Chapter 122 Rules for New Employees
The building manager's footsteps in the corridor were quick and light, as if he couldn't wait to pass by Rong Le's door.
After seeing the garbage at the corridor door today, he burst into violent laughter. The laughter was so sharp and piercing that it could almost pierce a person's eardrum.
Rong Le dared to guarantee that not only all the residents on the first floor were woken up, but the residents on the second floor might also hear the noise.
Building managers don’t have to follow the rules?
Or is it that at this time he is a rule enforcer and is not bound by the rules.
But what is certain is that the building manager's laughter sounded very happy. Rong Le could hear the sound of him breaking into the room and dragging out the occupant.
The wailing of a strange male voice sounded in the corridor. The building manager dragged him for a few meters and suddenly stopped in front of the door of 1017 and started to chew on it.
The sound of bones was very creepy. The corridor was dead silent, with only the sound of the building manager gnawing on his food echoing in the corridor.
Rong Le: ...
It’s confirmed, 1017 is definitely Thor.
Regardless of Thor's mood at this moment, the building manager quickly finished eating the offender in silence and then slowly left the corridor.
The building manager stays in a dark room during the day and rarely comes out. He answers all questions from residents who have not violated any rules and does not seem to be dangerous.
And when someone breaks the rules, he will transform into the most terrifying monster in the dormitory and devour the violator bite by bite.
This shows that the building manager's camp is not friendly. He hopes more than anyone else that someone will break the rules so that he can satisfy his desire for killing.
After this incident, even the audience watching the live broadcast were afraid of the building manager: "If I really report the abnormal situation to the building manager according to the rules, will he eat me and me?"
“Will the rules be absolutely correct?”
Rong Le's tense body relaxed as the building manager gradually left.
He sat on the bed where he had been lying when he first woke up. His attention, which had been highly concentrated for a long time, now relaxed, and waves of fatigue continued to wash over his mind.
He is tired too.
Rong Le lowered her eyes slightly, her long eyelashes half covering her green pupils. She looked a little haggard, as if she would fall asleep in the next second.
He was also wearing a retro pleated shirt with a pattern around the collar and a thin ribbon hanging from his neck, making him look thin and fragile.
Rong Le closed her eyes and nodded slightly.
What he didn't notice was that under the bed, which had not been searched, a pair of scarlet eyes suddenly lit up in the darkness.
There is a person hiding under the bed.
Or rather...a monster that is not human.
However, there was no one else at the moment, and no one could wake Rong Le up to make him react immediately, and he almost fell into a deep sleep.
And under the bed, a monster with scarlet eyes was scratching the bed board. The red light was getting brighter and brighter, and it would soon be able to crawl out from under the bed.
The livestreamer was so angry that he jumped up and down: "Rongrong, wake up!"
"Under the bed, there's something dirty under the bed!"
"Don't sleep, hold on a little longer!"
Rong Le suddenly woke up with a start and had a premonition that something was staring at her.
There is someone else in my room.
Dormitory Rule No. 6: Please check if there is another person in the room before going to sleep. Do not stay overnight if there is someone hiding in the room.
Rong Le sat quietly on the bed, searching the small dormitory, and finally her eyes fell on the place under the bed.
He was careless and almost got caught in the trap of the rules.
It is obviously unwise to confront the "person" under the bed head-on. Since the situation is clearly described in the rules, Rong Le decided to abide by the rules and go to report to the dormitory head.
He stood up calmly, pushed the door open and left very naturally, as if he had just gone out for something temporary.
The corridor was pitch black, and the road leading to the hall was long and narrow, as if it was connected to hell. The devil might appear at any time, which made people feel scared just by looking at it.
The only sound in the silent corridor was Rong Le's footsteps. No matter how long this road was, it had an end. He walked to the door of the building director's office as if he knew the way there well, raised his hand and knocked gently.
This time, the building manager did not ask him to come in, but opened the door the next second, and his dark face looked directly at Rong Le's.
"What can I do for you?"
Rong Le said calmly, as if she hadn't seen the building manager's face: "Building Manager, there is another person hiding in my room."
The building manager paused for a moment, his mouth gradually curved up, and the white smile seemed to be painted on, which looked even more terrifying on the dark face.
"Take me...to clean up the trash."
Rong Le readily brought the building manager to the door of 1016, opened the door, and stepped back a few steps to signal him to go ahead.
This time, Rong Le observed the building manager's way of enforcing the rules very closely. He entered the room quickly, and as if he knew where the other person was, he rushed under the bed and pulled him out.
Rong Le saw the whole appearance of the person under the bed.
It was a thin black figure with scarlet eyes. He looked very similar to the building manager, and his eyes were the same as the guard at the entrance of the residential area.
Are they the same species?
Considering the rules about not trusting strangers and being able to tell if your colleagues are truly colleagues, it can be inferred that this species may have the ability to change its appearance and use it to confuse real Foundation employees.
Building managers, doormen and others have status, are protected by the rules, and become the people who uphold the rules. They will attack employees who violate the rules and their peers who have no status, but the latter need to be exposed by employees before they can take action.
The security department may be the same kind of creatures as the building manager and the doorman, and abide by the same rules.
The purpose of these creatures may be to attack employees, or they may be to gain identities and replace these employees, or even the building managers.
The three parties in the dormitory building were in a mutually restraining situation. Rong Le leaned against the wall and watched the building director laugh wildly as he tore the black shadow into pieces and swallowed it into his stomach, while his mind was wandering.
At least one thing is certain, that is, as long as they follow the rules and do not trigger the rules, the building manager and other employees are safe and on their side.
Rong Le yawned, narrowing her eyes slightly. After watching the building manager finish dealing with the things in the room, she smiled politely and said, "Thank you, Building Manager."
The building manager grinned and said, "You can go back to sleep now."
He is very happy to deal with employees like Rong Le who have a high level of ideological awareness and are well versed in the rules to help him catch the dark shadow.
Rong Le really couldn't hold on any longer. After saying goodbye to the building manager, she fell on the bed, closed her eyes, and her consciousness sank uncontrollably.
Before going to bed, he was still thinking that after waking up, he needed to tell others about the intelligence he had obtained tonight, and also ask Bai Tutu and the others about the situation, and look at the rules of the civil service department.
The more intelligence he accumulates, the more helpful it will be for him to understand the mysterious organization, the Foundation.
…
He soon fell into a deep sleep.
*
When she woke up again, Rong Le moved her hand away sleepily and looked at the clock in the room. It was already noon of the next day. The sunlight came in through the window, bright and warm.
After waking up from a good sleep, he felt a lot more relaxed.
No one notified him to go to work, which meant he was still on vacation and could arrange his time on his own. He simply tidied himself up, washed up, changed his clothes, and pushed the door open to go out.
The corridor returned to its normal appearance. Rong Le knocked on the door of room 1017 next door. After a while, Thor slowly opened the door a crack and looked over carefully.
Rong Le: "Why are you so timid? Your civil service department is not working today? It's not convenient to talk here. Open the door and let me in."
Thor shuddered when he heard his words: "Are you really Mr. Rong Le?"
Rong Le raised an eyebrow: "Have you seen another me?"
Thor didn't say anything, but looked at him warily, as if the door would be closed if he made any move.
Rong Le: "...Forget it, don't close the door yet."
He knocked on Tina's room next door in front of Thor. Tina opened the door quickly. He was already awake.
"Thor seems to have encountered a fake version of us. Come and help me prove it."
Rong Le simply looked for someone Thor could trust more.
Hearing this, Tina's gaze slowly shifted to Thor, and Thor immediately remembered the fear of being dominated by Tina's long sword.
Even if Tina holds back, her hits are extremely painful, and physical training classes are definitely his nightmare.
Thor half believed it when he saw Tina walking out of the room. Rong Le simply called Sheng Mao out and asked where the girls lived. They needed to take the opportunity to gather together for a meeting to exchange information.
The girls were concentrated between 1012 and 1014. The employees in the civil department came back earlier than their executive departments, but no collection had been caught until now, and they had not received any notice to go to work.
Because they went to bed early, they had no idea what happened in the second half of the night. With Chen Sisi as a cheat, they spent a peaceful night.
Everyone rushed into Thor's room, and the single dormitory was immediately packed.
After listening to them talk about what they had experienced, Rong Le realized that Bai Tutu and others had also taken action this morning. Because the rules did not allow people to move between floors at will, they went out to try to find out the situation in the residential area.
"We went to the stadium and the swimming pool, but later returned because too many people were on vacation. Although the rules state that there are colleagues of different species in the living area, they all look very human."
Bai Tutu: "After we came back, there was a knock on Thor's door. Someone disguised as Rong Le tried to enter Thor's room, and Thor almost agreed."
"When the man saw he couldn't get in, he lied and said he had just come back and had something important to tell him. When we heard the noise and came out, he left in a hurry."
The rules state that the dormitory requires the owner's consent to enter, and there is a creature in the dormitory building that can change its appearance. If Thor really lets that person in, it would be tantamount to violating the rules.
This also verifies Rule 4: The dormitory head is absolutely safe, but colleagues may not be safe. Do not trust strangers, and please be sure to distinguish whether the people around you are colleagues you are familiar with.
"So we were all more vigilant because that person had run away and we couldn't report it to the building manager. He might come back later."
Rong Le rubbed Thor's soft fur: "You really are being targeted."
Thor was very depressed.
Rong Le then talked about what happened last night. Everyone was shocked to hear that their journey was so thrilling and that there was actually a monster hiding in Rong Le's room.
"So in this case, we should just go to the building manager immediately. That's acceptable, but what about that bag of garbage?"
Wang Qi frowned: "The guy living here wouldn't be stupid enough to make a stupid mistake, right?"
"Since the rules don't allow conflicts between employees, then contaminating the doorway is a worthwhile method to try. After all, going out isn't prohibited in the dormitories. In the early hours of the morning, all I have to do is leave a bag of garbage at someone's door..."
Rong Le: "So we can only try not to let others know our room number, but this method is not safe. It is difficult to evade this method. Let's arrange for shifts to guard. We have more people, so the situation is still advantageous."
Everyone nodded. Since everyone was there, they exchanged their department's rules and yesterday's experiences.
The work in the clerical department was unremarkable. After the two copies of the rules were handed to the four people, they familiarized themselves with the situation at their workstations and occasionally did some low-level chores.
They had no access to overly confidential information, so they did small jobs like serving tea and water, living like ordinary office clerks.
There are more people in the civil service offices than in the executive offices. Each person has several documents at their desks, and some documents are piled up like mountains. It looks busy and safe.
When it was time to get off work, the alarm sounded and the department head asked them to pack up their documents and evacuate calmly and in an orderly manner.
Compared to the busy and stressful department next door, it is so much calmer.
The three people from the executive department fell into a strange silence, and for a moment they were actually a little envious.
Rong Le looked at another set of rules.
Civil Service Code
Welcome to become a member of the civil service department. This code covers detailed rules such as department systems, benefits, obligations, procedures, etc. It is a good helper for you to quickly understand your position.
This position is a low-risk position, but there are still things to pay attention to. For your own safety, please abide by the following rules.
1. Work hard. Your superiors will check your work at any time. If you complete it within the specified time, your superiors will be very happy. If you fail to complete it within the specified time, your superiors' anger will gradually accumulate depending on the time and number of delays.
Second, the civil service department does not need small-time employees. A weekly summary will be conducted every week. If the performance does not meet the superior's satisfaction for one month in a row, the employee will be demoted to no rank.
Third, maintain your curiosity and desire to explore the world of writing. If you excel, your superiors will look at you differently. If you don't pursue this, don't worry. As long as you can hide your eccentricity, you will be torn to pieces by angry superiors and colleagues.
Fourth, every document is important and there should be no discrimination in employment.
One month is much shorter than that of the executive department. The question is what kind of performance will satisfy the boss, and judging from Lao Wang's answer, it is obviously not a good idea to have no level.
The third rule once again emphasizes that you should integrate yourself into the collective atmosphere, but you don’t have to be sincere. As long as you can hide it well enough, no one will care whether you are sincere or not.
If this is exposed, the consequences will be disastrous.
The crisis in the civil service department will not appear until the weekly summary. Now the crisis in the executive department is more prominent. These strange rules have detailed regulations for each area and each position.
It was as if telling them that they needed to do this, but also as if telling them that they didn't need to do this.
Rong Le pinched her brows and said, "Don't pay too much attention to the rules. If you really follow the rules and become an employee of the foundation, you will be contaminated by the rules."
"What?!" Everyone couldn't help but be surprised.
They have become accustomed to the fact that every aspect of the Foundation is made up of rules, and facts have also proved that as long as they follow the rules, they are right. This is the way for this module to survive.
But now Rong Le says that it is wrong to follow the rules, and they have been contaminated by the rules without realizing it.
However, think about it now, are these rules really protecting employees rather than restricting them and changing their behavior?
The foundation has a rich heritage and strict systems, but why can't it do anything to the monsters in the residential area? Instead, it makes employees live in fear in the dormitory for fear of triggering the rules.
Rooms and doors are checked every day, and the rules have quietly changed the way employees behave.
This is a form of memetic pollution.
Rules change employees' cognition by assimilating their thoughts, forcing them to memorize the rules, and ultimately making them act in the way the rules are set.
These subconsciously implanted rules make it inevitable for people to follow them, and in the end, they will be shaped into what the Foundation truly wants them to be, and will never be able to break away from the Foundation, but will be assimilated into one of its members.
This is the terrible thing about Foundation rules.
However, there are some rules that cannot be disobeyed at the moment.
The longer they delay, the more disadvantageous it will be for them. They must find a way to tamper with this module as soon as possible.
To achieve this, you must have an in-depth understanding of the module, which takes a certain amount of time.
Before that they all have to accept these rules.
Rong Le thought of that figure, and her eyes became complicated.
Perhaps he has already touched upon a corner of the secret of this module.
…
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the executive department members who received the notice gathered in the office again.
Including some prosecutors who came to relieve the shift in the early morning, the office is now about one-third full of people. I heard that the prosecutors who were on field duty received the news and are also preparing to rush back to reinforce the foundation headquarters.
In addition to the prosecutors who are currently on important tasks, the members who have completed their tasks and are stranded outside and the members whose tasks are less important have decided to return, and it is likely that one-third of the workstations in the office will be filled up again.
According to Lao Wang, it is a miracle that the office is half full all year round. If it were not for the escape of an important S-level collection this time, it would not have caused such a big commotion.
"Even with the reinforcements, we are not free from pressure. Our mission remains to control the fugitive treasures within a safe range and prevent them from causing too much impact."
Lao Wang: "If those bastards knew that we couldn't seize the treasure and that they were causing trouble everywhere, we would be so embarrassed."
Someone raised their hand silently: "But we still haven't found any trace of the collection. It's too hidden. Unless it shows up, it's hard for us to catch it."
Lao Wang: "So I applied for permission. This meeting is to tell you that the permission has been relaxed. Based on controlling the movement of the collection, the first task is to capture the collection. A plan has been formulated to arrest the fugitives in custody. The arrest number is B3840."
"You can enter the display area later and find a suitable collection to help control the S-level collection. I will also use another collection of the same level to restrain it."
Lao Wang signaled the people around him to send the document to everyone. Rong Le's eyes swept across the long paragraph of text in front, pausing on a few lines that he was very concerned about, and frowned slightly.
The foundation's report details the escaped S-class artifact's grade number, activity pattern, characteristics, and survival status when it was sealed and placed on display.
Most of what was once done has been replaced by black frames, making the experience of the collection appear discontinuous and difficult to grasp its true meaning.
But this is the most comprehensive collection information they can see.
These descriptions coincided with what he had thought, and only further confirmed his guess.
Someone asked: "Which S-level collection is it?"
Everyone is curious about another collection that can be used to restrain the fugitive collection.
Only senior prosecutors and civil servants in the foundation are qualified to access information about high-level collections, and are even qualified to enter and exit high-level areas of the exhibition hall to collect collections.
The difficulty of becoming a prosecutor increases exponentially with each promotion.
"Let me show you."
Lao Wang solemnly took out the black gold box beside him.
This kind of box is specially used to store collections, and it has the function of temporarily suppressing the uncontrollable influence of the collections. As soon as Rong Le saw this box, he felt familiar with it.
It seemed as if in the countless fast-forwards and jumps of time, there was a fragment of memory that had seen this kind of box.
Because the time was compressed for such a long time, he didn't know much about the details of what happened in these years, but he just felt that he seemed to have seen this thing.
It was not until Lao Wang opened the box, which was covered with soft velvet, that the beautifully shaped collection was displayed to everyone.
Lao Wang: "It's the [Scales of Judgment]."
After seeing clearly what was in the box, the barrage of comments exploded!
Not only the barrage, but also Rong Le was stunned.
——Why would the Foundation's S-class collection be the Scales of Judgment that he once contained?!
…
On the crisscrossing chess and card games, the white-haired young man supported his chin with one hand and tapped the chessboard lightly with the other hand holding the chess piece.
His long eyelashes drooped slightly, covering his green eyes. He was elegant and indifferent, with a sense of oppression unique to the theocratic era.
White hair was scattered on his dark silk shirt, and was tied up with a dark green headband at the back of his head. Occasionally, a few strands ran in front of him, but the young man was staring intently at the chessboard in front of him, as if he could see the person who had not yet taken his position on the opposite side of the chessboard through the numerous chess pieces.
"A chess game without a player always seems a bit boring."
His voice was a bit lazy, and although the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, there was no smile at all. He spoke with a hint of sarcasm and blunt cruelty: "Only by capturing the chess piece can the opponent take it seriously."
"It would be so boring otherwise, wouldn't it?"
"What do you need me to do, President?"
In the corner, a young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses asked in a low voice.
"No, he will gradually realize everything. We just need to wait patiently."
The white-haired young man whispered, "Then, correct all mistakes and erase his entire existence."
The window next to him was covered with heavy curtains, and sunlight shone through the window onto the chessboard, bathing the white-haired young man in the sunlight.
The room is filled with retro decorations, deep and gorgeous, like a medieval castle, where the devil is waiting alone for the coming of judgment.
The young man turned his head slightly to look at the window, and his face was reflected in the clear glass.
The corners of his eyes are slightly upturned, he has white hair and blue eyes, and he is obviously a beautiful man with superior appearance.
The corners of her lips curled up slightly, as if in anticipation, and her cat-like eyes held a smile that was quite captivating.
…
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