Fifth Floor Guardians

It's never wrong to be a bit more cautious. Although Pro can't be considered a cautious person when he was alive due to being stupid enough to live in this apartment, and he still can't be considered a cautious person due to his recent reckless, risky behaviors, Pro firmly believes he is a cautious spirit.

"It's not like these spirits can run away anyways. I can take a bit more slowly and lower my risks a bit more," Pro decided as he sneaked into the fifth floor once more.

Since apartments 559 and 557 was cleared, Pro decided to pick on apartment 556 and hope that it belong to some lingering spirits he could bully. Pro silently sneaked into the apartment. It didn't take long for the muffled noises of breaking objects came from within the apartment.

Of course, nobody bothered to come and check. As Pro was too lazy to describe the process of fighting weaklings, let's just skip to the part where the three poor lingering spirits were collected into the pockets of Pro.

What? Did someone wanted to know what unique evil spirits there were? Well, those people can use their imaginations for apartments 556 and 553 because Pro harvested them both with no problem.

Returning to his domain to deposit the remnants was even easier. After all, his domain was on the other side of the door. This allowed Pro to reap most of the yin qi from the objects before they dissipated, allowing him to add an extra 280 points to his account!

Pro now peeked at the remaining rooms by poking his head through the wall.

"Apartments 558, 555, 554, 551, and 550. If my guess is correct, all of them should have baleful spirits. 550 should be the security room ... so will it be a special baleful spirit?"

After clearing the lingering spirits on the floor, Pro had no worries of being mobbed to death. Even if the baleful spirits chase him, they will easily end up in his domain. Not only that, he could easily teleport back to the fourth floor by linking the doorways.

"Since I can't silently hunt a baleful spirit yet, I might as well make a ruckus," Pro muttered as he sneaked into the hallway once more.

Of course, even if he decided to fight head on, he can't do without some traps. Pro left a gift of cow pies in front of every apartment door. Who knows, maybe even evil spirits can slip on sh*t.

Stopping in front of apartment 558, Pro's eyes glinted in excitement. It's hunting time!

Shing! His claws popped out as Pro did his signature move, door smashing!

Boom! A bisected, dented door was sent flying, revealing a gloomy, silent living room. In the center of the living room, a wooden chair sat alone with a thick rope dangling above it. It was unknown how the rope was attached to the ceiling as it seemed to just be stuck there. However, what drew Pro's attention was the noose at the end of the rope.

"No matter how you look at it, isn't this a rope for suicide?" Pro muttered as he glanced at the doors that were creaking open down the hallway.

A sudden gust of wind blew in the room and Pro watched the rope swung around gently. A mysterious force seemed to be compelling Pro to approach the swaying rope. Pro rolled his eyes as he easily resisted this force, but he still jogged towards the rope regardless.

After all, it's clear what his target was. There isn't an open window in the room, and now there's a swaying rope. Even without this weirdness, Pro could already sense the dense yin qi gathering around the rope.

As Pro approached the robe, he felt compelled to climb on the chair and put his head through the noose in the rope. Of course, Pro wasn't going to play by the books.

Doing a little hop, Pro grabbed the noose of the rope with his hands, and with a simple tug using his strength, Pro ripped the roof off the roof along with a chunk of the ceiling!

Screeeee! An invisible entity seemed to scream in pain. Pro then noticed a dehydrated corpse materializing next to him, with the corpse's head in the noose of the rope.

When Pro saw the head in the noose, he felt as if the evil spirit was just ready made for to take along! So, Pro simply grab the other end of the rope and pulled the evil spirit with him.

Dashing out of the room while dragging an evil spirit like a cart, Pro took a glance and saw four spirits who tried to leave their rooms while screeching at him.

From apartment 555, there was obese corpse, with purple veins all over, who was trying to stuff itself out the doorway. However, it seemed that it need to go on a diet as it was struggling to get out, and could only howl at Pro through the doorway.

Coming out of apartment 554 was an wrinkly old lady's head ... with a very long neck. Imagine the cutie, iconic teacher from a certain little nightmare. Of course, the pile of sh*t below it had no effect on it as its neck slowly slithered over in the air.

Apartment 551's evil spirit wasn't so lucky. It was a tall corpse with extremely long legs, but no arms. Unfortunately, when it tried to step out of the room, it stepped into a pile of sh*t. The tall spirit blankly stared at the ceiling while doubting life as it slipped and fell to the ground over and over again.

As for the security guard of this floor, it turned out to be a familiar butcher with a knife. With a glance, Pro was able to recall that it looked similar to the butcher who tried to escape to his floor when that big tentacle invaded. Due to the re-spawning characteristic of the security room, it seemed that the unlucky fella may be treated as an infinite food source for a certain tentacle. Maybe due to its poor luck, now it is eating sh*t on the ground.

Seeing his only pursuer being the long neck evil spirit, Pro didn't even bother to fight back as he dragged his prize towards the nearby door. Opening the door, Pro dragged the struggling evil spirit through the door as he cheekily waved good bye to the head, "Ciao~ If you want to teach me a lesson, I dare you to come in. I will teach you what a real nightmare is."

Bam. The door was slammed shut. Seeing that the head actually retreating back into the apartment room as if it has lost its target just because he left the detection area, Pro then silently glanced down at the evil spirit that was now playing dead.

Evil Spirit: I already committed suicide. Please don't mind me.

Of course, Pro didn't let the suicidal spirit go. His claws came down under the evil spirit's horrified gaze. While the evil spirit screeched in pain, it was diced into pieces along with its rope.

Not surprisingly, Pro had to watch a boring cut-scene once more. Voices that seemed to be cursing the man echoed as the scene turned into a room with a dangling rope.

"If he has debt, he should go off to pay it himself. Why must he drag us down with him? Now so many of us have fallen for the scheme!"

"So what if you once helped us, you are a useless bum now, go die already."

"This is the last time I will call you husband. Let's divorce. I don't want the debtors to come knocking on the door to my house."

Then, Pro watched a man silently step onto the chair, put his head through the noose, and kicked the chair away. The body swayed around in the air with the rope as the scene faded away.

"A man who has lost all his wealth and fell into heavy debt due to falling into a pyramid scheme. He finally hung himself to escape because he can't bear the pointing fingers of his family. Weak!" Pro mocked, "So what if you have debt. Declaring bankruptcy is a thing, and you can still struggle to come back. It's never too late to try, giving up is the worst thing you could do."

It didn't take long for the remnants to be absorbed by his domain.

[Host has eliminated an intruder in your domain. Domain is now absorbing the remains of the intruder ...]

[Absorption completed. Intruder was determined to be a Lower-Level Baleful Spirit. System Library updated with new info.]

[After absorbing a powerful spirit and its possession object, host gains 620 life points.]

"Ehhh ... I guess it's still a low-level baleful spirit huh? I thought it would be stronger since this floor's lingering spirits were stronger," Pro complained.

Glancing at the fifth floor door, Pro smirked as he stretched his fingers, "That's one down. Now let's hunt some more. The one in apartment 555 can't get out, so I can leave it for last. Let's go hunt the little nightmare first."

Stepping back into the hallway, Pro glanced at Mr. Long legs who was still slipping and falling in the pile of dung. It didn't even know how to crawl out of it, and there was no arm to help it out.

As for the butcher who ate sh*t, it had already shut the door to its room just like apartment 554 and 555.

"Seriously, aren't yall too laid back? Did you not expect me to come back or something? I'm certainly not satisfied after one sacrifice," Pro grinned as he silently jogged over to apartment 554.

Seeing his return, Mr. Long Legs began to screech in panic. Hearing his warning, the doors began to creak open again. Standing near the door to apartment 554, Pro waited for the door to open. As soon as he saw the head pouncing out of the door and snapping towards him as if wanting to eat him, Pro fired yin needles at it.

A couple of needles pierced the head, causing it to screech in pain, but it continued its trajectory with mouth wide open. Pro sneered as he easily side-stepped the straight forward attack. Seeing the long neck laid out in front of him, Pro did not hold back his urge to chop away.

"I chop! Chop! Chop!"

Like a machine, Pro swung his claws up and down, slicing the long neck like sushi. Loud screeches echoed in the hallway as the head tumbled to the ground while crying in pain. The obese evil spirit in apartment 555 also struggled to squeeze out of its room while howling.

Pro then watched the head on the ground shrivel up as if all the vitality was sucked out of it. The remaining part of the neck retreated back into the apartment as the door slammed shut. It seemed that Mrs. Long neck has given up the fight.

However, a pig-like teammate still fiercely charged forward like an idiot. The unlucky butcher somehow avoided the cow dung on the ground and managed to leave the security room. After the short fight with the head, it had already charged up at Pro while angrily raising the butcher knife over its head.

Firing a couple of yin needles, Pro chuckled as he backed off bit by bit. Letting the butcher follow him, Pro led the butcher all the way to the door to the stairway. The not so bright butcher followed along while being turned into a porcupine.

When Pro stopped to open the door, the butcher actually threw the butcher knife in his hands at Pro. Pro opened his eyes wide in shock at the ranged attack.

Puff. Pro watched as the butcher knife left a faint cut on his chest before bouncing off and falling to the ground. Blinking his eyes, Pro silently stared back at the butcher who had now awkwardly frozen in place.

The butcher's eyes nervously flickered around as bloody trails leaked from the knife inserted in its head like sweat rolling down a face. In its mind, it was screaming for help as it realized it was a pig waiting to be butchered!

The butcher swiftly turned around and intended to run away, but how could its speed match Pro. Pro easily dashed up to it and gripped its shoulder tightly, "Where do you think you are going? My domain is waiting to welcome you as a guest!"

The butcher struggled as it reached its rapidly ran forward, but with Pro holding his shoulder, he could only run in place. With a shove, Pro sent the butcher falling face first into the ground. Ignoring its struggle, Pro dragged the butcher by the legs and pulled him through the door to the stairway.

The door to the stairway slowly creaked close. Not long after, the frightened screams of pain came from behind the door as if a pig was being butchered. It didn't take long for the squeals to end.

Pro then watched the short animation of a criminal butchering other tenants all over in the outside world, but finally ended up being butchered himself when he caught the attention of a certain black robed elder. Feeling it was unfair, he easily became an evil spirit.

Not feeling any sympathy, Pro watched the bloody stains on his clothes being absorbed by his domain.

[Host has eliminated an intruder in your domain. Domain is now absorbing the remains of the intruder ...]

[Absorption completed. Intruder was determined to be a Lower-Level Baleful Spirit. System Library updated with new info.]

[After absorbing a powerful spirit, host gains 480 life points.]

"The points are a bit lower, but it's not bad in general. After all, if my guess is correct, this butcher should be a re-spawning mob farm," Pro muttered as he quickly skimmed through the memories of the butcher.

"Yep, it seems that it will keep re-spawning until the butcher is killed as many times as the number of people who he has killed. This is a fairly op life saving ability, but too bad the butcher himself seemed to be added here just to be the food for stronger spirits."

After glancing at his total points of 2680 points, Pro felt it was the easiest points he had earned so far.

"The efficiency is so high. I knew it was a good idea to take this stairway as my next expansion!"

Pro happily chuckled to himself before he pushed opened the door to the fifth floor once more. He stared at the remaining baleful spirits on the floor with greedy eyes while licking his lips.

"Noobs, the Pro is here! Get your booties ready because you're all mine!"