NOVPUBChapter 301: Chapter 299: Slacking Off at Work and Playing Games!
Chapter 301: Chapter 299: Slacking Off at Work and Playing Games!
Qin Mo opened the meal bag and saw that it contained a box lunch.
Then he looked at Sally, “I want to eat fish.”
“Fish?” Sally paused from organizing files, “What fish?”
“The one we ate at the restaurant yesterday.”
“Heh, that’s pretty expensive.”
“More expensive than your hotel room charge?”
“…Alright, I’ll prepare it for you tomorrow. Just make do for today.”
After Sally finished organizing the files, she looked around and saw that it was pretty clean, so she decided to leave.
“Where are you going?” Qin Mo called after her.
At that moment, Xiao Lin arrived.
Looking at Qin Mo and then at Sally he said, “At the guard room, a delivery guy came, says he’s got a delivery for Little Su. Seems to be something like a gaming helmet.”
“Right, right, that’s mine, I’ll go down and fetch it,” Sally said, about to leave.
“Xiao Lin, you go. Sally, mop the floor again,” Qin Mo commanded.
“Yes,” Xiao Lin immediately left. This was not a place to linger!
Sally looked at the floor, so clean that it reflected images, “Does this need mopping?”
“If I say it needs to be done, it needs to be done.”
“I’m pregnant.”
“…Get out!”
“Okay~”
Sally left.
Seeing that Xiao Lin had not left yet, she said, “Let me do it, I need to check the merchandise.”
Xiao Lin looked at her clothes with a complex expression, “I didn’t notice earlier, are you really pregnant?”
“Yes,” Sally said with a happy smile, gently touching her belly.
Whether it was Zi Qi’s baby or this newly regained daughter, they were her precious treasures.
As for Qin Mo, if it weren’t for returning to Earth, those obsessions locked up inside her heart would never have been addressed, and she wished to never touch upon them.
But having really seen him, she found herself letting go of it all.
Many problems, if not faced, remain forever, gradually becoming a knot. But when you truly resolve them, often the problems unravel quickly.
“The baby isn’t his,” Sally told Xiao Lin.
Xiao Lin’s foot slipped, almost falling over, “Little Su, what are you saying?!”
“This child isn’t the boss’s,” Sally said candidly, without a trace of guilt.
Xiao Lin knew Sally well and could tell she wasn’t lying, but… she never had the chance to be with any other man!
“Whose is it?”
“His name is Zi Qi.”
“…From abroad?”
Xiao Lin had never heard this name before.
“You could say that,” another world’s. Remembering Zi Qi, Sally’s gaze softened as she caressed her belly.
Xiao Lin sighed, “Then you and the boss”
Sally replied, “We broke up.”
Xiao Lin looked at her clothes, “Regardless, you should switch to work attire in the future… don’t provoke the boss too much.”
“You think he’d care?” Sally rubbed her own arm, a spot that had been drawn from countless times.
It started with a mere 50 milliliters, but later, the amount increased to 500 milliliters, and then to hematopoietic stem cells, and he even wanted her heart!
Thinking back to when she was shot to death, it seemed every bullet missed vital organs… she bled to death, alive…
“Later, find him a new personal assistant. In a month at most, I’ll need to focus on nurturing the fetus. Also,”
Sally took out a black card from her bag and handed it to Xiao Lin, “You gave me this card initially. Now it’s your turn to return it to him.”
“I don’t have a death wish, you return it yourself,” Xiao Lin refused.
“Fine by me,” Sally smiled.
After acquiring the gaming helmet, Sally started to delve into the game, even specifically registering an account on forums to browse strategies.
It had to be said, this game was really popular, with thousands of new forum posts appearing every minute, impossible to keep up with.
Once Qin Mo finished up his work, he pressed the intercom for the assistant’s office, asking Sally to make tea for him.
But after a good while, Sally didn’t come in.
Impatient from waiting, Qin Mo went to the assistant’s office himself.
As a result, when he saw Sally had flattened the chair and was lying on it, with a gaming headset on her head…
During work hours, she was slacking off and playing games!
One could imagine the color of Qin Mo’s face; as dark as it could be, matching the gloom of storm clouds.
Xiao Lin’s workstation was right next to Sally’s. When he returned with a glass of water, he saw Qin Mo in the office, staring at Sally with a forbidding expression.
He quickly put down his thermos cup, “Do you have any instructions?”
“What’s going on here?”
“She bought a game and wanted to see if it was fun, but once she got into it, she’s been playing for an hour already.”
“This is an agency building, not the big hotel where she lives!”
“Yes, yes, when she comes out of the game later, I’ll scold her severely,” Xiao Lin said.
“…Forget it.”
“Huh?”
…
In the game.
Sally had just finished customizing her character. She used her own Rat Clan face, which was quite beautiful, a real beauty!
[Xiaomei, do you think I made it look like myself?]
[The host’s chest doesn’t seem to be this big, nor is her butt this perky, and the eyes aren’t either]
[Xiaomei! Don’t kick a person when they’re down!]
[…Oh.]
[Alright, choose the character’s profession—Wanderer, which is quite similar to our current status.]
[Xiaomei thinks that a magician might be worth trying.]
[Just choose Wanderer.]
Aside from character customization, Sally made all other selections quite quickly.
In the end, she entered The Lost Frontier.
As for the drop location, she didn’t choose Novice Village but went with random instead.
Darkness, a cave, the fishy and damp air, and the heavy snoring… Sally didn’t need to think to know she had landed in a monster’s lair.
Suddenly, the snoring stopped.
Cold sweat began to form on Sally’s back.
The next moment, everything went black, and she was ejected from the game!
Without even getting the chance to face a monster, she was back in the real world.
This game’s mechanism stated that upon death, one would be disconnected from the game world and returned to reality. Of course, under some special plot circumstances, one would respawn on the spot after dying.
“Better to go to Novice Village and upgrade in a disciplined manner,” Sally muttered to herself as she removed the headset.
She was the only one in the office.
Sally glanced at the time; work had already ended.
Xiao Lin must have already left.
Then she might as well pack up and head back to the hotel.
After yawning and stretching lazily, a bit of moisture crept into the corners of her eyes.
The office door opened.
Qin Mo, holding his suit jacket, said to Sally, “Let’s go.”
Sally was stunned for a moment, “You haven’t left yet? You couldn’t have been waiting for me, right?”
“…” Without a word, Qin Mo turned and left.
Sally quickly grabbed her gaming headset, intending to follow him.
But after a couple of steps, she stopped.
She and he had already broken up; why should she follow him? With this thought, Sally turned around and sat back down, deciding she wasn’t hungry and might as well play the game a bit longer to see what monster had killed her.
Qin Mo stood in front of the elevator, and upon seeing Sally didn’t follow, he frowned slightly.
Then, as if remembering something, he raised his hand to massage his temple and decided to return.
He saw that Sally had re-entered the game.
What game could be so addictive? Qin Mo went over and picked up the game’s package, “The Lost Frontier…”
Looking back at Sally again, especially her hands crossed over her stomach, his eyes grew deeper, and he gently placed his suit jacket over her.
His phone rang, and he answered, “Hello.”
A pleading voice came from the other end, “Mo…”
In Qin Mo’s eyes, there was a glimpse of dark struggle and after one last look at Sally, he strode away.
