"Tsk tsk, if you die in the garden, you will become a staff member?" The Palace Master of Zhisha snuggled in Zhang Yuanqing's arms, tilted his head, and said:
"With my qualifications, I can definitely be a staff member. If I can retain my sense of self, then it won't be too bad."
This is terrible, isn’t it? Isn’t this just a puppet of the zoo? Zhang Yuanqing complained loudly in his heart, and whispered in agreement:
"What a unique angle. Sister is a remarkable woman. Well, sister, turn the page and let's take a look at the rules..."
When faced with a crazy person, you can only coax him.
"Okay!" The Palace Master of Stop Killing looked like he was easy to please. He flipped through the preface and the first page of the employee code of conduct appeared in their sight.
1: When you see tourists in the outer area of the zoo, please politely ask them if they need help and meet all their needs. If you can help the same person twice, then congratulations, he will take over your work ticket to stay in the zoo and you will get his body.
2: If you see colleagues wearing black staff uniforms in the outer area of the zoo, ignore them and do not talk to them. Remember, do not talk to them.
Three: Patrols must be conducted along the prescribed routes every night and any problems must be reported to zoo managers.
4: If you encounter a colleague in black uniform while patrolling the core area, you should shout loudly to attract the manager or other colleagues to take them out of the core area. If the manager and colleagues do not respond, you can ask the Panda or White Lion for help.
5. If you encounter thick fog, please stay where you are, do not move, do not talk, and wait for the fog to dissipate.
6: When passing through the dodder garden, try to pass through quickly. If you see someone shouting, don't look back.
7: There are no cats in the zoo. If you see a cat, please end your patrol immediately and report to the manager or the white lion.
8. Please remember that pandas are soft, cute and honest animals. If not, please read your name loudly on your employee badge.
9. Pandas are animals worthy of respect and you must bow to them. Remember, do not mention the words "iron-eating beast" in front of them.
10: The monkeys in the garden can’t talk.
11. There is only one patrolman on each route. If you see a colleague in blue uniform on the route you are patrolling, please pay attention to his ID card. If his ID card is still there, call out his name. If his ID card is gone, please run immediately.
12. Each patrol must be completed within half an hour. If it exceeds half an hour, please pay attention to the color of your uniform and run back desperately.
13. When there is no patrol mission, please stay in the staff dormitory and do not go out. If you hear any unusual noise, please lie down in bed and pretend to sleep. Ignore it and never leave the bed.
The first page ends here, but there is a line of handwritten content at the bottom: "New rules added to the game: If your last name is Zhang, please cross out your last name on your work badge. Please don't shout out Zhang's name. Once it is shouted out, both the person shouting and the person being shouted will be noticed by it."
Zhang Yuanqing immediately thought of the work badge with the last name crossed out, and found the reason.
This new rule is clearly aimed at me, no, my father... He looked at the Palace Master of Stop Killing and found that she just raised her head and looked at him.
“The new rules are not rules,” she said.
"What do you mean?" Zhang Yuanqing listened attentively.
The palace master smiled and said, "Hold my waist and I will tell you."
Princess Yin Yao, who was rummaging through boxes and cabinets at the side, couldn't help but look up, and the scarlet Tong Kong looked solemn.
This is a terrible vixen. Compared to her, Guan Ya, the Queen and Xie Lingxi are not as capable as her.
Sooner or later, this woman will overwhelm all of Yuanshi Tianzun's confidantes and poison them one by one.
Princess Yin Yao was terrified.
Being in danger right now, it was not the time to uphold male ethics. Zhang Yuanqing reluctantly put his arms around the palace master's slender waist, which felt surprisingly good.
She had the softness and slenderness that were unique to women, which made him linger.
"The rules for rule-based props are unchanging. I have never heard that they can be modified at will. The supplements in the employee handbook are more like taboos than rules," she said.
"I see. Mentioning 'unfaithful person' will anger it." Zhang Yuanqing frowned. "If that's the case, if I reveal my identity, I'll end up dead?"
Originally, he still had some fantasies in his heart that the spirit in the zoo would show leniency to him or even defect to him if it learned that he was Zhang Zizheng's son.
"That's good to know. Besides, your calculations were wrong from the beginning. The rules of rule-based props cannot even be changed by the props themselves. Otherwise, how can they be called rules?" said the Palace Master.
"How do you know what I'm planning? You know me so well?" Zhang Yuanqing looked at the Palace Master.
"... Stop talking nonsense, I haven't finished reading the manual yet." The Palace Master turned to the next page, only to find that the content at the back had been torn off.
"No more." She said in a soft voice.
"The tone should be more serious at this time."
"But I'm happy when you hug me."
Princess Yin Yao suddenly became serious.
Zhang Yuanqing sighed, "I knew it wasn't that simple. How could I tell you all the precautions at once? If so, the rule-based props would be too easy to crack."
"No, even if I tell you, it doesn't mean I can crack it." The Lord of Stop Killing shook his head slightly: "For example, Article 8, monkeys can't talk, but what if they can talk? It's not written in the manual. There are many precautions here, but no solution is mentioned."
"If we can't solve it, we will probably end up dead." Zhang Yuanqing sighed.
He suddenly realized the horror of the dominant-level rule-based props.
The red dancing shoes are also a rule-based prop, but there is only one rule, while the zoo is full of rules. Once one of the rules is triggered in the vote, it is very likely that one will return to the spiritual realm on the spot.
Even if he now has all kinds of trump cards and props, it is difficult for him to survive.
Not only him, but even the Palace Master's sister would most likely be in danger of her life if she violated the rules.
The reason is simple, the Palace Master is a Level 7 Overlord, the Dog Elder is a Level 8 Overlord, and the Level 8 Dog Elder has not yet fully controlled the zoo.
The rule-based props of the Domination level basically have a history, but the zoo is too avant-garde. For example, the rule-based props that appeared after the birth of the Spirit Realm...
As he was thinking, he saw Princess Yin Yao lift up the dusty pillow and raise her trumpet to claim credit: "There's a new clue!"
Zhang Yuanqing and the Palace Master of Zhisha walked over immediately.
Princess Yin Yao was holding a small notepad with a few words written on it: "Another colleague is going to die. Their lives have been taken away for the second time. Ever since that guy got into trouble, there have been deaths in the dormitory every day. We can't stay here any longer. Fortunately, the administrator agreed to build a new dormitory for us."
I flipped through the pages and found that the notes at the back were blank and unused.
The content on the note made Zhang Yuanqing and the other two understand why the dormitory was abandoned. Something had happened to one of the guys, and from then on, the staff in the dormitory began to die one after another.
However, the zoo manager was unable to handle the matter and chose to change the dormitory.
Elder Dog is a bit lame... Well, it should be Elder Dog. It can't be that my father left it on the bookshelf at that time... Zhang Yuanqing's attention did not stay on the note for too long, and said: "Look for the employee manual again to see if there is a complete one." As he said, he threw the employee manual to the princess.
The three continued to search but found nothing.
Fortunately, there are many rooms here, and there are still thirteen houses waiting to be searched.
They searched the rooms one by one and turned over the first floor, but still couldn't find the second employee handbook.
Then began to search the second floor.
Finally, they pushed open the rightmost room on the second floor, which was also the last room.
Unlike other rooms, the door of this room is locked with a U-shaped lock.
The person who locked the door seemed to be afraid that something would come out, so he locked the door. Even after moving away, he did not unlock it.
This house was a bit weird, so to be on the safe side, Zhang Yuanqing's eyes became dark as he stared at the tightly closed door.
There was no sign of Yin activity... He lifted the "Soul Devouring"
, took out the ghost mirror, opened his starry eyes, and his face was filled with blood, but there was no change.
This is when the limitations of astrology become apparent.
He couldn't tell whether the bloody disaster was related to entering the room.
"There is no sign of life inside." The Palace Master, who is in charge of destiny, gave an authoritative conclusion.
"There is no smell of evil things either." said Zhang Yuanqing.
After obtaining the consent of the Palace Master, he took a few steps forward, grasped the U-shaped lock, and exerted force silently with his palm.
The lock tongue made a "click" sound and was pulled open by him.
The door opened and a musty smell rushed into my nose.
Zhang Yuanqing looked around the room warily, seeing the empty bunk beds, the empty long table, and...the dust covering every corner.
There didn't seem to be anything special here, and it was even cleaner and tidier than the previous room.
Princess Yin Yao took a look under the bed and said, "It's very clean. There's nothing left."
Weirdly clean!
Zhang Yuanqing and the Palace Master of Zhisha walked towards the lockers by the window as usual. There were four doors, three of which were open and one was locked. The three lockers that were already open on the bookshelf were empty. All the things had been cleared out.
"Strange, the people living in this room seem to have moved out, while the people living in other rooms seem to have... fled in a hurry without even packing their daily necessities." Zhang Yuanqing whispered.
The Palace Master of Stopping Killing remained silent. He came to the only locked locker, and two red threads came out of his sleeves. He wrapped them around the copper lock and twisted it suddenly.
With a slight "bang" sound, the copper lock broke.
Two red wires hooked the lock ring and pulled outwards, and the locker door opened.
In the locker there was a blue uniform, a quilt, some daily necessities, a work badge, and a booklet.
Zhang Yuanqing picked up the booklet with joy, only to find that it was a notebook, not an employee handbook.
"It's not the employee handbook. There is only one employee handbook in the entire dormitory building." Zhang Yuanqing sighed. This means that they cannot complete the rules of the zoo.
"Wang Mingming." The Palace Master of Stop Killing took the work badge and took a look at it, then put it back and said, "Look at what's written in the notebook." While she was talking, Zhang Yuanqing had already opened the notebook: "My name is Wang Mingming, and I'm a staff member of the zoo. The employee handbook says that I died in the zoo, but I can't remember anything about it before. The only thing I can be sure of is that if I want to survive, I have to work hard. From today on, I am an employee of the zoo, responsible for night patrols."
"The manager told us to read the employee manual carefully and strictly follow the rules in the manual. There are nine routes in the core area of the zoo. I am responsible for the second one. This is my first day of patrol. I hope everything goes well."
"Nothing happened tonight, I'm lucky. I don't have to be on duty tomorrow, so I can rest in the dormitory all day..."
"Last night, I heard someone knocking on the glass outside the window. I didn't dare look in that direction. According to the rules of the employee handbook, I lay on the bed and pretended to sleep. I didn't dare to move. But I heard Li Ang next door whisper to me: The shadow outside the window is two meters high. It's a monster."
"I didn't dare to answer him..."
"When I woke up this morning, Leon was gone!!"
"The administrator said this happens all the time and this is what happens to people who don't follow the rules."
"Everything went smoothly on patrol tonight, and there were no accidents."
"Last night, I heard the sound of knocking on the glass again... This morning, someone disappeared from the dormitory again."
"Patrol went well tonight."
"Someone has gone missing again... I'm the only one left in the dormitory."
"Patrol went well tonight."
"People from other dormitories have also disappeared..."
"Patrol went well tonight."
"Someone went missing again last night. Ever since Li Ang disappeared, colleagues in the dormitory have started to disappear one after another. Everyone says that there is a monster knocking on the glass outside the window every night, but it didn't knock on the glass in my dormitory again..."
"Tonight's patrol
The logic is going smoothly.”
"Someone went missing again last night..."
Zhang Yuanqing flipped through the pages one by one. It was a strange notebook that mentioned patrols and missing employees, but did not elaborate on them in detail, just briefly mentioning them.
The cause of the incident was that after a glass knocking incident, Li Ang, who shared the same dormitory with Wang Mingming, disappeared. Then it was as if Pandora's box was opened, and the staff in the dormitory building disappeared one after another.
This notebook simply reconstructs the process of the dormitory building being abandoned.
"The guy mentioned in the note is Li Ang?" Princess Yin Yao took advantage of the palace master frowning in thought and secretly came over to take a look.
Just as Zhang Yuanqing was about to speak, he heard the Palace Master Zhisha's breathing quicken and whispered, "No!"
"That guy refers to Wang Mingming, not Li Ang."
Zhang Yuanqing's Childhood Miniature.
"Why?" Princess Yin Yao blurted out. After asking, she probably knew that this unruly woman would not answer her.
She consciously turned the megaphone towards Zhang Yuanqing and said, "Why? It's obviously Li Ang who is missing."
She had just finished reading the contents of the notes and hadn't had time to think about it.
Zhang Yuanqing's face turned grim: "Look carefully at Wang Mingming's patrol experience."
"Patrol experience..." Princess Yin Yao glanced at the notes and said in a serious tone, "It went smoothly, every day went smoothly!!"
"Yes, everything goes smoothly every day, but this is impossible. If everything goes smoothly every day, why are there so many rules and precautions in the manual?" Zhang Yuanqing said with a gloomy face: "There is only one explanation, something went wrong with Wang Mingming, but he didn't realize it. Perhaps, it was not Li Ang who "disappeared" that night, but Wang Mingming."
Although Princess Yin Yao is a Yin corpse, when you think about it carefully, you still find it a bit scary.
The Palace Master of Stop Killing suddenly said, "There is another possibility. Wang Mingming's accident did not happen when the monster knocked on the window, but earlier, during his first patrol."
"But he didn't realize that something was wrong with him, so he went back to the dormitory... The monster knocking on the door in the notes was Wang Mingming himself."
“He killed his colleagues one after another, which is consistent with the information left in the note.
Princess Yin Yao raised her trumpet and said, "Then why is this room locked?"
Zhang Yuanqing's face changed: "Wang Mingming wanted to go back to the dormitory every night. The staff wanted to stop this behavior, so they locked his dormitory door. Wang Mingming, who couldn't go back to the dormitory, went back to other employees' dormitories, so people died every day..."
Just then, stiff footsteps were heard in the corridor outside the door.