Chapter049
Based on the information An Qi provided her, Shi Jiu had a rough idea of the character's identity and background. Basically, she had offended a very powerful man in this area, and this man was looking for her.
"Please lend me some clothes." Shi Jiu said to An Qi.
Now she was penniless, homeless, and had nothing to change into.
An Qi nodded immediately and said, "That's definitely no problem."
"What are your plans next?" An Qi asked again.
"I want to go into the factory." Shijiu said.
An Qi widened her eyes in surprise. "The factories in this area are quite unsafe. What are you doing there?"
After thinking about it, An Qi guessed, "Your mission is..."
"Yes." Shi Jiu did not hide anything. "The clue to my mission is inside the factory."
"But there are many factories in Blood City." An Qi thought of the key point, "Didn't the clue tell you which factory to go to?"
"No."
"But your copy this time is so strange. Why is there a clue task? We all gave direct copy tasks." An Qi was puzzled.
There are some differences between Clue Quests and Dungeon Quests. Clue Quests require players to find the necessary clues before they will be given the final Dungeon Quest. They are also relatively more difficult.
"It just so happens that I have a friend here who is also a trainee and is currently working in the factory. I'll ask her if she can arrange for you to work in the factory," said An Qi.
"Okay." Shi Jiu smiled and said, "Thank you very much."
An Qi laughed out loud, "Why are you being so polite to me?"
Shijiu asked Anqi for two sets of slightly worn clothes, but Anqi's clothes were still not worn out enough, so Shijiu modified them himself.
Her face did not look like one that could work in a factory. Shi Jiu sat in front of Anqi's dressing table and worked carefully for an hour until he was finally satisfied with his face.
As soon as An Qi returned to her room, she was startled by Shi Jiu, "Ajiu?"
Shijiu's face was now several shades darker, and with just a few simple strokes of paint, she had completely covered up her flaws. She had gone from a beautiful sister to an ordinary passerby.
[Bullet comment]: Hahahaha, is Ajiu's makeup skills back again? I still remember that when I first saw Ajiu, he had this weird makeup on his face.
[Bullet screen]: Ahh ...
[Bullet comment]: Now I don’t know whether to say whether Shijiu’s makeup skills are good or bad.
[Bullet screen]: Haha ...
"How about it, can you still recognize me now?" Shi Jiu asked with a smile.
An Qi shook her head: "I can't recognize it."
An Qi looked at it curiously a few more times and couldn't help but praise it: "You draw really well."
Shi Jiu smiled helplessly.
She was wearing tattered clothes made from Anqi's old clothes. With her dark skin and slightly rustic hairstyle, she really looked like a girl from a village who had never seen the world.
Anqi's friend came over soon. He was a very burly boy. He looked very busy, so Anqi briefly introduced him.
After Shijiu put on makeup, the trainee obviously didn't recognize her. After all, almost all the trainees knew Shijiu's name, so when Anqi introduced Shijiu, she carefully helped Shijiu come up with a fake name, Ajiu.
"The factory is recruiting employees right now. If you are free, you can come with me to take a look." Anqi's friend Dazhuang said to Shi Jiu.
"Okay." Shi Jiu agreed.
The factory where Dazhuang worked was the largest in Blood City, and it mainly produced some large machines. The factory was very large, and as soon as you entered, you could see the huge gears running below, and the layers of gear machines were slowly operating.
Dazhuang took her to the upper floor in the elevator. Looking down from above, she could see the complex machine production lines in the factory, the rolling gears, and some staff at work.
As they walked, Dazhuang introduced Shijiu, saying, "Don't move around in this place. There are some secret machines inside."
Shi Jiu replied, "Okay."
Everything went smoothly, and Shijiu started working at the factory. She initially took on a simple role, recording data from large machines. The factory offered good benefits, and knowing Shijiu had nowhere else to go, they even arranged a dormitory for her.
The dormitory was in a small, somewhat dilapidated building behind the factory. Not far away was a small square with a huge, leafy sycamore tree in the center. It was very cool under the lush, leafy tree. So every afternoon, this place would be filled with retired people chatting, playing cards, and chess.
When I go back to the dormitory, I will pass by this small square and sometimes chat with the aunties and uncles. The uncles have nothing to do all day, and what they like most is to talk about all kinds of gossip. They know exactly who is waiting for whom in the factory and who has conflicts with whom.
That afternoon, when Shijiu returned to the dormitory, he noticed a large group of people gathered under the giant sycamore tree. Curious, Shijiu also went over.
"Do you know, there's an accident at the small subsidiary factory to the west?" The speaker was a chubby old man with gray hair and glasses. Everyone called him Second Uncle. Second Uncle used to work in the Communications Department. He had many friends in various places and was well-informed.
"What's wrong?"
"Please don't tell anyone else about this." Every time my second uncle talks about gossip, he always says this in advance.
"Okay, okay, tell me quickly, Uncle."
"Someone died in the small factory to the west. Two people died, a man and a woman. Their heads were gone, only their bodies were left." The second uncle lowered his voice and whispered, "The weirdest thing is, they can't even find their heads!"
Shi Jiu raised an eyebrow, it seemed like her clue was coming.
“So scary!”
"I can't go through that side anymore. Could it be someone from that side..."
"Hush, don't talk about this kind of thing. The sorcerers in the city have already gone over to investigate. If it really is a puppeteer, they should be able to find him."
This matter still could not be concealed, and the workers in the small factory over there were so scared that they went on strike. It just so happened that the small factory was attached to their factory, and it was also a very important production line. If the small factory stopped working, this side would also be greatly affected.
The people above planned to recruit a few people from this factory to work there first. This was a good opportunity for Shijiu, so she went to find Dazhuang and told him her idea.
"It's very dangerous." Da Zhuang's first reaction was that he didn't want Shi Jiu to go. After all, Shi Jiu was An Qi's friend. If something happened to Shi Jiu, it would be difficult to explain to An Qi.
"My mission." Shi Jiu said.
“.......”
"Oh, that's good."
Dazhuang scratched his head a little embarrassedly. Shijiu had been working so hard these days that Dazhuang had forgotten that Shijiu was still a trainee who needed to complete tasks.
[Bullet screen]: Haha ...
[Bullet screen]: Ahhhh, when will Ajiu take off her makeup? Because there are not many people in the live broadcast room now when Ajiu is putting on makeup!
[Bullet screen]: Ajiu is too Buddhist, hahaha. Look at the other trainees, who dares to make a fool of themselves in the show!
With Dazhuang's help, Shijiu easily applied for the opportunity to work in a small factory.
She was returning to the dormitory that afternoon when her second uncle stopped her under the sycamore tree. He pulled her over mysteriously and asked in a low voice, "I heard you volunteered to go to that small factory?"
"Um."
"That small factory is dangerous." My second uncle advised kindly.
"It's okay, I'm not afraid." Shi Jiu said with a smile, "Besides, the salary will increase five times if I work there."
Seeing that Shijiu refused to listen to his advice, the second uncle shook his head with regret, "This little girl is so young, how come her brain is not working well?"
"Forget it, this is for you, for self-defense." After saying this, the second uncle stuffed a small thing into Shi Jiu's hand.
It is a small concealed weapon with fine workmanship.
Shi Jiu smiled and said, "Thank you, Second Uncle."
"Oh." Second uncle turned around, took two steps and waved his hand.
There were ten workers going to the small factory with Shi Jiu, and among them was a little girl. The girl seemed a bit introverted and didn't talk much. Shi Jiu rode in the same car with her and learned that her name was Xiao Chou.
As we got closer to the factory, everyone quieted down and the atmosphere became a little weird for a moment.
After all, someone died here and the cause has not yet been determined, so everyone is inevitably worried and scared.
Shi Jiu noticed that Xiao Chou beside her had been looking at her, so she asked softly, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Chou tried hard to ignore Shi Jiu's smile, but failed. After a while, Xiao Chou finally managed to say, "There's something wrong with you."
“.......”
The work here is no different from that in a big factory, and everyone is working hard.
Strange things didn't happen again. There are still a few magicians guarding the place, so the evil creature should not dare to come out for the time being.
Everything was normal, except that Shijiu was a little strange.
On the first day, Shijiu got two pots of flowers from somewhere and placed them on the corridor. As a result, the beautiful little flowers withered on the second day, and he had no idea why.
Shi Jiu did not give up. She got four more pots of flowers and placed them where the flowers were before.
Xiao Chou noticed Shi Jiu's strange behavior and asked, "Why are you planting flowers?"
"Planting flowers makes me feel good." Shi Jiu said.
Xiao Chou: "Oh."
Not only Xiao Chou noticed the flowers in the factory, but an old employee in the factory also noticed them. He walked in front of the flowers, looked at them for a while, and then said, "This factory is very strange. Flowers can never be kept alive."
"Why?" Shi Jiu asked.
The old employee said: "I don't know, it's just very strange."
Sure enough, after one night, Shijiu's flowers died again.
But Shi Jiu didn't give up, she put six pots of flowers this time.
Another night passed and the flower died again, but this time there was a small note where the flower was placed.
There were some strange things written crookedly on the note.
Xiao Chou was right next to Shi Jiu, and she observed the note with Shi Jiu.
After watching for a while, Xiao Chou noticed that Shi Jiu slightly curved the corners of his mouth. Xiao Chou asked, "Do you understand?"
"Um."
"What does it say?"
Shi Jiu smiled and then translated to Xiao Chou: "If you let go again, you will die."
“.......”
Originally, I thought that after receiving this strange threatening note, Shijiu would stop planting flowers, but Xiaochou never expected that when she entered the factory in the morning, what caught her eyes was full of brightly colored flowers.
Shijiu planted flowers directly in the factory.
Xiaochou: "......"
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