The More They Suppressed Him, the Better He Liked It

At three-thirty in the afternoon, Xu Ting's shift began. Her shift lasted eight hours, until eleven-thirty at night.

There had to be someone on duty all twenty-four hours a day, with three eight-hour shifts.

The shifts weren't arranged that way because Star City University was especially humane. They were worried that excessively long shifts would leave people exhausted and distracted, affecting the quality of their work.

In any case, Star City University wasn't short-handed. It was better to schedule more frequent shifts than have people slack off for twenty-four hours straight.

At around three-twenty-five, Jiang Yue arrived at the handover point right on time.

According to Xu Ting, the job was complicated. Patrols and security were part of the daily routine, but they could also be assigned all sorts of miscellaneous tasks whenever someone was needed.

That was exactly what Jiang Yue wanted.

He needed a job that let him move around freely. If they really confined him to one area, it would be difficult for him to do anything.

The more miscellaneous tasks, the happier he was.

Several dozen people were there to take over alongside him. That was how many were assigned to the Experimental Building for each shift.

Dozens of people were needed just to patrol and guard a single building. It was clear that its designation as a restricted area was no accident.

Every shift had a captain.

The captain obviously knew Jiang Yue was there to replace Xu Ting. He secretly envied her; he had wanted to get out of this hellhole for a long time, too.

Unfortunately, he couldn't.

Xu Ting had actually managed to get one of the Student Union's Old Men to arrange a replacement for her personally.

Even stranger, some idiot was willing to take over?

So the captain looked at