Chapter 98

In Han Fei's mind, the system's voice suddenly rang out, announcing that Xu Qin's friendliness had increased by twenty points.

"Player 0000, please note! Xu Qin's friendliness has reached the standard! Congratulations, you have gained Xu Qin's friendship! Now you have learned how to get along well with your neighbors!"

Sliding to the end of the attribute panel, Han Fei found Xu Qin's name in the "Neighbors" section of the Life Spectrum, her name listed above Meng Shi.

"Xu Qin (Curse Aggregate): Her original personality has collapsed, her cognition is disordered, and she is in a dangerous state, constantly pursuing the ultimate in cuisine."

After completing the Manager task, Han Fei received a lot of rewards, but he hadn't had the time to look through them in detail.

"High risk indeed brings high returns. Without mentioning other things, just the growth potential of this talent, which has only a one in ten thousand chance of being obtained, is a great deal."

"The name 'Soul Summoning' fits this game well. Summoning souls for spiritual healing and cleansing also aligns with my role as the building manager."

Han Fei now possessed two talents: the newly acquired Manager talent, Soul Summoning, and the unknown-level talent, Soul Revival, which he had from the start.

The attribute panel provided no information about the Soul Revival talent, but through the system's description of the Soul Summoning talent, Han Fei could roughly deduce some things.

"My two talents may both be related to players."

The F-level talent Soul Summoning has a certain probability of summoning players with a spirit-attuned constitution. In Han Fei's view, this talent can drag players from the normal world into the deeper world.

Currently, Soul Summoning is only an F-level talent, with a very low success rate and can only be used once per night.

However, this talent has growth potential, and as Han Fei's level increases, this talent might undergo some transformation.

"If I could pull that family of three who abused Ying Yue into the deeper world, that would be great." Han Fei sincerely hoped that the family could live well in reality, and once his Soul Summoning talent upgraded, he could invite them to the "netherworld": "They like to occupy others' homes, don't they? My building is full of empty houses with no 'people' in them."

After studying the talents, Han Fei allocated the free attribute points he gained from leveling up to his stamina and the two free skill points to his acting, officially upgrading his intermediate acting to advanced acting.

Han Fei wasn't sure how powerful the system-certified advanced acting was, but he knew he could easily display any emotion or expression and impersonate anyone he had met.

While acting might not seem very combat-effective, it could provide significant help to Han Fei, whether in the perilous deeper world or in reality.

Stretching his body, Han Fei scanned the 1091 room and noticed that Xu Qin was looking at him, her crimson eyes seeming to have blood flowing in them.

Avoiding her gaze, Han Fei casually brought up a topic: "I vaguely remember there was another 'person' in the room before? It seemed to be a puppet?"

"That puppet escaped from a nearby amusement park over a decade ago. It was taken in by the building manager and later went missing. I didn't expect to encounter it on the ninth floor." Xu Qin put away all the knives and wiped the blood from her hands: "It is severely injured and is now hiding in room 1094."

"Shall we go see it now?" Han Fei, hearing that it was severely injured, was immediately interested.

"Do you want to kill it now?" Xu Qin spoke very bluntly: "No one has ever left the ninth floor before. Now that we three can leave freely, it means the former building manager has been annihilated, and the new building manager is likely one of us."

Her crimson lips slowly opened, and Xu Qin bit her little finger, her expression gradually becoming sickly: "If you want to kill it, I can help you."

Xu Qin seemed to have guessed that the new building manager was Han Fei, but she didn't say it outright.

"No need, no need. I just want to meet it, and I'm quite interested in the amusement park it came from." Han Fei had heard from Huang Ying that one of the intersection points between the deeper and shallower worlds was at the deepest part of a maze in an amusement park. He wanted to find that connection point and first needed to determine the location of the amusement park.

"Its consciousness is severely damaged. If you want to communicate with it, you might have to wait for some time."

"Severely damaged consciousness?"

"The puppet's true form is the mask on its face, and its consciousness is hidden within the mask. The former building manager occupied its mask and often used its consciousness to patrol the floors."

"The bouncing sound we heard earlier was from it?"

"Yes, you'd better not have too high expectations for this puppet. It's not very smart."

Han Fei recalled the mask on the puppet's face. He thought that since the former building manager could control the puppet's consciousness through the mask, he should be able to do the same.

After communicating with Xu Qin, the two of them went to room 1094 together.

The puppet stood in the corner of room 1094, and no matter what Han Fei and Xu Qin did to it, it showed no reaction, like a scarecrow in a field.

"The mask can't be removed, so we can't take it away. Forget it, let's come back after it has rested for a while."

The puppet was one of the original residents of the building, and Han Fei didn't want to harm it.

Leaving room 1094, Han Fei didn't rush to leave the ninth floor. He found the last two puzzle pieces needed for the Human Puzzle task here. Now, he just needed to bring all the puzzle pieces back to the haunted house 1044 to complete another F-level task.

"Shall we go to the tenth floor and take a look?" Xu Qin looked at the stairs leading to the tenth floor. No one except the building manager had ever been to the tenth floor, and she was very curious about it.

"Sure." Han Fei followed Xu Qin, and the two of them went to the tenth floor, one after the other.

The top floor of this ghost building was unexpectedly very ordinary. The building manager had restored it to the way it was in his memory. The tenth floor was his former home, but there were no family members here.

Pushing open the door to room 1101, the room didn't have the expected moldy or bloody smell, and everything was neatly arranged.

The most noticeable thing in the room was the hand-drawn map on the wall. As Han Fei touched the wall, the system's voice rang out in his mind.

"Player 0000, please note! The game map function has been unlocked, and all the places you have explored will be highlighted!"

Opening the attribute panel, Han Fei found the game map below the Life Spectrum.

In the almost boundless darkness, there was a faint, almost negligible light.

Han Fei zoomed in the map to the maximum, and only then did he see the text marked on the faint light: "Explored Area: Happy Neighborhood, Building 1."