Chapter 099 City Hall (Part 3)

The small activity that Bai Tao casually initiated quickly became popular.

After guessing the names of the 24 functional departments of the City Hall, people spontaneously organized themselves to guess other mysteries.

Amid the noise, Bai Tao pulled up her work badge. She was very sure that she had not seen wrongly what was written on it: [Registration Office for the T City Lord Election]. The information on the note was true!

Bai Tao helped Xiao Wu up. The dark-skinned handsome guy let out a light click of his tongue, a little unhappy, but said nothing. He used his hands to pull Xiao Wu up.

Bai Tao stared into Xiao Wu's eyes and asked, "Human Resources Management Department? I've never heard of it. What does it do?"

Xiao Wu avoided his gaze, and under the pressure of Bai Tao's gaze, he answered in a low voice: "Yes——"

"I am responsible for the dismissal of City Hall employees."

A woman walked through the crowd, and the restaurant became quiet. The sounds of talking, chewing, and the subtle friction of human clothing all disappeared, as if the still button had been pressed.

Time stood still for only a moment, so fast that people couldn't react, and the restaurant returned to normal.

After hearing what the Human Resources Management Department does, they all moved away from Xiao Wu. Their movements were smooth and there was no sign of pause at all.

Only Bai Tao instinctively felt that something was wrong.

"Sister Han, you're here?"

"I heard there's a new member joining, I came to take a look."

The woman called Sister Han gave her a look, and someone immediately offered her a seat. She sat next to Bai Tao and said, "What game are you playing? Count me in!"

No one replied, and everyone looked at Bai Tao.

Bai Tao: "Okay, we are discussing the 24 functional departments of the City Hall. Which department is Sister Han from?"

This guy was different from everyone else in the restaurant.

"Secretary Department, Bai Tao, why are you asking about this?"

Bai Tao: "I want to change my job. I want to learn more about it. Sister Han, what does the secretary department usually do? Is it easy?"

The long-haired man interrupted Bai Tao and asked, "Transfer to our department!"

Dark-skinned handsome guy: "You guys are out on the field every day, and you don't even have a place to rest. Why don't you go to your department? You might as well be a security guard. At least there is a security office to stay in. It's the easiest department—"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the long-haired man and they were about to start a quarrel.

Bai Tao suppressed the two with one sentence: "12 to 12, it's a tie. What should we do?"

Dark-skinned handsome guy: "He drank a penalty drink, but I didn't. I won!"

He raised his hand to put it on Bai Tao's shoulder, but then he met Bai Tao's emotionless eyes. His body froze for no reason, and his pupils dilated, as if he was dead.

Baitao: "!!!"

She was close enough to see the scene clearly.

Was this her doing?

She picked up the wine glass, blocked it in front of the dark-skinned handsome guy, and pretended to feed him wine: "Now you are also fined to drink, it's a tie."

After finishing the cup, the dark-skinned handsome guy started moving again.

"So cunning, you're biased!" He complained about Bai Tao's behavior very naturally, unaware of his own stiff behavior just a moment ago.

Bai Tao: "It just said that you guys tied, but it didn't say there's no reward. If you don't want the reward, that's fine."

The dark-skinned handsome guy bared his teeth: "No."

Bai Tao was having so much fun with the two men that she seemed to have forgotten about [Sister Han] long ago.

But Bai Tao was keeping an eye on her all the time. After drinking a glass of juice, [Sister Han] disappeared out of thin air in the restaurant, and Xiao Wu from the Human Resources Department also disappeared.

Sure enough, among all the city hall employees, [Sister Han] is special, and as for Xiao Wu, his department is special.

Apart from this, Bai Tao felt that everyone here was fake, including the two men who seemed to be tailor-made according to Bai Tao's preferences.

The dinner was over and we came out of the restaurant. The sun was still hanging above the horizon, stubbornly refusing to set.

The dark-skinned handsome guy stood not far from Bai Tao and looked at her intently: "I'll take you back."

Bai Tao grabbed Xiaowen before she could escape and hummed twice.

He changed his words reluctantly: "Then I'll call you when I get back."

After Bai Tao left, he still stared at her back reluctantly.

Xiaowen: "He must be hating me now. Tell me what you think of him!"

Bai Tao: "He's an okay guy." But her expression and actions showed that she was just talking nonsense. Bai Tao had a good impression of the dark-skinned handsome guy.

There were densely packed surveillance cameras on one wall of the secretariat, all of which showed Bai Tao's figure. She was being monitored 360° from different angles, from the front, side, and back.

Sister Han pushed the door open and came in: "The alarm is lifted, she didn't find anything unusual."

The other people in the secretariat relaxed upon hearing this and turned their eyes away from the surveillance.

Another person asked, "When the HR manager came out, my heart was in my throat. Fortunately, Sister Han, you acted quickly. By the way, where is the person called Xiao Wu?"

Sister Han: "It has been cleared. After I left, was there anything unusual with No. 59?"

He shook his head and said, "No, she is having a great time with the person we specially created. If they keep trying, they will probably enter the palace of love."

He placed his hands behind his head, resting his head on the chair, "Same as always, no challenge at all."

Sister Han was not so optimistic: "Let's first find out why the registration office for the city lord election appeared."

"I've watched the replay. She encountered difficulties when she joined the company, so she wanted to change departments. She was so lucky. She almost discovered the big secret."

After a while of fiddling, a bunch of buttons with "Administrative Department" written on them appeared. There was a portrait on each button, including the director, Xiaowen, and - Xiao Zhang.

Press the button with the small portrait on it, and a big X will appear on the screen.

"Don't worry, this little trouble won't appear again."

As one of the benefits for city hall employees, the staff dormitory is a single room with no roommates, leaving Bai Tao with ample personal space.

Back in the dormitory, Bai Tao did not let her guard down and behaved the same as she did in the restaurant.

I went into the bathroom, turned on the faucet, and washed my face while rubbing my cheeks. My face felt sore from laughing too much.

The note that read [Dream City Lord Election Begins, Welcome to Participate!] was still in Bai Tao's pocket, but she had no intention of taking it out.

As soon as she came into contact with Xiao Wu, Sister Han stepped out to stop her, which made Bai Tao think more. She suspected that she was being monitored all the time. The reason for this idea was exactly the same as the sudden idea that this world was fake, so Bai Tao tended to guess that it was true.

The sunlight shines directly in through the window. It is still early and there is still time to verify the guess.

Go down to the dormitory management office on the first floor: "Sister, is there a roster? I want to find someone."

The dormitory manager was never wary of his own people, so he took out the roster and said, "You can only look at it here."

The roster records the name, dormitory number, phone number and department.

Bai Tao deliberately pointed her finger at the row of her department and kept scrolling down. She muttered something without making any sound, but her mouth shape looked like human resources.

Dormitory Manager: "Girl, what are you looking for?"

Bai Tao lowered her head and said nothing. She deliberately quickened her pace and looked very anxious, as if she didn't have much time.

Then an acquaintance showed up.

A dark-skinned handsome guy with a towel on his head appeared. He was panting and sweating, as if he had just finished exercising.

The dormitory manager was surprised and opened and closed his mouth, but no sound came out.

Bai Tao knew how to speak, and out of the corner of her eye she recognized what the dorm manager wanted to say, "You're back so early today?"

It was confirmed that he was under surveillance.

"Huh~ what a coincidence." The dark-skinned handsome guy greeted Bai Tao while panting.

Sweat soaked his shirt, which stuck tightly to his body, showing off his perfect body.

It was another beauty trap. Bai Tao lowered her head, looking as if she wanted to look but didn't dare to. In fact, there was no emotion at all. She exchanged a few words with the dark-skinned handsome guy and then pretended to run away.

Back in the room, Bai Tao reviewed her actions today.

The only loophole was that she took out the ghost-painted paper and checked it in the bathroom.

Sister Han was wary of Bai Tao's connection with the Human Resources Department, but she did not react to the note in Bai Tao's hand that read "City Lord Selection".

Was it because she couldn't recognize the meaning of the ghost painting, or was it because she was in the bathroom and not under surveillance?

I took a pen and paper into the bathroom and started copying...

Bai Tao stayed in the bathroom for a long time. When she came out, it was not yet dark.

Just as she was thinking, all three hands of the clock in the room pointed to 12. Bai Tao was paused. Not only her, but the whole world was paused. The clock hands began to spin rapidly, round and round, and when they pointed to six o'clock, the world returned to normal.

Bai Tao's actions also returned to normal. Looking around the dormitory, she always felt that something was wrong. When she saw the clock, she thought it was time to go to work at an inappropriate time.

In the administration department, everyone was sitting at their workstations when the director suddenly stood up.

"I have some bad news for you all. Xiao Zhang died in a car accident yesterday."

Baitao: "..."

Bai Tao had a hunch that Sister Han had something to do with this matter.

Director: "Bai Tao, Xiao Zhang's job will be handed over to you and Xiao Wen."

Bai Tao: "Yes, Director."

The director nodded: "Then continue working."

After a while, Xiaowen came over with small steps: "Bai Tao, Sister Zhang is gone, are you still planning to change your job?"

Without waiting for Bai Tao to speak, she pulled Bai Tao's arm and acted coquettishly: "Please don't leave, okay? If you leave, I will be left with no one to go with, so please don't leave~"

Xiaowen was the first person Bai Tao met who showed kindness to her after she started working. The two got along very well and after knowing each other for a few hours, they became as close as best friends.

But the feeling Xiaowen gave Bai Tao was the same as the feeling the two men she met at the party gave her.

They are all illusions.

This cute girl is also fake.

However, Bai Tao still agreed. She wanted to know what Sister Han's purpose was in asking her to stay in the administrative department.

During lunch break, Bai Tao went to the bathroom, replaced the normal paper towels in the bathroom with the ones with ghost drawings on them, and then left.

Then he went to the nearby department, which was the department where the dark-skinned handsome guy worked, and pretended to look for someone, but was actually just wandering around.

I saw with my own eyes a female employee walking out of the bathroom holding a tissue with ghost drawings on it. Everything was calm and nothing happened.

——Others couldn’t understand the meaning of the ghost drawing.

"Bai Tao!" Turning around, like a dog seeing its owner, the dark-skinned handsome guy blinked his bright eyes and stared at Bai Tao, "Are you here to see me?"

Bai Tao raised her lips and said, "Of course, let's find a quiet place to talk."

Bai Tao grabbed his tie and dragged him into the men's bathroom.