Celestial Employee

Chapter 7: Wordless elevator

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When Zhao Lingjun, Zhang Changsheng and a group of people from the company stepped through the muddy rain and arrived at the downstairs of the company, Zhao Lingjun saw a red Polo and a black Guangben parked in the parking lot downstairs of the company.

"Bah." Zhao Lingjun saw someone spitting bitterly at where the two cars were.

Then Zhao Lingjun saw someone on the wheels of the two cars, patiently wiping off the mud on his shoes.

"This... what are they doing?" Zhao Lingjun asked Zhang Changsheng in a low voice. "This doesn't seem good."

"It's nothing, you will get used to it in the future." Zhang Changsheng said. "These two cars belong to Buck Yazhen and Fatty Zhang. Those people have suffered a lot of losses in the company."

Zhang Changsheng pointed at a young man wearing a short-sleeved shirt and said, "Look at the one who spits on the car. He is in charge of customer relations, his name is Lin Yiren. He was hired by Buck Yazhen to use 1,800 yuan." He was defrauded of a salary of only RMB 1,800. Moreover, his RMB 1,800 was before tax and he did not pay any hardware."

"Look at the guy who wiped mud off Fatty Zhang's Guangben tires. His name is Xiao Ping and he's from the sales department. He was two minutes late and Fatty Zhang snitched on him and deducted his entire month's bonus." Zhang Changsheng clicked again. said a young man in sportswear. "If I hadn't stopped him last time, he would have punctured Fatty Zhang's tires with nails."

"Then if they are so unhappy, why don't they change jobs?" Zhao Lingjun felt that this company was getting more and more weird.

"Job hopping? Hahaha." When he walked into the elevator, a guy walking behind Zhao Lingjun laughed three times sadly and indignantly when he heard Zhao Lingjun ask Zhang Changsheng this question.

Zhao Lingjun looked back and found that the person who laughed three times in grief and anger was Lin Yiren who Zhang Changsheng said was cheated by Hao Meili with a salary of 1,800 yuan before tax.

Lin Yiren's laughter made Zhao Lingjun feel terrified. Zhao Lingjun couldn't help but asked Lin Yiren, "Senior brother, what are you laughing at? Isn't it very easy to change jobs now?"

"Easy? Hahaha." Not only Lin Yiren, but also Xiao Ping, who was wearing an off-brand sportswear next to Lin Yiren, couldn't help laughing three times.

"What's wrong with you? Am I right?" Zhao Lingjun looked at Xiao Ping, who was balding slightly and had an obvious belly. He was short and fat but wearing a pair of off-brand sportswear. I want to laugh but I can’t.

"You will know soon." At this time, everyone in the elevator smiled strangely at Zhao Lingjun.

The weird smiles on everyone's faces made Zhao Lingjun's scalp tingle. Zhao Lingjun recalled a horror movie he had seen a long time ago for no reason. A sidekick in that movie also met a group of people with weird smiles in the elevator. Then after the elevator moved, the elevator went up all the way, but the person saw that the numbers on the elevator were 0, -1, -2 keeps jumping down. In the end, the elevator stopped at -18, which didn't even exist. After the guy waited for the elevator to stop, he walked out fearfully. But as soon as he walked out, the guy fell to his death. It turns out that the elevator stopped in mid-air.

Zhao Lingjun felt chilled all over when he thought of the last guy who fell to a bloody state, and couldn't help but keep staring at the jumping numbers on the elevator.

While looking at the jumping numbers, Zhao Lingjun remembered that Hao Meili took him upstairs yesterday, and he didn't even notice which floor the company was on. It would be really embarrassing if I came alone today and had to make a phone call to ask myself which floor I should go to when I get out of the elevator.

So while Zhao Lingjun looked at the numbers jumping up, he turned his head to see which floor the people in his company were pressing.

But at one glance, Zhao Lingjun almost lost his legs and fainted from fear.

Anyone who has ever taken an elevator knows that after you enter the elevator and press the button representing which floor you want to go to, the button will remain on until you reach the floor you want to go to. .

Although it was only his first day at work, Zhao Lingjun had already ridden in such an elevator many times. Moreover, Zhao Lingjun still has a deep memory of an elevator advertisement, because the slogan of the elevator advertisement is "the pleasure of going up and down, in and out." So of course Zhao Lingjun does not understand this. But now Zhao Lingjun felt no pleasure except the chill all over his body. Because Zhao Lingjun took a quick look and saw that there were no numbers on the lit button.

The button with the eerie red light was as smooth as the white board on a mahjong tile. Could it be that as soon as I came out of that place, all I encountered was...? Zhao Lingjun didn't dare to think about it anymore, nor did he dare to look back at the group of colleagues with weird smiles.

At this moment, the elevator stopped with a chirp. The elevator door opened, and it was dark in front.

"It's true." Zhao Lingjun's heart skipped a beat and almost stopped beating immediately.

"Let's go, what are you doing standing around?"

Zhao Lingjun heard someone behind him say to him.

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"I, Zhao Lingjun, have never done anything harmful to nature in my life, and I am still a CN. Am I really going to die because of this?" Zhao Lingjun looked at the dark corridor outside the elevator and thought with great sadness. Zhao Lingjun thought that when he stepped out this time, he would definitely fall to pieces like the guy in the horror movie. Zhao Lingjun wanted to turn around and shout. "I don't want to, I don't want to go out."

But at this time, Zhao Lingjun felt a strong surge. Zhao Lingjun took a step forward involuntarily.

"What's going on with this little brother? Why are you dazed at the elevator entrance?" When Zhao Lingjun was forced to take a step forward, Zhao Lingjun heard someone behind him say this.

"It seems that my life is over now. They still pushed me down." Zhao Lingjun thought very sadly, and then let out a scream. "Ah~~."

But before Zhao Lingjun finished shouting, he realized that he was not as empty as he imagined.

The feeling under his feet told Zhao Lingjun that there was a solid floor under his feet.

"What's going on? Did they let me go?" Zhao Lingjun turned around in surprise, only to see a group of people behind him, all looking at him like a fool.

Then Zhao Lingjun heard a snap, and the surrounding area suddenly lit up. Zhao Lingjun turned his head and found that Xiao Ping's hand had just taken away from the button on the wall.

"Maybe he's afraid of the dark." Zhao Lingjun heard someone say. "Buck Yazhen and Fatty Zhang are like this every time. After walking over, they turn off the lights at the end of the corridor. Do they have to save even a small amount on the electricity bill? It's so fucked up."

"That's right, it's like this, just install a voice-activated light." Zhang Changsheng also agreed, and then looked at Zhao Lingjun with a half-smile, "Although the corridor is a bit dark on cloudy days, don't react so much."

"I..." Zhao Lingjun originally wanted to say, I thought you were all evil ghosts. But when he thought that saying this would make everyone think that he was crazy, Zhao Lingjun could only say something with shame. "I've been afraid of the dark since I was a kid."

"Oh, then you stand inside from now on." Xiao Ping, who was wearing sportswear, patted Zhao Lingjun on the shoulder and looked at everyone and said. "It's normal to be afraid of the dark. It is said that Andy Lau is also afraid of mice, but you don't have to be afraid. From now on, we will go out and help you turn on the lights."

"Thank you, Brother Xiao." Looking at Xiao Ping's bulging belly, Zhao Lingjun almost felt like crying. However, Zhao Lingjun still thought of a very important question, so Zhao Lingjun asked Xiao Ping. "Which floor is our company on? I didn't pay attention to which number you pressed just now."

"Our company is on the 14th floor." Xiao Ping said.

"Then..." Zhao Lingjun paused before making up his mind. "Then why did I just see that there were no numbers on the lit button?"

"Oh, that's because our boss thought the number 14 was unlucky, so he had it removed on purpose." Xiao Ping said. "So next time you just press the key without the number."

"Then since the boss thinks the number 14th floor is unlucky, then why does he want to rent the 14th floor as our office space?" Zhao Lingjun asked extremely depressed.

"Because the rental price on the 14th floor is the cheapest among all floors." Zhang Changsheng said to Zhao Lingjun.

"..." Zhao Lingjun was speechless again.