The not-so-large living room was filled with dried blood scabs, and every floor tile was soaked with blood; no one knew what a horrible thing had happened there.
A thick thread of blood crisscrossed the room, bound by two figures.
One was dressed in a red tunic, her lips demonically stained with blood, and a blood-soaked dinner knife scattered around her.
One of the figures was a giant humanoid puppet, its face was covered with a mask painted with odd patterns, its body was made of wood, and several rotting hearts were stacked there on its chest.
" How dare you come to the ninth floor at level five? If it didn't take too much power to trap the two of them, I'm afraid you just couldn't escape even if you died a thousand times."
The bedroom door slowly opened and the boy who was originally unconscious in the bed walked to the bedroom door.
With every step he took, his body aged rapidly, a wrinkle crept up his cheek, and his black hair gradually turned white.
When he walked up to the man, his face was already full of death, as if his death was near: "Do you remember what your name is?"
"Han Fei."
The strong smell of stench and blood rushed into his nose, the man looked at the name on his arm, his face expressionless, his eyes calm.
"And do you remember how many times you've died in total?"
"45 times."
"That's all you can remember?" The old man nodded: "I knew we would meet again, but I didn't think we would meet so soon."
His body continued to change into the blood and was slowly merging with the room: "What you just experienced was a memory of my childhood, only the most unfortunate would have the black box, it chose me and I chose you, now it's your turn to make the choice."
"Are you sure you want me to make a choice right now? I've forgotten a lot of things ..."
"I waited for this opportunity, and only the choice made in this situation is the truest." The old man rattled his heart and took out a black box from inside: "You have the minimum qualifications to become a manager, you can choose your own path."
"How to choose?"
"If you want to completely destroy this world full of calamities, misfortunes, and grotesques, then open the lid on the opposite side; if you want to find the way out and redeem this world occupied by harsh spirits and monsters, then open the lid on the front side." The old man's body was still melting; he didn't have much time left.
"Which path did you choose before?" The man did not make a random choice, he felt that this choice would be very important.
"I chose the opposite, but I failed, my memory was torn into pieces by something, and the black box is hidden in this fragment of my childhood memory."
"It seems that choosing the opposite side is dangerous." The man thought for a while and finally spoke, "Can I open both lids? I want to redeem this world, but I think there are also some things in this world that should be destroyed."
"Choose two paths at the same time, both positive and negative forces may want to kill you!" The old man had never seen anyone who made a choice like this before, and since they all wanted it, what was the point of choosing?
After a moment's pause, he said one more sentence: "Think carefully, in the future, you may find that death is a luxury. In the future you will encounter even more terrible things, such as the manager mission, this time you died forty-five times before breaking the barrier, and in the memory of some managers you only need to die once to sink forever, do you have the confidence to pass the barrier with one life?"
"No confidence, but what does that have to do with me making a choice?" The man grabbed the lids on the top and bottom of the black box with both hands and opened the lid at the same time.
There was no change in the room, and in the middle of that black box was another black box.
"What does this box contain?"
"You are now an F-level manager, you can open a layer of the box every time you upgrade your manager level, if you can go to the end, you will see what is hidden in the box." The old man held the black box with both hands, his body turned into blood, and opened Han Fei's chest a little bit, he personally put the black box into Han Fei's heart: "Remember, the black box is hidden in the deepest part of your consciousness, you have to stay awake no matter what time it is."
After the black box was placed into Han Fei's heart, the disappearing memories came like a tidal wave, and at that moment Han Fei felt his brain was about to explode, he fell to the ground in pain and passed out.
After stitching up Han Fei's chest and restoring everything, the old man's body also reached its limit of support.
In his last moment of dissipation, he carried a complex emotion in his eyes: "Speed up your exploration, go to as many places as you can before they find you, maybe you'll be lucky enough to come across hope in the middle of a building. You chose the most difficult path, but you should be able to do it, at least you are much stronger than me, level five, and dare to come to the ninth floor, I was spending up to level nineteen before I dared to come up. What a crazy guy, don't you know that if you die in the game, you'll be brain dead in reality too?"
The old figure completely turned into blood, the veins crisscrossing the room all began to wither, and the oppressive to terrifying aura disappeared.
"Player number 0000, please pay attention! You have crossed the level to complete the F-grade manager task - building manager! Get three times the mission experience! Get the base reward free skill points plus two! Receive the base reward F grade manager title - Building Manager!"
"Building Manager ( F grade manager title ): all permanent residents in the building friendliness plus ten! Receive a random grade F manager talent! When you go out, you can choose a resident with a friendly degree to accompany you!"
"As you have successfully completed the grade F manager task, you will receive the most rare and growable grade F manager talent!"
"Player number 0000, please pay attention! Congratulations on obtaining the growable F-level manager talent - Soul Summoning!"
"Soul Summoning" (a rare F-grade managerial talent with a 1 in 10,000 chance, which can be enhanced as the player's level increases): "There is a certain chance that a player with a spiritual body will be summoned to the surface in a special form, which can only be used once per night."
"Player number 0000, please pay attention! You have successfully upgraded to rank six! Free attribute points plus one!"
The headache gradually alleviated, but there is a faint voice in the mind, Han Fei slowly remembered everything.
"It's the old man who sold me the game helmet!" Han Fei snapped awake, he waved his arm in excitement and ended up accidentally touching the person next to him, a pungent smell of blood wafted into his nostrils.
Turning his head to look, Han Fei found Xu Qin sitting beside him, she kept wiping the dinner knife, but the blood on the knife was getting more and more.
"Awake?" Bright red lips raised upwards, Xu Qin looked sideways at Han Fei: "Did you come to the ninth floor to find me?"
Seeing Xu Qin's blood-stained lips and the constant wiping of the dinner knife, Han Fei decided to tell the truth.
He struggled to stand up and stared into Xu Qin's eyes, "I died forty-five times in that dream, and I thought I'd never wake up again."
Hearing Han Fei say he died forty-five times, Xu Qin, contrary to her normal state, did not say anything else, only the hand rubbing the knife was pushing a little harder.
"Player number 0000, please pay attention! Xu Qin friendliness plus twenty! Your neighborly relationship with Xu Qin has risen to be Friendship."