Non-Human Seeking Re-employment

No matter what the world is like, three meals a day cannot be interrupted.

As the night approached, only the supper stalls were still lively.

The boss has a big belly, holding a large amount of mutton skewers and grilling them on the charcoal fire. Every time he flips them, it will bring up a puff of smoke. The smell of mutton mixed with fireworks is full of human flavor.

Shen Dongqing picked up a bunch of mutton skewers, the mutton was fat and thin, not too greasy, with just the right smell of mutton, which made people sigh after eating it.

"Delicious!"

This is a street food that cannot be compared with hotel chefs.

Shen Dongqing threw down a bamboo stick, poured another full glass of beer, and poured it down cold, directly refreshing the whole body.

At this time, no one was frowning, and everyone was drinking beer and eating skewers happily.

Only the woman with glasses sat silently at the corner of the table. After all, she was an ordinary person. After being frightened several times, she couldn't eat or drink peacefully at all.

She lowered her head and didn't attract the attention of others.

After eating supper, it was already close to twelve o'clock, and the school dormitory had already turned off the lights and closed the door, so I could only make do with the night in the small hotel outside.

There are no other hotels near the school, and there are quite a lot of small hotels of all kinds. The group of people picked a hotel at random and walked in.

The little girl at the front desk heard a door being pushed open, looked up, and saw three men and two women walking in.

Fortunately, the little girl at the front desk was well-informed, so she sighed in her heart that the lineup configuration was too strange, and said with a smile, "How many rooms do you want?"

Wu Jia lingered over his teammate: "Three rooms."

Shen Dongqing and Zhou Wenyan must live together, the remaining girl with glasses was scared enough, and the short-haired girl lived in a room with her so that she could take care of her, and he was the only one left alone, what a pity.

But the girl with glasses didn't seem to understand Wu Jia's kindness, so she stood up and said, "I have a room by myself."

The short-haired woman raised her eyes and glanced at the woman with glasses, but said nothing.

The little girl at the front desk went through the check-in procedures in a hurry, took out four room cards and put them on the table, and said sweetly: "Have a nice stay!"

The small hotel has a total of 3 floors, which are converted from self-built houses. It is old and the facilities are outdated. There are unknown yellow stains on the walls.

Going up the narrow stairs, you can still hear the voices of lovers who can't help themselves.

Open the door and go in. The decoration inside is simple, a small bed, and it is full of the smell of disinfectant.

Shen Dongqing was tired all day, and she wasn't picky, so she slumped on the bed as soon as she kicked her shoes.It was Zhou Wenyan who pulled him up, helped him undress and wash his face, and then lay down after tossing for a while.

The single bed was narrow, and two adult men were lying on it, almost sticking together. Fortunately, the air conditioner was on and it was not too hot.

Shen Dongqing turned around, leaned against Zhou Wenyan's chest, and yawned.

Zhou Wenyan patted him on the back and said, "Go to sleep."

Shen Dongqing fell into a deep sleep.

Nothing supernatural happened at night, he slept soundly, and didn't get up until the sun was up.

Zhou Wenyan woke up early, sitting on the edge of the bed, still looking at the sign he got before.

Shen Dongqing lifted the quilt and sat up, put her arm on Zhou Wenyan's shoulder, and leaned over: "What are you thinking?"

Zhou Wenyan rarely frowned: "I have no clue."

Shen Dongqing pressed her cheek against her and comforted her: "It's okay, take your time."

Zhou Wenyan let out a "hmm", and immediately hugged Shen Dongqing to his full arms. After hugging for a while, he returned to normal.

The two went downstairs after washing up. Wu Jia and the short-haired girl were already waiting in the hall.

The short-haired girl's complexion is not very good: "The glasses are gone."

The girl with glasses didn't live in the same room as the short-haired girl last night, but when she woke up in the morning, the short-haired girl went to look for her, but there was no one in the room.

Wu Jia guessed: "Did you encounter a ghost?"

The short-haired woman said: "According to what happened last night, the ghosts in this world are very low-level. Even the woman with glasses can persist until she calls for help, unless..."

Wu Jia picked up her words: "The spirit has been upgraded."

If the supernatural event can be upgraded, it is more in line with the ability of an S-level copy.

At this time, the little girl at the front desk interjected: "Are you talking about the little sister who came with you last night?"

Short-haired woman: "Yes, the one with glasses."

The little girl at the front desk said: "She checked out early in the morning and said she was in a rush to go to class, so you didn't ask earlier."

"Impossible!" the short-haired woman blurted out.

After knowing that he is a player, how could he go back to class?

The little girl at the front desk: "What is impossible? Did you two have a fight?"

The short-haired girl reluctantly said, "Okay, thank you."

Wu Jia said, "I think we can find someone first."

The behavior of the woman with glasses is too weird, maybe something will be discovered.

A group of people walked out of the hotel.

At first, I thought it would take a lot of effort to find the woman with glasses, but I didn't expect to see the woman with glasses in a jewelry store not long after I left.

She was talking and laughing with a group of classmates in the jewelry store, and she couldn't see that she was still trembling with the ghosts last night.

"It doesn't look right," Wu Jia said.

The short-haired girl pushed open the door and walked in, walked towards the glasses girl, and pulled her out of the crowd forcefully.

The woman with glasses reacted fiercely, as if she didn't know the short-haired woman at all, and exclaimed, "What are you doing!"

Her classmates also rushed over and surrounded the short-haired girl.

The short-haired girl gritted her teeth: "What's the matter with you?"

The eyes of the woman with glasses flickered: "What? It's obvious that you held me for no reason, why do you still ask me what's going on?"

The short-haired woman put her hands firmly: "What are you pretending to be?"

The girl with glasses yelled: "It hurts so much, let me go!"

Her classmate shouted: "If you don't let go, we will call the police!"

The short-haired girl had no choice but to let go of her hand in order not to cause trouble.

The woman with glasses rubbed her wrist: "I don't know you at all, let's go."

Her classmate glared at the short-haired girl and followed the glasses girl.

Before leaving the jewelry store, the girl with glasses turned around suddenly, and said silently to Shen Dongqing, "Thank you."

Thank you for saving me last night, but I really can't hold on anymore.

The figure of the woman with glasses gradually disappeared into the crowd.

The short-haired girl swears: "What's going on here?"

The puzzle was not solved, but the teammates did not have to hurry up one by one.

Shen Dongqing said, "She gave up."

The short-haired girl looked over.

Shen Dongqing shrugged: "I don't want to play games anymore."

After all, the girl with glasses is a new player. In the face of death, she would rather take the initiative to integrate into this game copy and become a member of it. At least this way she won't be threatened by ghosts anymore.

Zhou Wenyan was silent for a moment, and said, "Everyone here is a player."

No wonder no one was able to leave the S-level copy before this, it turned out to be like this.

These players insisted on going through one copy after another in order to return to the original world, but now here, they only need to give up to get an ordinary life.

Even if this "common" is false.

Giving up is the easiest.

Those who are not determined are the easiest to be tempted.

The short-haired girl was also lost in thought.

Thinking differently, how long can she last in such a contrast between a hideous ghost and a safe and ordinary life?

Wu Jia also wanted to understand the horror of this S-level dungeon.

In this world, there are no scary ghosts that can be seen everywhere, but slowly wear down the fighting spirit of the players, making them willing to become experimental products.

Wu Jia sighed, "It's too scary."

Having experienced those horrifying and terrifying worlds before, and suddenly came to such an environment, who can bear it?

The short-haired girl shook her head, suppressed all her emotions, and said coldly, "We should think about how to solve the problem now."

Zhou Wenyan played with those signs: "There must be an exit to leave here."

The short-haired girl's eyes fell on Zhou Wenyan's hands: "Could it be that these signs are the keys to open the door?"

Zhou Wenyan shook his head.

When he and Shen Dongqing went to the outskirts of the city before, they also carried these signs, but they still couldn't go out.

These signs may be useful, but they are not necessarily keys.

Zhou Wenyan: "Go back to school and have a look."

They didn't find any clues in Teacher Chen's office last night, and they might meet Teacher Chen during the day.

A group of people returned to school, bumped into a few familiar faces on the road.

Those former players don't remember anything, they look like native NPCs in the dungeon.

Wu Jia sighed: "Perhaps this is also a good ending."

Much better than dying at the hands of ghosts.

They came to the teaching building again. The door that was violently opened last night was still there tremblingly. It seemed that Teacher Chen hadn't come back.

Wu Jia stopped a teacher and asked, "Where did Teacher Chen go? He asked me to get a copy of the materials."

The teacher who was stopped was a little dazed: "Mr. Chen? Which Mr. Chen?"

Wu Jia pointed to the half-open office and said, "This is the office."

The teacher suddenly realized: "Oh...you remember wrongly, Mr. Shen in this office, there is no teacher surnamed Chen in our school."

Wu Jia thanked him, then took out his mobile phone to check, and sure enough, there was no teacher surnamed Chen among the teachers in the department.

But he clearly remembered such a person.

The office door was pushed open.

The skeleton specimens that were originally placed inside disappeared, and the lesson plans placed on the table were signed with the name of "Teacher Shen".

If they hadn't actually come to this office last night and got a business card, they would have wondered if Mr. Chen didn't exist at all.

Wu Jia: "The clue is broken."

Teacher Chen disappeared completely, leaving no trace behind.

When the clues are broken, they can only find another way.

The four of them have no choice for the time being, they can only think about going around the school, splitting up, and casting nets all over the place to see if there are any clues.But no clues were found, but a lot of ghosts were caught.

The ghosts completely ignored the students next to them, and only ran towards the players.

Wave after wave, without even a chance to breathe.

The spells in Wu Jia's hands were almost used up, and the short-haired girl was also in a panic. Zhou Wenyan and Shen Dongqing were the only two who were enjoying themselves, and they didn't look like they had been surrounded by ghosts at all.

The short-haired girl asked, "Did you not encounter any ghosts?"

Shen Dongqing: "I met you." He looked disgusted, "There is no one who can fight."

Short-haired girl: ...

People really can't compare.

After calming down, the short-haired woman said, "We didn't find many useful clues."

It was too late to even deal with the ghosts, so how could there be time to find clues?

Wu Jia: "Me too."

There were too many ghosts. At the beginning, they would still pick up the signs dropped by the ghosts, but later on, it was too late to even escape, and there was no time to pick up the loot.

Wu Jia wiped the cold sweat off his face, smiled wryly and said, "If it happens again, I'm afraid I won't be able to stand it."

Only Shen Dongqing and Zhou Wenyan felt okay.

It may be that a group of ghosts have just arrived, and now there is a gap period, players have a short time to exchange information.

The short-haired woman said, "I just met a player."

That player has completely transformed into a creature in the dungeon, and he doesn't know the short-haired girl at all.

But this is not the point, the point is that this player was clearly dead before, but now he appeared here alive.

The short-haired girl paused: "I tried it, it's a human, not a ghost."

The player came back from the dead.

However, this kind of situation is not uncommon in dungeons, and it can barely be regarded as a clue.

Wu Jia said, "I saw the school badge."

He took out his phone and opened the photo album.

A picture appeared on the screen of the mobile phone. It was a round school badge, surrounded by strange patterns, surrounded by an eye in the middle, with pupils as thick as ink, as if looking at people outside the screen.

The short-haired girl speculated: "Is this a school run by a life science research company?"

They were discussing over there, while Shen Dongqing sat on the side with a sad face.

Zhou Wenyan noticed it and asked, "What's wrong?"

Shen Dongqing pinched the card and said, "The props are useless."

The weather was quite hot, and he wanted to eat ice cream, but there was no response.

Zhou Wenyan took the card, but there was no response.

Wu Jia said, "No, our spells are all useful..."

Zhou Wenyan didn't look up: "It's different."

The functions of ice cream cards and kitchen cards are similar to traveling through space to obtain things from other worlds, and they are not the same kind of props as those spells.

Zhou Wenyan vaguely caught something, and he wasn't in a hurry, so he gave Shen Dongqing a banknote first: "Go and buy milk tea."

Shen Dongqing took the money and ran to buy milk tea.

Everyone else was thinking about how to solve the problem, but he was fine, with a heartless face, and he was still chewing pearls seriously after buying milk tea.

Halfway through drinking, a shadow suddenly cast in front of Shen Dongqing. He looked up and found two little girls standing beside him.

The two little girls were dressed in cool clothes, suspenders and hot pants, with sweet smiles on their faces: "Add a WeChat?"

It was the first time Shen Dongqing was approached, she didn't know how to react, she blinked blankly, causing the two girls to cover their mouths and laugh.

If Shen Dongqing had to face the ghosts directly, it would be no problem for him to fight a group by himself, but now he was at a loss when facing these two little girls, so he could only ask Zhou Wenyan for help.

Zhou Wenyan wrapped his arms around Shen Dongqing's shoulders, and rejected their request: "No WeChat."

The two little girls seemed to understand something, smiled at each other, said "Excuse me", and turned to leave.

Shen Dongqing suddenly let out an "ah".

Zhou Wenyan followed his gaze and found a tattoo on the shoulder blades of the two girls. The tattoo was only the size of a palm, and it was a string of numbers.

They are "0321" and "0343", which look a little chic.

Wu Jia understood, and hurriedly stopped them, and asked, "The tattoos on your bodies are quite unique, where did you get them? I want to get one done too."

The two little girls smiled and said, "Your approach to flirtation is too old-fashioned. Where do we have any tattoos?"

Wu Jia glanced over the shoulders of the two of them: "It's on your shoulders."

The little girl turned her head and looked: "This, this is the symbol of our city, everyone has it, and you must have it too."

Another little girl echoed: "Yes, if there is no sign, you will be kicked out."

After speaking, the two little girls left.

Signs, signs again.

The ghost has a sign, and so do the inhabitants of the city.

Zhou Wenyan said: "Ghosts and players are both experimental products. Ghosts have signs, and players must have them too."

And the most important point is that once the ghost loses the sign, it will disappear, so what about the player losing the sign?

The short-haired girl hit the nail on the head: "It may also be death."

There are two possibilities, one is that the ghosts leave the "proving ground" after losing the symbol, and the other is that the ghosts drop the symbol after they die.

What if it is the latter?

Zhou Wenyan: "Try it and you'll know."

Ignoring the strange gaze from the front desk waiter, the four of them only opened one room.

Wu Jia pinched the room card, and after a beep, the door opened.

After four people entered, the room was packed to the brim.

The short-haired girl objected to Zhou Wenyan's proposal. The reason for her objection was: "The risk is too great. Who knows if it will be wiped out directly after losing the logo."

Zhou Wenyan sat on the sofa, put his foot on the other leg, and said casually, "I'll try mine, you can do whatever you want."

The short-haired girl's words were blocked in her mouth.

The risk is all resisted by others, and she can't say anything more.

Zhou Wenyan raised his hand: "Please avoid it."

The short-haired girl froze for a moment: "Huh?"

Wu Jia turned around knowingly.

Only then did the short-haired girl understand, and turned around in exactly the same way.

Zhou Wenyan unbuttoned his shirt neatly, and he could see a line of words across his shoulder blades.

0431.

Shen Dongqing stretched out her hand to touch it, and found that the word number was not written on it, but stuck on it like some kind of tattoo sticker.

Without hesitation, Zhou Wenyan tore off the tattoo sticker.

Although this tattoo sticker was pasted on, it was integrated into the flesh and blood, and when it was torn off, it was like a piece of flesh was torn off alive.

A bead of sweat slipped from Zhou Wenyan's forehead.

He stopped dawdling and simply pulled it off.

tear-

"0431" fell to the ground, and Zhou Wenyan on the sofa disappeared.

Shen Dongqing's eyes widened.

Such a big person, just this, so disappeared? !

When Wu Jia heard the movement, he quickly turned around and was also dumbfounded: "Where is the boss?"

Shen Dongqing: "I'll go find him."

He did what he said, followed suit, and tore off the label on his body.

In the white light, I remembered a conversation.

Their voices seemed to be separated by a barrier, which was indistinct.

"I've never seen such an ability."

"Change the object of study."

"Transfer '0432' to the laboratory."

In a plain and cold room, the sound of "didi" is constantly ringing. If you look inside through the translucent window, you will find that there are nutrition cabins one by one inside, and you can't see the edge at a glance.

There is a person lying in each nutrition cabin, old and young, men and women, they all have their eyes closed, as if in a sweet dreamland, very peaceful.

click-

After going through a series of verification procedures, a person in a white coat and a mask walked in, picked out one of the nutrition cabins, and pressed the button.

After a beep, the nutrition cabin opened, and mechanical arms stretched out from each of the ceilings, dragging a woman out of it.

Probably because the sun hasn't been shining for too long, the woman's face is as white as paper, her limbs are shriveled, and she is easily held in the hand by the mechanical arm.

The woman was unaware of this, and was still silent in a false dream.

The white coats came and went in a hurry, and only took away one test product.

The laboratory fell into silence again, only the camera on the ceiling was constantly rotating, faithfully monitoring this batch of experimental products.

everything is normal.

The red light on the camera flickered for a while, but what it didn't know was that a wisp of black mist quietly spread up, covering the camera and covering up all abnormalities.

boom--

There was a muffled sound in one of the nutrition cabins, and then the entire lid was lifted. Zhou Wenyan sat up from it, wiped off the pale green nutrient solution on his face, and looked around.

He stood up from the nutrition cabin, and his first reaction was to look for Shen Dongqing.

It's just that the whole laboratory looked over, but still couldn't find Shen Dongqing.

People are not here.

Zhou Wenyan could only do the next best thing, and first opened the nutrition cabins of Wu Jia and the short-haired girl, and rescued the two of them.

Wu Jia said: Thank you boss for remembering me.

The short-haired girl came out of the nutrition cabin, and looked down at the one next to her. The one lying inside was the girl with glasses. She was smiling and seemed to like her current life very much.

The short-haired girl hesitated for a moment, and directly pressed the button to open the nutrition cabin of the girl with glasses.

"Wake up—"

The girl with glasses didn't respond.

The short-haired woman tried twice but failed, so she had to give up and put back the nutrition cabin.

"So the previous world was fake." The short-haired girl murmured.

When she couldn't resist the ghost, she also thought about giving up, but she didn't expect everything to be false.

If those players knew this truth, would they still make the same choice?

Maybe it will.

The short-haired girl asked: "We are now..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Wenyan opened the door and walked out.

Wu Jia shrugged, "Find the boss first."

Outside the laboratory is a long corridor, very modern, with a camera every few steps, 360° without dead ends.

As soon as Zhou Wenyan appeared in the camera's field of view, they began to glow red.

[Warning, warning——]

The sound stopped abruptly.

Zhou Wenyan's fingertips were wrapped in a wisp of black mist, and he directly unscrewed the camera.

The camera hanging in the corridor fell to the ground like rain, and fell to pieces.

Zhou Wenyan stepped on one of the wreckage of the camera, made a toothache sound, and continued to walk forward.The incandescent lamp on the ceiling shone on Zhou Wenyan's side face, making his profile look even colder.

Wu Jia shrank his head: "Boss is getting serious."