Chapter 900: Zheng Zihan, Dead

Jin Hai's body was disposed of by Manager Wu Wen.

After fishing it out, he somehow found one of those knitted bags used for storing blankets.

He stuffed Jin Hai's body inside, then tossed it into the large dumpster downstairs, waiting for the Alice Apartment garbage collectors to come pick it up.

Later, the middle-aged uncle and others who had entered the live stream room, after finishing a long day of work and getting ready to watch the broadcast, learned of Jin Hai's death and watched the replay of his final moments.

No one felt much sorrow over Jin Hai's death.

After all, the guy had a crooked heart. But then again, upon deeper reflection, it was because of that strange illness of his, a lifetime of never growing up, never having a complete life.

Of course, wrong is wrong. No matter how many excuses you have, you still did something wrong.

There was still one mystery surrounding Jin Hai.

What was the reason he agreed to sign the agreement?

Every other lab rat signed the agreement for money, that was certain.

But Jin Hai?

Why did Jin Hai?

From the earlier introduction by the long-haired beautiful host.

Jin Hai's family circumstances were supposedly decent.

Although he lived alone, his parents gave him enough money each month to live on.

Of course, definitely not enough to live a life of extravagance and debauchery.

So if that was the case, why did he still want to come to Alice Apartment?

To earn money for treatment? His illness wasn't something that money alone could cure.

Could it be that his daily expenses weren't enough?

Just like ordinary people, who doesn't want to get rich overnight?

But Jin Hai had stayed at Alice Apartment for several days, ten thousand a day, earning tens of thousands by now.

Many people watched his live stream, and no one saw him spending money on much of anything.

His only expense was food delivery.

Many people wanted to know why Jin Hai signed the agreement. They thought they'd find out later.

Who could have guessed he'd die halfway through?

And not even at the hands of Zhang Yao and his partner.

Truly, you never know which comes first, tomorrow or the unexpected.

Therefore, in the dead of night after Jin Hai's death, a team of Cleaners entered Jin Hai's home at Alice Apartment.

They were there to clean up and wrap things up in the house, making it ready for the next resident.

And after the cleaning was done.

They discovered a memory card in Jin Hai's home.

On the memory card were all sorts of videos.

The videos were bizarre and varied, but the vast majority were secretly recorded footage.

He had filmed his family, strangers, public restrooms, and things like that.

Of course, among them was one relatively new video.

It was from before Jin Hai checked into the apartment.

The video content was his confession.

The confession in this video also revealed the reason he came to Alice Apartment.

Jin Hai's reason for coming to Alice Apartment was simple.

It was that he suffered from this illness. Even at 38 years old, many people, including his parents, still treated him like a child.

Not as an adult.

But when the agreement signer found him and had him voluntarily sign the agreement.

Unlike others who looked at his appearance and immediately said, "Get your parents to come,"

this person's expression was very serious, without any of the amusement, mockery, pity, or sympathy that others showed him.

It made him feel like he had received the respect an adult deserved.

That was the reason he signed the agreement.

This confession video was also posted to the live stream room, allowing the middle-aged uncle and others to understand why Jin Hai had come.

After watching the video, the middle-aged uncle and the others were all silent, and their comments were full of mixed emotions about Jin Hai.

The general sentiment was: Don't advise others to be kind without having walked in their shoes.

If you had endured what I endured, you might not be as virtuous as me.

...

Round 33, Day 5, around nine in the morning.

The live stream screen suddenly switched from Alice Apartment back to the studio.

The long-haired beautiful host broke in with a piece of news:

Zheng Zihan was dead.

She had gone out alone, crossing the street to buy milk tea at a shop, when a white car driven by a drunk driver plowed into her, killing her on the spot.

When the long-haired beautiful host said these words, her expression was extremely serious, and her entire body radiated a sense of grief, as if she were truly saddened by Zheng Zihan's death.

But the people watching the live stream, hearing these words and then looking at the long-haired beautiful host's hypocritical reaction.

With a little thought, they knew this was no accident at all, but a premeditated car crash.

This was the price of signing the agreement and leaving Alice Apartment without authorization before seven days were up.

If you don't pay with money, you pay with your life.

Zheng Zihan was still too young, thinking the money was so easy to get.

...

Zheng Zihan was dead. Lin Yu learned of his girlfriend's death, and after receiving the police notification, he went to see his girlfriend's bloody, mangled body that had been sent flying by the car.

His mind completely collapsed.

When his friend died earlier, dead was dead, he was sad for a while. But this time it was his girlfriend.

He felt like the sky was falling.

...

America.

An ancient forest in California.

After Zhou Yan and Li Miguo's convoy drove in here.

They parked all the cars in one spot.

Then, they hiked on foot carrying all sorts of camping supplies.

They set up camp in an open area not far from the cars.

The guys stayed behind to set up camp, while the girls wandered around nearby.

Soon, they came across a house.

The house was about a kilometer away from their campsite.

A lot of wood was piled up outside the house.

It looked like it might be a lumberjack's dwelling.

While these people were still looking at the house, the door happened to open, and out walked a middle-aged white man in his fifties or sixties, with salt-and-pepper hair.

The most distinctive feature of this white man was his bulbous nose, bright red.

The middle-aged white man also noticed Zhou Yan and the others.

He asked them what they were doing here.

Zhou Yan and the others said they were camping and doing some botanical research.

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged white man with the bulbous nose darkened his expression and said to them with a grave, cryptic tone:

"I suggest you leave this place and do your research somewhere else."

Zhou Yan and the others were confused and asked why.

The middle-aged man with the bulbous nose said: "This ancient forest is quite dangerous. Many people who came here to camp and explore before have mysteriously disappeared. So, I think you'd better leave."

Zhou Yan and the others just smiled when they heard this. From the smiles on their faces, it was clear they didn't take it seriously at all.

They were just like the male and female protagonists in so many European and American horror movies.

Just before stepping into a dangerous place, there's always someone who kindly warns them.

But often, these male and female protagonists don't pay any attention.

Seeing that Zhou Yan and the others didn't believe him, the middle-aged white man with the bulbous nose didn't say anything more and went back into his house.

Seeing him go back inside, one of the young black women in Zhou Yan's group laughed out loud.

And said: "If people who came to play here really did mysteriously disappear, how come he hasn't disappeared?"

...

Jiang Ran now works very leisurely at Alice Apartment.

He spends a lot of time every day in the gym.

When he first became assistant manager, he still received messages from residents asking him to come up and help with things.

But he didn't know when it started, but it had been a long time since any resident asked him to come up and handle anything.