Director Jin seemed to have figured it out.
“A seer, huh? A seer.”
His voice was muffled into a heavy blur by the door.
“You can’t exactly say her useless, since her prophecies do make sense every time. As for accuracy, maybe not a hundred percent, but she can manage eighty or ninety.”
“Ha. The control room and the router.”
Director Jin let out a derisive laugh and shook his head.
According to the 【connectors】 search results reported by his subordinates, those two keywords were indeed correct.
The Hunter had said that there were ten connectors in total, and six had yet to be found.
The four they had discovered were indeed related to the control room and the router.
But the problem was…
“If you’re talking about the accuracy of her predictions, sure, they’re precise enough. But as for the process, she gets everything completely wrong.”
The Seer had told them to go straight to the control room and the router and guard them.
But the problem had never been with those two places. She could not even tell where the instance would descend, much less figure out the order in which the instance and the 【connectors】 had appeared.
She had thought the instance would descend later. In reality, it had arrived early as a fishing trap, catching everyone completely off guard!
If only the Seer’s prophecy had been a little more accurate, Jin Rongxu would not have ended up in such a state.
Director Jin thought of that humiliating video of Jin Rongxu crying and felt exhausted.
He shook his head and let out another cold laugh.
“She looks at things like a high school student answering a math fill-in-the-blank question. She gets the answer right, but the entire process is fucking wrong!”
Zhu Yan nearly laughed when he heard that.
Hmm…
Perhaps the process had been right in a tiny way too. It was just that Director Jin definitely wouldn’t realize it anytime soon.
By the time he did, the public-beta instance would have fully descended.
“Lower the Seer’s classification and benefits by two levels. As far as I’m concerned, it makes no difference whether she’s here or not.”
“She’s no different from those fortune-tellers of old. She’s only there to give people peace of mind.”
The people below all lowered their heads in silent understanding. Apart from the middle-aged man answering with a “Yes,” no one else said a word.
Director Jin was silent for a while before suddenly speaking again. “That young man named Zhu Zeyu did a decent job. He can be assigned to a more important post.”
Outside, Zhu Yan pricked up his ears.
Excellent. This was exactly what he had been waiting for. His carefully planned performance had not gone to waste.
“As for the specifics, discuss them among yourselves,” Director Jin said. “After this incident, we’re short-handed. Apart from guarding the office, arrange patrols yourselves.”
“Be thorough. Don’t overlook a single corner!”
“If the Hunter comes back for revenge, we’ll all be finished!”
…
Zhu Yan and Yang Zhanbai stood outside the meeting room for a full hour.
In the end, Yang Zhanbai was sent to patrol the testing hall, while Zhu Yan hid inside the puppet and followed Captain Zheng downstairs as the meeting dispersed.
“Director Jin said you did a good job,” Captain Zheng said, patting him on the shoulder. “Young man, you have a bright future ahead of you.”
Zhu Yan hurriedly replied, “Then I’ll have to trouble you to look after me, Captain Zheng.”
He seized the opportunity and tried to steer the conversation toward his work assignment.
“Captain, my duties haven’t changed, have they? I’m still watching over Director Jin’s office?”
Only Zhu Yan knew that the real 【connector】 had not yet been installed.
He needed to have his work location moved closer to the control room. Patrolling the dormitory would work too.
That way, the chances of successfully installing the 【connector】 would increase considerably, and he could occasionally come by to check on it.
“It might change.” Captain Zheng smiled. “After something like this, we’ll definitely have to work hard for a while and patrol everywhere.”
Zhu Yan thought for a moment. “Didn’t Director Jin emphasize the control room and the router? Do we still need to keep an eye on them?”
“Not necessarily. The Seer’s prophecy isn’t that accurate. Once our people find all the connectors, there won’t be much left to do at those two locations.”
What a perfect opportunity.
Zhu Yan seized the opening without hesitation and made his request.
“Then, Captain, can I patrol those two places?” He scratched his head awkwardly. “Heh-heh, Captain, you know I sleep a lot every day. I, uh… I’d like to slack off a little.”
Captain Zheng did not mind that Zhu Zeyu was being so honest.
On the contrary, Zhu Zeyu had performed far too brilliantly over the past few days, which had begun to make him feel a little threatened.
If the young man wanted to slack off, that was actually perfect.
“Sure, go ahead.” He waved his hand with a smile. “I’ll put you on a team with someone else starting tonight.”
…
Everything went fairly smoothly.
Over the next twenty-four hours, Zhu Yan hid inside Zhu Zeyu’s body and went through his routine as usual.
The dormitory remained peaceful, and the working hours were reasonable enough to ensure that he could sleep a comfortable ten hours every day.
The only problem was that his mealtimes were less regular on the second day because of the patrols and shift changes.
He looked up at the wall clock. It was already half past two in the afternoon.
The cafeteria auntie bent down, took out the last lunch box from the bottom of the insulated container, and handed it to him.
“I told you,” she muttered. “The meals are counted out in fixed portions. How could I possibly have made a mistake?”
Zhu Yan caught the fragrant aroma of barbecued pork.
He gave the auntie a polite smile, but when he turned around, he saw Yang Zhanbai waving at him.
“Hey, Zhu Zeyu!”
Zhu Yan carried his lunch box over and discovered that Yang Zhanbai, who was usually such a big eater, was behaving very strangely today.
The barbecued pork in front of him—in fact, the entire lunch box—had not been touched.
“What’s wrong?”
Yang Zhanbai looked like he was about to throw up.
“Fucking hell, that goddamn Hunter,” he cursed. “I covered Guan En’s shift today and continued looking for the connectors the Hunter left behind.”
“Do you know how well that bastard hid them? My god! We had to find ten tiny little things in twenty-four hours. Guan En just couldn’t find two of them no matter what he did, so I took over.”
Which two?
Zhu Yan immediately became interested. “Did you find them?”
“We did,” Yang Zhanbai said. “One of them was in the squat toilet… itself. Ugh. I don’t even want to imagine how he put it in there.”
Zhu Yan fell silent.
“Fortunately, everyone can finally relax a little.” Yang Zhanbai sighed. “I think the Seer’s gone crazy. Director Jin announced that the crisis was over, and she kept rushing toward his office in a panic. Unfortunately, she couldn’t even get into the elevator.”
Zhu Yan smiled.
“Oh, right. So, Zhu Zeyu, how are things over by the router?”
For the moment, Zhu Yan naturally had no intention of doing anything.
The public-beta instance would not descend for another half a month, and the real 【connector】 needed at least a week to take effect.
There was only one real 【connector】. He could either place it in the control room or by the router in the communal dormitory.
But the Seer lived in the communal dormitory.
Zhu Yan knew how unfair things had been to her, so he absolutely did not dare place the 【connector】 somewhere she might be able to reach.
He would wait another week. That would give him time to rest and allow Director Jin’s nerves to relax completely.
A week later, he would swagger into the control room and stuff the real 【connector】 inside!
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