Chapter 1: Secret

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【CG******——】

File Reference: ******

Archive time: July 12, 2006

Profile: You are a recent graduate, and before you found a job, you decided to rent an apartment......

File difficulty: ☆

Archival Tasks:

1. Stay in the apartment for 6 hours......

2. Meet more than three good neighbors......

3. Find and approach the archival target......

——NOW·File Restart——

In the evening, the sun radiated residual heat, staining the clouds and the streets.

Drizzles of rain fell from the sky, and the rain gradually became dense, hitting the ground, forming small puddles.

Zou Xia held a black umbrella and walked in front of this apartment.

The apartment does not look high, about 9 floors, the outer wall skin is yellow, and there are mottled rust stains in some places.

The surrounding greenery is also overgrown with weeds.

makes this apartment, which stands alone in the rain, seem a little depressed.

If he had a choice, he didn't really want to be near this apartment, which smelled suspicious inside and out.

Zou Xia comes from a world where the game civilization is highly developed, where everyone can pass a ritual called the 'qualification test' and get the chance to become a player.

And the reason why he is here is because this is his 'qualification test'.

By passing the 'qualification test', he will be able to become a 'resident' player in this world, explore all the missions that exist in this world, and earn various benefits from them.

As for failing the 'eligibility test'......

No one knows what will happen to the losers who are eliminated from the 'qualification test'.

Zou Xia has always thought that this sentence is very weird, because it has two interpretations:

Either everyone has passed the 'eligibility test'.

Either everyone who fails the 'eligibility test' is gone!

They were uprooted, erasing all traces of their existence from time, so no one would have a memory of them.

So Zou Xia should actually be glad that his 'qualification test' at least seems quite relaxed, just as a college student, familiar with the surrounding environment.

Maybe such an ordinary background won't make him get much amazing benefits, but at least he won't be eliminated from the 'qualification test'.

"It should be here, Hongsheng Apartment."

Zou Xia put away the umbrella, shook off the rainwater on it, and walked into the apartment step by step.

Thick-soled boots make the stairs 'click'.

The trouser legs were already drenched, and the sound of footsteps mixed with the sound of dripping water became an echo in the empty corridor and reverberated into the ears.

Pieces of fallen wall skin, red iron doors, and half-torn old Spring Festival couplets......

Zou Xia's gaze lingered on these things from time to time.

This will make him nostalgic for the painful experience of secretly buttoning the wall skin of his neighbor's house when he was young, and was scolded by his head and face.

Going up the stairs, above the 4th floor, there is no light in the corridor, and it is dark.

Zou Xia borrowed the light of his mobile phone to slowly touch the 6th layer......

As if I wasn't familiar with it, I looked around in 4 weeks.

Only then did he hesitate, took out a key with the door number from his pocket, and unscrewed the door of 602.

And then resist instinctively,

Slowly walked in.

The dilapidated apartment has a strong musty smell in the air, and the smell is so bad that people don't want to stay for a second.

Zou Xia frowned, endured the discomfort, and first observed the apartment from the inside out.

The furnishings in the apartment were quite simple.

There is no coffee table in the living room, only a sofa, a TV......

The TV is still the same old-fashioned machine from more than ten years ago, thick and heavy like a box.

The power supply was also faintly flickering with scarlet lights.

The 40-centimeter-tall TV stand is painted with blood-red paint, and now it is mottled and peeling, and it looks like it was picked up in a thrift market.

In the attached drawer, there is nothing, only under the drawer, a layer of old newspapers is spread like moisture, and the time and news on it happened a few years ago.

Zou Xia didn't look closely, but it seemed that he couldn't find the TV remote control anywhere.

To the right of the living room is the dining room, a small dining table that can only seat one person.

There is no kitchen......

The rest is a bedroom with only a single bed and no wardrobe.

And......

A bathroom with no showers, only a toilet and a sink.

In this apartment, the second thing Zou Xia did was to immediately take out all the old newspapers in the drawers and seal all the mirrors in the room.

The movements are particularly skillful and there is no hesitation.

It's as if you're preventing something from happening in advance......

After dealing with this, he returned to the living room, slumped on the couch, gasping for air.

Looking at the sky, it should be a while before it gets dark.

I thought I could take a break for a while.

However, it didn't take long to sit down......

There was a knock at the door.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk-"

The sound is slow and weak, and if you don't listen carefully, you may not even be able to hear it.

But......

It did ring.

Zou Xia narrowed his eyes, stood up, and moved to the door with some caution.

- In the cat's eye.

She was a white-haired, kind-eyed old lady.

She stood outside, dressed in a floral shirt with a pair of loose black pants underneath.

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

Zou Xia unscrewed the door and gently pulled out a thin slit, allowing only half of the old lady's face to be seen clearly.

The other half of the face is hidden in the shadows.

At this time, the lights in the corridor flashed twice in a row.

Looking at the old lady at the door again, I saw her smiling slightly, and her face was still kind and kind.

"Young man, just moved in, didn't you?"

Zou Xia frowned slightly, but did not squeak.

"This apartment has been built for so many years, and this room has been empty and no one lives in it."

The old lady continued: "By the way, I will live at the door opposite you, and I heard the sound of the door opening, so I came to knock on the door. ”

Zou Xia looked at the opposite side, and indeed, the entrance door over there was not closed.

Slightly hidden, leaving a thin slit.

"Auntie......"

As soon as Zou Xia wanted to say something, he saw that the crack in the door of the pair of doors was pushed even bigger.

A young girl, about five or six years old, poked her head out of the crack in the door.

Gently shook Zou Xia.

Then before he could speak, he whispered, "Grandma, I'm hungry ......."

After hearing this, the smile on the old lady's face suddenly disappeared.

Her face, once she has no expression, will look extremely gloomy.

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