Ten minutes later, the two arrived at Mr. Lord's office.

The big iron door was closed tightly, and an incompatible coded lock was embedded in the door.

Qin Rang immediately opened his prop box and tried to use the "ordinary unlocking props" he had saved when entering the door, but the system's warning sounded at an inappropriate time——

[Note that the door in the office area requires "specific unlocking props" to enter, please do not waste props]

"..."

"What should we do..." Before Qin Rang finished speaking, he saw Qi Qiu skillfully entering a series of numbers on the combination lock.

With a "click" sound, the door unlocked.

Qin Rang: "...It's amazing, you actually got the password."

The boss's operations were completely different from what he imagined. He thought that the bosses would like to use props and skills to violently crush the copies, but he did not expect that Qi Kui was an economical boss and liked to use the most natural and harmless methods.

Qi Jiu smiled: "Mr. Lord is not good at protecting his privacy."

When entering fingerprints in the morning, Qi Jiu not only recorded Mr. Lord's name, but also recorded the password for his access card.

After all, most people are used to setting all locks to the same password.

There was a clock hanging on the wall of the office. It was already close to six o'clock, and they had to move faster.

Fortunately, the office was not big, with only room for a desk and a cabinet. Qi Qiu was responsible for observing the situation at the entrance, and the heavy responsibility of searching for theft was left to Qin Rang.

"There are only some attendance sheets in the desk drawer. I'm going to take a look at that cabinet." Qin Rang hurriedly rummaged for the contraband and restored the traces of the search to their original state according to Qi Jiu's instructions.

When Qi Qiu heard about the attendance sheet, his mind was moved.

He gently closed the office door, and while Qin Rang was rummaging through the cabinet, he quickly took a look at the attendance record in Mr. Lord's drawer.

Soon, his attention was attracted by two personnel lists, namely the "Daily Performance Appraisal Punishment List in the Workshop" and the "List of Appointed Breeders in the Nursery".

The two lists were stacked and stored together. He quickly checked them and found that the names of the people on the two lists completely overlapped.

In other words, employees who are the least efficient and are forced to accept the "last penalty system" for elimination will be assigned to the nursery as breeders.

Since the only product in the entire factory is rosefish, the nursery must be the place where rosefish fry are cultivated.

——It seems that being a rosefish breeder is a very unpleasant and even dangerous job.

But what are the “bad” things about nurseries?

Although Qin Rang was born as a young master, he was very talented in rummaging through boxes and cabinets. In less than two minutes, he pulled out a pile of bottles and jars and placed them in front of Qi Qiu: "Boss, everything I found is here.

Do you want to choose?"

Qi Jiu rearranged the list of information and looked at the industrial spray paint and disinfectant that Qin Rang took out from the cabinet. He said with satisfaction: "Take them all back, they will probably be used."

As he said that, Qi Jiu looked at the half-box of beer next to his desk, and he took two more bottles.

A lot of harvest tonight.

*

The two of them returned to the dormitory with a pile of bottles and cans. As soon as they entered the door, they didn't even have time to take off their coats, and the fluorescent lights in the room suddenly went out.

The dormitory suddenly fell into darkness.

Qi Jiu looked at the time, it was just fifteen minutes after six o'clock.

"Hey, why did the lights suddenly go out? It's not half past six yet..." Qin Rang pressed the switch back and forth a few more times, but the lights still didn't respond. He wondered, "Could it be that the time given by the rules is inaccurate?

Or is our timing wrong?"

Qi Gu thought for a moment: "There is another possibility. There is a power outage."

As the lights went out, the old air conditioner that had been humming also stopped.

The dormitory suddenly became eerily quiet.

"Ah, I originally thought I still had fifteen minutes to prepare, but I didn't expect..." Qin Rang suddenly realized something and took a breath, and said in horror, "...wait! If there is a power outage, the air conditioner will not be able to operate normally, right?

?”

"If you don't call for a long time, the heating will stop..."

On their first night in the dormitory, they may not be able to meet the second rule - "It is recommended that the indoor temperature should not be lower than 26 degrees."

Qi Jiu tried to use the communicator to connect to the outside world, but at the moment the communicator could only make a disturbing noise.

Because of the power outage, the signal was also interrupted, and the closed dormitory became an island isolated from the outside world.

"Boss, what should we do now?" Qin Rang kept debugging the communicator, and the sudden change made him at a loss. "Should we look for Mr. Lord? Or find other travelers..."

Qin Rang's voice gradually became lower, and he realized that no one knew the address of Mr. Lord's dormitory, and asking other travelers for help seemed to be unavailable.

Firstly, Ji Xiaoye and Gu Zhenzhen, who seem to be more reliable, are in the female staff dormitory in the West District, and they are two grown men who can't get along; secondly, Wu Gui and that wretched uncle have been included in his danger list, and he may ask them for help.

He ended up in the same fate as Xu Shengyi.

Qi Jiu did not answer immediately. He looked at the heater placed next to the cabinet again. Because of the power outage on the first night, the air conditioner could not operate, so was it equipped with a heater?

It seems like...a power outage is bound to happen.

But are heaters really the answer? Qi Jiu thinks it can't be that simple.

"Sir, please get angry. It's too cold." Qi Jiu shivered from the cold.

After the power outage, the temperature in the dormitory dropped sharply. Although they knew it was an uncertain option, the two people were shivering from the cold and had to turn on the heater.

The heater was unable to stabilize the room temperature at 26 degrees, but it at least alleviated some of the harsh winter nights.

In order to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning, the two did not dare to seal the windows and left a bathroom vent for ventilation.

After the heater was turned on, it was just past six-thirty.

It’s the time when the lights in the dormitory are turned off collectively according to the rules.

"What do we need to do next?" Qin Rang had no clue. Unknowingly, he had regarded his roommate as a trustworthy boss.

"Rest." Qi Jiu was sitting on the bed in the dormitory with his coat and pants on. If his adoptive parents saw him when they were still alive, he would definitely be taught a lesson.

Qin Rang was stunned for a moment: "Ah?"

"It's been a tiring day. Relax." Qi Jiu threw a can of beer to him. "The night is so long, I'll probably be busy in the second half of the night."

The fire in the stove was crackling and burning, and the light of the fire faintly illuminated Qi Ku's face.

His face rarely showed relaxation after exhaustion.

Qi Gu himself also opened another can of beer, and the rich foam rolled up to the mouth of the bottle like white waves.

He took a brief sip and frowned. He didn't like the taste very much.

It's not past twelve o'clock yet. According to the real world, the time is still stuck on Qi Ku's eighteenth birthday.

As an adult, this is the first can of beer in his life.

But the taste of the beer was obviously not as good as described in the advertisement. He didn't know whether Mr. Lord's beer was not good or because he was temporarily unable to adapt to adult hobbies.

Qin Rang looked at the beer in his hand and said puzzledly: "I thought this was used as a prop..."

Qi Jiu smiled: "That's okay, a prop for celebration?"

"Hey, what are you celebrating?" Qin Rang asked hurriedly.

Qi Jiu took another sip of beer: "Celebrate that we are still alive today."

He found that he was getting used to the taste of beer.

Qin Rang breathed a rare sigh of relief, took a sip of wine and said with a smile, "I hope I can still drink beer tomorrow."

Qi Jiu smiled and wished himself a happy eighteenth birthday in his heart.

The wind outside the window is getting stronger and stronger, and because it is so quiet, the sound of waves can be faintly heard in the house.

The dormitory with the stove is not very warm, but in this dangerous night, alcohol can temporarily relieve people's breath.

In order to survive the nerve-wracking time, Qin Rang began to chat by himself.

He said that he had only been unlucky once in his life. As an heir, he participated in a charity event for his father's company, and was hijacked while flying to his destination. However, that only unlucky incident directly killed him.

"Boss, why did you come in?" Qin Rang asked casually.

"Killed." Qi Ku blurted out.

"What?!" Qin Rang was so frightened that he almost dropped his beer on the quilt. After a moment, he realized that his attitude was too rude and said hurriedly, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect this."

"It doesn't matter." Qi Jiu took a sip of wine and did not continue.

In order to maintain energy, the two agreed to take turns to be on duty, with Qin Rang doing the first half of the night and Qi Qiu the second half of the night.

Qi Jiu closed his eyes and took a nap. Both his brain and body were running at high speed for a day, and it didn't take long before he fell asleep.

In the dream, Qi Ku returned to the inpatient department of the city general hospital. He walked along the corridor towards his brother's ward. The hospital seemed to have forgotten to turn on the central air conditioning. The corridor was cold and the strong smell of disinfectant was a bit pungent.

My younger brother was hospitalized six months ago and never had the chance to be discharged from the hospital.

Six months ago, his adoptive parents took him to attend his younger brother's movie premiere. On the way back, a family of four encountered a serious car accident. The adoptive parents died on the spot, and his younger brother was pronounced to have completely lost cognitive abilities.

Only Qi Gu was slightly injured, and he fully recovered after less than a week of rest.
To be continued...