Chapter 4: Don’t Want to Work Overtime

Chapter 4: Don’t Want to Work Overtime

Chapter 4: Don’t Want to Work Overtime (Part )

"Treasurer Liu, we have just returned from Hedong Village and found a new strange object. Please analyze it and put it into the warehouse."

It was getting dark outside. A burly man was standing at the door holding a box covered with seals. He turned out to be a colleague from the Detective Patrol Department.

There is new work to be done, Liu Sheng thought.

After delivering the gifts, the colleague hurriedly said goodbye. He was probably in a hurry to get off work, or he was afraid to face Liu Sheng's resentment about having to work overtime again.

Liu Sheng "smiled" as he sent his colleague away, and carefully placed the sealed box containing the strange object on a special workbench in the room. The moment he put it on the box, the sealing formation on the workbench was activated to prevent the strange energy from leaking out during the operation.

Liu Sheng looked at the seal on the box and saw some basic information about the strange creature:

[Number: 34576]

[Appearance: about 4.5 inches long, about 2.2 inches wide, and no more than 2 centimeters thick. The material is special. The front is smooth and seems to be polished from crystal. The rest is made of special metal. The craftsmanship is exquisite and there are almost no gaps.]

[Effect: Unknown]

[Level: Dangerous]

[Source: It should be excavated by He Jiaxing of Hedong Village when he was repairing his ancestral house. When he found this item, the whole family had died at home. It is suspected that they died of heart failure due to overwork and lack of food and water.]

These were written down by the Detective Patrol Department based on the on-site containment of the strange creatures. They are just some preliminary judgments. A more detailed analysis will require a thorough analysis inspection using specialized analytical instruments.

Only after the analysis document is written can the strange objects be classified and contained. If it is found after analysis that they exceed the local containment level, they need to be reported to the General Administration of Weaving and have people from the General Administration come down to deal with it.

Originally, this job should not have been done by Liu Sheng. She only needed to be a simple warehouse keeper. The analysis work should have been the responsibility of the Abnormal Research Department. However, there was only one researcher in the Abnormal Research Department of Li County. However, even this one remaining treasure applied for transfer to another place last year. Therefore, Liu Sheng, the warehouse keeper, had to be forced to do the analysis.

Of course, it is also because of this that Liu Sheng was able to write the article "Analysis of the Parsing Path of Artifact-Type Monsters".

But now there is a big problem.

Her analyzer was missing.

She is usually very cautious and careful, and always returns things to their original places after use. Normally, such a thing as losing important equipment would never happen to Liu Sheng.

Forget it, since she can’t find it, it must be God’s will for her to stop working overtime and go home early.

Liu Sheng yawned loudly and decided to stop working overtime today. If it really didn't work out, she would have to pay out of her own pocket to buy materials and make another analyzer tomorrow. After using it for so long, she also knew the structure of the analyzer produced by the General Administration of Weaving.

She had to go home and sleep. She hadn't slept for more than eighteen hours and was feeling a little groggy.

When she looked at the time, it was already past the hour of Xu. It was long past dinner time, but she didn't feel hungry. However, her parents were waiting anxiously at home.

Liu Sheng quickly packed up, locked the room, and started heading towards the subway.

The sky had completely darkened. Only the face of God that filled the sky was emitting a faint light. The street without lights or candles was somewhat illuminated. I didn't know if it was because it was long past the rush hour, but there was no one on the street.

However, once he arrived at the subway station, he finally saw people. It was even crowded. Although the clock pointed to more than ten o'clock in the evening, the subway was still crowded. Liu Sheng had to give up his original plan to stand and take a rest.

When he returned downstairs to his home, Liu Sheng looked up and saw the lights on in his house. Somehow he felt a little tired.

She dragged her tired body up six flights of stairs, took out the key and opened the door, only to see her parents sitting in the living room waiting for her. The food on the table was covered with plates to keep it warm, but it was no longer hot. When they saw her coming back, they hurriedly got up and took the food back to the kitchen to reheat it.

Liu Sheng looked at this scene, but in a trance she seemed to see another scene overlapping in front of her eyes. She seemed to be in a simple brick house, which was a little dim due to the candlelight.

Under the candlelight was a middle-aged man and woman dressed in ancient costumes. They looked strange yet familiar. They brought out dishes from the kitchen, sat down at the wooden table, and looked at her with smiles. There were three sets of bowls and chopsticks on the table.

The man was putting a large piece of pig's trotter soup into the bowl in front of the empty seat, and the woman looked at him lovingly and asked, "Sheng'er, your father made your favorite pig's trotter soup, sit down and eat it."

This is my mother?
No, my mother is not like that.

Liu Sheng felt a little confused.

"Sheng'er, what's wrong with you?" The woman saw that she stood still and did not respond, with a look of loss and sadness on her face.

Sheng'er? Who is it?
"Yi Yu, what's wrong with you?" My mother's voice came to my ears, sounding a little distant.

"You just stare blankly as soon as you come back. Come and help!"

Yi Yu blinked and she was back in the brightly lit living room. Everything that had just happened seemed to be just an illusion in a trance.

"It's okay, Mom. Just a little tired." She forced a smile.

"Mom and Dad, didn't you tell me not to wait for me to come home for dinner next time?"

The mother glared at him and said, "How can that be? You come home so late and you still cook for yourself? If you don't cook, you'll have to eat takeout again. I've said that takeout is not nutritious and unhygienic. You've already eaten takeout at noon, so are you going to eat it again at night? Do you know that your cousin in your hometown ate too much takeout..."

"I'm so hungry, Mom, let's eat quickly!" Yi Yu quickly interrupted his mother's chatter and urged his parents to sit down and eat.

"You too, you start nagging as soon as the children come home, saying that people have to work overtime so late every day." The father was a little impatient.

"Work overtime? Who doesn't work overtime now? It's good enough to have a job. So many people are unemployed! What's more, Xiaoyu is now working in Guosheng Group. How many people envy her!"

My mother raised her voice, which was unusually sharp and a little piercing.

"Have you ever taken care of your child in all these years? Every day when you get home, you just eat, watch TV and sleep! If it weren't for me, how could Xiaoyu be admitted to Qingdao University and how could she get into Guosheng Group?"

My father was choked and couldn't speak. He just snorted and continued to eat his meal.

It has always been like this. My father is a hands-off manager and my mother has to take care of all the household affairs. The more she cares, the more irritable her temper becomes. As a result, my father dislikes my mother for being too strong, and she is always forced to become the center of their quarrels.

In the past, the quarrel was about her studies, but now it is about her work.

"Mom, Guosheng Group is not that good... Many colleagues have resigned recently..." Yi Yu retorted in a low voice. The pay is low but the work is heavy, and the leaders love to stir up trouble. You know, she had already left work early today. Many people were exhausted from working overtime and staying up late for a long time. There was even a manager who died suddenly last week. It would be strange if she didn't run away.

But when her mother heard this, she exploded: "Resign? You are not thinking of resigning again, are you? I think you are planning it by complaining of being tired every day. Those who resign are fools. After all, Guosheng Group is an old company directly under the federal government. It's a stable job." Her face was a little distorted, and her bloodshot eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.

"We spent a lot of effort to get you in. So what if you're a graduate student at Qingdao University? You can't get into Guosheng Group without a background. Don't be stupid!"

His mother's voice was full of anxiety and dissatisfaction. Although his father didn't say anything, he also looked disappointed and disapproving. Yi Yu felt inexplicably depressed and didn't want to say anything.

She had no appetite anymore, so she ate a few bites and put down her bowl and chopsticks. She looked up and saw that her parents had put down their chopsticks long ago and were looking at her quietly. Their frozen eyes were filled with hatred, as if they were not looking at their daughter.

Yi Yu was horrified and felt that the living room became a little gloomy, with a thick darkness surging from the corners of the living room.

This must be an illusion, she shook her head, and looked again. The lights in the living room were still bright, the cold air was gone, and her parents were eating with their heads down.

"Dad, Mom, I'm done, you guys take your time."

Yi Yu finished his meal in a hurry, feeling uneasy, and went back to his room.

As soon as the door was closed, Yi Yu felt inexplicably relieved.

It was quiet outside, as if no one was there.

In the eerie silence, a few "ding dong ding dong" sounds were suddenly heard. It turned out to be messages on Yi Yu's cell phone.

Yi Yu knew what the message was, but she didn't want to read it at all and just sat quietly on the edge of the bed.

She didn't turn on the light in the room. In the darkness, only the screen of the mobile phone thrown on the bed was lit. Message prompts [You have received a group message] kept popping up on it with a "ding dong" sound, and the jumping messages cast a faint light.

Knock knock, there was a knock on the door.

"Xiao Yu, is your leader looking for you? Check the message quickly and don't delay anything." Mother's voice sounded at the door.

Yi Yu remained silent.

The knocking on the door became more urgent and louder, from knocking to patting.

"Xiao Yu, you're the only one missing, reply to your leader quickly!"

There was not only a command in her tone, but also an unfathomable indifference, as if it was not her mother, but something else speaking in her mother's voice.

Yi Yu's heart was beating like a drum. She fumbled to pick up her cold phone. As soon as she unlocked the screen, she saw more than fifty unread messages in her work group. She scrolled through a series of [Received] and saw a message from her project leader at the top:

[@Everyone, urgent notice, the group leader held a meeting today and severely criticized our project progress for being seriously behind schedule. Everyone should come back and work overtime immediately! ! Please reply if you receive this. ]

No one questioned, no one refuted, only about fifty mechanical replies - [Received].

Yi Yu took a quick look around and found that she was the only one who had not replied.

She typed [Received] with trembling hands, and when she was about to click send, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

She didn't want to. She had been working for 12 consecutive days, more than hours a day, on call at any time, without a single day off.

She has been really good for too long.

Every day, her family keeps telling her that a stable job is good, but her boss throws plans in her face and says that if she doesn't want to do it, there are plenty of people out there who want to do it. When she's on break, she can see news on her phone about college students unable to find jobs. Everything is overwhelming her.

She kept comforting herself that she could just hold out until retirement and that only if she held out would she get a pension, but why did she feel like she couldn't hold out?

She is really tired.

With an impulsive and burning flame rising in his heart, Yi Yu deleted the words in the chat box, typed two words and sent them out.

This action seemed to have consumed all her strength. She threw her phone on the bed and lay on her back.

Her reply was displayed on the bright phone screen: [No going].

After sending those two words, she felt an unprecedented relief, as if a heavy burden had been lifted, but what followed was an even stronger sense of uneasiness and fear.

There were no more messages in the group, as if everyone was frightened by these two words and fell silent.

The sound outside the door stopped at some point.

The whole world seemed to be left in dead silence.

In this dead silence, Yi Yu's heartbeat became the only sound, and every beat echoed in the darkness.

However, at this moment, a stronger fear quietly came over me, followed by a violent banging on the door, as if something was trying to force its way in.

At the same time, Yi Yu's phone suddenly vibrated wildly and made a series of "ding dong ding dong" sounds. She got up in a panic and looked at the screen. A series of "You're dead" flashed across the screen. These four identical words came from everyone in the group.

The moment he read the message, Yi Yu felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet, and his whole body almost froze on the bed.

At this moment, an irresistible force finally opened the door, and cold wind mixed with unknown fear rushed into the room.

The last scene she saw was her mother’s distorted face and the cold light of a knife.

During the struggle, the cell phone was swept onto the blood-soaked ground, and it continued to emit death-warning notification sounds. The lit screen illuminated the head of the girl on the bed, which was hanging to the ground because her neck was basically cut off. Her wide-open eyes were filled with unwillingness.

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I don’t know how many people have discovered that the heroine has already…

Yes, the world view of this story is not a purely ancient background. As the introduction says: This is a strange world of [science fiction + fantasy]. The heroine will grow up little by little and explore the truth of the world.

I hope you will like this story!

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