CH 8

Once again, Zhang Dong and the shop assistant disappear.

At the cashier’s desk, Xiao Lan, Zhao Xiaohe, Lin Yan and the flower-armed jerk stand opposite each other, none of them speaking. A tense and delicate atmosphere prevails between the players, a far cry from the friendly and harmonious atmosphere that prevailed when they first met.

Eventually Lin Yan smiled and swept his eyes over the remaining three, “Oh well, it’s every man for himself in this round, see you again.”

With that he left leisurely, looking like he wanted to greet the back of his head with the sole of his shoe in a frenzy.

Then the flower-armed punk also left, giving the two remaining men a wistful glance before walking away.

Zhao Xiaohe was relieved to have escaped from the beast’s mouth and said worriedly to Xiao Lan, ” What should we do Brother Xiao, we don’t think the two of us together are a match for them.”

Xiao Lan : “For now, find a way to avoid them, try to push the search back, maybe they’ll find it before you do?”

He looked at Zhao Xiaohe’s height, “You’re short and not too skinny, so if you do get into it you should find a chance to hit them hard down there and run.”

Zhao Xiaohe looked torn, ” Brother Xiao you must not have a girlfriend ……”

How can you talk so solidly with a girlfriend.

Xiao Lan stared, “Yeah.”

He began an intensive working career in high school and missed classes even more often in college, but never failed a class, and was even a scholarship winner every year, and had the title of god of learning in school.

Some people on the campus forum even said that he had long disdained to spend time with mortal scum, so he rarely appeared on campus. In fact, he was just working part-time, so busy that he had to fight for time even to sleep, and was forced by poverty to almost go down to the sea, how could he have time to fall in love oh.

Relationships don’t just cost time, they cost money!

Seemingly remembering what happened earlier, Zhao Xiaohe reassured, “It’s okay Brother Xiao , it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a girlfriend, do you …… want to go to the toilet first?”

And thoughtfully slipped him a piece of paper.

Seeing the sympathetic look in her eyes, Xiao Lan : “……”

Do you girls all know so much?! Did you misunderstand something!

After the separation from Zhao Xiaohe.

Xiao Lan ponders the cigarette butts he saw in the warehouse. Did he smoke them in the warehouse because he liked them, or did he just happen to have a pack on hand?

More clues are needed before we can tell.

Xiao Lan thinks of the two women mentioned by Zhang Dong, one being the manager and the other the cashier. It is obvious that the manager and Zhang Dong have more interactions, and there is even a conflict between the two, but of course this conflict may be on Zhang Dong’s part.

There are also disciplinary notices, and it seems that Zhang Dong was fired and the supermarket became what it is now on the same day, so what happened that day to cause Zhang Dong’s death and his haunting.

It looks like a trip to the manager’s office is in order.

The manager’s office is located on the first floor and the walls of the corridor are peeling, with large areas of mould growing and a cold, wet, unpleasant smell of rot in the air.

The door to the manager’s office is locked, but this is not a problem for Xiao Lan.

Three seconds later, he was standing in the manager’s room.

The manager’s office was neat and tidy, without the wild boar crossing that Xiao Lan had imagined, which was quite unreasonable. Even the warehouse director’s office has been transformed into that, and the manager’s place, the person Zhang Dong complains about most, is not in trouble at all.

Xiao Lan and Luo searched the office and could see that the manager was a very organised person, with a clearly written daily schedule and a meticulously organised desk.

Even on XXth of XXth, the day of Zhang Dong’s disciplinary notice, her schedule went on into the evening.

But there is no information about Zhang Dong. Did Zhang Dong think that his manager was after him, but in fact he was not taken seriously at all?

This is too bad – my arch-enemy doesn’t even know I exist.

[Sir, there’s a handprint on the window, and it doesn’t look female in size]

The window was half open and at first glance Xiao Lan did not notice the handprint. It was only when he got closer that he saw a light mark on the glass, as if it had been left by someone who had gently touched it.

Xiao Lan looked closely and saw that the handprints were left on the outside of the window.

Lifting my eyes to look out of the window, a false and empty city.

There are tall buildings and street lights and neon signs, but they are all still, and there is no traffic or pedestrians on the road, the whole scene is like a monotonous decal.

Xiao Lan is certain that if she jumped out of the window and ran, she would never get out of this world.

He looked towards the window below, but saw some cigarette butts scattered on the ground.

He had just gone through the manager’s drawer and this seemed to be a non-smoker, so who was the source of the cigarette butts? Xiao Lan was the first to think of Zhang Dong.

Turning his head to survey the structure outside the window, Xiao Lan noticed a pipe not far from the window, which was thick enough to carry the weight of a person, and if someone had climbed on it and reached towards the manager’s office, it would have coincided with the handprint on the window.

Xiao Lan : ” Luo , let’s go down and have a look.”

[Please be careful].

Xiao Lan decided to climb down through the window because the supermarket door was blocked off, and the two-storey height was not too difficult for him.

He stepped on the window frame and then climbed up the pipe sharply, landing on the ground in two or three strokes, the whole process not taking a minute.

Skilled as a thief.

Luo seems to have mixed feelings.

[Mr. Poverty really didn’t let you have any unspeakable part-time jobs during the night?]

Xiao Lan lamented, “There is no limit to the potential of people to escape from their creditors. Not to mention two floors, five floors wouldn’t stop me.”

Running up and down in the sunset, being whisked away by his creditors, was probably his lost youth.

[…… What kind of life do you really lead]

Xiao Lan : “I’ll tell you about it later when I have time.”

[All ears]

Xiao Lan examines the floor, where the cigarette butts have been smoked to the last puff, in the familiar style of Zhang Dong. The brand was the same one that had been seen before, and although they were all dusty, they still looked newer than the ones in the warehouse, so it was probably safe to assume that Zhang Dong had been smoking them for some time.

Basically, it can be concluded that this is something that Zhang Dong is used to and even likes.

A bulge in the adjacent green lawn caught Xiao Lan’s eye. It was half a brick, broken somewhere, with a sharp curve in the break and what appeared to be dark marks on it in the dim light.

Xiao Lan : ” Luo, can you tell what this is?”

A black shadow slowly covers the corner of the brick and after a few moments.

[Dried blood and a little brain tissue, male, middle-aged, excess body fat percentage, poor liver and kidney function, tendency to hair loss].

Isn’t this the description of Big Brother Zhang Dong?

Xiao Lan : “Check again if there is blood in the soil of the lawn.”

Black shadows covered the lawn towards it.

[Yes, sir, it has reached human lethality]

The whole thing is almost clear now.

Zhang Dong was fired from the supermarket for groping at work. In a fit of rage, he smashed the warehouse supervisor’s office in the dark of the night. He then became angry and suspected that the manager was targeting him, so he went under the manager’s office, not knowing whether he wanted to attack the manager or to smash up the office.

But he didn’t want the manager to be working late, so he had to wait.

After waiting for several hours to see how many cigarette butts there were, Zhang Dong found his chance. He tried to enter the manager’s office by climbing a pipe, but fell straight down when he opened the window, hitting his head on a brick and dying.

This …… is simply making a fool of himself! Where did he get the face to turn into a ghost!

This conclusion makes Xiao Lan look complicated, Zhang Dong’s death is not a realistic one, not even a Chinese horror film has such a low boss.

Xiao Lan: “Advent World’s taste in staff selection is really refreshing.”

[I always feel like I’ve disliked it too]

Xiao Lan : “And then you got screwed like this?”

[……]

Sir, can we still talk about this day.

Xiao Lan quietly hid the cigarette butts and bricks in the lawn, then returned the way he came and left the manager’s office.

Xiao Lan heads towards the supermarket, not in a hurry to get his cigarettes, not knowing if Lin Yan and the flower-armed punk have found their clearance items yet, and with only five minutes of combat power Xiao Lan really doesn’t want to go head-to-head with these two.

En route.

Luo’s handwriting appears as.

Here are some words that may be of help to you, sir]

Xiao Lan followed the arrow Luo had traced and saw a brown line of writing at the bottom of the patchy wall next to him, which looked like handwriting, mostly blocked by a piece of wall covering that had fallen from above, and he reached up and lifted the covering to reveal the writing in full beneath.

[There are betrayers among us]

[His mission is different from ours]

[He wants to kill us all, I don’t know who he is]

[Jie, get away from them]

There were also dark brown marks on the floor nearby where something had been dragged away, like a badly injured person who had left a final message in a desperate attempt to die and then been dragged away by an unknown force.

Could it be a player from the previous round?

“The Betrayer ……” Xiao Lan frowned, his first thought was of Lin Yan , a man who claimed to be a veteran player, and who very actively showed that he could lead the players through the game right from the start, gaining the trust of the crowd before constantly pushing them out to After gaining the trust of the crowd, he kept pushing players out to die.

Originally Xiao Lan speculated that he was using someone else to test the death conditions, which would also explain his behaviour.

But this message gave him new information. Could there be a different quest in the game? Or maybe Lin Yan had been given a hidden quest like himself, only his quest condition was – to make it impossible for other players to pass the game!

If Lin Yan’s mission is anything to go by, then they are in grave danger.

Lin Yan does not stop just because he has found the right item, he may choose to actively hinder others from obtaining the item or destroy the right item.

We must speed up! Failure to pass can be fatal!

The author has something to say.

Xiao Lan : I really don’t have kidney deficiency!

Luo : Why don’t I check it out for you?

Xiao Lan : You go ……