Night falls.
There were twelve people working overtime.
Lu Lei discussed it with Li Feng and Li Rong, and asked them to go to the nearby, unoccupied breeding room to hunt the black slime. The more they spread out, the more efficient they would be.
When only she and Dong Huimiao were in the breeding room, Lu Lei mischievously collected the slime and deliberately asked, "What did you say to me when you were sitting on the ground today? I didn't hear you."
"I didn't say anything," Dong Huimiao retorted.
"Oh, that's a real shame. I was thinking of saving you to hear what you had to say. Since you didn't say anything, I won't save you tomorrow."
"No." Dong Huimiao gritted her teeth in hatred, her face flushed with shame, and said in a voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz, "Please."
"What? I didn't hear that." Lu Lei put his hand to his ear.
The seedlings were destroyed in winter, and the person, in a fit of desperation, pleaded: "Cooperate, please cooperate with me."
"Okay, partner." Lu Lei chuckled, not pressing her any further, afraid that if he pushed her too hard, she would leave.
As early as last night, Lu Lei had finalized the terms of cooperation.
Lu Lei didn't want to get hurt again, so he mainly focused on ranged attacks to conserve his energy. Dong Huimiao acted as a shield, attacking at close range.
Lu Lei handed Dong Huimiao a red-tasseled spear, placed a row of slime-covered bottles next to the workbench, pulled up a small chair, and sat in a corner of the railing.
Holding a red-tasseled spear, Dong Huimiao drove the shadowy figures that came from all directions to steal the slime to one place. He wielded the spear with great skill and occasionally managed to kill one or two of the shadowy figures.
"Hey, hurry up and set it on fire!" Dong Huimiao felt that she was about to collapse back into her physical body from exhaustion after trying to drive away the shadows.
"Wait a little longer." Xia Chuhe stared at the dark figures that had been driven together and waited patiently.
Li Rong, from another breeding room, asked curiously, "Feng, what are those two doing?"
Li Feng snapped out of his creative reverie and glanced at the screen: "They're performing a shamanistic ritual."
When the several dark figures had almost completely gathered together, Lu Lei suddenly unleashed a large fire, burning the ground with dried glue.
During the winter, the seedlings were destroyed, and the fallen sap was collected. More than twenty bottles were collected at once, making all the effort worthwhile!
Lu Lei tossed a piece of candy to the winter-damaged seedlings: "To replenish your energy."
Dong Huimiao hesitated before peeling off the candy wrapper. She had eaten something with the candy before, but it didn't taste like much, so she didn't really need to eat it.
"Can you travel directly from this body to another?" Lu Lei asked in a low voice.
"No," Winter Destroyed Seedlings replied simply.
The ability to shed one's skin like a cicada can only be used on one physical body at a time and cannot be repeatedly switched between. Furthermore, when entering a new physical body, the new body must be within the visible range; it cannot be too far away.
Lu Lei laughed and said, "What a pity. If you could, I would have lost this match."
The reason for the winter destruction of seedlings is unclear.
Lu Lei did not continue to explain.
The two continued to work together to fight the shadowy figures and split the loot.
With the shield of Winter Destroys Seedlings and the manpower available, Lu Lei was able to maintain his superpowers for even longer, and the two of them worked almost all night long.
On the fifth day of work, the latest performance rankings became: Hongmao, Chizi, Zhou Mo.
Because Lu Lei and others failed to submit the slime on the fourth day and had five bottles of slime deducted from their performance quota, Zhao Yu's ranking dropped significantly.
However, by the sixth day, the rankings had changed again: Hongmao, Li Feng, and Zhao Yu.
The slime from Li Feng and Li Rong was distributed among themselves; Li Feng contributed more, so he naturally received more.
Zhao Yu did not work overtime, and his work efficiency was at a normal level. His performance was entirely obtained by deceiving other breeding farms with sweet talk.
On the contrary, Lu Lei and Dong Huimiao were always among the last few in the entire breeding room, and the mucus they had worked overtime to produce was never even taken out.
Dong Huimiao was simply imitating Lu Lei, but she didn't know why Lu Lei had hidden the slime. However, based on the slime in her combat pack, she estimated that Lu Lei's actual ranking should be first. As for herself, she could at most make the top ten.
This ranking result made Dong Huimiao somewhat anxious. She could only work harder during the day to try to narrow the gap.
That night, Dong Huimiao and Lu Lei stayed up all night in the breeding room. In the early hours of the morning, Lu Lei left, but Dong Huimiao didn't want to leave. She didn't plan to rest and wanted to finish the day's work before taking a break, since the day shift was relatively easy.
Lu Lei said meaningfully, "Tomorrow is the last day."
She emphasized the word "last".
"I know!" Dong Huimiao nodded blankly, her straw brain completely fuzzy from staying up all night.
Lu Lei laughed and said, "I'm going back to sleep. You have time to work, so why don't you practice transferring your physical body?"
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On the morning of the seventh day, the top three performers were still Hong Mao, Zhao Yu, and Li Feng.
Today is the last day of the performance evaluation period. After submitting the slurry tonight, the final candidates for promotion will be determined.
Through her suicidal efforts to destroy the seedlings in winter, she finally narrowed the gap between herself and Lu Lei significantly. She estimated that the amount of slime in their hands should be about the same.
In the morning, Lu Lei didn't come. Dong Huimiao half-closed his eyes and swayed as he scraped away the slime.
Zhao Yu has gone off somewhere to scam people again; he's not at his workstation.
Li Feng and Li Rong are still working.
The wounds on Li Rong's face had worsened, reaching deep enough to expose the bone. Not only was she suffering from the corrosive effects during the day, but she was also responsible for collecting the slime dropped by the shadowy figures at night.
Lu Lei felt pain even from the smallest wound on his hand, and he didn't know how Li Rong endured it.
Qian Rui couldn't stand it anymore and, without trying to hide it, said directly to Li Rong, "Girl, what are you getting out of staying with her? Anyone who gets involved with this stuff can't be called a human being."
After saying that, Qian Rui threw the Mini Blue, which he had received in the previous two days, on the ground.
The floor of the breeding room was covered in a sticky, viscous substance of unknown origin, mixed with dust, making it nauseatingly slimy. Blue fell to the ground, as if he had fallen into the sticky phlegm of the insect contaminant.
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