Great, It's the Pervy Neighbor. We're Doomed

Chapter 421: Shangguan Fei: Someone’s Sharpening a Blade Outside

He is now working toward this goal.Therefore, after graduating from university, the money he earned from working for two years supported his years of full-time writing.

Until recently, his resources were exhausted, and he had to rely on credit services to get by.

A middle-aged man wearing a high-end black suit approached him and talked to him about an agreement.

Something about Alice Apartment, providing him with a room, paying ten thousand per day for living there.

He was already broke, surviving entirely on credit.

The rented apartment was also about to expire.

It was truly like a pillow arriving when you're sleepy;he didn't care if it was real or fake, he would just come and try it to find out.

And after trying, he discovered it was real.

Today is his third day living in Alice Apartment, and he has already received the payment twice.

That's twenty thousand.

The money is almost all spent.

First, he paid off credit debts and other outstanding bills, then he bought a new laptop and a new phone online.

His current phone and laptop were already lagging badly.

Typing felt choppy and stuttering.

"Hmm, let's stop here for now."

Looking at the sky outside, pitch black.

Shangguan Fei sighed, his tired eyes staring at the time on the computer, realizing it was already 3:44 AM.

He yawned, preparing to go back to the bedroom to sleep.

But just at that moment, his heart suddenly seized with an intense, wrenching pain.

Still sitting in his chair, he immediately covered his heart with his left hand, gritting his teeth, his upper body slightly bent forward.

The sharp pain lasted for several minutes before it finally subsided.

After the pain stopped, he didn't dare stand up quickly, instead rising slowly.

"I can't go on like this, I must sleep before 12 PM tomorrow."

He said the exact same thing a year ago.

He took a sip of cold water and returned to the bedroom.

Lying on the bed, he touched his heart, wondering if he should go to the hospital tomorrow?

After all, just two days ago, he saw on Dragon's Sky that a very talented young author had passed away.

Cause of death: sudden death. Contributing factors: staying up late, depression, heart palpitations.

Dragon's Sky: A gathering place for web novel authors, a forum.

In recent years, you can see quite a few authors passing away.

There's no helping it;there's no inspiration for writing during the day. Once night falls, when it's deep and quiet, inspiration just rushes into your brain like it's free.

Shangguan Fei originally thought this kind of talk was nonsense. If you can't write during the day, how can you write at night?

But after he really got into it, after experiencing it firsthand, he realized it was true.

But doing it this way causes great harm to the body.

Even if you're young, nowadays, there are plenty of young people who die from sudden death due to staying up late.

Shangguan Fei kept thinking about this until, under the effect of the air conditioner's cold breeze, he fell asleep.

Perhaps because it was too cold, he didn't sleep long before he was awakened by the chill.

He took off his shoes and clothes, preparing to get under the covers.

Then, he didn't know if it was an illusion.

He suddenly heard a *scrape, scrape, scrape* sound.

The lights in both the bedroom and living room were still on.

Shangguan Fei got up, listened carefully to the sound, searched for its source, and finally arrived at the security door.

That's right, the sound was coming from outside the door.

Shangguan Fei looked at his phone;it was now 3:59 AM.

Who was outside?

"Is it a cat?"

He guessed in his mind.

Then, he pressed his eye against the peephole on the inside of the door, preparing to see what was going on outside.

But, just as he leaned forward, he was so frightened he immediately held his breath.

He saw that outside the door stood a person dressed entirely in a black robe, with a white ghost mask covering their face.

Shangguan Fei thought it was a hallucination from staying up too late.

He forced his eyes open wide, then closed them.

After doing this several times, he looked through the peephole again.

This time, he was sure it wasn't a hallucination.

There really was someone dressed like that outside the door.

Standing on tiptoe, Shangguan Fei looked down with his left eye. Although it wasn't very clear, he could see that this person was holding a small knife, scraping it against his security door.

"Hiss..."

He sucked in a sharp breath of cold air and retreated repeatedly until he was beside the sofa.

"Is this the reason for the ten thousand a day?"

As a web novel writer, even if he's a failed one.

He still has a basic imagination and is qualified in reading various types of web novels.

Situations like the one he's currently in.

There are many similar ones in those suspenseful, horror-type web novels.

Using money as bait to lure people into a trap.

Though many of those involve the supernatural.

Like Hell Apartment, having to survive so many bloody assignments.

Or the Bloody Doors of the Ghost House.

Had he also fallen into a similar situation?

So, is the thing outside the door human or a ghost?

Also, he remembered seeing in the apartment residents' group chat during the day today that someone posted about Manager Li Chong's death.

There were photos too;he looked like he died horribly.

So, was it killed by a human or a ghost?

Shangguan Fei shuddered.

Whether killed by human or ghost, this Alice Apartment is not as simple as it appears on the surface.

"Once the mandatory seven-day stay from the signed agreement is over, I'll have tens of thousands in hand. Then, I can leave this place and move away."

That was his plan.

"However, right now, with this thing outside that I don't know if it's human or ghost, I don't even dare sleep."

Shangguan Fei wanted to call Assistant Manager Jiang Ran.

After arriving at the apartment, he was added to the apartment residents' group chat, and he saw the assistant manager's duties there.

Namely, if residents need help, they can seek him out.

But now, it's 4 AM, isn't that outside working hours?

Would he even come?

"Forget it, I'll just call the police!"

Whether you're human or ghost, I'll call the police.

Therefore, Shangguan Fei called the police.

And about five minutes after he called the police, the white ghost-masked person outside the door left the area.

Shangguan Fei didn't dare go out.

Only when two police officers arrived did he open the door and explain what had happened.

The two officers listened, took a simple statement, and said they would come back during the day tomorrow to check the surveillance footage to see who that person was and where they went.

After the police left, Shangguan Fei locked the door from the inside.

He also pushed some heavier items against the door before he felt at ease and fell asleep.

Currently, the remaining lab rats of the 29th round:

No. 1 Jiang Ran, No. 3 Lin Feng and Wang Ziyi.

No. 5 Huo Yun, No. 6 Shangguan Fei.

At 9 AM on the third day, Jiang Ran was still slacking off at home for work.

It has to be said, this is truly the job humans most want to have.

Easy, relaxed, getting paid, and quite a lot at that.

At this moment, scrolling through TikTok.

He was lying in the living room. After that incident with the actor killing people, the house looked mostly cleaned up.

But there were still some lingering traces indicating what had happened here.

"Holy crap, Wang Bian went to the concert of the original singer he imitates?"

Jiang Ran suddenly came across this video on TikTok.

It left him stunned.

That bold?

Isn't he afraid of being beaten up by the fans of that idol singer, the Little Rice Balls?

Jiang Ran was scrolling, still marveling at Wang Bian's audacity, when his phone screen suddenly changed to show an unknown incoming call.

A stranger was calling.