Most viewers in the live stream room had somewhat adapted to the situation where people who should have received death sentences were now living in Alice Apartment. After all, the power behind Black Software was unfathomable. Pulling death row inmates out was basically standard procedure for them.

Middle-aged Uncle continued: [Back then, I remember having afternoon tea with his company boss, and we talked about Wang Tao. His boss said he never expected Wang Tao to be that kind of person - what a shame! Despite being a murderer, Wang Tao's professional skills were unquestionable!]

Fairy Sister replied: [Really? A top performer! In that case, we're in for a good show. Wang Tao's fourth murder was because of noisy upstairs neighbors. Isn't this situation identical now? Let's see how a highly educated criminal commits his crimes!]

804 Room.

9:00 PM.

Wang Tao had just finished watching "It" and, since it was still early, decided to watch another horror thriller. Say what you will, but foreign horror movies were genuinely thrilling and enjoyable.

Just as he started browsing for another suitable horror film, the all-too-familiar noise came from the ceiling again. Wang Tao was truly exasperated. These college students had promised not to make noise, yet here they were breaking their word again so soon.

"People's manners these days are truly terrible," Wang Tao muttered as he decided to go upstairs and confront them again.

At 904, loud knocking sounded at the door.

"Don't anyone else answer it! I'll get it - I'll give that downstairs neighbor a piece of my mind!" The same female student from before angrily opened the door, ready to unleash a torrent of abuse, only to find it wasn't the downstairs neighbor but her finally arrived food delivery.

"Hello, your delivery," said a simple-looking, honest-faced middle-aged man in purple delivery uniform from an app called Lightning Delivery.

Though it wasn't the downstairs neighbor, the female student still frowned as she took the food: "Hey, do you know you're late? I ordered at 8 PM and it's already past 9! You're over an hour late! My family bucket of fried chicken is completely cold now!" She opened the packaging and touched the paper bucket containing various fried chicken pieces while complaining.

"There's no way around it - I'm definitely giving you a bad rating!"

The middle-aged deliveryman, already apologetic for being late, began pleading desperately upon hearing about the bad rating: "Please don't give me a bad rating! I didn't mean to be late - something came up on the road. I know I messed up and I'm really sorry, but you can always reheat the chicken in the microwave..."

The female student's already frowning face turned icy upon hearing this: "Still making excuses? It's your fault for being late - take responsibility! And you're a whole hour late!!!" With that, she took out her phone to give the poor deliveryman a bad rating.

At this moment, the tall male student called from the couch: "Enough, stop bothering with the delivery guy! Come eat hot pot! That stuff can be reheated anyway!"

Ignoring him, the female student proceeded to give the bad rating on her phone, then threw the humble, honest-looking deliveryman one last contemptuous glare before turning away.

"Hmm? Why is there a deliveryman here?" Wang Tao had also arrived at 904's door. As he reached it, he passed by the purple-uniformed Lightning Delivery worker.

The female student, having just finished submitting her bad rating, was about to close the door when she spotted Wang Tao arriving. "Who are you?" she asked.

Wang Tao shifted his gaze from the deliveryman to the female student and said: "I live downstairs. Are you guys going to keep making noise endlessly? This is already my third time coming up here!"

Hearing this, the female student thought to herself that he'd come asking for it, and said loudly: "We're not doing it on purpose! With so many of us, some noise is inevitable! And it's just tonight that's a bit rowdy - it's not like this happens every night! Can't you just deal with it?!"

"Besides, you should know you're not living in a villa! If you want complete quiet all the time, go live in a villa then!" Before Wang Tao could respond, she slammed the door shut with a bang, leaving him standing outside in stunned silence.

Inside the apartment, the female student returned to the couch and said proudly to the others: "Let me tell you, with people like this, you can't be nice. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile - coming up here again and again. So annoying! You have to be direct like I was to solve the problem once and for all." As she spoke, she stole a glance at Xiao Hua, who was sitting farthest from her, and saw Xiao Hua giving her a slight nod of approval.

Outside the door, Wang Tao stood completely still for about ten seconds before finally moving again. Staring at the 904 doorplate, a flash of ruthlessness and violence appeared in his eyes.

He remembered something the man who brought him to Alice Apartment had said: You can do anything you want here - it's a world of complete freedom.

But what if what he wanted to do... was the same thing he'd already done four times before?

......

Because Xiao Nuo's group had stayed up too late eating hot pot and playing Werewolf the night before, they all ended up sleeping at Xiao Nuo's place. There weren't enough beds, so many had to sleep on the floor - fortunately it was almost summer, so with just a thin quilt underneath, it wasn't too uncomfortable.

The next morning around 9 AM, the students began gradually waking up, and it wasn't until past 11 AM that everyone was finally awake. Upon waking, they all felt groggy and disoriented, like they'd lost their souls.

After a long period of recovery, by noon they had all regained their energy. Once fully awake, they each ordered delivery food. While waiting for their food, they occupied themselves with phones, TV, or casual conversation.

"Hey, what are you looking for?" Xiao Peng, Xiao Nuo's crush, noticed the tallest male student in their group - the same one who had first answered the door when the downstairs neighbor came knocking yesterday - anxiously moving from bathroom to bedroom to balcony, clearly searching for something.

"I'm looking for Xiao Ju! Wang Ju! I just realized Wang Ju is missing!" The tall male student frowned as he returned from the balcony to the living room.

Hearing this, the group looked at each other and realized they indeed hadn't seen Wang Ju since waking up. Wang Ju was the female student who had yelled at both the Lightning Delivery worker and Wang Tao the day before.

"Try calling her. Maybe she woke up earlier and already left," someone suggested.

The tall male student took out his phone and called Wang Ju, but no one answered. He tried messaging her on WeChat, but still got no response.

"No reply, and she's not answering her phone."

"Hmm... maybe she's busy right now and not looking at her phone. Hey, wait - why are you so concerned about Wang Ju anyway? Do you like her? How come you're the only one who noticed she's missing?" Xiao Peng suddenly asked with a teasing smile.