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PFRG: Chapter 123

Strange Stories Arcade (32)

Chi Ting could sense the other party’s strong resistance, but it was also obvious that as an NPC staff member, they weren’t allowed to reject the players’ requests. In the end, under such a direct gaze, he could only point in a direction reluctantly.

Before leaving, Chi Ting was very polite. “Thank you.”

The two staff members: “.”

Ji Xingque was just thinking that the people around him were arriving too slowly. He turned around, noticed Chi Ting, and asked, “Captain, where are you going?”

“I’m looking for something.” Chi Ting just remembered after hearing this. “Oh, by the way, call me when everyone here is almost gathered.”

Ji Xingque stood at attention and accepted the order. “No problem!”

Yue Ren followed Chi Ting with his hands in his trouser pockets, looking back from time to time as he walked. He asked curiously, “He doesn’t know where you are going. How can he call you? There doesn’t seem to be any communicator or something similar here.”

Chi Ting replied, “Well, no. He can just set off some fireworks for me.”

Yue Ren digested it for a while before figuring out what Chi Ting meant by ‘setting off fireworks.’ He looked up at the ceiling, a bit uncertain of whether it was solid or not. He laughed and asked, “Are you sure he won’t blow a hole?”

Chi Ting obviously hadn’t thought of this question. He paused and looked in the direction of Yue Ren’s gaze, a bit uncertain. “…Old Song is looking after him. He shouldn’t be so stupid, right?”

Yue Ren shrugged. “It doesn’t really matter. You don’t have to pay for any damage here.”

This was obviously the truth, so Chi Ting went with the flow and stopped thinking about it. He walked forward for a while. Finally, he found the employee code of conduct that the staff member had mentioned in a dusty corner.

This place looked much more remote than the gas station sign. There was also a lot of debris piled up around it, and it was even covered with a piece of discarded red cloth. The moment it was torn open, the dust overflowed and made Chi Ting cough repeatedly. He couldn’t help complaining, “…It can be seen that the NPCs here really don’t want the players to see this.”

“The more they don’t let it, the more problems there will be,” Yue Ren said as he helped Chi Ting wave away the dust around him. He tried his best to clear all the dust on the sign, and the words on it were finally revealed.

However, it had been put aside for so long that the already crooked text was even more difficult to decipher than the gas station. He almost had to frown the entire time he read it.

[Starry Sky Arcade Employee’s Code of Conduct]

[Welcome to becoming a staff member of the Starry Sky Arcade. The Starry Sky Arcade is dedicated to providing services to all players. Before joining this big family, please read all the contents of the employee code of conduct carefully. As long as you abide by it carefully, you can enjoy complete employee benefits!

  1. When a player comes to seek help, please actively answer the questions they need.
  2. Your service attitude determines the length of your working hours. Once the working hours are met, other employees will come to rotate with you. However, please remember not to communicate with the rotating employees if you still want to continue working.

  3. Please remember the area that you are responsible for during your work, and don’t leave your post without permission before the final celebration begins. After the celebration begins, make sure there are no players in the area you are responsible for before gathering at the service desk.

  4. Please strictly follow the specific rules with the area of responsibility.

  5. Remember to maintain your doll costume regularly. Once the doll costume is damaged, please find a new one as soon as possible to replace it.

  6. There are no pink doll costumes in the Starry Sky Arcade. Do not come into contact with anyone wearing pink doll costumes. If you encounter one, please stay away from them as much as possible.

  7. Please take the final celebration project seriously. The line tokens obtained after serving the players sincerely will become the only proof of your daily work performance.

  8. The more lines, the better. If you don’t accumulate enough lines, you will never be able to get off work.

  9. Before leaving to get off work, please hand in all the lines you have collected to the director’s office to complete the quantity registration. Leave quickly after registration, and don’t look around.]

Chi Ting’s gaze lingered on the content of the last rule for a long time.

He heard Yue Ren’s voice entering his ear. “The director’s office. That should be the final boss who manages this game hall, right?”

Hearing this sentence, Chi Ting couldn’t help looking over and asking, “Just beat him directly?”

Yue Ren thought for a moment. “Would that mean we don’t respect the rules too much?”

“A little bit,” Chi Ting agreed. “Before we are sure of the punishment method of the rules here, we shouldn’t act rashly. It would be bad if the situation is the same as in the handkerchief instance.”

He looked at the employee code again and again before asking, “Have you finished reading it?”

Yue Ren tapped his head lightly with his fingertips. “It is in here.”

Chi Ting casually raised his hand and covered the sign back up with the red cloth.

Just as the dust was flying again, there was a ‘boom’ noise. The sound of something breaking through the air entered their ears.

The two men looked back when they heard the sound. They caught a glimpse of the eye-catching bright flames rising straight into the sky. Then, amidst a chaotic roar, large sections of the roof collapsed.

Yue Ren pointed to the extra hole above and couldn’t help laughing. “Captain Chi, is this what you mean by not being stupid?”

Chi Ting: “……”

He pressed his throbbing headache. “It seems that most of the people are almost there. Let’s go back.”

The employee code of conduct wasn’t too far from the service desk. Chi Ting went there and came back. He could see that there were indeed more people present.

Just as he was about to go to Ji Xingque to spread some safety knowledge, he had a notification sound. He clicked it and found that it was a notification of the Death Go-kart project and the final profit settlement.

At first glance, he was slightly stunned by the unexpectedly high returns.

Chi Ting asked, “Is everyone’s settlement the same? The rewards for this project are quite high. We should have enough for the clearance vouchers of our team, right?”

“IT is pretty high,” Yue Ren said with a playful expression. “But this high level is probably the result of thoroughly offending someone.”

After such a reminder, Chi Ting also realized that a large part of their new game coins probably came from the Jazz team. He looked towards the Death Go-kart project and saw those figures approaching from afar.

There were no longer five people. Now there were only three people left in the Jazz team. Different from the friendly expressions at the beginning, the aura shrouded by these figures was particularly sinister.

Chi Ting nodded helplessly. “I really offended them.”

Sure enough, harmonious relations among humans weren’t easy to maintain. However, didn’t Old Song show the way to the player on their team before leaving?

So wasn’t it a situation where they didn’t hit any NPCs?

“Are you really not afraid of someone rushing over to beat you up?” Yue Ren was amused when he saw that Chi Ting was waiting there with no intention of leaving. He went straight over, put an arm around his shoulder, and pulled him over in the direction of Ji Xingque and Song Xuefeng. “In any case, it is true that their game coins are now in our wallets. It is better not to offend them.”

Chi Ting didn’t refuse, but simply corrected Yue Ren’s statement. “The initial rules of the game hall clearly stipulate that fighting isn’t allowed. The probability of rushing over to beat someone up doesn’t exist.”

“It is better to not show up than to be rejected. Captain Chi, you don’t have the special habit of liking to be disgusted by others,” Yue Ren said. He sent Chi Ting to the other two team members. He glanced around slowly and said, “Besides, it seems that the old friends we met before aren’t just the Jazz team. Look, they are all her.”

Wu Ruici from the Blue Mountain Team, who wasn’t far away, also saw them and waved from a distance.

It wasn’t known the status of the game coins he had accumulated, but it seemed that the remaining two members of his team were still alive.

Hang Jing arrived at the gathering point at around the same time. He saw the Jazz team from a distance and subconsciously took a detour due to the lying down and winning experience of the immersive shooting experience hall. Now he ran over immediately and said, “Hi, everyone. Did everything go well?”

“Not bad.” Ji Xingque had a good impression of him and answered enthusiastically. “How about you? How is your personal project going? How many game coins are you short of? Do you need us to find a way to give you some?”

“It didn’t go very smoothly, and there is a bit less.” Hang Jing always confessed what he should confess. He almost blurted out the answer. Then he tasted a hint of meaning from Ji Xingque’s words. He blinked and asked in a very sensible voice, “Give me some? Have you saved up enough game coins?”

“I think so,” Ji Xingque handed him the game card. “I have the least in the team. I have enough, so everyone else should have enough too.”

Hang Jing didn’t know what was going on until he saw it. He almost blurted out a curse word. Then he noticed the attention from all around him and quickly covered his mouth.

Once no one else was paying attention to this place anymore, he lowered his voice even more. “Where did you get so many game coins in such a short time? Did you rob the service desk?”

Ji Xingque was shocked. “So we can still rob the service desk?”

Song Xuefeng was dozing off beside him with eyes squinted. He finally couldn’t stand it any longer and said, “…No.”

“Then it is true.” Ji Xingque muttered and said. “We are the ones who won fair and square, against the Jazz team you mentioned before.”

Hang Jing was indeed tempted when he heard Ji Xingque say that he wanted to share some of the spoils with him. But he didn’t have time to be happy for long. He felt a chill run down his spine when he heard the last sentence. “J-Jazz team?”

He turned his head stiffly and happened to meet the Jazz team’s meaningful gaze. Even though he knew they weren’t looking at him, he still gulped secretly and said with a smile, “I appreciate your kindness. It is all the result of your hard work. Even if there is anything left after redeeming the voucher, you can get more achievement points according to your contribution value after you go out. Keep it, keep it all.”

Hang Jing was originally a very smooth, free man. He might want to leave safely, but an ordinary player like him didn’t want to offend the Jazz team at all.

Ji Xingque didn’t expect that the other party would be so polite about such things. It might be strange, but he didn’t say much and took the game card back. “Okay. Then do your best.”

Hang Jing was reluctant to let go but could only watch them leave in tears. Just as he was about to wipe the tears from his eyes, the cold system sound that had been playing continuously suddenly stopped.

Then the tone changed. The content finally changed as well.

[Everyone is welcome to join the final celebration of the Starry Sky Arcade!]

[Hehehe, next, please enjoy the passionate animal party!]

Chi Ting was originally listening to the conversation between Ji Xingque and the others. Once he heard this sentence, he raised his head with some curiosity.

However, at this moment, the bright lights around them went out without any warning.

The projects in this arcade were more bizarre than the other, but the safe area outside was always filled with bright lights. No one expected that it would fall into complete darkness at this time.

Everyone was already worried about the next party. The sudden change caused screams to break out one after another.

The feeling of something piercing his eardrums made Chi Ting frown.

He stood there calmly, raised his hand slowly, and subconsciously reached out to rub his ears. Finally, he was slightly stunned by the strange touch that followed.

Hmm? Why did it feel like…?

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Stoneegg21
Stoneegg21
20 days ago

Thank you for the chapter!

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