Chapter 18.
In the operation room of the slaughter area, dull thumping sounds echoed throughout the factory, mixed with Cao Ziqiang's incessant voice. Even without any response, it continued to chatter.
"Old Cui, we still have to look forward. Although you have lost your son and your wife, you are only in your forties and can still live for decades. Are you going to be so depressed for the rest of your life?"
"Speaking of your son, I held him in my arms when he was a kid! Hey, that kid was really smart and lovable. It's a pity that he was locked in the freezer that year. He was already hard when he was found, oh!"
"And your wife..."
The four people who were hiding outside the operating room and eavesdropping all had indescribable expressions, thinking how could they enlighten people like this, isn't it just poking someone's lungs?
"If I were this butcher, I would have chopped it off long ago!" Li Jia rolled his eyes.
Tang En said silently: "Is it possible that the knife wound on Cao Ziqiang's back was caused by the butcher?"
Li Jia touched his chin: "Very reasonable!"
Ning Xuanqing said: "Don't waste time, hurry up."
"Oh, yes!" Li Jia suddenly realized and took out the prop paper airplane.
This is the item they got from the multiplayer copy "Good Partner".
The F-level prop paper airplane can temporarily attract the attention of the weird and lead it away.
Cao Ziqiang was still talking absorbedly in the operating room when he suddenly heard someone calling him. He turned around and saw a girl with an afro waving at him. It was Li Jia.
"What are you doing here? Have you finished your work?" Cao Ziqiang walked to the door and looked them up and down.
Li Jia shook his head and grinned at it: "Look, there's a plane!"
A small paper airplane made of draft paper flew up wobbly and drifted away unreasonably, instantly attracting Cao Ziqiang's attention.
The talkative Cao Ziqiang closed his mouth, followed the paper plane with his eyes wide open, and gradually moved away from the operating room.
Li Jia felt a little hurt when seeing the sticky black blood dripping from Cao Ziqiang's back due to running.
She turned her head to look at the butcher who was chopping meat fiercely in the operation room and asked, "Is it safe for now?"
The effect of the paper airplane is limited in time. Cao Ziqiang will definitely come back here, and the butcher's rampage is inevitable.
Ning Xuanqing pushed the frame of his glasses and said, "We'd better take advantage of this time to search the entire factory to see if we can find any useful clues."
The current situation is indeed not very optimistic for everyone.
With the presence of Cao Ziqiang, a troublemaker boss, they have no chance of surviving until dawn and can only actively look for opportunities to survive.
Currently, the only props the four of them had left were the gold cards. Li Jia divided the cards in the box equally, giving each person five cards to use for self-defense.
"Where should we look for clues?" Tang En looked around nervously while holding the cards.
This slaughterhouse is quite large, and we would not have enough time to visit every part of it.
Ning Xuanqing and Tang Yu looked at Li Jia at the same time. Li Jia nodded knowingly. She thought for a moment, took out a pen and paper from Tang Yu's space backpack, and wrote down all the areas of the slaughterhouse on it.
Then Li Jia tore off a piece of paper and rolled it into a ball, saying, "We'll go to whichever area it falls into."
Then she closed her eyes and threw the ball of paper onto the paper, and it rolled out of the paper and stopped on the cement floor next to it.
Li Jia: "... again."
Three times in a row, no matter how little effort Li Jia used, the paper ball rolled out of the paper, completely refusing to provide any information.
Li Jia looked at Tang En silently, and Tang En's neck shrank.
There is a saying that goes, no matter how good your luck is, you are still afraid of accidents!
"There's no other way. It's not working. You can only rely on your brain." Li Jia spread his hands, indicating that he was powerless.
Ning Xuanqing stared at the piece of paper that Li Jia had placed on the ground and thought for a while. He then put his fingertips on the words "dormitory area" and said, "Let's go here."
Li Jia looked at her with bright eyes: "Your intuition?"
"My IQ." Ning Xuanqing nodded his head and said, "Butcher Cui has his own dormitory here, where his personal belongings are stored. There is a high possibility that there are clues hidden there."
After a wave of incisive analysis, the three partners chose to believe it without thinking.
The entire slaughterhouse's building facilities are designed in a circular shape. Entering from the gate are the disinfection room, slaughtering area, operation room, harmless treatment room, dry manure pool, employee living area, sewage treatment area, and the cold storage is located in the middle.
The staff dormitory is located in the living area, and you need to pass through the slaughter area, harmless treatment room and dry manure pool.
The four of them quietly passed by the operation room where Butcher Cui was. From time to time, they could hear the dull sound of chopping meat, accompanied by the crunchy sound of minced meat separating from bones, which was particularly irritating to them.
After passing the operating room, the four of them ran as fast as they could. Following the signs on each building, they easily found the employee living area.
In addition to staff dormitories, there is also a staff canteen.
When Li Jia saw the staff cafeteria, her eyes lit up and she said, "Why don't we do it like last time and let Tang Yu cook a meal and beat those two bosses!"
Tang Yu looked at her silently, unable to say anything in rebuttal.
Ning Xuanqing looked at Tang Yu, thought for a moment and said, "We can give it a try, but we can't put all our hopes on Tang Yu. If her cooking skills are not high enough, she may not be able to poison the boss to death, and it will be a problem to get the boss to eat it."
In the "Good Partners" copy, it was purely accidental that the three children ate the bowl of fried rice. Perhaps they would never have thought until their death that their strange lives would be ended by a bowl of rice.
Tang En was stunned when he heard this. He said, "Sister Tang Yu's cooking is so amazing!"
When he joined the guild, the four of them introduced their skills to each other. Tang Endan knew that Tang Yu's skill was cooking, but he never thought that this cooking was different from that other cooking!
"That's the god of weird cuisine! Who are you talking about?" Li Jia felt proud to have such a big man as a companion.
"Wow, that's amazing!" Tang En looked at Tang Yu with starry eyes.
Tang Yu: ...Thank you, I didn’t feel comforted.
Finally, the four of them decided to go to the dormitory to search for clues first.
The staff dormitory has two floors, separated by gender. The female dormitory is on the second floor and the male dormitory is on the first floor. There is also a locked iron door between the two floors to prevent men and women from sleeping in the same room.
The four of them sneaked into the men's dormitory and looked at the dormitory rooms lined up on both sides of the corridor. They felt a little confused for a moment.
"Which room do you think Butcher Cui lives in?" Tang Yu looked at Li Jia expectantly, hoping that her good luck could give him some clues.
Before Li Jia could say anything, there was a sound of turning the door handle diagonally in front of him, and something was about to come out from the dark gap behind the door.
Ning Xuanqing felt a heart-wrenching sense of crisis for no reason. Without thinking, she pulled her teammates to open the door of the dormitory next to them, and the four of them squeezed in.
The moment the dormitory door closed, heavy footsteps were heard in the corridor outside the door, like a huge monster weighing several hundred pounds taking unskilled steps. Each step was stiff on the floor, making a thumping sound like a heavy object hitting the ground.
The sound hit everyone's heart like a drumstick, and finally faded away.
The four of them held their breath and dared not move. Firstly, they were afraid of being heard by things outside the corridor, and secondly, they were afraid of disturbing the sleeping things in the house.
Yes, there are employees sleeping in this room.
With the dim moonlight outside the window, one can barely see the layout of the room. This dormitory room is neither too big nor too small, with four bunk beds, enough to accommodate eight people, but at this moment only the bed by the window is occupied by someone.
It was lying on the upper bunk of the bed, covered from head to toe by the quilt. Only a bulging outline could be vaguely seen, but that outline seemed a little deformed and was more swollen than a normal person.
The whole room was filled with a faint fishy smell, and no one had the courage to lift the quilt to see what was really going on.
Judging from the current situation, there seems to be a lot of weird activities in this staff dormitory, but I don’t know if there are any boss-level weird things among them.
This is a D-level copy after all, and it is still too difficult for the current group of four.
Several people stood by the door nervously, and only breathed a sigh of relief when the footsteps in the corridor could no longer be heard.
Li Jia put his ear close to the door and listened carefully for a while, "He should have left."
Tang Yu nodded and pointed to the room behind him, "Do you want to search this room?"
Tang En pulled her sleeve and said, "This type of bed should have a name tag for each person. Let's just see if there's Butcher Cui."
Upon hearing this, Li Jia glanced at the nearest bed and indeed found the name tag beside the bed. She couldn't help but praise Tang En, "Not bad, you know quite a lot."
Tang En smiled sheepishly and explained, "This is the kind of dormitory I lived in when I was in school."
The four of them cut to the chase and carefully checked every name tag, but they couldn't find even a single person named Cui.
After looking at one room, the four people quickly retreated and went to the second room.
Li Jia turned the doorknob and glanced at the room to see that no one was there. She breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but complain: "The employees here don't lock the door, aren't they afraid of losing things?"
There was no one in the second room either, so when they came to the third room, they were a little hesitant for a moment.
If I remember correctly, the thing that just passed through the corridor seemed to come out from here.
Looking at the dark door with not a single ray of light coming through, even Tang Yu hesitated, "If that person comes back and finds that we broke into his room, will we be scolded?"
Li Jia: "...It's not a question of whether or not you will be scolded."
Tang En was also a little worried. "How about we search other rooms first? If we can't find it in other rooms, how about we come here?"
Ning Xuanqing looked at the half-open door and hesitated a little: "I always have a feeling that this room is not simple."
Li Jia quickly asked her: "Did your intuition work?"
Ning Xuanqing nodded and said, "There are so many rooms, but only this one has a monster coming out. Isn't that suspicious?"
"That makes sense." Li Jia stroked his chin and thought, "Then let's make a quick decision, otherwise it will be troublesome if that thing comes back."
The fear of the unknown is the strongest. No one knows what is going on in the house, and no one is sure when that thing outside will come back. Every step everyone takes is filled with fear.
After entering the dormitory and seeing the situation in the room clearly, sweat broke out on the four people's foreheads, and for a moment they all had the urge to turn around and run.
Except for the thing that just walked out, the other six beds in this dormitory are occupied!
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