Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"So? Why did you send a corpse here?! Don't you know that only living things are valuable?!"

"Minister, let's put it in the laboratory first and wait until the deputy minister comes back to take a look."

"What did you say? Am I the boss or is he?! If I say it's useless, it's useless! Get rid of it quickly and don't leave it here to stink!"

"Minister, we have a lot of vacant laboratories. It's not impossible to just pick one..."

"Are you deaf?! Get out of my laboratory with this useless corpse!!"

"Minister, I..."

"roll!!!"

"boom!"

A cup was thrown to the ground, making some noise, and the tea inside spilled all over the floor.

The two researchers hunched their necks, pushed the medical cart carrying the corpse, and quickly left the laboratory.

"Bang!"

The door of the laboratory behind was slammed shut, almost hitting one of the researchers on the head.

"Why is he like this?!"

"A minister who was parachuted in. I heard that he is not even a researcher. He came here because he heard that he could make money and applied for a transfer."

"Is there no one at the head office to supervise him? Just let him run wild here? Isn't this holding back the research department?!"

"Keep your voice down!"

One of the researchers turned his head and found that no one was paying attention to them. He lowered his voice and continued to communicate with his companions.

"I heard that the person behind him is a senior executive of the head office, who is also a guy who just sits in his position and does nothing. Although he is a waste, for some reason, that person has great power in the head office, so he can directly appoint personnel changes at the ministerial level."

"Then the Research Department is doomed?"

"That's not the case. In fact, all the major work is handled by the deputy minister. He is a good person and is very responsible in his work."

"Then why don't we just listen to the deputy minister? Why do we have to go to that parachuted minister and suffer?"

"Isn't it because the deputy minister has no one behind him? So ordinary researchers like you and me should just follow orders and don't take sides randomly."

"If this company keeps doing this, it will fail sooner or later!"

"Who said it wasn't? It's already rotten a lot now, alas..."

The two researchers pushed the medical cart carrying the corpse to the medical waste recycling center. It was already late. At the entrance of the recycling area, they met several recycling workers who were about to get off work. They were turning off the lights in the corridor.

After handing the cart to them and saying sorry, the two researchers quietly cursed the parachuted minister and left. Although it was already late, they still had a lot of work to do.

"That minister who turned into a spirit with a rag really knows how to pick the time. He has to give the task after get off work. Why doesn't he die?"

"Keep your voice down! Don't let anyone hear you! Do you know if there are any of his people around?"

"That's right! Since that guy came, not only has no money been made, but the scientific research progress has also fallen behind. How can we let such a loser be the minister!"

"Hurry up and work! Otherwise, that guy will assign you another task later!"

"You guys go off work first, I'll go."

"Can you do it alone?"

"It's just a dead body, that's all."

"Then we'll leave the light on for you."

"No, just shut it down normally, or those guys from the Ministry of Electricity will come after you and start gossiping about it."

"Then let's go. If there's anything... just put it aside and talk about it at work tomorrow. Bye!"

"Ah."

A man wearing a full-body protective mask took the medical cart from his companion and pushed it towards the depths of the recycling center, which had become pitch dark because the lights were turned off.

"He's such a good man, how did he end up working as a recycler?"

"There was a power struggle up there, and I chose the wrong side. If it weren't for that new minister, Garcia would have been the chief researcher by now."

"When big people are in trouble, we little people always suffer."

"They will get their comeuppance sooner or later!"

"Do you still believe this?"

The remaining few recycling workers turned off the last lights in the corridor, changed out of their work clothes, and left the building through a side door with tired steps, leaving their shift.

“Squeak… squeak…”

Garcia pushed the medical cart with the body on it, walking slowly in the dark passage. The friction sound of the wheels of the medical cart was the only sound in the passage. The medical cart had reached the point where it needed to be replaced, but according to the order of the new minister, all the equipment would not be replaced as long as it was still usable. These old equipment were also one of the reasons why the research department had not made any real progress recently.

The current research direction that the Research Department focuses on is in vivo experiments, so a large amount of medical waste will appear every once in a while. In order to deal with these as quickly as possible, there may still be some medical waste from failed experiments left over. A lot of expansion was done here a few days ago. This is also the only expensive project after the new director took office. Of course, the order to expand was directly issued by the company's top management, otherwise the people in the Engineering Department would not be able to get a penny from the new director of the Research Department.

"Drip."

Garcia swiped the ID card hanging around his neck and started the freight elevator. As the freight elevator began to descend, Garcia seemed to be tired and sat down on the medical cart.

"Ding."

Not long after, the freight elevator arrived at the area where medical waste was officially processed. Originally, every piece of medical waste had to be registered and then processed. However, due to the large amount of medical waste, missing records were very common and almost no one checked.

Garcia is usually a very responsible person, but today's workload is very heavy, and Garcia really doesn't want to go back to the archive room and start the computer used for recording.

"It shouldn't be a problem if I miss a note once in a while."

Pushing the medical cart, Garcia came to a large room. Inside the room were several rows of large incinerators that were specifically used to handle medical waste.

There is only a very small amount of medical waste that cannot be incinerated, but those things are handled by other special people, and the body on the cart does not seem to be anything special.

“Beep.”

At the terminal next to the door of the room, Garcia used her ID card to turn on the energy device of the incinerator. Garcia only needed one incinerator. After a series of operations, Garcia successfully started the incinerator closest to her. However, the reactor core of the incinerator needed to be charged for a while before it could work normally. After all, in order to save some trouble, Garcia used the electricity from backup energy.

Pushing the medical cart in front of the incinerator, Garcia sat on the cart, looking at the meter of the incinerator's reaction core, waiting for the incinerator to start.

Holding her face in her hands, Garcia thought about the changes in her life. Just a few weeks ago, she was the most likely to become the chief researcher. However, just because she opposed the appointment of the useless minister, she suddenly became a basic employee who recycled medical waste every day.

Although the recycling staff's position in the research department is not low, and their salary is even much higher, they are not very popular in the research department. After all, who knows what is on the medical waste, maybe it is a highly contagious virus with no antidote. This is also one of the reasons why the recycling staff's salary is high.

However, Garcia, who was devoted to research, still felt a little aggrieved. Standing on the wrong side was just a superficial excuse. There were actually other reasons for Garcia's current situation.

Unlike the popular impression of a researcher who is devoted to research and even has little hair, Garcia is a beautiful woman with outstanding appearance and excellent figure. The real reason why she has fallen into this situation is that she rejected the pursuit of the new minister, resisted the new minister's sexual harassment, and slapped him. But no one knows these things.

Garcia attaches great importance to research and rarely leaves the Science and Technology Department. Even when he takes a break, he just returns to the dormitory of the Science and Technology Department. Since the Science and Technology Department is a very important department, the security personnel here are directly under the company headquarters, and the people behind the new minister have no authority to manage them. Therefore, the new minister has no chance to take action and can only use this method to disgust Garcia. As long as Garcia does not agree to him, he will have to stay in the recycling center.

However, Garcia did not show anything unusual in front of others. At least he was still in the Research Department. As long as he endured some days in the recycling center and waited for the waste minister to be transferred, he might be able to resume his original position.

Of course, it would be better if that useless minister could die suddenly someday.

"But can that guy really be transferred away... Alas..."

Garcia took off his protective mask and gloves, as well as a watch-like personal terminal, threw them on the medical cart, and randomly grabbed two handfuls of his short hair to make it a little tidier.

"Error, insufficient backup energy."

A prompt came from the terminal next to him. Garcia sighed again, stood up from the medical cart, and prepared to use the terminal to activate the main energy source.

“Crack… snap… squeak…”

Garcia, who had just stood up and hadn't taken a step yet, suddenly heard a sound. Although as a scientific researcher, she didn't believe in those weird things, there was no other light source or lighting here except the incinerator in front of her and the terminal next to it. Plus, it was originally very quiet here, which still made Garcia a little nervous.

After standing there for a while and hearing no other sound, Garcia breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm probably too tired and hallucinating. I should finish my work quickly and go back to have a good sleep."

“Ka-la-la…ka-ka…ka-ka…”

However, just as Garcia took a step, he heard the strange voice again. This time Garcia was sure that he was not hallucinating. There was indeed a voice around him, and it sounded very close to Garcia. Garcia turned around, lowered his head, and his eyes instinctively looked towards the medical cart.

“Crack…Crack…Crack…”

"!"

Garcia was not mistaken, the sound came from the medical cart in front of him. Garcia froze in place. Either he encountered an accident or he really saw a ghost. Neither of those situations was a good thing.

“Click… click.”

As the last sound was heard, the medical cart fell into silence again. After waiting for a while, no more sound came from the medical cart.

Garcia retreated to the terminal by the wall, looking back at the medical cart from time to time, and entered the password to start the main power source on the terminal. Whether it was because of nervousness or shock, cold sweat broke out on Garcia's forehead and palms.

"wrong password."

"wrong password."

Garcia entered the password twice and failed both times, but Garcia clearly entered the correct password and did not remember it wrong because of nervousness.

Thinking of something, Garcia glanced at the time on the terminal. The current time displayed on it was "00:03".

"Damn it! The password has been changed!"

Like most other facilities in the Research Department, the startup password for the recycling center's main energy reactor is a dynamic password that is reset every morning, and the new password is sent to the recycling personnel's personal terminal. However, Garcia's personal terminal is now lying on the medical cart with her protective mask and gloves.

Garcia already wanted to leave, but she still wanted to get her personal terminal back. Although applying for a new one was not a big problem, the lecherous new minister would definitely make things difficult for her, and she must not let him succeed.

Garcia slowly approached the medical cart and stretched out his hand to try to take back his personal terminal. However, because the space was very dark and the screen of his personal terminal was not lit, Garcia accidentally touched the corpse on the medical cart.

The warm feeling scared Garcia and she shrank her hand a little, but she quickly comforted herself and calmed down.

"It's okay Garcia... It's just a body... It's just a body..."

Garcia was a little nervous. He stretched out his hand and slowly groped on the medical cart. Finally, he found his personal terminal on the open palm of the corpse. The terminal was lit up, and the interface on it was not the one Garcia remembered last time.

"Strange, I remember the last interface I saw was not this one..."

But Garcia didn't think about it for the time being. Things started to get a little wrong here. Garcia just wanted to leave here quickly and deal with it tomorrow morning.

"tread."

Just as Garcia turned around and was about to reach the door, she clearly heard a sound. She was almost sure that it was the sound of someone's bare feet stepping on the ground.

The sound was not very loud, but it was clearly not the right sound to appear here. Garcia froze in place as if frozen. He slowly turned his head and looked towards the location of the medical cart.

Turning around, Garcia was relieved to find that there was nothing unusual with the medical cart. However, a small abnormality immediately followed, which attracted Garcia's attention.

The bag containing the corpse on the medical cart had become much thinner and although it was very dark here, the outline of the object could still be slightly seen.

Garcia didn't want to stay here for a moment, so he quickly quickened his pace and wanted to leave.

"Buzz~Hiss~"

The metal gate at the entrance was slowly closing. I guess the security department thought that everyone in the recycling center had left, so they were preparing to close the metal gate.

Garcia took a few quick steps and left the room where the incinerator was located, with the metal gate behind him half closed.

“Beep.”

"There is insufficient energy and the freight elevator cannot be used."

“Damn it…”

Having wasted some time before, Garcia had no choice but to take the stairs to leave the recycling center and the core area. She was lucky that the metal gate of the stairwell was not lowered, probably because the security staff were lazy.

When I reached the ground floor, the metal gate of the recycling center's entrance had not yet completely closed. If I walked faster, I should be able to get out in time.

Garcia quickened his pace and soon arrived at the last gate. He was lucky as one-third of the gate was still not closed, so he could still get out, but he needed to crawl over it.

"Crack! Bang!"

"Oh!"

Just when half of Garcia's body had climbed over the gate, the gate malfunctioned and suddenly fell down. Garcia screamed, and had no time to climb out. Although the metal gate made a muffled sound, he was not cut in half. However, the heavy metal gate did hit something.

But this was not a bad thing. Garcia took a breath and prepared to continue crawling forward, but something grabbed her ankle and pulled her back before she could react.

"boom."

The metal gate lost its obstruction and closed smoothly, cutting off all contact with the outside.