Chapter 583: The Haunted Power Company (Part 3)

In the public area of ​​the Ghost Power Company, there are some wall-mounted flat-screen TVs everywhere. On those TVs, a company promotional video is played all day long.

The content is roughly...

[Ghost Power Company, we will always reach new heights! We make your car start, make your home warm, light up the city you live in, and accompany you every day...] Along with the narration, the promotional video also plays various corresponding popular science illustrations, [We have the best scaring employees in the entire monster kingdom. In the scaring house, the humans who are teleported will experience suffocating horror, and high-quality fear will be converted into continuous and stable energy for your use! ]

[We know that human fear psychology is getting weaker and weaker, and their courage is getting bigger and bigger. But we are brave enough to accept future challenges! Our company has the most scary employees, the best power generation equipment, and has started to develop new energy technologies. We... are the Ghost Power Company! we_scare! because_we_care! ]

In the lounge of the company's security department, Ruoyu watched the above promotional video of several minutes with an expressionless face.

"Basically, it uses the setting of Monsters, Inc. (an animated film produced by Pixar)..." This is Ruoyu's impression after watching the movie.

Buzz——

Just at this moment, the door of the room opened.

A slender female monster walked in from the outside. Her body was humanoid and she was wearing a capable black suit. There were more than ten eyes of different sizes on her face. She had no ears or nose, but she had a mouth...

"Hello, ma'am." The multi-eyed monster showed a professional and calm temperament. She walked slowly to the table and chairs in the lounge, raised her hand to signal Ruoyu, and said, "Let's sit down and talk."

Ruoyu nodded slightly. She walked over silently and sat down.

The multi-eyed monster sat opposite her and then said, "Let me introduce myself. I am Duomu, the manager of the security department."

"You can call me Siyu." Ruoyu replied in her usual tone.

"Okay, Ms. Siyu." Duomu said, "Let's get straight to the point..." Her eyes (all eyes) changed slightly, and she continued, "You are a traveler from another world, right?"

Ruoyu thought for a moment and replied, "Yes."

"Well... As expected." Duomu continued, "Our Monster Kingdom... has long had rumors about you. The form is similar to urban legends."

"A ghost with more than a dozen eyes actually said that I am an urban legend..." Ruoyu couldn't help but complain in her heart, but on the surface she still replied calmly, "Then you must know something about us."

"Yes, but rumors are just rumors after all, most of them are very one-sided and difficult to distinguish between true and false." Duomu replied, "After all... We are just an electric power company, not a law enforcement agency of the kingdom. So, I am also considering... whether to hand you over to the relevant departments."

"No. You have already considered it." Ruoyu immediately cast a sharp look at the other party, "Or rather, your superiors have made up their minds." She interlaced her fingers and rested her elbows on the table. She leaned forward slightly, pretending to be confident (actually imitating Feng Bujue), stared at Duomu and said, "The communication you are having with me at this moment is essentially a negotiation. You really want to get information from me, but you don't know what conditions to use in exchange. Therefore, you start with the question of 'whether to hand me over to the relevant departments'. To put it bluntly... it is a threat to my personal freedom and safety." She snorted coldly, "Unfortunately... your negotiation strategy is wrong."

"Oh? Why?" Duomu pretended to be calm.

"Because... if we want, we can leave your world at any time." Suddenly, another voice came from the wall on one side of the room, "Death... is just a way to leave."

Before the voice fell, the upper half of the wall began to glow faintly, and gradually faded until it became a piece of transparent glass.

Across the glass was a dark room. At this time, two people stood side by side in the dark room, one was the boss of the Haunted Power Company - Freddy Gogue (the classic villain in the horror film series "A Nightmare on Elm Street"), and the other was Feng Bujue.

"Why did you go there?" Ruoyu turned to look at Brother Jue and asked directly, she knew that he could hear her.

"Ah... I just arrived a few minutes earlier than you." Feng Bujue replied with a smile.

He raised his hands while speaking. Ruoyu then realized that Brother Jue had a pair of handcuffs on his wrists.

"Mr. Feng, you promised not to interfere with their conversation, so I allowed you to listen in with me in the observation room." Freddy turned his head and looked at Brother Jue and said, "Why don't you keep your promise?"

"The negotiations are over, can't you see it?" Feng Bujue tilted his head and replied with a mocking face, "My companion has seen through your strategy from the beginning and has seen through your bottom line. And you still know nothing about her, and she won't tell you anything... Therefore, continuing is just a waste of time."

"Ha..." Freddy heard this and sighed deeply. The next second, he waved his hand, and the wall between the two rooms turned into green light and dissipated.

"Are you okay?" When Ruoyu saw the wall disappear, she immediately stood up and walked towards Feng Bujue.

"Don't worry." Brother Jue replied with a smile, and immediately raised his hand. The next second, the iron handcuffs on his wrists broke with a sound.

Seeing this scene, Ruoyu felt relieved and gave up the idea of ​​​​rescuing by force.

But after Freddy and Duomu saw this, their expressions changed. The former even took two steps back nervously, putting a little distance away from Feng Bujue, and then said: "Mr. Crazy...it seems you are hiding something secret..."

"Ha..." Feng Bujue smiled at the other party, "I didn't resist when the handcuffs were put on, just to express my sincerity in cooperating." He paused, and a trace of ferocity flashed in his eyes, "Break it off now, then I want to tell you that if you want to resort to force, I will accompany you to the end."

"I see..." Freddy muttered in a deep voice, "I'm sorry, I was a little rude just now."

As a highly intelligent horror movie villain, Freddy almost instinctively senses danger from Brother Jue. This alien traveler of unknown origin is moody and unpredictable. And there was no trace of panic or fear from beginning to end, as if everything was under control... Faced with such an opponent, Freddy naturally did not dare to be careless in the slightest.

"It doesn't matter." Feng Bujue spread his hands and replied easily, "At least... from now on, we can discuss cooperation matters in a more equal way."

"The cooperation you are referring to is..." Freddy tentatively said.

"You, all the personnel of Menggui Electric Power Company... cooperate with my team." Feng Bujue replied, "Let's deal with the 'real intruder' together."

"What's that?" Freddie asked again.

"That was your catastrophe..." Feng Bujue instantly put on a solemn look, "I have a piece of reliable information, right at this moment. There is a very powerful person who is half a dimension higher than you. A humanoid life form has come to this universe, and... is lurking in your company." He and Freddy looked at each other for two seconds, observing the changes in each other's expressions, "I don't know him yet. / Her gender and name, but... I can tell you that his/her race is called 'derivatives', which is an extremely dangerous group for you, they have the ability to get close to gods... ..." Brother Jue said, raising his finger and pointing at Duomu, "For example, with her strength..." A few black data streams flashed through his eyes, "...it's very possible. Directly controlled by the derivative, becoming a puppet that obeys every word.”

"You'd better have some basis for what you say!" Duomu immediately retorted in a fierce tone. This is also strange, no matter who listens to such words. Everyone will feel annoyed.

"Haha... I'm just giving you an example." Feng Bujue's face changed faster than flipping through a book, and in the blink of an eye he changed into a warm smile, "Please don't take it off."

the other side. Freddy thought for a while, then touched his ulcerated chin and asked, "Do you have any evidence... to support your statement?"

"Not yet, but..." Feng Bujue replied, "By the time you get tangible evidence, I'm afraid it will be too late..."

"With all due respect, Mr. Crazy," Freddy continued, "I can't completely believe you."

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe me for the time being." Feng Bujue had already guessed this outcome. "Right now, I happen to have another thing to do. If you can allow me, through this matter, I can express myself further. My sincerity.”

"Oh?" Freddy asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?"

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Five minutes later, the company's underground garage.

"I've told you everything I know! Don't do this! I just want to go home!" Edward, who was kneeling on the ground, had already told you his birthday and horoscope, and was just short of revealing his dark history of lifting girls' skirts in elementary school. But the three players still had no intention of letting him go.

"How's it going?" Juanmeng asked, still looking at Xiaoling. For some reason, he seemed to regard Xiao Ling as the talker here.

"Well...it seems that there is really nothing to ask." Xiao Ling thought thoughtfully.

From the time Edward was captured to now, a total of just over ten minutes had passed. During this period of time, Xiao Ling had already systematically asked for all the valuable information the other party knew, and successfully mastered some basic world views of the Monster Kingdom.

"But there is still something... very strange." Tanlang said.

"Yeah..." Xiao Ling also nodded and murmured, "Why hasn't the main mission been triggered yet..."

[Uh-huh, hey hey~ Can you hear me? 】Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded on the radio in the parking lot.

In fact, it wasn't just the parking lot... Feng Bujue's voice could be heard throughout Menggui Electric Power Company.

[I am Feng Bujue, I am with Xiyu now. Everyone on the front lines of hell, and... Juan Meng Huan, Greedy Wolf, you two, listen up. Brother Jue said through the radio, "Please go find a security guard nearby immediately and ask him to take you to the company's security department." ] He paused for two seconds and then said, [You should have noticed that the main mission has not been released until now. I can tell you clearly that this is caused by derivatives. ] The second half of what he said sounded completely different to NPCs, because it has been blocked and transformed by the system. [You all still remember the core content of the v1.10 patch - in the new version, the number of people entering is After completing the nightmare difficulty team script for six people, there will be a 0.2% chance of encountering a derivative. Right now, we just met. 】

At this point, the players who heard this broadcast have basically confirmed that this is not a trap. Because... it is possible that the NPC in the script pretends to be a player to broadcast, but they will never say lines like v1.10 patch. Moreover... Feng Bujue's unique tone is indeed difficult to imitate.

[It's less than half an hour since the script started, and the data of the derivative is probably not yet formed. However... I can conclude that we have encountered a very powerful character this time, so that the plot of the script itself has been affected. ] Brother Jue continued, [If I am not mistaken, when the complete body of the derivative is generated, the prompt of the main task will sound, and it must be a task directly related to the derivative. ] He sighed, [In short... the system is also waiting now, ready to make arrangements according to the situation. So... we'd better hurry up and prepare early. ]

Speaking of this, he felt that it was almost done, so he added a sentence at the end: [In short, please come as soon as possible, and we will talk about the specifics when we meet. ]

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At the same time, the security department, the main control room

"Okay, I'm done." Feng Bujue turned off the microphone button and turned back to say to Freddy.

"Then... let's wait and see." Freddy put his hands on his hips and looked at the many surveillance screens in front of him.

"Bujue." At this time, Ruoyu, who had been standing in the back and remained silent, suddenly said to Brother Jue, "Xiao Tan may not be able to come."

"Huh? What's wrong?" Feng Bujue took a glance at the game menu when he answered, "He is still surviving?"

"I don't know about others, but he definitely didn't hear the broadcast." Ruoyu answered.

"How did you know?" Brother Jue asked.

"Ah..." Ruoyu sighed, raised her right hand, and pointed to her right side with her index finger.

Feng Bujue looked in the direction of her finger, and his sight quickly stopped at a small screen in the corner of the room.

At this moment, the screen was playing such a scene... There was a square room, in the corner of the room, there was a dressing table and a chair. On the chair, a woman in red was sitting, combing her hair in front of the mirror slowly. In the other corner of the room, there was a man (sigh). He was squatting in the corner, his arms around his knees, staring at the woman combing her hair with sweat all over his face, not even daring to breathe. (To be continued...)