Chapter 9: Don’t Want to Work Overtime
Chapter 9: Don’t Want to Work Overtime (Part )
Countless black tentacles hung down from the ceiling, wandering around in a sticky manner, moving through the gaps between the keyboards, disrupting the words that had just been typed on the screen, and flowing into her water cup, turning it into a full cup of squirming black liquid.
If someone looked closely at Liu Sheng's eyes at this moment, they would see that her irises were completely filled with thick black, and the whites of her eyes were also covered with thin black tentacles.
But Liu Sheng seemed unaware and even picked up the water cup and took a sip. The black liquid slid down her throat.
At noon, Liu Sheng just wanted to go downstairs and buy a sandwich for a quick lunch.
The lunch break is from 12 to 2 o'clock. It is impossible to come up with a plan for your boss at 2 o'clock that you have no experience with without sacrificing your rest time.
At two o'clock, she handed the hot plan she had just printed out to her boss, who was still sleepy after getting up from his lunch break.
He flipped through a few pages and put them aside.
Liu Sheng was about to go back to do something else, but he stopped her: "Take care of yourself this afternoon, put on some light makeup, and have dinner with the client tonight."
"I have several projects to work on. I'm afraid I don't have time."
But the boss did not give Liu Sheng room to refuse: "That's why you can't do your job well. It's because you can't distinguish the priorities! What does our department do? It's to provide solutions based on customer needs. How can you not get in touch with customers and build good relationships with them? Where do you think so many projects come from? Aren't they earned from the meals I have with my customers?"
"Anyway, this is what the project leader meant. Your academic qualifications and image are pretty good in our group. Now we just want you to represent the professional image of our company."
Liu Sheng was silent, knowing that he could not refuse. As far as he could remember, "Yi Yu" had also attended several such dinners, and he felt nauseous just thinking about it.
"Okay, let's stop talking. Go and get busy. Remember to dress up. You're a good girl, but now you go out without makeup every day. I don't know how you're going to find a boyfriend." The boss glanced Liu Sheng up and down, pouted, and waved his hand to let her go back.
Liu Sheng secretly clenched her fists, and her drooping hair covered her increasingly dark eyes.
……
The dinner in the evening arrived as scheduled, in a western restaurant with a nice environment.
Following her boss's request, Liu Sheng put on some light makeup and changed into a formal dress.
She was not the only one accompanying the project leader and her boss. There were also several young female colleagues, all of whom wore thick foundation and bright blush to hide their fatigue.
"Your company is really amazing, with so many beautiful women!" The boss on the client's side took a look and teased.
"Hahaha, they are not only beautiful, but also our professional talents!" The project leader responded with a smile.
"This one is a graduate student from Qingdao University, majoring in computer science!" He pointed at Liu Sheng and introduced her, then pointed to the next one, "This little beauty is from the Third Reich. The one next to her is a talented girl. Not only is she in a good school, she can also dance and write calligraphy..."
"They are all talented and beautiful girls! It seems that we need to talk more today and have a few drinks together!" The customers all applauded and laughed.
Really, it’s so annoying.
Liu Sheng thought silently.
Suddenly, the lights in the box dimmed a lot. The leader called the waiter and asked for a long time but there was no solution. They could only laugh and say that the atmosphere would be better if the lights were dimmer.
Only Liu Sheng could see that many very tiny black tentacles were twisting and crawling on the wall, and even drilled into the lampshade and entangled the light.
Soon, the table was filled with the smell of wine and the sound of laughter and conversation could be heard.
Liu Sheng quietly opened his phone and saw a message from his mother: [I left soup for you tonight, it’s in the rice cooker.]
Next sentence: [Learn more from your boss how to socialize, and remember to smile more. You have a very bad face recently. No one will deal with someone who doesn't like to smile. ]
She turned off the screen, looked up and smiled at the people at the table.
One female colleague was being hugged by the shoulders with an embarrassed look on her face, while another female colleague was forced to drink several glasses of wine and was covering her mouth to avoid spitting it out.
The man next to her saw the charming expression on her face when she smiled, and his eyes lit up: "Do you want me to teach you how to use a knife and fork? I have been in the Western Empire of the Federation for more than 20 years."
As he spoke, he stroked the back of Liu Sheng's hand.
Liu Sheng smiled slightly, clenched the knife and fork in his hand, and said, "How do you know I can't do it?"
……
Under the moonlight, Liu Sheng sat on the windowsill, his legs hanging outside and swinging gently. The box behind him was pitch black, completely occupied by squirming, sticky, thick black tentacles as big as bowls. In the gaps between the twisting tentacles, several broken and twisted bodies could be seen, and the fatal injuries were basically knife wounds on the neck.
Several female colleagues huddled in the corner, shivering, their bodies splattered with bright red.
Liu Sheng played with the knife in his hand and said without turning his head: "You guys go."
Upon hearing this, they fled from the box, tumbling and crawling.
Liu Sheng's inner restlessness seemed to slowly calm down. She raised her face and felt the rare summer night breeze.
A tentacle snaked over and gently touched her earlobe.
【Do you know what 'I' am? 】
Liu Sheng thought for a while and shook his head.
Some tentacles reached out to her mobile phone, clicked on the screen, swiped and swiped a few times, and a long text appeared in Liu Sheng's eyes.
As Liu Sheng read the article, the darkness in her eyes became more and more intense. The black tentacles inside and outside her body began to merge into her body and pass through her blood vessels. Her blue blood vessels were filled with black tentacles and became swollen and black. The skin on the surface of her blood vessels became somewhat transparent, as if it was about to burst.
Finally the tentacles reached her brain.
The black tentacles were like a dense web, weaving deep into her mind, trying to control her every thought, and her consciousness began to blur.
In this abyss of despair, a faint voice emerged in her heart: This shouldn't be the case, this is not her.
But the voice was too weak and was soon drowned out by the thick darkness, leaving only eternal despair.
……
When Liu Sheng woke up, she had already returned to the small room in the warehouse.
This time the text displayed on the analyzer is:
[Item Name: 34576]
[Analysis completion: 36.74%]
[Effect description: unknown]
[Influence level: D]
[Analysis and evaluation: Do you think this is the whole truth?]
[Points earned: 1 (currently 1)]
[Analysis Reward: One Table Knife Sticker]
[High-dimensional analysis times: -1 (1 times remaining)]
“I seem to have failed again…”
Liu Sheng held the reward, a small hand-painted table knife sticker that was not even as big as a thumb, and cried inside.
She also put the small sticker into the analyzer to see if there was anything special.
This small sticker did not trigger high-dimensional analysis:
[Item name: Table knife sticker]
[Analysis completion: 100%]
[Influence level: None]
[Effect description: Mango Western Restaurant 1998 yuan/person exclusive set meal souvenir, can be pasted on school bags, mobile phone cases, toilets, as long as it is your favorite place, can become beautiful]
[Analysis and evaluation: It’s really just an ordinary sticker]
(End of this chapter)