"Isn't this our little newbie?" Cobra adjusted his gsses and smiled slightly.

  "Why aren't you staying in your room? What are you doing out here?"

  Qin Nuo replied, "A neighbor lost something and asked me to help retrieve it."

  At the mention of the word "neighbor," both Jiang Xiaobai and Cobra's expressions ged slightly.

  This newer had already mao ect with the residents here so quickly?

  In fact, when the game tent was first announced, as veteran pyers, they already knew how to py this particur instance.

  There were essentially two main objectives.

  One: Build a good retionship with the residents of the Bloodstained Apartment to gain favorability.

  Two: Identify the serial killer in the apartment.

  These were the only two ways to achieve a high score in the instance.

  So, since moving ierday, not only Qin Nuo, but the other six experienced pyers had been pting how to get along with the neighbors.

  Iably, they all faced a lot of closed doors!

  Some residents even bizarrely disced them fr to befriend them!

  "Are your neighbors easy to get along with?" Jiang Xiaobai asked, his face a bit dark.

  His room was ohird floor, and st night he deliberately used the excuse of a broken bathroom to kno the door door.

  The resident was a middle-aged man, but from the moment Jiang Xiaobai ehe man's gaze was filled with lewdness and greed.

  Jiang Xiaobai felt a chill run down his spine uhat stare.

  When he mentioned borrowing the bathroom, the resident's eyes lit up with excitement and even thoughtfully offered him a bar of soap!

  Terrified, Jiang Xiaobai turned and ran back to his room, adding two more locks to the door!

  Damn it!

  Even ghosts have preferences!

  Recalling the look in that resident's eyes st night, Jiang Xiaobai's expression was as if he'd eaten something foul.

  "Very easy to get along with, the neighbors are all very friendly," Qin Nuo said, lying through his teeth.

  Qin Nuo's words left the two of them skeptical.

  "Where's the item you helped the residerieve?" Cobra asked directly.

  "With the old ndlord."

  This statement made Cobra and Jiang Xiaobai's expressions turn a bit peculiar.

  "Looks like we have the same goal."

  "I received a D-level task to retrieve a resident's eyeball from the ndlord!" Cobra said.

  "Mine is also D-level, to retrieve an arm for the resident of 506!" Jiang Xiaobai added.

  "That old man likes to collect body parts from others."

  "I'm afraid it won't be that easy to get them back," Jiang Xiaobai said.

  "You're wrong. The residents handed over their body parts because they couldn't afford the rent, so they used them as colteral."

  "In other words, we just o use Ghost Currency to buy them back!" Cobra analyzed.

  Improving the instance score offers bes far greater than a single rent payment, so it's not a losing deal.

  Therefore, they were more than willing to solve it with money.

  They arrived at the first-floor lobby.

  This time, the ndlord's chessboard was oable, and he was immersed in a game with himself, smoking an old pipe.

  Without looking up, the ndlord knew Qin Nuo and the others had arrived. He moved a chess pied asked, "What do you want?"

  "Old man, we want to retrieve the items that some residents have pawned here," Cobra stated their iion.

  "Who are you to them?"

  Cobra was momentarily speechless.

  Qin Nuo chimed in, "It doesn't matter, just three good-hearted people willing to help."

  The other two looked at Qin Nuo with strange expressions.

  That excuse.

  Even a ghost wouldn't believe it!

  "Alright." Uedly, the old man nodded in agreement.

  Cobra and Jiang Xiaobai were overjoyed and quickly asked, "How much Ghost Currency is needed for redemption?"

  The old man sat up straight, his terrifying face lifting as he took a puff of his pipe before saying, "I don't hat stuff."

  "Py a game of chess with me. If you win, you take it back."

  Chess!

  Cobra and Jiang Xiaobai stared at the box of spoils, their faces twitg, feeling a bad premonition.

  "What if we lose?"

  "I'll take something from you."

  The old man seemed to enjoy pying chess with others, messing up the chessboard's pieces and rearranging them, his mouth crag open to reveal yellow teeth, paired with his terrifying and eerie face, it was quite uling.

  "e on, young man."

  "If you win, not only you take bae item, but I'll also reduce your rent by half. How about that?"

  The more enthusiastic the old man was, the more uneasy Cobra and the others felt.

  "Old man, are you good at chess?" Cobra tentatively asked.

  "Not bad. I once won the district championship and represehe city in a provincial petition, also winning an award. If there were a ranking, I'd be roughly a nine-dan."

  Speaking of the past, the old man was extremely proud, stroking his goatee and ughiily.

  "Old man, sorry to bother you."

  Cobra immediately backed out, turning to leave.

  Jiang Xiaobai also forced a smile and said, "Landlord, you should py by yourself!"

  The ndlord's face darkened, clearly a bit annoyed.

  Cobra's expression ged, and he quickly expined, "Old man, we're not very good at chess. Pying against us wouldn't be challenging at all!"

  The ndlord's face softened slightly, sighing, "Young people today ck ambition."

  "ime you interrupt my chess game, each of you will leave something behind."

  The old man seemed quite displeased, having his game disrupted like that.

  The two nodded quickly.

  The ndlord of the Bloodstained Apartment was undoubtedly the most terrifying ghost; otherwise, the residents wouldn't fear him so much...

  Ghost Currency was fine.

  But exging body parts for favorability was too costly!

  Even if they knew how to py chess, they wouldn't dare py like this!

  "Old ma's py a game," Qin Nuo agreed.

  The ndlord's murky eyes gleamed, and he smiled, "You're quite the young man, e on then!"

  Cobra and Jiang Xiaobai, who were about to leave, were stunned.

  What was this newbie thinking?

  Or did he have enough fiden his chess skills?

  Then, they saw Qin Nuo's move.

  He sat down in front of the old man, took out his phone from his pocket, opehe Dragon try Chess app in single-pyer mode, ahe difficulty to hell level.

  Qin Nuo smiled and said, "Old man, do you mind if I py chess and use my pho the same time?"

  "Young man, it's better not to multitask."

  "No worries, I don't o focus to win at chess."

  "…"

  The ndlord's mouth twitched, feeling insulted, but he said nothing.

  This bold move left Cobra and the others dumbfounded.

  Damn!

  Skill brings ce!

  Cheating right in front of him, has this newbie always been this bold?

  The game quickly began.

  The ndlord pyed aggressively and boldly, while Qin Nuo calmly mirrored his moves on the phone, using the hell-level AI's moves to ter.

  After just seven ht moves, the ndlord's face turned grim, his brows furrowed, as if fag a formidable oppo.

  He pondered for a long time before making a move.

  Qin Nuo, however, responded within a sed.

  As the game progressed, the ndlord's face grew increasingly unpleasant.

  Even ferocious…

  Cobra and Jiang Xiaobai's eyes lit up.

  This darihod actually worked; perhaps they could learn from this bold move.

  However, just as they were eaining such thoughts, the ndlord suddenly looked up, staring ily at Qin Nuo.

  His voice, as if ing from a mass grave, was filled with intense hostility: "Kid, what are you looking at on your phone?"