Chapter 22 Dream Amusement Park (4)
When the deputy manager saw an outsider walking into the warehouse, he reacted violently like a frightened mouse.
"What are you doing here?" the deputy manager shouted. "No one is allowed to enter the warehouse!"
"I'm here to be punished." Cangzhi replied.
The deputy manager was obviously confused when he heard this answer. His eyes flicked back and forth between Cang Zhi and Su Yue. Finally, he asked, "Who of you two will take the punishment?"
"I."
Su Yue and Cang Zhi said in unison.
The deputy manager asked again: "Which of you two is the team leader?"
Cang Zhi opened his mouth and finally closed it honestly.
"Me." Su Yue said.
"Only one person should be punished! The one who isn't the team leader should be sent back!" the deputy manager said angrily. "If more people are punished, the loss will be too great! We won't have enough manpower for future safety tests!"
The meaning of his words was actually quite terrifying when you thought about it carefully, but Cang Zhi ignored him.
Cang Zhi stood here stubbornly.
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In fact, in previous copies, Su Yue often acted separately from the puppet Cang Zhi, and it was rare to see a situation like this where the puppet insisted on accompanying him.
But it happened to be an elevator, and there didn't seem to be any danger over there. The key point was that Cang Zhi seemed to really want to be with him.
Su Yue thought about it and felt that it was not bad to be with the doll.
When he thought of this, Su Yue took Cang Zhi's arm.
Feeling the other person's arm muscles tense up, Su Yue didn't think much about it and leaned forward with a weak look on his face.
He was used to this kind of acting. For some reason, pretending to be a love-brained person always made NPCs and players with bad intentions let down their guard against him.
Su Yue said to the deputy manager with an innocent look, "He is my boyfriend. I have to be with him, otherwise I can't walk."
Cang Zhi opened his eyes slightly.
Deputy Manager: “…”
Su Yue is fair and thin, and has the kind of appearance that can be praised as both handsome and beautiful. Even if he doesn't pretend, he doesn't look like the type that can fight very well. Now hanging on Cang Zhi, he looks like a little bird relying on its man.
Even in the gaming world, a love-struck couple who couldn't help but cling to each other was a presence that no NPC could handle. The deputy manager's eyebrows knitted together, a look of "I can't stand this anymore" written all over his face as he looked at Su Yue and Cang Zhi in agony.
Cang Zhi, with a righteous look on his face, moved his arm a little towards Su Yue, allowing Su Yue to lean more comfortably. Su Yue looked at the deputy manager with a look of "I would die without a boyfriend" on her face, blinking her eyes.
Deputy Manager: “…”
He was too lazy to bother with his love-brained thoughts, so he wound up an alarm clock and put it in Su Yue's hand, then pointed into the elevator car: "Hurry and get in!"
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Compared with the overall gorgeous and dreamy style of the amusement park, the warehouse can be said to be very shabby.
When the elevator sinks, it makes a heavy "clang clang" sound, which always makes people feel that the steel cable will not be able to bear the weight of the car and will break in the next second.
I don’t know how many floors underground it is. The car descends slowly but continuously. There is a breeze in the transparent elevator shaft, which always gives people a feeling of going to the underground world.
Cangzhi stayed beside Suyue, as silent as ever. In fact, the elevator shaft was very dark. Only when the elevator went down a certain distance, there would be a little fire-like light shining regularly, allowing Suyue to see a rough outline of Cangzhi.
But knowing that Cang Zhi is by my side, I feel at ease.
"It's a good thing you came." Su Yue leaned against the fence and sighed softly, "Otherwise, this place would be really hard for me. Who would have thought that I would have to take such a horrible elevator as punishment?"
"I'm glad you're okay." Cang Zhi said.
"If you weren't here, I'd have to recruit again... Never mind, it's okay." Su Yue sighed.
He originally wanted to say that if Cang Zhi didn't come, he would have to provoke Supervisor Z to talk to him, just like last time when he played games in the mountain village, but suddenly he remembered Supervisor Z's true identity.
It would have been fine if I didn’t know, but now that I know it’s my ex-boyfriend, I don’t want to contact him again even if I die.
Especially when he thought about the day he met Cang Zhi and the other party's cold attitude that didn't even want to say a few words to him, he suddenly didn't want to say anything.
"Who to recruit? The new supervisor?" asked the puppet Cangzhi.
Su Yue looked at him in surprise: "Azhi has become smarter."
"It's simple reasoning." The puppet Cangzhi replied.
"That's a pretty clever deduction." Su Yue said with a smile, "It's him, but I definitely won't go and provoke him now. After all, he doesn't want to bother with me either."
"It might be a misunderstanding." The puppet Cangzhi said sincerely, "No one would want to ignore you."
"Azhi, you're so sweet." Su Yue smiled. "But there shouldn't be any misunderstanding. Could it be that he thought I had a new boyfriend and was afraid to talk to me?"
The puppet Cangzhi neither denied nor confirmed, but just stared at Suyue with his dark eyes in the darkness.
"Well, it doesn't matter whether it's a misunderstanding or not." Su Yue smiled again and said, "It has nothing to do with me anyway."
A god without a heart cannot love. No matter how much Su Yue fantasizes about it, or how many positions he assumes for Cangzhi, he is not Cangzhi, and he will not understand Cangzhi. He is only adding to his own troubles.
What's more, he is just an ex.
The puppet Cang Zhi nodded again, agreeing with Su Yue's words, "Yes, he deserves to die."
"?" Su Yue glanced at him again, "You are very aggressive towards your main body today."
Cang Zhi immediately shut up: "I didn't."
The puppet Cangzhi would occasionally have some reactions that made Su Yue laugh and cry, so Su Yue didn't take it too seriously.
"Speaking of that new supervisor." Su Yue deliberately chose a very distant word before bringing up the topic of her ex-boyfriend again. "I wonder if he was punished."
At the end of the last copy, Su Yue used his divine power to chop the game framework with a sword and eliminated the bug. Cang Zhi accidentally turned off the operating system - this is what Cang Zhi said himself, so Su Yue didn't want to be self-indulgent and say that he was doing it for his own good - resulting in the alarm message not being transmitted, so Su Yue was not punished for abusing his divine power.
But if this kind of thing is verified, Cangzhi will be punished.
"Do you want him to be punished?" Cang Zhi asked.
"No, I have no grudge against him. After all, he helped me." Su Yue said, "You think I am too narrow-minded."
"I'm sorry." Cang Zhi said, "I don't think he will be punished because he is the Lord God."
"You can't say that." Su Yue said, "He is the main god, but he has no special privileges."
Although Cangzhi is a bastard in their relationship, as the main god, there is nothing wrong with Cangzhi, and Su Yue still has some trust in Cangzhi.
"What I mean is that he is the Lord God with thick skin and tough flesh, so it's okay to punish him." Cang Zhi said.
Su Yue was immediately amused. "That makes sense. Punish him, punish him severely."
Cang Zhi nodded seriously: "He deserves a beating."
"?" Su Yue looked at Cang Zhi, "You were very aggressive towards him today."
Cang Zhi quickly pressed his lips into a line, "I really didn't."
The topic of ex-boyfriend came to an end, and the elevator continued to descend.
Su Yue retracted his gaze from the elevator shaft in the distance to the nearby one. He was in a good mood. As a puppet, Cang Zhi regarded Su Yue as his only master, but even so, Su Yue still felt that Cang Zhi's attention was particularly on him today.
He looked at Cang Zhi's handsome features and smiled: "I feel like you've become more considerate after entering the game this time."
"Is there?" Cangzhi asked modestly.
"Yes," Su Yue said. "Did you secretly learn something before entering the game?"
"...Well, yes." Cangzhi answered vaguely.
"What did you learn?" Su Yue asked with interest.
This time, Cang Zhi's effect was much better than the previous "Hey, you little devil", and even made Su Yue feel a little teased. Of course, he did not rule out the possibility that this was because the other party appeared in the occasion he was least good at, and psychologically he inevitably developed a sense of dependence.
But no matter what, Su Yue was quite curious about the love secrets that even dolls could teach.
"I can't remember the name either." Cang Zhi coughed for some reason, looked at the gleaming steel frame in the elevator shaft, and asked, "What exactly did the deputy manager say you should be punished for?"
Su Yue was just chatting casually, but when Cang Zhi changed the subject, his attention shifted to the game itself.
"Tidying up the warehouse," Su Yue said. "He didn't say what exactly to do, but it looks like there's a time limit."
Because the other party brought an alarm clock, while the elevator was descending, the alarm clock was still counting down, and the spring was ringing.
Su Yue looked at the time and there were 56 minutes left.
Including the time it takes to take the elevator, the initial time given to them is 1 hour.
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"At the moment, whether to organize or not is secondary. From the perspective of the game, we have to survive in this warehouse for one hour." Su Yue, like before, habitually said everything he thought of.
"Also, we can't communicate with the managers and assistant managers during the security tests outside. Maybe we can find more clues about the hidden mission when we sort out the warehouse."
The logic of these game worlds is basically like this: you can pass the level by surviving successfully. Even if you don’t understand any of the game content, you can still pass as long as you are very good at surviving.
But if you want to complete the hidden mission, you must increase the degree of exploration, that is, to find out the ins and outs of this game world as much as possible.
"It has been confirmed that this game has a bug. Considering the strength of the last bug monster, we have to be careful here." Su Yue reminded Cang Zhi again.
As soon as he finished speaking, the elevator car made a dull sound, like an unstable container, it bumped a few times and finally landed on the ground.
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The elevator door slowly opened, and Cang Zhi was half a body length in front of Su Yue and walked out first.
It was originally dark outside, but the moment the elevator door slowly closed behind me, the heavy sound of the door closing must have triggered the voice control. With a light "click", a small orange light bulb with very dim light lit up.
The light bulb perfectly embodied the word "fading" from the inside out. It was suspended by a thin wire, swaying tremblingly, and the light flickered, sometimes dimming and sometimes getting dimmer.
It feels like if you speak a little louder, it will be blown out by the airflow.
This was a very narrow corridor. Two people could only stand side by side horizontally, otherwise one of them would hit the wall. However, the corridor was very long, with both sides shrouded in darkness and no end in sight. The light from the small bulb stretched the shadows of Su Yue and Cang Zhi very long, making them look like ghosts.
There is an elevator on this side and another door opposite. Because the aisle is too narrow, the two doors are facing each other as if face to face, which feels weirdly cramped.
There was a wooden sign hanging on the door. Due to lack of maintenance, the sign had dark and light mottled, scar-like wood grain. On the sign was written in thick dark green ink:
Warehouse No. 520.
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The warehouse door was not closed, and you could push it open by taking down the wooden sign, but it would take a little effort because it was obvious that no one had been here for a long time, and the dust on the ground had hardened into lumps, almost forming a natural threshold.
The moment Su Yue pushed the door open, there was a heavy noise coming from behind the door, as if something had fallen down.
With the little light in the corridor, Su Yue saw at a glance that the room was full of pale plaster statues of children. They were in different postures, but all of them had their pale faces tilted up, looking towards the door with a smile.
Suddenly there was a gust of wind, accompanied by a loud bang, and the warehouse door slammed shut behind Su Yue and Cang Zhi.
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