Chapter 917: Bound to the Birth System, Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 918 Survival Instance Loading (8)

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

"Hoho hoho, welcome welcome, this is Dai Lun's slaughterhouse."

A tall, burly man with a buzz cut and a long scar running from the corner of his eye to behind his ear walked out of the open door with a hearty laugh.

He wore a slaughterhouse uniform with Dai Lun's name printed on it; his smile carried a strong sense of oppression, and those who had been somewhat relaxed immediately entered a state of alertness.

The NPCs in the instance had their own personalities, and they were even unfriendly toward arriving players; at least the Special Investigation Bureau players were very wary of this Dai Lun and even more unwilling to enter Dai Lun's slaughterhouse to complete the slaughter mission.

Unfortunately, the instance had already made clear that this was their activity area, and they only had a few hours; the minimum standard was to independently slaughter three farm livestock. Don't look at how this sentence and the one behind about receiving Dai Lun's evaluation were grouped together and both called instance tasks, but those who entered only needed to complete the first sentence to get a Clearance Certificate, they would just scrape through with a low score.

"Everyone, you're all here to apply for work at Dai Lun's slaughterhouse, right?"

The man called Dai Lun asked again, then received scattered responses. There must be someone here who understands nothing, and the Special Investigation Bureau had no intention of being good people. As the question-and-answer dialogue was established, Dai Lun seemed like a tool person pushing the plot, leading everyone into the slaughterhouse before their eyes.

When they were still outside, they only saw a closed door.

The moment the door opened and Dai Lun came out, it attracted all their gazes again, so they knew nothing about what was inside the door.

Now, as they followed Dai Lun's steps into the territory of the slaughterhouse, the six hours in their minds began counting down, pressing heavily on everyone's nerves.

The timid ones were frightened by the countdown; one plump person plopped directly onto the ground.

There was no shouting and screaming, but the terror on his face was clear. He kept speaking Mandarin that sounded to Shen Yao as having particularly strange word order and tone, and finally, finally, he was pulled up by someone who looked just like him.

"Oh, my friend, the work at the slaughterhouse is indeed a bit scary, but it's safe here. If you really don't want to apply for work here, you can go next door; that's the Flower Room."

Dai Lun blinked, and as soon as his words landed, he continued leading everyone forward.

Those with Spirit upon hearing Dai Lun say this hesitated and asked if the Flower Room next door was similar to the slaughterhouse, "Do they also hire Temporary Workers?"

These people of theirs were Temporary Workers, paid according to working hours and work conditions.

"That's right, but the Flower Room has strict requirements," Dai Lun said casually and naturally, "You people, very few can pass the Flower Room's assessment."

"But my place is different from the Flower Room; as long as you work seriously and hard, you can all complete the tasks stipulated by the slaughterhouse."

"Of course, if you don't complete them, it's fine; you can stay until they are completed."

The moment the last sentence landed, it directly brought the originally somewhat harmonious atmosphere to a freezing point.

What did "stay until completed" mean? Wasn't that saying they couldn't leave the instance? Once they exceeded the time stipulated by the instance, it would be extremely difficult to return to reality. This slaughterhouse was indeed not a good place, and the man called Dai Lun was not a good person either!

Shen Yao's pair of eyes quickly scanned all around, her ears still listening to Dai Lun and their conversation. She found this slaughterhouse was somewhat larger than expected; she thought she would soon see the slaughter room for work, but instead saw mostly pens filled with various livestock.

Pig pens, cow pens, sheep pens, chicken pens, duck pens—these were all regular livestock. There were also wild boars, wild chickens, wild rabbits, wild deer, and other wild game livestock, as well as some strange four-not-like special livestock she didn't recognize at all.

These were all livestock that the slaughterhouse needed to slaughter? Dai Lun's business was really big.

After walking forward a bit more, Dai Lun pointed to a row of white houses and said, "Arrived. This is the place of work. Inside is the slaughter workshop. I usually work in the leftmost room."

Turning to look at the people behind him, Dai Lun touched his chin, indicating that a total of twenty-one people had been recruited this time. He simply divided them into groups of three to cooperate with each other to complete the slaughter tasks.

"The work at the slaughterhouse doesn't require an assessment, but you must show your true skills."

Dai Lun pointed to several plastic garments hanging on the wall outside the room. "Everyone must put them on to work in the slaughterhouse. Without a work uniform, it will be considered a violation. Even I cannot save you."

"Mr. Dai Lun, may I ask what the rules of the slaughterhouse are? Although we are Temporary Workers, we still need to understand them seriously so as not to cause you trouble."

The Special Investigation Bureau players began asking questions. Constrained by the instance's rules, Dai Lun could not refuse such inquiries.

"Oh, speaking of the rules of the slaughterhouse," Dai Lun scratched his head indifferently, then pointed to a corner of the wall of the leftmost room. "That is what you want. However, allow me to remind you: there is not much time, so hurry up."

After speaking, Dai Lun turned and entered his own work site with a hoho hoho laugh.

Bang!

Along with the closing of the room door went everyone's tension. Without this extremely oppressive boss Dai Lun around, the big guys obviously had a desire to communicate.

Taking advantage of everyone's communication, Shen Yao had already come to the corner of the left room. Her purpose was naturally the slaughterhouse rules posted there.

Many people had already crowded in front. Shen Yao couldn't squeeze in, so she had the system help store them, and then she understood those contents through the system.

"The rules of the slaughterhouse are only five.

One, you cannot leave the slaughterhouse area during working hours.

Two, you cannot take off the work uniform (cannot take it off at any time, unless you are not slaughterhouse personnel).

Three, during working hours, do not disturb Boss Dai Lun; consequences are at your own risk.

Four, the livestock of the slaughterhouse can all be slaughtered, but pay attention not to slaughter non-slaughterhouse livestock. If you discover non-slaughterhouse livestock, report it in time. Knowing but not reporting will result in dismissal.

Five, Dai Lun is the slaughterhouse boss. You can ask the boss for help at any time."

The system repeated these five rules, then asked rhetorically whether the third and fifth rules were contradictory—one said not to disturb, the other said you could ask for help.

"What contradiction? They each have their own logic of operation.

You cannot disturb during working hours, so go find him during non-working hours.

Besides, as long as what you say is more important than work, the boss won't mind."

It seemed this slaughterhouse didn't have many problems; the difficulty should be limited. As for the non-slaughterhouse livestock in the fourth rule, it was probably obviously different from the other animals in the pens. The relationship between this kind of non-slaughterhouse livestock and Dai Lun would inevitably affect the operation of the slaughterhouse.

Shen Yao silently memorized the rules regarding the slaughterhouse in her heart, then she raised her eyes to size up the remaining twenty people.

The Special Investigation Bureau ones were not to be considered. They happened to be three people who could form a group, so Shen Yao wouldn't go and invite humiliation.

Excluding the three from the Special Investigation Bureau, there were seventeen left. Shen Yao thought it over and over; she still had to choose controllable and obedient partners to have a chance of clearing the instance.

Finally, Shen Yao set her goal on a man and a woman not far away.

These two people were probably related by blood. Whether in appearance or otherwise, they were somewhat similar. Thanks to the convenience provided by the instance, they could communicate normally, got through the initial discomfort, and later gradually kept up with the pace.

"My brother and I are both from the Yue Lian Federation."

The girl rolled her white eyes. She said her surname was Bai, her name was Bai Xue. Her brother had black hair and white eyes, and his name was Bai Sheng.

Yue Lian Federation? Never heard of it. It should be a new planet.

"I'm Shen Ning. Call me Sister Shen," Shen Yao didn't give her real name, but inside the Instance, real names obviously weren't that important.

Supposedly, people who clear the Instance get a chance to rename themselves, and that is the foundation for surviving in the Instance; right now they're all ordinary people, so real name or fake name makes no difference.

"Host, how do you know she isn't deceiving you?" What if she isn't an ordinary person but a player? Wouldn't that mean using your own Host as cannon fodder?

"Even if it's fake it doesn't matter. If we can cooperate we clear together; if we can't we clear alone," it's just that one person is slightly more troublesome, "besides, with you here helping monitor, if they really want to do something they'll be discovered."

With the road ahead unclear, unilaterally destroying the cooperative relationship has no benefit; Bai Sheng and Bai Xue don't look like fools, they won't do a losing deal.

The three quickly formed an alliance, and while others were still arguing endlessly, they were the first to enter the third work room.

Naturally, the work uniforms hanging on the wall were put on; the rules said work uniforms are similar to passes, and not wanting trouble from the Slaughterhouse they obediently complied.

Bang!

The room's interior area wasn't large, the surrounding walls were all silver-white in result, before them was a long tabletop, beside it various tools for slaughtering, and the slaughtered livestock needed to be sent out through two openings beside the wall.

"This place is a bit too crude," Bai Sheng frowned, obviously at a loss where to start.

"We just entered and it took half an hour total, we still have five and a half hours left," Shen Yao reminded them now wasn't the time to complain, best to go catch the Slaughterhouse livestock first, they'd get familiar while working.

"The mission requires independently slaughtering three livestock," Bai Xue felt this 'independently' was very important; the three of them as a group was Dai Lun's arrangement, but would mutual cooperation actually count as mission completion? Could this be a trap?

"Take the ropes and capture tools, we'll head to the pens to find livestock to slaughter.

Let me say this first: I have experience slaughtering livestock. If you two haven't done it before, best to catch some small livestock to try first."

Because small livestock lack strength, whether Bai Sheng or Bai Xue could easily subdue them; the mission only requires independent slaughter, doesn't specify which livestock, so believe many will target creatures like chickens and ducks.

Drooping her eyes slightly, Shen Yao moved first to coil the ropes in advance, Bai Xue and Bai Sheng each took a fork and shield, only then did the three leave the room, heading to the pens to capture livestock needing slaughter.

When the three came out, there were still people at the doorway arguing with each other; Shen Yao overheard a bit — turns out they were dissatisfied with the allocation principle, wanted to switch teammates.

Shen Yao: ……

Truly speechless; who knows, in the end she might still have to complete the mission herself — these four words 'independently slaughter', however you look at them, don't seem like something others can help with.

Shook her head, Shen Yao signaled Bai Sheng and Bai Xue to hurry up and follow; the three holding ropes and forks quickly reached the livestock pen closest to the slaughter room.

Inside were penned about ten-plus wild elk, long antlers atop the elk heads, bells jingling on their necks; simultaneously, these elk's eyes were strange, a faintly reddish color.

Bai Sheng and Bai Xue obviously didn't want to touch the elk; these elk were too large, and the elk's aggressiveness lies in those protruding antlers — one careless move and they could be gored over.

Shen Yao also didn't want to touch the elk, unrelated to the elk's aggressiveness, purely felt these elk were somewhat off — red eyes… Shen Yao associated it with nothing good.

"Go, seize the time, we're going to the Conventional Livestock Area."

Best to catch a couple extra, test out the 'independently slaughter' trap in the shortest time, strive to leave the Instance before the mission ends.

The three continued forward; Shen Yao looked at the livestock in the surrounding pens, always felt these livestock's tempers had become much more irritable; some that were quieter when they entered were also pawing the ground, as if something existed in the surroundings that could threaten them — a natural enemy.

Here and there other small squads were also cooperating to capture livestock; Shen Yao saw the Special Investigation Bureau people again — because they're player identities, they possess many miraculous skills and items; just saw a wild boar that was still struggling a second ago collapse howling on the ground, until all four limbs were bound it didn't break free of the ropes.

Bai Sheng and Bai Xue obviously also saw the Special Investigation Bureau players cooperating; both marveled that this kind of capability must belong to existences who've entered Instances.

Like the Yue Lian Federation they're in, the whole planet is just one country; the people inside learned of Instances years ago, many even voluntarily enter Instances just to obtain player skills and items.

The three passed through the Wild Livestock Area; further in is the Conventional Livestock Area, also their destination this trip.

The livestock here were more peaceful than those they passed; whether pigs, cattle, sheep, or chickens and ducks, all leisurely eating the green grass and grain on the ground.

Seeing this, Bai Sheng turned to Shen Yao and said, "We'll act separately; at least each person must catch one."

The mission is to independently slaughter three of the Slaughterhouse's livestock; by time arrangement, they'd best finish early — the later they drag the more inconvenient.

"No problem, this is rope," Shen Yao divided some of the rope in her hand to the other party, then she took the fork from Bai Sheng's hand, while Bai Xue would act with Bai Sheng — the siblings' target was also the less aggressive chickens and ducks, one shield was enough to handle it.

Each splitting off to rush toward their chosen targets, Shen Yao moved first to guide the large white pigs in the pig pen, then held the fork against the side of the pig's head, fixing their movement direction, then used the rope in her hand to tie the pig's head and all four trotters into dead knots.

The white pig lay down howling and struggling; Shen Yao lightly patted her palm, used the fork to drag the rope and pull outward.