Chapter 86: Chapter 85 [Butcher’s Dormitory Rules] [1/3 seeking monthly votes!]
Liu Hao was the first to speak, “I applied for the Security Guard position first, Mei Xizi, you choose another job.”
Mei Xizi heard him but didn’t respond; instead, she looked towards the mysterious character.
The mysterious character indifferently said, “You all discuss among yourselves. You need to make a decision within a minute, or else I will assign roles randomly.”
The mysterious character didn’t care about their choices; saying he would assign roles randomly probably meant trouble.
“So what if you filled it out first? I want to be a Security Guard too. You change your position,” Mei Xizi said coldly.
“What exactly do you want?” Liu Hao asked.
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“It’s not about what I want, but about what you want,” Mei Xizi obviously didn’t want to give up the Security Guard role.
Mu Rufeng paid no attention to their argument; his attention was all on the mysterious character.
Earlier, he hadn’t noticed anything unusual, but upon closer inspection, Mu Rufeng noticed something strange about the mysterious character.
The mysterious character was at least two meters tall, with an extremely robust upper body that stretched the clothes taut.
However, the legs of the lower body, though covered by long pants, were loose, swaying with every breeze.
Looking at the thickness of the thighs, they seemed to be even thinner than the arms of the mysterious character.
With such strange proportions, how could it not be mysterious?
Just then, the one-minute deadline arrived.
In the end, Mei Xizi conceded and changed her role to Fattening Staff.
Liu Hao still applied for the Security Guard.
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The two naturally didn’t end up fighting since time was tight. Liu Hao suggested playing rock-paper-scissors to decide, and naturally, as was to be expected, Mei Xizi lost.
The mysterious character held a red booklet, made a check behind Liu Hao, and then pointed towards the door saying, “Liu Hao, you are now the Security Guard of the pig farm; that security booth is where you will work and live. Remember, don’t make any mistakes at work.”
“Yes.” Liu Hao was stunned for a moment, then quickly responded and walked towards the security booth.
Liu Hao arrived at the door of the security booth, gave it a quick check, and then immediately pushed the door open and walked inside.
“The rest of you, come with me,” the mysterious character instructed Mu Rufeng and the others, then strode towards the interior of the pig farm.
Mu Rufeng walked at the back of the group, occasionally looking back towards the security booth.
Just as they were about to pass a building, Mu Rufeng suddenly noticed that the door of the security booth was abruptly pulled open.
Liu Hao looked panicked, dressed in a Security Guard uniform, came to the front gate, his inner Ghost Power surged, and he quickly closed the big gate.
Mu Rufeng was slightly stunned but didn’t continue to focus on that and quickly caught up with the others, who were getting farther ahead.
The pig farm was vast, divided into four areas.
They were the Pig Pens, Manure Pit, Living Area, and Slaughterhouse.
The Pig Pens were where the pigs were kept, the place for the pigs’ eating, drinking, defecating, and living, and where the Feeders, Fattening Staff, and cleaners worked.
The Manure Pit was managed by the cleaners who, after cleaning the pig pens, dumped the manure into the Manure Pit.
The Living Area was where the pig farm staff lived and ate.
As for the last one, the Slaughterhouse, that was where the pigs were slaughtered.
The building they had just passed was the Pig Pens.
Though the Pig Pens were large, there was only one entrance.
The mysterious character led them around and brought them to the entrance of the Pig Pens.
However, strangely enough, the mysterious character did not stop but continued walking forward.
The group was puzzled but dared not ask questions, silently following behind the mysterious character.
Soon, they arrived at a cluster of bungalows.
“This is the Living Area, your dormitories are inside, the cafeteria is on the farthest left.”
“Now, you have half an hour. After half an hour, you will officially start work. The room with your corresponding position posted on it is your dormitory.”
The mysterious character finished speaking, glanced towards Mu Rufeng, “The Slaughterhouse is two hundred meters to the right at the end. Half an hour later, which is eight o’clock, work officially starts.”
After saying this, the mysterious character took out the booklet, made checks behind everyone else, and then turned and left.
The group looked at each other silently, then silently walked towards the bungalows.
The rooms here were not many, only five, seemingly just enough to correspond to the number of positions excluding the one with its own dormitory, the Security Guard.
Starting from the first room on the left, the doors were labeled Feeder, Fattening Staff, Cleaner, Veterinarian, and Butcher.
There wasn’t much of a choice; they directly picked their corresponding dormitories.
Mu Rufeng approached the fifth dormitory, glanced at the label “Butcher”, didn’t hesitate much, and directly pushed the door open and walked in.
The dormitory was not very large, roughly twenty square meters, with very few belongings inside, just a bed, a wardrobe, a desk, and a chair.
In the back, there was a small bathroom of about four or five square meters.
It could be described as extremely simple.
Mu Rufeng didn’t mind this; after all, no matter how simple it was, it was still much better than the environment in his previously preferred high-rise dormitory.
Thankfully, Uncle Liu and Uncle Wang didn’t smoke, but they chewed betel nuts; the taste was something Mu Rufeng could barely tolerate.
As for the driver, he smoked, but since he worked the night shift, it didn’t affect Mu Rufeng.
Compared to other dormitories filled with smoke and piled with trash, theirs was absolutely top-notch.
And comparing this dormitory to the former, the latter absolutely outshone it.
Mu Rufeng went straight to the wardrobe to open it.
Inside the wardrobe, there were two sets of uniforms, one similar to the one worn by the mysterious character.
The second set of clothes was a leather apron, which could cover and wrap most of the body.
A rich smell of blood emanated from the leather apron.
Looking at the deep red bloodstains on it, it was clear that it had protected its previous owner from much filth.
Mu Rufeng quickly put on the work clothes and then put on the apron over them.
Instantly, Mu Rufeng looked even stranger.
On the outside was an apron stained with deep red bloodstains; inside was a work shirt that had been washed to a faded white.
Beneath the work shirt were bands of red bandages, covering every exposed part of the body with red bandages.
Honestly, Mu Rufeng looked even more abnormal than some abnormalities.
Once dressed, Mu Rufeng began to search for clues within the room.
After a search, he found a copy of the Butcher’s Dormitory Rules and a key in the desk drawer.
[Butcher’s Dormitory Rules]
1. Working hours are 08:00-12:00, lunch break is 12:00-13:00, and afternoon work time is 13:00-17:00.
2. Please strictly observe the start and end times of your shifts.
3. Please do not let other staff enter your dormitory.
4. It’s strictly forbidden to go out between 19:00 and 07:00.
5. If you hear someone knocking at night, you can let the Fattening Staff in if it’s them; if not, ignore it!
“Huh, these working hours really follow a standard eight-hour system,” Mu Rufeng commented.
What caught Mu Rufeng’s attention was rule five.
Clearly, rule three stated not to let any staff other than oneself enter the dormitory, yet rule five said that if the Fattening Staff knocked, they could be let in.
“Does the Fattening Staff have some special importance?” Mu Rufeng pondered.
After thinking for a while and coming up with no clear reason, he decided to stop dwelling on it, put the rule book back in place, and picked up the key from the drawer.
[Key]: An ordinary key, which can lock or unlock the door of the Butcher’s dormitory.
“Ah, looks like I’ve got to work overnight again.” Mu Rufeng sighed, pocketed the key, and stepped out of the room.
Time in the Mysterious World flowed at the same rate as in the real world, except that their day and night were reversed.
For example, Mu Rufeng entered the Mysterious World at 19:13, which was 07:13 in the morning there, not at night.
What seemed like regular working hours in the Mysterious World was overnight work for Mu Rufeng.
After locking the room door with the key, only ten minutes remained until the start of the workday.
Liu Hao, dressed as a Security Guard, and three others, were gathered outside, whispering to each other, seemingly discussing something.
When they saw Mu Rufeng, they did not greet him or call him over; instead, they turned away one by one and walked toward the pigpen.
Clearly, these four Level 2 Contractors were isolating him, a Level 1 Contractor.
Not that it was isolation per se; it was rather because Mu Rufeng had chosen the Butcher position, and they believed Mu Rufeng was doomed.
Mu Rufeng wasn’t bothered; his goals were not the same as theirs.
Right now, he just wanted to kill pigs and become a real pig butcher.
A few minutes later, Mu Rufeng arrived at the slaughterhouse.
The slaughterhouse was large and extremely enclosed.
As Mu Rufeng approached, a small window on the door suddenly opened.
A voice came from inside:
“Are you the new Butcher?”
“Yes,” Mu Rufeng nodded and responded.
“Click!” A sound rang out.
A small door opened.
“Come in.” At the entrance stood an abnormality that was only half human height.
Aside from being unusually short, what caught Mu Rufeng’s attention was that the abnormality had a pig’s nose.
Mu Rufeng did not mind this and directly walked in.
“Bang!” The door closed again.
With the door shut, the room plunged into darkness.
But before Mu Rufeng could even ask, the small abnormality pressed a switch.
In an instant, the pitch-dark slaughterhouse lit up.
However, the light was dim, making the slaughterhouse not very bright but still visible in its entirety.
The slaughterhouse comprised four areas.
They were the slaughter room, the washing and processing area, the inspection area, and the refrigeration area.
To the left upon entering was the refrigeration area, and to the right was the inspection area.
Further inside, the left housed the slaughter area and the right, the washing and processing area.
Mu Rufeng’s work station was in the slaughter area.
“Your workstation is in the slaughter room; you have five minutes until your shift starts, you can go inside and wait, and an employee will bring the pigs from the delivery port into the cage,” said the short abnormality, pointing to the building furthest to the left.