Why do first-level employees have to live on the 18th floor?

After the smoke and dust cleared, they began to open the packages of seeds.

Most of the seeds are packed in sacks. Those with better packaging are divided into separate small packages, and there are also several exquisite wooden boxes. You can tell at a glance that they contain good treasures.

I started with the sack. It held the most seeds, and they were the heaviest. I opened the sack, reached in, scooped out a handful, and then, after putting them in my hand, I was disappointed. The seeds were riddled with holes, weathered and blackened.

Tian Baozhu picked up a few more handfuls to see if there were any good seeds left, but the result disappointed her greatly.

What about seeds that come in individual packets?

They opened the bags one by one, and for some unknown reason, the seeds inside the bags split in half and felt hard to the touch, which marked their failure.

All that was left was the wooden box, and their only hope rested on it! Tian Baozhu carefully opened it. Oh, it looked so good, so complete! But as soon as she squeezed it, it all crackled and fell apart, and the gorgeous box itself perished along with it.

"Oh, oh, oh, all the seeds I worked so hard to find are useless." The owner of the farm tool store looked downcast and sighed continuously.

"Is that all? Is there anything else I haven't seen..."

"Absolutely no more! Lord Bai Wuchang, I know you are anxious to find seeds, but I have worked hard to get them out from every corner for you. I have not delayed at all in helping you." The implication is that compared to the seeds, I have spared no effort in my work, and you should be more grateful for my hard work.

"I understand, I understand. Thank you for finding it all."

What should she do? All the seeds in the farm tool store in the underworld are unusable. Where else can she start to get seeds?

"Don't you have any golden nanmu seeds here?" Hei Wuchang asked as he flipped through the packaging of the seeds again.

It's fine if Hei Wuchang doesn't speak, but once he does, he's very oppressive. The owner of the farm tool shop started to stutter when he replied, as if he was afraid that Hei Wuchang would hit him if he said something wrong. "Master Hei Wuchang, since I started working in this shop, I've never seen seeds labeled as golden nanmu entering the warehouse. Please don't be angry, the farm tool shop doesn't have everything..."

He put his four hands together and bowed to beg for mercy, which was a bit funny. It was obvious that he was really at his wit's end.

Tian Baozhu didn't want to embarrass him, so she decided to find another channel. So she asked her boss, "Is there any other place in the underworld where we can find seeds? Or perhaps a place where those plants have grown before? Can you tell me about it?"

"The best place for flowers to bloom in the underworld is by the Forgetful River. That's where Meng Po governs, and only the flowers she planted have ever withered in large numbers in the underworld."

"Oh~~" Got some useful information.

Meng Po also likes farm work, right? Otherwise, why is she the only one who can make those plants survive? Why doesn't the King of Hell let Meng Po join in the farming? When she met Meng Po another day, she invited her to try.

Knowing there was a place to get seeds, Tian Baozhu's enthusiasm suddenly rose. She continued to ask the boss: "Do you sell compound fertilizer in your store? What kind of fertilizer does the underworld usually use?"

"Compound fertilizer? I've never heard of it. Fertilizer is easy to make. Just dig up some mud from the River of Forgetfulness and cover the plant seeds with it."

So simple and crude?! The things planted in the underworld didn't grow before, could it be related to the planting method...

All these are related to Meng Po. Tian Baozhu thinks that there is no need to wait for meeting her anymore. She will go to the place where Meng Po is in charge and find her by the Wangchuan River.

"Senior, I've made up my mind. Let's go find Meng Po for help and ask her to give us some seeds and some planting advice. Let's go now."

"Lady Meng Po is very elusive. She only comes out to work on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month when the Ghost Gate opens. Today is the fourteenth day. If you go there now, you might find nothing." The farm tool store owner reminded them.

That is to say...

If you want to ask Meng Po for seeds and learn skills, you have to find her at the right time. "Oh, I thought I would start working today after accepting the task from Lord Yama."

She is about to start sighing like the farm implement shop owner.

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"Master Bai Wuchang, you might want to try your luck at the Naihe Bridge in Wangchuan on the 15th. Master Mengpo will definitely be working by the Naihe Bridge, but she works very quickly. Once she's processed the required number of people in the queue for reincarnation, she'll finish her work and leave. So it depends on your luck whether you can run into her during her working hours."

This is all I can do. I’ll go find Meng Po tomorrow.

At this time, Tian Baozhu felt that the light coming in from outside the house suddenly became less. She suddenly looked up at the sky outside the store. The brightness of the sky did not change, but a huge projection appeared on the ground.

Before Tian Baozhu could figure out what this strange phenomenon was, she heard the boss say:

"The sun is setting, my lords. I'm done on duty today. The shop is closing soon. I'm leaving."

"The sun sets? It's not dark yet."

The boss ignored Tian Baozhu's questions. He didn't even clean up the seeds and packaging he had moved out. After "inviting" her and Hei Wuchang to leave the store, he quickly closed the door.

The shops next door also closed at the same time. The farm tool store had a very small space, so the owner was done after closing one door.

"Mr. Wuchang, have a nice day off from get off work~"

The owner of the farm tool store who loves to sigh, smiled his first big smile of the day.

The man disappeared in a flash.

It's very lazy to slack off at work, but it's very quick to leave work.

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After walking out of the door, the huge projection can be seen expanding faster and faster. Tian Baozhu was also shrouded in this shadow. After the boss left, Tian Baozhu turned her attention back. She looked up, wondering how these projections were produced and why everyone left work at the same time after the projections appeared.

A gigantic sphere was slowly falling down, dark in color, like a molten iron ball burning in a coal furnace. The sky above was almost completely occupied by it, so full that it could hardly contain it.

"What is this?!"

"The setting sun."

This was the scene she had once dreamed of, of a planet colliding with the earth.

But this wasn't a dream. The sight of the massive sphere falling down was enough to trigger her megaphobia. She felt suffocated and dared not look up at the sky.

"You...you aren't afraid..."

"I see it every day, what's there to be afraid of?"

Hei Wuchang really didn't seem to be afraid. He walked at a steady pace, in the same direction as the employees leaving get off work, as if he was going somewhere.

"Everyone's leaving get off work so neatly, are they heading to evacuate...?"

"?"

Tian Baozhu saw a big “?” expression of confusion on the face of Hei Wuchang who had stopped in front of her.

"Master Bai Wuchang, the sun is setting, it's time to get off work."

An employee passing by seemed to have heard their conversation and explained to Tian Baozhu with a smile: "After get off work, I went back to the staff dormitory."

"Will the sun not fall down, hit the earth, and destroy the underworld?"

"How could that be? The sun sets from the human world to the underworld, and then rises back from the underworld to the human world. It just circles around us, it won't fall down. At least, in the hundreds of years I've lived in the underworld, it has never happened."

"That's great! Thank you for telling me." Tian Baozhu breathed a sigh of relief. The employee smiled friendly and walked away.

Tian Baozhu followed the line of sight and saw that they were now in front of a tall building.

Back then, she'd seen a long, upward-drawn "Residential" building on a map. She hadn't understood what it was, but now she knew it was the staff dormitory. She counted from the bottom up and saw it was eighteen stories high.

The unit allocated a house, and hehe, she was also allowed to live there.

She walked to the first floor and was stopped by an employee: "Master Bai Wuchang, your residence is not here. You have to go upstairs."

"Which floor does Wuchang usually live on?"

"Eighteenth floor."

"Eighteenth floor?!"

Tian Baozhu was shocked: "Why do we have to move up as our rank increases? Shouldn't level one employees live on the first floor?"

"Those who live on the first floor are the lowest-level, level 18 employees. The higher the level, the higher up you go. That's just the way it makes sense."

Tian Baozhu wanted to cry. She had to climb eighteen floors, and there was no elevator. Wouldn’t her legs be exhausted to death?

but……

"Why are there only eighteen floors? Where's Lord Yama? Doesn't he live above us?"

"No, Lord Yama has his own unique courtyard."

Oh, it really fits his identity.

"But ever since the number of ghosts in the underworld has increased, Lord Yama has been living in Yama Palace. Because he has to work non-stop to approve things, he has no time to come back and live here."

Well, Lord Yama is such a good Yama.

But why did you arrange the accommodation order like this, leader? Tian Baozhu glanced at the rake in her hand.

She found it easy to walk on flat ground, but she didn't have the confidence in her physical strength to climb the 18th floor with a rake.

"Senior, please don't leave yet. Can you teach me how to open the hidden space again?"

Hei Wuchang, who was about to go upstairs, was stopped by Tian Baozhu again, and he walked down a few steps.

"Imagine there's a tear in front of you, and put your hand through it..."

Hei Wuchang repeated his previous instruction. Tian Baozhu shook her head. "I understand what you mean, Senior. I want to ask, is there any other way to open up the hidden space? Because you see, my rake won't fit in..."

She was looking like a wet puppy again.

Hei Wuchang lowered his head.

Are you thinking? Tian Baozhu tilted her head to observe his actions, and then saw him stretch out his hand and said, "Give it to me, I'll put it away for you first."