"Hey?"
There was a sound of electricity on the other end of the phone, followed by a man's hoarse voice: "Hello, Life Science Research Corporation, can I help you?"
Players are a little puzzled.
Aren't all the researchers in the base dead? How come there are still fish that slip through the net
Shen Dongqing: "Uh..."
He directly handed the phone to Zhou Wenyan.
Zhou Wenyan held Shen Dongqing's hand and talked to the person on the other end of the phone.
"We saw the recruitment notice. Is your company still recruiting?"
"Cough cough..." The man said after coughing, "Recruit, what position do you want to apply for?"
Zhou Wenyan: "Researchers."
The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment and replied, "We are not recruiting scientific researchers and logistics now."
Seeing that the person was about to hang up, Zhou Wenyan held the recruitment notice and said, "Then let's apply for volunteers."
"Volunteers... There are still a few vacancies. Come and register."
Zhou Wenyan asked, "Where is the company address?"
"It's written on the back of the recruitment notice. Come here before 5:00 p.m.
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Wenyan turned over the piece of paper, and there was an additional address on the blank back.
Life Science Research Corporation.
Address: Room 401, 4th Floor, No. 144 Hope Street
Wu Jia looked at the road sign next to him: "This is Peach Blossom Road."
This city is so big that there is no one to ask for directions. Finding such a place is almost like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It's almost one o'clock in the afternoon now, and I'm afraid I won't be there before five o'clock.
Zhou Wenyan put away the recruitment notice and walked to the convenience store.
Shen Dongqing followed behind him, picking at the counter, and finally chose a lollipop. Before he could tear open the package, he was stopped by someone.
Zhou Wenyan took the lollipop from his hand with a little helplessness on his face: "It's expired."
Shen Dongqing blinked: "What did you take?"
Zhou Wenyan: "Map."
Map of the city.
Fortunately, there are convenience stores that sell them, otherwise it would take a lot of time to find a place.
Zhou Wenyan unfolded the map on the ground, and a group of people found a small "Hope Road" around the map.
Shen Dongqing pointed to one of them and said, "This place looks familiar."
Zhou Wenyan looked over and found that the shape of the building there was indeed very familiar, similar to the street in the university town in the virtual world before.
"It appears that the virtual world is built on the basis of this city."
He continued to look down, and near the point pointed out by Shen Dongqing, there was a road marked with the words "Hope Road".
"it's here."
Fortunately, I hope the road is not far from here, otherwise I really can't arrive before five o'clock.
I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not, the place where the life science research company is located is exactly the same place where the teaching building of the school in the virtual world is located.
It's just here that the teaching building has become a residential building, and it doesn't look like a company at all from the outside.
Wu Jia: "The leather bag company?"
It doesn't look very formal.
The group walked into the narrow corridor and walked upstairs.
When they reached the fourth floor, a security door stopped them. On the wall beside the door was a simple sign that read "Life Science Research Corporation".
The door is locked.
Wu Jia went up and knocked on the door, but there seemed to be no response inside, so he knocked again.
"It's not even five o'clock..."
At this time, Shen Dongqing walked up and rolled up his sleeves: "I'm coming."
Wu Jia understood that he was going to perform the unique trick of opening the door again, and quickly gave up a position and said, "Take it easy, this is a security door."
Before he could finish speaking, he heard a "bang", and a gap was cracked on the security door.
Shen Dongqing withdrew his hand: "Anti-theft door?"
Wu Jia: When I didn't say it.
Behind the door is an office, which was converted from a living room. It looks a bit messy. There are stacks of documents on the table, and cigarette butts are thrown all over the floor.
Shen Dongqing rubbed the tip of his nose and didn't like the smell very much.
Zhou Wenyan opened the window in the past, and a gust of wind blew the documents. One of them flew in front of him. He caught it and saw some job requirements, such as recruiting a certain number of people every month. volunteers.
The players over there started flipping things with ease.
It's just that I haven't found any useful clues, and there is a sudden sound of footsteps outside.
The players glanced at each other, and they didn't plan to act rashly without knowing whether it was a human or a ghost.
The people outside were not walking fast, and when they saw the security door open, they were stunned for a moment: "I remember it was obviously closed..."
He walked in while talking, closed the door with his backhand, raised his head, and faced the people in the room.
"you… "
Before he could say anything, he tilted his head and fell softly to the ground.
Shen Dongqing withdrew his hand: "It turned out to be a human." The hand quickened a little.
Other players: …
The one who fell to the ground was a suave young man.
He lay down for a while, came over, slowly opened his eyes, and then saw a group of people around him.
"… "
How weak and innocent he seemed.
The young man responded very quickly: "There is no money in the company, you can take whatever you want, don't hit me, don't hit me!"
Zhou Wenyan came out: "We are here to apply."
The young man gave Zhou Wenyan a suspicious look.
Apply for a job? He believed that he was here to rob, his neck was still hurting.
The players smiled kindly.
The young man stood up suspiciously, rubbed his neck, and walked to the desk: "Then fill in your resume first."
Zhou Wenyan clicked on the blank resume and glanced at it casually. There were some common questions on it. He didn't rush to fill it in, but asked first, "Is there any staff member surnamed Chen here?"
The young man was stunned for a moment: "I am, is there any problem?"
Zhou Wenyan took out the business card and put it on the table.
The young man picked it up and took a look: "Yes, it's me."
He pointed to a business card box on the table. The business card inside the box read "Mr. Chen, Sales Manager of Life Science Research Company".
It's the same card that players get.
Finally found a breakthrough.
The young man urged: "Hurry up and fill out your resume, I'm about to get off work."
Zhou Wenyan took out a pen and wrote his name on his resume.
The young man looked at it and muttered, "Why does it look so familiar?"
He turned on the computer, opened a piece of software, tapped the keyboard, then stuck his head out from behind the computer screen and said, "You've already come to apply for a job before, next one."
Wu Jia followed closely and reported his name.
Little Youth: "This has also been reported."
After looking up the names of Shen Dongqing and the short-haired girl, the young man rolled his eyes: "Aren't you here to play with me? All of them are already volunteers in the company, so why are you still applying?"
Wu Jia: "When did it happen?"
The young man pointed to the business card: "You must have made this phone call before. When you are on the phone, I often send some business cards to the city outside. As long as someone calls, they can come over."
Players automatically replaced keywords.
These business cards are the copy tokens, which are given out by the young people. As long as the player makes the above call, those who have contacted the copy tokens will enter the game field.
Wu Jia remembered that before entering the copy, they had indeed made the call on the business card.
What did the guy on the phone say then
Players struggled to recall.
Originally, they had forgotten about it, but now that the young man mentioned it, the fog covering the memory instantly dissipated and became clear.
"Hello, Life Science Research Company, can I help you?"
"Are you here to apply? Only applicants can enter our company."
"What position do we have? Um... What education do you have? The highest undergraduate degree? Then you can only apply for volunteers. Register your name and you will not regret it."
Zhou Wenyan: "What do volunteers do?"
The young man said hesitantly: "Cooperate with the company to do some experiments, don't worry, guarantee good treatment and an annual salary of one million."
Players think of those people lying in the nutrition cabin. What's the use of being well paid? Everyone has finished playing, and there is no chance to use it!
Little Youth: "You guys have already been employed, why don't you know anything?"
Shen Dongqing missed the point again: "What about our salary?"
Little Youth: "I just recruit people, no one has asked me for a salary..."
Yes.
The recruited people have not been able to leave the base, who can come to ask for wages
Zhou Wenyan pulled back the topic: "We are going to resign."
Little Youth: "Our company has no precedent for resigning, which makes it difficult for me to do it..."
Shen Dongqing muttered: "You don't pay wages and don't resign, you guys are illegal."
The young man was silent.
It seems that it is not wrong to say so, but who would reason with the NPCs in the game field
This is too strange.
Shen Dongqing: "So it's normal for us to quit."
Young man: "But..."
When he saw Shen Dongqing's clenched fist, his neck became sore for a while, and he couldn't "but" anymore.
"Okay, okay, I'll go through the resignation procedures for you, but I still need approval from the base, but it doesn't matter to me." The young man quickly found a resignation template on the Internet, printed it out, and distributed it to them. one.
The group signed their names at the end of the resignation letter.
After signing, Wu Jia's lips moved, and he said silently: "The NPCs at the base are all dead..."
How can this be approved
The young man did not know about the tragedy that happened at the base, so he entered his resignation letter into the system.
"just wait."
Not long after the young man finished speaking, he saw that the base had approved the resignation application. He was still in disbelief: "It actually passed?"
The players were a little weird at first, but they remembered later that although all the NPCs in the base had already died, there was still a ghost who was granted the status of the temporary base controller.
It is eager for these evil spirits to leave early, and as soon as it sees this resignation application, it agrees without even thinking about it.
"Okay, then I'll do it for you."
The young man took out his official seal and stamped it on the resignation letter.
Snapped-
A bright red chapter appeared on it.
When the official seal fell, the players in the office heard a voice.
[You have resigned from the life science research company]
[Congratulations, you have successfully cleared the customs, and the settlement is in progress—]
[The score is S, get 5000 points, drop special items [key fragments*2]]
[Due to the loss of most talents in life science research companies, temporarily closed for re-recruitment]
[Players please wait carefully, after the company reorganizes and reopens, it will degenerate into A-level or B-level game copy]
After leaving the game field, Wu Jia still didn't react: "Is this the end?"
Zhou Wenyan asked back, "Go in and play two more laps?"
Wu Jia waved his hands again and again: "Forget it." He lowered his voice and muttered, "This is too simple, and it doesn't look like an S-rank copy at all."
The game almost cried when he heard Wu Jia's words.
Isn't that difficult
The difficulty of Life Science Research Corporation is low-medium in the S-level dungeon, but it also makes all players who enter it planted.
Most players can't get out of the virtual world. They have passed through so many games in fear, and their mental state is not very good. Then suddenly encounter such a safe and stable environment, many people will not want to wake up. , would rather indulge in a false world.
In particular, players who insist on clearing the level will encounter countless ghosts, while players who give up will be very safe. Compared with the two, more people will choose to give up.
Only a tiny fraction of players will be able to wake up from the virtual world, but they will face the entire base of ghosts.
Even in front of the white coat, the white coat can release the "strongest weapon", and he has a lot of potions to enhance his ability, which is enough to destroy the players.
Coincidentally, it happened here that the white coat discovered Shen Dongqing and used it as a novel test product. He used all the precious medicines on him. As a result, he turned around and crushed all the ghosts. Even the "strongest weapon" couldn't last for three seconds.
This reduces the difficulty of the game infinitely.
After figuring out the joints, Wu Jia sighed, "It's better to lie down and win."
Shen Dongqing exclaimed: "Ah!"
After attracting the attention of others, he smiled embarrassedly: "My horns are gone."
After leaving the copy, the strangeness on his body disappeared, the protruding ghost horns shrank back, and the ghost lines on his cheeks were hidden under the skin, and he turned into a white and clean youth again.
Shen Dongqing took the small mirror and looked left and right: "I still like this." It looked like a person.
Zhou Wenyan smiled lowly: "I like everything."
Shen Dongqing put down the small mirror with a snap, made a face at him, and said inarticulately, "I'm very scary—"
Zhou Wenyan directly dragged the person over and rubbed his face well.
Shen Dongqing: "Mmmmm..."
When Zhou Wenyan withdrew his hand, only a faint blush remained on his cheeks.
Wu Jia didn't know when he left, avoiding the scene that made the single person feel heartbroken, and only the two of them were left in the hall.
After being tired for a while, Shen Dongqing took out the reward of this game copy, two key fragments.
"That's too stingy!" he complained.
Zhou Wenyan kissed his cheek reassuringly, and mentioned another thing: "Since we already know the whereabouts of the ghost town, should we wait for the ghost town to open, or go to the dungeon to play twice?"
Shen Dongqing leaned his head on Zhou Wenyan's shoulder, his feet moved restlessly, and said casually, "I have a hunch that when the ghost town opens, we can go in no matter where we are, so we still go. Have fun!"
Zhou Wenyan had no objection, he held down Shen Dongqing's wiggly hand, and said in a long voice, "Okay, let's go to work first."
He directly hugged Shen Dongqing by the waist and walked steadily towards the bedroom.
Originally, Zhou Wenyan was going to do some business first, and then use the black book to pick out a copy token. But before he got to the bedroom door, he heard the sound of the game echoing.
[There is a bug in the B-level dungeon, the dungeon has been opened and cannot be interfered]
[Players Zhou Wenyan and Shen Dongqing please go to the B-level dungeon to eliminate the bug]
The last word fell, and the two disappeared in place.
This is an emergency call.
Due to the fairness principle of the game, when a game is started, the game system will not be able to enter it. When a game failure occurs, other players can only be allowed to enter it to eliminate bugs.
It was because of this game glitch that Zhou Wenyan could meet Shen Dongqing again.
But... that one was created artificially.
"what-"
"who are you?"
"Why did you suddenly appear here?"
In a group of players, two people suddenly appeared out of thin air. Their posture was also particularly strange, one huddled in the other's arms.
Shen Dongqing jumped down from Zhou Wenyan's arms and landed on the ground with a blank face: "Where is this?"
Zhou Wenyan sorted out the messy corners of his clothes and said, "B-level copy, what copy is this?"
The way these two appeared was too strange, which aroused the suspicion of other players. They looked at each other, and a bolder girl stood up.
"who are you?"
Zhou Wenyan lowered his eyelids and said lazily, "Player, come to clean up the mess."
The person who asked the question just now was a girl in a plaid skirt, and she had never encountered such a situation, but seeing Zhou Wenyan's appearance, she didn't want to fake it, so she dubiously informed the situation of this game copy.
The game dungeon is called Time Train, and it is a B-level dungeon. For Zhou Wenyan and Shen Dongqing, it seems like a game, but for other players, a little carelessness can kill them.
The scope of the copy is on a train, and the introduction is also very simple, that is, get off at the correct station.
"But we waited more than an hour and the car didn't stop," said Plaid.
Zhou Wenyan: "Something went wrong."
Other players remain skeptical: "Can games fail?"
Shen Dongqing nodded: "It's not professional at all. It's free to pull us over to repair it. It's too blackhearted."
The other players were stunned for a moment. Is this... the direction of complaining is not right
Zhou Wenyan asked directly, "Where is the control room of the train?"
Plaid skirt: "...We haven't been there either."
The players were in this carriage as soon as they came, because nothing happened here and it was safe, so they didn't rush out and waited for the train to stop.
Unexpectedly, the train started for more than an hour without stopping.
The plaid skirt had opened the doors of other compartments, but she always felt that the other compartments were weird, so she retreated.
Zhou Wenyan didn't care about other players. After all, they didn't come here to bring rookies, but to eliminate game failures, so he ignored them and directly opened the door to other cars.
"Wait!" One of the players with a cap said, "You can be selected by the game to eliminate the fault, you must be very good players, can you take us?"
Zhou Wenyan: "No."
The smile on the cap's face stagnated: "Why?"
If it was normal, Zhou Wenyan would have taken it with him, but when he was about to do business, he was cut off by the game, and he was in a bad mood, so naturally he would not come to be this Virgin.
He was too lazy to explain, so he took Shen Dongqing's hand and walked out.
A lowered voice from the peaked cap came from behind: "What are you pretending to be? You're talking about eliminating the fault. Maybe it's nonsense and deceitful, bah-a bastard."
Shen Dongqing turned his head and asked sincerely, "What do you mean?"
Cap didn't expect them to hear it, and said in a panic, "You are all hugging, not yet, not yet..." He finally didn't dare to say those three words face to face.
Shen Dongqing gave a flat "oh" and corrected: "That's not a dead gay, we are all alive, it should be a live gay."
He is very sensitive to "death" and "living", and he must correct his mistakes.
Other players: …
The peaked hat thought that these two people were going to go back and find him to settle accounts, but he didn't expect to talk so easily. He just said what he said emotionally, but now he immediately admits to his cowardice, and laughed twice: "Yes, yes..."
After delaying for a while, the plaid skirt figured it out, went up and said, "Can I follow you?"
Shen Dongqing: "Why not? The road is so wide—" He also stretched out his hand and gestured.
After getting the approval, the plaid skirt quickly followed.
When the other players saw it, they all followed suit. Only the peaked cap hesitated and could only follow.
Zhou Wenyan and Shen Dongqing just followed a group of little tails.
The train was moving fast, and it was probably in the tunnel now. It was pitch black outside, and nothing could be seen.
It was the first time for Shen Dongqing to take this kind of transportation, so he was very curious and looked around.
"What is this?" Shen Dongqing pulled out a newspaper from behind a seat.
A few scrambled words in the old newspaper - get out of the car!
The font is dark red, like the blood left after it dried up.
Shen Dongqing glanced at the closed car door: "I can't get out of the car now." He threw down the newspaper.
The newspaper fluttered gently and landed under the chair, as if something curled up under it.
Shen Dongqing squatted down, glanced inside, and met a pair of dead white eyes.
There was a woman huddled under the chair, looking at what she was supposed to be a train attendant, her face had been slashed with countless knives, and only one pair of eyes could see clearly.
Shen Dongqing and her looked at each other silently for a while.
It seemed from the woman's eyes that she was asking: Why haven't you run yet? Still not afraid
Shen Dongqing raised her head: "There are staff members! You can ask her where the general control room is!"
The player who followed up quickly asked, "Where is it?"
Shen Dongqing stretched out his hand under the chair and directly pulled out the flight attendant below.
The players stared at him closely, trying to find the staff and ask about the train.
The result... The staff was there, but it was already cold, and it seemed that they couldn't ask anything.
Fortunately, the players present have experienced several games, and they were not scared to run around, but they couldn't help but feel stiff and cold.
The plaid skirt's voice trembled a little: "This..."
Can't ask that.