Chapter 383 Rusty City Strange Stories

It is working hours and the buyer's office is brightly lit.

Xu Zhiyan and Qi Shanren walked in. The bright office was empty, probably because everyone had gone out to work.

As soon as they came in, they were attracted by the reward system hanging on the wall.

[The reward plan is to encourage employees to complete their work better. All those who complete their tasks can get bonuses. The more GPAs they get, the better the reward.]

The amount of reward you will receive will be indicated below based on how many GPA you get.

[100: Gold 100g]

[200: 200g gold]

[3……]

The previous rewards were all gold corresponding to the GPA, but when the GPA exceeded one thousand, there were other things.

[1000: 1000g of gold + 3 days of travel]

[Note: All travel expenses are to be paid by yourself.]

[2000: 2000g gold + a set of real estate in Rusty City]

“That’s quite generous.”

Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows.

These rewards seem reasonable but also weird. Everything in the factory is free. What’s the use of gold?

Qi Shanren pointed at the property with a look of horror.

"No way? There are monsters out there, why would anyone want to live out there? Who would come back if they could go out and travel?"

Going beyond the reward system, the two continued to wander around the office and soon found the performance statistics sheet with shocking numbers on it.

The performance of the month is recorded behind each person's name. As expected, everyone's GPA is not low. When it is impossible to find over-ripe raw materials, it is worth investigating where these GPAs come from.

The two walked around the office. Qi Shanren picked up a pair of sunglasses from the table and put them down again. He couldn't help but sigh: "Is this guy's hobby collecting sunglasses? Why does he have so many?"

"not necessarily."

Xu Zhiyan shook his head and casually opened a drawer beside him.

There are a lot of things in the drawer.

In addition to watches and mobile phones, there are also coin purses, small jewelry and other items of various patterns and colors, but you can tell at a glance that these are not the same person's things, but belong to multiple people.

Xu Zhiyan casually took out a mobile phone from inside, used a prop to unlock it, and looked through the contents inside.

Qi Shanren realized something belatedly and quickly put down his sunglasses.

Not only him, but even the audience watching the live broadcast had already guessed most of the process.

[Wow, it looks like this factory has a lot of problems.]

[These are all stolen goods. After the man was killed, all the valuable items were divided among the people in the office.]

[Tsk tsk tsk, it looks like he has done a lot of bad things. ]

[I don’t know what the factory manager is like. ]

[Maybe you'll see it soon. Didn't Xiao Baiwan ask Lao Zhao to kill someone? Summon the factory manager with three knives! ]

Xu Zhiyan has also found some information, which are conversations on the chat software.

[Dad, we are already in the car. We will probably reach Rusty City in half a day.]

[I will be back next week, don't worry, I won't eat junk food outside! Hehe, I will bring you some local specialties when I return! ]

The owner of the phone is a young person who sent messages with emoticons, but her father doesn't seem to be very good at typing.

A rough male voice sent a voice message, explaining everything again in detail, especially safety.

[Okay, I got it! I promise to get home safely! ]

【We are here.】

The conversation was normal up to this point, and the owner of the phone even took a few photos of the road and sent them to his family.

But before long, the content changed.

[This city is so strange, why is there no one on the road? Is it because the station is too far away? ] [Send failed]

[Dad, we plan to go back two days earlier.] [Send failed]

This city, which already had problems, did not hide anything. Perhaps in an effort to conceal the information, all subsequent content was shown with exclamation marks and could not be sent out.

The owner of the phone is also becoming increasingly nervous.

It is not difficult to see from the call records that she called many people and chose to call the police, but it was all in vain.

Finally, the message was sent successfully.

[Dad, this place is great, we want to work here, you should come too. ]

This message was followed by a photo, which was a selfie of several young people wearing gray-blue work clothes. Judging from the date, it was taken several months ago.

Xu Zhiyan closed his phone and searched for other things.

"What kind of Rusty City is this? It might as well be called the Cannibal City." Qi Shanren complained in a low voice and handed over a photo frame.

"Boss Xu, I found this in the reception room next door."

Xu Zhiyan took the photo frame with a somewhat surprised expression.

There is a group photo in the frame, which is taken right at the factory gate. A beautiful woman in a red dress is affectionately holding the arm of a white-haired old man.

"The old man next to him is the factory director." Qi Shanren added at the right time.

But Xu Zhiyan's gaze was fixed on the woman's face.

"Miss Lil?"

On the back of Gan Mi’s ID card, there was a portrait of a woman, and that woman was none other than Miss Lil, the core of their mission.

"Ah? Is that the one who called the police?" Qi Shanren also realized the importance of the woman and asked cautiously: "Boss Xu, are we still going to arrest the factory director?"

"Catch, of course."

After Xu Zhiyan finished speaking, he looked towards the door.

After a while, heavy footsteps came closer and closer, and Lao Zhao came down from upstairs dragging five cylindrical white bags.

“It’s all taken care of!”

There was a hint of fanaticism in his eyes, as if what was pulling him behind him were not five people who were about to become raw materials, but money that could bring him to the pinnacle of his life.

Xu Zhiyan smiled.

"Do you need me to make a call for you?"

Old Zhao waved his hands and said repeatedly: "No, no, I'll just throw them in."

As he spoke, he groped his way to the side of the office, found a button in the drawer, and pressed it hard.

The next second, a crack appeared in the snow-white wall.

Lao Zhao threw the five tied-up people in one by one, explaining to Xu Zhiyan, "This is a passage with more than three people. After pressing the button, you must throw in the raw materials for verification before notifying the factory manager."

After doing all this, he rubbed his hands and looked very excited.

"If you catch three at a time, you can get a gold reward. I wonder how much I will get if I catch five at a time." He seemed to have forgotten those people, who turned out to be his colleagues, and his tone was full of impatience for the reward.

"What can gold do in the city?" Xu Zhiyan was a little curious.

When talking about money, Lao Zhao suddenly showed a trace of vigilance.

Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan waved his hands repeatedly: "We have agreed that the reward belongs to you. We are not interested in this. We just want to ask you a few questions."

He picked up the photo frame, pointed at the woman on it and asked, "Who is this?"

Hearing that Xu Zhiyan didn't want his money, Lao Zhao relaxed a little. When he saw the photo frame, he explained, "This is Miss Lil! She is a mixed-race beauty, the daughter of our factory director. As for the gold... you can use it to do a lot of things in Rusty City."

"daughter?"

Xu Zhiyan was stunned.

It seems reasonable on the surface, but everything seems not so reasonable.

If Lil was really the factory director's daughter, why would she find the city rescue team and send people to look for her continuously?

While thinking about the hidden story, Lao Zhao received a phone call and his expression changed again and again.

Finally, after hanging up the phone, he said nervously and excitedly: "The factory manager said that I performed very well this time, and he will reward me well and give me a large sum of gold!"

But when he turned around, Lao Zhao hesitated again.

"The factory manager said he can only see me, so why don't you step aside?"

He probably wanted to be more assertive, but when he thought of the scene on the rooftop just now, he felt timid and didn't dare to speak too loudly.

"I will do my best to take the factory director to the top floor, but I'm not sure if he will trust me and follow me up there." Lao Zhao said.

I didn't expect that Lao Zhao would turn against me.

Qi Shanren's eyes suddenly widened and he wanted to say something, but Xu Zhiyan quickly nodded in agreement.

"No problem, we'll wait for you upstairs. It's safer there for us." After saying this ambiguous sentence, he glanced at Lao Zhao and continued.

"By the way, do you know where Miss Lil is?"

"I don't know. Miss Lil rarely appears in the factory. I have only seen her once in a while."

Old Zhao shook his head and urged: "Hurry up and leave. The factory director will be here soon...whether you guys go downstairs directly?"

"Let's go to the top floor first."

Ignoring Qi Shanren's obstruction, Xu Zhiyan turned around and left quickly.

It was not until they entered the top floor that Qi Shanren angrily asked, "Did this old Zhao leave the top floor and think that we can't hurt him, so he became more powerful?"

He didn't dare to blame Xu Zhiyan and could only put the blame on Lao Zhao.

The factory is very harmonious and employees are not allowed to harm others. If the factory manager does not come forward, it is difficult for them to take action.

Seeing Xu Zhiyan's calm face, he said angrily: "We can't touch them according to the rules. What if Lao Zhao doesn't bring the factory director upstairs?"

"By the way, Boss Xu, do you have any props that can be used for mind control?"

Thinking it was a good idea, Qi Shanren's eyes lit up as he said, "Right! Is it too late for us to put a teleportation item downstairs? Teleport that old man up directly!"

Xu Zhiyan didn't respond. He stared at the door the two people came in through for a few seconds, and contrary to his usual behavior, he talked about things related to the rescue team.

"The core of our mission this time is to find Miss Lil. At first I thought she was dead, so I planned to arrest the factory director directly. But if Miss Lil is controlled by the factory director, then arresting her rashly may affect her safety."

"ah?"

Qi Shanren felt that his poor brain suddenly stopped working. Weren’t they just thinking about arresting the factory director?

I just heard Xu Zhiyan talking about this as if he was really a member of the rescue team.

"If we go downstairs now, we might just run into the factory manager. Let's leave after they leave, rescue Miss Lil, and take her away from Rusty City."

"……ah?"

Qi Shanren wanted to say something else when he saw Xu Zhiyan glance towards the window, take out a pair of glasses and throw them over.

"Take this with you so you can see farther. Go check if the factory manager's people downstairs have left."

After taking the glasses, Qi Shanren put them on obediently and was stunned at first. Then he walked to the window reluctantly with a nervous expression.

"But... you can see far."

The moment he put on the glasses, he saw another scene. Inside the wall of this room that was not protected by rules, dense red dots were flashing. These glasses were a technological prop and they even had content marked on them.

[Monitoring instrument][Detection instrument][Detection…]

Since they entered here, everything has been monitored...

Qi Shanren leaned against the wall, his heart pounding.

He turned his head and looked back, only to see Xu Zhiyan sitting on a stool, with his legs crossed and his eyes closed, completely oblivious to the fact that he was being watched.

Xu Zhiyan also had a headache.

He originally didn't plan to tell Qi Shanren, but this kid was a loose-lipped person and blurted out everything, so he could only give him some hints in advance.

As expected, after learning that the room was under surveillance, Qi Shanren became much quieter.