The two of them took the elevator back to the 44th Floor.
Looking at the familiar floor, Su Bai fell into thought again.
The mutated plant on the 46th Floor had clearly lost control completely, yet it had only kept asking them how to leave, as though it had no idea the elevator existed.
Was it just too stupid?
Or was something preventing them from searching for a way out on their own?
With those unanswered questions on his mind, Su Bai walked toward the front desk with Wen Ya.
They had to pass the front desk when returning from work on other floors, so the two of them first went to the Headless Receptionist to collect their pay for this assignment. They each received 200 points.
Looking at the Headless Receptionist, Su Bai felt a faint stirring in his heart.
The receptionist still sat there quietly, rather than constantly tapping away at a keyboard like the other employees. It had no head, yet it seemed to be "watching" everyone who returned through some unknown means.
Su Bai glanced at the other office spaces behind the glass walls. Aside from the Headless Receptionist and Manager Jiao, there were also a number of Headless Humanoids on the floor. Compared with the other Headless Humanoids endlessly repeating the act of typing, however, the receptionist and manager clearly possessed a stronger sense of self, as though they played special roles in the game.
Su Bai really wanted to ask a few questions-about this company's true purpose, the truth behind the coffee, and those "employees"...
But he never voiced them.
He worried that asking those questions too early would disrupt the instance's progression, or even enrage the Strange Creature before him, causing the currently relatively stable game environment to collapse outright.
This was not