Chapter 258: Dracula Factory 6
How to escape from a factory full of surveillance cameras — this question bothered Chu Yian throughout her entire meal.
Just as she was leaving the Cafeteria in a daze, she bumped into someone who was walking in.
A black Administrator uniform.
Chu Yian, knowing her place, stepped back to make way, “Sorry.”
“It’s fine.”
The person she bumped into didn’t rush off, and a deep, gentle voice came, “Which production room’s survivor are you?”
This voice.
Chu Yian subconsciously looked up, and sure enough, she saw that familiar face.
Lu Qingyuan!
“You seem a little surprised to see me?”
Chu Yian didn’t speak; instead, she turned and ran.
The shadow of Lu Qingyuan’s last major bizarre incident hadn’t passed yet, and she encountered him again on the second day of the new game. Is Teacher Lu a good guy or a bad guy in this round?
Having played so many rounds, Chu Yian had also summarized a basic rule.
If Lu Qingyuan’s face is cold, then his heart is warm — he’s on the good side.
The more gentle Teacher Lu’s expression, the more ruthless his actions — he’s on the bad side.
Moreover, he was wearing a black uniform, making it obvious he belonged to the factory’s faction.
Lu Qingyuan is formidable when he’s on the good side, but even more troublesome when he’s on the villain side. Chu Yian narrowly escaped with her life in the last game, but she didn’t think she could be that lucky every round.
As the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under a tottering wall.
What if Teacher Lu is a high-ranking figure within the factory? There’s no need to provoke him.
Chu Yian was decisive in cutting ties, and in the blink of an eye, she was gone. On the other side, the black-uniformed Administrator still in the cafeteria perked up, looking exceptionally nervous.
“Chairman, why have you come?”
Lu Qingyuan’s eyes swept over the dining trays in the Cafeteria, seeing the food these people were eating, and walked to the cafeteria’s window. His gaze swept over the simple large pot dishes inside, making the kitchen chef in charge of the ladle nervous.
“Is this the work meal you prepare every day?”
“Ye-yes.”
“Do you yourselves eat such food?”
“Chairman…”
The chef in charge and the relevant Administrator still wanted to argue, but Lu Qingyuan didn’t want to hear their nonsense, “Change it starting from the next meal. The relevant people, go to the administrative building.”
The Administrator responsible for this area turned pale upon hearing this.
Even though they had become vampires, they didn’t want to go to that place. Who would have thought that the Chairman would suddenly appear at a small branch Cafeteria, and even be punished for preparing overly simple food for the rations?
With the Cafeteria punished, other Administrators stepped forward.
“Esteemed Chairman, are there any other places you wish to visit?”
“We are ready to guide you at any moment.”
…Meanwhile
Chu Yian put on her work badge and returned to the greenhouse where they worked.
The stench of capitalism permeated every aspect, even the factory in the game had to squeeze out the last drop of surplus value from the workers. The time for lunch and rest in the afternoon was only one hour; at exactly eight o’clock, work resumed promptly.
White lights.
Below was an indoor farm where tomatoes were planted.
The tomato plants had already begun to bear fruit, and occasionally one or two small red tomatoes could be seen. Chu Yian hadn’t eaten enough dinner, and just as she was about to sneak a bite, she suddenly heard the sound of retching nearby.
“Ugh.”
“Ugh—!”
It was the girl who spoke to her this morning who was vomiting.
A puddle of various strange vomit on the ground instantly made Chu Yian lose her appetite, even feeling a bit nauseous. She forced herself to approach the girl, trying to hand her a glass of water, when suddenly Chu Yian noticed her somewhat eerie neck.
Her originally slender neck was swollen.
It seemed as if a huge worm was inside, constantly moving up and down. Because the movement was so great, the skin on the surface of her neck was stretched taut. She seemed to feel the discomfort in her throat herself, swallowing hard.
This scene was eerie and terrifying.
“Axiu, are you alright?”
A voice came, it was her roommate.
When Axiu’s companion arrived, her throat finally returned to normal. She put her hand on her companion’s shoulder, shaking her head with a pale face, “Actually, I’m fine. Maybe tonight’s dinner just didn’t agree with me.”
“That dinner was indeed perfunctory; sooner or later, I’m going to complain about the Cafeteria.”
Her roommate nodded at the remark, saying indignantly. Then she picked up the warm water from a nearby table, “You have a sensitive stomach, drink more water.”
Chu Yian took another look at Axiu.
The strange twisting of Axiu’s neck just now was vivid in her memory, making Chu Yian acutely sense danger. She couldn’t warn these unfamiliar co-workers, nor could she tell the Administrator outside the door.
She stood still for a moment, then picked up her shovel and moved to the farthest position from Axiu.
Burying herself in hard work.
At this moment, in the corridor filled with Administrators, Lu Qingyuan, surrounded by the crowd, stopped outside the production room where Chu Yian was. He stood at the entrance, looking at the real-time indoor surveillance display.
He saw the girl he felt an affinity for in a small corner of the farm, digging soil with a small shovel.
She barely removed any weeds, but she uprooted the crops instead.
Then he saw her fumbling to pick up the plants from the mud, digging a hole with her hands, and replanting them. She looked foolish, completely lacking the cleverness she displayed last night when she secretly ran out and evaded the Fallen Spawn.
But also very cute.
Lu Qingyuan withdrew his gaze and looked at his assistant next to him.
“Is she on this week’s blood feast list?”
The assistant bowed at the question, “This week’s blood feast list was prepared half a month ago.”
“It’s alright, add her.”
Although Chu Yian was far from Axiu, she kept an eye on her at all times.
In just over an hour, Axiu retched twice more.
The dinner that night was terrible, she hadn’t eaten much to begin with, and now she had thrown it all up. However, both times she went to the restroom, and her face became extremely pale afterwards.
She pulled her work uniform collar up to the highest point, completely covering her neck.
She seemed to have noticed the abnormality of her own neck.
However, she didn’t say anything, choosing to hide it instead.
Chu Yian also pretended not to know, but she constantly maintained her distance from Axiu. Finally, at 9:30 PM, quitting time arrived.
She returned to her own dormitory, but as the last person to enter, she didn’t close the dormitory door.
Her roommates had been busy all day, and no one had the energy to care whether the door was closed. Everyone washed up and went to bed. Just as the other three in their dormitory lay down, a sharp scream came from next door.
The sound immediately alarmed the Administrators still patrolling the corridor.
Chu Yian also opened her door a crack, sticking her head out to look at the dormitory next door…
