i'm not a cyberpsychopath

Chapter 4 Monsters
Monsters, theM, used to have various names, specifically referring to places that come from different worlds, parallel planes, hyperspace, or the reincarnation of heaven and hell, which cannot be analyzed, restored and reproduced with existing technology. Its principle, because it cannot be understood, has been called "existence" since ancient times.

At present, the company believes that when these 'existences', due to unknown reasons and purposes, came to the earth.Due to the restriction of some unknown laws on the earth plane, there are no conditions to support the complete arrival of these "existences", so most of the "existences" can only retain their local core rules. On the earth, some artificial objects with similar rules Form comes.

An inverted silhouette of an 'existence' from another world on this earth.

This is the monster.

Yes, projections, just like the shadow of the same person, are big and small, long and short. The same monster has different manifestations on different earths.

Some monsters have powerful energy, some monsters are not threatening at all, some monsters can communicate with the world and other worlds, and some monsters, if left unchecked, even threaten to destroy the world.

It cannot be classified or distinguished. After all, once it is analyzed, reproduced, and classified by human technology, it will lose its management significance as an 'unknown weirdness', and it cannot be called a 'monster'.

But obviously, if it's just worthless garbage, without the slightest risk of management, it also has no value in containment control.

Therefore, most of the existing login monsters, because of their strange rules and mechanisms, contain too large radiation energy that cannot be converted and diverged.

Once left out of control, it may cause permanent and irreparable damage to the natural environment and the ecological circle.What's more, it caused turmoil in the structure of civilization.

Therefore, for a long time, there have been various secret associations and organizations in human civilization, for various purposes, hidden in the shadow of civilization, responsible for the collection and management of monsters.

The M Company.

Monster Inc. is one of them. The establishment of the company can be traced back to the end of the 21st century. It is the first company whose main business project is monsters...

"Wait, wait a minute, the end of the 21st century? Isn't that all... Earth 0 era?"

Yes, long before the first star gate, the first system, and the first super brain prototype chip were manufactured, long before the singularity of the technological explosion, in the first and final Zhigao Earth 0 world.

The chairman of the company, the first general manager, came into contact with monsters due to family traditions, so with the help of the cutting-edge technology at that time, he gave full play to his genius economic acumen and founded a business group whose main business is monster collection, research, storage, production and leasing services. And continue to this day.

TheM Company, a member of the Earth 0 Safety Committee, the monster company of the heavens and the world, the multiverse parallel earth, and the designated monster dealer.

Li Pan looked at this 'retro' office, so this place probably really is the so-called 'starting point of everything'.

But even a thing of the nature of a 'monster' can monopolize sales, these companies are too outrageous...

There are internal explanations from the landline, as well as the company's tradition of paper-based office. Although the office area is as messy as the battlefield at this time, Li Pan can still dig out a lot of documents from the scattered desks and cabinets, including files, reports, and memos. , the instruction manual, various supplementary instructions for the product catalog, after studying it carefully while drinking coffee, I can roughly have a basic understanding of Monster Inc.

Human beings are arrogant, human beings are cowardly, and human beings are terrifying.

Those who don't understand are called monsters, and if they can't fully understand or control them, they will subconsciously try to destroy them.

Just because you can't understand it now doesn't mean you won't understand it in the future.

For example, ancient humans were afraid of fire and even worshiped the sun, but now they are proficient in fusion, making Dyson spheres at will, and dominating the infinite universe and galaxy.

In the same way, the ancient humans who used to be on Earth 0 used these monsters as gods, holy objects, and magic treasures to fight for, keep, and analyze.

Even if these monsters are really something like gods from other worlds, with the outbreak of technology and the development of the times, the mysterious veils on the monsters were quickly revealed, and their status plummeted, so that Gadgets, even the affixes such as "something higher than human" have been deleted, and now they are completely reduced to commodities that can be freely traded on the shelves.

Yeah, so what if you have the power to destroy humanity?These days, which big company warehouse has not hidden two star-killing antimatter bombs. What's the big deal about destroying all mankind? Who do you look down on?

Of course, on the other hand, as human scientific research progresses and the pace of exploration goes deeper into the universe, humans will encounter more and more monsters that they cannot understand and cannot control.It's impossible to wipe out indiscriminately, or hope to hide them all, someone will always be responsible for managing and dealing with the consequences of these things.

And it doesn't matter whether it's weird or not, even if you don't know what a monster is, you will be able to figure it out one day in the future, and rare things are valuable, so now you can speculate and invest.

Under a mature market system, as long as there is a buyer, everything can be valued and traded.

To put it bluntly, TheM monster company is an exchange specializing in monster trading. They buy monsters that cannot be analyzed by the other party's technology from scientific ethics committees, companies from the sky, and scavengers.

Then, based on his rich experience in this field, he analyzed, contained, valued, and then quoted for resale, and sold the monster to the technology laboratories of those giant companies for more in-depth research.This is the main source of income for Monster Inc.

These days, the money of the poor is really not enough for the teeth, and the only way to make money from the company is to make a living.

And monsters are indeed a huge market with unlimited potential. After all, at the level of the super companies, the struggle at the level of the safety committee does not even mean much money. In the final analysis, it is still a technological competition. Controlling the overall situation is the iron law of human development.

And the most powerful and leading technology is naturally the research on fringe technology in areas unknown to humans like monsters.

Of course, transactions involving monsters and companies at this level must be decided by the board of directors at the level of the Earth 0 head office, and a subsidiary like Earth 0791 is, to put it bluntly, a regional warehouse and logistics center under the Monster Company.

The task of the general manager of the subsidiary is naturally to recover and keep the monsters on the 0791 plane of the earth, and to complete the monster transactions between the head office and other chaebols.Of course, in view of the rarity, high value, and high risk of monsters, it is a typical three-year non-opening period and three-year opening period, so the daily work is mainly to check in the warehouse...

Li Pan, "Fuck, I've been walking around for a long time, but I'm still a warehouseman!"

After hanging up the phone, Li Pan stood up, only to notice that the cheap formal suits and plaid shirts he rented were all torn. Although the body was restored in the filing cabinet, these clothes were not demobilized...

Li Pan thought for a while, and picked up the formal suit that the coffee monster was wearing just now in the ashes.

How should I put it, it is a very strange material, soft and tough, as if touching human skin, but now it is cold and cold, it is a bit strange to say so, but for some reason, Li Pan felt that this formal suit was 'dead', so he tried a little harder It will be torn apart, and naturally there is no bulletproof effect.

So Li Pan picked up the phone and dialed 0791001.

"What is this? It's also a monster?"

He heard his own echo on the other end of the phone.

"Dress/Guardian,
identified, controllable

In-group purchase products, monster sub-items.

The suit/guardian may be a projection on Earth of the pups of an outsider.

Formal suits/guardians can coexist with employees and resist damage, but formal suits/guardians can also suffer and die.

If an employee doesn't respect his suit/guardian, the suit/guardian will get angry and run away.

If the employees treat their suits/guardians well, the suits/guardians will fight with you to the end.

The company only reimburses the first suit/Guardian for full-time employees.

Although I am still in the internship period, I can also enjoy this benefit as an acting manager. "

"Oh, it can be reimbursed, then give me a set."

Li Pan put the dead suit on his body, it was a bit too big, so he could barely make do with it.

"The general manager can find custom-made formal suits in the phone book, and send a fax to customize formal suits/guardians.

But to equip a formal suit/guardian, you need to accept the trial of the formal suit/guardian and consume a silver spoon. "

Li Pan narrowed his eyes, "Wait a minute, what's the use of this silver key?"

"The key opens the door."

"...Nonsense, be more specific."

So the phone was accentuated,

"The 'key' can open the 'door', by definition. The properties of monsters cannot be explained scientifically, as long as they conform to the rules, they can be used.

I can use a key to open any entrance, or a key to open any seal, or directly open the warehouse and borrow the company's monsters in the warehouse.

I am the general manager, and I have the right to borrow the company's inventory for monster containment tasks, but since I only have one key in my hand, maybe I should be more cautious and take a look at the inventory to make a decision. "

Monster key, so mysterious...

Li Pan took out the key again and looked at it.

From what the phone said, it sounds like this thing can only be used once, and it may be a reward or currency within the company.

But that's right, I don't know when the formal suit will be delivered, and what kind of trial will be done. He is not sure, but there must be stock in the company's warehouse. If the general manager can borrow it... Wait!which warehouse?The one targeted by the Maelstrom Gang?

"I suddenly realized that warehouse No. 7 might have potential safety hazards. In view of the unexplained attack, all former employees of the company were deleted. Perhaps I should conduct an inventory inspection to investigate the cause of the previous attack on the company and report it to the head office. "

Li Pan also realized that the people from Monster Company died so cleanly, there must be forces to follow them.Of course, the mastermind behind the scenes is definitely not the Whirlpool Gang, that kind of bastard is at most someone who is stepping on thunder to explore the way. Since Monster Inc. is a member of the safety committee, then his opponent might be Ye Shi, a super plane of Gao Tianyuan's level company.

And now, whether he likes it or not, he has already boarded the thief ship and saved the file.If you want to delete it, it will be deleted on him sooner or later, even if you want to protect yourself, you have to act.

Li Pan immediately ran back and forth while asking questions on the phone, looking for the inventory list of the No. 7 warehouse in the surrounding file cabinet database.

Before he joined the job, he went around Warehouse No. 7 under the leadership of Da Xiong. He knew that the scale of the warehouse was quite large. There are also automatic defense guns outside, intelligent identification of landmines, and retired armed robots.

Although there is no full-time private security at the level of CSI, but because of the extra money paid to the NCPA branch of the block, the cameras near the warehouse street have been connected to the police monitoring subnet, and there will be patrols in the morning and evening. Once the police call 3 The police were dispatched in minutes.

But what surprised him was that according to the company's list of security configurations, there was actually only one monster kept there, and the others were empty boxes, which were used to deal with the broken things inspected by the tax bureau.

"In order to avoid running amok and getting out of control, all monsters must be individually contained in accordance with the specific environment. I should check the status of the warehouse immediately."

"What kind of unlucky thing is installed in the No. [-] warehouse, and I need to go there in person? And what's wrong with your computers? Can't you turn on any of them?"

Li Pan was also speechless, this unlucky company deleted all the employee files at once, and the task reports were naturally gone.And in the piles of internal affairs files, the monster-related information was all smeared out with small black stripes, which dazzled the human eye.

Damn it, it's the age of cyberpunk, and only fax machines, shredders, landlines and coffee machines are available in the company, what a shit.

"The company's server has been offline urgently and cannot be used until the system is reset. After the company's facilities are damaged, you can call the cleaner/time reset after get off work to restart. You can return to normal when you go to work tomorrow.

Note that cleaners only serve the blue and yellow zones. "

Li Pan was taken aback, "Blue zone? Yellow zone?"

"The blue zone is safe, and there are no monsters. The yellow zone is controllable, and the monsters have been contained. The red zone is dangerous, and the monsters are at risk of losing control or have lost control."

"...Hey," Li Pan suddenly thought of something, squinting his eyes, "Isn't that fucking identification of mood deviation value the stuff you guys came up with?"

Then the echo on the phone replied,
"I do not know."

Li Pan was speechless, "You don't know? Aren't you the company's exclusive system intelligent assistance? You don't know?"

phone,

"I'm an office landline/psychic echo, also known at some point as 'soul communication' 'subliminal conversation' 'psychic whisper' 'psychic medium'.

When dialing the employee's internal line, when the employee is in a state of being unable to answer, I can answer instead, but I can only report the information that the employee can sort out and analyze from the task site. "

Then this thing is not as good as the system, the smart assistant at least knows how to search online...

The phone went on to say,
"The company needs to be restarted, and I need to work overtime. Tonight, I will check the status of the 42 warehouses in the city one by one. It is recommended to start from the 7th first, and enter the red zone one by one to check the status of the monsters to ensure that no loss of control will occur."

Li Pan sneered,

"I book! It's only 2500 yuan a month, and you're making me die!"

"I am the No.0791 manager of Branch 14."

"Two thousand and one hundred yuan!"

"This city used to be called No.13 New Tokyo."

"Two thousand...Huh? You mean that the destruction of the old city has something to do with monsters? Didn't you say that the company killed itself..."

Li Pan suddenly realized that the monster's loss of control was not due to the company's own death, not to mention the real company war, the change of dynasty, which was the first time that Gao Tianyuan was replaced by Ye's in 0791.And to be honest, the Ye family didn't take your local aborigines seriously, they even reissued relief loans, the company mainly came to make money.

But he reacted immediately,

"That's none of my business. The situation in front of me is clearly the mess left by the previous class! If you have the ability, you can pull up those who deleted files and finish it yourself!

threaten me?I am 500 yuan a month and you ask me to save the world?
Go talk to Grand Duchess Camila of the Ye Clan, go talk to Sosuke Oda Kami of Gao Tianyuan, they have invested hundreds of trillions in the capital of the night, maybe they care. "

Then the phone said slowly,
"I know that remuneration is not the key, the key is the contract. Only by complying with the contract can the rules be activated. And my manager's authority is based on the temporary labor contract, which is recognized by the filing cabinet.

And I know they don't care. When the flood comes, the people standing on the top of the mountain will always survive first. Even if they invest hundreds of trillions in the capital of night, it is just a drop in the bucket for them. They can still enjoy it if they re-invest thirteen times rise.

But living on 500 yuan a month is all I have now. "

"Fuck!"

Li Pan hung up the phone angrily, and looked at the memo in his hand angrily.

'Delete/delete, identification, blue, a medium to communicate with the subconscious, the object of communication is unknown, some people think that what they hear is the echo of the soul, some people are tasked to communicate with us on the other side, it is some kind of artificial intelligence, some people think It is an auditory hallucination similar to schizophrenia, and I think it may be my own conscience. '

Liang Nima's head.

Li Pan crumpled up the memo and threw it into the wastebasket.

After thinking about it, I called the cleaner to come and wash the floor.Then get up and leave the company.

Anyway, let's take a look at the big bear.

Maybe he wasn't deleted by the company, but was beaten to death by the Maelstrom Gang.

In that way, his family will at least have the opportunity to apply for an interest-free loan for work-related injury compensation.

Of course the hope is slim.

(End of this chapter)