Chapter 4 I don’t want to work overtime (2)
“Secretary Liu, we came back from Hedong Village and found a new strange thing. Please analyze it and put it in the treasury.”
The sky is getting dark outside the door. In the dark, a stout man stood at the door holding a box covered with seals. He turned out to be a colleague from the Patrol Department.
There is new work to do, Liu Sheng thought.
The colleague left in a hurry after delivering the things. He was probably in a hurry to get off duty, or he was afraid of facing Liu Sheng’s resentment for having to work overtime again.
Liu Sheng sent his colleagues away with a "smile", and carefully placed the seal box containing the strange objects on a special workbench in the room. The moment he put it on, the sealing formation on the workbench was activated to prevent The strange energy leaked out during the operation.
Liu Sheng looked at the seal on the surface of the box, which said some basic information about the strange object:
[No.: Sansi Wu Qilu]
[Outside Shape: About four inches and a half long, about two inches and a half wide, no more than two inches thick, special material, the front is smooth and seems to be polished with crystal, the rest is made of special metal, the craftsmanship is exquisite and almost seamless]
< br>[Effect: Unknown]
[Level: Danger]
[Source: It should have been unearthed in the ground when the He family was renovating their ancestral house in Hedong Village. When the object was later found, the whole family had died at home. It was suspected of being overworked and not eating enough water, and suffering from heart failure. Death]
These are written by the Patrol Division based on the on-site containment conditions of the strange objects. They are just some preliminary judgments. A more detailed analysis requires a thorough analysis and inspection using specialized analytical instruments.
Only after an analysis document has been written can the artifacts be contained in categories. If it is found after analysis that they exceed the local containment level, it must be reported to the General Administration of Weaving and let people from the General Administration come down to deal with it.
Originally, this job should not be done by Liu Sheng. She only needs to be a simple warehouse manager. The analysis work should be the responsibility of Yiyan Department, but Li County Yiyan Department originally only had one researcher. However, Even this last remaining treasure applied to be transferred to another place last year, so Liu Sheng, the warehouse manager, could only be asked to rush to the shelves and do analysis.
Of course, it is also because of this that Liu Sheng was able to write the article "Analysis Path Analysis of Artifact Type Strange Objects".
But, there is a big problem now.
Her analyzer is missing.
She is usually the most cautious and always returns things to their original places after use. Normally, this kind of loss of important instruments would never happen to Liu Sheng.
Forget it, since she can’t find it, it must be God’s will that tells her not to work overtime and go home early.
Liu Sheng yawned loudly and decided to stop working overtime today. If she couldn't do it, she could only spend some money from her own pocket to buy materials to make an analyzer tomorrow. After using it for so long, she also knew the structure of the analyzer produced by the General Administration of Weaving. .
She had to go home and sleep. She had not slept for more than eighteen hours, and she was a little confused.
When she looked at the time, it was already past midnight, long past meal time. She didn't feel hungry, but her parents were waiting at home.
Liu Sheng hurriedly tidied up, locked the room, and started heading towards the subway.
The sky has completely darkened. Only the divine face covering the sky is shimmering with light. The streets without lights and candles are a little brighter. I don’t know if it’s because it’s already passed. During rush hour, there is no one on the street.
However, once I arrived at the subway station, I finally saw people. It could even be said that it was overcrowded. Although the clock pointed to past ten o'clock in the night, the subway was still crowded, and Liu Sheng had to give up his original plan of standing and taking a nap along the way.
After returning home and downstairs, Liu Sheng looked up and saw the lights on in his home, feeling a little tired for some reason.
She dragged her tired body up the six flights of stairs, took out the key and opened the door. She saw her parents sitting in the living room waiting for her. The food on the table was covered with plates to keep it warm, but The heat was gone. When they saw her coming back, they hurriedly got up and took the food back to the kitchen to reheat it.
Liu Sheng looked at this scene, but she seemed to see another scene overlapping in front of her eyes. She seemed to be in a simple brick house, slightly dimly lit by candlelight.
Under the candlelight was a middle-aged man and woman wearing ancient costumes. They looked strange but familiar. They brought out the dishes from the kitchen, sat down at the wooden table and looked at her with a smile. There were three sets of bowls and chopsticks on the table. .
The man was putting a large piece of hoof flower into the bowl in front of the empty seat, while the woman looked at her lovingly and asked: "Sheng'er, your father has made your favorite hoof flower soup, sit down and eat it quickly. ”
Is this, my mother?
No, my mother is not like this.
Liu Sheng felt a little confused.
"Sheng'er, what's wrong with you?" The woman saw her standing still and did not respond, with loss and sadness flashing across her face.
Sheng'er? Who is it?
"Yi Yu, what's wrong with you?" came the mother's voice, which sounded a little distant.
"I know I'm in a daze as soon as I come back, come here and help!"
Yi Yu blinked, and she returned to the brightly lit living room. Everything in front of her just now seemed to be just a hallucination in a trance.
"It's okay, Mom. I'm just a little tired." She forced a smile.
"Mom and Dad, didn't you tell me not to wait for me to come home for dinner next time?"
My mother glared at me and said, "How can that be okay? Are you still cooking for yourself when you come home so late? No. You have to eat takeout again when cooking. They have said that takeout is not nutritious and unhygienic. You have already eaten takeout at noon, why do you still eat it at night? You know that your cousin from home eats too much takeout..."
"I'm so hungry, Mom, let's eat quickly!" Yi Yu quickly interrupted his mother's chatter and urged his parents to sit down and eat.
"You are the same. As soon as the child comes home, you will talk about how everyone works overtime until so late every day." The father was a little impatient.
"Work overtime? Who doesn't work overtime now? It's good to have a job, how many people are unemployed! What's more, Xiaoyu is now in Guosheng Group, how many people are envious!"
Mother raised her voice, which was unusually sharp and a bit harsh.
"Have you ever taken care of your children in all these years? When you go home every day, all you do is eat, watch TV and sleep! If it weren't for me, how would Xiaoyu have been able to get into Qingdao University and get into Guosheng Group?"
My father was so choked that he couldn't speak. He snorted and started eating.
It has always been like this. My father left the house, and my mother had to take care of the family affairs. The more she took care of it, the more irritated she became. As a result, her father disliked her mother for being too strong, and she was always forced to be theirs. The center of the quarrel.
The quarrel used to be about her study, but now it is about her work.
"Mom, Guosheng Group isn't that good...many colleagues have resigned recently..." Yi Yu retorted in a low voice. She had less money and more trouble than her boss who liked to cause trouble. You must know that she got off work early today. She has been working overtime and staying up late for a long time. Many people are exhausted, and a manager even died suddenly last week. It would be strange not to run away.
But when her mother heard this, she immediately exploded: "Resign? You don't want to resign again, do you? I think you are planning to complain about being tired every day. People who resign are fools, no matter what Guosheng Group It's an old company and it's directly under the federal government, so it's an iron rice bowl." Her face was a little distorted, and her bloodshot eyes were about to pop out of her sockets.
"We have spent a lot of effort to get you in, so what about graduate students at Qingda University? There is no way you can get into Guosheng Group without background, don't be stupid!"< br>
My mother's voice was full of anxiety and dissatisfaction. Although my father didn't speak, he also had a look of disappointment and disapproval. Yi Yu felt inexplicably depressed and didn't want to say anything more.
She had no appetite anymore, so she put down the bowl and chopsticks after taking a few bites. When she looked up, she saw that her parents had stopped using their chopsticks at some point and were looking at her quietly, their eyes filled with hatred. , as if what she was looking at was not their daughter.
Yi Yu felt horrified, feeling that the living room had become a little cold, and there was a strong darkness coming from the corner of the living room.
This is all an illusion. She shook her head and looked carefully. The light in the living room was still bright and the cold air had dissipated. Her parents were lowering their heads to eat.
"Dad, Mom, I've finished eating, you guys eat slowly."
Yi Yu hurriedly finished his meal uneasily and hurried back to his room.
As soon as the door closed, Yi Yu felt inexplicably relieved.
It was quiet outside, as if there was no one.
In the strange and frozen silence, several "ding dong ding dong" sounds suddenly sounded. It turned out to be a message from Yi Yu's cell phone.
Yi Yu also knew what the message was. She didn't want to read it at all and just sat quietly on the edge of the bed.
She didn’t turn on the light in the room either. In the darkness, only the screen of her mobile phone that was thrown on the bed was on. The message prompt [You have received a group message] was popping up with the sound of "ding dong", and the sound was beating. Information casts a faint light.
Knock, knock, the door was knocked.
"Xiaoyu, is your leader looking for you? Check the message quickly, don't delay things." Mother's voice sounded at the door.
Yi Yu remained silent.
The knocking on the door became more urgent and much louder, changing from knocking to beating.
“Xiaoyu, it’s just you, please reply to your leader quickly!”
There was not only a command in her tone, but also a bottomless indifference, as if it was not her mother, but something else speaking in her mother's voice.
Yi Yu's heart was beating like a drum, and she fumbled to pick up the cold phone. As soon as she unlocked the screen, she saw that there were more than fifty unread messages in her work group. She crossed a series of [received], and finally The top is the message from her project team leader:
[@everyone, urgent notice, the group leaders held a meeting today and severely criticized our project progress for being seriously behind schedule. Everyone will come back and work overtime right now! ! Please reply if received. 】
No one questioned, no one refuted, there were only fifty or so mechanical replies——[Received].
Yi Yu looked around and found that she was the only one who had not replied yet.
She typed [received] tremblingly, and when she was about to click send, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
She didn't want to, she had been working for thirty-five consecutive days, working for more than 12 hours every day, on call, without a day off.
She has been really good for too long.
Every day, her family keeps telling her that a stable job is good. The boss throws the plan in her face and says, "You don't want to do it. There are people out there who want to do it." When she checks her phone during breaks, she can see college students looking for them. Without the news of work, everything weighed down on her.
She kept comforting herself that it would be fine if she could survive until retirement. Only if she persisted could she get a pension. But why did she feel that she wouldn't be able to survive?
She was really tired.
With an impulsive and hot flame rising in his heart, Yi Yu deleted the words in the chat box, typed two words and sent them immediately.
This action seemed to consume all her strength. She threw the phone on the bed and lay down on her back.
Her reply was displayed on the bright mobile phone screen: [Not going].
After sending those two words, she felt an unprecedented relief, as if a heavy burden had been lifted, but what followed was even more intense uneasiness and fear.
There were no more messages in the group. Everyone seemed to be frightened by these two words and fell silent.
The sound outside the door stopped at some point.
The whole world seemed to be filled with only dead silence.
In this dead silence, Yi Yu's heartbeat became the only sound, and every beat echoed in the darkness.
However, at this moment, a stronger fear came quietly, followed by a violent banging on the door, as if something was trying to force its way in.
At the same time, Yi Yu's cell phone suddenly vibrated crazily and sounded a dense "ding dong ding dong" sound. She stood up hastily and looked at the screen of her phone. A series of "You are dead" flashed across the screen. The same four words, but from everyone in the group.
The moment he read the message, Yi Yu felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet, and his whole body was almost frozen on the bed.
At this time, an irresistible force finally opened the door, and cold wind mixed with unknown fear poured into the room.
The last scene she saw was her mother's twisted face and the cold light of the knife.
During the struggle, the phone was swept to the ground covered with blood, and it continued to make a reminder sound like a reminder. The lighted up screen illuminated the girl on the bed who was hanging down because her neck was basically cut off. The head on the floor, its wide-open eyes full of unwillingness.
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I don’t know how many people have discovered that the heroine has...
Yes, the world view of this story is not a purely ancient background, as the introduction says: This is a strange world of [sci-fi + fantasy]. The heroine will grow up little by little and explore the truth of the world.
I hope you will like this story!
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