mesbooks #294 - There is definitely something wrong with this company (2 in 1 order required)
#294 - There is definitely something wrong with this company (2 in 1 order required)
Hearing this, Pure Black felt a chill run down his spine.
Wait! Hold on a minute, wasn't that guy downstairs in the bathroom?!
He didn't care about anything else and quickly turned off the bathroom light again, fleeing in a panic.
After observing the hallway for a while and seeing that the person in the bathroom hadn't chased after him, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The viewers in the live stream were amused:
"Hahaha, the streamer is so mean, turning off the light on him again."
"There's definitely some personal animosity mixed in there, hhhhhh."
The countdown timer on the screen was decreasing, so Pure Black had to continue with his security guard duties.
As he worked, he couldn't help but complain:
"Damn it, why am I the only one here? Why not hire another security guard?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone cough not far behind him, which startled him again.
The viewers in the live stream were amused:
"Hahahahaha, a colleague has arrived."
"A 'co-lleague'."
The cough quickly stopped, and Pure Black stood in place, not daring to breathe loudly. After observing for a while and finding no one, he continued his patrol.
However, the background music started to become strange, and the elevator doors at the corner of the stairs began to open and close automatically.
After completing his task, Pure Black entered the elevator and pressed the button for the fourth floor.
Upon arriving on the fourth floor, the printer at the corner began to automatically print something continuously.
As the streamer approached, it suddenly spat out a woman's photo.
Although the photo was printed in black and white and the outlines were blurry, it was still possible to see that the woman in the photo had delicate features.
Viewers commented: "This woman looks a lot like the normal version of the red-clothed woman we saw before."
Continuing forward after putting down the photo, the lights overhead began to flicker on and off.
Pure Black complained: "Why do I feel like this floor is significantly darker than the previous one?"
Afterward, Pure Black entered a place that looked like an archive room.
The door of the archive room creaked open, and a musty, stale smell rushed out. The weak lighting appeared even dimmer in the yellowish environment, barely illuminating the area a few steps ahead.
Tall, rusty iron file cabinets were arranged densely, like a cold and heartless maze. They looked extremely eerie in the dim light, giving people a creepy feeling.
The mottled rust on the surface of the file cabinets formed strange patterns, filled with traces of being devoured by time. The handles on some cabinets were so rusted that they could not be used normally, making it seem as if they had been abandoned for decades.
The floor was covered with several layers of dust, and some waste paper and incomplete documents were scattered in the corners, like an abandoned place that no one cared for.
Pure Black took a deep breath and complained: "Who knows what might pop out when you turn around in this archive room."
Just after complaining, and while he was feeling nervous, suddenly—
A muffled explosion sounded from overhead, like the sound of glass breaking.
Everyone was startled again!
Then, he discovered that it was a fluorescent light on the ceiling that had fallen and broken on the ground.
Moreover, the surrounding fluorescent lights were flickering more and more dimly and needed to be replaced.
So, Pure Black first went to other rooms to find fluorescent lights, since repairing broken lights was also one of the security guard's night patrol duties.
After repairing the light and turning on the switch, Pure Black realized that there had been someone in the room all along!
It was a young office worker in his early twenties, wearing a suit and tie.
The office worker had a blank look in his eyes, dark circles under his eyes, and said to Pure Black with an ethereal air:
"Are you on night shift again today? Hehe..."
Pure Black cleared his throat: "You're not allowed to work overtime after midnight. You should go home."
The office worker chuckled bitterly and looked down at the documents on the table, murmuring:
"My boss told me to finish this work by tomorrow morning.
There's no way I can finish this amount of work, right?
I never thought being a working adult would be so difficult.
And they want me to clock in on time in the morning. I can't accept it!
You're the only one who knows that I work hard overtime every day. Seeing you makes me happy because I know I can finally go home.
So, it's time to go home today too.
Then... see you tomorrow."
The office worker staggered out the door.
There were other rooms with lights that needed to be replaced.
Just after replacing a light, Pure Black suddenly noticed that there seemed to be someone in the depths of a side door in the hallway.
The woman who had appeared in the lobby on the first floor, with disheveled hair, a red dress, and a pale face...
"Ahhhhh!"
Pure Black screamed in fright.
He calmed down for a while, and after finally gathering his courage, he pushed open the door, but there was nothing there. It was an illusion, it must have been an illusion, right?
The game displayed a prompt: 【Congratulations, your work progress is 50% complete. Keep it up, you'll be able to go home soon~】
Pure Black complained: "I feel like this game is setting me up for a FLAG, and this building clearly hides a lot of secrets."
……
After arriving on the fifth floor, Pure Black was stunned when the elevator doors opened.
It was as if he had traveled through a time tunnel and returned to an old state-owned enterprise dormitory building from the 1980s.
The walls on both sides of the corridor were cracked and peeling, and the falling paint swayed in the dim light. Traces of leaks formed shadows on the walls, giving off a musty smell.
The fluorescent lights on the ceiling buzzed from time to time, and the tubes flickered with precarious light. Cobwebs crisscrossed in the corners, and the memories of the years were ruthlessly forgotten.
The window at the end of the corridor was covered in dust, and the light from outside shone through the faded curtains.
Pure Black couldn't help but feel a strange chill.
He picked up his flashlight and continued forward.
Damn, how come the walls suddenly look so old? It's like I've traveled 40 years into the past?
The character he was controlling began to mutter to himself: "This floor is a bit dark. I should go to the electrical room to check it out."
After arriving at the electrical room, the game prompted: 【Missing fuses. Please collect enough fuses.】
As soon as he came out of the electrical room, he saw a red light illuminating a door in the distance of the hallway.
Pure Black swallowed hard and started walking towards the door.
After pushing open the door, he found an even darker maze inside.
Moreover, the ground was filled with blood-red water, and the depth of the blood pool was above his ankles when he stepped on it.
The maze was winding and twisting, making it even more immersive to play with VR equipment.
He walked in this maze for a while.
Pure Black couldn't help but complain: "Damn it, just give me a break! This feeling of waiting for judgment to come is really torturous."
Finally, relying on his game experience, he reached the end of the maze.
The end was a small room, and on the desk were fuses and lampshades.
Pure Black said: "Based on my experience playing horror games, if nothing happens on the way here, it means something will definitely happen on the way back."
Sure enough, at the end of the way back, the red-eyed, long-haired, pale-skinned woman popped her head out again.
Pure Black's scalp went numb, and he even forgot to scream.
The man and woman stared at each other like that. When Pure Black tentatively took two more steps forward, the woman disappeared again.
Pure Black returned to the electrical room and replaced the fuses.
"Phew, finally done."
He turned his head and saw another short-haired woman wearing a work uniform.
This time, he was directly startled by the jump scare.
"Oh my god, you scared me to death!"
The viewers in the live stream commented: "Hahahaha, the streamer is on edge now."
The short-haired woman said:
"So you're here. It seems the lights aren't on yet, so could you please push up the four control levers?"
The protagonist quickly said to the female employee: "Did you see the door at the end of the hallway? It's full of blood pools inside."
"What are you talking about? There are no blood pools. I don't understand you. Don't joke around in the middle of the night. It's scary."
The short-haired woman covered her mouth and giggled. "I'm going back now. You continue to work hard."
"??????"
Pure Black was stunned. Were these people pretending to be stupid or did they really not know?
This company is strange, definitely strange!
He continued to go to the room with the relays and pulled down the four control levers. Soon, the power supply was restored.
The protagonist still seemed worried about the short-haired girl and muttered to himself:
"Has that girl gone back already? I should check the surveillance room on this floor to confirm."
Pure Black complained:
"Isn't the surveillance room on the first floor? How am I supposed to get there? This is the fifth floor!
Moreover, I think the first four floors might be safe, with at most some cheap jump scares.
But after getting through the first four floors, the game is definitely up to no good by having me look at the surveillance now."
Then, the streamer quickly found a surveillance room on the fifth floor.
"There's a surveillance room on the fifth floor? That's so strange."
In the surveillance room, he first checked the surveillance footage from earlier today.
In the surveillance footage, a group of working women were in the restroom, putting on makeup in front of the vanity mirror while chatting.
"It's really thanks to (beep) (beep) (beep) that we can go back so soon."
"After all, that person took all the responsibility."
"But what if (beep) (beep) (beep) resigns?"
"Eh, that would be a headache."
"If that really happens, I might hate (beep) (beep) (beep). Just kidding."
Pure Black: "Good grief, they're really using their colleagues like sticky notes. But the names are censored, so I can't hear who they're talking about."
Then, Pure Black saw a note on the desk in the surveillance room on the fifth floor:
「...That moment was caught on surveillance. In this place, could it be that she... should resign from this job. Signature: Qin Fanjin」
Pure Black was stunned: "Qin Fanjin? Isn't that the name of the previous security guard in this building? And the manager said that the previous security guard seemed to have disappeared?"
What does this mean?
Which moment are they referring to?
Why is everyone so cryptic?
The surveillance room could view the surveillance footage from the first six floors.
The protagonist muttered to himself: "Since I'm already here, I should watch the surveillance footage from all the floors from earlier today."
He started checking the surveillance from the first floor. Everything was normal.
Nothing strange on the second floor either.
Then, the screen kept switching, 3rd floor, 4th floor, 5th floor...
All safe and sound.
When Pure Black checked the surveillance footage from the 6th floor, he saw two women talking in the conference room.
Looking closely, these two women were the black-stockinged milf who had asked for his contact information and the short-haired girl he had just spoken to.
Moreover, their voices were very similar to the voices in the previous surveillance footage.
The short-haired girl said: "By the way, your boyfriend used to be a security guard, right?"
The black-stockinged milf said: "Yes, yes. Sigh, it's all because he's too handsome, so I made him my boyfriend."
The short-haired girl: "But didn't he used to be with that person, with 'that guy'?"
The black-stockinged milf smiled wickedly: "Oh, it seems everyone knows, except for the thing about workplace harassment."
The short-haired girl: "Huh? So, you stole someone else's boyfriend?"
The black-stockinged milf: "Heh, you make it sound so bad. It just feels like I've cuckolded someone."
The short-haired girl: "Really? Well, good for you."
The black-stockinged milf: "But, but, compared to 'that guy', I'm the more attractive one, so there's nothing I can do, right?"
The short-haired girl: "You're such a bad woman."
The black-stockinged milf: "Girls are more popular when they're little devils."
The viewers in the live stream commented:
"So, who exactly is 'that guy'?"
"Riddlers get out of Gotham!"
"Good grief, the employee relationships at this company are so messed up."
Just then, suddenly, the video went black.
The two women in the video seemed to have encountered something terrifying and started running for their lives, constantly looking back as they fled, their eyes filled with despair.
The black-stockinged milf rushed into the elevator, but the short-haired girl fell in front of the elevator. The black-stockinged milf abandoned her and closed the elevator.
The black-stockinged milf ran all the way down, and the lights flickered and turned off wherever she ran.
Pure Black: "It sounds like someone is chasing her from behind."
In the video, the black-stockinged milf ran all the way to the 3rd floor, and then the video went black again.
Only the woman's piercing screams and the sound of a dagger cutting through flesh and blood could be faintly heard in the background, a sound that made one's teeth ache.
When the lights came back on, the door was covered in sprayed blood."
After watching the video, the security guard slumped in his chair in fright.
So, earlier today, the black-stockinged milf and the short-haired girl were already murdered?
Damn it, then who was I talking to tonight?
And who killed them?
Could it be that long-haired woman in red?
The security guard sighed with a trembling voice:
"It seems that this damn job really can't be done anymore, but I still have to finish tonight's work, after all, I can't let the supervisor catch me and deduct my salary.
After resigning tomorrow, I'll find a job as a delivery driver."
The comments section sighed, "To support his family, he has to keep working overtime even like this. It's so tough."
The security guard, with trembling hands, lit himself a cigarette, trying to calm down for a moment.
He looked up and saw a button that could continuously switch between the various camera angles of the 5th floor where he was.
He squinted, smoking his cigarette, and idly switched between the views.
Then, as the screen switched to a certain spot on the corridor, he captured the image of the disheveled, red-clothed woman.
This wasn't a recording, but a live feed!
The security guard was so frightened that the cigarette fell from his mouth.
Someone in the live stream chat hesitantly reminded:
"H-Host, don't you think this corridor looks a little familiar?"
Chun Hei felt a chill from head to toe because he immediately recognized that the door the woman was staring at had a sign that read 'Surveillance Room'!
Isn't that the door to the room I'm in right now?
In other words, that disheveled woman who has been haunting me all night is now outside this room's door?
...
As the live stream progressed to this point,
inside the Peach Blossom Village villa, many employees watching the live stream also subconsciously took a step back in fright.
Especially the girls, who were so scared that they covered their faces with their hands and didn't dare to watch the live stream anymore.
Liu Mengyuan also ran to Lu Yu's side in fright and held onto Lu Yu's arm with her small hand.
Lu Yu thought to himself that if the viewers watching the live stream felt this scared, it was hard to imagine how terrifying the experience would be for players personally wearing VR equipment.
He wasn't worried that the game would actually scare the players; on the contrary, this kind of terrifying experience would be very appealing to players who love immersion and a sense of presence.
Damn, it looks like Peach Blossom Village's venture into the VR game field is going to be a success!
This is even scarier than the horror game itself!
He quickly called over the employees from the Moe Girl Studio who were developing 'A Security Guard's Night'.
Wan Xiaotong tilted her head, looking at Lu Yu with an innocent expression.
Lu Yu rubbed his brow. "Miss Wan, hmm... I remember that during the project initiation meeting, this game seemed to be a mediocre... oh no, I mean, a normal working simulation game, like The Sims... How did the final product become like this?"
Xu Qin began to translate Wan Xiaotong's words:
"President Lu, we did design it according to the plan we discussed at the beginning, but later, Miss Wan made some slight modifications.
However, these modifications were only to enrich the gameplay and system; they were definitely not the kind of stylistic changes we're seeing in today's live stream.
The project team believes that there are two possible reasons for this situation:
The first possibility is that there is a bug in the game, causing the art assets and NPC behavior patterns to all change.
The second possibility is that some strange entity has overstepped its bounds and changed the style of the game while keeping the basic gameplay the same..."
The people around him felt their hair stand on end.
This... how does it sound even scarier than the game itself?
Could it be that there are also ghosts inside Peach Blossom Village?