bookbashuk Chapter 707 The Backstab Came So Quickly
Chapter 707 The Backstab Came So Quickly
"That's what I'm worried about."
Turtle raised its hand and rubbed its temples, feeling a bit of a headache.
Seeing the puzzled look in the short-haired woman's eyes, Dai Mao sighed before continuing:
"Didn't I know that when the Smiling Ones went upstairs to surround Wu Wang, it was a good opportunity?"
"The key point is—I'm worried that he's not trapped, but has already escaped."
"Just like now, not only did they leave, they also dug a huge pit for us."
"The factory has begun to change its previous operating methods."
At this point, the short-haired woman realized what was happening.
Yes! Since the factory has issued such a notice to everyone, it means that the Smilers have not caught anyone at all, and do not even know who is causing trouble upstairs.
The factory decided to use methods other than the Smiler and wristband systems.
It calls on all the employees in the building to help arrest the suspect!
In this situation, if we had actually started plundering other people's wish points, the employees whose wish points were plundered would probably immediately start reporting everyone they had recently contacted if they realized their balance was low.
Then the probability of these players getting caught is very high.
Not only that, but they might also become the unlucky ones who take the blame for Wu Wang.
"But how did he do it? Hundreds of trainees were smiling! How could he escape unscathed? Is he a ghost? He comes and goes without a trace!" The short-haired woman said with some doubt and even resentment.
The people on the hawksbill turtle's side are not yet aware of the talent incubation center, especially the specific situation within the data center.
In their view, even if so many employees stood there with their necks sticking out for someone to chop them up, it would still take a while before they were chopped up.
Wu Wang sneaked in alone!
He had to find something, dodge the smiling people, and still persecute so many employees.
Does this person have three heads and six arms?
Confused, the short-haired woman could only bow her head and obey the tortoiseshell's commands.
It's definitely not the right time to plunder wish points. We need to find a way to regroup and then make a more detailed plan.
The coordinated manhunt by the Smilers did not last long.
After all, the factory is very efficient in this regard, and it cleaned up the entire 49th floor in the shortest amount of time.
Once it was confirmed that the suspect was no longer there, the elevator was immediately restored to normal operation, and the Smilers were once again dispatched to various floors to keep watch.
Moreover, from this moment on, a smiling person will stand next to the floor buttons inside each elevator.
Once inside, simply state the number you want to go to and the smiling staff will press it as quickly as possible.
They ostensibly provide massage services to their employees.
In reality, it involves monitoring the behavior of all employees.
There are smiling people helping to get coffee in the tea room, and even smiling people are standing guard in the restrooms.
As the tortoiseshell had predicted, the factory, realizing the limitations of the bracelet system, gradually began to reduce its reliance on it and started using the most clumsy and unpretentious methods to conduct the search.
Human wave tactics...
Here, people are the least valuable thing.
In the past, machines were used to supervise employees; now, employees are going to replace the monitoring equipment.
These smiling people became human surveillance cameras.
However, the endless surveillance creates an extremely high-pressure working environment.
In the past, employees would work on their own without paying attention to their colleagues, and they were used to this.
But now, no matter what I'm doing, I always feel like someone is watching me from behind.
Whenever you turn around and make eye contact with that unabashedly smiling person, they have to come over and ask if you need help.
This made the employees feel like they were in a pressure cooker, with the pressure building up to the point of exploding.
The factory of desire is unusually silent today.
Everyone was in danger and dared not speak.
Even the long-time employees who were used to factory exploitation and were obsessed with climbing the corporate ladder felt a vague sense of irritability and oppression.
This time, no player used any skills or items to affect them.
Rather, it was the employees' genuine disgust.
After all, people are not machines; they are beings with emotional needs.
Under such pressure, the players couldn't go to their residences immediately, otherwise they would be too easily targeted.
They finally managed to get through the night and, after much effort, managed to avoid the smiling man's gaze and return to their apartment floor.
The crowd gathered at the hawksbill turtle's room.
Not only the players who had already formed an alliance, but also the remaining players who had been hesitant and undecided after contacting Tortoiseshell and Lime also came over.
They were well aware that if they continued to wait and see, they might completely miss the chance to conquer the dungeon.
A choice must be made now!
They either band together for warmth or fend for themselves.
Seeing the players in her room, the tortoise felt a little more at ease.
Aside from the missing Ke Ming and the three idiots who were sent to their deaths.
Besides Wu Wang, whose whereabouts are still unknown.
All the remaining players are here!
She couldn't imagine how they were going to lose!
"What should we do next?" asked a new man wearing a single eye patch.
All eyes turned to the hawksbill turtle.
After a moment of contemplation, she said, "Wu Wang will definitely take action tonight. We need to find him first and figure out what he got from the forty-ninth floor."
After all, before the plan began, this guy had said he would awaken half of the employees on the fourth floor by tomorrow.
Hawksbill was also very curious about what could have enabled him to do this.
if you can……
Perhaps we can seize it and see if it can help us take over the factory.
"Qingning, did anything unusual happen on your end during the day?" Daimao then looked at her friend.
When Wu Wang was causing trouble during the day, he had Qing Ning guard the maintenance passage, which may have had some deeper meaning.
However, Lime simply shook her head and said, "No."
"I didn't leave the maintenance channel until all the Smilers returned to the Talent Incubation Center and a notification popped up on my wristband. I didn't see anything before that. I suspect that kid was just making fun of me."
Upon hearing this, the hawksbill turtle frowned slightly.
She felt that Wu Wang wouldn't randomly assign meaningless guard duty.
That means there's a chance something might happen on the maintenance channel, but Qingning just didn't encounter it during the day.
"What about the fake body?" Turtle looked at the tall man who had argued with him in Wu Wang's house earlier.
The other party is responsible for creating a so-called abnormal group behavior event on the fourth level.
He has a skill that allows him to control other people's bodies in batches, like a marionette, making a certain number of employees perform specific actions simultaneously.
Of course, since the number of employees to be controlled needs to reach a certain scale, even if these employees are all ordinary people, it still puts a considerable burden on his mental strength, so he was also paired with an auxiliary player to help him recover his condition.
The two also took the opportunity to supervise Wu Wang on the fourth floor.
That's right. The reason why the others didn't expect Wu Wang to start his operation at first was because, on the surface, he returned to the fourth floor not long after they started their operation.
He continued working normally at his desk. Even when the Smiler rushed upstairs or when the bracelet sent out notifications, he remained at his desk, responding accordingly.
Upon receiving the news, Dai Mao immediately realized that Wu Wang had already taken advantage of their inattention to pull off a switcheroo.
The real him had already sneaked upstairs.
The tall man shrugged helplessly and said, "Nothing unusual. His avatar has been on the fourth floor all afternoon, working and resting as usual, and hasn't left yet."
"Was he really the one causing trouble upstairs?"
The hawksbill turtle nodded in agreement.
She couldn't imagine who else, besides Wu Wang, would cause such a commotion.
Suddenly, the support player who was working on the fourth floor with the tall man stood up and said something.
He began by saying, "There's nothing wrong with the fake person, but I think there's something wrong with the others."
These words made the hawksbill turtle raise an eyebrow.
She suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Oh? What do you think? Who are the problematic individuals?"
Upon hearing the hawksbill turtle's question, the support player blinked and recalled, saying, "Well... those employees who have been getting close to Wu Wang recently, I guess. The Smiley Ones have been taking turns calling them away for talks, each for about ten minutes."
"After all, it was the Smiler who took them away, so I couldn't follow them to find out what the conversation was about or where it took place."
The tall man next to the support player smiled helplessly.
He patted the other person on the shoulder and said, "Dude, are you too nervous?"
"At least Wu Wang, that bastard, is a key target of the factory's investigation. He's been suspected of causing trouble several times, and we know that."
"Now that such a big thing has happened, even if Wu Wang did indeed use a false identity to create an alibi, isn't it normal for the factory to have someone interrogate those who were close to him?"
The other players nodded in agreement.
Indeed, it's not surprising that being interrogated by the Smiling One for being close to Wu Wang.
Because of this concern, even after forming a temporary alliance, these players avoided having much contact with Wu Wang in public, fearing that they might be targeted by the Smiler.
However, the hawksbill turtle looked thoughtful.
She continued, "Besides that, why do you think there's a problem with being called away?"
It seems that he also felt that his companions made sense, and that he might have been overthinking things.
The support player scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly and said awkwardly, "It's mainly because that smiling person who called them away, I haven't seen her on the fourth floor since, maybe she went to other floors for interrogation."
These words immediately made the hawksbill turtle stand up from its chair.
She stared intently at the other person with her icy gaze, and said, word by word, "You said you never saw them again?"
This dramatic reaction caught the support player off guard, who nodded repeatedly, saying, "Yes...yes."
Then, pointing at the tall man, she asked, "You saw it too, right? On the fourth floor, besides the employees we control, only a few people were being interrogated, and then the smiling woman who interrogated them never appeared again."
The tall man recalled for a moment.
He said thoughtfully, "That's true. There were quite a few smiling people who came to interrogate me back then. I didn't even notice them until you mentioned it."
After all, at that time they had just controlled a group of employees who were inexplicably making all sorts of abnormal behaviors.
On the fourth floor, there were several smiling men who were taking the employees out for questioning.
It's truly remarkable that the support player was so observant; he noticed every single one of the smiling players who came.
boom--
The hawksbill turtle slammed its fist on the table.
His breathing became rapid, and he said through gritted teeth, "We were fooled! We missed our best chance to catch him!"
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
Then, Qingning said incredulously, "Wait a minute, you mean that the smiling woman who came to interrogate you was...?"
“That’s right! She’s definitely Wu Wang in disguise! It might be some kind of skill!” Dai Mao said with certainty. “That bastard probably took action a long time ago with what he found!”
"We're still here foolishly waiting for him to show up so we can find out what's going on."
"He's plotting something big for us behind the scenes!"
Dai Mao never expected Wu Wang's betrayal to come so quickly!
Of course, the main reason was that no one expected that this guy would dare to sneak into the enemy camp and pull off a surprise attack while the Smilers were conducting their investigation.
What exactly did he find that made him dare to do this?
Why bother finding those employees? What can those ordinary people, who work overtime year after year and are sick from exhaustion, do?
The hawksbill turtle is now full of questions.
But without a doubt, if we don't take action soon, Wu Wang might really cause some big trouble again.
"Go! Everyone to the fourth floor, and find a way to capture and question those employees that Wu Wang came into contact with!"
This command startled everyone.
Are you going to just tie them up and interrogate them?
At a time when all employees are under intense surveillance?
Before they knew it, they were being targeted by the Smiling Man!
The hawksbill turtle also saw through everyone's thoughts.
She said with unusual firmness, "You heard me right, now! Let's get started!"
“I have a feeling that what that guy is doing is definitely not conducive to taking over the factory.”
“He has already gained a time advantage of several hours. If we don’t act now, it may be too late.”
"We have to take this risk!"
After saying that, the tortoiseshell led the way towards the door; she was about to return to the fourth floor!
The other players hesitated slightly upon seeing this.
But in the end, I gritted my teeth and kept up.
If what the tortoiseshell said is true, the one who is really pressed for time is not the guy who is wanted by the entire factory, but the players who want to achieve final victory.
The most crucial point is that after that bastard Wu Wang got his hands on the stuff, he didn't tell them how to safely get through the Great Purge!
The factory will indeed be delayed a lot due to the current situation.
I reckon it will definitely take a few days.
But eventually, the data model for the massive cleanup will still be created, and the players will have no idea what the model is based on for the selection.
At that time, they will likely find it difficult to escape, as they will be completely unprepared.
So, either take over the factory before the big cleanup begins.
We either have to catch that guy, snatch what he has, and figure it out!
Now, between the factory and these players, whoever catches the real Wu first will win!
However, while the players were frantically rushing downstairs...
The expressions of Lao Fan, Tie Jian, Wen Xiaolou, and other employees who had been in contact with Wu Wang were unusually complicated.
They are inside the elevator.
Under the unwavering gaze of the smiling person beside him, he headed up to the floors of other office areas.
However, compared to the normal smiles when monitoring other employees, the smiles of all those who were smiling now seemed unusually cold when they looked at them, as if they were looking at a corpse or a commodity.
There is no other reason.
It was simply because all of these employees' wristbands displayed a new notification that had appeared several hours earlier—
You have been added to the 'Inefficient Asset List'.
Please report to the talent incubation center within 24 hours.
We will provide you with new training to ensure the smooth completion of your subsequent work.
Your life will restart at this moment. (End of Chapter)