team member replied, but he smiled bitterly, "But Team Su, at this rate of expansion, in at most one or two hours, this heresy of the Sunshine Property will have expanded to one kilometer away, and by that time ......"

Su Yang stared straight ahead at this team member, "That's why we're going to try to house this heretic within the hour, do you hear me!"

Everyone's faces were solemn as they puffed out their chests and raised their heads, "Yes, Team Su!"

One of the team members raised his hand and whispered a question, "Captain, is it possible that there are heretics that don't exist as entities, like air or something? "

Su Yang shakes his head slowly, "Unlikely, if it's air, a diffusion rate of 13-15 meters per minute is too slow, rose perfume for example, would have spread all over the city in an hour."

"And the way this heresy affects is also very limited, not quite the same as air which is a form of indiscriminate spreading attack." Su Yang nodded over the report with clear eyes, "It's housing."

"The passersby who passed by here and our team members who came to investigate didn't show any abnormalities, and the only ones who showed abnormalities were the residents who bought houses here."

Su Yang's finger trailed down and landed on an electronic report on her tablet that had been transmitted from the hospital, and paused for a moment:

"Ten minutes ago, the hospital sent this report over to me saying that at first, only the people whose houses were moved out of the area showed symptoms of desiccation, but then, over time, the residents who lived mainly up here showed symptoms of desiccation to varying degrees."

Su Yang exhaled a cloudy breath, "And with that comes a change in what we're detecting here, the heresy expanding outward at an increasing rate."

"It's fair to say that the heresy started out affecting people [with the intention of moving out of their homes], that is, people who wanted to escape from this place, but as we went through the process of getting a certificate of eviction, the heresy began to feed on the bone marrow and flesh of these people, while expanding outward."

Su Yang paused, "It could be argued that our move to try to get the residents in the rotten building to move out activated and strengthened this heresy so that it began to want to suck up more of all the residents who own homes here without restriction."

One member of the team added with a hard look on his face, "Then won't it become stronger and stronger and kill more and more people?"

Su Yang glanced at the team member, "It's the job of the Heresy Disposal Bureau to stop the Heresy before it gets too powerful."

A team member knocked on the door and came in holding up a report, "Team Su, the information you asked me to check on the developer of the Sunshine property, I just got it!"

Su Yang reaches out and takes it, glancing down to scrutinize it, then he frowns slowly:

"...... This developer surnamed Li after getting the land, did not immediately develop, but secretly part of the land second contracted to four other developers, the other four developers injected capital after the name of the head contractor and he began to build the sunshine property together, so the sunshine property is a total of five developers co-development."

This team member nodded, "It was illegal and was later found out, but by that time this developer named Lee had already run away."

Su Yang flipped the information over a page, her brow frowning more and more tightly, "This developer, surnamed Li, was arrested and imprisoned last year, and has shown a variety of unusual behavior during his imprisonment, and sometimes disappears suddenly during the roll call."

"...... often went to the library to borrow horror books and games to check out, taking notes on them as carefully as if preparing for an exam, often mumbling something under his breath, I'm getting out of jail soon, I'll get the land, a key warder's watchword ......"

"Not only that." The team member pointed to the information, "This man is very bold, often provoking the prison guards by saying that he can change the world, and he also voluntarily confessed that the contract that he privately contracted to four other developers states that the land use life is as high as 9999 years."

Su Yang frowns, "Normal can only be contracted for 45-75 years, and his private contracting isn't even in effect."

The team member nodded, "That's what the prison guards told him, but the man was laughing extra hard, saying that he had a way to make these contracts work, a way to make every piece of land in the world his, a way to make the tenants who had sued him in the first place spend their entire lives working for him as a cowboy, just to buy a suite from him."

"The man said that if he had the desire, he would be able to do it, a typical materialist."

Su Yang doesn't comment on the man's behavior before turning another page, his brow furrowing again, "This man had contact with Li Gou, the rapist who was stabbed to death by an inmate in prison last year?"

"Right." The team member nodded, and a subtle look appeared on his face as well, "At that time, Li Gou that evidence disappeared out of thin air during the trial stage, the Heresy Disposal Bureau even intervened and investigated, but nothing out of the ordinary was ever found, and in the end, the evidence inexplicably reappeared again, and it went into the normal trial process."

"But before the trial, this Li Gou was bizarrely stabbed to death in prison."

Pointing to the profile, the team member said, "This developer, surnamed Li, had brief contact with Li Gou when he was in prison, and later Li Gou showed the same mental symptoms as the developer surnamed Li - talking to himself, avoiding disappearing during roll call, provoking the guards, and rampantly stating that he would one day able to get the person who sued him killed."

Su Yang looked up and asked with a solemn expression, "This developer, Lee, where is he now?"

The team said, "It's dead, and the body suddenly appeared in the playground after disappearing from jail for an hour back in August of this year."

"Dead?" Su Yang asked rhetorically, wrinkling her brow, "How?"

The team said, "After the autopsy it was found to be full of dirt from the stomach to the mouth, and the stomach had risen directly from the dirt, and was alive."

In-game.

Mu Ke and Mu Sicheng walked back with ugly faces, Mu Ke shook his head honestly to Bai Liu, "No monster was found."

Tang Er hit and Bai Liu exchanged lines of sight, Bai Liu ordered, "Change of defense, you two come and guard the injured household and Liu Jiayi, I will go with Tang team to investigate."

Liu Jiayi looked at Bai Liu a little, took two deep breaths and handed over a few bottles of antidote, "I don't use my skills anymore, if there's something you can heal yourself with my skills by adjusting my panel, pay attention to the blood line."

Tang Er hit the returning Mu Sicheng and Mu Ke with a nod, "I'll guard Bai Liu, you guys keep an eye on the rear."

Bai Liu nodded, and Tang Er fought one by one into the mist of the cemetery.

And then didn't see anything either.

Tang Er fought with his gun raised against his pants leg, turning his head to Bai Liu with a grave expression, "Is your life value still dropping?"

Bai Liu, pale to the point of near-transparency, nodded, "65, above the safety line."

"What do you think this monster could be?" Tang Er's expression grew more somber, "I've encountered colorless, odorless, and invisible judgmental monsters, all of which are very difficult to deal with unless one finds the other party's existential object."

"As long as you find the host and are able to hurt the opponent, then this monster is nothing to be afraid of."

"That's what I thought." Bai Liu crouched down thoughtfully, he looked at the ground and squinted his eyes, "...... Captain Tang, what kind of monster would you say, what medium would you say would be utilized so that it could simply pass through a house without touching the tenants, no matter where the other party runs, no matter if the other party is a human being or a ghost, it would be able to suck the blood and marrow from the other party anytime, anywhere?"

"What is the thing that a property developer who seeks to maximize profits wants to host the most?" Bai Liu lowered his eyes to the clumps of earth on the ground that were trembling strangely after being dug twice by Mu Sicheng.

Tang Er beat him up as he followed Bai Liu's gaze downward.

Bai Liu smiled as he looked at Tang Er and typed, "I think it's land."

He said, suddenly and without hesitation, a hard whip down, the thick soil hit the "skin open", split almost four or five meters deep.

The earth gave a dull yet sharp hiss at the lash and began to shake from side to side.

Fissure infiltration of black and red clay-colored slurry, the section can be clearly seen and some were interrupted after the mouth of the pipeline is writhing, these greenish-grayish-white soft pipeline flesh on the mouth of the thrombus is rapidly formed, the pipeline flow out of the "slurry" in a strong smell of blood came to the face.

[System alert: Player Bai Liu attacked (Developer of Zone E) with a skill weapon]

Bai Liu looked at the blood-red "slurry" and the soft-walled tubes that fluttered from side to side, densely packed like capillaries trying to reconnect in a mesh-like structure, and slightly raised his eyebrows: "Wow, this is the first time I've seen blood vessels growing in the soil. "

Tang Er lets out a breath, "The physical depository of the five major developers here is the land itself beneath the surface."