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When He Lizhou entered the boss's office, he was prepared that his boss might not be human. However, he did not expect that when he entered, he would find that he was just an ordinary person, no different from the boss of an ordinary small company.
The boss raised his eyelids and looked He Lizhou up and down, tapping his fingers on the table, "You are late today, and your salary will be deducted by 100 yuan."
He Lizhou lowered his head and acted respectful. In fact, he didn't understand how much impact this one hundred had. He didn't know if He Lizhou's lack of reaction angered him. He threw the glass and said, "He Yuanguang, you have become capable. You have to pay the rent tomorrow. Can you still afford it?"
The boss had a sneer on his face. "Living in that shabby apartment, your landlord is probably afraid that you'll die quietly one day, so he's asking you to pay rent once a week!"
He Lizhou's eyes flashed. What key point did he grasp? Pay the rent once a week?
He Lizhou continued to keep his head down and said nothing. The boss performed a one-man show for a long time, but finally felt it was boring and waved his hand to let He Lizhou leave.
Lili had been looking forward to He Lizhou coming out. When she saw the doorknob move, she pretended to be working seriously until she saw clearly that it was indeed He Lizhou, then she moved.
"Did the boss scold you?"
He Lizhou thought about it and said seriously: "I was deducted a hundred yuan."
Lili immediately covered her mouth and laughed, "Then you won't be able to pay the rent! You're doomed! Hahahahaha!"
The boss heard the laughter in the office and yelled, "Who is laughing? Why don't you work hard?"
Lili immediately put away her smile and looked at the computer screen with serious eyes.
He Lizhou glanced at it casually and saw a screen full of novels.
He Lizhou: ...
He sat back in his chair. Lili had just revealed that she would not be able to pay the rent if she lost the hundred dollars, so where would she make up the difference?
He Lizhou looked through the deposit and transfer records in his mobile phone and found that "he" did pay rent once a week to the person marked as "landlord". After paying, he only had fifty yuan left to buy groceries.
Every week, I just spend all my money, with no savings left.
He Lizhou turned off his phone and sighed.
This person is alive.
He Lizhou studied psychology in college, and he knew nothing about what He Yuanguang did, but through Lili's behavior he knew that he could slack off, but he couldn't stop staring at the computer.
So He Lizhou happily turned on his computer and slacked off until the end of get off work.
Lili was the most active when it was time to get off work. She was the first to stand up among the employees who were still pretending to be busy at work. She cleared away all the cosmetics data cables on the desk, picked up her bag and left.
He Lizhou glanced at the expressionless employees around him and followed Lili closely.
After get off work, Lili became friendly and radiant. She didn't curse when she saw He Lizhou following her. She lifted her thick wavy hair and said, "It's good that you follow me, so that the stalker won't follow me home again."
He Lizhou knew there was a stalker when the system reported it, but he didn't expect that Lili also lived in that apartment.
Lili understood what He Lizhou meant and glared at him: "What for? I live there just because it's close and convenient for work. I have money to pay the rent. I won't be kicked out like you guys."
At this point, she giggled again: "Why don't you work overtime with them? If you work overtime, maybe the boss will be in a better mood and give you another fifty yuan."
He Lizhou said with a smile: "Fifty yuan is not enough, so why should I work overtime?"
Lili felt that this was true, but she refused to admit it. "Humph, you'll behave yourself when the landlord kicks you out!"
He Lizhou took the opportunity to ask: "Sister Lili, how did you save the money?"
Lili glanced at He Lizhou critically. Before He Lizhou could figure out the meaning of her eyes, Lili suddenly said as if she had just met He Lizhou, "We have been working together in the company for such a long time. How come I just realized that you are really good-looking?"
Lili touched He Lizhou's face and said, "Oh, people like you are the best!"
He Lizhou: "...Sister Lili, I am a serious person."
Lili rolled her eyes at He Lizhou coquettishly and waved her soft hand at him, "What nonsense are you talking about? We... love to see handsome boys like you get skinned and cramped! Hahahahaha!"
He Lizhou woke up suddenly, with a layer of sweat on his back. He looked around and realized that he was back in the apartment and that what had just happened was just a dream.
He Lizhou got up and got a glass of water, but out of the corner of his eye he noticed that the concave mirror he had put away was hung back opposite the window.
Holding the cup of water, he looked back at the room. The moonlight poured in from the window, so the room was not dark. He stood in the middle of the room, casting a shadow.
He Lizhou put down the water cup, put the mirror back into the cabinet, walked to the window and wanted to draw the curtains, only to find that there were no curtains installed here.
It was a bit strange. Although the moonlight was not dazzling, he still felt uncomfortable without drawing the curtains. But since the original owner did not install them, he could only give up.
After drinking a few sips of water and feeling a little relieved from the dryness in his throat, He Lizhou went back to bed. However, this time he tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.
He Lizhou turned on his cell phone and the time displayed was already three o'clock in the morning. It was too late, so he tried to force himself to sleep.
"I have to go to work tomorrow."
There is still rent to be paid, and I am still one hundred dollars short of it.
When he thought of the rent, he couldn't help but think of the bizarre dream again, and he couldn't fall asleep even more, so he sighed and sat up again.
As soon as He Lizhou sat up, he felt something passing by in front of his eyes. He became alert and got out of bed to look, but found nothing unusual. Even so, he still felt that something was wrong. He even had a hunch that he might still be dreaming, but he couldn't wake up no matter what.
He Lizhou gritted his teeth and was about to risk leaving the house and running outside, when suddenly he felt a sense of falling.
When I woke up from bed again, it was already daytime and the sun was high in the sky.
When I turned on my phone, the time had changed to 7:30 in the morning, but the date was the first day I entered the dungeon.
He Lizhou immediately realized something was wrong and turned on the surveillance camera outside the door, only to see that the man outside was still there.
This time, He Lizhou rushed to the door quickly, but when he opened it, he could only see the other person running away.
This time he didn't close the door, so within a few minutes he saw with his own eyes that the kitchen knife appeared out of thin air on the floor of the corridor.
Soon, the neighbor poked his head out and asked in confusion: "Yuanguang, what's wrong?"
He Lizhou looked at him with the same confusion as yesterday, and slowly smiled in his heart, confirming that he was trapped in a loop.
So he shook his head slowly: "Someone is waiting outside my house. Can I stay in your house for a while?"
The neighbor's face froze, and he hurriedly closed the door, refusing vaguely, "No, don't you still have to go to work?"
He Lizhou stretched out his hand to block the door and tilted his head slightly: "Then why don't you go to work?"
The neighbor tried to close the door, but found that he couldn't close it, so he gave up and said angrily, "Why should I go to work if I have money!"
He Lizhou continued to ask: "So you know Lili."
The neighbor's face suddenly changed and he exerted force with his hand. He Lizhou saw that he was really going to use force this time and withdrew his hand the moment the door closed heavily.
Since his neighbor didn't explain clearly, it would not be appropriate for him to continue wasting time, lest he be late for work like yesterday and be fined a hundred yuan, resulting in not being able to pay the rent.
He Lizhou now almost suspects that not being able to raise enough rent will be a death point, and he will be trapped in a loop after death. As for whether the players trapped in the loop can get out after the copy ends, it is not certain.
He hurried downstairs and walked out of the apartment building. The supermarket owner was still sleeping in front of the counter. After He Lizhou left, he raised his head and looked in the direction he disappeared.
“…It’s too early this time.”
After saying that, the boss lay down on the counter again and fell into a deep sleep.
When He Lizhou arrived at the company, other employees had not yet arrived. Seeing this, He Lizhou breathed a sigh of relief and sat down at his workstation, planning to do the same as he did yesterday and end the day's work after a day of slacking off.
But just as he turned on the computer, Lili poked her head over from the side again and said with a smile: "Handsome boy, it's you again."
He Lizhou felt that there was something wrong with her words, but before he could figure it out, his boss caught him with a blank look.
The boss yelled angrily: "He Yuanguang! You are slacking off again! I will fine you a hundred dollars!"
He Lizhou: ...
He Lizhou glanced at Lili, only to see Lili looking at him with her chin supported by her hand and a smile on her face, chewing gum in her mouth. When she saw He Lizhou looking at her, she blew a bubble at him.
I see. This person clearly did it on purpose so that he wouldn't have enough money to pay the rent.
Since he had already been deducted 100 yuan, He Lizhou didn't plan to stay in the company anymore, so he went to the office to find his boss to settle his week's salary.
The boss seemed to have expected this. He glared at He Lizhou and transferred money to him. "If you take a day off, deduct 100 yuan from your salary. If you slack off once, deduct 100 yuan from your salary. You will get 250 yuan this week."
He Lizhou calculated that the rent would be four hundred yuan, and the small shabby apartment would cost another four hundred yuan a week.
Very good, a new start, I’m halfway there.
He Lizhou raised his cell phone to take a look at the payment record, then turned and left the office. This time, Lili did not deliberately say that He Lizhou had become bolder. When he came out, she was holding a cup of coffee and looked at He Lizhou's face greedily.
He Lizhou looked around and saw the employees who were still working as they did yesterday, and almost couldn't wait to leave the company.
I guess there is no one alive in this company.
Although He Lizhou was naturally brave, it was still terrifying for him to be in a room with a group of zombies.
He didn't go anywhere else, but returned to his apartment and bought the things he wanted to buy yesterday downstairs. The price was neither more nor less, still 47.55, and the fee was 48.
He Lizhou scanned the code readily, which earned him another mocking laugh from the boss, who seemed to be mocking him, seeing that he was pretending to be straightforward because he had no money.
Surprisingly, He Lizhou found it quite funny that every NPC in this copy looked down on everyone.
Do you hate everyone equally? Is it because you have been treated unfairly or for some other reason?
He Lizhou picked up the bag of vegetables and entered the apartment building.
The apartment was still noisy with voices, but if you listened carefully, you could find that these voices were repeating the same words.
He carried the food back to room 4404, the room assigned to the player by the system, alone. Just as he was about to enter, he heard very light footsteps inside.
He Lizhou immediately hid in the shadows nearby, took out his mobile phone and turned on the surveillance video, wanting to see what was happening in the house, but found that the network was disconnected and he couldn't open the software.
Just as he was about to turn on the data, he heard footsteps slowly approaching the door. He didn't know if he noticed that He Lizhou had gone home early, but that person seemed to be about to come out.
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