Chapter 5 The Infinite Boss Invites You to "Eat Melon" 5. Yes, ...
The figure silently searched around the workstation for a while, and at the same time turned on Lu Yu's work computer.
The computer screen cast a dim light, clearly revealing the outline of a figure—the short, stout man among the five players in the Smiling Company instance.
"My ability is 'reconnaissance.' I don't know about other things, but I can spot ghosts with ease," the short, stout man muttered smugly to himself. "Ordinary NPCs... what a joke! What ordinary NPC's computer is a ghost? Although I can't find the ghost's level, out of all these computers here, this Director Lu's is unusual. The company's secrets are probably on him, or at the very least, on his computer..."
"It's just a daily dungeon, why are you being so cautious? No wonder you'll never reach S-rank. Watch me clear it in a day and break the record..."
The short, stout man entered the password he had secretly discovered into the computer.
【Incorrect password!】
The short, stout man was stunned. He had personally seen Director Lu enter the information; how could it be wrong?
He frowned, racked his brains for a moment, and entered the password again, but the screen still showed an incorrect password. He wiped his face, unwilling to give up, and continued trying.
The computer didn't have a lockout feature for incorrect passwords, so the short, stout man bent over it, mesmerized, typing and trying again and again.
Gradually, his fingers on the keyboard began to melt, and the outlines reflected on the computer screen began to distort.
Finally, the correct password was displayed.
At this moment, the short, fat man was no longer in front of the computer; only a writhing mass of flesh was slowly swallowed up by the computer screen displaying its interface.
Two minutes later, Pei Yanzhi, who was taking a bath in the hotel, received a message from his teammates who had been lurking near the Xiaoxi Media Company.
Wang Kun: [Captain, one of the five players from Laughing Media Company has died. The cause of death was contact with Lu Yu's work computer, which resulted in near-severe contamination and the disintegration of his flesh. More specifically, since the media company has been opened as a dungeon, and I wasn't a matched player, I can't enter and therefore cannot investigate.]
S-rank players can roam freely in the "Fool's Kingdom," but they cannot force their way into an ongoing game instance if they have not been matched with another player.
This is what Smile Games calls game balance.
The bathtub was steamy. Pei Yanzhi lazily lifted his eyelids and typed expressionlessly: [I thought 'be careful when handling most items in the dungeon and heavily polluted NPCs and dungeon bosses, or you'll lose your life' was a generally accepted fact. Turns out it's not?]
Wang Kun: [...]
Pei Yanzhi: [Give the four survivors a remote reminder without affecting the exploration mission; that's more than enough.]
Wang Kun: [Understood.]
After swiping away the encrypted chat and encrypted group, Pei Yanzhi let his hand fall to the edge of the bathtub. His fingertips, flushed red by the steam, deftly and skillfully flipped his phone, as if performing magic.
Suddenly, the dazzling magic trick stopped. Pei Yanzhi held his phone up to his eyes and opened the chat box with Lu Yu.
The other party is typing...
Pei Yanzhi paused, his fingers still as he was about to type, and raised an eyebrow slightly.
After thinking for a moment, he put down the words he was about to utter and waited for the other party to contact him first.
Time passed second by second.
Pei Yanzhi turned off the thermostat, and the water in the bathtub began to cool down.
He stood up, dried himself, wrapped himself in a bathrobe, and looked down to see that the chat box was still showing "typing in progress."
Picking up his phone, Pei Yanzhi left the bathroom, dried his hair, washed up, and then looked down again, still typing.
Pei Yanzhi: "..."
Pei Yanzhi was at a loss for words, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
As he threw himself onto the hotel bed, he typed: "Are you free tomorrow night?"
Meanwhile, inside the Morning and Evening Apartments.
Lu Yu sat on the edge of the bed, holding his phone, typing away for almost half an hour, but before he could send a single coherent sentence, a line of text suddenly popped up by Pei Yanzhi, which disrupted his heartbeat.
His gaze lingered on the phone screen for two seconds before he slowly moved his finger.
Lu Yu: [Yes.]
Pei Yanzhi: [How about we grab a meal and watch a movie together?]
Lu Yu: [Okay.]
Pei Yanzhi: [What time do you get off work?]
Lu Yu: [Six o'clock.]
Pei Yanzhi: [Then send me your address. I'll wait for you downstairs at your company tomorrow.]
Upon seeing the message, Lu Yu, who had been lost in thought after being pleasantly surprised that his crush had asked him out, finally snapped out of his daze. Remembering the hundred relationship tips he had just researched, he immediately became alert and quickly replied: "No need. I have a car; I should be the one picking you up."
Pei Yanzhi didn't refuse: "Anything is fine. If you want to come, pick me up here. [Crown Hotel location]"
Lu Yu: [I'm not far from there. Considering the rush hour, I'll arrive around 6:30. What would you like for dinner? What movie would you like to see?]
Pei Yanzhi sent a cat-shaped smiley face: "Can I leave the arrangements to you? I don't eat celery, but I don't have any other dietary restrictions. I love spicy food and seafood. I don't like horror movies."
Faced with such an adorable cat's smiling face, Lu Yu couldn't refuse at all: "Okay, I'll pick you up tomorrow."
Pei Yanzhi smiled: [Good night.]
Bonus: a cat shooting hearts.
Good night, sweet dreams.
Lu Yu replied.
After sending the message, he waited for two more minutes. Seeing that Pei Yanzhi didn't send any new messages, he figured she was probably really asleep. So he exited the chat window and started launching various apps, searching for delicious restaurants and good movies currently showing. He created a long table and named it "Dating Guide".
This was Lu Yu's first date ever, and he was determined to make Pei Yanzhi fall in love with him at first sight and then fall even more deeply in love upon seeing him again. So, they ended up going on until 1 a.m.
It may seem late, but for Lu Yu, who often stays up late to work or read novels, it's a regular occurrence.
At 1:30, considering that he had to go to work the next day and needed to maintain a good appearance for the date, Lu Yu put down his phone and turned off the lights.
At two o'clock, Lu Yu turned on the light, got up with droopy eyelids, filled a glass of water, and swallowed melatonin.
At three o'clock, he silently opened his eyes in the darkness: "System, do you think it would be too fast or too presumptuous for me to try to hold Pei Yanzhi's hand tomorrow night?"
The gossip-eating system: [...]
Lu Yu: "Actually, I'm not in such a hurry. It's okay if we don't hold hands, but you saw it, right? His hands are beautiful. No one would not want to hold them. I'm not a hand fetishist..."
The gossip system directly blocked Lu Yu, and the world fell silent.
The next morning at 6:30, Lu Yu got out of bed, his eyes dark but his spirits high.
He dressed up carefully.
I sprayed my hair with hairspray, swept my bangs back at an angle, revealing half of my smooth forehead. My glasses were ultrasonically cleaned, leaving them sparkling clean. I pulled out my most expensive light gray casual suit, ironed it flat, and then sprayed on a touch of pine-scented men's cologne.
Finally, he carefully examined the man in the full-length mirror. Broad shoulders, long legs, and a handsome appearance—perfect for romance. Satisfied, he went out!
Lu Yu picked up his car keys, which he hadn't used more than a few times a month due to traffic jams, and set off an hour early, hoping to successfully scout out the location during the morning rush hour.
Aside from his adolescence, he had never dressed up so elaborately before.
As soon as he stepped out of the apartment, he startled the elderly folks who were still doing their morning exercise. They rubbed their old eyes and stared at him, saying, "Little Lu, you look so handsome today, are you going on a blind date?"
Upon arriving at the company, receptionist Sister Liu paused in her yawning, her jaw nearly dislocating: "Oh my, Lu Yu?"
Lu Yu smiled slightly at her.
Sister Liu's eyes widened. She glanced at the time: 8:50 AM, ten minutes before work started. "The sun must have risen in the west! You've got something wrong with you! Not only are you late today, but you're dressed so flashy—a suit and tie, silver-rimmed glasses, making you look like some kind of 'refined scoundrel'..."
"You look so happy, did your boss secretly give you a raise?"
This was the only thing Sister Liu could think of that could make Lu Yu so happy.
She leaned in with a gossipy air: "How much did it go up? It's not still five hundred, is it?"
Lu Yu said, "There was no raise."
"Then you..." Sister Liu asked, puzzled.
Lu Yu tried to remain composed: "Yes, I have a date tonight."
Sister Liu was stunned.
The century-old cycad has blossomed!
Sister Liu's pupils dilated.
Lu Yu maintained a calm and composed expression, smiled, and entered the company.
Sister Liu watched him leave, then rushed to the computer and typed furiously to share the shocking news with her colleagues in the company's gossip group.
Fresh gossip, especially about relationships, always manages to revive even the most stagnant colleagues, making them more energetic and vibrant.
Lu Yu is actually in a relationship!
[Shocking! I always thought he didn't have these worldly desires! Don't you guys think he's too bland? He seems uninterested in everything, not even in gossip! When I talked to him about gossip yesterday at noon, he acted like I was just reciting a sutra!]
Of course, I'm not talking about looks when I say "plain." He's definitely the most handsome guy in the office building, with a face like jade, as handsome as Pan An, no doubt about it! But I'm talking about the feeling, you know what I mean? Even though he's handsome, he doesn't evoke any desire in anyone, and you can't imagine him being attracted to someone else!
[You said it yourself, it's a feeling. We're all human, how could we not have desires?]
I also suspect he didn't. Before, when he went to the technical department to ask for something, Lao Huang was fixing the computers for the girls in the content department. He accidentally opened their folder of erotic pictures. Lu Yu saw it from the side, but he didn't even flinch, as if he had just seen a plate of stir-fried cabbage.
That screen was filled with erotic images! Things like male-male, male-female, female-female, non-human...
Send me a copy of the erotic image.
[Requesting erotic images.]
[Request for erotic images +1.]
[Requesting erotic images +10086.]
The power of erotic images is immense; Lu Yu's love life was instantly drowned out.
Inside the company, Lu Yu sat down at his workstation and went through his usual morning routine. However, since he was dressed in a suit and tie today, it wasn't convenient to take a paid bathroom break, so he started working right away.
His colleague from next door came in just in time and looked at him in surprise. He turned his head and said, "Yes, I have a date tonight."
colleague:"……"
Having a van, but unable to find a parking space nearby, Jiang Yan and her two companions had to squat in another public restroom again, beginning another day of spying: "..."
Who asked you?
Lu Yu glanced at his work, called over the two interns he was supervising, and explained the day's arrangements to them, emphasizing that he wouldn't be working overtime that night because he was going on a date.
Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi: "..."
As they were talking, the cleaning lady from before pushed her cart past. Lu Yu paused, a little puzzled, and asked the senior official, "Why did you switch back to Aunt Zhang? Did the cleaning intern who came with you quit?"
The high-ranking official glanced discreetly at the computer in front of Lu Yu.
The computer showed no obvious abnormalities at this moment.
However, the clues provided by the Crimson Dawn elite team through the artifact couldn't be false; they had no reason to lie to ordinary players like them, who weren't even S-rank. Therefore, this computer was at least a heavily corrupted S-rank artifact. It's just that, for some reason, its corruption and strangeness weren't targeting the current user, Lu Yu.
“Yes,” Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi exchanged a glance and replied, “He said the pay was low and the work was too tiring, so he quit.”
Lu Yu understood deeply, but unfortunately he didn't have that kind of carefree attitude; he still longed for stability.
After discussing work, Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi were sent away.
Following the example of their other colleagues who were slacking off, the two fiddled with their phones, picked up their cups, and went to the outside tea room together to get water. A short while after they arrived at the tea room, the short-haired girl and the girl with the braided pigtails also arrived.
The four exchanged glances, and Bao Xiaoqi whispered, "It's a pity that none of us are S-level players or members of any major guilds. We only have temporary phones provided by the game. Otherwise, we could just have our own phones and chat encrypted on them, which would be much safer."
"Stop talking nonsense," the short-haired girl said. "So what?"
While keeping an eye on his surroundings, the high-ranking official said, "I didn't dare to make direct contact, and there was no obvious aura, but my 'predictive insect' reacted. It should be a strange creature. I don't know its level, but it's definitely not low, and the pollution is certainly heavy."
The short-haired girl said, "Then Lu Yu, who led you, is a bit unusual. He's in contact with these kinds of strange creatures every day without any problems. Ordinary NPCs can't even come into contact with high-level strange creatures or heavily polluted sources. Besides the company boss, Lu Yu is the second suspect."
"You are his interns, so try to build a relationship with him and try to gain his favor," she advised.
Before she knew it, she had become the leader of the four.
Gao Gan and Bao Xiaoqi had no objections, so Lu Yu, who was writing a manuscript while slacking off, suddenly received milk tea from his intern.
Lu Yu: "?"
These two interns are quite good at handling things.
Meanwhile, the more quick-witted senior official also thoroughly explored his own emotional experiences during his lunch break, summarizing the lessons learned from his painful experiences and imparting a wealth of experience to Lu Yu.
Lu Yu was pleasantly surprised, and his impression of high-ranking officials soared.
Therefore, when the senior officials were curious about the boss's whereabouts, Lu Yu gave a sincere answer: "No one else in the company knows, but I heard the boss make a phone call before, saying that he was going to get his hemorrhoids removed."
High-ranking official: "..."
“Don’t worry,” Lu Yu said. “The boss has a strong ability to recover. He has a music festival project the day after tomorrow, so he should be back by tomorrow at the latest.”
The high-ranking official's eyes flickered, and his attention was drawn to the phrase "strong recovery ability".
Is this a plot hint from an NPC? Is it implying that the boss has extraordinary regenerative abilities, is not an ordinary person, but a dungeon boss?
Lu Yu had no idea that a casual remark would spark deep reflection among the players.
He finally made it through the long Tuesday. At 5:30 p.m., half an hour before he was supposed to leave work, he was already getting restless.
This was the eighteenth time he'd opened his chat with Pei Yanzhi today, and aside from their conversation last night, there was nothing else. Pei Yanzhi hadn't contacted him, and he didn't know what to say. He then opened Pei Yanzhi's Moments, which was completely blank, just like Pei Yanzhi himself—mysterious, inviting exploration but ultimately yielding nothing.
Lu Yu thus whiled away half an hour on the chat software.
At 5:59:59 PM, Lu Yu stepped out of the company gate with one of his leather shoes.
At exactly six o'clock, Lu Yufeng disappeared into the corridor like a gust of wind.
"Love~"
Sister Liu winked at her colleagues at the front desk.
A note from the author:
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Author: Love Oh~ (Funny)
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