Chapter 410 [(*^▽^*)]

Only then did everyone turn their attention to the group chat, see the message Xue Rui sent, and start discussing it. They even used props to look at the wall opposite the elevator, only to find that they all saw the same thing.

"Sichuan peppercorns, 'It looks simple, but it doesn't feel that simple. What rule did that player break? Was he doing it on purpose, leaving his post during work hours and doing something unrelated to his job?'"

Zhou Feng: "I don't know yet, but it seems like it was intentional. He dared to provoke an elite monster all by himself, so he probably had a lot of prepared items."

Fang Hong: "He hid himself; even the elite monster's skills couldn't detect him. This item must be very expensive!"

Zhou Feng: "These elite monsters are about as strong as the one from yesterday. They left without finding the violator, but they didn't revert to their original form. Do we need to kill that player to restore them to their original state?"

Xue Rui: "That's possible, but we can't go find that player and kill him."

Sichuan Pepper: "If not during work hours, what about free time? We have two hours from 12 to 2, so can we go kill elite monsters?"

Xue Rui: "How are you going to kill the current elite monster? If she returns to her original state, killing her would be easy."

In the current situation, let alone two hours, even if we didn't have the same setup as yesterday, we might not be able to kill them in ten hours. We would just be chased and beaten!

Huajiao sat in her seat and sighed deeply. What should she do? She looked at the ordinary employee NPC sitting next to her. Unlike the other employees, this person was very calm, as if he was not afraid of anything.

She asked cautiously, "Hey! Aren't you scared?"

The other person glanced around nervously, then opened a folder and leaned closer to her. "You want to know why I'm not nervous or scared?"

Huajiao quietly came over, pinching the folder close to her side. "Yeah, why? I see everyone else is so scared, a lot of people are going crazy and crying!"

"Hmph! They're all brainless! Of course I'd be scared of anyone else, but today the one supervising our overtime is the secretary, and this secretary... as long as we behave ourselves, we'll be 100% fine!"

Sichuan peppercorns, "But I discovered someone attacked her before, do you know why?"

"Attack the secretary? Why would you do that? She couldn't have been killed!"

Sichuan peppercorns were surprised. "Really? Why is that? Tell me! I really want to know!"

"Ahem, you want to know? Then I'll tell you briefly. This secretary is the boss's favorite. She's capable, good-looking, and has a high position in the company!"

“At night, she is the most law-abiding one. Because of this, as long as you don’t break the rules, you can live. If you want to kill her, you have to make her break the rules. That way, you don’t need anyone else to kill her; she will kill herself.”

Sichuan peppercorns, "She's never broken any rules?"

"You don't know this, do you? Over the years, she has never broken the rules. As long as she doesn't break the rules, she is the strongest! No one can beat her!"

Sichuan pepper took a deep breath. "I see... So, does what we're doing now count as breaking the rules?"

She paused for a moment, looked around nervously, and only continued after confirming there was no movement, "Actually... as long as you don't leave your seat, it's okay to slack off and chat for a bit."

Sichuan peppercorn: "What if I need to use the restroom?"

"If you need to go to the restroom, I suggest you wait until after midnight. Midnight to 2 AM is free time, and you can go to the staff canteen for a late-night snack. Wandering around at other times is a bit dangerous."

Huajiao continued, "What if I really can't resist and absolutely have to go?"

"She might follow you to make sure you're going to the restroom and not doing anything else, and she won't leave until you return to your seat."

Huajiao gasped, "Are they going to watch me go to the toilet?"

"That's right, so you should just bear with it. It'll be fine if you just bear with it."

Sichuan peppercorn: "It's okay that I'm a woman, but what about men? Does she have to keep an eye on them the whole time?"

"Well... I'm not sure about that, but some male colleagues have said that's definitely true."

Huajiao nodded. "Thanks, thanks. Let's get back to work."

The other party was also afraid that the elite monster would suddenly appear. They had talked for a while and continued to work seriously. During the work, Huajiao sent a message to the chat group to tell everyone the crucial information she had just found out.

Xue Rui said, "This person went into too much detail, and the veracity of these statements is questionable."

"Indeed, we don't know what rules the elite monster has to follow, so we don't know what would constitute a violation, and even if she did, would she really kill herself? This employee has only heard about it and hasn't actually seen it. After all, she herself said that the elite monster has never violated any rules so far."

Xue Rui said, "But these messages are still very important and worth trying."

Fang Hong: "Does this elite monster have to follow the rule of killing all those who break the rules? If she can't kill anyone who breaks the rules before 6 a.m., then she herself is considered to have broken the rules?"

Xue Rui: "We probably can't try this. The consequences of attacking the elite monster at six o'clock..."

A player previously helped them test what the consequences would be if they attacked a regular ghost after 6 PM. The reward was 1,000 points in 24 hours. If it were an elite monster, the reward would be over 10,000 points.

After all, killing an ordinary ghost only earns you a little over two hundred points, but the reward for a bounty is four times that!

Killing an elite monster rewards you with 3,000 points. If that's quadrupled, that's over 10,000 points! Over 10,000 points would drive all other players crazy!

Isn't this much easier than killing an elite monster? You can even just commit suicide to leave the dungeon, since failing to clear it only deducts 10,000 points, which breaks even!

Therefore, Xue Rui would never recommend this method. Even if it could kill elite monsters, it would not be recommended because it would be a waste of anyone's time.

Lin Leyou watched Xue Rui working diligently at his desk with great interest. "Was he this diligent when he was at Xue's Group?"

He felt a pang of sympathy when he thought about how Xue Rui was younger than him and had to juggle his company, studies, and endless game instances at such a young age.

Sometimes, if you could just lie down and relax, nobody would want to work themselves to death, right?

Lin Leyou looked at his serious expression and unconsciously became lost in thought. When he came back to his senses, he found it a little strange, as he was not usually such a sentimental person.

It must be because Xue Rui spent a lot of time with him, plus the reason for his own death in his previous life...

"Forget it, why think about this now? Let bygones be bygones, I still need to look forward and move on! As for Xiao Rui... I'll help her if I can in the future."

Just as Xue Rui was about to send more messages, he suddenly heard some strange noises nearby. He immediately closed the chat group page and opened his worksheet to work diligently.

He could see that the ordinary NPC employee in the same office as him, but a bit far away, was trembling, his face practically pressed against the table!

Xue Rui knew that something was coming. He knew it wasn't an ordinary ghost because he didn't run away; it must be an elite monster. And sure enough, it was.

He was sitting at his desk working diligently, but he had a mechanical spider hiding nearby. Soon, he saw the elite monster, which had failed to catch the player who had just escaped, appear outside the door.

She still looked like the monster she had transformed into many times before. She walked very slowly, taking only one step every few seconds, and she walked with a limp, reminding Xue Rui of the slow-moving zombies in movies and TV shows.

Xue Rui narrowed his eyes. How did an elite monster appear? Could there be someone violating the rules here? Or is the player who escaped earlier hiding here?

Just when he thought this elite monster would slowly leave, she unexpectedly stopped at the door, turned around and faced the office, her eyes darting around, one in one direction and the other in the other.

Xue Rui knew that she was looking at him with one eye and at another ordinary NPC in the office with the other. Was she on patrol?

To Xue Rui's surprise, another employee, even with his head down and his face almost touching the table, was still typing away on the keyboard as if he were working very seriously.

And so, the elite monster didn't leave, but slowly walked in. He first came over to Xue Rui, who paused slightly, but didn't do anything else, continuing to work as if she hadn't seen him.

As expected, the elite monster didn't linger over him. It just glanced at him a few times as it passed by, and then went to another employee. That employee was trembling all over. Xue Rui could see out of the corner of his eye that the other person's hands were shaking so badly that they were almost blurry, yet he was still typing away on the keyboard.

Fortunately, the elite monster didn't think the employee had violated the rules. She circled around a couple of times and then left. Only after she walked out of the office and disappeared at the end of the corridor did the employee breathe a sigh of relief and slump onto the desk with a thud.

Xue Rui thought for a moment and then said, "It's not that bad..."

The other person looked up at Xue Rui, his face showing obvious relief, and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Brother, you're too carefree! Aren't you scared at all?"

Without even thinking, Xue Rui replied, "I haven't broken any rules, so I'm not afraid."

"I know! I know!" he whispered, "but even knowing that doesn't completely stop me from being afraid. That face, that mouth, that mouth that could swallow my whole head... it was right behind me just now, how could I not be afraid?!"