I work as a housekeeper in Guilou

Chapter 45 Who can empathize with the boss?

An Hao's eyes were completely dark except for the screen in front of her which was still emitting a faint light. She immediately opened the panel.

Task name: The boss’s troubles

Type: Single player (novice)

Details: You work for a year-round company, and when you come to work depends on your boss's mood. However, he has been in a bad mood recently and asked the inspector to step up inspections.

Requirements: Survive until 13:30 without being discovered by the inspector; find out the reason why the boss is in a bad mood.

Reward: 1000 source power points, rated treasure chest.

Special note: Novice players who participate in the first copy will automatically exit the game when they receive fatal damage. There is no penalty or reward.

An Hao looked at the explanation and breathed a sigh of relief. At least, she won't die in this copy.

To be honest, if it weren't for that person's request, she wouldn't have chosen the solo dungeon. After all, it meant facing a strange world alone.

She prefers dungeons where other players exist. Even if she can't cooperate, just knowing that they exist is enough to make her feel at ease.

Being alone means that there is no one else to rely on, and she can only rely on herself. Perhaps this is also the deep meaning of the other party's request, to test whether she can be independent.

Therefore, just not dying is not enough. She has to pass the level and get a sufficiently eye-catching rating. This is related to whether she can successfully hold it on her lap, and it is related to her life and death.

An Hao patted his face and braced himself to investigate the situation.

She was in a single cubicle. The space was cramped, and the area seemed to be less than two square meters. It was surrounded by yellowing walls, and she could vaguely smell a putrid smell.

There is a table in front of him with only a laptop on it.

The time is 09:00 in the lower right corner of the screen. There are two spaces in the middle, as if you can enter a password. There is also a line of small words below "Workstation numbers from left to right."

An Hao didn't know how many opportunities he had, so he didn't dare to try easily. He planned to look for a door first to see if he could get out.

She tried to get up, but was surprised to find that her legs couldn't move. The screen was the only source of light, and the dim glow wasn't enough to illuminate the underside of the table.

Fortunately, if this was a desktop computer, An Hao could easily lift it and see clearly with the help of the light from the screen.

Her legs were wrapped in a pile of bright red flesh, which seemed to be alive and squirming slightly.

The two were tightly connected, but there was no feeling in her legs, as if they no longer existed.

An Hao's breathing became heavy, and her stomach was churning with nausea, but she couldn't vomit anything out.

calm down. She warned herself like this, forcing herself to look away. She looked around, but there was no door at all.

She was trapped in this dark, cold cubicle.

She thought that the "year-round" in the prompt meant that there were no rest days throughout the year. Now she realized that it meant that there were no days off at the company all year round.

The black-hearted boss should be hung on a street light.

She pushed herself up and could barely lean against the wall on the right, but there was no movement next to her.

She followed the same example and put her ear to the wall on the left. There was a clicking sound coming from here. It must be someone frantically typing on the computer.

Probably her colleagues.

An Hao knocked on the wall, but didn't get any response.

She pointed the screen towards the ceiling and found that it was also completely closed, but there seemed to be a shadow on the right side.

The ceiling is not high. If she could stand on the chair, she should be able to reach it with her hands.

The information she was able to obtain was too little. Now she only knew that there might be no one on the right, and there were colleagues on the left. She should be the last employee in this row, but she still didn't know how many there were in total. She was stuck in a bottleneck. She looked at the panel and found that there were only two things she could use, her talents and the skills she got from the last copy.

[Skill-Detection (C)] You can get a clue at random, but it may be useless. The number of uses per copy is 1/1.

[You used the skill - Investigation, and the clues you obtained are as follows: The boss's troubles seem to be related to you and the colleagues next to you. 】

It's really of no use.

An Hao can only place her hope in her [Talent - Sympathy for Ghosts]. The more she sympathizes with the monster, the longer she will dream about it during its lifetime.

Now that she has no clues, she can only try to hypnotize herself and imagine that she is in an extremely safe environment with reliable people beside her.

She tried to understand the purpose of this mission. Although her boss treated her employees poorly, forcing them to work all year round, giving them a cramped office environment, and tying their legs so that they could not leave their workstations, it was also very difficult. It's pitiful, she has to sympathize with it...

Poor x!

An Hao couldn't continue knitting, and the more she knitted, the angrier she became. It was useless even if she fell asleep like this, she would definitely not be able to dream about anything. So she changed her mind and empathized with her colleagues who had the same problem as her.

Drowsily, she seemed to be high up in the sky and saw a row of narrow cubicles below, with only one computer and one person in each cubicle.

Everyone is knocking on the computer with their heads down, and the clicking sound is endless.

An Hao desperately wanted to see those people clearly, but suddenly, they stopped in unison, raised their faces and looked up at the sky.

Everyone looked exactly the same, all with her face.

She woke up in a cold sweat, and what lingered in her mind was the scene of being stared at by a dozen identical faces.

Is that really her face? Or is she really herself?
  An Hao didn't dare to think carefully. She didn't even dare to raise her head, for fear that when she raised her head, she would see her face looking down at her from above.

You can't just think about fear, there must be clues hidden in it.

"Xiaobai, think."

Somehow, her sister's voice echoed in her ears, and her calm voice seemed to have magic, making her slowly calm down.

Think, think.

How many people were there in the row of employees just now?

An Hao thought carefully about the scene just now, fear gripped her heart, and she clenched her hands unconsciously.

One, two, three...fourteen.

She wasn't sure if the scene she remembered in her nervous state was wrong, but she could try.

14. She entered her password.

"The password is incorrect. The computer will be locked for 1 hour. Please try again after 1 hour."

The computer screen went dark, and she was enveloped in darkness.

No, no, no, no, don’t. She tried pressing keys, but none of them turned the computer back on.

She lost her only source of light, and the pure darkness frightened her even more than the dream just now.

Her senses could not penetrate this darkness, as if she was the only one left in the world and abandoned here.

How should she spend an hour without light? She would go crazy. She would definitely go crazy.

She pressed the computer and made a decision.

(End of this chapter)