Chapter 98, Tenth Floor
The system's voice suddenly rang in Han Fei's mind: Xu Qin's friendliness level had increased by twenty points.

"Attention Player 0000! Your friendliness with Xu Qin has reached the required level! Congratulations on gaining Xu Qin's friendship! You have now learned how to get along well with your neighbor!"

Scrolling to the bottom of the attribute panel, Han Fei found Xu Qin's name in the "Neighbors" section of the Life Map. Her name was listed above Meng Shi's.

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

After completing the manager's task, Han Fei received a great deal of reward, but he hasn't had time to look at it in detail yet.

"High risk does indeed bring high reward. Putting aside everything else, just this potential talent that can only be obtained with a one in ten thousand chance is already very profitable."

"The name 'Summoning Souls' sounds perfect for this game. Summoning souls to heal and cleanse the soul is also very fitting for my role as the building manager."

Han Fei now possesses two talents: one is the newly acquired manager talent, Soul Summoning, and the other is his innate talent of unknown level—Soul Return.

There was no information about the Soul Return talent in the attribute panel, but Han Fei could roughly deduce some things from the system's description of the Soul Summoning talent.

"Both of my talents may be related to players."

The F-rank talent "Summoning Souls" has a certain probability of summoning players with the "Spirit Collision" physique. In Han Fei's view, this talent is equivalent to dragging players from the normal world to the deeper world.

Currently, the Summoning of Souls talent is only at the F-level, which is very low in level, has an extremely low success rate, and can only be used once per night.

However, this talent has the potential to grow, and it's possible that it will undergo some kind of transformation as Han Fei's level increases.

"If only I could drag that family of three who abused Yingyue into the deeper world." Han Fei sincerely hoped that the family of three could live well in reality, and after he leveled up his soul-summoning talent, he would invite the family of three to play in the "underworld": "Don't they like to occupy other people's houses? There are empty houses everywhere in my building that have no 'people'."

After studying his talent, Han Fei added the free attribute points he gained from the upgrade to his stamina, and the two new free skill points to his acting skills. At that moment, his intermediate acting skills were officially upgraded to advanced acting skills.

Han Fei was unaware of just how powerful the advanced acting skills certified by the system were. He only knew that he could easily make any emotion and expression, and he could impersonate anyone he had ever met.

Acting skills may seem like a weak fighting ability, but they can be of great help to Han Fei, both in the perilous underworld and in reality.

After stretching his body, Han Fei scanned room 1091 and noticed Xu Qin looking at him, her scarlet eyes seeming to hold blood.

Avoiding eye contact, Han Fei casually changed the subject: "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 more than ten years ago. It was taken in by the building manager, but then it disappeared. I never expected to meet it on the ninth floor.” Xu Qin put away all the kitchen knives and wiped the blood off her hands. “It was badly injured and is now hiding in room 1094.”

"How about we go see it now?" Han Fei was tempted when he heard that the other party was seriously injured.

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

Her bright red lips slowly parted, and Xu Qin bit her little finger until it bled. Her expression gradually turned sickly: "If you want to kill it, I can help you."

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

"No, no, I just want to see it. Besides, I'm quite interested in the amusement park where it used to be." Han Fei had once heard Huang Ying say that the intersection of the deep world and the shallow world was at the deepest part of the labyrinth of a certain amusement park. If he wanted to find that connection point, he first needed to figure out the location of the amusement park.

"Its own consciousness is severely damaged. If you want to communicate with it, you will probably have to wait for a while."

"Severe damage to self-awareness?"

"The puppet's true form is the mask on its face, and its consciousness hides within the mask. The previous building manager has taken over the mask and frequently uses its consciousness to patrol the floors."

"Was that hopping sound we heard earlier made by it?"

"Well, you'd better not have too high expectations for this puppet; it's not very smart."

Han Fei thought of the mask worn on the puppet's face. He felt that since the previous building manager could control the puppet's consciousness with the mask, he should be able to as well.

After communicating with Xu Qin, the two 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 did not react, just like a scarecrow in a field.

"The mask can't be removed, so I can't take it with me. Oh well, I'll come back to find it after it has recovered for a while."

The puppet was also one of the original inhabitants of the building, and Han Fei did not want to hurt it.

After leaving room 1094, Han Fei didn't rush to leave the ninth floor. He had found the last two puzzle pieces needed for the human body puzzle mission. Now, as long as he brought all the puzzle pieces back to the haunted house 1044, he could complete another F-level mission.

"Should we go up to the tenth floor and take a look?" Xu Qin looked at the stairs leading to the tenth floor. Apart from the building manager, no one in the building had ever been to the tenth floor, and she was also very curious about it.

"Okay." Han Fei followed Xu Qin, and the two of them arrived at the tenth floor one after the other.

The top floor of this haunted building was completely unexpected and very ordinary. The building manager restored it to how he remembered it. The tenth floor was his former home, but there were no relatives there.

Pushing open the door to room 1101, there was no musty or bloody smell as expected, and everything was neatly arranged.

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

Attention player number 0000! The game map feature has been unlocked, and all the areas you have explored will be highlighted!

Opening the properties panel, Han Fei found the so-called game map under the life map.

In the almost boundless darkness, there was a tiny, almost negligible glimmer of light.

Han Fei zoomed in on the map to its maximum size and finally saw the text marked on the faint light: "Explored area: Apartment No. 1, Happiness Community".

Thank you to Mo Yi Xiao Keng for being the patron!

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(End of this chapter)

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