Upon waking, Su Chen felt refreshed, all traces of fatigue gone.
Outside the window, it was still shrouded in darkness.
It wasn't that Su Chen had overslept; it was just that the Horror World was perpetually bathed in night.
Here, the concept of time was meaningless.
Sleep when tired, and continue with one's tasks upon waking.
Time had been completely forgotten here.
Today was the day Su Chen had an interview.
He had already put on the clerk's uniform beside his bed.
He looked at himself in the mirror.
"Not bad, very handsome," Su Chen was quite satisfied with his appearance.
Eighteen years old, handsome, and somewhat frail and helpless.
Such a pretty-boy face was the most popular among girls.
It aroused their strong protective instincts, even maternal love.
"I need to prepare before the interview."Su Chen reminded himself.
Interviews in the Horror World weren't as simple as on Earth; one had to be careful to avoid life-threatening danger.
Since he had a second chance at life, Su Chen naturally wanted to carefully plan for the future.
The ghosts he couldn't defeat in his previous life, he would defeat in this one.
The things he couldn't obtain in his previous life, he would obtain in this one.
It wasn't that Su Chen was selfish.
When the Horror World descended completely, humans were like lonely boats on the sea, fragile and helpless.
Only by concentrating most of the crucial items on one person could there be hope.
And that hope was the future Su Chen had planned for himself.
The Horror World was a no-go zone for the living.
So he hoped that Earth could become a forbidden zone for fierce ghosts.
After searching the room for a while, Su Chen found a red candle.
[Name: Red Candle]
[Quality: D]
[Type: Consumable]
[Special Effect: Repels ghosts]
Lighting the red candle could repel ghost attacks.
The stronger the ghost, the faster the candle would burn.
It was a one-time consumable, very practical, and one of the few useful items in room 302.
Pushing open the door, Su Chen glanced at room 301, deciding not to disturb his neighbor for now.
As for the other residents, except for the little girl in room 401 on the fourth floor, he would try not to disturb them.
It would be safer to contact the other residents after becoming an official employee of the Convenience Store.
After all, Su Chen no longer had his newbie protection period.
Entering the elevator, Red Bell immediately stared at Su Chen.
She was still counting on Su Chen to help her retrieve the rest of her body parts.
"No ghosts in the elevator yesterday?" Su Chen asked.
Red Bell shook her head.
As always, if a white-clothed female ghost entered the elevator, he should control her but not kill her; it was related to Red Bell's leg.
At the same time, Su Chen reminded Red Bell not to go to the basement; there were no more parts of her body there.
After the reminder, Su Chen left the elevator and pushed open the door to Building 3.
The yard was still shrouded in darkness, with wandering souls walking numbly, and a crying boy sitting on a chair.
Occasionally, a shadow flickered on the wall, eerily so.
Lighting the candle, Su Chen stepped out.
Without his protection period, he was at his most vulnerable, and he had to be careful with every step.
To reach the Convenience Store, he had to pass by the crying boy.
His cries were enough to kill, so the red candle was a necessity.
Holding the red candle, Su Chen approached the crying boy.
The closer he got to the crying boy, the faster the red candle burned.
The black flames kept jumping.
When he finally stood in front of the crying boy, the candle's burning speed was visible to the eye, with black flames reaching over a dozen centimeters high.
Su Chen didn't dare to stay; he wasn't qualified to touch the crying boy yet.
The red candle blocked the boy's cries but wouldn't last long.
He quickened his pace and quickly moved away from the crying boy.
The candle's burning speed decreased, and the black flames became steady.
Light appeared ahead, behind a small forest.
Bypassing the forest, Su Chen saw the Convenience Store without incident.
Blowing out the candle, Su Chen pushed open the door and walked in.
"Welcome," a crisp voice greeted him.
It was the paper receptionist of the Convenience Store.
The paper person wasn't very dangerous; one could easily disable it with a kitchen knife.
There was also a paper person standing at the cash register.
However, this paper person was more refined, with clearly drawn facial features.
It wasn't very threatening either; with a red candle and a kitchen knife, one could disable it.
"I'm here for the interview," Su Chen pointed to his uniform.
The mummified corpse on the sub-basement floor had been an employee of the Convenience Store in life and was trapped there after death.
This clerk's uniform had been taken from him.
"Follow me," the paper person gestured for Su Chen to follow, heading towards the office.
The store had many items.
There were red candles like Su Chen's, as well as candles of other colors.
Besides candles, there were also paper people, paper boats, music boxes, nail clippers, and other eerie items.
These items were all very effective.
But Su Chen didn't dare to make any sudden moves.
To own a store in the highly dangerous Xin'an Residential Area,
and with the store clerks being two useless paper people, it was easy to imagine how extraordinary the store owner was.
"The boss will see you now," the paper person said to Su Chen after waiting at the office door for a while.
Straightening his clothes and glancing at the recommendation letter in his hand, Su Chen confidently walked in.
Pushing open the door, Su Chen saw a black coffin.
The room was unusually cold.
The walls were covered with frightening black lines, like seaweed freely wriggling in the water.
"Are you here for the interview?" a flat female voice came from inside the coffin.
Su Chen knew that the female ghost inside the coffin was not simple; she was one of the few red-clothed ghosts in Xin'an Residential Area.
In his previous life, he had dealt with her but couldn't defeat her and had to flee in disgrace.
However, he had ruined her chances of advancing, and she had chased him for a lifetime.
She had always wanted to become a top-tier red-clothed ghost.
This coffin was the key to whether she could achieve that status.
Whoever pushed open this coffin now would receive from her an ultimate luxury gift of "eternal pursuit and revenge."
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