"There was no one in this office. Stanley was the only one left, so where had everyone else gone?"
Xia Xiao was puzzled by the story's setting, and the music gave her the creeps as well.
"Jeez, the producer must have something wrong with his head. Why make a perfectly good game so scary?"
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At last, the character arrived in a room with two doors and had to make a choice.
"Hmm, two doors. Men on the left, women on the right. I'm specifically not picking the right one."
After muttering to herself, Xia Xiao chose the door on the left.
She carefully controlled the game character, stopping every few steps to look around, afraid that a trap might suddenly jump out.
Yet nothing happened along the way.
"And there isn't a single person here either~"
"Stanley found this unbelievable. He decided to go to his boss's office, hoping to find answers there."
At that moment, the late-arriving Narrator finally began reading his lines.
"Damn it, are you messing with me? I picked the left door and there was nothing? And now you want me to go to the boss's office?"
Faced with such a bullshit outcome, even Xia Xiao, who normally had the poise of a goddess, could not help swearing.
It was clear just how angry she was inside.
Xiao Chen blinked blankly beside her. What had just happened?
The goddess seemed to have sworn? Impossible, impossible. How could a goddess swear? It had to be an illusion.
He shook his head and looked at Xia Xiao tenderly.
Xia Xiao struggled inwardly. She did not want to listen to the Narrator, but if she did not, she would not know where to go. In the end, she decided to follow his guidance.
It's just an office. Fine, I'll go. Let's see what you can do to me.
After passing through a long flight of stairs, Xia Xiao finally reached her destination.
"Sure enough, bosses are all bloodsuckers. They enjoy themselves while the employees suffer."
Seeing the completely different decor from downstairs and the extravagantly luxurious design, Xia Xiao could not help complaining.
The moment she finished speaking, Xia Xiao quickly covered her mouth and warily looked around.
When she found that no one besides Xiao Chen had noticed her, she let out a sigh of relief.
As for Xiao Chen? Well, he posed absolutely no threat~~
Stanley arrived at his boss's office before Xia Xiao could search around.
The Narrator once again arrived fashionably late and began reading his lines.
"Entering the manager's office, Stanley was once again shocked to discover that there was no sign of any living person here either."
"What could this mean?" Stanley asked loudly. To the empty room.
Uh, maybe it meant the manager had gone bankrupt and run away with his mistress?
Xia Xiao controlled the game character as she searched around, mocking it inwardly.
"He began frantically rifling through the papers in the boss's office, desperately hoping to find clues that could explain the situation."
Then get rifling already~~
Looking at Stanley, who was doing absolutely nothing on the game screen, Xia Xiao could not help rolling her eyes.
"But his attention was drawn to a keyboard behind the boss's desk. What was it for?"
Oh? We finally found something. But what was this keyboard for?
Following the Narrator's prompt, Xia Xiao moved closer to the keyboard and examined it carefully, hoping to find the key to it.
"In fact, the terrible secret guarded by this keyboard was buried beneath his feet, so the boss had set a particularly obscure password: 2-8-4-5."
"But, of course, Stanley could not possibly know that."
Uh, no, I already know. It's 2845.
Xia Xiao remained perfectly calm inside. By now, she no longer even had the strength to complain.
He had just revealed the password, then immediately claimed that no one else could possibly know it. Truly impressive~~
"Forget it. I wonder what's behind it? Treasure? Aliens? The manager and a group of employees shouting surprise together?"
She casually entered the password while constantly guessing to herself.
"But unbelievably, Stanley had merely pressed random keys on the keyboard and entered the correct password through sheer luck. How astonishing."
You freaking said it out loud~~
Xia Xiao's mouth twitched uncontrollably. She did not even know what to say anymore about this Narrator.
Click!
At that moment, the wall beside her suddenly moved, and a new passage appeared before her eyes.
This hidden passage resembled an abandoned warehouse, with sunlight shining in from the other side.
"Eugh, this place feels creepy. One look tells me it's not somewhere good."
Xia Xiao controlled the game character and walked forward cautiously.
She was a girl too, and she was rather afraid of this sort of thing.
After looking around, she found an old-fashioned lift. Once she stepped inside, the screen went black.
In the blink of an eye, she arrived in a new passage filled with pipes and railings.
"Where am I now? I'm not going to get lost later, am I?"
Xia Xiao complained as she controlled the game character.
She realized that after playing this game, her ability to make snarky remarks had improved considerably.
"Stanley walked straight ahead until he reached a large door. Written on it were the words: 'Mind Control Facility.'"
"Oh ho, we've finally arrived!"
Xia Xiao was a little excited. She hurried forward, passed through a stretch of darkness, and arrived on a platform.
After turning on the lights, Xia Xiao discovered that the enormous room was crammed full of television screens.
"What is this?"
Xia Xiao stared in disbelief at the numbers displayed on every television screen.
She thought of the offices she had seen at the beginning, of the numbers on each seat.
At that moment, the Narrator appeared and confirmed her suspicions.
"So that was really it. Every television screen corresponded to an employee. These were surveillance monitors?"
Xia Xiao felt a surge of anger. This company was truly outrageous. Did its employees not have even the slightest freedom?
At the same time, a chill crept into her heart. She suddenly wondered whether she was being watched right now.
"Th-this is too horrifying."
As the game character continued exploring and the Narrator kept providing hints,
Xia Xiao discovered in horror that the so-called Mind Control Facility truly could control people's minds.
"But here was the proof, the core of the operation, the control buttons labeled with emotions: 'Happy,' 'Sad,' or 'Content.'"
Sure enough, that was really how it was.
The Narrator's lines appeared again, but Xia Xiao could no longer pay attention to them.
She could not stop herself from imagining it. What if this truly existed?
What if she too was actually under the control of this machine?
Eating, working, resting—everything controlled. That feeling would surely be worse than death, right?
No, that could not be allowed. This had to be ended!
Following the Narrator's instructions, Xia Xiao arrived at the Power Supply Room.
At the end of the passage, she found two buttons.
And this, too, was a choice.
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