A young man who looked like a young master was standing at the entrance of the factory, concentrating on reading the notice on the door——

"Employees are required to swipe their cards when entering and exiting the factory. Visitors please press the call button to contact the doorman and explain their purpose of visit (note: you need to give the doorman on duty 4 survival coins (cash) as a tip)"

He thought for a while, then clicked on his interface to view the details of [Unlocking]——

"Tip: This door can be entered through the ordinary-level "Unlocking" prop (Note: Each use of the "Unlocking" prop will consume 5 survival coins)

Using [Unlocking] not only consumes props, but also requires an additional 5 survival coins.

It only costs 4 coins to contact the doorman...

There was nothing to hesitate about. The young master pressed the call button decisively.

"Beep——" In less than half a second, the call was connected.

"Hello, could you please open the door for me?" The young master's tone was polite, but his voice was tight, and he was obviously nervous.

"Okay, wait a moment," a gentle male voice came from the other end of the intercom, "Please come in."

With a "click" sound, the large iron door slowly moved to both sides.

The young master hurriedly walked in. As soon as he stepped into the factory, the big iron door closed tightly again.

He looked around and saw that the door to the guard room was locked, and there was a man wearing a guard uniform sitting behind the open service window.

"Are you the new guy joining the workshop today?" the other person asked politely. Without the interference of the intercom noise, the other person's voice seemed cleaner.

"Yes..." After seeing the face of the doorman in the window clearly, the young master was stunned for a moment.

The other person looked very young, with sharp and profound facial features. He looked over with a smile, and it was difficult for people to ignore the unique pair of gray-green eyes behind the lenses.

Good-looking is good-looking, and this appearance can become the focus of everyone's attention no matter where it is placed.

But as an NPC who guides travelers into the dungeon, the guard's appearance is too outstanding.

The young master secretly glanced at the guard a few more times and frowned unconsciously.

——Could it be an important NPC or a hidden boss?

Sensing the questioning gaze of the other party, Qi Jiu raised the corners of his lips without hesitation, and conscientiously handed the "Personnel Entry and Exit Registration Book" and pen to the young master.

"Please fill in your personal information here, and you can get in and out after getting the magnetic card."

"Okay." The young master took the pen and paper and wrote down his personal information cooperatively——

Name: Qin Rang

Department: To be hired

Matter:New employee reporting

After the registration was completed, the young master took out the 8 survival coins that had been exchanged and handed them to the doorman: "Thank you for opening the door for me just now. Please accept these."

Not only did he follow the instructions on the door and tip the doorman, he even doubled the tip.

Firstly, because the other party asked him to keep the only remaining [lock-picking] prop, he wanted to express his gratitude; secondly, his remaining survival coins were indeed more than enough, and he hoped to test whether this NPC had any other clues through the interaction of tips.

Qi Jiu looked at the 8 survival coins in front of him, hesitated for a moment and then decided to stuff them into his pocket.

He will not refuse the money delivered to his door despite being short of money, but he will not let the other party suffer either——

"Are you almost late?" the doorman Qi Jiu asked.

"Ah, there are still eighteen minutes." Qin Rang looked at the time and answered naturally.

But he opened the interface and checked, and the system did not provide him with a copy of the map. The architectural style of the factory was very easy to get lost. It was quite difficult for him to find new people to report to the conference room.

"New employees report in the first conference room, right?" Doorman Qi Jiu enthusiastically pointed the way, "Go along this road and you will see Complex Building No. 2 at the end. The first conference room is in Room 103.

It takes about three minutes, don't worry."

While waiting for the "customer", Qi Ku smashed open the information cabinet in the bathroom and dug out the last "Factory Guidebook" at the bottom of the cabinet.

The guidebook printed a map of the office area of ​​Bates Factory, and now the map has been entered into the interface inventory, making it easier for him to navigate at any time.

The unexpected harvest surprised the young master: "Thank you!"

"You're welcome. If you can't find the way in the future, you can ask me." Qi Ju said, which is considered a bonus service of double tip.

Qin Rang's eyes widened in disbelief: "Is it really possible?"

"Of course, if I know," Qi Jiu smiled, "Go quickly and leave a good impression on your supervisor on the first day."

Qin Rang: "Okay! Thank you very much."

He seemed to be a down-to-earth and lucky young man. Looking at Qin Rang's retreating voice, Qi Zhu thought to himself.

At the same time, the system sounded a beautiful sound——

[You have successfully deposited 8 survival coins into your account]

[The current number of remaining survival coins: 8; the number of survival coins to be withdrawn: 0; the total number of survival coins: 8;]

【Death countdown:08:47:00】

Qi Jiu breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

In the next eight minutes, Qi Jiu received two more groups of "customers."

Two of the women came together, and one of them had a saber on her waist, which was impressive.

Because tips were calculated based on the number of services, Qi Jiu only charged them 4 survival coins.

There was also a bald man who came alone, named Xu Shengyi.

He dug around and took out 4 coins, and when he handed them to the doorman Qi Qiu, he muttered: "I didn't expect that the first time I tipped in my life was after I died. How ironic."

Complaints are complaints, but as someone who knows how to budget, he naturally knows that tips are much more cost-effective than [lock picking] skills.

"I hope my service can satisfy you." The smile on Qi Jiu's face did not disappear because of the other party's complaints. He happily deposited 4 coins into his account and watched the other party leave.

The part-time janitor's job is going smoothly. After all, his business is much more conscientious than a system that consumes skills and deducts survival coins.

The last two travelers have yet to arrive.

Taking advantage of the waiting time, Qi Ku continued to explore the guard room.

He flipped the registration book forward and found that the last entry and exit records of the factory were last winter, and it was now late February.

It is impossible that no one has entered or left the factory in these two months...

Qi Gu believes that the most likely possibility is that something happened last winter and the security guard in the guard room disappeared.

The "Personnel Registration Book" has lost the person who registered it.

Dozens of missing person notices posted on the wall of the guard room also confirmed his guess.

Qi Jiu noticed the publication date of the notice. Since Christmas the year before last, workers have been missing in the factory. People of all ages and genders have disappeared in every factory. Sometimes, several people have disappeared in one day...

Qi Gu speculated that "various bizarre events also followed" mentioned in the background introduction in the copy, one of which was the disappearance of workers.

According to his understanding, this type of local traditional enterprises often like to hire labor from the town, and the new employees are all foreigners...

Could it be that all the locals have been “used up” and foreigners are needed to fill the vacancies?

[Congratulations on discovering important clues, unlock survival coins*5 by mining clues]

[The current number of available survival coins: 16; the number of survival coins to be withdrawn: 5; the total number of survival coins: 21;]

[There are 10 minutes left before the newcomer reporting time]

Just as the system prompt tone fell, the access control pager suddenly rang.

It seemed that the last "guest" had arrived, Qi Jiu pressed the door button.

Two men walked in together from the gate, and the iron door closed heavily behind them.

Everyone is here.

When the two of them approached, Qi Qiu's eyes suddenly stopped on the face of the man on the left, and his brows furrowed.

Standing on the left side of the screen was the thin man with sinister eyes and a conspicuous birthmark on the left side of his face. Qi Jiu remembered his face.

A man's birthmark is so unique that he can't remember it wrongly.

This man was the murderer of the "murder of his wife and her corpse to feed the fish" that caused a sensation not long ago.

Because the method of killing his wife was too cruel and the murderer's husband was too cunning and arrogant, the case caused an uproar in public opinion after it was exposed. Photos and video records of the murderer's court trial were also made public many times.

On the day Qi Jiu was killed, the news came across on his way home that "the criminal who killed his wife to pieces and fed her body to fish was shot."

It's this face.

Is the system really recruiting people indiscriminately? Can such a notorious murderer get a chance at a new life?

It's so unfair.

The man accompanying the wife-murderer had curly black hair and a neatly trimmed beard. He looked sophisticated and smart. He quickly looked at the guard in front of him, then took out four survival coins and asked, "Is this enough?"

"

Qi Jiu kept smiling calmly, glanced at him, and then at the wife-murderer behind him: "I'm sorry, sir, you are two people."

He wouldn't give the villain a discount.

"Oh, okay." The curly-haired man took out four more survival coins.

Qi Jiu calmly accepted the tip, showed an indiscriminately friendly smile, and pushed the entry and exit personnel registration book in front of the visitor: "Please register."

The curly-haired man immediately flipped through the next few pages after getting the registration book. The blank form made him frown: "Are we the only ones visiting today?"

Qi Jiu expected that he would do this and changed a new registration book just in case.

"There have been five visitors today." Qi Gu replied.

The wife-murderer on the side looked dissatisfied: "Don't other visitors need to register?"

Qi Qiu had no intention of answering this question. He reached for the thermos cup beside the table. When he was looking for a map before, he also pulled out a security stick, which was now placed not far from his hand.

The curly-haired man looked past the thermos cup to the security stick.

"Please register." The smile on Qi Jiu's face remained unchanged, repeating what he just said like a robot.

The curly-haired man glanced at the murderer of his wife, who immediately did not dare to say anything. It was obvious that the status of the two was superior.

After the registration was completed, Qi Jiu glanced at the information of the two people.

The man who killed his wife took his birth name, Liu Zhibin; and the name left by the curly-haired man was Wu Gui.

The guard Qi Kui collected the registration book and said, "That's it."

"How can I get to the first conference room?" Wu Gui asked.

Qi Jiu held the thermos cup and yawned: "The factory is not big, I believe you can find it soon."

The wife-murderer wanted to say more, but Wu Gui stopped him: "Okay, thank you."

After the last two "customers" left, Qi Gu ordered his money.

His part-time job as a doorman earned him 24 survival coins, which was enough to last him until the midnight withdrawal point.

He successfully passed the first death crisis.

Correspondingly, the behavior of pretending to be a doorman may make other gatekeepers hate him - although he charges a lower tip and does not require the other party to consume skills, it is essentially a win-win situation, but it does not rule out that some people will be dissatisfied with him for seizing business opportunities.

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In addition, since he is a newcomer to the dungeon, there is no guarantee that his eye-catching behavior of pretending to be an NPC will not be targeted by other players in the future.

[There are still six minutes left before the newcomer reporting time, please hurry up and go to the first conference room]

[The newbie report is the main plot point, please don’t be late]

Qi Jiu asked casually: "What will be the consequences if you don't participate in the newcomer report?"

[The system will directly declare that the traveler's copy has failed, all survival coins will be deducted, and the traveler will die]

Qi Jiu: "..."

It seems that his part-time job as a doorman can no longer continue.

[Please go to the first meeting room as soon as possible to get to know your work partners]

"I know." Qi Jiu took off his guard jacket with some reluctance.

It seems like it’s time to get to know the “new colleagues” again.

*

"Bet or not, will the seventh traveler appear?"

"One minute left, danger."

Qi Jiu stood at the door of the first conference room, his hand knocking on the door stopped in mid-air, and then he put it down quietly.

He decided to listen to Qiangen for a minute.

"I bet you can, one coin."

"Then you may lose. According to statistics, those who haven't arrived at the last minute have a probability of being late as high as 87%."

"Then if you analyze it from a probability perspective, why will the seventh person be delayed?"

"Maybe I got lost in the factory, after all, the system didn't provide a map; maybe I didn't have a "lock-picking" tool to enter the factory, and I was unlucky to be the last one to arrive and didn't get to the door; of course, there's also a possibility that I violated a taboo when I entered the door and was kicked out.

The guard killed him."

Another person laughed: "This is not a newcomer's book. The probability of getting a temporary navigation in the gift pack for the first battle is more than 95%. It is unlikely that you will get lost, right?"

"Maybe the seventh person is the unlucky 5%, or maybe the temporary navigation skills were consumed in the previous session."

Not a newbie? What do you mean?

Are there other dungeon channels for newcomers?

Good guy.

Qi Jiu realized that he was being "specially treated" by the system again.

But after all the trouble, the consensus that "he is not a newbie" made it easier for him to further advance his plan and shape his identity.

"I think the possibility of getting lost is unlikely, and the chance of being killed by the guard for violating taboos is greater," another voice said, "After all, the guard doesn't look like an ordinary NPC, and he has dangerous guys at his hands.

Seems aggressive."

"Indeed, his temperament is not that of an ordinary NPC."

"You mean looks, right?" Someone joked with a smile.

"Hey, I mean the same thing."

Qi Qiu behind the door: "..."

It seems that he is not very qualified as a part-time doorman.

"The guard said that five people have entered the factory before us." It was Wu Gui's voice.

Another person laughed: "Entering doesn't necessarily mean entering alive."

The topic of discussion smoothly shifted from "The Seventh Traveler" to "The Gatekeeper".

Although essentially, they are discussing the same person.

"There are still ten seconds left, you have to lose..."

"Dong, dong, dong——"

Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Chapter completed!