Chapter 96
She was still on the outside. Following the signs on the wall, she walked a few steps inside and encountered another automatic door.
Su Cheng swiped her work ID and entered a small cubicle resembling a disinfection and changing room. On either side were long drains, lockers, and shoe cabinets...
The wall has a sensor door leading inside, with a warning sign posted: Please sanitize your hands and change clothes before entering the work area.
Su Cheng glanced at the sign a few times, and after thinking it over, decided to follow its instructions first.
I opened the wardrobe and took out a blue isolation gown and a mask in a plastic package.
After donning the protective gear, she stepped into the groove beneath the sensor door, which slowly moved to reveal the "workers" busily working inside.
These workers were different from what Su Cheng had imagined.
They could no longer be considered complete humans; they had fat heads and big ears, pink skin, and two large nostrils on their protruding noses...
It is indeed a pig's head.
Although their heads are pig-shaped, their necks and below retain the original human form.
They placed the iron drums containing the raw materials on the scale, weighed them, and then transported them to the input port of the giant machine.
The machine pipelines extend to another area of responsibility, each performing its own function, forming a complete assembly line.
Looking at the various sizes of pig heads, Su Cheng felt that the combination of pig heads and human heads looked extremely strange, like two animals pieced together; it was an eyesore no matter how she looked at it...
Perhaps because she had been staring for too long, she felt an itch on her face. Sensing something was wrong, she touched her face and, sure enough, felt fine downy hairs...
No way.
Su Cheng's face twisted slightly as she touched her features repeatedly. Her nose wasn't protruding, so she didn't look like she had turned into a pig's head yet.
She took out a mirror from her bag. Her skin had turned pinkish-white, and pig hair had grown on her face, but her facial features were not yet distorted.
She clearly didn't feel anything unusual, and her mind was perfectly clear, so why did she still get infected...?
Does entering a pharmaceutical factory necessarily lead to a mutation?
Su Cheng's heart tightened slightly. As she put away the mirror, she glanced at the back of her hand and noticed that her fingers were covered in fine hairs...
Even with her usual composure, the feeling of her body mutating in an animalistic direction inevitably caused her some unease.
I took a deep breath and had no choice but to grit my teeth and keep moving forward.
There were pig-men guarding the machine's pipes, listening intently to the sounds of the flow within, each holding a small iron hammer.
It would occasionally tap the pipe lightly, making a "thump-thump" sound. Its beady eyes were devoid of any emotion, almost like black buttons on a doll.
No pig's head looked up at Su Cheng.
As Su Cheng walked further in, parts of her body changed accordingly; her ears suddenly grew larger and drooped limply on her head.
Su Cheng tightened her grip on the pig's ear, feeling a sharp pain, and her expression turned even more unpleasant.
"What are you doing?"
A pig-headed man wearing a red hat walked towards Su Cheng.
Its bright red hat sets it apart from other pig-people, suggesting it holds a position similar to a team leader.
"Hmph... what do you do?" Seeing that Su Cheng didn't answer, it asked again.
They just speak with a pig's tongue, which becomes clumsy and produces a grunting sound unique to pigs.
Su Cheng took out another high school teacher's work ID, "I need to talk to the factory manager about the school ordering green films in bulk."
"Hmph, let me see." The red-hatted pig-headed man stretched out his hairy, pinkish-white hand, his fingers clasped together in pairs, resembling pig hooves.
After staring intently with his small eyes, the red-hatted pig-man took out a walkie-talkie from his pocket and reported to his superior.
After the story was reported up the chain of command, the red-hatted pig-headed man, having received instructions, looked at Su Cheng with slightly less hostility. "Hmph, come with me."
Pighead led Su Cheng to the glass elevator in the corner. The glass was spotless, and the transparent barrier seemed to be non-existent.
As it ascends, it feels like it's rising into thin air. Looking down from above, you can see the entire pharmaceutical machine and the densely packed pig heads at work.
Compared to the first floor, all the pig-headed people on the second floor were wearing white lab coats and sitting at their workstations, researching something.
Su Cheng guessed that the second floor was the research and development or quality inspection department.
The elevator stopped on the third floor.
The spacious area was carpeted with red carpets, decorated with various ornaments, sofas, and bookshelves. The decor was very relaxing, and from the glass windows, one could overlook the entire factory interior.
This entire floor is the factory manager's lounge.
The pig-headed man lowered his head, and as it reached out to push Su Cheng, she stepped out on her own.
The pig-headed man immediately pressed the floor button to leave, nervously twitching his two large, fan-like ears.
Since arriving on this floor, Su Cheng has noticed a sudden acceleration in the rate at which her body is undergoing abnormal changes.
Her nose became extremely itchy, as if something was trying to pop out from the tip of her nose.
My throat suddenly felt dry, my tongue seemed swollen, and my speech became difficult due to decreased sensitivity.
She quickly chanted the mantra, circulating her Qi throughout her body, which stopped her cheeks from swelling and restored her slightly protruding nose to its proper shape.
The White Qi circulated and dissipated repeatedly, and the fat pig ears on both sides of the head disappeared, shrinking back into human earlobes.
Su Cheng gradually calmed down and walked towards the mahogany door that was slightly ajar.
"Mu Ling, seal off the entire floor."
"Good!"
Mu Ling floated out of the bracelet, black patterns spreading across the white wall, her aura enveloping the area.
Su Cheng kicked open the mahogany door and looked straight at the white-haired man sitting in the office chair with his legs crossed, smoking. He was about forty or fifty years old. Although he looked human, his crowded features revealed a rat-like appearance.
Upon seeing the now perfectly normal Su Cheng, he widened his eyes slightly in disbelief. "Huh? You haven't changed at all. That's strange."
Everyone who comes here, except for him, undergoes a strange transformation.
As soon as he opened his mouth, his ears, which had just been silenced, began to peek out again.
He's like a source of pollution.
Su Cheng's eyes narrowed slightly. Without saying a word, she threw a dart and simultaneously leaped up with her boning knife to slash at him!
The man, though seemingly clumsy, was surprisingly agile, dodging the darts while simultaneously sidestepping her knife tip.
But he has to face not only Su Cheng, but also the Vengeful Ghost Mu Ling.
The office environment suddenly changed; he found himself in a breathing train carriage.
The factory manager looked around in surprise. He touched the carriage walls, which resembled blood vessel walls, and felt the walls beneath his hands opening and closing with his heartbeat.
Suddenly, a pair of completely white eyes appeared, blinking at him, startling him so much that he took a few steps back.
"Where am I...?"
Suddenly, he felt a chill on his back, and his whole body tensed as he turned his head. Before he could see clearly, a cool breath blew into his eyes.
He was taken aback for a moment, but skillfully dodged the dagger that appeared out of nowhere.
With a dark look in his eyes, he pulled at the black stockings wrapped around his ankle. "This... this is your mutation!?"
His expression became agitated, a fanaticism flickering in his eyes. He held the black stockings and took a deep breath. His resentment made his face pale, but it also seemed to stir up some suppressed emotion, causing a sickly flush to rise on his cheeks.
His frenzied appearance disgusted Mu Ling, who brandished her black silk stockings and pierced his flesh, only to discover. "His body is full of rotten flesh! It's utterly repulsive!"
Su Cheng swung her boning knife at the man's head, but he dodged it.
But even in Mu Ling's illusion, he couldn't see her.
"I love this mutation! I want... this kind of powerful ability too." The man, Perception to the pain of being pierced by the dense black silk, smirked, "You can stay and be my employee!"
His words seemed to have some kind of magic, and Su Cheng's body began to stir again.
The arm switched between human and pig forms, and it almost lost its grip on the knife!
We have to kill him right now!
Su Cheng attacked the man again, but he suddenly disappeared from sight.
His voice echoed in Su Cheng's ears, "Stay. You belong here. Accept yourself as you truly are..."
Mu Ling was somewhat annoyed that a man could still pull these tricks in her illusion. Her Red Resentment deepened, and she said softly, "He thinks he can get away with being invisible? I've placed Ghost Mark on him. I'll drag him out, and then you can strike with all your might and kill him!"
The red carriage shook violently, and as the ghostly energy surged, the man hiding in the upper wall was violently pulled out and slammed to the ground!
Before he could react, the sharp blade pierced his neck and then forcefully severed it, separating his head from his body.
Even in death, a smug, confident air remained on his face.
The illusion shattered, and they returned to the office.
Foul-smelling, filthy blood oozed from the cut surface of the man's neck, staining the red carpet black. His face instantly dried up and wrinkled, and his body swelled rapidly as if it had lost some kind of power source.
Seeing that things were not going well, Su Cheng retreated repeatedly.
With a "bang".
His body exploded, blood and flesh splattered everywhere.
Fortunately, she dodged in time and avoided getting any bits or pieces on her.
Just as Mu Ling said, his body was full of rotten flesh. After it burst open, the whole room was filled with a stench, even worse than a dead rat in a ditch!
Su Cheng almost vomited and quickly opened the windows and mahogany door to let in some fresh air.
Although my nose suffered, at least I got rid of that man, and I don't have to worry about being affected by him and developing pig organs again.
She hurried to her desk and began searching for proof of the factory manager's identity until she found a gold-embossed factory badge.
Name: Rong Hao
Position: Factory Manager (Golden Leaf Town Branch)
Su Cheng sprayed some alcohol on it, hung it around her neck, and then put the card with her name on it into the cabinet.
Pick up the label again, and the information on it has changed:
Name: Su Cheng
Position: Factory Manager (Golden Leaf Town Branch)
Su Cheng smiled with satisfaction.
If the system can change Li Li and Ai Xiang's work identities to hers, why can't it do the same for Rong Hao?
Thinking back on what Li Li and Ai Xiang had in common, wasn't it that they were both dead?