(A BUG Appeared)
Edited by Silver Wind
"Hello?"
A burst of static transmitted out from the phone, followed by a hoarse-sounding male voice: "Greetings, Life Science Research Company, how may I help you?"
The players were slightly perplexed.
Weren't all the researchers in that base dead? Did a fish actually slip out of the net?
Shen Dongqing: "Uh…"
He passed the phone to Zhou Wenyan directly.
Instead of taking the phone, Zhou Wenyan leaned closer and started to talk to the other person on the line.
"We saw your recruitnt notice, is your company still hiring?"
"Cough cough…" That person coughed a few tis before he said, "We are, which post are you applying for?"
Zhou Wenyan: "Researcher."
The person on the other end went silent for a mont before he replied: "We're not hiring researchers and logistical staff anymore."
Perceiving that the call receiver was about to hang up the phone, Zhou Wenyan pinched the recruitnt notice as he said: "We'll apply to be volunteers then."
"Volunteers… There are still a few vacancies, all of you can co over to register."
Zhou Wenyan asked: "Where is the company's location?"
"It's written at the back of the recruitnt notice. Please arrive before 5 in the evening, being late is not acceptable."
The call was cut off. Zhou Wenyan flipped the paper over, and an address appeared on the back page which used to be blank.
Life Science Research Company.
Address: 144 Hope Street #04-401
Wu Jia looked towards the street sign at this side: "This is Peach Blossom Road."
The city was so big and there was not a single passer-by that they could ask. Having to find the location was akin to fishing a needle from the sea.
It was going to be one in the afternoon soon, trying to reach there before five o' clock seed unlikely.
Zhou Wenyan kept the recruitnt notice and walked into the convenience store.
Shen Dongqing trailed after him. He perused the sales counter before he finally chose a lollipop, but before he could tear it open, he was stopped by soone.
Zhou Wenyan took away the lollipop in his hand with a tint of helplessness colouring his visage. "It's expired."
Shen Dongqing blinked his eyes. "What did you get?"
Zhou Wenyan: "A map."
It was a map of the city.
Fortunately, convenience stores were obligated to sell them, or else they would be wasting a lot of ti on just trying to find the place.
Zhou Wenyan unfolded the map on the ground, and their group encircled the map to look for the small print of "Hope Road".
Shen Dongqing pointed at one of the areas, saying: "This place looks incredibly familiar."
Looking over, Zhou Wenyan realised that the building layout was extrely familiar, in the sense that it was similar to the university town from the previous fabricated world.
"It seems like the fabricated world was created with this city as its basis."
He continued to look down. A short distance away from where Shen Dongqing was pointing, there was a road that was marked with the words "Hope Road".
"It's here."
* * *
Fortunately, Hope Road was not far from their current location, or else they would really fail to reach the given address by five o' clock.
They did not know if it was a coincidence, but the Life Science Research Company was situated at the exact sa place as the school teaching building in the fabricated reality.
It was just that the teaching building had beco an apartnt building here, and it did not look like a company at all from its external appearance.
Wu Jia: "A shell company?"
It did not look very proper.
The group walked into the narrow corridor and went upstairs.
Upon reaching the fourth floor, an anti-theft door obstructed their way. There was a simple but crude plaque hanging on the wall beside the door, and "Life Science Research Company" was written on top to be precise.
The door was locked.
Wu Jia went up to knock on the door, but there seed to be no response, so he knocked again.
"It's not five o' clock yet…"
At this mont, Shen Dongqing stepped up as he rolled up his sleeves. "I'll do it."
Understanding that he was going to perform his unique door opening skills, he quickly moved aside as he said: "Go easy on it, that's an anti-theft door—"
Before he could finish his words, he heard a loud bang and the anti-theft door split open with a crack.
Shen Dongqing retracted his hand. "Anti-theft door?"
Wu Jia: Assu that I didn't say anything.
There was an office behind the door which was remodelled from an apartnt layout. The interiors were quite ssy, since there were stacks upon stacks of files heaped on the table and cigarette butts were strewn all over the floor.
Shen Dongqing rubbed his nose, not very fond of the sll.
Zhou Wenyan went over to open the window. A gust of wind blew in, causing the files to rustle with noise. One of the papers flew towards him and he snagged it to take a look. So of the work requirents were listed on the parchnt, like the fixed quota of volunteers they had to recruit every month.
anwhile, the other players were already rummaging through the place like a light carriage going down a familiar road.
However, before they could find any useful clues, a series of footsteps suddenly rang out from outside.
The players exchanged glances. Under the circumstances where they did not know if it was a ghost or human, they were not going to act blindly without thinking.
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"All of you…"
Before he could utter another word, his head slanted, and he collapsed to the ground softly.
Shen Dongqing withdrew his hand: "It turns out he was human." His hand moved a little too fast.
The other players: ……
The individual collapsed on the ground was a refined and cultured young man.
He laid there for so ti. When he eventually ca to, he slowly opened his eyes and then he saw a group of people surrounding him.
"……"
He appeared quite small and helpless.
The young man's reaction was exceedingly swift: "The company doesn't have any money, you can take away whatever you want, don't hit , please don't hit !"
Zhou Wenyan stepped out: "We're here to apply for the advertised position."
The Youngster looked at Zhou Wenyan doubtfully.
Applying for the advertised position? He was more inclined to believe that they were here to rob; his neck was still hurting, alright?
The players revealed amiable smiles one by one.
Split between believing and disbelieving, the Youngster climbed to his feet, rubbing his neck as he walked towards the office table. "You can fill out your curriculum vitae first then."
Zhou Wenyan took the empty curriculum vitae and gave it a rough skim through, noting that it consisted of so common questions. Since he was not in a rush to fill it up, he asked: "Do you have any staff mbers by the surna of Chen here?"
The Youngster stilled. "That's . Is there an issue?"
Zhou Wenyan took out a na card and placed it on the table.
The Youngster picked it up to look at it. "That's right, it's ."
He pointed at the na card box placed on the table. The na cards inside the box all had the line "Life Science Research Company Marketing Director Mr. Chen" printed on it.
The na cards that the players obtained were one and the sa.
Finally, they found a breakthrough.
The Youngster urged, "Fill up your curriculum vitae as soon as possible, I'm getting off work soon."
Zhou Wenyan retrieved a pen and started writing his na down on the curriculum vitae.
Once the Youngster saw it, he mumbled, "Why does that look so familiar?"
He switched on his computer and opened a folder. His keyboard clacked audibly as he typed, and then he poked his head out from behind the computer screen. He said: "You've applied for this position prior to this. Next."
Wu Jia followed closely, and he reported his na out loud.
The Youngster: "You've applied before too."
By the ti he checked Shen Dongqing and the Short-haired Woman's na, the Youngster rolled his eyes: "Are all of you trying to play with ? Each and every one of you are already volunteers under the company, why are you applying again?"
Wu Jia: "When did that happen?"
The Youngster pointed at the na card. "All of you must have called this telephone number in the past; it happened when you made the call. I send these na cards to other cities frequently; as long as soone calls the number, they can co here."
The player automatically changed the key phrases.
These na cards were copy tokens, and the Youngster sent them out. As long as the player called the listed telephone number, they will co into contact with the person in-charge of the copy token, thereby entering this ga premise.
Wu Jia thought back about it, it was true that they had already dialled the telephone number listed on the na card before they entered the ga.
What had the person said during the call back then?
The players tried their hardest to rember.
They had originally forgotten about this matter, but now that the Youngster had brought it up, the haze that was clouding their mories dispersed instantaneously and it beca crystal clear.
"Greetings, Life Science Research Company, how may I help you?"
"Are you calling to apply for the advertised position? You can only enter our company through the advertised positions."
"What positions are we advertising for? Uh… What is your education history? Your highest is only at the undergraduate level? You can only apply for the volunteer position then, you can register your na, but reneging is not allowed."
Zhou Wenyan: "What are volunteers supposed to do?"
The Youngster replied in a hesitant manner: "Cooperate with the company for so tests. Rest assured, a generous salary is guaranteed, with millions in annual salary."
The players thought about those people lying inside the nutritional cabins. What was the point of having a generous salary? They were already gone; they did not have a chance to use it!
The Youngster: "All of you have taken up the job, why don't you know anything?"
Shen Dongqing failed to catch the important point once more. "Where's our pay then?"
The Youngster: "I'm only responsible for recruiting people, no one has ever asked
for their pay…"
Of course.
The people he recruited failed to walk out of the base, how could they possibly ask for the pay?
Zhou Wenyan dragged the conversation back to the main topic. "We would like to resign."
The Youngster: "Our company doesn't have a precedent for resignation, it's very difficult for
to handle this…"
Shen Dongqing muttered to him: "You're not paying us and yet you won't let us resign, what you're doing is illegal."
The Youngster went quiet.
It seed like it was not wrong to phrase it that way, but who would try to speak reason to the NPCs inside the ga?
This was way too strange.
Shen Dongqing: "Therefore, it's quite normal if we don't want to work anymore."
Youngster: "But…"
When he saw Shen Dongqing raising his clenched fist, he felt a wave of pain shoot through his neck, and he could no longer find it within himself to say "but".
"Fine, fine, I'll help you with the resignation formalities. But it still requires the official reply from the base, it's none of my business if it isn't officially approved." The Youngster looked for a resignation letter template online with due haste and printed it out, then he distributed it to all of them.
The entire group of players signed their own nas at the end of the resignation letter.
Once they were done signing, Wu Jia's lips twitched a little as he muttered inaudibly: "But all the NPCs at the base are dead…"
How were they supposed to obtain an official reply?
The Youngster, who was completely unaware of the massacre that had just occurred in the base, uploaded the resignation letter into the system.
"Now we wait."
Not long after the Youngster spoke, he saw the base approving of the resignation requests. He was in slight disbelief as he said: "It actually went through?"
The players also found it rather strange, but then they rembered, although all of the NPCs in the base have already belched, there was still a ghost that had been conferred temporary control over the base.
It could not be more eager to have this group of demons leave earlier; once it saw the resignation requests, it did not even think about it before it accepted them.
"Okay, I'll help all of you finalise it."
The Youngster took out the official seal and stamped it on the resignation letters.
Pa—
A bright red stamp appeared on the surface.
After the official seal landed, the players inside the office heard a voice.
【 You have resigned from Life Science Research Company 】
【 Congratulations, you have successfully cleared the copy, Closing in Progress— 】
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With a score of S in this instance, you are rewarded with 5000 points, special item drop [Broken Key Fragnt*2] 】
【 Because a large portion of the talents in the Life Science Research Company has been lost, it will be temporarily closed while it recruits new employees again 】
【 Players please devote all your attention to waiting, once the company is reorganised and opens again, it will be demoted into an A-level or B-level ga copy 】
Despite leaving the ga premise, Wu Jia was still stuck in a slight trance. "It ended just like that?"
Zhou Wenyan returned a question: "Do you want to go in again and play for another two rounds?"
Wu Jia waved his hands quickly, "Forget it, forget it." Suppressing his voice, he mumbled. "That was way too simple, it didn't seem like a S-level copy at all."
The ga was on the verge of tears after hearing Wu Jia's words.
This wasn't difficult?
The difficulty of Life Science Research Company was slightly below average among the S-level copies, but all of the players that entered had fallen headfirst.
The majority of the players failed to get out of the fabricated world because they had been through so many gas while being constantly on edge, which led to their ntal states deteriorating, and when they were suddenly t with this peaceful and tranquil environnt, most of them beca unwilling to wake up, since they would rather indulge and wallow in this fabricated world.
This was especially so for players who wanted to persevere and clear the stage, since they had to deal with countless and ceaseless waves of ghosts, while the players who gave up could experience absolute safety. When the two sides were compared, more people would rather choose to give up.
Only a select few of the players would wake up from the fabricated world, but they had to face all the ghosts in the base afterwards.
Even if they managed to reach the White Coat, White Coat could also unleash the "strongest weapon
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