Chapter 32

Invitation

Boss?

Chao Musheng turned his head and saw Mr. Xu standing at the corner of the corridor, wearing a light silver-gray shirt, the diamond on his tie clip shining brightly.

The boss has so many tie clips, and they are so shiny.

"Hello, Mr. Xu."

"Hello, Student Xiao Zhao." Xu Chenzhu walked up to Chao Musheng. He glanced at the transfer letter of intent in Chao Musheng's hand: "The software development team leader stayed in my office for a long time today, insisting on transferring you to his team no matter what."

"But your wishes are still the main priority." Xu Chenzhu opened his palm, revealing a lollipop inside.

Orange packaging with a chubby kitten on it. When Chao Musheng was under great study pressure, he liked to hold this candy in his mouth and crunch it loudly.

Chao Musheng looked at the candy in Xu Chenzhu's palm, then at the other's gentle eyes, reached out and took it into his pocket: "Thank you, Mr. Xu."

He is a mature college student now. It's not good to eat candy in front of the company boss and secretary.

Seeing Chao Musheng pocket the candy smoothly, Mr. Xu withdrew his hand and slowly lowered his eyelids: "There is a dinner party tonight. The software development team leader will also be there. You come with us. If you have any ideas, you can communicate with him in advance."

A dinner party even the boss attends must be a gathering of Kunlun's senior management. Is it appropriate for him, an intern who just joined the company, to go along?

Before Chao Musheng could decide whether to refuse, Secretary Liu spoke first: "It's great to have you, Xiao Zhao. Every time we gather, I hear them bragging about what talents they have discovered, and my ears are getting calloused. Now with you here, the situation can be reversed. I want to take you there and brag big time!"

Hearing Secretary Liu's words, Chao Musheng turned to look at Xu Chenzhu. Do you Kunlun senior management have such hobbies?

"En." A smile appeared in Xu Chenzhu's eyes: "I don't like to talk. With you here, Secretary Liu can relax a lot."

"Yes, yes, yes." Secretary Liu nodded vigorously.

It's not that you don't like to talk. Usually, you are not even present at senior management dinners.

"Then I'll take the liberty to disturb you." At this point, it would be inappropriate for Chao Musheng to decline again.

"Not a disturbance." Secretary Liu opened the CEO's exclusive elevator. He waited sideways for Xu Chenzhu and Chao Musheng to enter the elevator before pressing the button for the third basement floor: "Boss, I'll go notify Brother Ma to drive."

"He is on leave today. Change the driver." Xu Chenzhu looked at the reflection diagonally ahead in the elevator and stroked his gloved left hand.

Secretary Liu: "Okay, boss."

An hour ago, he saw Old Ma hiding in the toilet playing games. How is he on leave?

Chao Musheng was secretly observing the CEO's exclusive elevator. Although the decoration was no different from the employee elevator, the elevator walls were shiny enough to reflect people, and there was a faint fragrance inside, inexplicably adding a bit of high-end and classy temperament.

Power and money are indeed great supplements. Even the elevator has an extra layer of aura.

The elevator door opened, and a middle-aged man in a suit was already waiting outside: "Boss, Secretary Liu."

He glanced at Chao Musheng behind Xu Chenzhu, unsure of the identity of this strange young man.

Before Secretary Liu had time to introduce him, he heard the boss's voice.

"This is Chao Musheng, a key talent invited by Secretary Liu and me from Jinghua University." Xu Chenzhu reached out and gently put his arm around Chao Musheng's back, letting him stand beside him instead of behind: "You can call him Mr. Zhao from now on."

The man immediately changed his address: "Hello, Mr. Zhao."

"Hello." Chao Musheng smiled with a blushing face. Oh my, Mr. Xu is flattering him too much.

Secretary Liu consciously stepped forward to open the rear car door, waiting for the boss and Xiao Zhao to get in.

After Xu Chenzhu got into the car, Chao Musheng whispered: "Brother Liu, maybe I should sit in the front."

"It's the same wherever you sit. I usually like to sit in the passenger seat." Secretary Liu lifted his chin, saw the look from the boss, and pushed Chao Musheng directly into the car.

"Drink some water first." A hand with distinct joints handed a bottle of water to Chao Musheng.

"Thank you, Mr. Xu." Chao Musheng took the water. It was high-end drinking water produced by Kunlun Enterprise itself, the legendary kind that rips off rich people.

He remembered the drinking water sponsored by the Kunlun branch company to the village for free during the Dragon Boat Festival.

"A few months ago, I went back to my hometown in the countryside for the Dragon Boat Festival. The agricultural assistance department of the Kunlun branch company also provided drinking water for the village art performance for free." Chao Musheng unscrewed the cap. This bottle of water had not been opened yet.

"Is there such a thing?" Secretary Liu turned around and smiled: "This shows that you, Xiao Zhao, are destined to be with our Kunlun."

Chao Musheng nodded with a smile: "Brother Liu makes sense."

It seems there is indeed some fate.

The car passed through the somewhat dim underground passage. Dots of light illuminated the brilliance in Xu Chenzhu's eyes.

The car was driving on the congested lane. Xu Chenzhu noticed Chao Musheng touching his phone twice: "Student Xiao Zhao, the place where we eat is at Sihai Building. Give your family a call so they won't worry if you go back late."

"Okay, boss." Chao Musheng took out his phone and called his dad.

Mr. Xu is really a considerate and good boss.

Sihai Building.

Senior management received advance notice from Secretary Liu that the boss would also attend this dinner.

Hearing this news, they subconsciously thought Secretary Liu was joking with them because the boss never participated in private gatherings of company employees except for showing his face at the company annual meeting dinner.

In their opinion, those rich people in the business circle who play with prayer beads and set up personas of Buddhists or masters are boring. The real ascetic expert is their boss.

He doesn't party or appear in any entertainment venues. There are no men or women around him, not even a cat or dog.

But the moment Secretary Liu opened the door and the boss really appeared outside, the senior executives cast their eyes on Secretary Liu one after another. So you kid were for real?

Those who make it to senior management are all shrewd people. Everyone reacted instantly, greeting the boss to take a seat. The atmosphere was pleasant yet restrained.

Every sentence and action of Chao Musheng could get the best response from the people at the same table. If it weren't for the first time he met these executives, he would almost think he had been familiar friends with them for many years.

"It's all because the software team is shameless and made a fuss in front of the boss. Otherwise, I would also want to ask for Xiao Zhao to come to our department." A manager looked regretful, then somewhat gloating: "This morning, the game team was still showing off, saying some talent came and solved a big problem. Now it's good, the talent has been snatched away."

"Who told them to be high-profile? It serves them right that Xiao Zhao was snatched by the software team."

"It was the boss who had the eye for talent and invited Student Xiao Zhao to the company. It's really a bargain for the game team."

Sitting on Chao Musheng's left was Xu Chenzhu, and on his right was the software development team leader.

Compared with other managers, the team leader was somewhat inarticulate. However, his determination to transfer Chao Musheng to the software development team was very strong. Before the meal was finished, he had already refilled Chao Musheng's juice three times. Even the waiter was not as fast as him.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when everyone was talking to Mr. Xu, Chao Musheng got up to go to the bathroom.

Sihai Building is an antique-style building. Standing in the corridor, you can see the rockery and stream in the courtyard below. Probably for the guests to have a better experience, even the waiters wore costumes from different dynasties, shuttling between the bluestone paths.

Several waiters passed by the rockery. Chao Musheng saw two people who looked familiar.

He had a good memory since childhood and soon remembered that these two were interns who joined Kunlun in the same batch as him.

Does a high-consumption place like Sihai Building also recruit temporary waiters?

And waiters cross-dressing as women? Or is this some kind of special feature?

The taste of rich people... he couldn't quite understand.

"What are you looking at?" Xu Chenzhu walked to his side, the silver eyeglass chain swaying gently with his movements.

"I saw two waiters who looked familiar." Chao Musheng's attitude towards Xu Chenzhu was less distant: "They seem to be Kunlun interns."

"Waiters at Sihai Building undergo long-term training before taking up their posts." Xu Chenzhu said: "If they are Kunlun interns, it is impossible for them to be waiters here."

"Maybe I saw it wrong." Chao Musheng thought to himself, could it be just two people who look very similar by coincidence?

Xu Chenzhu called the service team leader responsible for their private room and told her about this.

After the service team leader left, Xu Chenzhu said to Chao Musheng: "With your memory, you shouldn't be wrong."

"Brother Bing, the private room where our mission target is located is just ahead." The player using the disguise prop looked at the guiding prop hovering outside the private room door and winked at another player.

Their daily mission today is to help Kunlun's competitors eliminate a competing company and then frame Kunlun. Even if the police can prove Kunlun's innocence in the end, Kunlun will be splashed with countless buckets of dirty water by competing companies.

Commercial warfare in the dungeon world is played more ruthlessly, directly risking lives.

Commercial warfare in their world is at most watering the money tree, secretly photographing the production line, or deliberately rear-ending cars during bidding.

The two lowered their heads, pushed the door open and walked into the private room, carrying drinks and approaching the man sitting in the main seat bit by bit.

"Who are you two?" The service team leader looked at the two unfamiliar faces suddenly appearing in her team, and they were two big men wearing women's skirts. Her voice cracked with shock, but she didn't forget to block the guests behind her: "Call the police!"

Other waiters also reacted, pressing the alarm while pointing serving knives at the two perverts: "What do you want to do?"

The two players were even more surprised than the NPCs: "How did you find out?"

The waiters and guests looked at their thick arms, stubbly faces, rough dark skin, and cheap wigs with indescribable expressions.

With this appearance, they still ask how they were found out?

Isn't it enough to have eyes?

The security guards came very quickly. Before the two players could react, they were pinned to the ground by uniformed security guards.

Hearing that criminals disguised as waiters attacked guests, the manager scrambled over in fright to comfort the guests. When he arrived, he heard laughter coming from the private room, showing no sign of being frightened.

"Thanks to Secretary Liu. Fortunately, you reminded us in time, allowing the security guards to rush over so quickly to subdue these two criminals."

"Thank you, thank you. Please send my regards to President Xu."

Seeing this, the manager silently stepped back a few steps and stood outside the door without going in to disturb.

He looked up at the two criminals being held in the courtyard by security guards, the corners of his eyes twitching. Is outsourcing popular in the killer industry now too?

Otherwise, how could there be such stupid criminals who thought they could deceive others' eyes just by wearing women's clothing?

The players couldn't figure it out, not even when they were put into the police car.

Clearly, no one noticed anything wrong with them at first. Why did the prop suddenly fail when entering the private room?

That was an S-level disguise prop. Even the dungeon Boss would be deceived. How could passerby NPCs see through the disguise?

[Ding! Regrettably, the two players failed the mission, were found abnormal by the dungeon world, and have been obliterated.]

Xiao Juan received a message from the system just after washing up and lying in bed. Two more players were eliminated.

She clicked on the player chat group for this dungeon. The group originally had twenty-five people, but now only fifteen were left.

The mood in the group was tense, and players were saying all sorts of things.

When emotions are extremely tense, people lose their normal rationality.

[I want to go home.]

Seeing this sentence, Xiao Juan sneered, threw the phone aside, and prepared to roll up the quilt to sleep.

There was a knock on the door. She got up and opened the door: "What's the matter with you again?"

"I bought snacks, half for you." Ah Ze stuffed the snacks in his arms to Xiao Juan. Since discovering that normal eating and drinking in this dungeon would not deduct health points, Ah Ze had gotten out of control and wanted to eat everything he saw.

Xiao Juan walked to the living room sofa and sat down, turning on the TV, which was playing a horror movie.

Switching to a live broadcast channel, two faces appeared on the screen, mosaiced but recognizable at a glance by acquaintances.

"According to enthusiastic passers-by, these two men disguised themselves as women and tried to attack guests, but due to their clumsy makeup, they failed to achieve their goal."

"Aren't these two players?" Ah Ze crunched on potato chips: "Why didn't they use props?"

The host in the live broadcast shared this as a joke with the audience, but Xiao Juan sensed something wrong.

Even someone as dim-witted as Ah Ze knew to disguise in advance. How could these two players not know?

She had a terrible guess.

The props rewarded by the system failed in this dungeon.

A few days ago, the system asked her to help Sister Jia's parents. Not only did she not help, but she also used a prop to trip Sister Jia's cheating father. The prop worked normally. What exactly did these two players encounter?

After the party, Xu Chenzhu insisted on sending Chao Musheng home.

"Xiao Zhao, so you live here." Secretary Liu looked envious: "The environment here is really nice."

Housing prices should also be very high.

Thinking of his mortgage that hadn't been paid off yet, Secretary Liu sighed in his heart.

"It's my parents' house. I'm still living off my parents, unlike Brother Liu who bought a house in Jing City on your own." Chao Musheng opened the car door and bent down to look at Xu Chenzhu in the car: "Mr. Xu, thank you for sending me home."

"You're welcome." Xu Chenzhu glanced at the sky: "Go home early, it's about to rain."

"Okay, goodbye." Chao Musheng also waved to Secretary Liu, turned and ran towards the community.

"It's good to be young." Secretary Liu looked at Chao Musheng's running back: "Even the back view reveals vitality."

Unlike him, a worker who just turned thirty and is already old and lifeless.

"Secretary Liu." Xu Chenzhu spoke: "When a person's address for you changes from 'You (polite form)' to 'You', does it mean the relationship is closer?"

"Yes, yes, I suppose." Secretary Liu answered blankly.

"I see." Xu Chenzhu looked up at the sky. The floating dark clouds suddenly stagnated.

Secretary Liu didn't understand, but he chose to remain silent.

As a worker, whatever the boss says goes. Whether he understands or not is not important.

As soon as Chao Musheng stepped into the house, heavy rain poured down. He lay on the window and looked out. Bean-sized raindrops hit the glass window with a crackling sound, and the whole world became blurred.

"Such heavy rain. Fortunately, you got home in time." Dad Zhao handed a bath towel to Chao Musheng: "Go take a shower."

"Dad, tomorrow is the weekend, I'm off." Chao Musheng took the bath towel: "Don't wake me up tomorrow morning. I want to sleep in."

"Okay, I'll buy a chicken tomorrow to stew soup for you. Drink it when you get up at noon."

"There are daily missions on weekends too. Can't they learn from Kunlun Enterprise and let interns have normal weekends off?" Ah Ze saw that today's daily mission was to post negative comments about Kunlun on the Internet as an intern.

Ah Ze turned on his phone and started typing rapidly.

[Because the food in the Kunlun staff canteen is so delicious, I gained five pounds in a week, causing me to be scolded by my boss every day, saying that my mind is not on work. I highly suspect that the canteen wants to fatten me up on purpose so that I can't pass the internship probation period.]

After this comment was sent out, the system seemed to freeze for a few seconds before judging his daily mission successful.

As for how many netizens scolded him under this comment, Ah Ze didn't care anymore.

He really felt there was a problem with the Kunlun canteen. How can a company canteen make food so delicious? If they could make it a little unpalatable, he wouldn't eat so much. If he didn't eat so much, he wouldn't be discovered by the boss and then scolded every day.

So everything is the canteen's fault.

"Sister Juan, what is your daily mission today?" After finishing his own mission, Ah Ze asked Xiao Juan curiously: "Is it some help mission again?"

"No." Xiao Juan stared at the mission panel. Her mission today was actually to go to the supermarket to buy a free-range chicken.

Who can recognize how those plucked chickens in the supermarket were raised before they died?

What does this mission have to do with the main line of the dungeon?

She suspected this was malicious revenge from the system after her daily mission failed on Tuesday.

Half an hour later, Xiao Juan stood in the raw meat section of the supermarket, looking at rows of bare chicken meat, her eyes losing all luster.

"Sister, the chickens in our supermarket are all good free-range chickens. Just buy with confidence."

Ah Ze: "Really?"

Xiao Juan: "..."

If she hadn't used a prop to see the glaring lie sign above the other party's head, she would have believed it.

If those players who lost to her in the infinite world knew that she was holding an A-level lie detector prop just to buy a free-range chicken, they would definitely die of laughter.

"Buy this one. This one has short legs, strong meat, and long corner toes." Dad Zhao pointed to an inconspicuous chicken in the corner.

Xiao Juan turned around and saw Chao Musheng's father standing side by side with a very beautiful woman.

The woman had rosy skin and eyes very similar to Chao Musheng's. Xiao Juan immediately guessed her identity: "Hello Uncle Zhao, hello Auntie."

Ah Ze obediently followed suit and secretly looked at Zhao Yin. Brother Zhao's mother is so beautiful.

Hearing Xiao Juan's address to Dad Zhao, Zhao Yin chuckled lightly: "Hello, are you Sheng Sheng's colleagues?"

In just one week, she had seen these two children several times, either waiting for Sheng Sheng to go to work at the gate of the community in the morning, or getting off the bus with Sheng Sheng in the evening.

Xiao Juan nodded and took the chicken pointed out by Dad Zhao from the fresh-keeping shelf.

Zhao Yin wanted to take the chicken wings next to it, but Dad Zhao stopped her: "Don't dirty your clothes, I'll take it."

Xiao Juan carried the cold chicken meat and stared blankly at the interaction between the couple.

"It just so happens that Sheng Sheng's father and I are cooking at noon today. You come and eat together." Zhao Yin said: "It's lively with more people."

Smelling the fragrance on the other person, listening to the gentle voice and seeing the beautiful smiling eyes, Xiao Juan nodded in a trance.

Ah Ze was so shocked that his pupils were trembling. Sister, what's wrong with you, Sister?!

People just made a polite invitation casually. How can you take it seriously? You are confused!