The System Teaches You How to Be Human

“Tsk… 414,” Mo Wuchang clicked his tongue quietly and said, “This is clearly just a setup for us to die!”

As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed his thigh, his outwardly delicate and fragile thigh, was being stared at by Si Yisi, whose tearful eyes were filled with anger.

Mo Wuchang: “???”

He quickly corrected himself, “Ah, just dying will bring experience, alright!”

Si Yisi looked at him as if he were an idiot.

The cheerful, joyful voice continued, still like singing a continuous tune. “You’re all very happy with the arrival of these four new tenants, and the new tenants are also very happy. They have prepared generous New Year’s gifts every night to welcome you… Also, welcome the tenants to visit each other often…”

As the voice trailed off, a crackling noise of electromagnetic interference filled the air.

A mechanical, formulaic female voice replaced the joyful tone.

The female voice said, [New Year’s rental game welcomes the arrival of the six players present. The players’ task is; survive for seven days! Enjoy the game! Hee hee hee hee…]

The final “hee hee hee” sent a chill down their spines.

But some players noticed the information in the female voice’s words! Six players?! But there were seven players standing in the room!

Who wasn’t human?

Many players picked up on it.

A moment of silence filled the room, and each player regarded the others with the same cautious, suspicious gaze.

The game hadn’t even officially started, yet the players’ hearts were already scattered!

Si Yisi pressed his lips together. Suspicion was the deadliest thing. This damned game certainly played its cards well!

However, this also made Si Yisi reflect. He was thinking; Is there really no problem with the small world designed by this background?

Why am I pulled into it by Shen Chen himself, instead of being tasked by the small world?

The door of the rental house was pushed open, and a small, withered old man walked out, leaning on a cane.

The old man’s gaze was cold and terrifying, looking at the players as if they were a pot of cooked food.

“I’m the landlord of this rental house. You’ve all been busy with New Year’s, so you didn’t get a chance to meet the new tenants. But tonight, your four co-tenants will return. However, this time they paid a high price, so you must make room for them.”

“Our rental house has three floors. There is one vacant room on the first and second floors, and two vacant rooms on the third floor. Each room has two beds and is only for two people to live in.”

“You can distribute the rooms as you wish.” The old man slowly turned and walked back, and the players heard his low, venomous muttering, “Tsk, what a load of crap. Paying such low rent to fool people? Might as well die already!”

Was he dissatisfied with the cheap rent?

Would there be any prompts if they decided to increase the rent?

Shen Chen’s memories were mostly blurry, and Si Yisi knew that he had passed, but the specific details of the process were unclear.

As for this level of the game, Shen Chen had passed by sheer luck, muddled and unaware.

The landlord, the old man, had disappeared somewhere, so the players had no choice but to squeeze into the rental house.

***

The seven players gathered around a round table, their expressions heavy.

A man with glasses and an ordinary appearance was the first to raise his hand and suggest, “How should we divide the rooms?”

There were four rooms available for them to stay in, and two sets of keys were thrown onto the table, with four keys labeled “Old.”

But the rule that only two people could stay in one room was non-negotiable, which meant one player would have to stay in a room alone.

Qi Muyang was the first to speak up. He raised his gun and directly threatened the other players without hiding his intentions. “I won’t participate in the room allocation. I just need to secure my own interests, like… staying with him.”

Qi Muyang choose the young man with non-mainstream long yellow hair who had been following him closely.

The players exchanged glances, and only under the threat of absolute force did they reluctantly agree.

What about the remaining players? The player with glasses, Jia Yingrong, suggested drawing lots, and this method was unanimously accepted.

After a round of drawing lots…

Si Yisi looked at the paper in his hand with the results written on it, and tears suddenly welled up…Out of joy.

Chen Mengxi, seeing her cousin’s face filled with despair, gave him a timely comfort. “Chen Chen, don’t be afraid, your cousin is here.”

Those words were like a catch-all phrase. They sounded warm, but in reality, they had no practical use.

She was here? What did that mean? Could she run to Si Yisi’s room in the middle of the night and share his troubles?

Si Yisi kept up the appearance of being moved, ignoring the hinting glance Mo Wuchang threw his way, and firmly decided to stay alone.

Staying alone was more fun, wasn’t it?

The results of the room allocation came out one by one. Mo Wuchang and Jia Yingrong, the glasses-wearing player, were assigned to one room; a young woman and Chen Mengxi shared another room; and Si Yisi had a room to himself.

The young woman sharing a room with Chen Mengxi had her face splattered with blood from an elderly person who died on the bus. Her face was now stained with dark bloodstains, and she seemed disoriented, showing clear signs of having already met an untimely death.

Si Yisi could tell that Chen Mengxi harbored subtle dissatisfaction.

She probably hoped to be assigned to a room with a more capable player, but instead, she got a burden.

On the surface, Chen Mengxi remained friendly, and no one could see through her dark thoughts.

With the landlord gone and the new non-human tenants not arriving until night, it meant they had time to search for clues.

The old landlord had mentioned that the players had been too busy to meet the new tenants, meaning they had actually moved in a while ago. The cheerful voice also encouraged them to visit each other’s rooms. This was easy to notice, but it all depended on whether one had the courage to dig deeper.

Si Yisi, of course, wasn’t just going to sit idly by, but he was one of the more unique players who decided to look for clues. He was genuinely crying all along! And somehow, in his free time, he managed to grab a whole box of tissues to wipe his eyes and tears!

Si Yisi completely ignored the strange looks from the other players.

Endure, endure!

I am the bigger system!

For the first time, Si Yisi experienced the difficulties of being a host, but that didn’t stop him from still looking down on the host.

If a little setback like this couldn’t even be overcome; might as well go back home and farm!

However… Hmm, it seemed like many of the previous hosts of the 414 system had indeed been sent for labor reform in waste recycling.

***

“Creak.”

Si Yisi started his search from the third floor of the rental house, avoiding the other players who began looking for clues from the first floor.

Each floor of the rental house had three rooms. One room on the first and second floors, and two rooms on the third floor were assigned to the players.

One of the rooms on the first floor was a storage room, so the rooms assigned to the “new tenants” (ghosts) were left with one room on the first floor, one room on the third floor, and two rooms on the second floor.

The room Si Yisi checked on the third floor was sparsely furnished, and he only noticed a strange smell in the bathroom.

He then moved to the second-floor room, where he happened to run into Jia Yingrong, the player with glasses.

Si Yisi nodded at Jia Yingrong, and the two of them worked in sync to search the second-floor room.

“Here.” Si Yisi pulled out a tangled bunch of black hair from the worn-out couch cushions.

“I found some here too.” Jia Yingrong had discovered a lock of long hair tangled around the showerhead in the bathroom.

Aside from the abundance of hair, there were no other clues.

As for the room on the left side of the second floor… Si Yisi found nothing this time.

The room was spotless, as if nothing dirty had ever stayed there.

On the first floor, Si Yisi found some scattered bits of paper, but the meaning of the paper was unclear.

Si Yisi squinted his eyes. He wondered; Did the players who came here first secretly hide some clues?

Of course, that was just a guess.

Si Yisi returned to his room on the third floor. His neighbors were Qi Muyang and the yellow-haired boy.

If it came down to it, Si Yisi’s searches were all just precautions. If a nighttime attack really happened…

The ghost might very well be torn apart by him in his sleep.

Late at night, Si Yisi opened his eyes in the dark.

A bloody-eyed gaze suddenly appeared, pressing close to his own eye!