In the center of the forest, black fences rise from the ground, like a row of tall guards, and the huge iron gates are simple and heavy. A transparent stone slab hangs on it, engraved with four characters - Crystal Factory.
The factory buildings are criss-crossed, like giant monsters squatting in the open space. Their old iron sheets have long been blackened and rusty. Countless tall chimneys send billowing black smoke outwards, and the air is filled with the pungent smell of dust.
The leading worker grinned his yellow teeth and said flatteringly to the fat and oily man at the door: "Brother Huang, I brought them to you. The goods that came this time are all high-quality goods. You see..."
Brother Huang glanced at him sideways, took out two banknotes and threw them on the ground contemptuously, then turned and walked towards the factory.
The leading worker showed a greedy look. He suddenly fell to the ground like a vicious dog pouncing on food. He preciously picked up two tattered banknotes on the ground and carefully blew off the sand and dust on them, as if they were treasures. He stuffed it into the pocket of his work clothes near his heart and kept rubbing it with his rough and thin palms.
Then he seemed to realize that all the players were still looking at him, and the lead worker instantly changed his expression to a ferocious one.
"What are you looking at? Why don't you hurry up and follow Brother Huang, you lazy fools!" he yelled.
This time, Yunchuan walked into the factory first, and the frequent insults from the workers made him feel very uncomfortable.
Compared with the leading workers who have become dirty exporters, Huang Ge can even be called gentle. He led the crowd and introduced:
"...The crystal factory sells various crystal sculptures to outside nobles. You are interns. What you have to do is to divide the crystal and then carve out a human sculpture. Oh, look here, this is the crystal dividing room. Yes, you need to Be careful, if you break the crystal, you won’t be able to afford the compensation if I sell it..."
"...here, here, hey, newcomers, concentrate! This is the sculpture room. Our sculptures are purely hand-carved and are rare to find, because we are the best crystal factory..."
Brother Huang kept introducing the factory, showing a proud attitude. It was obvious that he was very proud to have this job.
Yunchuan silently observed the surroundings, gravel, factory buildings, there were no problems with them, but the employees here...
Looking at a group of skinny workers swinging the axes in their hands stiffly, with thick white clouds covering their eyes, one has to wonder whether these employees can see the crystal clearly.
‘Strength that doesn’t match your physical fitness’ Kumokawa thought
"...Okay, here are your work clothes, dormitory keys, and the most important internship badge. If you lose it, you will be responsible for the consequences! Today is the first day, you don't need to do anything, but tomorrow, use your strength to suck milk." Work for me!" Brother Huang grinned with a greasy smile.
"Your working hours are from 6 am to 11 pm, and you have half an hour to eat and rest every day. Remember, lateness is not allowed in the crystal factory, and you are not allowed to go out after work. This is a hard requirement!"< br>
Listening to the unscientific rules and regulations, Yunchuan took the work clothes distributed by Brother Huang. The dark blue clothes had several patches, and the cuffs were solidified with unknown red stains. Yun Chuan frowned in disgust and said, "Dogs don't even wear it." This thought flashed across his mind.
He picked up the small internship badge. The badge had a black background and was inlaid with crystal-carved flowers. The flowers were white in appearance and half hung at the top, like an inverted pipe.
‘It looks like a crystal orchid. ’ Yun Chuan gently rubbed the crystal clear badge. He remembered that along the way following Brother Huang, he also saw many young white flowers in the yellow sand in the corner of the factory. ‘They are crystal orchids’ Yunchuan confirmed again.
Obviously, this is not an environment where Crystal Orchid can grow, but this is a copy, and everything that appears against the rules must have a reason for its existence.
Crystal Orchid, the flower of death that grows high in the mountains, draws nutrients from the corpses of animals and plants.
'Corpse. ’ Yunchuan is almost certain that there should be countless corpses buried under this factory. However, Yunchuan sneered, a copy without a corpse is simply not too few.
"Okay, now take your clothes and go find the dormitory by yourself. Don't come out unless someone calls you."
Today's guidance seemed to be over. Brother Huang slammed the door without looking back and strode away.
"Huh..." Ning Yu exhaled a long breath, "I'm scared to death, this 007 ghost place is really not for humans."
He took out the dormitory key distributed by Brother Huang,
"I'm 103, Brother Yue, so we have to follow what the fat guy said and stay in the house all night?"
"Yes, newbies won't embarrass you so quickly. Just follow the NPC's instructions in the early stage and there won't be any big problems. You must wear this set of clothes tomorrow, and the badge must be in the wrong position. But...if I'm not wrong If so, the thing engraved on this badge should be crystal orchid, but I don’t know much about it..." Yue Muyang answered hesitantly.
Mu Chen, who had been quiet all this time, suddenly spoke: "It's the crystal orchid. It's called the flower of death. It grows in mountains above 1,500 meters. It grows in a humid and dark environment with no chlorophyll. It survives by absorbing nutrients from decaying animals and plants. But It is not toxic in itself. I stayed in Longzhou for a while and was lucky enough to see this plant. "
"I only know that the flower language of the crystal orchid is sincere and harmless, fragile and fragile." Shangguan Jin, the youngest member of the players, added, "When I was chatting with my classmates before, everyone was discussing the flower of the other side, and by the way, we also talked about the crystal orchid, but I don't know how much more." The girl smiled shyly, with a blush appearing on her pale face.
Her mother, Ms. Wu, gently patted the girl on the shoulder and made some sign language to cheer her up. This speechless mother stood firmly behind her daughter and became her most solid support.
During the conversation, everyone came to the door of the dormitory. Several rusty iron doors were covered with dense scratches. These did not look like traces corroded by wind and sand, but more like scratches with a sharp instrument, which looked extremely terrifying. .
The September wind shuttled through the corridors, screaming and sweeping in with billowing heat.
The players felt like they were in a cold storage, with chills rising from the soles of their feet, spreading along their bone marrow, and it was bone-piercingly cold. For a moment, no one spoke.
It was the only veteran who broke the silence,
"Okay, everyone, let's go into the dormitory. Don't worry, novice notebooks rarely have accidents on their first night. Remember, don't come out no matter what noise is made outside. Here, this is a paper crane. It is a prop redeemed from the system. Each of you has one. Only, if you drop blood on it, you can transmit the sound.”
Yue Muyang distributed four paper cranes to everyone.
Fortunately, Wu Wei and Yue Muyang were ranked at 104, Mu Chen and Lu Mao were ranked at 103, and mother and daughter were ranked at 102.
Obviously, the lone 101 belongs to Yunchuan. "..." While responding to Yue Muyang's motherly instructions, he walked into the room and locked the door.
'A long-winded good man, but not annoying at all. It's a pity that such a person can't go far... What a pity. ’ He thought, in the player world of Stars, betrayal and betrayal are never rare words.
The dormitory of the Crystal Factory can be considered simple. The room is not large. Two rusty iron beds take up two-thirds of the room. Beside the bed is a simple clothes hanger with a dim light hanging on it. Little light, it doesn't even have a decent table.
Yunchuan frowned, picked up a corner of the quilt in disgust, and lifted it violently. He could barely see that the white sheets were covered with large light brown stains.
'It looked like blood stains that had not been completely cleaned. ’
He sat at the end of the bed. It was destined to be a sleepless night tonight.
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When the bell struck the twelfth time, Yunchuan, who was sitting like a sculpture at the end of the bed, suddenly opened his eyes. A brilliant golden color flashed across his pupils, and then quickly turned back to the dark night.
There seemed to be strange noises in the silent corridor, creaking, creaking, as if someone was dragging something heavy outside the house.
These strange creaking sounds lingered at the door for nearly an hour before gradually disappearing.
Until the door became quiet again, Yun Chuan still stared in the direction of the door. His sixth sense told him that there seemed to be something interesting waiting for him to discover outside the door.
Then, he buried the paper crane that Yue Muyang had thrust into the bed and walked towards the door without hesitation.
Yunchuan, a negative teaching material, didn't care about any rules or irregularities at all. It was his first time downloading the dungeon and now he wanted to go out for a walk, so he unscrewed the door without thinking.
The first thing you see is a dark corridor. Silence swept in from all directions, and the empty corridors were like a monster's esophagus, exuding an ominous aura.
He walked out of the room and didn't seem to encounter the guys making strange noises.
Yunchuan held his hands on the wall and walked slowly in the darkness. The feeling of being deprived of his vision made the blood in his body boil with excitement.
It seems that in order to make him closer to novice players, the Lord God temporarily deprived him of all abilities that are beyond ordinary people, including of course his night vision ability.
Therefore, Yunchuan now is actually no different from ordinary people, but it is obvious that he has no self-awareness of his current strength.
Whether it was because of the dungeon or because he didn't expect that a newbie with thorny hair who was not afraid of death would come out for a walk on the first night, or because he was suddenly lucky, he didn't encounter anything weird along the way.
As a result, Yun Chuan came to the open space of the factory unimpeded.
The stars are bright, the Milky Way is flowing, and the cold moonlight is sprinkled all over the ground.
Something's wrong, he thought to himself.
It was indeed too quiet. The factories and forests at night were as silent as death. There is no clicking sound of huge machinery, no sound of nocturnal species, and even the rustling of leaves when the wind rushes is gone.
Suddenly, Yun Chuan caught a glimpse of a white shadow passing by the corner of his eye, as fast as lightning.
Without thinking too much, he quickly caught up with Bai Ying. In the silent factory, only one person and one shadow shuttled quickly.
It was strange that the white shadow seemed to be deliberately asking him to follow him. Whenever he lost track, the white shadow would pass by the corner of his eye from a tricky angle, as if to guide him.
'It wants to take me somewhere. ’
After an unknown amount of time, Bai Ying rushed up to the rusty wall and lay down vertically on the iron plate.
Only then did he see clearly that the white shadow was actually a hand bone, from the elbow to the fingertips, without a trace of muscle. The white bones glowed white under the moonlight, with one or two grains of fresh soil. Sliding down from the trembling bones, becoming one with the earth.
Suddenly, the bones of his hand trembled violently, his white finger bones kept grasping, and his nails scratched on the iron plate, making a horrifying squeaking sound. Then, the whole arm swooped down quickly, digging up the soil with a sudden movement, and disappeared without a trace.
‘What is it afraid of? ’
There was a sound of the air being cut behind him, and Yun Chuan turned around suddenly, only to see an ax coming towards him heavily.
It was too late to dodge, the sharp weapon had already smashed into his body, and he could clearly hear the sound of broken bones coming from his body.
I couldn't resist at all, and I didn't even have time to feel the pain.
From the corner of his eye, Yun Chuan saw the stiff-limbed worker using the ax to chop his body. The polished giant ax reflected a distorted face, and countless transparent crystals filled the worker's eyes and mouth...
The world was spinning, something heavy fell on the open space in front of him, and warm liquid splashed all over his face.
'That's my hand...' This was his last thought before losing consciousness.
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System background——
Broadcast: Copy of "Crystal Factory"-——
Number of survivors: 6/7——
Copy progress: 12%——
(End of chapter)