Chapter 5

The landlord quickly squeezed in with a trash can and a mop: “You are so polite—oh? Today’s meat is pure”

Gao Yan: “Is there a difference?”

“You say the meat of domestic pigs and wild boars, is there any difference?” The landlord returned him angrily, but he had a good harvest today, so he was in a good mood.

Gao Yan: “Wild boar is a protected animal, I haven’t eaten it before, I don’t know.”

The landlord who was choked back gave him an annoyed look, turned around to clean up Zheng Weimin’s body, and whispered happily, “Good stuff. A promotion player’s meat is a great supplement. Hehe, I’m so lucky today, there was a promoted player hiding in the novice field, earning money….”

“Zheng Weimin is a promoted player?” Gao Yan heard this important news , he asked: “A promoted player’s appearance in the novice field copy should be considered a violation of the fairness of the rules.” 

The landlord smiled awkwardly: “Since he appeared in the novice field, that is the fairness recognized by the rules.” Then, he hummed “If it wasn’t for returning to the primary field, it would be strange for you newcomers to survive.”

Hearing this, the expressions of the others changed drastically, but they did not dare to talk to the landlord as freely as Gao Yan.

They looked at Gao Yan expectantly, hoping that he would ask the landlord more questions on their behalf, preferably to ask how to clear customs.

Gao Yan chuckled lightly: “You’re right.” 

The landlord was stunned for a moment, then snorted and left with Zheng Weimin’s body in his hand. Before leaving, he kindly announced the remaining time: “There are only three days left.” 

The heart of the people was heavy, and a delicate woman suddenly burst into tears: “I don’t want to die!!”

No one wants to die.

After the elite man and another white-collar woman couldn’t find the Buddha incense, they gloomily grabbed the skinny man who had almost no presence in the team: “You usually walk closest to Zheng Weimin, and you took the last three Buddha incense? “

The skinny man threw the two of them away: “If you want to talk about being close and obedient, you are better than me, why don’t you say that you took the Buddha’s incense? Besides, it’s not the first time I found a corpse-fuck! The hell knows where Zheng Weimin usually hides Buddhist incense? We must have been overshadowed by him, three kinds of life-saving props have been cancelled, and no life-saving props were found yesterday…”

He suddenly remembered something, turned his head and stared gloomily at Gao Yan and the three: “The three of you have survived without Buddhist incense, you must have secretly found a life-saving tool.”


As soon as he said this, he reminded the other three.


The four players who originally followed Zheng Weimin turned their attention to the three of Gao Yan team, with different expressions and flickering eyes.


Gao Yan smiled: “Even if we have life-saving props, you can’t take them away.” (T/N: that’s the spirit, my Gao*not innocent*Yan)


Yang Mian took out a sword hilt from her backpack, slowly drew it into a three-foot-six-inch wooden sword, and poked at the sofa with her backhand. It actually poked a hole directly out of the leather sofa.


The four ‘ordinary’ urban young men and women were all stiff, staring at the wooden sword and the petite and lovely Yang Mian, and took a step back together. (T/N: moral- don’t judge a book by it’s cover *smirks*)


Su Jiang applauded: “It’s really amazing! What kind of sword is this?”


Yang Mian: “Peach wood sword*, dedicated to exorcism. My custom-made retractable peach wood sword is easy to carry. If you are interested, I will contact you when you come back. I’ll give you.”

Su Jiang rubbed his hands together: “I want a copper coin sword.”


Yang Mian made a gesture: “There is also the best five emperors’ custom-made sword, the effect is the best, but money…”


 “It’s okay, money is not a problem, I’m worth more than 100,000.” (T/N: that’s it I want Su Jiang as my personal human meme, he got such an awesome humor)


The elite man and the white-collar woman stepped forward: “We are willing to share the information searched these two days, please save our lives.”


They are really going crazy, and the death one after another makes them on the verge of collapse, and their nerves are always tense. The guillotine* slashed across their heads, cutting off their heads at any time.

Zheng Weimin, who was regarded as a pillar, took advantage of them. Instead, the trio of Gao Yan, who had been ignored and abandoned by them before, have been living easily and safely until now, and they dared to talk to the strange landlord.


Maybe they can really successfully pass the customs!


The delicate woman and the slender man hesitated for a moment, and both opened their mouths to ask Gao Yan and the three to help save their lives.


In return, they are obedient and more willing to share the leads they find.


Gao Yan was disappointed: “The clues you know, we can also search.” (T/N: ho ho, what a savage reply!)


The white-collar woman said quickly: “Not necessarily. Some clues have been destroyed by Zheng Weimin… Yes, he warned us to destroy the clues immediately, saying it is to prevent someone from being selfish. Oh, now it seems that the real selfish person is himself.”


Su Jiang: “Brother Yan?”


The other four looked at Gao Yan eagerly, hoping that he would nod in agreement.


After a long while, Gao Yan spoke slowly: “It’s not a problem to keep you for two days, but you must be obedient.”


The four of them couldn’t wait to agree: “No problem! We promise to be obedient!” 


“If you have any objection, if you don’t trust me, leave on your own, if someone tricks me behind my back, even if you return to the real world alive, I will kill you.” Gao Yan said ruthlessly. (T/N: YAY, Gao*ruthless*Yan ✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧)


Although the tone was light, even a little gentle, the cold eyes showed that he was not joking.


The four of them were suddenly stunned: “We all promise that we will never dare to make any evil moves.”


Gao Yan nodded with satisfaction: “Go inside the room.”


He let everyone else enter the room, and then asked Yang Mian and Su Jiang to go to the lobby to take care of the tape recorder on the front desk. 


The two obeyed the instructions and went to the downstairs hall to retrieve the tape recorder.


Gao Yan took over the tape recorder and pressed the play button, and replayed the explanation of the rules which they heard on the first day.


[Welcome to the game of gods~]


[Primary promotion field: Watch Luoyin. ]


    …………


[Reminder: Be careful not to get too close to dirty things, if you die, the gods are not responsible. 】


Everyone’s complexion was ashen, and they found something strange – the primary promotion field!


White-collar woman: “I remember that it was a copy of the rookie primary field at the beginning. Everyone here should have played the game, right? It’s okay if you haven’t played it, at least you all know the difference between the novice primary field and the promotion field, which is equal to 1 and 10. The difference between level and full level, there is a gap in the middle. There are also dungeons. Generally speaking, dungeons are used to increase experience points, obtain rewards, etc., and there will be no huge damage value.” 


The elite man obviously understood, and said with a gloomy face : “Zheng Weimin was right, the dungeon does not kill people. But this game is not a dungeon at all, but a very difficult and dangerous promotion field!”


Su Jiang suddenly realized, looking at Gao Yan and Yang Mian, The expressions of the two did not change, obviously they had expected it.


The two of them had doubted the difficulty level of the game before, and it turned out that there was really a problem.


Only Zheng Weimin was involved in it, because he was the only player to advance, and it is estimated that he had played more than two or three games.


Gao Yan: “It used to be a promotion field, but now it has become a junior field, but the dungeon benefits and advanced rules protection that were not there in the first place have been cancelled, and the actual difficulty has been reduced.”


Hearing this, some people present remembered the news they heard yesterday morning. The field was forcibly demoted to the primary field, and due to the rules, the promotion field was also forced to be demoted to the novice primary field.


They breathed a sigh of relief involuntarily. Although the situation was not optimistic, as long as it was not a dangerous promotion field, they were somewhat relieved.


Gao Yan: “Now let’s talk about the clues you found.”


The four elite men looked at each other for a while, and the white-collar woman spoke first: “I searched the sixth floor, and no one lived there. I went in and searched the room inside, and found that this building was first built in the 1930s.”


“At that time it is said that locals and non-locals rented together, and the fifth and sixth floors were allocated to non-locals, after the riot started, this building became a ghost building, and no one dared to come to live there. Until the last dozen years, only some young students, live broadcasters, and tabloid reporters came here to hunt for novels, and basically… all disappeared” 


The above is what the white-collar woman found, about the predecessor of this building.


Elite male: “I went to the seventh floor, and no one lives there. The corridor is full of furniture and garbage, and the corners are full of cobwebs. It’s obviously been abandoned for a long time. The door is closed, the keyhole is rusted, and it can’t be opened without a key. I wandered outside the corridor for a while, and then…”


He remembered that scene, his face paled, and cold sweat oozed out of his forehead: “I found that there was a dark stain on the door of each room, I dug out a piece to check, I found out that it was actually dried blood. But the seventh floor seemed to be unoccupied for at least decades, and even if the blood dried up, it would have been weathered long ago. At that time, I wondered if someone actually ran in just like us, and the result was death.”


“I ran away in a panic and accidentally kicked a tin can placed in the corridor. The tin can’s lid was not tightly closed, and the contents inside came out. It was a dilapidated accounting book, several broken banknotes, yellow talismans, and a few glass beads. I took the account book, and out of caution, I wanted to read it myself, so I didn’t have time to tell Zheng Weimin.”


Gao Yan: “Have you read it?” 


The elite man nodded.


Gao Yan: “What did you find out?”


The elite man was stunned for a moment. In fact, he thought that Gao Yan would directly ask him to take out the account book, just like Zheng Weimin, but Gao Yan did not.


He’s asking him, that seems to be trusting…


“In front of the account book are some trivial daily expenditure records. When I turned to the beginning of the month and the middle of the month, I found that there were two more expenditures. One was to buy Buddhist incense, tribute and some paper money. The owner of the account was complaining about the monthly expenses and additional expenses. There is also a birthday present that seems to be for the daughter of the bookkeeper, but I remember something strange.”


Gao Yan: “Can you read it for us?”


“Yes.” The elite man nodded: “June 8th, xx , Yin. The money is almost enough to buy a pig. On June 14th, xx, Xiao Yu. The pig has been selected, and it is downstairs in Room 5. Tomorrow, she will be able to take it to the garden, she will definitely be very happy.” 


Su Jiang rubbed his arms: “Why does the word ‘meat pig’ make people so uncomfortable?”


‘Wild boar’ is such a term for domestic animals.


Adding the word ‘meat’ as a description is generally used to distinguish its edible function. (T/N: Even though my ancestors were super vegetarian, I can just eat chicken, but not in front of my parents *_*)


“The fifth room downstairs should be the fifth room on the sixth floor, and the people living in it should be people. So ‘meat pigs’ refer to foreign tenants who can eat and sell freely… people!”


Yang Mian concluded, listening to it was terrifying in the ears of others.


What the hell is this place? How terrible and cold-blooded were the local residents who used to live here to buy and sell tenants who are also human beings in such a natural and bland tone?


Also calling it a ‘meat pig’ is horrible.


The elite man’s face was ugly: “I thought I was wrong when I saw it at the time. I looked back and forth several times and found that it was indeed the case. The local residents of this building seem to be offering something, and they have to spend a fortune every month. Money to buy tribute. But I don’t know how to buy… buy meat pigs, what does it have to do with birthdays, do they eat people?”


Gao Yan looked at the thin man and the charming girl: “How about you?”


The skinny man: “I went to the ninth floor. I went with Zheng Weimin. The landlord lives on the top of the building, so we can’t go up. The ninth floor is a very empty space, not divided into a room. There are Buddhist shrines and gods. Tables and other things, such as the venue of ‘Guanluoyin’, are gradually being arranged into a mourning hall. There is a coffin in the center of the mourning hall. In the coffin lies the landlord’s mother. We originally wanted to see it, but every time we approached, the coffin will be flustered for no reason, and I feel that something bad will happen, and the fear forced us to walk over to see the coffin.”


This is also an important message, the landlord’s old mother who died young.


The delicate girl: “I, I went to the eighth floor, but the situation on the eighth floor is similar to the seventh floor. I’m actually very scared and dare not go in and see. So every time I hid at the entrance of the corridor, I happened to see two workers carrying a statue yesterday afternoon when I went to the ninth floor. At that time, I wanted to go out and talk to them and ask for some news so that I could come back and explain. But…” She swallowed in horror, “I suddenly found that the workers were walking silently, and they were carrying such a heavy statue on the stairs, five floors without breathing, no footsteps sound, it’s too weird. I didn’t dare to make a sound, I hid at the door and peeked, and found that the statue they were carrying was a huge Guanyin statue. But the Avalokitesvara statue is very strange, with a dark body, hundreds of arms behind it, and some bulging lumps on the arms, so terrifying and disgusting.”


“I have never seen such a disgusting thousand-handed Avalokitesvara statue.”


Just listening to the description makes me have a panic disorder, it’s disgusting.


Gao Yan thought quietly, summed up the clues given by the four, and slowly connected all the events in his mind, trying to figure out the whole thing.


“This is a coffin building, yin and yang live together, and people and ghosts live together in the same house. From the time it was built, it was an ominous sign. Some areas in Fujian and Guangdong have the custom of worshipping ghosts and gods on the 15th day of the new year, which should be to appease resentful ghost people living in the same house..” 


The others quietly listened to Gao Yan’s analysis.


“The source can be traced back to before the building was built. The original site was a temple, and the temple was a statue of a god worshipped by local residents. This statue should be the strange and huge Guanyin statue. Later, the temple was torn down and the foundation was broken, but custom to worship of the evil Guanyin has not been broken, and it is still carried out in this building.”


“The people who died here are tributed by incense and paper money””


Su Jiang: “Should we worship the evil Guanyin?” He scratched his head, puzzled: “But then how do you worship the evil Guanyin?”


Yang Mian pursed her lips, her face ugly.


Elite men and white-collar women also realize how disgusting this custom really is.


Su Jiang muttered to himself for a while, and gradually realized the truth, so he silenced, and he felt disgusted.


Gao Yan: “Tributes are foreign people.”


Foreign tenants think that local tenants in the same building are xenophobic* and superstitious, but they don’t know that the other party secretly evaluates them.


*having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.*


Feeling that the value is almost the same, they spent money to buy it and worship the evil Guanyin to fulfill their wish.


“Guanluoyin may not actually worship Guanyin, but the boss in this game is the evil Guanyin, so he will definitely worship Guanyin–Zheng Weimin has always emphasized this point. As a promotion player, he should know a little bit about the inside story.” Gao Yan’s topic changed : “Watching the Fallen Yin is a ghostly technique. You can talk to the dead, or you can go to the underworld to play.”


“The Underworld is also known as the Garden Tour.” 


The elite man raised his head sharply: “The Garden Tour?! It is mentioned in the account book that June 15th is the birthday of Nan Nan, and they must take Nan Nan to the garden! This makes sense why the garden needs pork pigs, because they want the evil Guanyin to take them to the underworld, and the tribute or reward is life!”


Everyone was horrified when they heard it.


“Perverted, what’s the fun in the underworld?”


“Insane, a living person kills a living person as a tribute just to go to the underworld?” 

The four elite men were puzzled and felt sick.


Su Jiang looked at Yang Mian for a while, then turned around, his back was lonely: “She’s a cute girl again.” (T/N: lol SJ)

Yang Mian: …Why did you say ‘again’?

Gao Yan: “Fengdu Underworld is not hell… The former is a fire tree with silver flowers, a thousand-mile peach blossom forest, and the beauty is not inferior to a fairyland. Therefore, in some regions, a visit to the underworld is also called a garden tour.”

Yang Mian nodded: “I wanted to say the same thing.”

Many people confuse the underworld with hell, thinking that the underworld is a spooky place.

In fact, in real Taoist books, these are two separate places. Hell is equivalent to a prison, while the underworld is just a government office.

Gao Yan: “To get back to the point, the custom of worshipping the evil Goddess of Mercy by the local residents has been preserved, and they are very worshipped and superstitious, killing many outsiders. The fire cannot be covered by paper, and more and more people die, so naturally there will be more suspicions. In the end, no foreigners dared to come and live. There are fewer people, and the rest are local residents, and people are greedy and their desires are endless.”

Therefore, the residents of the other floors died, perhaps by cannibalism, or Killed by the evil Guanyin whose flesh and blood cannot be satisfied.

All in all, these are decades ago.

The rest are still entrenched in the old-fashioned unit building, the ‘artifact’, the player, the ghost and the evil Guanyin.

The author has something to say:


To  explain it, it is a junior promotion field at the beginning, which is more dangerous. Zheng Weimin used props to deceive players, which also reduced the danger of being promoted to a certain extent, such as life-saving props, etc., and he was using other players’ dead backs to keep himself alive. His explanation in the first chapter is actually inconsistent. One, they said that the copy will not kill, and that if they are disobedient, they will die. How can the rules be so chaotic?


So Gao Yan didn’t believe in Zheng Weimin at the beginning. As for other players, there was no way to believe it or not, because they were afraid and hugged his thighs.


The main god-level player first raises the level and then forcibly lowers it, so now it is the primary level of the ordinary level, and it is not that dangerous.


Next is the clearance of Gao Yan’s show operation.


Let’s learn about the game field level:


dungeon (you won’t die, those who gain experience really won’t die. For example, if Guanluoyin is really a dungeon, the couple at the beginning will not die even if they are disobedient)


Beginner field— Elementary field – The primary promotion field


The promotion field is more dangerous, and the primary promotion field can be compared with the intermediate field.


Then there is the intermediate field, the promotion field, and the advanced field.


There are three levels of ABC in each common level of the game field, but it is not very obvious.


The highest level is the highest god playing field involving gods.


In addition, no matter what level of the game field, once the gods are involved, it is more dangerous and has different levels.


For example, watching Guanluoyin involves gods, even the primary field is more difficult than other primary fields, and it can have primary, and advanced fields at the same time.