The fat man looked at the two of them helplessly. He didn't understand why the two of them always had something to say.
Seeing the two people sitting relaxedly on the sofa, Fatty couldn't help it anymore: "Boss, they are all former employees...can we save them?"
He pointed to the bedroom closet.
Cheng Ye looked over and sighed.
"It should be possible, right?" Cheng Ye was not confident either. He turned to look at Wei Sheng'an: "Currently, there are two experimental groups. One is for testing drugs, and the other is for mutations. Those who have mutated to the extreme are still alive. Just start testing the medicine, and those who fail to test the medicine will continue to mutate, and this cycle is endless."
A trace of unbearability flashed in the fat man's eyes: "That would be an endless hell for them."
"So we have to quickly lift this curse and clear the dungeon." Cheng Ye glanced at Wei Sheng'an with a pointed look.
Wei Sheng'an huddled lazily on the sofa, as if he were at home. Hearing these words, he slowly sat up straight and said in a lazy tone: "Let's go, let me go and see the clean office."
Cheng Ye stood up immediately.
Someone is using their brains, why not?
As he left, he slowed down a bit and looked at the closet again.
Wei Sheng'an guessed Cheng Ye's thoughts: "Those medicines are not effective enough."
It just adds to their suffering.
Cheng Ye lowered his eyes.
Let’s unlock the mission first.
They soon arrived at the Ministry of Information.
Cheng Ye asked Fatty to hold his employee badge, and then asked Wei Sheng'an to hold the manager's employee badge while he stood in the corridor.
"I've searched inside and found nothing new."
"In order not to affect your thinking, you should see it alone first."
Wei Sheng'an said nothing.
Although thanks to his past experience, he has grasped a little bit of the answer, he is not sure that this is the final answer.
He remembered what Cheng Ye said.
There should be 84 workstations, but only 63 people were seated.
It's past seven in the morning and it's just dawn, but all the employees are already here.
He glanced over and saw that it was indeed full of people.
Is this similar to the forced setting caused by the number of people in the book when I was in the book?
Make those people invisible.
…
Cheng Ye was leaning against the wall outside the door. Although he didn't go in, his brain was still running at high speed.
He always remembered that this copy wanted to tell him that he could see different things from his perspective.
Thanks to this rule, he discovered a lot of things.
So he vaguely guessed that those employees had to put himself in the same position as them before they could know the real secret.
He has to have the same perspective as them.
Maybe it would be possible to see them only if he also lost his identity.
Maybe after Wei Sheng'an finishes his observation, he will take the risk.
…
Cheng Ye didn't wait long, Wei Sheng'an came out in about twenty minutes.
Fatty also came out at the same time, with a confused expression on his face and various emotions about Wei Sheng'an.
Wei Sheng'an's first words were: "I discovered a very special place."
Cheng Ye: "Talking while walking."
Although no one will come here during working hours, safety is still the first priority.
The three people came to the administrative corridor on the 30th floor.
I found a remote corner and sat down.
The fat man spoke first, with a look on his face as if a bullied child was complaining to his parents: "Just now he asked me to walk back to my seat from the door more than ten times."
Cheng Ye looked at Wei Sheng'an in confusion.
Wei Sheng'an ordered a drink and asked the fat man casually: "Do you have any objections?"
The fat man shrank his head and said nothing.
Wei Sheng'an smiled: "I seem to have seen those people who disappeared."
Cheng Ye was shocked.
"The word "seen" is not very accurate. It should be said that I sensed them."
"They are still staying in that office, even sitting at the workstation." Cheng Ye suddenly understood what Wei Sheng'an meant.
This explains why there are 84 workstations, but they seem to be full.
"Well... when I was about to observe, I happened to find that when the fat man returned to his work station, he would deliberately go to the other side every time, as if to avoid something."
Cheng Yetong's hole was slightly enlarged.
I have said it countless times that his memory is very good.
As soon as Wei Sheng'an said these words, he remembered that when the fat man went to his seat that day, he seemed to have avoided something.
At that time, Cheng Ye didn't take it seriously. He thought the fat man might be too fat and avoided hitting the table.
But now that I think about it, I’m not afraid of bumping into people all the way. Why do I have to go around when I’m about to reach my seat?
"You mean, they still exist, but they can't be seen?" Cheng Ye asked.
"You shouldn't be able to touch it, but your body will instinctively avoid it. Just like if there is an inconspicuous pebble in front of you, you will step over it without deliberately stepping on it."
"It should be that although you can't see it, you feel something in your body?"
"Isn't that part of your guess about employee tags? People who lose their employee tags lose their identity, so they can't be seen."
Wei Sheng'an continued.
"But the mission is not completed." Cheng Ye said immediately.
If this guess is correct, then he is done with the secret regarding the missing employee.
Both parts are clear.
But it was precisely because the task had not been completed after he fully described the secret of the disappearance of another part of the employees that he gave up this speculation.
Because it is already very clear why the employees who were taken away by Ruskin for the experiment disappeared.
They were taken to be tested.
"Is it possible that Ruskin deliberately recruited these employees with whom he has no close relationship, creating an opportunity for the rules to be exploited?" Fatty remembered that Cheng Ye had said that this might be a new rule, so he guessed.
Cheng Ye frowned.
Wei Sheng'an said softly: "What if you guessed it right?"
Cheng Ye looked at him.
Wei Sheng'an continued: "What if your guess is correct, but it's just not complete enough?"
Cheng Ye suddenly realized that Wei Sheng'an meant that there was nothing wrong with his guess, but he still lacked the conditions. An incomplete answer was not a correct answer.
Just like x>y does not equal x≥y.
So, there is one last condition left.
Wei Sheng'an nodded. This time, he really guessed it.
Because he has also experienced that kind of loneliness firsthand.
The loneliness of being abandoned by the whole world.
It seems like I am the only one left, everyone else is just data, and no one knows my loneliness.
Cheng Ye fell into deep thought, and the waiter quickly brought the watermelon juice Wei Sheng'an ordered.
Wei Sheng'an bit her straw. It was ten o'clock in the morning.
The sun was shining brightly, indicating another beautiful day.
This is just the right time to start a new mission.
He believed in Cheng Ye's strength.
As long as he finishes summarizing the secrets of the missing employees, they can enter the next stage of the copy.
Cheng Ye thought about all the details from entering the dungeon to now, and he suddenly understood it completely.
He said word for word: "Those who lose their employee cards will lose their identity, but there is no desperate situation in the rules. They can also seize other people's identity cards."
"So my guess is actually correct, but the cause and effect is reversed."
"Fatty and I once experimented. Qin Bangming only recognizes people based on their employee badges, and the same goes for other employees. I am the manager with the white employee badge."
"So the employee badge is very important, it is a representation of identity."
The conversation changed.
"Qin Bangming is one of the first people to enter the company, but he has not disappeared so far, and he even knows about his disappearance."
After saying this, Cheng Ye paused and smiled bitterly.
He originally thought Qin Bangming was clingy and noisy, but he didn't expect that this was the reason why he was alive until now.
It's because he seems to have a lot of friends around him.
Ruskin's experiment did not choose him first, and the rules did not choose him.
People who can be judged as non-existent by the rules are those who have no intention of living, have no friends, no social interaction, and zero sense of social existence.
They have no meaning of existence anymore.
"It's because he wants to survive."
"The other group of people disappeared because they no longer had anything to do with this world."
"They have lost the last thing that can be proven to exist in this world - the employee card."
"The employee badges are lost, and the role of shelter no longer exists. They have truly become marginalized figures that no one knows or remembers."
"That's the real secret behind employees disappearing."
"They have been abandoned by this world. Even if they disappear, no one will care. No one will remember them, even in the company..."
Cheng Ye turned his face sideways and looked out the window at the dense crowd of people downstairs.
Because they sit high enough, those walking look like ants.
Just as weak, just as humble, just as insignificant.
Cheng Ye felt helpless and out of breath.
The disappearance of employees turned out to be such a tragic fact.
Because no one cares, no one knows, and in the end the meaning of existence is completely erased.
Wei Sheng'an also looked out the window, a trace of sadness flashed through his brown eyes.
This was what he vaguely guessed at the beginning.
He felt like he was in the book at that time. Because he was the protagonist, many people were paying attention to him, so he had a lot of privileges.
And those characters who appear like cannon fodder have no names, just like a flash in the pan.
These employees, who had a low sense of existence and no close relationships, finally one day completely lost their social identity.
However, that day was the day the employee card was lost.
Fatty understood the secret of the employee’s disappearance.
Although he didn't know what Cheng Ye and Wei Sheng'an were looking at, he felt a little sad.
He thought for a moment and said, "Boss, I'm a little hungry, but I don't want to eat from the cafeteria."
With Cheng Ye's description, he successfully understood what the food in the cafeteria was like.
Although Cheng Ye said again and again, the food in the cafeteria on the fourth floor was fine.
Cheng Ye's wandering thoughts were interrupted, and he came to his senses: "Let's go, there is a shopping mall opposite, let Wei Sheng treat us."
Wei Sheng'an didn't have any objections. His status... was indeed rich.
The three people walked towards the outside of the building.
The warm sunshine shines evenly on everyone without favoring anyone.
After blending into the crowd, Cheng Ye felt particularly ironic.
Although they may have seemingly good jobs, they are actually being squeezed out of their jobs. They don’t have enough to eat every day. They go to bed later than a dog and wake up earlier than a chicken.
But just like that, in the struggle to survive, I lost my identity.
There is less and less contact with the world, no friends, no social interaction, no private time, and I gradually lose myself.
Cheng Ye and his group were preparing to cross the road.
Suddenly, the eldest lady at the newsstand called Cheng Ye: "Why don't you come to my place to buy sausages recently?"
Cheng Ye stared at the eldest sister, and suddenly a memory belonging to the original owner flooded into his brain.
Cheng Yetong's eyes twitched slightly, smiled, and said sheepishly: "Oh, I've been too busy recently."
The eldest sister was not surprised, but said with relief: "Work is important, and so is your health. When you are fine, just call home more often."
Cheng Ye didn't know why, but he said, "I have no family anymore."
The eldest sister was stunned for a moment, then Zhuan'er quickly and skillfully inserted a sausage: "Come on, let me treat you to eat. You kid, you have to live a good life even if you are alone, you know?"
Cheng Ye said nothing.
Just took the sausage.
The image of the original owner echoed in his mind.
The original owner came to this company to find his sister and worked overtime until late at night every day. He had no time to do his own thing, let alone find his sister.
One day after get off work, he saw the proprietress of the newsstand moving goods alone.
Although few people read newspapers now, few people have time to buy a book.
But she still runs the newsagent.
Originally, the original owner was supposed to go home that day, but he didn't know why he stopped.
When he saw the lady boss working hard to move the goods, he stepped forward to help.
Later, the proprietress told him why she insisted on opening this newsstand.
Because she wanted to give the employees here home from get off work some cheap food late at night.
What she buys is food that is filling, healthy and inexpensive.
Her daughter finally died of stomach cancer because she had irregular meals all year round.
She wishes she could help more children her daughter's age.
Her grilled sausages are sold extremely cheaply, with only three Samsung coins apiece, excluding water and electricity rent, so she is actually selling them at a loss.
She buys the best quality sausages.
And from that night on, the original owner would always eat a piece of human warmth in the desolate night.
Chat with the boss lady occasionally.
He knew that this was not only filling his stomach, but also a part of the boss's wife's heart.
The memory ends here.
Cheng Ye suddenly understood why the landlady stopped him that day. It turned out that everything was planned.
Cheng Ye suddenly turned around and asked Wei Sheng'an: "You said you felt they were still there, right?"
Wei Sheng'an realized that Cheng Ye was pointing to the missing employees, and he nodded: "Although they can't be touched or seen, they should be."
Cheng Ye laughed happily this time.
Maybe, this is the meaning of his coming to this copy.
He will save them, and he will give them the meaning of existence again.
The group of people walked towards the opposite side of the road.
[Ding, after testing, task one has been completed. 】
[Ding, team announcement, all team members can hear it. 】
[After testing, the team has been reunited. Tasks 1 and 2 of the team members have been completed. Task 3 is now released: rescue. 】
[Please do not waste too much time on NPCs. I wish all players successfully complete their main missions. 】
[Wish players a happy game. 】
(Task completed)
ps: Next volume, rescue.
The perspective ends here.
