Apocalypse: My Apartment Has Traits

Chapter 153: Chapter 136: “Rule” Reward (4k Combined)

The house title deed floated in the air, the silver shine like a waterfall, bathing the entire courtyard in a flowing moonlit realm.

Su Lin held his breath and focused his mind; the blueprint for the safe house renovation he’d long envisioned was crystal clear.

He knew well, the Level 4 Safe House opens up dual paths for offense and defense, with the rule’s intention being to force the defensive power to disperse, increasing pressure.

His second uncle, Su Qi, once said that the door could only open on the side or opposite, an iron-clad law of the “end times rules.”

However, Su Lin had a different idea in mind.

He had previously thought that if the tenant had no other choice, he would recruit some male tenants and, to have private space, he planned to emulate the courtyard layout to upgrade the safe house.

Now, there’s no need to recruit male tenants.

But the courtyard gave him great inspiration.

Courtyards are divided into two-stage, three-stage, even five-stage courtyards.

Su Lin thought about the three-stage courtyard layout.

He intended to build the safe house in the position of the east and west wing rooms.

And for the yards on both sides, he aimed to create two independent mechanism yards as the inevitable flesh and blood grindstone for the Shadow Beast!

Outside the walls of these two yards, it would be where the new portal for the safe house is located.

Better yet, the two yards aren’t dead ends; their insides will connect to the core main yard.

Thus, the Shadow Beast would surge in from the left and right gates, first enduring the baptism of mechanisms in their respective yards, and the remnants will ultimately converge in the spacious main yard, facing the night watcher’s thunderous strike!

This layout has three advantages:

Firstly, both paths of Shadow Beasts must traverse the elongated mechanism yards, increasing the duration and frequency of attacks, maximizing the killing potential of each mechanism;

Secondly, the main yard as the ultimate battlefield, should anything change, personnel can quickly converge without being distracted on both fronts, greatly reducing defensive pressure;

Thirdly, should the safe house upgrade to a higher level in the future, adding a new path, he could replicate this method, opening another yard so that the new path Shadow Beasts also traverse a pre-set kill array, ultimately flowing into the main yard to be slaughtered.

Of course, the core of this idea is that the number of mechanisms must be sufficient to form a continuous death trap.

The Level 4 Safe House only has twelve mechanism slots, not much, slightly weak, but it can lay the foundation for this layout.

Upon upgrading to Level 5 with more mechanism slots, Su Lin could further refine the concept of the mechanism yard kill array, setting up a kind of inside-out structure!

At this moment, he had already devised the construction plan for the Level 5 Safe House in his mind.

With this thought lightning fast, Su Lin hesitated no more, his intention surged like a tide towards the floating house title deed, conveying this new concept.

Buzz—!

The house title deed suddenly soared into the sky, its light blazing, the silver shine swelling like a cold moon falling to the earth.

The pages moved automatically without wind, rustling, as if runes flowed across it, flickering with a lively spirit.

Soon after, a more grand and magnificent tremor emanated from deep within the earth.

This time, the commotion far exceeded any previous upgrade, as if some deity-like presence was personally reshaping the land’s bones and muscles.

The courtyard walls groaned “creak-creak,” as if alive, rumbling and extending towards the east and west, rising higher, with bricks and stones self-disassembling and reshaping under the mighty force of rules, outlining a new boundary.

Beyond the original courtyard, a broader swath of land was delineated and leveled by invisible forces.

The familiar house structure was being stretched, deformed, with its internal structure quietly reconstructed within the silver glow.

Su Tongxi and Song Yiyi were already watching, dumbstruck, their small hands unconsciously gripping Su Lin’s sleeve tightly, feeling the earth’s pulse beneath their feet and the scene beyond comprehension in front of them.

When they saw the second door’s outline on the inner wall of the living room not long ago, in the flowing silver light, rippling, blurring, and finally disappearing, reverting to a smooth wall, Song Yiyi couldn’t help but exclaim.

“Where’s the door?! The second door is gone!”

She rushed forward a few steps, incredulously reaching out to touch that smooth wall, its touch cold and hard, with no trace of a doorway?

“It’s done!”

Su Lin felt ecstatic, the house title deed’s response confirmed that his idea was completely feasible!

The rules aren’t unshakable; you just need to find that “correct” path!

“This way!” He couldn’t hide his excitement, pulling the two girls still stunned, quickly walking to the renovated east side.

“Look!”

A vast new view unfolded.

The original courtyard had vanished, replaced by a brand new, narrow passage surrounded by tall courtyard walls!

Blue bricks paved the ground, a killing aura enveloping it.

Then the three ran to the right side.

The same scenery awaited.

But compared to the left, the inner courtyard gate on the right had a thick, solid iron door, which became the new attack route!

“Oh, my! The door moved here!”

Su Tongxi came to a sudden realization, her little mouth slightly open.

Although one side of the two courtyards had a door, the other had none, appearing strange, but once thought through, she understood how convenient this layout is!

She looked up at Su Lin, her eyes instantly bursting with admiration, her voice trembling slightly with excitement:

“Brother Kirin! You’re amazing! You’ve created a new safe house layout!”

Song Yiyi was even more profoundly shocked, despite having seen much in Lanfeng Town, she’d never heard of such a disruptive layout.

She pointed at the narrow passage, then looked at the symmetrical direction on the other side, suddenly thinking of a possibility, and exclaimed loudly:

“How is this different from exploiting a BUG?! If we simply build all the mechanisms in the middle yard here, wouldn’t it be no different from a single attack route?!”