Brother Jiang Ran subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

He was not fond of women, not fond of money, not fond of power.

But he was utterly obsessed with that feeling of abundant power within himself.

He really, really wanted to experience the body from before the transmigration.

And so, he said in his mind, "System, spend 10,000 points to restore my pre-transmigration physical fitness!"

After these words, Brother Jiang Ran, standing before the 502 security door, waited for the resurgence of power.

But, a minute passed, it felt like exactly a minute passed.

His own body showed no sensation of recovery whatsoever.

"No use... As expected, this System only responds to the demands of the main personality..."

Brother Jiang Ran thought somewhat bitterly in his heart.

At this moment, the desire to kill the main personality and replace him had already reached its peak.

The sturdy security door just stood there quietly before him.

Brother Jiang Ran turned and left.

He did not linger any longer at this place.

Inside the room.

After failing to successfully shoot and kill Brother Jiang Ran.

Ding Dali put away his bow and returned to the living room.

He began to speculate whether that Brother Jiang Ran would come looking for him next.

Not long after, he heard the sound of his own apartment's security door being violently kicked.

But after a few kicks, the security door fell silent.

He pressed his eye against the peephole and saw only Brother Jiang Ran standing outside the door for a moment before heading off to the left.

Of course, it was uncertain whether he was pretending to leave or had really left.

His eyes lowered, Ding Dali wondered if he should go out and pursue?

But recalling that even a hidden arrow couldn't finish that guy off, his skills were definitely top-notch.

He should still prioritize caution.

"Be careful, careful, and more careful."

Ding Dali learned his lesson; back then, it was because he wasn't careful, because he was careless, that a few kids ruined his plans and caused him to get caught.

Brother Jiang Ran, deep in thought, took the elevator down to the 1st floor.

After exiting the glass automatic sensor door.

On the ground floor, suddenly, from the upper floors high above, a red fire extinguisher came plummeting down.

His right ear twitched slightly.

Brother Jiang Ran simply took a quick step to the left and dodged this lethal fire extinguisher attack.

Simultaneously, after taking a few quick steps forward, he looked upward, wanting to see who had made the move.

But the person who threw the red fire extinguisher was very cautious.

They vanished without a trace after the throw.

Inner landscape world.

Old Sneaky Jiang Ran watched Brother Jiang Ran, who also faced a fire extinguisher falling from the sky, yet evaded it with ease.

His lips pressed tightly together.

The others who had also suffered losses from fire extinguishers were speechless as well.

Why is the gap between people so vast?

Brother Jiang Ran was now riding an electric bike, leaving Alice Apartment.

By the time he returned, the electric bike carried a brand-new chainsaw.

The next trace of him was when he was already standing before the door of Room 502, Building No. 2, holding the chainsaw.

"Will there be an ambush behind the door?"

The chainsaw quickly tore through the door, almost completely destroying it.

Brother Jiang Ran suspected whether there was an ambush behind the door.

But when he opened this security door, now a ragged mess from his chainsaw's destruction.

He found there was no ambush behind the door.

Everything inside Room 502 was completely normal.

"Where is the person?"

Brother Jiang Ran, carrying the chainsaw, circled around inside 502, but to his surprise, found no trace of Ding Dali's figure.

He could only return in disappointment.

As Brother Jiang Ran passed by Room 501, the occupants of 501 were discussing one matter.

That was, whether to attend the evening welcome party.

This proposal was put forward by Yang Kang.

His reasoning was simple.

Because Lin Feng and Wang Baobao had told him.

The welcome party, called a welcome party, is actually to introduce all the new lab rats to all the old residents who attend the welcome party.

So, if you don't go, it's equivalent to avoiding telling others your identity as a lab rat.

But if you don't go, you might face murder by the manager.

For example, in a previous round, there was a lab rat named Wu You who, because he was taking care of his seriously ill father, didn't attend the welcome party.

As a result, the night he returned to the apartment, he was killed by the former manager Xiao Zhang disguised as the chainsaw murderer.

Yang Kang also informed the other four people about these things.

Now, what they were discussing was.

To attend or not to attend.

If they attend, they expose their lab rat identity in front of so many residents.

If they don't attend, they might face murder by the manager. The benefit is that other residents probably won't know their lab rat identity.

In Room 501, Wang Zhong leaned against the cabinets by the open-plan kitchen.

Facing the others, his voice low:

"Regarding what Yang Kang said, I also looked into related information before."

"If you ask for my opinion, I think we can actually take a gamble."

"This way, our enemies would only be those two managers."

"If we attend, the enemies could potentially be that whole bunch of damned perverts."

"Furthermore, that person who didn't go was killed by Manager Xiao Zhang; our manager this time isn't Xiao Zhang, so maybe we won't even face murder by the manager."

He kept adjusting his glasses, like a conspirator.

The internet company boss, Lü Youwei, was very troubled: "I don't know much about this place. What you're saying, I'm hearing for the first time, only now learning about it."

"So, if the majority agrees not to go, I won't go either."

After Lü Youwei finished speaking, he looked over at Wei Xinyu and Kong Haoxia, who were still sitting on the sofa playing games.

Somewhat impatiently: "Seriously, you two have been playing games for so long and you're still at it?"

Kong Haoxia multitasked, his eyes still fixed on his screen, but his mouth said: "Don't mind me playing games, but I'm listening!"

"I remember, that manager named Mao Li Zhishu, when he talked about the welcome party to us, used the word 'must'."

"So, I feel if we don't go, we should expect to face murder from him."

"Just like that person who didn't attend the welcome party, killed by the manager Xiao Zhang you mentioned."

Wei Xinyu put down her phone at this point and said: "We should still go. At least if we go, those two managers won't give us a hard time."

"And, even if we don't go, and don't expose our lab rat identity at the welcome party."

"What we get in return is only murder attempts from two managers. That's a pretty good deal."

"But haven't any of you considered, couldn't those two managers inform those damned perverts living here of our identities through other means?"

Her words woke the dreamers.

Right.

Even if they don't go, couldn't those two managers tell the other residents through other methods?

And they wouldn't even need to lift a finger themselves; they could redirect the trouble onto others.

"Honestly, knowing full well that those attending the welcome party are a bunch of deranged criminals, deranged serial killers, yet we still have to go. I'm trembling a bit. I'm afraid that the moment the five of us go over, we'll be surrounded and directly divided up like dumplings."

His forehead felt feverish. Lü Youwei felt being here taxed his brain more than managing a company.

Yang Kang: "Then... we still have to go..."

After these words, a deathly silence fell over the room.

Not long after the deathly silence, *bang bang* knocking sounds, like a bolt from the blue.

Instantly jolted everyone present awake.