Chapter 17.
It is of course impossible to follow it at this time. Who knows if this guy will mutate halfway and do something terrible to them? After all, this is a D-level multiplayer copy, and there may not be only one copy boss!
"Speaking of which, Old Cui is the same. He lost his son a few years ago. Now he is old and even has no wife. The boss advised him to go back and take a few days off, but he just comes to work every day without saying a word. Alas, he is also a pitiful man!"
Cao Ziqiang seemed unaware of the strange atmosphere between the four people and continued chattering to himself.
"Hey, why don't you leave?"
Li Jiaqiang smiled and said, "You go first, we are not in a hurry."
"Hey, of course you are in a hurry! Look at the time, finish the work early and go back to rest early. I tell you, don't stay up late just because you are young. When you are old..."
Seeing Cao Ziqiang starting to talk again, Ning Xuanqing interrupted him directly: "Why don't you go back and rest first, and we will do the rest of the work."
Cao Ziqiang was stunned for a long time, scratched his head, and smiled embarrassedly: "How can that be? You are all young people. If I tell others, wouldn't I be bullying the newcomers?"
"How could that be? This is just an opportunity for us to train. We can't thank you enough!" Li Jia took over the conversation and flattered the master loudly and clearly.
Seeing that the others all agreed, Cao Ziqiang said, "That's great. I'll go back first and treat you guys to dinner later!"
"Oh, by the way, wear your walkie-talkie and report to me immediately if anything happens!"
Cao Ziqiang walked out two steps and turned back to give a specific instruction. In order to quickly trick this guy away, everyone did as he said.
Cao Ziqiang's figure disappeared in front of the four people, and they all felt relieved.
Tang En asked with a trembling voice: "It, it...just left like that?"
Tang Yu nodded: "From the current point of view, he is indeed gone."
Li Jia breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to hold Tang Yu: "Boss, help me up, my legs are weak."
Tang Yu reached out and held Li Jia. Li Jia looked at Tang Yu's calm face and asked, "Aren't you afraid at all?"
Tang Yu scratched his head and said, "I think it's okay. That person is quite warm-hearted."
The other three were shocked. Li Jia widened her eyes and asked her, "But didn't you see the big wound on that man's back?"
Tang Yu nodded to show that she saw it. She thought for a moment and said, "I think we should have reminded him to go to the hospital earlier."
Three people: "......"
Looking at his silent and shocked companions, Tang Yu asked curiously, "What happened?"
Ning Xuanqing paused and said, "Nothing, let's go."
Li Jia looked at the door hesitantly and asked, "Why don't we stay here? I think it looks pretty safe here. So far, the butcher hasn't come over."
Ning Xuanqing glanced at her and said directly, "It can't be that easy. Believe it or not, if we don't leave this door, that guy named Cao Ziqiang will come to open the door again, and he might even bring the butcher with him."
Li Jia was shocked: "Didn't that guy leave?"
Ning Xuanqing: "Before Cao Ziqiang left, he specifically told us to wear the walkie-talkie. Do you think he would use this thing if he really went back?"
Tang En immediately understood what Ning Xuanqing said: "Are you saying that Cao Ziqiang didn't actually leave?"
Ning Xuanqing nodded and pointed to the intercom on his waist. "The effective communication range of this type of intercom is within two to three kilometers. Cao Ziqiang asked us to wear it to achieve the purpose of remote control."
"Will our conversation not be heard by the other end?" Li Jia checked the intercom belatedly.
"I just turned them all off." Ning Xuanqing said.
"Why carry this thing? Just throw it away." Li Jia said as he unhooked the walkie-talkie, and Tang Yu and Tang En followed suit.
"Hey! Wait a minute..." Before Ning Xuanqing could stop them, the three men threw the walkie-talkie away.
At this moment, the walkie-talkie that fell to the ground suddenly turned on automatically, and then made a sharp noise.
"Zizi!! Foul!! Foul!! Warning! Warning..."
The sound was like a needle piercing into everyone's mind, disturbing their souls and making them restless.
The horrifying sound waves invaded the minds of the four people, and even showed signs of getting more and more intense. Everyone felt like their ears were going deaf. What was even more terrifying was that they felt that their internal organs were also being shaken by these sound waves and were in great pain.
Ning Xuanqing shouted, "Pick up the walkie-talkie!"
But the sound coming from the walkie-talkie was too harsh and no one could hear her shouting. She had no choice but to endure the pain in her eardrums and pick up the walkie-talkie and stuff it into the hands of several people.
After the walkie-talkie was picked up, the life-threatening noise finally stopped. The four men were soaked in sweat as if they had been fished out of the water, and now they all lay on the ground exhausted.
Li Jia gasped for air, and said with lingering fear: "What, what the hell is this!?"
Ning Xuanqing felt no better than her: "This thing is the tool that the boss uses to control us. How can you get rid of it so easily? I suspect that if we throw away the walkie-talkie, we will probably die."
The three of them naturally believed Ning Xuanqing's speculation, and for a moment they were so scared that they kept the walkie-talkies on their bodies.
Tang En glanced at the intercom worriedly and said, "This is almost like tying a time bomb to your body. Nothing good will come out of it if you put it on, and nothing good will come out of it if you take it off."
Li Jia was a little depressed: "What should I do? This dungeon is full of pitfalls. It's too difficult!"
Ning Xuanqing shrugged: "Let's take it one step at a time. Since we can't stay here any longer, why don't we go outside and explore to see if there are any clues."
It is better to move than to be still. Instead of sitting there and waiting to die, it is better to take the initiative to find a way out.
The other three had no objections and followed Ning Xuanqing out of the warehouse.
Tang En quietly approached Li Jia and whispered to her, "Sister, why is Sister Tang Yu acting so weird?"
Of course Li Jia understood what Tang En meant.
Everyone has seen the wound on Cao Ziqiang's back, but even so, Tang Yu acted as if nothing had happened. It doesn't seem normal, right?
"Hush." Li Jia glanced at Tang Yu secretly, pointed at her head, and replied: "Your sister Tang Yu has a problem here. Sometimes she has an attack. Just pretend you don't know."
When Li Jia first met Tang Yu, he discussed this issue with Ning Xuanqing.
Is the boss strong? He is indeed very strong! Who else can survive unscathed in a world full of weirdness?
But the boss's strength comes from his brain. Tang Yu's way of cognition is different from that of ordinary people, and sometimes even a little incredible.
Tang En glanced at Tang Yu and nodded in understanding.
Li Jia added: "But she is still a good person. We should not discriminate against her."
Tang En nodded: "Got it, sister."
Li Jia: “That’s right!”
As they were talking, the four of them walked out of the cold storage and found a map of the slaughterhouse posted on the wall.
This slaughterhouse is a factory specially responsible for slaughtering sheep. It is fully equipped with various functional facilities, including work and living areas. The cold storage is located behind the disinfection room, and the gate can be seen through the disinfection room.
Several people came to the gate to check and found that it was locked.
Ning Xuanqing pointed to the duty quarantine room next to him and said, "Generally, the door key should be placed in the duty room. Let's go in and look for it."
By this time, the sky had completely darkened. Except for a few solar-powered lighting lamps that were emitting pale light, everything around was pitch black.
There was no one in the duty room, and the clock on the wall showed that it was already half past ten in the evening.
The four of them went into the duty room and searched around, but there was no key at all. Tang Yu suddenly pointed at the computer monitor and said, "Look, isn't this Cao Ziqiang?"
"Where is it?"
The other three people immediately came over to take a look, and on a surveillance screen, they saw Cao Ziqiang with a huge wound on his back.
At this time, Cao Ziqiang was having a conversation with a big man who was busy dividing meat. However, due to the surveillance distance, no one could hear what he was saying.
But what is certain is that the big man is Butcher Cui!
"Hey! This guy is waiting here!" Li Jia was immediately amused when he saw that face.
Tang Yu expressed confusion: "Why did he lie to us?"
Li Jia: "...It's not a good person."
"oh."
Tang En glanced at the surveillance camera with concern and asked, "What should we do now?"
Ning Xuanqing took out the intercom and pressed the call button: "Hello, Brother Cao, where are you?"
The three of them didn't expect Ning Xuanqing to do this, and they all held their breath.
After a burst of noise from the other end of the intercom, Cao Ziqiang's familiar voice came: "Oh, I'm here with Lao Cui."
"Didn't you say you wanted to go back and rest early?"
"Oh! I saw that Lao Cui was lonely, so I wanted to chat with him. He is going through a difficult time right now, so it won't be a big deal if I sleep less."
Ning Xuanqing continued: "Why is the door locked? How are we going to get out later?"
The dormitories in the slaughterhouse are only provided for employees. Quality inspectors do not live there. However, even if there are rooms, they would not dare to move in now!
Cao Ziqiang said as a matter of course: "Oh, I haven't left yet anyway, so let the comrade in the duty room go back to sleep for a while. I will hold the key for him. I will call him over after we leave."
Ning Xuanqing: "...Got it."
After she finished speaking, she turned off the intercom. Everyone who had listened to the whole thing had a clear look on their faces. Li Jia gritted her teeth and said, "He's really helpful. I'm afraid this guy didn't do it on purpose!"
Ning Xuanqing stared at the surveillance screen for a long time, and suddenly said: "I always feel that it is not good to let these two bosses be together. We have to find a way to separate them."
Two strange and blurry figures were reflected in the surveillance footage. One of them had a big gash on his back but he was chatting and laughing without noticing it.
The other one said nothing, and the sharp butcher knife in his hand cut the flesh and fascia fiercely.
Tang En looked at it and suddenly said, "Have you noticed that there seems to be something wrong with that butcher?"
"Huh?" Li Jia leaned forward to take a look, puzzled. "Nothing...hiss! It seems to be getting more and more aggressive!"
They had previously seen Butcher Cui concentrating on shaving meat with skillful and smooth movements, but in just a moment, Butcher Cui's movements became more and more unsystematic, and sometimes he would even chop the meat hard with the knife, and sticky blood splattered everywhere.
"This! This! Is it going to mutate soon?" Li Jia swallowed nervously and took out the gold card again.
Ning Xuanqing said decisively: "We can't let them stay together. Cao Ziqiang is catalyzing the butcher's mutation!"
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