Chapter 181
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Little He gave Lou Yan a lot of props for the performance. Lou Yan took Fu Xuezhou to an empty space nearby and began “training” as instructed.
However, as time passed, Lou Yan found that the long days inside Paradise seemed a bit unusual. He felt like a whole day had passed, but the sunlight still shone brightly, as if it were only afternoon.
Lou Yan checked the time on a clock and realized it was already 7:30 in the evening.
Frowning, he immediately thought of the bathroom rules at home.
The rules required that children wash up between 8 and 9 p.m. at night, which meant Lou Yan had to be home before 8 p.m. If he violated this rule, he might be treated as a pet.
But he still needed to “take care” of Fu Xuezhou. If he had a legitimate work reason, did he need to go back home?
Lou Yan didn’t like that “home” at all. The two anomaly figures with the same appearance as his parents did not evoke any feelings of warmth or nostalgia in him, only resistance and suffocation. He didn’t want the few good memories of his parents left in his mind to be distorted into something else by this place.
Lou Yan went directly to Little He and said straightforwardly, “Little… cough, Director He, I have something to ask you.”
Little He now valued Lou Yan very much. When he saw Lou Yan, he smiled all over his face. “Little Lou, go ahead.”
“It’s like this,” Lou Yan said directly, “I need to take care of Big Eye—Big Eye is the nickname I gave to the monster on the fourth floor because it has too many eyes on its body. It seems to like me very much. Every time I leave its sight, it becomes very irritable. In addition, I need to train it and prepare a performance with it before the day after tomorrow. So, time is very tight. Director He, I want to ask if I can stay in the factory tonight to rest? I can take care of it and not waste time. There should be employee dormitories here, right?”
Little He thought for a moment and felt he made sense. He immediately took out a piece of paper from the drawer, quickly wrote something on it, and handed it to Lou Yan. “Then you can stay in the employee dormitory for the next two days. Here’s your dorm room number. Do you know the dormitory rules?”
Lou Yan nodded without changing his expression. “I know the bedroom rules.”
Little He said, “Well… The dormitory rules are actually no different from the bedroom rules, but there are three more rules for the dormitory. I’ll only say it once, Little Lou, you have to remember.”
“1. Before going to bed, you must check the dormitory’s faucet multiple times to make sure it doesn’t drip.”
“2. If you hear dripping or flowing water at midnight, immediately raise your hands to cover your head, face the wall, and count silently to 100.”
“3. There will be a dormitory manager in the dormitory, usually a sloppy middle-aged man. If you see a dormitory manager wearing a red tight skirt, a sexy woman, you must turn around and run away immediately, and call the factory security.”
Lou Yan remembered these three rules and glanced at the dormitory number on the paper.
Building 21, Unit 2, Room 201.
Little He looked at the time and said, “Little Lou, you need to inform your parents in time that you’ll be staying in the employee dormitory tonight. And let me remind you, it’s already 7:34 in the evening. You need to be back in the dormitory before 8 o’clock and finish washing up and go to bed before 9 o’clock.”
“Okay.” Lou Yan nodded and walked out of Director He’s office. As soon as he stepped out, he saw the silver-haired monster waiting at the door.
The silver-haired monster waved its six pale hands behind its back and countless tentacles growing under it expressionlessly, as if greeting Lou Yan.
Lou Yan was startled, and then his body was splashed with the slime raised by the tentacles. His forehead twitched, and he endured the discomfort. “Put down your arms and tentacles and follow me back to the dormitory, Big Eye.”
The silver-haired monster obediently followed behind him.
It was easy to find Building 21. Lou Yan brought Fu Xuezhou to the bottom of the dormitory building in just a few minutes. Looking up, there were five words written on the signboard of the dormitory building besides the number 21: Middle-Level Employee Building.
Next to Building 21 was Building 20, the grassroots employee building. The two buildings were only ten meters apart, but they were vastly different. One was a dilapidated, long-abandoned, and cramped dormitory building, while the other was a tall, luxurious, and magnificent building. The grassroots employees who came and went all looked at Building 21 with envy, then reluctantly walked into the damp and dark Building 20.
Lou Yan sighed in his heart.
This is deliberately deepening the class consciousness.
He walked into the dormitory building with Fu Xuezhou. When he saw that the dormitory manager was a sloppy old man picking his feet, he felt relieved. He handed the note to the sloppy old man. The sloppy old man rubbed his fingers on his clothes, disregarding Fu Xuezhou, and took the note, saying, “Please go to your room. I’ll send your bedding and toiletries to your room later.”
Lou Yan frowned and looked at the dirty and oily hands, then said directly, “Where are the things? I’ll take them up myself, so you don’t have to bother.”
The sloppy old man didn’t mind either. He took them to the dormitory and handed all of Lou Yan’s things to him in one go.
Lou Yan carried these things, making it difficult to see the road ahead. He reluctantly put the things on the ground and stood with his hands on his hips, looking at them. From the bottom of his heart, he felt that carrying these things made him look bad. After thinking for a moment, Lou Yan turned his head to stare at Fu Xuezhou’s tentacles and joked, “Big Eye, can you contribute your flexible little tentacles?”
The silver-haired monster seemed to understand and extended its tentacles towards Lou Yan. The tentacles crawled up Lou Yan’s thighs and boldly touched his buttocks and crotch.
Lou Yan: “…” You little b*stard.
In an instant, he remembered the terrifyingly shameful experience he had with the frenzied Fu Xuezhou, and his face darkened for a moment. He abruptly pulled off the silver-haired monster’s tentacles. “You—!”
Lou Yan squeezed the tentacles forcefully with his fingers a few times, roughly wrapped them with a few pieces of paper to prevent the liquid on the tentacles from dripping onto the things, and then placed everything on the tentacles.
Then he pointed at Fu Xuezhou’s eyes with a smile but not a smile, and warned, “Don’t touch me with your tentacles without my permission, or do you believe I’ll chop you up into octopus soup?”
Fu Xuezhou’s consciousness was definitely present, but it was not in a normal state. After hearing this, he thought for a moment and unexpectedly raised his tentacles to Lou Yan’s lips.
It was as if he was saying to Lou Yan: go ahead, eat.
Once again, Lou Yan felt deeply helpless, but also couldn’t help but laugh bitterly.
If he had a phone or a camera on him, he really wanted to capture this scene of Fu Xuezhou and show it to him after he regained his senses, so that Fu Xuezhou himself could see how silly he looked when he lost his mind.
Seeing that Lou Yan didn’t eat, the silver-haired monster tilted its head in confusion and enthusiastically pressed its tentacles against Lou Yan’s lips again.
“…No need, thank you,” Lou Yan said weakly, turning his head away. “I’m not hungry. Let’s go upstairs first.”
There was an elevator in the dormitory building, but Fu Xuezhou couldn’t fit through the elevator door because of his size. Fortunately, their dorm room was not high, only on the second floor, so Lou Yan quickly took Fu Xuezhou into the room.
The room was large, a suite with two bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom, and a study. It was decorated very simply, and there were even some cold drinks and instant food in the kitchen refrigerator.
Lou Yan looked around each room and found a clock in each room.
He had noticed this phenomenon before. Many rules in Paradise were related to time, and he guessed that there were so many clocks for this reason.
It was now 7:50 in the evening, but the sky outside was still bright.
Lou Yan suddenly remembered something: Little He reminded him that he needed to inform his parents that he would be staying in the employee dormitory tonight.
But now he discovered a problem. How should he tell his parents?
His father, Lou Lin, had a late washing time of 7-8 p.m., so Lou Lin needed to be home before 7 p.m. Lou Yan couldn’t go to him now to tell him that he wouldn’t be going home. He also didn’t have a phone to contact his parents…
Lou Yan remembered the dormitory manager. On the sloppy old man’s desk where he was picking his feet, he remembered seeing a black landline phone.
After instructing Fu Xuezhou not to leave the dorm room, Lou Yan turned and went downstairs to find the dormitory manager, but the dormitory manager was nowhere to be found.
However, the landline phone on the table was still there. Lou Yan walked up to the phone and picked up the receiver. However, when he was about to dial, he hesitated.
After a moment, with a complicated expression, he pressed his father’s phone number, but just as he was about to press the dial button, a slender and pale hand with red nail polish gently covered the dial button.
Lou Yan’s hand paused, and he calmly looked up.
A beautiful woman with heavy makeup, a big wavy hairstyle, and a tight red dress leaned coquettishly on the desk, giggling and blinking at Lou Yan.
There was a deep scar on the woman’s neck, and blood kept seeping out of the wound, staining her red dress.
Lou Yan’s gaze shifted to the name tag on her chest: Dormitory Manager of Building 21.
“3. There will be a dormitory manager in the dormitory, usually a sloppy middle-aged man. If you see a dormitory manager wearing a red tight skirt, a sexy woman, you must turn around and run away immediately, and call the factory security.”
What did Little He say? Call the factory security?
Lou Yan glanced at the landline phone on the table, which was blocked by the woman’s hand, and suddenly smiled ironically. He muttered to himself, “This rule is really tricky.”
“Hehe,” the woman leaned her face close to Lou Yan’s, and the blood on her neck dripped onto the table, making it everywhere, “Let’s play a game, okay? If you win, I’ll allow you to make this call.”
Lou Yan looked at the scar on the woman’s neck, frowned, and asked patiently, “What game?”
“A true or false game, hehe,” the woman’s mouth widened with a big grin, her teeth covered in thick blood, “You ask me three questions, and I’ll only answer with yes or no. Two of my answers will be false and one true. You have to find out which question I answered truthfully~ How about it, isn’t it simple?”
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