Almost There

[Ding! Mysterious object with yin qi detected. Absorbing object ...]

[Host's domain has absorbed a possession object filled with yin qi. Host gains 810 life points.]

The final possession object was absorbed and Pro glanced as his 4620 points in excitement. Linking the third floor door to the fourth floor, Pro easily teleported back to the fourth floor and began to choose apartment rooms for his expansion!

"Although the remaining apartment rooms are normal rooms with no special abilities, I think it is a good idea to complete my expansion for the entire floor. This will increase my battlefield when investigators come to the fourth floor. With more rooms, there is more places to play hide-and-seek."

Pro decided to complete his northern wall expansion first. He strolled over to apartment 442 and assimilated the small bathroom into his domain for 200 points.

"With that, I now have apartments 440, 442, 444, 446, and 448 all fully in my domain! This means that the northern and eastern sections of the floor are all under my control. Well, with the exception of that elevator on the northern wall."

Glancing at the other section of apartment rooms on the other side of the distorted hallway, Pro had a bit of regret for destroying them to this extent. Apartment 441's interior is a complete mess and its door is also dented. Apartment 445 is a bit better, but the bedroom is still damaged from the fight with the floating head. Then, there is apartment 447 and 449 which had scratches all over. Heck, they even have a hole in the wall.

The only fully intact room seems to be apartment 443. Although Pro did not discriminate against rooms with damage, it's still better to have an apartment that is undamaged as he could do a whole lot more with it. Maybe he could rent one of them out to a normal human one day so that he could have a daily visitor to his Toilet Wonderland.

However, this can be left till later. After all, a neighbor may only serve as a hindrance at the moment, especially since Pro can't escape. Plus, Pro already had two normal apartment rooms. So, he wasn't in a hurry to choose apartment 443 that didn't have much functionality.

Glancing at the other rooms, Pro had a bit of difficulty deciding between apartments 441, 445, 447, and 449. To be more precise, he didn't really want any of them. None of them were fully intact, and none of them were special in anyway. However, if Pro wanted to skip over them and expand into another floor, he will have to purchase an entire hallway which is not cost efficient!

After a bit of ruminating, Pro decided to start with apartments 447 and 449 because of the special hole in the wall. Perhaps it may come in handy for dealing with certain invaders. Without much hesitation, Pro spent 2800 points to assimilate apartments 447 and 449 into his domain. This left him with 1620 points.

"Ah ... I'm poor again. I'll have to save the remaining points for sudden invasions. Well, 1620 points is still plenty if I don't prevent evil spirits from coming into my domain. After all, they can only destroy my domain if I don't allow them in. Of course, minor damage will still occur because my domain will automatically block them until I agree to let them in."

Pro wished there was a way to automate this process for the stairway, but the system wasn't so convenient. Of course, he couldn't complain as it was still a golden finger in the end.

"Now, I have control over the northern, eastern, and southern sides of the floor. The only remaining western side only has two more apartment rooms, 441 and 445, that I need to absorb. However, this is enough already."

Pro pulled up the requirements for upgrading to a Top-Level Blood Spirit.

[To upgrade host level, the following requirements must be met.]

[Requirements] Domain size of at least 16 small rooms, 8 medium room, 1 large room, 10000 life points

[Expansion completed. Current host domain size: 15 small rooms, 6 medium room, 2 large room]

"With one of the large rooms counting as 3 medium rooms, I will have 9 medium rooms. Then, I can count one of the medium rooms as 3 small rooms, which brings my number of small rooms up to 18! I have finally met the domain requirements for promotion! I only lack the points now! I'm almost there! Pro, you can do it!"

After cheering himself on, Pro glanced at the time and noticed that there was still some time left. So, he headed off to the stairway and set off to replenish some points. His target was the lonely first floor that he still haven't given love to.

Pro confidently teleported downstairs and swept through the entire first floor like a typhoon. The poor lingering spirits didn't stand a chance against his rampage, and Pro easily retreated with his loot. Pro was like an army of bandits looting a weak helpless village.

Of course, the village didn't have much loot in the first place. Even though Pro searched the entire floor thoroughly, he did not find a single baleful spirit. Pro was disappointed, but he was still happy that he managed to milk 210 points total. If it weren't because some of the rooms were empty, he would have gotten more. For once, Pro felt that there was not enough evil spirits to harvest.

"I wonder how that elder would feel when he comes and realize that a fourth of his spirit farm has disappeared. Of course, I hope I will be long gone by then."

Chucking to himself, Pro returned to the fourth floor to prepare for another day of visitors. Like always there are service industry personnel, and the occasional male who is willing to get get cat-fished. Even so, there wasn't much to harvest besides a measly 120 points.

Glancing at the 10k point requirement for a level-up, Pro plopped down in his chair in exasperation, "This won't do. At this rate, who knows how long it would take to gather 10 thousand points. Plus, I still need points for the next level, and it won't be less. I can't just always rely on investigators and BDS members. After my last harvest, I bet the next wave would be a super strong one or none at all."

Sitting in front of the computer, Pro began to brainstorm new ways to earn points. Deep in thought, Pro spun around in circles in the swivel chair while Alice and Ali sat on the bed with their heads cutely following the movement of the chair until they got dizzy. The two cuties then rolled around on the bed as Alice doted on Ali with hugs and kisses.

Pro stopped spinning around as he let this scene warm his heart. Suddenly, his eyes flickered as they landed on a packed, black bag on the ground of the bedroom. It was the bag full of cash that Pro had threw into a corner and forgotten about.

A spark was then lit in Pro's mind as he thoughts clashed rapidly. In the end, he decided to ignore the consequences and put his plan into action.

"I have already attracted plenty of attention by killing those investigators. It doesn't matter anymore if I attract a bit more attention."

Turning his chair back to the laptop, Pro hopped onto a familiar horror story site. This time, he wasn't there to post any horror story, but a pure advertisement to gain attention!

[Title] Haunted House Pays You $1000 to visit?!

We pay you if we can't scare you! A scary haunted house has opened on the fourth floor of the old apartment building at XXX city. You can get up to $1000 just for touring the haunted house! It's not a joke! You can still get $10 minimum even if you end up chickening out!

Haunted House Opening Hours: Noon - 4 AM

Pro chuckled evilly as he cracked his knuckles. He then posted the same ad on multiple horror story sites. Like it wasn't enough, he even went to money making sites and linked his posts.

"Free money ... I believe that most will not be able to resist! Well, the ones who would believe such a 'too good to be true scheme' are the easy to fool ones with weak resistance in the first place."

Of course, Pro was not so evil to lie about the free money. The money still has to be given. After all, he has to keep his reputation in order to gain a steady stream of visitors.

However, the final amount is determined by Pro and whether the money is actually spendable is another problem. After all, the money Pro decided to hand out is the stolen money from a bank. These money probably will eventually be traced and locked onto once they are used.

Using it may bring consequences, but Pro won't care about that. Even if the police trace it back to the apartment, Pro will just treat them as another round of harvest. So what if they are the defenders of justice? As long as they step into his domain, their status has been changed to justice points ... Pro's justice.

"Using an external source to turn stolen money into usable currency ... sounds like whitewashing black money. Am I a pro thug now? Meh."

After posting a wave of online advertisements, Pro got up to prepare the apartment building for visitors. With Alice's help, Pro made a whole stack of signs using the pizza cardboard boxes that he stashed a long time ago. There were arrow-shaped signs for directing visitors, rectangular shaped signs for special notices, and some stand-up signs for warnings.

Pro then brought these signs downstairs to the first floor. He stuck the arrow signs and some special notice signs on the walls with some sticky substance. Don't ask what those sticky substances are, just know they exist.

He also slapped a sign onto the wall near the elevator. Of course, Mr. Elevator is still denying him service even though it didn't matter anymore. So, Pro decided to deny Mr. Elevator of customers. He even put a stand-up sign nearby as a double warning.

After putting these signs up, he also added a name plate and a couple of friendly signs in the stairway. He then broke some of the wooden beds in the third floor bedrooms and used the wood to barricade the stairway pass the fourth floor. He didn't want any visitors to accidentally run upstairs when they are frightened in the stairway.

Although he could keep an eye on all visitors, he might fail to pay attention and a naughty one might go up. Even though Pro didn't care about the life and death of a visitor, but that is only after they are harvested by him. He can't have them getting lost before that.

Pro also found a wooden cabinet in addition to a wooden chair. He then set them up inside the stairway near the first floor door, which will be the entrance and exit to the haunted house. He stashed a couple bundles of cash in the cabinet, enough to pay his customers with.

As for the attractions of the haunted house itself, what makes better attractions than real ghosts?

"Three friendly dolls, a cute lady, security guards to keep them safe, free toilet paper, and even the Pro of horror. Hahaha, I'm sure they will enjoy their time here," Pro chuckled to himself.

Pro just simply ignored the out-of-mix element in the list that didn't seem to belong. Using his horror novels in the system library for reference, Pro then went to instruct his family on how to deal with visitors. With that, the lovely clan of spirits began to practice their roles.

After rehearsing a whole night, Pro finally felt everyone was ready. Although his entourage of spirits were kind of cute and not too scary, they have the intelligence to obey his instructions.

Having some spare time, Pro then checked on the comments to see how far they have fermented.

"Is the above real? A haunted house that pays you to visit it? What kind of sh*tty, money-losing business is this?"

"It's just a sh*tty advertisement scheme! Can't you see the limited time promotion? If this was real, I will eat sh*t!"

"The person upstairs. Is eating sh*t all you can do? You've been saying it for the past couple of posts by the same author. I bet your stomach is full of sh*t just like this post."

"Hey, stop throwing sh*t all over! It's getting stinky in here."

"Yea, get back to the topic. This place pays you to visit. Even if it's fake, it won't hurt as you won't be charged. It probably won't even be scary, just some sh*tty props and sh*tty actors posing as ghosts. It can't be scarier than not being able to sh*t right?"

"You do you. I'll go poo while admiring a cute girl. According to the previous posts, these are the mainstream events there."

Pro rolled his eyes as he sneered, "Say whatever you want, but as long as you come, I will treat you all super well."

Evil laughter echoed in the room as Pro tried to pose as a cliche villain, but Alice and Ali completely ruined this image with their 'evil' superhero poses that were more cute than scary.

"Yeaaa! Get them Master! Alice finally gets to play! Oh, and Ali too!"

Pro smiled as he gave the two cuties a pat of their heads. Glancing at the time, it was almost time for another day of harvest. Pro felt sorry for the visiting service workers, but they will have to take the long way. They will also be the first wave of visitors to his haunted house.

Glancing at the sunlight that slowly brought a golden glow to the bedroom, Pro then went downstairs and sat at the entrance to wait for his customers.

"It is time to play big and make some splashes."