Can Jiuluoyu Also Work As Customer Service In Wuxianliu? Chapter 10
byZhang Yu habitually messaged the Ghost Painter before going to sleep.
Is the matter proceeding smoothly?
The Ghost Painter replied instantly: Smoothly, returning tomorrow.
Hehehe, I didn’t disturb you, did I?
No disturbance.
An inexplicable itch arose in Zhang Yu’s heart. He found typing tedious, so he sent a voice message: “Tong Wei said the snack cabinet in the Break Room was prepared by you for me?”
Mm.
“Thank you.”
You’re welcome.
“I took a bag of marshmallows, they were sweet. Next time, I’ll wait for you to eat them together.”
Okay.
Zhang Yu lay in bed, rambling to the Ghost Painter about his feelings that day, jumping from one topic to the next without a main thread.
The Ghost Painter listened attentively, replying to him sentence by sentence.
Unknowingly, Zhang Yu drifted off to sleep, waking up the next morning with his phone still clutched in his hand.
After washing up, Zhang Yu felt refreshed and energetic, ready to be a workhorse for another thirty years.
Slinging his backpack on, Zhang Yu was about to leave when he was stopped by his landlord, Tong Guoqiang.
“I’ve already paid the rent, and it’s not due yet. Don’t think about collecting it early,” Zhang Yu instantly went on the defensive.
Tong Guoqiang glared, annoyed: “It’s not about the rent.”
“I’ve also cleaned the apartment. I won’t pay the cleaning fee you set yourself.”
“No, listen to me.”
“Oh.” Zhang Yu looked unconvinced, standing ready for a fight. He had long recognized the old man’s nature—he couldn’t utter a word unless it was to find fault or collect money.
“What company are you working for now?” Tong Guoqiang asked awkwardly.
“A gaming company. What do you want?”
“Well…” Tong Guoqiang’s figure was hunched, unable to straighten up no matter how hard he tried. His hands, covered in layers of peeling skin, rubbed together incessantly. “Can your company find a place in the game to put up an advertisement for me?”
“Huh?”
“I’ll pay.”
Zhang Yu didn’t know if advertisements could be placed in the game, but he knew Tong Guoqiang definitely couldn’t afford much money.
“I don’t know if it’s possible,” Zhang Yu said truthfully. “Even if it is, it must be very expensive. This isn’t as simple as putting up a sign outside the neighborhood supermarket.”
“I understand.” Tong Guoqiang’s cloudy eyes suddenly brightened slightly. “Money is not an issue.”
Is this old man falling for some kind of scam, Zhang Yu wondered, but he patiently asked, “What kind of advertisement do you want to put up?”
“A missing person notice. For my son.”
“It went so smoothly.” Ding Anna boredly picked at her nails, carefully reviewing every detail that happened since entering the Dungeon. There really was nothing unusual.
“Low-level Dungeons are all like this,” a Player next to her, who was bandaging his own wounds, casually chimed in.
“That’s true.”
“Hey, Anna, I heard a new Customer Service representative arrived at the Safe House?”
“Is that so? I don’t know, I’ve never been to the Safe House.” Ding Anna feigned ignorance without any psychological burden. “Who told you? Is it reliable?”
“It should be true. This CS seems to have real skills, much more reliable than the previous bunch. Everyone wants to meet him, but unfortunately, the Safe House is hard to get into.”
Heh.
Ding Anna laughed internally. Quite famous, isn’t he, Little Zhang CS?
“The Dungeon is cleared, so I’ll head out first, Anna. See you next time.”
“Okay, safe travels, Sister. I’ll be leaving soon too.”
Players left one after another, until only Ding Anna and Tong Wei remained.
Tong Wei was busy scavenging the Dungeon, trying to sweep up every hidden point.
If the accident hadn’t happened back then, Tong Wei would be nearing his senior year now, perhaps busy with fall recruitment, Ding Anna thought casually, quickly dismissing the idea.
“Are you done yet?”
“You can leave first.”
“The Dungeon is about to close, and it’s just the two of us…” Ding Anna’s words trailed off abruptly.
The number of Players on the game interface was 3.
Ding Anna didn’t hesitate, immediately pulling out a prop, but someone was faster than her—a long pole sliced through the air, instantly skewering her through.
Blood gushed from her mouth, and her heart rate suddenly became very, very fast.
“Morning, morning, morning.” Zhang Yu looked around, checking repeatedly, only to find that Black Spider was the only one in the company today.
“What are you planning?” Black Spider found it hard to ignore the disappointment on Zhang Yu’s face.
“Speaking of which, have you met our boss?”
Where would such a thing come from? Your colleagues are all Players acting as employees, Black Spider silently thought.
“You’re looking for the boss?”
“Yes, perhaps I have a deal I can discuss with the boss.”
Black Spider: “?”
Zhang Yu explained Tong Guoqiang’s idea to Black Spider. Black Spider shook his head before he even finished: “Can’t be done. This really can’t be done.”
This wasn’t a real gaming company; they didn’t have that function.
“Maybe the boss wants to earn this money?”
“Probably not.”
Mainly because even if he wanted to, he couldn’t.
“Alright then.”
Seeing Black Spider’s certainty, Zhang Yu could only temporarily give up, planning to ask the Ghost Painter about it next time he saw him.
Returning to his desk, Zhang Yu started working.
As he worked, Zhang Yu inexplicably felt sleepy, and he vaguely drifted off at his desk.
In his dream, Zhang Yu heard a roaring noise. He hazily opened his eyes, only to see white mist all around. In the space between heaven and earth, there was only a small, suspended train in front of him.
The train was red, covered in cute drawings, somewhat resembling a tourist train in a scenic area. Many small animals from cartoons were sitting on the train, dressed in various adorable outfits. They could talk and were uniformly waving, signaling Zhang Yu to board.
“Hurry up! We’re only waiting for you.”
“Where are we going?” Zhang Yu asked subconsciously.
“To the fairy tale world, of course.”
“Fairy tale world?” Zhang Yu’s mind was a mess, his consciousness heavy and dull, constantly responding to the little animals.
“Yes, a place without conflict, without pain, a place of eternal happiness.”
There’s such a place?
“Will we go hungry in this happy place?” Zhang Yu asked eagerly.
“Of course not! The fairy tale world has endless food, flying in the sky, swimming in the water. You will enjoy all the delicacies in the world here.”
“What about housing?”
“You will have a very beautiful, large house. Every morning you wake up, you will be greeted by sunlight. Opening the window reveals a huge garden, and in the distance are endless mountains and rivers. Even the pickiest person won’t find a single flaw, and the most critical person will set aside their prejudices here.”
“That good!” Zhang Yu was shocked. This was exactly his dream house. “But I don’t have money. Are you sure you haven’t mistaken me for someone else?”
“This is the fairy tale world, of course it doesn’t cost money,” the little animals on the train said in unison. “We have no money, no rich or poor, no exploitation. Everyone will gain endless happiness.”
“Come on, hurry up, my friend, time is running out!”
Zhang Yu inexplicably boarded the train following the calls.
The little animals on the train enthusiastically pulled Zhang Yu to a seat and began singing a cheerful children’s song.
“Are all the children here? We are leaving now,” the driver turned and asked.
“All here!” the little animals answered in unison.
“Wait!” Zhang Yu suddenly spoke up.
The cheerful atmosphere around him abruptly ceased.
A few fragments suddenly flashed through Zhang Yu’s mind. He urgently said, “I have friends, and I want to take them to the fairy tale world too!”
“Where are your friends?” the animals asked in a strange tone.
“Xichen, Tong Wei, Ding Anna, Black Spider… I want to bring them all,” Zhang Yu named them anxiously. “My landlord is okay too, I guess. Although he’s fierce, his rent is very low, so he’s half a good person. He can come too. Oh, right, his son is missing, so we have to find his son first.”
“…”
After a long silence, the driver said, “We don’t have room for that many people.”
“Can’t we squeeze?” Zhang Yu argued forcefully. “Even a packed subway can still take more people.”
“Next time.”
“No.” Zhang Yu suddenly stood up. “I want to be with everyone.”
No one responded.
Pairs of lifeless eyes stared intently at him.
Zhang Yu didn’t notice the sudden change in the surrounding atmosphere. He inwardly snorted, he wouldn’t go to such a stingy fairy tale world. Thinking this, he simply held onto the door and leaped off the train—
“Whoosh—!”
Zhang Yu suddenly woke up from his dream. He had dreamed of falling from a great height, and the strong sense of weightlessness jolted him awake.
Damn.
How did he fall asleep during work? Luckily, no one saw him.
Close call, close call.
Crack—
The sound of plastic being crushed suddenly rang out. Zhang Yu straightened up and saw a palm-sized toy train had appeared on his desk out of nowhere.
His arm had accidentally pressed down on the train, crushing the body.
Damn it.
Zhang Yu quickly backed away. Who put this on his desk? Would he have to pay for it?
Isn’t this a scam!
Every penny Zhang Yu had was carefully budgeted; he had no budget for compensation.
Zhang Yu panicked, even considering throwing the toy train and its fragments into the Recycle Bin to destroy the evidence.
His remaining rationality stopped him.
Zhang Yu could only find Black Spider, pointing out the wreckage and forcefully shifting the blame: “This isn’t my fault. It was like this when I woke up.”
Black Spider didn’t speak, staring intently at the train wreckage.
Zhang Yu felt uneasy.
Was this cheap-looking toy expensive? Why else would Black Spider have that expression?
No, no, this is just plastic. Why would it sell for a high price?
He absolutely wouldn’t accept that.
Zhang Yu nervously considered all possibilities. Fortunately, Black Spider casually picked up the toy.
“This thing… isn’t expensive, is it?” Zhang Yu asked tentatively.
“It’s free.”
“That’s good, that’s good, haha.”
Zhang Yu wiped his sweat. He knew a plastic toy wasn’t worth much.
Thank goodness.
Black Spider’s mood was far from as relaxed as his words suggested. Zhang Yu didn’t understand, but he recognized immediately that this was the A-rank item, The Free Train Ride.
This item could enter the target’s dreams, lure them, and ultimately take their soul away.
Once someone followed the train in their sleep, their life would be over.
As for where the soul would be taken, outsiders had no way of knowing, but it certainly wouldn’t be a beautiful fairy tale world.
Someone was trying to kill Zhang Yu.
An A-rank item wouldn’t just wander into the Safe House by itself. There must be a little mouse hiding in the dark.
Black Spider walked to the other end of the office with a grim expression. After confirming Zhang Yu couldn’t see him, he crushed the toy train in his hand. The tattoo on his arm suddenly came alive, wriggling like insects, scattering across the floor.
Soon, he found the little mouse.
The little mouse, thinking itself clever, had shrunk its body and was hiding inside the fire hydrant.
Black Spider punched through the glass of the fire hydrant, roughly pulling the Player out, completely unconcerned about whether the glass shards would cut him.
The man caught in his hand was scaled down, now only the size of a water cup. He looked young, around twenty, and was terrified when caught, struggling desperately, but to no avail.
A swarm of black spiders, the size of fingernails, crawled out from Black Spider’s skin, eagerly climbing onto the man.
Soon, the shrunken man was submerged by the spiders. The tiny spiders were densely packed, not only covering every inch of the man’s skin but also completely muffling his screams, preventing them from escaping.
A long time later, the small spiders, full and satisfied, returned the way they came, finally revealing a pale, blue-tinged, dying face.
Seeing that Black Spider had more methods, the man quickly shouted, “I’ll talk, I’ll talk, I’ll tell you everything.”
“It would have been easier if you cooperated earlier, wasting so much of my time,” Black Spider said with dissatisfaction.
The man almost choked. He wanted to cooperate, but Black Spider hadn’t given him a chance to speak at all.
Meanwhile, Zhang Yu, who had pulled himself together and resumed work, received a new task—
Player: Although it sounds unbelievable, we are currently being chased by our own corpses. Please save us!