Step one: change the living room light bulb. Step two: replace all the broken light bulbs in the entire house.  

Step three: clean the living room.  

Step four: balcony, bedroom, boss’s bathroom.  

Step five: make lunch.  

The Old Man in Room 301 thought that the vast majority of people in this world would barely get past step two.  

After all, I don’t even know you—we’re just neighbors who recently met.  

Helping you change a light bulb is already going above and beyond. You want me to help clean your living room too?  

Besides, under normal circumstances, who would dare ask a newly acquainted neighbor to clean for them?  

That was how the people he met before usually behaved.  

The most extreme one had endured to step three—he cleaned the living room for the old man but refused to clean anywhere else.  

Then he was killed by the old man.  

But this guy in front of him?  

He actually followed through with every single step!!!  

Especially when facing the bathroom that even professional cleaners didn’t want to touch.  

This guy actually insisted on cleaning it?! And he cleaned it so thoroughly?!  

The Old Man in Room 301 had never met such a troublesome opponent before.  

To be honest, preparing lunch was already the last step he had planned.  

And yet Jiang Ran managed to get through it all!!!  

The old man was stunned, not knowing what he should make Jiang Ran do next to get him to refuse.  

Of course, the old man could have asked for something completely impossible, like making Jiang Ran eat his own excrement.  

No matter how patient Jiang Ran was, he wouldn’t do that!  

But such an outrageous request didn’t fit with the old man’s killing rules.  

His killing rules never required something so despicable.  

Even though he wanted to kill the other person, he had some boundaries.  

Soon, plates of fragrant, home-cooked dishes were placed on the table.  

After Jiang Ran served the food, he untied his apron around his waist and smiled at the Old Man in Room 301:  

“Sir, I hope my cooking suits your taste.”  

The old man stared blankly at the table full of dishes with perfect color, aroma, and taste, saying nothing.  

Jiang Ran ignored him and then said, “Sir, if you ever need anything in the future, you can come find me. You can also ask the manager, Xiao Zhang. He seems pretty good too.”  

“Well then, if there’s nothing else, I’ll be going now, sir.”  

Jiang Ran grabbed more than a dozen bags of garbage and headed to the door, only to find it locked from the inside.  

Just as he was about to call back, he realized the old man had silently appeared behind him like a ghost.  

“Sir…”  

Jiang Ran wanted the old man to unlock the door, but the old man seemed to anticipate this, pulling out a key and unlocking it for him.  

“Goodbye, sir!”  

The door opened, and Jiang Ran said his final farewell before leaving.  

The old man stared blankly at Jiang Ran’s departing back, wanting to say something but ultimately staying silent.  

Jiang Ran muttered as he left, “Looks like this system is completely useless, totally malfunctioning. There’s nothing dangerous here, just a poor lonely old man!”  

When entering the apartment building area,  

the system had issued alerts like [Dangerous area detected, move away quickly, points +5].  

But after entering, he met the security guard.  

In Jiang Ran’s mind, the system again prompted, [Dangerous person detected, move away quickly, points +3, something like +3].  

Then he met the manager Xiao Zhang, and again the system warned: [Dangerous person detected, move away quickly, points steadily +4 or something].  

Finally, when the old man knocked on the door and Jiang Ran opened it, the system announced: [Dangerous person detected, move away quickly, points steadily +5 or something].  

The result?  

It was proven the system was completely useless and totally wrong.  

Which of these three so-called dangerous people was truly dangerous?  

The kind and responsible security guard, the manager Xiao Zhang,  

and a pitiful old man whose children ignored him and who had a troublesome granddaughter.  

Which one posed a real threat to Jiang Ran?  

Therefore, when the system initially gave its warnings, he had completely ignored them as nonsense.  

“Thinking of you three hundred sixty-five nights a year.”  

At this moment, Jiang Ran hummed a tune, saying, “Helping others feels so good!”  

Carrying a huge pile of trash bags, he went downstairs to throw out the garbage.  

Jiang Ran felt great about doing a good deed.  

But a whole lot of people were upset.  

First and foremost, the Old Man in Room 301.  

Now sitting at the dining table, he hadn’t moved his chopsticks even once.  

He was lost in thought.  

He couldn’t figure out whether his recent encounter with that young man was a dream.  

Was there really such a patient and kind-hearted person in this world?  

“Looks like I set too few tasks, too simple.”  

The old man thought to himself.  

He looked down at his calloused hands and clenched them tightly.  

This time the guy got away; his hands itched badly.  

In the live stream room,  

the audience was exploding with shock.  

Those who had witnessed the entire process felt as if they had seen a ghost.  

Fairy Sister: “Wow! So strong!!! Jiang Ran actually accidentally dodged the old man’s killing rules!”  

Little Dragon Girl: “Right! This is the first time anyone has escaped the old man’s grasp! Who said Jiang Ran, this newbie, is useless? He’s amazing!!!”  

The live stream was filled with amazement. Everyone had thought Jiang Ran would die at the hands of the Old Man in Room 301, but he escaped unscathed!  

It was a miracle!  

After all, Jiang Ran was different from the others. He was tricked into this and didn’t know anything at all—a total rookie.  

And yet, he was fine!!!  

But after the astonishment came doubt.  

Middle-aged Uncle: “WTF, WTF, WTF, this kid Jiang Ran—is he really the newbie the organizers said he was? Or is he a planted actor arranged by the organizers to scam us? Who in their right mind would patiently do so much for a neighbor they just met? Especially that bathroom—I swear I could smell the stink through the screen!”  

Domineering Female CEO: “Although I like Jiang Ran’s looks, I have to agree with Middle-aged Uncle. If he’s not a plant by the organizers, I really can’t believe anyone would help a newly acquainted neighbor with so many things! I’ve traveled widely and seen a lot, but I’ve never even heard of such a nice person!!!!”  

Middle-aged Uncle: “Exactly, I seriously suspect this is a setup by the organizers!!! Damn it! Refund my money!!!!”  

Middle-aged Uncle and others felt something fishy was going on.  

Jiang Ran must be a plant!  

But someone immediately spoke up to oppose this.  

I am the Hero: “Uncle and CEO, don’t be so absolute. Are you sure there isn’t really such a patient and kind-hearted person in the world? The world is vast and full of wonders. No matter how much you’ve seen, how many people have you met or heard of in your lifetime? Setting that aside, before we started watching the ‘Better to Have Distant Relatives than Close Neighbors’ game, could you have imagined that someone or some force would be so twisted and powerful as to put a bunch of deranged criminals and killers into one apartment, have them live quietly, and then release newbies inside with a live stream? Do you really think the organizers would be short of money or greedy enough to scam us for a little cash?”  

After I am the Hero’s statement, the live stream room fell silent.  

There were currently 150,000 people in the live stream.  

Unlike the live rooms accessible to ordinary people outside,  

those who could access the live stream inside this Black Software were not ordinary people.  

Among these 150,000, any one person placed outside would be a wealthy figure admired by the common folk.  

But even these wealthy people, including the ultra-rich,  

had no ability to gather so many deranged killers to create such a real-life reality show livestream game...