Sukumo has always been a hard-working person, and since he was a child, his grades have always remained in the top five of his class.
Studying hard and going for part-time jobs after school, Sukumo doesn't have much of an ideal, he just wants to enter a good company after graduation and earn money early to share the pressure for his family.
Although Su Mo has not graduated yet, he occasionally fantasises about his future workplace life ...
"What about what I asked you?What have you heard?"
Gao Life's tone turned cold, frightening Su Mo to shiver, just now this simple college student's brain unexpectedly appeared life going by the wayside.
"No."Su Mo immediately shook his head, "I didn't hear anything!"
"Don't be curious about things that you shouldn't be."Gao Ming blocked the door of the room with his body, "This world is more complicated than you think, go home earlier in the evening and don't work outside until too late."
"Understood, understood."Su Mo picked up his electric car helmet, turned around and ran, faster than last time.
Panting and rushing into the lift, Su Mo desperately pressed the close button, and only after the silver-grey lift doors closed did he let out a sigh of relief.
"The workplace is horrible."
Inside the building, the cool air was turned on sufficiently, Su Mo wiped away the sweat on his forehead and stood in the corner of the lift, at this time, next to him, a tall and a short two men were chatting in a low voice.
"The night before last there was a programmer on the eleventh floor overtime sudden death, his colleagues thought he was asleep, working next to the body for a while before finding something wrong."
"Really scary, now the game industry is too rolled up, every day to earn this nest egg is not enough to see a doctor."
"You know what's even scarier?"The short man waved and lowered his voice: "I heard my friend say that last night when he went out of the office door, he saw someone else working in the house, so he left the lights on.That's when the guy turned his back on him and said something - it's okay, I don't need the lights to see."
"Holy shit?Is that the programmer who died suddenly back?"
"I don't know!Anyway, my friend froze at the time, and then realised that the man was sitting at the dead man's workstation, and the computer screen was densely typed with what looked like gibberish!"
The lift shook a little and the two men walked out, leaving Sukumo alone in the middle of the lift.
He stared at the numbers on the lift display, a little scared in his heart, the story the two male employees just told echoed in his ears.
The blood-red numbers kept changing until it became 11.
The lift doors slowly opened, but there was no one outside, the cold air conditioning wind poured into his neck along the collar of his shirt, Sukumo looked at the empty corridor, his heart seemed to be scratched by a few small hands as if it was getting more and more uneasy.
A few seconds later, the lift was about to close, a male employee carrying a computer bag rushed into the lift.
Seeing that there was someone to keep him company, Sümo was also relieved, he hugged his helmet tightly and took out his mobile phone to prepare to continue taking orders.
Staring at the mobile phone screen, Sukumo suddenly felt a little strange, he deflected the mobile phone screen, changed to selfie mode, and suddenly found that the male employee just now, has been looking at him since he got on the lift.
The knot in his throat rolled, Sukumo secretly glanced at the male employee, and the other party's eyes were staring straight at him.
Dodging backwards, Sukumo leaned his back against the lift, while the male clerk kept the same expression, his mouth opening a little.
"So you can really see me."
...
High Life didn't go after Sukumo, he stood guard at the door of the utility room, silently drinking his cup of milk tea.
As the number of downloads of To The Love We Will Eventually Die continued to increase, Xuan Wen's situation became worse and worse, her self-will growing rapidly while also becoming insane from eating away too many emotions.
At nine thirty in the evening, many rooms in the office building had their lights switched off, and the last staff bus had already left.
Apart from the Night Light Studio, only the Unicorn Game Studio, which ranked fifth under Magic Map Technology, was still working overtime.
There were very few people in the Night Light Studio, and they were working overtime because there was usually no work at all, and it was not easy to have a project, so everyone was working very hard.
The number of staff in Unicorn Game Studio was several times that of Night Light, occupying three floors exclusively, their studio was the most rolled up studio of Magic Map Technology, the staff were all rolled up kings one by one, and nine o'clock in the evening was their normal off-duty time.
"For earning money don't want to die ah?The inmates of the Hate Mountain Felony Prison have all ended their labour reform and returned to their rooms at this time."Gao Life was worried that Xuan Wen would get out of control and kill, and hoped that everyone would hurry up and leave, but it was not to be, and everyone rolled up tonight on their own.
"High Life!The number of downloads for our trial version has already surpassed fifteen thousand!"Wei Dayou was very excited and specifically ran to the door of the utility room, wanting to share this good news with Gao Life: "Without any great publicity, players are spontaneously inviting their friends to come and play, we have the possibility of breaking the circle with this game!"
"Pretty good."
"Your persistence is right!We, Night Light, should be able to renew our lives with this game!"Wei Dayou brewed a cup of coffee, "Our studio hasn't seen any dividends from the game's water flow for seven whole months, and now everyone's passion has been mobilised!"
"They don't say it on their lips, but they're actually quite attached to Night Light."Gao Life himself had worked with Night Light for a long time and knew that this studio had once been brilliant.
"We must make a beautiful turnaround this time!"Wei Dayou didn't have the slightest intention of leaving, which gave Gao Life a bit of a headache.
"Dayou, tell everyone to hurry off work and go back to rest, it's too late."
"Not going back today!The men are going to fight!"Wei Dayou took a sip of coffee and returned to his workstation in a very manly manner.
"What a rebel bone."Gao Life looked at the number of downloads of the trial version that was still growing and knocked on the door of the utility room, "Xuan Wen, are you feeling better?"
The lights were distorted and there wasn't a single light in the utility room, only large shadows that seemed to waver as if they were ghostly fires.
"Xuan Wen?"
The woman in professional clothes was wrapped in layers of shadows, her eyes were tightly closed, and a line of pitch-black tiny veins emerged from the surface of her skin, those veins were connected to the shadows at one end, and at the other end, they were converging and twisting inside her body.
"It's kind of like the chains between Zhao Xi and me."
Zhao Xi had been turned into an Evil Guile by the unknown world, all the weird and horrifying abilities in his body came from another world, and the memories, regrets, and obsessions that were uniquely his own turned into black veins similar to chains that wrapped around his and Gao Ming's wrists.
Zhao Xi was a person in reality, but Xuan Wen was designed by Gao Life, she herself had no connection with the real world, but after over ten thousand people knew of her existence through the game, that tiny black veins grew in her body as well.
"Believing is believing, not believing is not believing, strong emotional stimulation might be able to make strange stories exist in people's hearts forever, no wonder those shenanigans like to spread terror."
High Life stepped into the shadows as he stared at Xuan Wen's white neck.
All the tiny veins that had just appeared converged towards there, eventually forming a chain-like existence, which seemed to be the core of Xuan Wen's obsession and memories.
"Destroy the chain, and Xuan Wen might just be sent back to the Shadow World in a coma, or she might just collapse out of control; connect the chain to me, and I might be able to snatch away the abilities that belong to her."
The opportunity to "kill" Xuan Wen and "dominate" her was right in front of her, and High Life's hand slowly raised, but in the end, it just picked up the unopened cup of milk tea next to Xuan Wen.
"It's not easy to have an ego, if I leave without experiencing the beauty, that would indeed be too cruel."Gao Life lifted the lid of the milk tea and tonk tonk tonk drank it, "Room temperature, not as good as the one with ice."
Gao Life took the milk tea and left the utility room, after he closed the door and walked away, Xuan Wen's tightly closed eyes slowly opened.
"Did I give you the opportunity to drink milk tea?"