Free Web NovelChapter 340: Chapter 319: To Think She Treated Him as an Ordinary Dog?
"Li Sheng, what’s wrong? You look troubled."
His roommate looked at Li Sheng. "Did you find a clue or something? We’re roommates, you know. We should share clues. We told you about the ones we found, didn’t we?"
Even as he said this, the man was actually holding back other clues.
"Yeah, Li Sheng, didn’t you go check on the suicide note? Any progress?"
Hearing them ask, Li Sheng felt a bit helpless. "I didn’t find any clues. I just ran into this crazy woman, probably another player."
"Really? No clues?" The two of them clearly didn’t believe what Li Sheng was saying.
As they asked, they exchanged a look, obviously very unsatisfied with his answer.
"I really don’t have anything. I’m only troubled because I ran into that woman."
"What woman? There aren’t any women in this batch of players, are there?" As soon as the words left his mouth, he corrected himself. "No, wait, I think there really is one woman... the crazy one..."
The three of them exchanged a knowing look.
"Li Sheng, the woman you’re talking about... is she really pretty, but acts completely insane?"
Li Sheng nodded quickly. He really couldn’t wrap his head around it. "Yes! That’s her! Do you know what I saw?"
"What did you see?"
"You know that Black Cat, right? The one everyone wants to avoid!"
"I know. I was almost caught by that Black Cat. Nearly died here."
"That woman! She was actually lecturing the Black Cat about a nine-to-five schedule and social benefits! Isn’t that insane? What kind of place is this, and she’s explaining 9-to-5s and benefits?"
Hearing Li Sheng’s words, the other two men’s jaws dropped in shock!
A nine-to-five?
Social benefits?
That’s the ideal work environment for every corporate drone!
But basically, very few of them ever get it!
Most corporate drones work a 996 schedule!
As for social benefits, at least half of all companies don’t offer that package.
That’s just reality.
But that woman was actually explaining this stuff to the Black Cat in this instance?
There’s really no doubt about her mental state!
"You guys think that woman could be a patient from the mental hospital? We’ve never been to the fourth floor, so we don’t know what kind of patients live there. Do you think she could be...?"
After all, every player who comes here cautiously tiptoes around the NPCs, terrified that one wrong move will get them decapitated.
But this woman is doing the exact opposite!
"Oh, right! And that’s not all. The cat actually understood her! It even asked the woman to help it apply for those benefits! How ridiculous is that?!"
Ridiculous!
Outrageously ridiculous!
Their worldview had already shattered when all this mist appeared, but now, another crack had just formed.
The kind that could never be pieced back together.
"If I hadn’t used my only item, I probably wouldn’t have made it back. There was some unlucky wretch hiding behind the first-floor stairs. It came out specifically to team up with that psycho, but the Black Cat tore it in half."
Just thinking about it now made Li Sheng’s skin crawl.
The three of them discussed it and decided they still wanted to verify whether this woman was a player or a patient.
This was a mental hospital, after all.
It was perfectly normal for a patient to think they were a player!
Some patients even thought they were a mushroom, a kitten, or a husky.
From that perspective, thinking you were a player was one of the milder delusions.
But this woman wasn’t normal. Her train of thought couldn’t be judged by ordinary standards, which made verifying anything incredibly difficult!
When this batch of people arrived, they all knew the hospital was recruiting orderlies.
But this woman was the only exception. She didn’t leave at the same time as them, and she wasn’t an orderly, but a janitor.
Li Sheng had actually discovered an important detail: the Black Cat liked to eat dried fish snacks.
But he didn’t tell anyone else this clue.
Even knowing that none of them had any dried fish snacks, he still kept it to himself.
In a place like this, you couldn’t unconditionally trust anyone, not even your allies.
Li Sheng also knew that these two had their own secrets as well.
So, he didn’t feel guilty about hiding this information.
***
Wen Ying followed the Black Cat into the dark corridor. The cat made a strange SHUSHING sound, reminding Wen Ying to be quiet and move silently.
It seemed to be afraid of something.
The Black Cat’s eyes could see in the dark, and so could Wen Ying’s.
So, even in the darkness, neither of them made much noise.
