"Application accepted."
So, Li Pan pulled open a drawer, which contained an antique pocket watch and an electronic watch.
The pocket watch had a brass case and a chain, a retro mechanical watch, while the electronic watch was a rubber-strap electronic cube; both of these would be considered antiques even in the twenty-first century.
Of course, this wasn't the River God asking the young man, "Is the watch you dropped this Casio, or is it this Peibiai?"
Li Pan, with the phone tucked between his neck and shoulder, strapped the electronic watch onto his wrist. As he started the timer, he also held the pocket watch in his hand.
"Pocket watch/identification,"
Identification, yellow, controllable.
Pocket watch/identification can perform identification of monsters within the area.
After taking out the pocket watch/identification, the pocket watch/identification begins timing.
When there are monsters within the sensing range of the pocket watch/identification, the second hand's movement will accelerate.
The closer the distance, the faster the second hand will move.
The greater the number of monsters, the faster the second hand will move.
The higher the risk level of the monsters, the faster the second hand will move.
When the minute hand also begins to move at a visibly rapid pace, the monster can generally be determined to be red.
Be aware that pocket watch/identification accelerates aging; timekeeping deducts from the user's life span limit concurrently, which cannot be reset."
Li Pan examined the pocket watch; the second hand was ticking away significantly faster than the electronic watch's timer. This was normal, after all, he was currently wearing the "formal attire/Guardian."
Deducting from the lifespan limit? No big deal, really. If you're going to fuss about that, you might as well consider how cheap food additives and preservatives are deducting from your 'lifespan limit,' and a stray bullet flying by could deduct it all in one go.
Thus, after attaching the 'pocket watch/identification' to his formal attire, Li Pan took the elevator to take a round through the business department first.
The business department was quite large, spanning three floors, including not just the office cubicles, one after another, but also dedicated private offices for the staff, and personal lockers for storing personal items, firearms, ammunition, and equipment. Therefore, every time a door is opened, one must be mentally prepared for there being an out-of-control monster on the other side.
But with the two watches, Li Pan didn't have to storm doors like the CQB Assault Team. He simply took blue, yellow, and red stickers, stood outside each office door for a minute, and then affixed the appropriate colored sticker.
After all, he didn't even have a gun on him, and couldn't clean up anyway; and even if it was a blue room, who's to say the employee didn't put a high value on personal privacy and rigged a grenade to the door handle...
In this way, he quickly got the business department sorted out as well, identifying and recording about six yellow monsters.
In the end, pretty much only the technical department was left.
The technical department was indeed a bit troublesome, as it was responsible for the application development of monsters. Besides monster research, there were various technical documents, as well as various experimental devices and cloned humans for simulating extreme environments.
Yes, that's right, the general manager's computer contained information that Monster Corporation was illegally cultivating cloned humans for monster testing. In actuality, most companies were using cloned human targets illegally. These cloned human bodies were genetically modified and treated with growth hormones; from birth to adulthood to death, the entire lifespan was just three to five days. They were essentially slabs of meat.
However, the Science Ethics Committee naturally prohibits such behavior by law. Companies caught engaging in it would be subject to hefty fines by the tax authority. Of course, it is difficult to say whether the laws were enacted more for ethical reasons or for the fines.
Actually, Li Pan felt it was also hard to define the act of using cloned humans as 'unethical evil,' given that when researching monsters, if not clones, one might as well employ temporary workers; eventually, a choice had to be made either way.
What about lab rats?
Taking into account that experimental biological licenses had to be obtained, quarantine and inspection qualifications had to be maintained, and medical-use biological materials were monopolized, it turned out that temporary workers were actually the cheaper option.