Chapter 16.
Tang En forced out a smile that was uglier than crying: "Accidents can be good or bad. They won't always be bad."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud bang and the door of the warehouse was closed. Several people hurried to the door to check.
There was an electronic fingerprint lock on the door. Ning Xuanqing lifted the quality inspector ID card hanging on his chest and said, "We are here as quality inspectors, so we should be able to open the door."
Several people gathered around the fingerprint lock and tried their ten fingers one by one, but the door didn't move at all.
Tang Yu scratched his head: "They can't be using their toes to make fingerprints, right?"
Ning Xuanqing: "...The lock must be broken."
"I'm sorry!" Tang En squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, and was about to cry.
Li Jia patted his head and comforted him: "It's okay, think positively, at least we won't encounter the dungeon boss when we are locked up here."
Tang En raised his tearful eyes and said, "Dungeon boss?"
Li Jia: "Have you forgotten the copy description? That butcher!"
After she mentioned this, the others suddenly remembered that the task requirements of this copy were quite simple and crude.
Live till tomorrow!
Just from these four plain words, you can guess how ferocious the boss of this copy is.
Tang Yu blinked and asked, "Are you saying that we can hide here quietly and wait until dawn? Who of you has a watch? What time is it now?"
Ning Xuanqing pushed the frame and said, "Our time is different from the time in the dungeon, so it's useless to look at it. But just before the door was locked, I took a look at the sky, and it's night now."
Li Jia patted his clothes and said, "Our clothes are quite cold-resistant. We can squeeze together and barely make it to tomorrow, right?"
After entering the dungeon, the four people were transformed into quality inspectors of the slaughterhouse. They wore thick one-piece protective suits, which were made of strong and waterproof material.
Although it is chilly in the freezer, if we huddle together for warmth and do some proper exercise, it seems possible that we can survive until dawn.
Ning Xuanqing looked at his teammates' eyes which were gradually brightening, hesitated for a moment, and then ruthlessly dampened their enthusiasm.
"This is a D-level multiplayer instance after all. I don't think it's that easy for us to get stuck with a bug."
As he was talking, the walkie-talkie hanging on Li Jia's waist suddenly made a buzzing noise, and the sudden noise scared several people.
Li Jia jumped up on the spot and the walkie-talkie fell to the ground.
"Zizi...zizi...Hello, can you hear me? Can you hear me?" A man's voice came from the intercom.
Li Jia pointed at the intercom and was about to speak, but Ning Xuanqing quickly covered it with her hand. She shook her head at the three people and mouthed, "Not a living person."
The three of them suddenly came to their senses, and Li Jia was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat. She almost forgot that there were no humans in the copy of the strange world.
It was only because they were all frightened just now, and the voice on the other end of the walkie-talkie was too normal, so they forgot about it.
"Hey, what are you doing? Why aren't you talking? It's against the rules not to bring a phone to work. Be careful, your boss may deduct your salary!"
"Huh? Is this thing broken? Hey! Hey! Hey..."
......
There was a constant stream of voices coming from the other end of the intercom, showing extreme patience.
None of the four dared to touch the walkie-talkie that had fallen to the ground, and they all stepped back five meters.
Not knowing whether the person on the other end was a human or a ghost, they naturally did not dare to act rashly, for fear of being noticed by the thing on the other end of the walkie-talkie.
But no matter how they pretended to be dead, the voices continued to come from the other end. Even if there was no response, they were still chatting happily.
However, the more this happens, the more it torments people's nerves.
After all, the difficulty of this copy is too high for the four of them. They are already extremely nervous, and now they have to face such a weird situation.
They confronted each other like this for more than ten minutes. The coldness in the warehouse began to attack them, and the four of them quietly moved closer.
Li Jia leaned close to Tang Yu to seek a sense of security. She whispered to Ning Xuanqing, "Do you think it is possible for anyone else to come into this instance besides the four of us?"
She hoped that there might be a survivor on the other end of the intercom.
Ning Xuanqing glanced at her silently: "We entered this instance when it was first created, and we didn't see any other teammates at all. Do you think there are other people?"
Tang Yu quietly joined the conversation group: "What if you stay in this dungeon forever like me?"
Li Jia wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "Boss, I'm afraid there won't be another person like you in this world."
The three of them chattered for a while, and Tang En, who was squatting next to Tang Yu and pretending to be a mushroom, suddenly poked her arm and said in horror: "Sister Tang Yu, the intercom is silent!"
The three of them came back to their senses at the same time and looked at the walkie-talkie on the ground.
"When did the sound go silent?" Li Jia took a step closer tentatively, a flash of confusion across her face. They were talking just now and didn't pay attention to the intercom.
Tang En swallowed his saliva and said, "About three minutes ago. At that time, I thought it was the guy over there...who said he was tired and wanted to take a break, but after waiting for a long time, there was no response on the intercom."
The four of them squatted there and waited for about five minutes. After confirming that the walkie-talkie no longer made any sound, Li Jia bravely went up and picked it up.
"Do you think this thing is broken?" Li Jia fiddled with the walkie-talkie in his hand and asked in confusion, "Or did the guy over there leave?"
She still spoke in a low voice, almost in a whisper, but as soon as she finished speaking, someone suddenly came back from the intercom: "So you're here!"
Four people: “!!!”
Ning Xuanqing snatched the intercom from Li Jia's hand and threw it to the ground. Seeing Li Jia standing there in a daze, he hurriedly said, "Take out your card!"
Li Jia woke up as if from a dream. With shaking hands, he tore off his protective suit and took out the box of gold cards from his pocket.
She simply pinched a card in her hand, looked at the stack of cards in the box, and then she took out the cards and gave three cards to each of her friends.
"Is it possible?" Tang Yu looked at the cards in his hand, "It turns out that everyone can use them together!"
Li Jia nodded randomly, "Everyone, be on full alert. Let's see what's going on. If it gets bad, run away. Run as many as you can. Don't do that and risk your life together..."
Before he could finish his instructions, the door of the freezer opened from the outside with a click. Everyone clenched the cards in their hands, their hearts almost in their throats.
"Hey, so you're here. It took me a while to find you!" The familiar man's voice sounded again, but this time it didn't come from the intercom.
The door was completely opened, and a man wearing the same jumpsuit stood at the door. The man looked middle-aged with an untidy beard, and was squinting at the four people in the room.
"Wow! You guys are quite sophisticated. You play cards in the cold storage, and you're not afraid of freezing to death!" The man made a joke when he saw the cards in the four people's hands.
Ning Xuanqing looked at the man carefully, his brows deeply knitted together.
The man at the door looks so normal!!
His skin was so normal that it looked blood red, and his eyes revealed not coldness and resentment, but sophistication and tactfulness from a long life.
Is that a human?
While Ning Xuanqing was still thinking about this question, Tang Yu asked directly: "Are you a human?"
The man rolled his eyes visibly: "Hey, what are you saying? Did I provoke you or offend you? I'm not a human, but you are a human, okay?"
Isn't this pure insult?!
What a human response!
Now even Ning Xuanqing began to doubt his own judgment. Could this really be a friendly force?
Li Jia stepped forward with a smile to smooth things over. She took the opportunity to glance at the man's ID card, which read Cao Ziqiang.
"Brother Cao, that's not what my friend meant. We were accidentally locked in the cold storage just now, and it was luckily you came and opened it."
"Oh, it's no big deal!" The man smiled heartily and raised the walkie-talkie in his hand.
"I didn't hear your voices for a while, so I thought of coming in to check. On the way, I ran into Lao Cui, and I asked him about your location, but he ignored me. I had no choice but to look for it myself, which took a long time!"
Lao Cui? Who is this?
Li Jia thought so and asked.
Cao Ziqiang looked as if you were crazy: "It's Lao Cui from the slaughterhouse. Who else would be working overtime this late at night besides him? Oh, and us!"
hiss!
Everyone gasped in shock. That Lao Cui was the final boss of this dungeon, the Butcher!
Thinking of this, several people subconsciously took a step back. How could Cao Ziqiang be a good person if he could have a chat with Butcher Cui and come back safe and sound?
"Let's go. It's very cold here. Let's finish our work quickly so I can go back to sleep." Cao Ziqiang said and turned to leave.
"Ah!!" After Cao Ziqiang turned around, Li Jia couldn't help but let out a scream.
Not only her, but the other three people were also frightened to the point of their scalps tightening.
Cao Ziqiang looked like an ordinary person from the front, until he turned around, and then everyone saw the horrible crack on his back.
It was as if a sharp knife had cut it from head to tail. The wound was long and deep, with flesh and blood rolled out, and even the spine on the back could be seen.
However, the rolled flesh had now turned black, indicating that the wound had been there for a long time.
Obviously, this Cao Ziqiang is dead!
But it seemed to be unaware of anything and continued to live in this copy as usual.
What on earth is this?
Cao Ziqiang was startled by Li Jia's scream. He turned around and looked around in panic: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Seeing the spine twisting as Cao Ziqiang turned his head, Tang Yu was worried that the bone would break.
Ning Xuan's face was pale and she forced herself to remain calm. She supported Li Jia and said, "She has a cramp in her leg."
Cao Ziqiang came over upon hearing this, "Hey, it's okay, how about I stretch it for you? I tell you, my skills are not exaggerated..."
The four of them retreated in panic, and Li Jia said directly: "I'm fine, I'm fine!"
Cao Ziqiang looked at her and said without any doubt, "Oh, let's go then."
As it said this, it turned around and showed the horrible wound to everyone. Looking at the wound, several people exchanged glances at each other quickly.
Just when the four of them were planning to stay in the freezer to buy time, Cao Ziqiang appeared and directly ruined their plans to delay time.
It’s hard to say whether this man’s behavior was intentional, but judging from the wound on his back, there is definitely something wrong with Cao Ziqiang!
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