Chapter 82 82 Li Xiaoyue
Tu Lanxun quickly removed part of the circuit board, carefully placed it aside, and then went to pick up the belt with the metal buckle.
To avoid scanning problems, the belt buckle is not hollow but solid, and can be opened from a very clever buckle on the edge. It itself is a miniature toolbox with slots cut into it to fit the metal parts of the communicator.
Now, most of the communicator has been assembled, but the most important signal transmitter has been lost by Tu Lanxun.
It was wrapped in plastic film and embedded in a large red date that Brother Xiaofeng had poured out.
If you want to get it, you have to wait until night to search the trash can.
Tu Lanxun suppressed his nervousness and restored everything to its original state. He taped the half-assembled communicator to the bottom of the bed with double-sided tape. After a moment's thought, he moved it to a different location, behind the electric radiator.
N quietly appeared inside, eyes lowered. "It's still not safe. Under the bed, the toilet tank, and the floor drain are the top priorities for the search. Electric radiators are the easiest places in the house to hide metal objects. They won't let them go."
No one knows if anyone will come into the house when she goes to work at night.
Tu Lanxun took out the things again, thinking of disassembling them and putting them back, but if an emergency requiring communication occurred, she would not have ten minutes to reassemble them.
After thinking for a long time, Liu Maosheng took a fancy to the dead corner inside the lime decorative strip on the exterior wall and said that things could be hung there.
Tu Lanxun had other ideas.
"Can you crawl through the sewer?" she asked N.
N's brow furrowed visibly: "What do you want to do?"
Tu Lanxun suddenly laughed: "If you can't hide it in my floor drain, then hide it in someone else's."
Powerful ghosts or those with special abilities can be stretched and deformed. The biggest problem now is that N has mysophobia.
There were ghost detectors every five steps in the hallways of this building, but none between the sewers. However, this was only the standard for the temporary dormitories in the annex; even this path might be blocked in the main building.
N's face turned pale as he looked at Tu Lanxun's elbow: "Hmm?"
Mikhail's voice came out: "I can't, I'm too big."
After some trouble, the communicator was placed into the floor drain of the upstairs room at a perfect angle. The room was empty and no one was there.
N came back from the sewer with a disgruntled look on his face. He didn't even want to use his arms anymore and said, "We can't come out at the same time, and we can't make any big movements when we do. You have to be extremely careful on the night shift."
Tu Lanxun asked, "Any new discoveries?"
N nodded. "The spirit detection device is a little different from when I was here, but the principle is still to detect spirit fluctuations and react if they exceed the threshold. In other words, I can stretch my arms in the sewer, but if I try to crawl through it, it might trigger the alarm."
Okay.
Tu Lanxun went downstairs to buy a loaf of long-life bread and a bottle of juice. After eating and drinking, he could only lie dead in the house.
As the sky darkened, the evening shift soon arrived.
"Knock knock knock." There was a knock on the door, and a voice from outside asked, "Is Li Xiaoyue here?"
She jumped over and opened the door. Standing outside was a middle-aged woman in work clothes, her hair in a stewardess-style bun. She looked gentle and capable. She smiled, "Hello, Xiaoyue, I'm Zhong Tie, the head of the cleaning department. Come with me, I'll tell you about the evening shift."
Tu Lanxun followed and said politely, "Thank you, Minister Zhong."
Zhong Tie and Tu Lanxun went up to the fourth floor and walked through the corridor. Zhong Tie swiped his work card and fingerprint, and the door separating the auxiliary building and the main building slowly opened.
The corridor, held up by the lights and darkness outside, stretched to a point where its end seemed out of sight, like a floating bridge swaying on a sea of moonlight. They walked across it, onto the marble floor and the frighteningly spacious interior of the main building.
"Our cleaning department's headquarters is here." Zhong Tie opened an inconspicuous narrow door that almost blended into the wall color.
The space inside was larger than Tu Lanxun had imagined. There was a lounge inside, just like the office area of a normal office building. Even each cleaner was equipped with a computer.
Zhong Tie smiled and said, "We don't use individual computers often. They're all connected to the intranet, so we can't browse the outside internet. If you're bored, you can play Spider Solitaire or something. But don't save anything important, or the computer will format itself regularly."
She pointed to the large screen next to her and said, "Daily work tasks, routes, and stipulated times are all on this screen."
Now it is written on the big screen: November 2nd, evening shift, persons on duty are [Zhong Tie], [Hu Na], and [Li Xiaoyue].
"Hu Na has gone to work." Zhong Tie said concisely, touching the screen to turn the page, "This is your task for tonight."
The task was simple: to clean the entire corridor on the sixth floor of Side A of the main building, and it was required to be completed between 11 pm and 2 am.
Zhong Tie entered the minister's authority and selected [Li Xiaoyue] after the work executor.
The computer that Tu Lanxun was newly assigned to automatically lit up, and a prompt box popped up: Please check your work tasks.
"What is Side A of the main building?" she asked.
Zhong Tie replied: "You will know after you pass the probation period."
From now until 11pm, it is training time.
"The cleaning job is very simple. Now that technology has developed, we are equipped with various machines, and the threshold for personal cleaning skills is not high." Zhong Tie opened a door in the lounge, and inside were hand-pushed floor scrubbers, turbine turntable cleaners, and suction cup robots that can automatically wipe windows.
Tu Lanxun memorized a few lines and asked, "Can I write them down on paper? I'm afraid I won't be able to remember them."
Zhong Tie smiled. "In principle, it's best to stay away from paper and electronic media." Perhaps worried that Tu Lanxun didn't understand, she explained soothingly, "There's nothing much to remember. Just practice a few times here while I watch."
The machine is neither complicated nor not complicated. Tu Lanxun actually learned it in one try, but in order to pretend, she waited until the third time before showing that she had barely mastered it.
Zhong Tie handed her a small metal box that he wore on his waist. It came with a single earphone and said, "When you start work, use this to talk to me. If you don't understand anything, feel free to ask. But be quiet. You know, whether you're on night or day shift, you have to speak quietly and not disturb others. And don't look around or walk around."
He added, "When you talk to me, be careful about what you say. Others can hear you."
As for who the others were, Zhong Tie didn't say.
Tu Lanxun took it and, under Zhong Tie's guidance, practiced operating the push-type floor scrubber. After hesitating for a long time, she asked, "Minister Zhong, can I just clean from this side of the sixth-floor corridor to the other end?"
No wonder she asked, the corridor in the main building was not straight, with many turns and places where the view was blocked.
Zhong Tie tapped the electronic screen of the push-button floor scrubber and smiled, "Just follow it. It has a smart locator inside, connected to the entire estate's management system. It will automatically remind you when you reach your location."
Tu Lanxun's heart skipped a beat. Sure enough, these high-tech cleaning tools all had positioning capabilities. She just didn't know if the headset microphone she'd been given had a positioning function.
"There is only one garbage disposal point in the corridor on the sixth floor, and you will find it there. After you finish cleaning, you must take all the garbage to the garbage disposal point and then take it away using the passenger and freight elevator." said Zhong Tie.
This part seemed very important. Zhong Tie's expression turned serious. The large screen brought up a brief diagram of the sixth floor. "There are three types of elevators in the main building: unmarked passenger elevators and two types of freight elevators that can carry people, marked as Class I and Class II. We can only use Class I freight elevators. Understand?"
Tu Lanxun nodded quickly.
"As for the location of the freight elevator, you can see it while you are cleaning. If you forget, just enter the navigation to the elevator on the electronic screen of the cleaning car and it will take you there."
Tu Lanxun suddenly felt that Zhong Tie was very responsible in some aspects, but very irresponsible in other aspects.
Since the requirements for cleaning work are so strict, why not let her figure out the cleaning route in advance, instead letting her figure it out on her own?
What should I do if the quality of work is affected?
With this doubt in mind, Tu Lanxun stumbled over and repeated the previous teaching content to Zhong Tie. Zhong Tie nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, you wait here. I'll go out first. Remember to leave on time."
Tu Lanxun was the only one left in the cleaning lounge.
She sat in a cold, lonely chair, playing Spider Solitaire on the computer, when Liu Maosheng reminded her, "Boss, we need to find a way to go to the garbage disposal site and look for that red date."
I haven’t been able to contact Li Ao and the others yet.
Tu Lanxun sighed, stood up, and walked to the window in confusion like every new employee.
Beyond her blurry reflection in the glass was the boundless night. Junxi Manor was terrifyingly large. The streets and traffic outside were invisible, and even the buildings were reduced to distant hills. All that could be seen were the outdoor decorative lights within Junxi Manor, along with the illuminated lawns and paths.
This place seems to be a country of its own. If Tu Lanxun is discovered, he will not be able to escape on foot.
It was too dark to see the terrain outside the main building.
Tu Lanxun could only sit back and play Spider Solitaire. Liu Maosheng continued to whisper in her ear, one sentence after another, comforting the isolated undercover agent. The most important sentence was: "There is a hidden camera in this room."
For some reason, Tu Lanxun suddenly remembered N's voice. If he laughed sinisterly beside her at this moment, she might feel more comfortable.
"N is probably angry too," Mikhail said softly into his elbow. "Let him be uncomfortable."
Before setting off, she had considered letting N possess her, but N refused to have his soul core taken away, even to be possessed directly. So he remained in the silver chain wrapped around Tu Lanxun's ankle, motionless.
——There are two methods of possession. One is Tu Lanxun's unique method of grabbing the soul core and then giving it to oneself. The other is the common method of ghosts possessing living people as a whole, just like what N once did to the taxi driver.
Time soon came to eleven o'clock in the middle of the night.
Tu Lanxun put on the issued headset and, as he pushed the cleaning cart into the empty corridor, said to the air, "Minister Zhong, I'm off now."
Two seconds later, Zhong Tie's voice came back, the background sound was very quiet, "Go, Xiaoyue, I wish you good luck."
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