Their eyes t.
Qin Kelian giggled: "I'm not that curious! Alright, alright! Now that I see you're fine, I'm relieved! I'll be going then—I still have my evening skincare routine to do!"
Her jade-like finger tapped her alabaster cheek.
After saying goodbye to Jiang Ran, Qin Kelian left his apartnt.
After Qin Kelian departed, Jiang Ran changed out of his bloodstained jacket and pants, putting on fresh clothes before leaving ho.
Leaving ho used to feel completely ordinary.
But now, stepping outside filled him with extraordinary tension.
He constantly feared that system alert sounds would suddenly echo in his mind wherever he went.
However, the entire journey proceeded smoothly.
Jiang Ran successfully took the elevator down to the first floor.
Today felt sowhat strange—even Manager Xiao Zhang, whom he usually encountered frequently on the first floor, was nowhere to be seen. As he reached the main entrance and glanced back, he noticed a young security guard in the security booth, holding his phone as if reading an e-book.
He left Alice Apartnt without looking back.
When the child personality had controlled his body and stumbled back to Room 304, the system had already consud points to heal the power drill injury on his left arm.
Thus, Jiang Ran's left arm now only caused him slight pain.
Besides going to the hospital for basic bandaging, his reason for coming out was to contemplate his next course of action.
This matter was whether he should continue living in Alice Apartnt or not.
Jiang Ran pondered this question intensely throughout his journey.
Arriving at the hospital, after getting registered, doctors and nurses examined Jiang Ran and found no serious issues.
They simply disinfected his left arm. While the nurse was treating his left arm, Jiang Ran made a decision.
That decision was—to temporarily not leave Alice Apartnt and continue living there.
Why? What's the reason!
The reason was quite simple: it all ca down to money, didn't it?
First: Alice Apartnt was his own property. If he didn't live here, he'd have to rent another place elsewhere. That required money.
Second: His current job as an assistant manager.
Think about it carefully—if you don't live here but continue working here, wouldn't that be like taking off your pants to fart? It wouldn't be much different from continuing to live here, except the ti spent here would be shorter.
You'd still be just as unlucky when misfortune struck. Take this clown incident—didn't he encounter it precisely because of his assistant manager job?
Was it really because he happened to live here?
If he didn't live here anymore, he'd have to quit this job too... then find a new job, and he wouldn't find one this good...
Third, and most importantly:
Even though the Danger Warning System constantly alerted him to dangers,
That the apartnt was dangerous, that many people in the apartnt were very dangerous.
But, honestly speaking,
In his own mory, it seed he hadn't encountered that many incidents.
The clearest, deepest impression was this recent one.
And this ti, he clearly rembered that besides reminding him about Wang Nuli's 8 points,
More importantly, there was a 【Wang Nuli 8 points】 that suddenly changed to
【Detected that host is about to encounter danger! Please distance yourself quickly! 10 points】 or sothing similar.
This should represent that this danger-warning clown currently intended to kill him.
Therefore, he could rely on this change in alerts to assess the current situation.
After all, when he randomly encountered danger-warning individuals in the apartnt, those dangerous people hadn't actually done anything to him.
Probably only when this "about to encounter danger, 10 points" alert appeared did it an he was truly in danger.
Of course, Jiang Ran couldn't rember whether he had heard this "about to encounter danger, 10 points" warning before.
Perhaps he had encountered it previously.
There was one thing Jiang Ran himself didn't understand: because other personalities had taken control of his body, the mories from the period before other personalities took over would be forgotten by him.
This ti, this " 10 points" warning about impending danger, the mory point was relatively distant from when other personalities took control of his body, so he still retained it.
Jiang Ran felt that with this sudden change alert,
Plus having the system, and in crisis situations, his other personalities would erge to solve problems... it didn't seem that terrifying after all...
Of course, there was another reason he dared to continue staying here.
Back at the pancake shop,
The Danger Warning alerted him that he was in a dangerous area.
Rember what he thought at that ti?
What if this place was truly dangerous?
If I die, then I die—living is painful anyway.
Yes, Jiang Ran wasn't exactly fearless of death, but if fate truly destined him to die here, then he could only die.
Having clarified these thoughts, Jiang Ran suddenly felt enlightened and breathed a deep sigh of relief.
Of course, what Jiang Ran didn't know was that what truly decided his staying to live and work here wasn't the reasons he thought of tonight, but the reason he would learn tomorrow from Manager Xiao Zhang—the real reason he couldn't leave the apartnt!
...
Round 27, Day 6, at 12:10 AM.
The long-haired beautiful host appeared in the live stream room.
She announced that because Mike failed to return to Alice Apartnt before 12:00 AM today,
He was directly eliminated this round.
The 89 million points bet on him were all transferred to the final prize pool.
This round's lab rats only included Jiang Ran and Wang Anjian.
Although there were no thrilling scenes during the late night hours,
Many people remained online, all waiting for the arrival of the new day at 12:00 AM.
They insisted on seeing whether Mike would return before they could rest peacefully and go to sleep.
When they saw the ti had passed and Mike still hadn't returned,
Those who had bet on Jiang Ran completely celebrated in the live stream room.
ssage after ssage expressed schadenfreude, mocking Diamond Bachelor and the unlucky ones who had bet on Mike.
...
The long-haired beautiful host appeared in the live stream room.
After reaching clarity last night, Jiang Ran had returned to Alice Apartnt.
He took a shower in Room 304 and then went to sleep.
The 89 million bet on him was entirely transferred to the final prize pool.
This round's lab rats only remained Jiang Ran and Wang Anjian.
But he had nothing else to do at ho anyway.
Might as well continue working, slack off at ho, and collect his salary. So he applied to Xiao Zhang.
They insisted on seeing whether Mike would return before they could peacefully go to sleep.
And even asked Jiang Ran to co find him on the first floor—he had sothing important to give him.
Those who had bet on Jiang Ran completely celebrated in the live stream room.
He discovered that on Manager Xiao Zhang's desk in the managent office, there was a large pile of kraft paper envelopes.
Seeing Jiang Ran arrive, Manager Xiao Zhang grinned and pulled one from this stack of kraft paper envelopes and handed it to Jiang Ran.
After receiving it, Jiang Ran noticed three large characters written on the envelope's surface: To Jiang Ran.
Additionally, on the envelope surface was a postage stamp.
A golden koi fish stamp.
"What is this?"
Jiang Ran felt both confused and curious.
Manager Xiao Zhang said: "You'll know when you open it."
Only after opening it did Jiang Ran discover that inside was his monthly water, electricity, and property fee bill.
He had only lived here for a few days short of a full month.
But the billing date here was fixed each ti.
So, for this bill, Jiang Ran was only charged for 25 days.
Yet these re 25 days of charges completely broke Jiang Ran's defenses—this was the fundantal, unshakable reason why he absolutely had to continue working and living here.
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