i'm not a cyberpsychopath

Chapter 48 Vase
Today's task is to contain monsters, first investigate the authenticity.

Newcomers can't be recruited for a while, so they can only give priority to training the employees in hand.

The task of rescuing Xiaotaro last time was too easy, and he failed to try Lama's skills. This time, Li Pan took the lead, asked Lama to investigate, and sat in the floating car to fish, ahem, and provide support.

"Boss, I found it."

"……So fast?"

As a result, Li Pan squinted for less than half an hour, and Lama came back with a vase in his arms.

"Well, this is it. It's the same as the one in the photo. Look, the pocket watch is also spinning."

Li Pan picked up the vase in Rama's hand to have a look. The blue and white porcelain was dirty, and there was nothing 'weird' about it.

Compared with the company's mission files, it was indeed this bottle.

Although QVN and the security system have returned, the chaos in 0791 has just begun, and the Yuchai Group is fighting fiercely with other forces for Gao Tianyuan's legacy.A lot of treasured antiques that belonged to the chaebol under Gao Tianyuan also appeared on the streets one after another. Obviously, the struggle has become fierce, and each family is cashing in to raise funds to increase their "combat power".

And the company came across this monster that was suspected to have 'failed to purchase' on a certain grocery store website, so as a rule, it first assigned an investigation task.

But I thought it was just a similar imitation, but it was real?and……

"Lama, how did you get it? Did you pay for it?"

Lama was also frank, "I saw no one in the grocery store. Shiba said there was no surveillance nearby, so I just took it out."

"..."

Does this work too?
The biometric monitoring of the chip showed that Lama was normal, as if the vase hadn't affected him at all.In fact, Li Pan held it in his hand and didn't think there was anything weird about the vase.

Could it be that monster containment is actually a very simple activity?What the hell was 'procurement failure' before then?
When it comes to monsters, Li Pan is quite cautious.

He asked Lama to watch the vase stand by in the car, and go back to the company if there was any trouble, and he also went to the grocery store of the mission target.

This is a self-employed small shop, where people live upstairs and open a shop downstairs, and sell some odds and ends of small commodities, all of which are civilian products with first- and second-level technology.The street was deserted, and no one passed by.

But there was actually an old man in the shop, hiding in the corner, Li Pan glanced at him, probably understood why Lama said 'there is no one in the shop'.

He can't see.

The old man in the corner is somewhat similar to the woman in red in the 'hairband', but much weaker, so weak that Li Pan thinks that he can swallow the other person into his stomach to refine it.

"Hey, boss, shopping."

He raised his hand and waved it in front of the old man's eyes, but the other party didn't respond, his eyes were fixed on the door with dull eyes.

Seeing that there was nothing to ask, Li Pan went upstairs directly, opened the anti-theft door on the second floor, and broke into the house.

A stench came out, and sure enough, the old man was already dead, his body was rotten to a paste, and he died on the tatami mat. On the quilt of the bed, there was already a sticky human-shaped jelly, yellow and green lumps. The gelatinous pus, like mung bean ribs porridge.

Li Pan walked into the house, took Shiba in and searched the local laptop, and went through all the photos of clothing and supplies in the cabinet, and probably found out.

The old man’s name is Hiroshi Tamura, and he was a MM when he was young. Ahem, the Mars Marine Corps, similar to the Starship Army, is a new military force in this era. It is a specialized space combat force. It is named because it is usually stationed on Mars for training. Special forces for planetary assault missions.

This force selects the elite from the planetary army, accepts tactical training in various gravity environments, and forms a rapid response force.They discovered habitable planets during space development, and they were the first batch of people who were air-dropped to remove pests and insects.

Most of the elite veterans in the frontier star field also have service history in this army. After all, they have to be screened repeatedly from the elites to carefully select the real soldier king.

Of course, Tamura has not yet reached the level of a military king. After retiring from the army, he works in a security company and is the driver assigned to the company's cadres to drive bodyguards.Looking at the medical records, I was seriously injured in a certain operation, and I couldn’t afford the surgery fee. I was fired when I couldn’t continue to work. My wife ran away with her lover, and my children ignored him, so they opened a small shop to collect junk. , doing odd jobs to make a living, and the last person died alone in this ancestral house.

As for the vase, there is no more detailed record. The old man Tamura works part-time to pick up junk to make a living. The company occasionally asks him to collect second-hand goods from the warehouse and read the newsletter. The grocery store is stocked up.

The vases were also collected by Tamura and took pictures, and uploaded them to his grocery store website for sale from time to time. It seems that the upload time has been more than half a year, and it may have been screened by the company's intelligence department recently.

Li Pan turned around twice, except for ordinary people who are only left with white smoke after death, and the "soul" of the old man Tiancun can gather into a human form and shrink in a corner, and he has not noticed any other suspicious signs. As for his own strong willpower , or the side effects caused by long-term exposure to 'vase', it is uncertain.

"Okay, the task is completed, go back and write the report."

However, Lama completed the task so easily, and Li Pan didn't know how to evaluate it, so let's put the 'vase' in the constant temperature warehouse.

The temperature-controlled warehouse at the company's headquarters, also known as the 'yellow zone', is specially used to store monsters that are temporarily contained, have not yet been identified, have unknown performance, and are dangerous.

Li Pan glanced at the controls in the elevator in the yellow area. The structure of the blue, yellow, and red warehouse area is almost identical. There is a direct elevator from the lobby. There are also eight floor number buttons in the elevator. The bottom is the reception hall. F0, the other seven floors are arranged from F50 to F56.

Similarly, in the red zone, there are rows from F57 to F63. The only difference is the color of the elevator lights, which are blue, yellow and red.If there is a "monster" stored on any floor, the corresponding elevator button will have a light on, otherwise it is an empty storage space, which can be used to store new products.

The basic policy of warehouse management is basically the same. Each monster corresponds to a separate floor, but there are basically no containment measures for the floors of the 'blue zone'. 'Do not affect each other.

The 'yellow zone' and the 'red zone', in addition to various containment measures, are required to 'turn off the lights'.

In other words, these 'monsters' are stored in some kind of different dimension.

Perhaps the storage method of "turning off the lights" also has various restrictions, or there are cost issues. In short, the company generally does not recommend keeping all monsters in the company headquarters.

Therefore, usually after the safe containment method for monsters is determined by the technical department, a special external warehouse will be set up to store the management numbered items for a long time.

In addition, external warehouses are not only on the earth, but also in space. TheM company also has asteroid bases in the asteroid belt, vacuum cargo holds, and fleet warehouses, all of which are used to store "combat reserve" monsters.The general manager can open the inventory on the earth at will, and those things need to be reported to the head office.

In short, Li Pan glanced at the yellow zone. F50 to F54 are all full. To put it bluntly, it is a mess left over from the previous session. He has collected things that have not had time to be sorted and contained. When he is free, he will have to test them one by one. Then report for containment.

Alas, the work is never done.

So he put the 'vase' in the yellow zone F55, and Li Pan went to the red zone F58 to look at the 'bed sheet', and beat the 'sheet' with Jiuyin magic skill.

Don't tell me, this broken bed sheet is really quite resistant to beating. Li Pan estimated that he was a nine-yin superman who punched out with at least ten tons of force, but he still couldn't smash it. Instead, he used the blue sword energy to condense it in With the fingertips, use the Nine Yin Magic Art at the same time, and poke a hole in the bed sheet with one finger. Although it will recover in a blink of an eye, it must be broken if it is broken.

It seems that monkey swordsmanship also has merits, so it can't just be discarded and not practiced.

Li Pan didn't eat enough for breakfast, and didn't want to waste his limited physical strength on the broken sheets. After practicing his fists and kicks and warming up, he went back to write the daily newspaper and completed the tasks of "monster containment" and "monster test".

For the task of successfully containing the monsters, the company is quite generous. It directly gave Li Pan and Lama who participated in the task a silver key each. Completing one task a day is worth the two thousand and five hundred yuan.

So Li Pan released Rama to move freely. This kid has been kept in a cage. He didn't go to school seriously, and he doesn't even know about maggots.

Then he discussed with Ah Qi about continuing to recruit new recruits.

"Why, the OL with beautiful legs who came to the interview that day refused? What a pity, I don't think these majors are easy to fool, or engineers, prosthetic doctors, finance or accounting majors are preferred."

"But these occupations are all popular industries. The daily salary of elite white-collar workers may not exceed [-]. It may be difficult to convince them..."

"I know, but we've got to rebuild tech as fast as we can, and we need help to make some extra money.

At this time, it should be the right time to recruit talents. Now Gao Tianyuan dog bites dog and breaks his head. There must be many company dogs who have been involved in the office and have been fired. They have nowhere to go, and they dare not be cruel and jump off the building. Maybe they will ask us for help.

Anyway, they are not a good thing, and they don’t feel bad when they are really used. They kill two birds with one stone, and they are mutually beneficial and win-win. "

"Okay boss, let me discuss with Miss Shiba and try to recruit in Gao Tianyuan's internal forum."

Alas, there is no way out, the few resumes given by the HR department, in fact, Ah Qi has also contacted them these days, but only Kotaro who has nowhere to go applies for the job, and the others who came for interviews had a good conversation at the beginning, listen When the monthly salary was [-] to [-] years, he declined directly.

In fact, after getting in touch with these monsters, Li Pan also saw through the monster company's considerations, because their business content, housing monsters, really didn't make sense to hire so many high-quality talents.

To put it bluntly, the little knowledge you learned at school and the prosthetic body you put on are just for fun in front of these monsters, so you are either like Li Pan, who is very talented, or like Lama, who is lucky enough.The other parameters are really useless.

And 500 yuan is not too much, and it is not too much. Li Pan really needs to be ruthless and go directly to the slums to pull people by truck by truck, send them to the warehouse to try one by one, and delete the files as soon as they get out of control. .As long as enough human resources are invested, what monster attributes cannot be measured.

As for the backbone of the organization that is actually used to maintain the company's operations, as well as the support staff of the technical department, most of them are waiting for the school to hold a presentation to recruit those elite graduates with clean backgrounds.

Of course, such regular employees don't have to go to the front line. Temporary workers do all the dirty work. They just drink coffee and type reports in the office. This is what big companies in the heavens do.

In this way, I wrote reports, took inventory and inventory, and spent another daily working day that seemed to have done a lot of things, but seemed to have done nothing. When I was about to clock in and leave work, the phone rang.

"Containment out-of-control alarm for constant temperature warehouse!"

Um?No, he obviously turned off the lights?
So Li Pan set off immediately, Ah Qi and Spider Style, who were making sheets, were fully armed, rushed into the yellow zone F55, and turned on the lights.

Fortunately, there was no bloody explosion scene.

But the 'vase' in the house has become two.

Li Pan turned off the alarm and frowned at the two identical vases on the table.

Then he turned the light off and on again.

Well, the vase has become four.

After identification with a pocket watch, every vase responded, but it was just an ordinary blue and white porcelain vase in my hand.

"...What do you think, Ah Qiyou?"

Ah Qi typing and broadcasting,

"This monster seems to have some kind of self-replication mechanism. If we don't find a way to restrict containment, it may be in big trouble."

Isn't that right? If this thing is replicated exponentially and there is no limit, it may also be a world-class disaster.But after leaving it in the grocery store for so long, there is obviously no reaction?

"Hmm... maybe it's 'turning off the lights'...

How about this, Shiba checks out the situation of that old man in Tamura, who did he work as a driver for before, what kind of social network did he have, and try to find out the whereabouts of the vase before.

Keep things in the office first, use spider monitoring, just leave them alone like a grocery store, and see if there is any response. You will work hard tonight and pay attention. If this thing starts to copy, notify me immediately. "

"Good boss."

So Li Pan got off work.

Otherwise, it is impossible to work overtime, and it is impossible to work overtime even if the world is destroyed.

But it's okay to have a side job.

Li Pan took the subway all the way to the old capital area. According to the coordinates and route map sent by Xiaotaro, he found a ramen restaurant, went around to the back alley and got into the sewer.Go along the refuge tunnel and come to a huge air-raid shelter, which is the well-known information center of the New Tokyo Underground City, 'Samsara Bar'.

'Reincarnation' does not belong to the East City Alliance's assets. The boss behind the scenes is from another world. Gao Tianyuan was a neutral intelligence dealer in his time. The local chaebol and gangsters also gave him face. Times, the tradition of this neutral zone has continued.

However, unlike 'Peace Hotel' which advocates peace, 'Samsara' is very happy to send guests to Samsara. After all, most of the guests here die. Things have to be compensated at sky-high prices.

A new face like Li Pan is naturally being targeted before he even walks through the main entrance. When he comes up, there are two people probing, one with a gun and the other with a knife. They come up front and back to greet him. They don’t know whether it’s robbery or waist cutting, including bars. Passers-by including bodyguards were watching the show.

Fortunately, Li Pan reacted quite quickly. Seeing that their eyes were not right, before the other party could speak his lines, he shook his body and feet, and then swayed past the man who was drawing the gun in front of him. He twisted his neck into a twist, broke his head into an obtuse angle, and threw it on the ground.

Then he stepped forward again, shrank the ground and moved forward, jumped in front of the knife hand who was stunned in place, twisted the opponent's wrist, stabbed the knife into his stomach with his backhand, and raised his hand to lift him from the abdomen to the chest He opened the mouth, and then punched one inch, and the punch tore a big hole in the knife edge, and pulled out the heart.

The onlookers who were hiding in the shadows watching the play were also a bit of a shit, they never expected that the newcomer would be so tricky when they came up, they all swallowed, and immediately turned their heads away, pretending to be studying the excrement of the sewer.

And the bodyguards at the gate of 'Samsara' quickly took a step away and let Li Pan get out of the gate entrance, so as not to be torn apart by this lunatic's hand.

I have to say that violence is the best pass, some people don't dare to BB after you slap him.

The air-raid shelter where the 'Samsara' bar is located used to be the divisional headquarters of the New Tokyo Defense Force. It has more than a dozen floors, and various branch roads branch air-raid shelters. Different entrances have different security levels. There are some passages exclusively for upper-level people who are bulletproof throughout. The elevator, then naturally there will be no punks coming to find fault.

As for the various recreational facilities inside, there are naturally more, there are dance floors for heavy metal dancers, there are also bourgeoisie-style Qing Bars, there are even various shops, hotels, black markets, exchanges, auction houses, and of course there are dancers and dolls. All kinds of service facilities, in short, as the most famous underground city in the night city, Gold Cave, it can provide any kind of service.

It's a pity that Li Pan only has 5 yuan and 3 cents on his body, otherwise he would have to walk around and see the market if he came here once in a while.

However, people are poor as well as poor, and they can't afford to spend anyway. Now he has a clear mind and keeps his eyes on all the way until he finds the private room that Kotaro reserved.

Xiaotaro hasn't arrived yet, but the young master of Feng Mo's family is indeed quite polite. He has already paid for the drinks out of his own pocket, and the smart maid in bikini brought a fruit plate and a coke bucket.

Li Pan was not too polite, he just emptied the fruit plate first, ate all the melon seeds and mints, and drank half of the Coke bucket again, Xiaotaro finally arrived...

"You, who?"

"Manager, it's me, Kotaro,"

With heavy makeup and long blond hair, wearing fake pupils and a one-piece miniskirt, the woman who looked like a nightclub princess said embarrassedly,

"Can't you recognize it? It seems that my disguise technique has not regressed."

Li Pan almost spit out the wine in his stomach,

"Damn it! Why don't you change into a prosthetic body!?"

Kotaro said seriously,

"Manager, I didn't change my prosthetic body, it's the Demon Conjuring Flow Disguise Technique, it's a necessary disguise for secret operations!
By the way, don't call me Kotaro now, this identity is inconvenient, call me Annie. "

Hearing that he hadn't changed yet, Li Pan was even more disgusted and trembling,
"Damn! It's better to make half of the whole set! Why! You just tell me where Shura will be, and it's over if we kill it!"

Anne Kotaro helplessly explained,

"I can't help it, I've inquired about it, the clubhouse of the Asura Society is more tasteful, they often play with dead people, only entertain regular customers, and they need to introduce someone to lead the way.

However, I heard that Shura would sometimes find some wandering warblers to make up for it. Although they have a bad reputation and women often go missing, they offer a generous price and some people still go.

So I'm going to take this opportunity to sneak in, I've swallowed the tracker, this is the tracking program.

Boss, don't worry, this time I will definitely get rid of my shame and successfully infiltrate! "

Li Pan couldn't help being shocked by his determination,

"Feng Mo Annie, you can actually do this for the sake of extra money for the team! Well, you can rest assured!"

(End of this chapter)