Chapter 177 – 1992-2020
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The subway was no longer available and other public transportation may not be safe. Fortunately, the company was not too far from the apartment so the two quickened their pace and finally arrived at the company before 8:30.
When he got to the personnel department, Xu RenDong was already covered in sweat. The HR asked him to sit in the reception room for a while and she asked the department head to come over.
RenDong and Lian Qiao sat in the reception room, analyzing what happened just now.
“I thought you would be safe without teammates.” Lian Qiao shook his head and smiled, “It seems that I was thinking too simply.”
Xu RenDong smiled wryly. In the scene in the subway just now, it was obvious that the dungeon attacked him.
He has never encountered such a thing. Why was the dungeon targeting him so much this time? Not only did it blatantly publicize his birth and death years as clues but even arranged the whole scene to murder him after all his teammates died.
When he goes to work in the company, something will definitely happen. But the dungeon has already cut off their retreat—they can’t go home without the apartment key and they can’t squat on the stairs for four days, right?
“I don’t know if the key will be returned…” Xu RenDong sighed.
“I guess it will come back. If the instance doesn’t want you to go home, then it won’t give you a key for nothing.” Lian Qiao said, “But it’s hard to say. This time the instance is too strange.”
Xu RenDong said nothing . For clues, they can only wait and see what happens.
Soon, the HR and the department head entered the reception room together. The HR asked Lian Qiao to go outside and wait for a while. RenDong was worried that Lian Qiao would not agree but Lian Qiao got up and left very quickly.
The department head who came to see him was his first boss in the outside world. He was a middle-aged man full of the vicissitudes of life. This old boss was mediocre, in a state of eating and waiting to die. So in the real world, it didn’t take long for him to be replaced by a new female colleague. That female colleague was also Xu RenDong’s immediate boss and who he spent the longest time together with.
In short, Xu RenDong is not familiar with Director Li and they have no relationship at all.
After quickly signing the contract, Director Li proposed to take him to the department to meet other colleagues. The HR also no longer accompanied him, saying that he would go back to the personnel department.
When Xu RenDong walked outside the reception room. Lian Qiao put down the magazine in his hand and got up to greet him.
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RenDong was about to ask him what he was going to do when Lian Qiao came over and said in a low voice: “I found out that your company is looking for a cleaner. I will go to an interview in a while.”
RenDong was helpless: “Why are you a cleaner again? You haven’t cleaned enough floors?”
Lian Qiao was stunned: “Huh?”
RenDong reminded him: “When I was studying, didn’t you also volunteer to be a cleaner in the school…”
Lian Qiao was stunned for three seconds and finally reacted belatedly: “Oh, oh, yes.” Then he pursed his lips, “Then what else can I do? If I want to stay by your side, I can only be a hidden sweeping monk. “
Secretly hidden…
Xu RenDong inexplicably remembered the note that Shi JianChuan had stuck in the amulet back then. It says “Lian Qiao hides secrets. Be on guard against him”.
RenDong smiled and shook his head, pushing that strange thought out of his mind: “Okay. You hurry up. I’ll check the situation in the office first.” “
“Okay. You have to be careful.”
“You too.”
For the convenience of contact, Xu RenDong gave Lian Qiao his mobile phone and told him his office number.
Director Li brought RenDong to the department. In fact, there is no need for him to lead the way because RenDong is too familiar with this place.
This is where he worked for four years. Although the layout of the department four years ago was not the same as it is now, the basic structure is still similar. In the open office area, six desks are placed facing each other. There was a personal computer on each desk and five of the desks were occupied by people working at their desks, except for one seat by the window.
This is also the position where Xu RenDong sat for four years. Just standing here, he could imagine sitting in that position and looking back at the scene outside the window.
Manager Li introduced him to everyone. Five colleagues stood up to welcome him one after another and then went back to the intense work again. These five people are all veterans. They were already veteran employees when he just graduated and they were promoted or changed jobs one after another. Xu RenDong didn’t have a deep impression of them, so much so that he couldn’t even remember their names.
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Fortunately they were not familiar. Xu RenDong sat in his seat, thinking calmly: If they want to kill me, I can kill them back without any psychological barriers.
Soon, Director Li also assigned work to Xu RenDong. This is his first day at work, so naturally he won’t arrange anything particularly urgent for him. So Xu RenDong finished it quickly but he was not in a hurry to hand it over to the leader, but observed the surroundings calmly.
All five colleagues are hard at work, regardless of what he is doing. Director Li has an independent office with the shutters drawn, so it’s unknown what he was doing.
Xu RenDong stood up holding the teacup, pretending to pour water and passed by everyone’s desks. Everyone was clattering and writing reports, their expressions focused and they still ignored him. Xu RenDong feels that these colleagues have no intention of hurting him for the time being, but he still cannot relax their vigilance.
By going to the bathroom, he went to confirm the location of the escape route and the fire exit—it was impossible for him to bring the equipment to work, it was too conspicuous. Since the scene this time requires him to live according to the real world, he will naturally not be allowed to do something out of line.
While it’s okay to store gear in the locker room, it’s always a good idea to identify a safe escape route just to be on the safe side.
When he roughly finished detecting the environment of the building and returned to the office area, he met Director Li’s searching eyes.
“Hey, Xu RenDong, I’m looking for you.” Director Li beckoned him over.
RenDong saw Lian Qiao standing behind Director Li and couldn’t help being surprised. On the other hand, Lian Qiao had a smug smile of “praise me quickly”, as if he had done something very remarkable.
RenDong walked over inexplicably, and Director Li said: “This is our new intern, surnamed Lian Qiao. You should take him with you during this time.”
Xu RenDong: “…?” He opened his eyes wide and asked subconsciously, “Me? I take him? But I didn’t just…”
Director Li patted him on the shoulder with a smile: “You have been here for half a year! Don’t be humble. When it comes to your ability, everyone can see it!”
Half a year?
Xu RenDong raised his watch and took a look. Sure enough, the hour hand pointed to twelve o’clock.
A day is a year. He went out to catch a fish and when he came back, he became an old employee with half a year’s seniority. There was nothing wrong with this.
But what’s going on with Lian Qiao, wasn’t he going to be a sweeping monk? How did he become an intern?
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Xu RenDong pulled Lian Qiao to the printer room next door and asked in a low voice, “How did you get in here?”
“I saw that you were recruiting interns.” Lian Qiao said with a smile, “I told your HR that I don’t want a salary. Just put a stamp on my internship certificate so that I can cope with school.”
“She can promise you this?” Xu RenDong was suspicious. He remembered that the HR was not such an easy to talk to person.
“Isn’t it because I’m smart?” Lian Qiao smiled proudly, “I just asked her: Do you know who my father is?”
“What did she say?”
“I didn’t give her time to think and question me. I directly threw the thing in her face and walked out while pretending to be on the phone. What else could she do, of course she chased me and begged me to sign a contract with her.”
“…” Xu RenDong was shocked, “There is still this kind of operation?”
Lian Qiao shrugged: “The NPCs in the dungeon have their own rules of behavior. In this dungeon, the whole world revolves around you. So I think, if I want to stay by your side, the dungeon will not allow it .”
Xu RenDong thought it made sense. This is like in the instance of the Nine Linked Rings where their status was set as “guests” so the maids in the tulou obeyed them. Even if they were asked to help fetch the ring, they were very obedient.
However, this time “the whole world revolves around you” is not a good thing for him.
After all, the killing intent of the whole world is also gathered on him.
Xu RenDong still wanted to speak but suddenly he heard a rustling sound behind him.
RenDong turned her head and saw the printer in the corner of the room start up by itself. A green fluorescent light flashed and sheets of paper were spit out from the paper outlet. It was unknown what was printed on the paper, it was all black.
RenDong subconsciously took out a knife from his pocket. Lian Qiao had already walked towards the printer and picked up a piece of paper nonchalantly.
“What did you print?” RenDong also walked over and took the piece of paper from him.
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However, upon seeing it, he was shocked.
He saw a head printed on the A4 paper.
That man’s head was bald, bleeding from his seven orifices and he died without peace. It was actually a monk who was poisoned to death by him!
Xu RenDong felt cold all over in an instant. He held the paper and froze in place. Lian Qiao lifted the printer cover with a bang and the green light slowly swept across the ceiling, but the scanning area was empty.
No wonder. After all, there is no room for a human head in the scanning area.
Xu RenDong recovered from the shock and heaved a long sigh.
“The monk… has he become a ghost too?”
Lian Qiao snatched the paper from him, crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the trash can.
Seeing him bowing his head in silence, RenDong felt an abnormal low pressure from his body and was about to speak to comfort him. Then he heard Lian Qiao ask: “Why would he become a ghost?”
RenDong: “Didn’t it happen before? A person killed by a ghost will become the ghost that killed him…” Having said that, a strange thought suddenly flashed in his mind. That’s right, people who are killed by ghosts will also become ghosts, then—why didn’t Little Apple become a ghost?
Before RenDong had time to think about it, Lian Qiao uttered shocking words.
“Being killed by a ghost means they turn into a ghost, so shouldn’t the ones killed by me be transformed into a human?”
Xu RenDong: “…???”
There seems to be some truth in saying this?
He was dumbfounded for a moment, not knowing what to say. His attention was completely diverted by Lian Qiao’s astonishing words and he couldn’t remember what he was thinking before.
Chapter 177 – 1992-2020
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The subway was no longer available and other public transportation may not be safe. Fortunately, the company was not too far from the apartment so the two quickened their pace and finally arrived at the company before 8:30.
When he got to the personnel department, Xu RenDong was already covered in sweat. The HR asked him to sit in the reception room for a while and she asked the department head to come over.
RenDong and Lian Qiao sat in the reception room, analyzing what happened just now.
“I thought you would be safe without teammates.” Lian Qiao shook his head and smiled, “It seems that I was thinking too simply.”
Xu RenDong smiled wryly. In the scene in the subway just now, it was obvious that the dungeon attacked him.
He has never encountered such a thing. Why was the dungeon targeting him so much this time? Not only did it blatantly publicize his birth and death years as clues but even arranged the whole scene to murder him after all his teammates died.
When he goes to work in the company, something will definitely happen. But the dungeon has already cut off their retreat—they can’t go home without the apartment key and they can’t squat on the stairs for four days, right?
“I don’t know if the key will be returned…” Xu RenDong sighed.
“I guess it will come back. If the instance doesn’t want you to go home, then it won’t give you a key for nothing.” Lian Qiao said, “But it’s hard to say. This time the instance is too strange.”
Xu RenDong said nothing . For clues, they can only wait and see what happens.
Soon, the HR and the department head entered the reception room together. The HR asked Lian Qiao to go outside and wait for a while. RenDong was worried that Lian Qiao would not agree but Lian Qiao got up and left very quickly.
The department head who came to see him was his first boss in the outside world. He was a middle-aged man full of the vicissitudes of life. This old boss was mediocre, in a state of eating and waiting to die. So in the real world, it didn’t take long for him to be replaced by a new female colleague. That female colleague was also Xu RenDong’s immediate boss and who he spent the longest time together with.
In short, Xu RenDong is not familiar with Director Li and they have no relationship at all.
After quickly signing the contract, Director Li proposed to take him to the department to meet other colleagues. The HR also no longer accompanied him, saying that he would go back to the personnel department.
When Xu RenDong walked outside the reception room. Lian Qiao put down the magazine in his hand and got up to greet him.
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RenDong was about to ask him what he was going to do when Lian Qiao came over and said in a low voice: “I found out that your company is looking for a cleaner. I will go to an interview in a while.”
RenDong was helpless: “Why are you a cleaner again? You haven’t cleaned enough floors?”
Lian Qiao was stunned: “Huh?”
RenDong reminded him: “When I was studying, didn’t you also volunteer to be a cleaner in the school…”
Lian Qiao was stunned for three seconds and finally reacted belatedly: “Oh, oh, yes.” Then he pursed his lips, “Then what else can I do? If I want to stay by your side, I can only be a hidden sweeping monk. “
Secretly hidden…
Xu RenDong inexplicably remembered the note that Shi JianChuan had stuck in the amulet back then. It says “Lian Qiao hides secrets. Be on guard against him”.
RenDong smiled and shook his head, pushing that strange thought out of his mind: “Okay. You hurry up. I’ll check the situation in the office first.” “
“Okay. You have to be careful.”
“You too.”
For the convenience of contact, Xu RenDong gave Lian Qiao his mobile phone and told him his office number.
Director Li brought RenDong to the department. In fact, there is no need for him to lead the way because RenDong is too familiar with this place.
This is where he worked for four years. Although the layout of the department four years ago was not the same as it is now, the basic structure is still similar. In the open office area, six desks are placed facing each other. There was a personal computer on each desk and five of the desks were occupied by people working at their desks, except for one seat by the window.
This is also the position where Xu RenDong sat for four years. Just standing here, he could imagine sitting in that position and looking back at the scene outside the window.
Manager Li introduced him to everyone. Five colleagues stood up to welcome him one after another and then went back to the intense work again. These five people are all veterans. They were already veteran employees when he just graduated and they were promoted or changed jobs one after another. Xu RenDong didn’t have a deep impression of them, so much so that he couldn’t even remember their names.
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Fortunately they were not familiar. Xu RenDong sat in his seat, thinking calmly: If they want to kill me, I can kill them back without any psychological barriers.
Soon, Director Li also assigned work to Xu RenDong. This is his first day at work, so naturally he won’t arrange anything particularly urgent for him. So Xu RenDong finished it quickly but he was not in a hurry to hand it over to the leader, but observed the surroundings calmly.
All five colleagues are hard at work, regardless of what he is doing. Director Li has an independent office with the shutters drawn, so it’s unknown what he was doing.
Xu RenDong stood up holding the teacup, pretending to pour water and passed by everyone’s desks. Everyone was clattering and writing reports, their expressions focused and they still ignored him. Xu RenDong feels that these colleagues have no intention of hurting him for the time being, but he still cannot relax their vigilance.
By going to the bathroom, he went to confirm the location of the escape route and the fire exit—it was impossible for him to bring the equipment to work, it was too conspicuous. Since the scene this time requires him to live according to the real world, he will naturally not be allowed to do something out of line.
While it’s okay to store gear in the locker room, it’s always a good idea to identify a safe escape route just to be on the safe side.
When he roughly finished detecting the environment of the building and returned to the office area, he met Director Li’s searching eyes.
“Hey, Xu RenDong, I’m looking for you.” Director Li beckoned him over.
RenDong saw Lian Qiao standing behind Director Li and couldn’t help being surprised. On the other hand, Lian Qiao had a smug smile of “praise me quickly”, as if he had done something very remarkable.
RenDong walked over inexplicably, and Director Li said: “This is our new intern, surnamed Lian Qiao. You should take him with you during this time.”
Xu RenDong: “…?” He opened his eyes wide and asked subconsciously, “Me? I take him? But I didn’t just…”
Director Li patted him on the shoulder with a smile: “You have been here for half a year! Don’t be humble. When it comes to your ability, everyone can see it!”
Half a year?
Xu RenDong raised his watch and took a look. Sure enough, the hour hand pointed to twelve o’clock.
A day is a year. He went out to catch a fish and when he came back, he became an old employee with half a year’s seniority. There was nothing wrong with this.
But what’s going on with Lian Qiao, wasn’t he going to be a sweeping monk? How did he become an intern?
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Xu RenDong pulled Lian Qiao to the printer room next door and asked in a low voice, “How did you get in here?”
“I saw that you were recruiting interns.” Lian Qiao said with a smile, “I told your HR that I don’t want a salary. Just put a stamp on my internship certificate so that I can cope with school.”
“She can promise you this?” Xu RenDong was suspicious. He remembered that the HR was not such an easy to talk to person.
“Isn’t it because I’m smart?” Lian Qiao smiled proudly, “I just asked her: Do you know who my father is?”
“What did she say?”
“I didn’t give her time to think and question me. I directly threw the thing in her face and walked out while pretending to be on the phone. What else could she do, of course she chased me and begged me to sign a contract with her.”
“…” Xu RenDong was shocked, “There is still this kind of operation?”
Lian Qiao shrugged: “The NPCs in the dungeon have their own rules of behavior. In this dungeon, the whole world revolves around you. So I think, if I want to stay by your side, the dungeon will not allow it .”
Xu RenDong thought it made sense. This is like in the instance of the Nine Linked Rings where their status was set as “guests” so the maids in the tulou obeyed them. Even if they were asked to help fetch the ring, they were very obedient.
However, this time “the whole world revolves around you” is not a good thing for him.
After all, the killing intent of the whole world is also gathered on him.
Xu RenDong still wanted to speak but suddenly he heard a rustling sound behind him.
RenDong turned her head and saw the printer in the corner of the room start up by itself. A green fluorescent light flashed and sheets of paper were spit out from the paper outlet. It was unknown what was printed on the paper, it was all black.
RenDong subconsciously took out a knife from his pocket. Lian Qiao had already walked towards the printer and picked up a piece of paper nonchalantly.
“What did you print?” RenDong also walked over and took the piece of paper from him.
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However, upon seeing it, he was shocked.
He saw a head printed on the A4 paper.
That man’s head was bald, bleeding from his seven orifices and he died without peace. It was actually a monk who was poisoned to death by him!
Xu RenDong felt cold all over in an instant. He held the paper and froze in place. Lian Qiao lifted the printer cover with a bang and the green light slowly swept across the ceiling, but the scanning area was empty.
No wonder. After all, there is no room for a human head in the scanning area.
Xu RenDong recovered from the shock and heaved a long sigh.
“The monk… has he become a ghost too?”
Lian Qiao snatched the paper from him, crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the trash can.
Seeing him bowing his head in silence, RenDong felt an abnormal low pressure from his body and was about to speak to comfort him. Then he heard Lian Qiao ask: “Why would he become a ghost?”
RenDong: “Didn’t it happen before? A person killed by a ghost will become the ghost that killed him…” Having said that, a strange thought suddenly flashed in his mind. That’s right, people who are killed by ghosts will also become ghosts, then—why didn’t Little Apple become a ghost?
Before RenDong had time to think about it, Lian Qiao uttered shocking words.
“Being killed by a ghost means they turn into a ghost, so shouldn’t the ones killed by me be transformed into a human?”
Xu RenDong: “…???”
There seems to be some truth in saying this?
He was dumbfounded for a moment, not knowing what to say. His attention was completely diverted by Lian Qiao’s astonishing words and he couldn’t remember what he was thinking before.
