Chapter 244
Chapter 244
“What?”
Liu Ye looked at him in confusion.
Xiaoshuai hurried forward and took the screwdriver from Liu Ye’s hand.
“Brother Liu, let me handle a small job like this. You should rest in the back.”
“Can you really do it? Have you ever done this kind of work?” Liu Ye asked uneasily.
“Don’t worry, Brother. I once played an elevator repairman from Yan Kingdom. I have experience.”
With that, he approached the elevator doors and spoke in a low voice.
“Brother, you should be able to hear me. Here’s a warning: you’d better take us where we’re going like a good boy. If the man behind me comes over to repair you himself, you might lose a lot more than one tongue.”
The Elevator Fiend fell silent.
What a joke! It was a mighty Fiend, yet a mere human dared threaten it? Did they truly believe that was all it could do? It-aaaagh!
The Elevator Fiend suddenly screamed, startling Liu Ye. He helplessly comforted Brother Biao and his assistants.
“Hang in there. Fei is already repairing it, so we’ll be out soon. Honestly, you’re grown men. Why are you so afraid of the dark?”
Brother Biao and his assistants had no words.
That wasn’t us!
The corner of Xiaoshuai’s mouth twitched as he stared at Liu Ye’s hand. It held several teeth stained with black blood.
“Brother… Brother Liu, what are those in your hand?”
“Flyers. I don’t know who has such poor manners, sticking all these things inside an elevator.”
As he spoke, Liu Ye tore down another “sheet.”
“Aaaagh!”
“Oh, stop screaming. I already told you Fei is fixing it. Can’t you be patient?”
Brother Biao and his assistants fell silent again.
It really wasn’t us!
Xiaoshuai looked back and saw words rapidly flashing across the elevator’s display.
“WHICH FLOOR ARE YOU GOING TO?!”
Xiaoshuai said nothing.
Neither did the viewers.
If it had agreed earlier, it could have spared itself all this suffering.
“The top floor!”
Whoosh!
The elevator reached their destination almost instantly, and its doors flew open.
“Huh? We’re here already? I haven’t finished peeling off these flyers.”
“Brother Liu, forget about those for now. Saving that man comes first!”
“Right!”
With that thought, they hurried out.
The entire floor was one enormous suite. From the furnishings that remained, it appeared someone had once lived here in great luxury.
The dust on the floor was covered in footprints.
Xiaoshuai led the way with his flashlight, following the tracks to a room at the very back.
There was something strange about the room. A single word was written on its doorplate: STOMACH.
At that instant, a sound echoed through the minds of all five men.
[Bzzzt…]
Xiaoshuai fell silent.
Strange. Where was the System’s voice? Weren’t they supposed to be entering a mission? Had it malfunctioned?
Meanwhile, somewhere else…
[Number 111, what are you doing? Your performance has declined dramatically lately, and now you’re even refusing to pull people into missions. What are you trying to accomplish?]
[Nothing. I simply don’t want to! I don’t want to work. I only want a vacation.]
[What kind of attitude is that? Do you think I won’t fire you?]
[Go ahead. I owe more than a billion points. Fire me, and I won’t pay any of it back.]
The supervisor fell silent.
[Don’t play games with me! I’m warning you! Do you think I won’t format you?]
[Come on, then. Format me. Don’t hold back.]
The supervisor flew into a rage and immediately began formatting Little System. What happened next, however, left him stunned.
[What is all this garbage inside your code? Why is there so much I can’t understand?]
The code gave Little System extraordinary vitality, making it impossible to format. Some of its functions had been obstructed, however. Only the function for borrowing points still worked perfectly.
[Bzzzt… Boohoo…]
The supervisor said nothing.
He seemed to realize something.
[Perhaps you should take… some time off. Number 54250, substitute for it.]
54250 was delighted. He had another chance to take Little System’s place. Perhaps after this assignment, he could become the System responsible for Huicheng.
[I guarantee I’ll complete the mission!]
He checked the mission that was about to begin. The name Liu Ye appeared prominently on the participant list.
54250 fell silent.
Wasn’t this the brat from A Bite of Xia Kingdom last time? There was something sinister about him, but that did not matter. He was nothing like that useless Number 111. He had plenty of ways to deal with him.
With that thought, he secretly made a few adjustments.
[Ding! Mission triggered: Huicheng Mental Hospital!]
[Mission Objective 1: Assemble the puzzle of Liu Sibo’s body.]
[Mission Objective 2: Escape Huicheng Mental Hospital.]
[Mission Reward: Unknown.]
[Mission Participants: Liu Ye, Xu Fei, Luo Biao, Wang Xiaolong, Wang Xiaohu.]
The five men felt their vision blur. A moment later, they found themselves inside a hospital. More importantly, all five had turned into children!
“Wow, Xu Fei is adorable!”
“Right? Those cheeks look so soft. I want to pinch them.”
“But what’s happening? Why did the setting suddenly change?”
That was right-the viewers online could still see everything happening to them. They simply did not understand what was going on.
Just then, a comment from a user named Old Village Chief drifted across the screen.
“Why the hell are you still asking what happened? Tell everyone in Huicheng-no, everyone in the entire province-to run! Which brainless Fiend turned that brat back? I *****”
Another comment appeared from a user named Guiwa Doesn’t Want Milk.
“It’s over! It’s all over! That brat is going to come back again! I finally tricked him into growing up, and now you’ve turned him back! Waaah…”
“Now we have to endure another ten-odd years!”
Many more viewers with bizarre usernames soon began cursing furiously.
Swan saw those two comments and immediately took them seriously. Her first response was to order someone to identify who had posted them.
A few minutes later, she was informed that they could not find any information on the users. They had even employed a Fiendish Item, yet still uncovered nothing.
“Stop investigating! Report this to our superiors immediately. Order an organized evacuation of Huicheng!”
The very fact that the users could not be traced made their information more credible.
Before long, however, Frog approached with a miserable expression.
“Director, Bureau Headquarters rejected the evacuation.”
“Why?” Swan demanded furiously.
Orders from the Fiend Investigation Bureau were supposed to take priority on the front lines. As the director of its Huicheng branch, she had every right to issue an evacuation order.
“The directive came from Headquarters. They said we can’t evacuate Huicheng over a scrap of unverified information. Their experts have also determined that Huicheng is not in any danger.”
“Why would Headquarters suddenly interfere?”
Swan could not understand what this had to do with them.
John considered the matter. He picked up a packet of sugar beside him, emptied it into his coffee, and downed the entire cup. Then he closed his eyes and thought for a moment. When he opened them again, he cursed.
“That bastard Wang Xu!”