The aura emitted by humans made the monster salivate, but just as the monster pounced on the "food", a smell that made it miserable suddenly exploded around it, as if someone had detonated a poisonous gas bomb.

The smell of paint spread rapidly like an invisible flame, burning the monster's respiratory tract and skin pervasively. A fierce and painful whine came out of the monster's mouth, with a hoarse and chaotic voice like a human with severely damaged vocal cords.

The smell attack quickly made the monster lose its appetite, and it quickly gave up its hunting plan and instinctively crawled away towards the door of the dormitory.

The monster is not interested in the humans in this dormitory at all. It just wants to end the pain caused by the pungent smell as soon as possible and leave here to breathe fresh air.

But it quickly discovered in despair that there was also an unusually strong and pungent smell around the dormitory doors and windows, and it was sealed in this small house that made it miserable.

The pain in the body and the mental confusion caused the monster to crawl on the ground. The armor-like scales on its body fell off little by little. The burning and pain continued to escalate. Mucus drained rapidly from its skin tissue, and the monster almost lost its mobility.

Qi Gu stood by and observed the monster's reaction to the pungent smell.

The monster is very sensitive to industrial smells, and its violent reaction is no different from that of a fish, but at the same time it has some human characteristics, such as a human-like hoarse voice, and exposed pink skin after the scales fall off, just like a human wound that has just healed.

New meat.

These characteristics similar to humans are definitely not a coincidence.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Qi Jiu stepped forward wearing gloves.

He tried to drag the dying monster into the bathroom, but it was too heavy.

"Can you help me?" Qi Jiu looked at Qin Rang who was looking at him blankly.

Qin Rang watched the whole hunting process in disbelief. At this moment, he finally came to his senses and hurriedly came over to help carry the monster.

"Remember to wear gloves," Qi Jiu reminded him, "Tie it in the bathtub later, and tie it tightly."

Qin Rang: "Okay, okay."

With the combined efforts of the two, the monster was quickly moved into the bathtub and tied up. The dying monster had no strength left to resist and struggle, and continued to let out painful but weak moans from its mouth.

Qi Jiu even put some water in the bathtub to soak the monster: "It looks quite pitiful. A soak might relieve the pain."

Qin Rang: "..." Did the boss forget that he wanted to tear us apart a few minutes ago?

"Don't show such a fearful expression. We weren't that scared when you tried to eat us," Qi Jiu poured water while chatting with the monster. "We have no intention of eating you, so relax my friend."

Qin Rang: "..." He also started to sympathize with the monster a little bit, what's going on!

After "arranging" the monster, Qin Rang was responsible for cleaning. Finally, Qi Jiu locked the bathroom door and applied a thin layer of spray paint on the bathroom entrance.

"Boss, what's the use of catching him?" asked Qin Rang, who was panting from work.

Qi Jiu: "Let's just keep observing. I'm very curious about what it is and what effect its existence has on the factory."

Qin Rang nodded with half-understanding. Although he didn't understand it very well, it sounded very powerful.

After all, in his understanding, travelers either avoid monsters or kill monsters. He has never seen anyone capture monsters and then raise them for observation...

"Go to sleep first. This 'uninvited guest' won't cause any trouble tonight. Let's see the results tomorrow morning." Qi Qiu said, having washed the stains on his body and lay down on the bed.

At midnight, the system's accountant arrived as scheduled.

[Congratulations on successfully avoiding the survival crisis on the second night and unlocking 100 survival coins]

[The current number of remaining survival coins: 163; the number of survival coins to be transferred: 180; the total number of survival coins: 343;]

Qi Jiu looked at the survival coins that doubled every day, and finally realized how low the tips he collected when he worked part-time as a doorman were.

It is really rare to find such a conscientious doorman.

*

It was warm in the dormitory, and the wound on his neck gradually healed. Qi Jiu finally had a good sleep that night.

I don’t know what happened to the “guest” who was lying in the bathtub last night.

The moment Qi Jiu opened the bathroom door, a smell of water that was stronger than ever hit his face. If I had to describe it, the smell was as strong as if the fish meat in the factory had been condensed into essential oil.

Unprepared, Qi Jiu was a little dizzy from the smoke. He immediately closed the bathroom door. After taking a few breaths, he put on his mask tightly before daring to open the door again——

The "guest" lay motionless in the bathtub, eerily quiet.

You haven’t breathed your last, have you?

Qi Qiu's heart skipped a beat. When he got closer and heard a faint sound of breathing, he was relieved. The subject of his observation was not dead.

The water in the bathtub was contaminated with mucus and changed color, and the pool was scarlet like fresh blood.

At night, the monster seemed to be struggling. Red liquid flowed along the edge of the bathtub and onto the white porcelain floor. At first glance, an uninformed person would think that they had arrived at a murder scene.

The fallen scales floated on the water, and through the scales and red liquid, Qi found that the monster's skin had changed.

He looked carefully and saw that the skin after the scales had faded had numerous tumor-like bulges. The strange bulges did not look like symptoms of a paint allergy, but rather seemed like something was about to break out of the skin.

The bulge bursts out of the skin...

[You have successfully triggered the hidden branch "The Life of the "Uninvited Guest"", please continue to collect relevant clues and pieces to piece together this story line]

Qi Jiu stared thoughtfully at the monster soaking in the bathtub, eager to see what kind of secrets were conceived under the monster's skin.

At this moment, his and Qin Rang's communicators rang at the same time. It was Mr. Lord's notification——

"Good morning, congratulations on your third morning in the factory. I hope everyone had a good rest last night."

"After a rigorous and fair evaluation, the employee with the lowest workload yesterday was employee No. 5 in Dormitory 1051. You must be well aware that the employee with the lowest workload every day will be punished."

"According to the rules, Employee No. 5 must be severely punished, but——"

Mr. Lord paused, and everyone in front of the communicator felt excited.

"But unfortunately, employee No. 5 was found dead this morning, so the punishment will be borne by his roommate, employee No. 6."

"Please cherish your roommates." After Mr. Lord announced, he turned off the communicator and led the security personnel to 1051 to take away Wu Gui, employee No. 6.

Qin Rang:!

The sudden good news shocked him speechless.

"What on earth is going on?" Qin Rang couldn't believe that the dangerous person who tricked him was actually sent to be punished in advance.

"Did you do something, boss..." Even as simple as he was, he knew at this moment that someone must have done something.

Qi Jiu smiled: "I told you, we can let Wu Gui experience the content of the punishment at the end in advance."

"But, how did you do it?!" Qin Rang asked hurriedly.

Qi Jiu, however, pretended: "It's not me. We have to thank Ji Xiaoye. She will tell you when we meet later."

*

Ji Xiaoye obviously didn't sleep well and looked tired with a pair of dark circles under his eyes.

"Morning," Qi Qiu greeted the two ladies, then turned to Ji Xiaoye, "Thank you for your hard work last night."

Ji Xiaoye yawned and waved his hand: "If you can send that dangerous guy from the Death Row Society to punishment, it's worth the fatigue."

Qin Rang, who was confused and eager to know the truth, asked: "What happened? Did you do anything last night?"

Ji Xiaoye explained: "It's very simple. I once again invaded the consciousness of employee No. 5 and helped him break free from Wu Gui's life-extending drug control and successfully escape."

"It's just that space invasion consumes too much energy. I'm so sleepy now." Ji Xiaoye yawned again.

This invasion was not too difficult.

Her manipulation skills are affected by three factors, namely the difficulty of the task, the rejection of the manipulated object, and the other person's pleasure level.

Obviously, the wife-murderer is already dying, and he relies solely on Wu Gui's medicine to keep him alive. It is not difficult to kill him; and he is in so much pain that when he sees someone, he begs the other person to give him relief, and his rejection level is almost zero; and last night

The pleasure value of the wife-murderer has reached its lowest point. In addition, Ji Xiaoye has manipulated the wife-murderer before. Now that he is familiar with it, it is easy to control him.

The only difficulty is not to let Wu Gui notice it. The shorter the time, the safer it is. This is why Qin Rang used the 5-second efficiency item that Qin Rang exchanged from Wu Gui.

As a result, Employee No. 5, who was forcibly extended his life, used the power of the manipulator to successfully break free from the control of the drug, successfully ended his life and was freed.

And his roommate Wu Gui also suffered the consequences and was deferred to receive punishment.

"It's so subtle!" Qin Rang was stunned when he learned what happened.

"It was your big brother's roommate's idea to ask me to cooperate." Ji Xiaoye shrugged and smiled.

Qi Jiu was very humble: "I'm asking for your help."

Ji Xiaoye looked at him steadily for a few seconds: "Speaking of which, how did you calculate that the punishment would be deferred to the roommates in the same dormitory?"

Qi Gu: "Because Mr. Lord has reminded you many times, 'Please cherish your roommates,' so I speculate that when force majeure occurs, the punishment will be deferred to the roommates."

Everyone was stunned. The rule of "cherishing roommates" was clearly written in the dormitory rules, but they all only understood the first meaning: Cherish the roommates you have, because you can sacrifice them to feed the monsters and save themselves.

Ji Xiaoye frowned, and after a long time nodded thoughtfully: "It turns out that this rule has a second meaning, which is... too hard to think of."

Qi Qiu corrected: "It's not that there is a second meaning, but if different NPCs say seemingly the same rules, the meaning of the rules may be different."

"The rules of the dormitory say "Cherish your roommates" in black and white. It does mean that you can use your roommates to feed monsters. But Mr. Lord repeated it several times. I want to say "Cherish your roommates" from his mouth, which already means

It’s different.”

"After all, Mr. Lord doesn't care about accommodation, he only cares about our production efficiency," Qi Jiu said.

Gu Zhenzhen and Qin Rang were still confused, but Ji Xiaoye's mind had caught up. She smiled in admiration: "Awesome."
Chapter completed!