Qin Nuo stared at the two names above, lost in thought.

  Could it be them?

  "It must be them!" the Blood-Eyed Ghost asserted fidently.

  "They're just ied, not killers."

  Qin Nuo shook his head.

  "The game said the killer murdered..."

  Halfway through his sentence, Qin Nuo suddenly stopped.

  Then, as if he had discovered something, his eyes lit up.

  "Keep talking, you know stopping halfway kill a ghost with suspense, right?" the Blood-Eyed Ghost was exasperated.

  "I suddenly have a theory that could expin why the ndlord, Little Yuan's Mom, and the others souly like Liu Meng."

  "Why?"

  "Not telling you, I'll verify it myself."

  "…"

  Qin Nuo's words drove the Blood-Eyed Ghost crazy.

  "Returenant book to the ndlord first."

  The tenant information book was no longer useful; Qin Nuo had already obtaihe information he needed.

  He felt the ansithin reach.

  The first clue, the rooftop water tank, wasn't meant to point to any suspicious tenant.

  It was just to vey an important message about the killer to Qin Nuo.

  "I'm dizzy, you py by yourself." The Blood-Eyed Ghost rolled its eyes and stopped talking.

  Qin Nuo took the book and headed out. At the stairway, he bumped into Jiang Xiaobai.

  Jiang Xiaobai was carrying dry food and water, clearly having holed up in his room until he couldn't stand it anymore and came out for supplies.

  "You... why haven't you exited the insta?" Jiang Xiaobai was surprised to see Qin Nuo.

  "Why should I exit the instance?"

  "You lost your immunity token. If you're hunted again, you'll really die. Even Cobra ran away!" Jiang Xiaobai said.

  "No need, I'm super brave."

  "A worthless life, indifferent to life ah, fight if you dare!" Qin Nuo left these words a downstairs.

  Jiang Xiaobai blinked, muttering, "Died once, and now he's lost it?"

  Ba the lobby, Qin Nuo returhe tenant information book to the old ndlord.

  The old ndlord pced the book aside, set up the chess pieces, and squeezed out a stiff smile at Qin Nuo, "Care fame?"

  Qin Nuo didn't refuse, sat down, g the tenant information book, and casually asked, "Old man, how long has it been since you st looked at that book?"

  "I g it yesterday, why?" the old ndlord said absentmindedly while moving a chess piece.

  "Did you look at the st few pages of the book?" Qin Nuo asked, looking into the old ndlord's eyes.

  "No, aren't the st few pages bnk?" the old ndlord replied, looking up.

  "Oh, maybe I remembered wrong."

  "Young man, focus on the game. Talking about other things absentmindedly will only make your chess skills dee."

  "The old man makes a valid point."

  After a long game, it finally ended.

  Qin Nuo lost.

  The old ndlord won.

  The old ndlord was also surprised, looking at the remaining pieces on the board, "I won?"

  "Ihe old man's chess skills are now on par with mine. In just a few days, truly a sharp bde that hasn't dulled!" Qin Nuo ughed along.

  These words made the old ndlord beam with joy, stroking his beard and ughiily.

  "Angel's Eye: You gained +50 favorability from the apartment ndlord, +90 Ghost Power!"

  "Old ma's stop here for today, I have to go."

  Returning from the lobby to room 404, Qin Nuo sat at the desk and took out the notebook.

  "Tonight, I'll be hunted," Qin Nuo said.

  "Why?" the Blood-Eyed Ghost asked.

  "That guy has started to foe."

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost knew he was referring to the killer, "Did you see it?"

  "No, just a guess."

  "…"

  Qin Nuo smiled slightly, "But the guess won't be wrong, because I'm getting closer to the truth, and it's panig."

  "And, Xia Xinlu has already been cleared of suspi."

  Unfortunately, ohe target is firmed, it 't be ged.

  Qin Nuo didn't mind, because tonight he could use Xia Xinlu to firm his theory once again.

  Qin Nuo thought for a moment and crossed out the third suspect, the old ndlord.

  This one was also excluded.

  Night fell quickly.

  Qin Nuo y on the bed, closing his eyes as if asleep.

  The windoen, and the curtains swayed in the night breeze, rustling softly.

  A shadow sloeared outside the window, staring at Qin Nuo on the bed.

  Then, it passed through the window, slowly raising a hand like a kabbing fiercely into Qin Nuo's chest.

  Qin Nuo's eyes snapped open, blood staining the sheets.

  In his final moments, Qin Nuo's hand grasped the shadow, but ultimately it fell powerlessly, life slipping away.

  The shadow g Qin Nuo and disappeared into the darkness.

  However, two mier.

  The flesh on Qin Nuo's arm split open, and a palm-sized straw mao the ground.

  It sparked aually turo ashes.

  At the same moment, Qin Nuo's eyes snapped open, a up.

  "Did you see who it was?" he asked.

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost articurly excited, "You might be shocked, it was that fat homebody ghost, yes, the guy door who looks like a pig!"

  Surprisingly, Qin Nuo remained calm.

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost asked curiously, "Why aren't you surprised?"

  "I suspected it might be him."

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost eechless.

  It's like hearing a hirious joke and eagerly sharing it with a friend, only for them to say they've heard it before without ging their expression.

  It's frustrating!

  "Then what are you waiting for, point him out , and the game will be over!" the Blood-Eyed Ghost said.

  "If I point him out, I'll fall into the trap and use up the st straw man."

  Qin Nuo's words left the Blood-Eyed Ghost baffled again.

  It suddenly felt like it was always on the floor, while Qin Nuo was always iratosphere!

  "Do you think the Fat Homebody Ghost was the shadow that attacked st time?" Qin Nuo asked.

  This question made the Blood-Eyed Ghost suddenly realize.

  "Yeah, this time it was much weaker."

  Last time, the shadow didn't even give the Blood-Eyed Ghost and Qin Nuo a ce to react before they were killed!

  Clearly not the same ghost!

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost suddenly had an epiphany, as if it had uncovered the whole truth, and said excitedly, "So, the killer isn't just one ghost, but many."

  "This apartment, all the tenants, are killers, right, right?!"

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost was ecstatic.

  Revealing the truth in one breath felt so damn nice!!

  "Wrong, it's one ghost."

  "…"

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost fell into a mysterious silence.

  After a long moment, it said, "This brain-dead instance game, you py it yourself!"

  Qin Nuo smiled helplessly, "The killer deliberately let you see the Fat Homebody Ghost."

  "It knows I have a ghost inside me, and it knows I have more than two lives."

  "So, it let the Fat Homebody Ghost try to kill me, deliberately letting you see, so naturally, my arget would be the Fat Homebody Ghost."

  "Once I've used up all the straw men, I'll have no chips left."

  "This game, the winner will be it."

  The Blood-Eyed Ghost felt exhausted.

  Qin Nuo was iratosphere.

  The killer was also iratosphere.

  Only it was at the bottom.

  Its intelligence was being thhly maniputed...

  JOSOLUNA