Chapter 11 The Infinite Boss Invites You to "Eat Melon" 11. From S...

Along with the new entry, there's also new content unlocked for the entry "The Self You Don't Know," but there's nothing new, just a few more sentences about what happened five years ago after Lu Yu's identity.

These texts were few in number, just a few paragraphs, but the amount of information they contained was quite substantial for Lu Yu.

He silently processed the information for a moment, then asked, "Is the Lu Yu you mentioned the same Lu Yu I am?"

The "Gossip System": [Don't doubt it, host, it's you.]

Lu Yu: "...I haven't felt like a god since I was fifteen."

The "Gossip System": [Please note, the host is not a god, but merely a former "near-god."]

Lu Yu fell silent.

He was walking amidst the noisy and crowded throngs of people, yet he felt incredibly lonely. This loneliness was the loneliness of a normal person who had stumbled into a world of delusional madness.

Lonely Lu Yu opened his phone and sent Pei Yanzhi a cute emoji. Pei Yanzhi seemed unconcerned, replying instantly: 【What's up?】

Lu Yu: [I'm a little lonely, I miss you.]

This sudden display of affection probably startled Pei Yanzhi as well. He typed for a while before replying, "[Then I'll pick you up from work tonight?]"

Lu Yu thought for a moment and replied, "Never mind, I've been busy with the music festival these past few days, and I get off work too late. I'll come find you after it's over in a couple of days."

He was unaware of his own situation, but now that he knows, whether for self-preservation or for some vague intuition, he has to do something.

He didn't want to involve Pei Yanzhi in what he was doing, but if Pei Yanzhi insisted on getting involved, then as Lu Yu told the system, he would have another way to deal with it.

Lu Yu simply didn't want that kind of scene to happen between them.

Lu Yu rejected Pei Yanzhi's suggestion, and Pei Yanzhi didn't say anything more.

The two chatted casually, and Lu Yu even took out his phone to take several photos of Pei Yanzhi at the music festival, where the atmosphere was very lively.

In the middle of the night, Lu Yu had Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi keep an eye on things while he went backstage. When he came out, he had a simple paper name tag around his neck.

Upon seeing this, Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi immediately moved closer to him: "Hey Brother Lu, why do you have an extra work badge? What's it for...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Yu opened a thick, waterproof bag and stuffed the work badge inside. The high-ranking official's hand arrived a second too late, only touching the waterproof bag that tightly sealed the work badge.

The high-ranking official's expression stiffened for a moment, a strange look on his face.

He was so close to getting the monster to make direct contact with the work badge! Gao Gan shouted inwardly.

Lu Yu glanced down at the opportune moment and happened to see two strange stickers on the high-ranking official's index and middle fingers, which looked like a cluster of tentacles.

Could this be the strange creature mentioned by the gossip system?

Lu Yu pondered.

Aren't supernatural beings supposed to be forbidden from touching fragments of divine power? If they do, they might go out of control and collapse, turning against their master. But judging from Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi's expressions, they don't seem worried about that at all. So, either this isn't a supernatural being, or Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi are unaware of this and have been tricked and manipulated?

Lu Yu didn't know what the fragments of divinity were around him, so Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi's behavior seemed to him like playing Minesweeper in real life, which was quite exciting.

"There are some things you shouldn't touch," Lu Yucheng hinted, referring to the two cups of milk tea they had received.

The high-ranking official, as if startled, abruptly withdrew his hand, seemingly realizing something: "I'm sorry, Brother Lu, I just wanted to..."

"Tattoo?" Lu Yu interrupted him, his gaze falling on his fingertips.

"Brother Lu, is this what you mean?" Gao Gan paused, trying to suppress his guilt and fear, and put on a natural smile, showing Lu Yu his finger. "It's not a tattoo, it's a sticker, a temporary tattoo, you know? I came to the music festival and everyone was dressed so fashionably, so I just followed the trend and got one too."

He believed that Lu Yu wouldn't come up and grab his hand to examine it closely.

Lu Yu indeed did not.

He glanced at it and asked, "Are there any more? Put one up for me too."

The high-ranking official almost broke out in a cold sweat: "That's all, Brother Lu, the last one is for Xiaoqi." Bao Xiaoqi quickly cooperated by showing the sticker on her palm.

"Never mind then." Lu Yu didn't press the matter.

The high-ranking official glanced at his expression and figured he was just asking casually and hadn't noticed anything amiss. So he boldly turned his gaze to his work badge: "Brother Lu, why did you change to a new work badge and put a waterproof bag over it?"

Lu Yu tucked his name tag into his shirt: "The last one fell into the toilet, so I went backstage and asked someone for a new one. The new one isn't even wrapped in plastic, and there aren't many left, so we have to take good care of it. The weather forecast says it's going to rain later, so we'll put it in a waterproof bag to be on the safe side."

Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi exchanged a glance, and the latter immediately said, "Brother Lu, I'm particularly good at wrapping these brands and cards, let me do it for you..."

“Don’t bother,” Lu Yu refused, his brow furrowing slightly in apparent displeasure. “The music festival is about to start, and there will be a lot of things to do later. Don’t waste time. The boss paid you to come here to work, not to have your name tags covered. Go do what you were supposed to do according to the previous arrangements.”

The first half of the sentence was alright, but the second half, coming from Lu Yu, a master of slacking off, just didn't sound right.

But neither Gao Gan nor Bao Xiaoqi thought much of it, because Lu Yu was their immediate superior. Bosses are all hypocritical, bosses love to scold people, and bosses don't like to be contradicted when they scold people. These three rules are considered strange workplace rules.

Although Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi are still college students and have never been to the workplace, they are very knowledgeable about it.

They noticed Lu Yu's change in mood, their hearts skipped a beat, and they dared not say anything more, for fear of arousing Lu Yu's suspicion and resentment.

"Okay, Brother Lu, we'll go right now, we'll go right now..."

The high-ranking official gave Bao Xiaoqi a wink, and the two of them quickly moved away like two little quails.

Upon reaching a secluded corner where no one was around, their smiles vanished instantly. They stared at each other, looking as if they had lost their parents.

"Did I arouse his suspicion just now?" Bao Xiaoqi asked in a trembling voice.

The senior official was silent for a moment, then shook his head: "There shouldn't be any, but we still need to be careful and not make it too obvious. After all, this is an SSS-level dungeon boss. Although it hasn't shown any obvious signs of corruption, we can't approach it and test it as recklessly as we did the past two days. Who can guarantee that it won't suddenly do something big to us?"

When they went to get bottled water, they received a call from an S-rank player named "Evolver." They didn't know how he got their temporary contact information in this instance.

Afterwards, they obtained two identical twin artifacts.

The "Evolvers" asked them to find a recently appeared item near Lu Yu that could make the strange creature react; it had to be an inanimate object, not a living one.

They were subjected to a barrage of threats and inducements, and had no way to refuse.

Bao Xiaoqi said, "We've touched most of the things around him today, but this strange object hasn't reacted at all. Could it be that what they're looking for isn't there at all, or that this strange object that can identify such things is broken..."

Gao Gan said, "I don't know either, but 'Evolver' has a rather mediocre reputation among S-level players, so we can't completely trust what he says. Although there are benefits, it's not a very risky job to find things."

Bao Xiaoqi smiled bitterly: "You said it yourself, his reputation is so-so, he's not willing to risk his life, I'm afraid he'll take our lives!"

He sighed, "Now we're in a dilemma. We're surrounded by wolves in front and tigers behind. We can't afford to offend Lu Yu, and we can't afford to offend the 'Evolvers' either. It's only because the other S-level players haven't come after us yet, for some reason. If they do, we'll really be in big trouble."

"No, this is just a regular A-level dungeon, a regular cross-scene storyline, right? How did we get involved in an SSS-level dungeon?"

"Am I really not dreaming?"

Bao Xiaoqi is questioning the meaning of life.

He thought about how he and the high-ranking official had confidently patted their chests in front of the short-haired girl in the company's virtual chat room yesterday, and he felt that they had been set up.

"Alright, stop thinking about it so much," the senior official had composed himself. "We're already involved. Whether we avoid it or not, we'll just take it one step at a time. Anyway, we're just two ordinary players. We don't have high intelligence or high combat skills, and we don't have any strange artifacts on us. What can we do? Just muddle through."

"Slacking off?" Bao Xiaoqi glanced at the high-ranking official, understanding his meaning. "You mean slacking off?"

“Yes,” the senior official nodded, no longer wanting to experience the heart-pounding fear of almost being suspected by Lu Yu. “We’ve been working hard all afternoon. The ‘Evolvers’ have a way to remotely monitor Lu Yu, so they should have seen some things. We’ve established the image of us risking our lives for them. Now, let’s start slacking off. Pretend to be working hard, but actually take it easy.”

"This way, we won't offend the 'evolvers' or really anger Lu Yu. Besides, I don't think they really have any high hopes for us or that we can definitely find something."

“That makes sense,” Bao Xiaoqi said, convinced. “Then what about Lu Yu’s new work badge…”

"We tried our best, but we were powerless to change anything, understand?" the high-ranking official said.

Bao Xiaoqi understood.

Two college students, fresh out of college and entering the workforce in the game, are forced to learn and apply the slacking techniques passed down from their old colleagues and taught by Lu Yu, in order to survive.

Lu Yu then noticed that although Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi still occasionally circled around him, touching this and that, and coveting his work badge, they seemed to have lost some of the genuine effort they had shown in the afternoon.

Could it be that his previous deliberate dissatisfaction scared them away?

It doesn't seem quite right.

Lu Yu hasn't figured it out yet, but that doesn't affect his plan.

After the music festival started, he deliberately let Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi come into contact with other things around him throughout the night, but the work badge always slipped through their fingers by accident just when they were about to get it.

The two gradually realized something was wrong, but before they could even form any thoughts, their phones both started vibrating.

A new message popped up in the newly created encrypted group of "Evolver".

"Evolver": [Steals his new job badge.]

Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi's faces instantly turned green.

Dude, are you kidding me? Stealing loot from an SSS-level dungeon boss? Me?

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