Chapter 119 The Murderer

The monster area is much larger and more complex than the area under human control.

But next I have to steal other people's salaries. Anyway, I will offend those who I should offend - but strangely enough, I haven't seen Rajesh for several days.

He showed up in our restaurant at dinner time for the first three days, but not these past two days.

Where did he go?

I asked Shi Qing, but Shi Qing didn't know either.

Rosehead was vague about the details, only saying that he was on a business trip - in order to sell the chewing fruits picked during the harvest season at a good price.

As for where to go, he didn't say.

...It turns out he can still work!

[…Host, what misunderstanding do you have about the protagonist's slicing? ]

I thought they were just watching me all day.

...However, the farmer's absence meant that the instructor was the only one who could control his subordinates. In other words, as long as they were not discovered by the instructor, they could basically do whatever they wanted on the farm.

So I tend to think that Rajesh's departure was a necessity of the plot, or rather a necessity of the rules.

During the harvest season, the power of superiors over their subordinates will become weaker and weaker until everyone is fighting each other.

——Everyone must die, the more the better.

Although I don’t know what the purpose of this infinite flow world is, I feel a sense of madness that doesn’t care about everyone’s life or death.

Whether it's a monster or a human.

[How should I put it? Your thinking is quite villainous.]

I am the savior, how can I be a villain? Don't tarnish my innocence.

[Ding Di Di - Stage 4: Salary Thief

Will you be enemies of monsters or humans? You don't have to choose. You are always in the third camp, so you can steal anyone's salary. On the seventh day of the harvest season, collect 100 bite fruits.

Mission Reward: A clue]

…

This mission...

[I don't know anything. You know that some of the missions in each world are issued by me, and some are issued by the world consciousness. I am not aware of this!]

Is this a spoiler?

The third camp.

Doesn’t that mean we are enemies with the whole world?

Is this the kind of beautiful, strong, and tragic storyline I get in my world where they are enemies of the world but want to save it?

However, this task is somewhat in conflict with what Rose Head said. Rose Head suggested that I steal from monsters... No, there is no conflict. He just said "if" I don't want to conflict with humans. He was just standing on my perspective.

He actually doesn't care about humans or monsters.

...Isn’t it that our third camp consists of just me and my brother?

It was as if they were saying to me in my ear: Even if you make enemies with the whole world, we will stand by your side!

So why on earth would I want to be an enemy of the whole world?!

[So, host, have you decided where to go? ]

Of course, we should go to the monsters.

At least I still consider myself a human being!

So the next day, Shi Qing and I went to work at the sorting department.

Facing the angry gazes of a group of monsters, Shi Qing and I calmly snatched the work from them, vowing to be the most annoying colleague and spread the "roll king" culture to the entire Niuma Factory.

The farmer is one of my brothers, so this is my family business, and these monsters don't know how to hang streetlights - so it makes sense for me to roll them to death, right?

Then I knew that this salary was not so easy to steal.

——The monsters took action.

There are fifty monster employees and ten human employees in the entire sorting workshop.

Shi Qing and I chose the innermost sorting line, which was farthest away from humans.

That production line is a minotaur and a horse-headed monster.

The real cows and horses immediately caught my attention.

It turns out that even cattle and horses will bite when they are cornered, but you should not attack us, but the corrupt capitalist rules that oppress you!

Stand up! Don't give in!

[…It’s ignited, but what kind of tearful statement is this, host?!]

This is my experience as a corporate slave.

Shi Qing and I dodged the attacks of the two monsters in tacit understanding. The other sorting lines seemed to be isolated, and a transparent protective shield appeared to prevent them from being affected by our battle - it seems that this is the "normal" behavior of this copy.

This also shows that my previous guess was correct, the rules are encouraging cannibalism.

Shi Qing would bring the gun and knife tied to my body to me every morning, and for some reason, I found it very easy to pick up, so I jumped into the air with the gun in both hands. The bullet flew out from the muzzle and hit the monster's body, splashing green blood.

This is Green River. Although it is harmonious, it can also use red blood.

...In short, the green blood doesn't look like blood, but the pain is there. The screams of the two monsters are particularly loud with the sound waves. Shi Qing is lying on the ground with two knives in his hands, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

These two monsters were not strong, and soon their movements slowed down due to excessive blood loss. Shi Qing easily killed them, and then the two monsters fell heavily to the ground, motionless.

The entire assembly line was so quiet that only the roar of the machines could be heard.

Then the trainer of the two monsters appeared.

It was a monster covered in bandages, seemingly without substance.

He looked like a mummy, with a cowboy hat on his head and everything else covered in bandages with all sorts of stains on them.

"You killed them," he said in a vague voice, "then their wages for the past few days are all yours."

He placed two cloth bags in our hands.

I opened it and took a look. There were only about twenty Yaoyao fruits in each cloth bag.

Such poor cattle and horses.

I handed one to Shi Qing, but he didn't take it. He pointed at me, and I understood what he meant, so he asked me to take them all.

——So now I am only 3 short of the 100 Bite Fruits required for the mission.

"Of course...you have to take over their work too. You can't go anywhere else until you finish these jobs - and of course, your salary won't be doubled."

His tone was filled with deep mockery.

I:……

Grass, blood loss.

Shi Qing and I looked at each other. Shi Qing didn't seem surprised, but he saw the shock on my face.

Shi Qing: "...What if we don't do it? Isn't this our job?"

Bandage Man: "Who told you to kill them? Their jobs now become yours. If you don't do it, you will be punished - your wages will be deducted."

"Here, when the boss is not around, the instructor has the final say."

Shi Qing pointed the gun at him.

The bandaged man shrugged.

"If you can do it, you're welcome to come and kill me—but then it won't be a matter of completing a few days' work," he leaned closer to Shi Qing, "but becoming an instructor, turning into a monster, and being trapped here forever."

As he said this, he touched Shi Qing's face with his bandaged hand.

"Of course, it's my honor to be killed by you. I will definitely die happily."

Shi Qing roughly knocked his hand away.

A little gay.

Does this mean that the protagonist has been molested?

[…Big, probably?]

No, besides being popular among humans, why is he so popular among monsters too? ? ?

Shi Qing put down his gun. The bandaged man shrugged his shoulders, picked up the bodies of the two monsters lying on the ground with each hand, and then a door appeared in front of him and he walked in.

Shi Qing and I looked at each other, and he looked at me with a soft expression, "Sangsang, I'm sorry."

I shook my head. The two of us were simply tricked, although I think it was mainly my responsibility - I was very stable in attracting hatred.

I looked at my "Charmer" again, and it was still unusable.

Forget it, I’ll work first.

Anyway, the total amount of work is fixed - so I was given the title of "corporate animal".

As long as I curl my hair fast enough, it can be saved. It's just a side effect!

In this world, you don’t have to worry about having too much hair.

【……】

…

But I didn’t expect that what happened between Shi Qing and I would spread throughout the entire dormitory that night.

——After all, most people have deduced the rules of this copy, and everyone wants to get more Bite Fruits.

Although the two of us had to take over the work, they both knew that they would get their Bite Fruits by killing the monsters.

If I hunt monsters during the last two days of the harvest season, will I be able to obtain the most Bite Fruits?

So they wanted to gather everyone to fight for the Bite Fruit in the last two days.

"But monsters can also hunt humans." Shi Qing said calmly.

"We are all employees of the farm, so monsters and humans are subject to the same rules. This is too dangerous, and I don't recommend anyone taking such a risk."

He focused his attention on some elderly people and children.

"...Monsters have natural advantages. If you're not sure, you'll be killed. If you can't protect your own people, the loss will outweigh the gain."

"Captain Shi—we can do it. Your brother didn't back down, so neither will we!"

A boy of about eleven or twelve shouted so loudly that their eyes turned to me.

I:?

ah?

No, wait, what do you mean I didn't back down?

I'm good at fighting, right?

I just look like a vase, but I’m not really a vase, okay???

...Do I look weak???

There must be ten other humans in that workshop who saw my heroic presence, right?

[Ahem... not necessarily. After all, you're quite far away, and with your current extremely poor popularity, even if they saw you, they'd probably think they were mistaken.]

Humans will not believe what they don’t want to believe.

Shi Qing's expression was also confused for a moment, but it disappeared in a flash.

He paused slightly, "Sangsang... is actually very strong."

The tone was a little measured, and I roughly understood what he meant, because in terms of the physical fitness of my current body - it is stronger than Shi Qing.

Besides, I haven't lived through all those worlds before for nothing. I have combat awareness, combat instincts, and I know how to use swords, spears, sticks, and swords, right?!

At least I can kill him easily in a one-on-one fight, okay?

I'm not saying that, except for Rajes, I'm not sure that no one else in this farm can be my opponent, okay???

You are anxious, you are anxious.

[As expected, men are afraid of being told they are not good enough.]

Shut up!

After hearing Shi Qing's words, the others fell silent for a moment and changed the subject as if nothing had happened.

But the core is that they want to give it a try.

Shi Qing didn't stop them.

"...Then Sangsang and I will do our best to protect everyone."

The saintly glory felt like it was coming down again.

The perfect team leader Shi Qing.

…

Day 7

Halfway through the harvest season, a third of humanity had finished their work, and then some people died.

——Died in his own dormitory.

It looked like a monster had done it. It was a man in his sixties who worked as a packer. Half of his body had been bitten off, and at the same time his cloth bag had disappeared.

He had just finished his work today, and only his fellow workshop members and humans knew about it.

So, was it a human or a monster who killed him?

"It's human."

Shi Qing said to me softly.

“Humans are just that kind of creature.”

I looked at him confusedly and wrote on his hand.

[But... that's a wound that could only be inflicted by a monster, right?]

"Because humans cannot kill humans themselves, it is normal to kill others by borrowing a knife."

His expression was obscure and he squeezed my hand. "Luckily, Sangsang is strong, otherwise I wouldn't know how to protect you."

His eyes looked somewhere through the anxious crowd, and I looked in the direction he was looking.

That's Jia Jia.

The girl who first reached out to me and asked me to complete the task.

...She is the murderer?

To be honest, it’s not that I don’t trust Shi Qing, but I feel that his eyes carry some personal grudges.

Is he still thinking about me smiling at Jia Jia?

[…It’s hard to say. After all, each of your brothers is a little petty when it comes to your affairs.]

I looked at the girl. She was busy following her father around, and there was no sign of any bad intention on her part.

...That's not right either.

Disliking me seems to be a built-in program for both humans and monsters. Why could she smile at me and extend her hand without hesitation?

Is it acting?

Eh, I'm not going to run into some high-functioning sociopathic histrionic, am I?

[…You’re not a good person either, thank you.]