Soul Patch

Chapter 205 Wenjie, save me!

"That's none of your business!" Li Shiman retorted without any politeness. "Also, I've already got my employee badge, Mr. Wen. Is there anything else?"

It means you should leave now if there's nothing else to do.

Since the other party had already given him the order to leave, Wenjie said calmly, "That's all, Mr. Li, I'll go back to my office now."

After leaving Li Shiman's office, Wenjie didn't rush back to his own office. Instead, he went to the end of the corridor on this floor, pushed open the fire door, and saw a large trash can.

He lifted the lid of the trash can and glanced inside: it was empty.

Empty? Did the cleaning staff take it away?

Wenjie glanced at the time: 2 PM.

It was already 2 PM. He touched his stomach and felt it was practically sticking out of his chest.

No wonder when he went downstairs, he asked Xiao Wang to buy flowers, and Xiao Wang gave him a strange look.

So they were wondering why we weren't preparing lunch at midday.

He touched his stomach again, wondering why he didn't feel hungry.

Myself...what happened?

He shook his head, temporarily setting aside his random thoughts, and focused on the lilies.

In other words, the cleaning staff will collect the trash from the bins regularly. That's... that's common sense.

That company's cleaning staff doesn't collect trash!

So here's the question: how come there are several bunches of dried lilies in the trash can?

When Liu Qingqing went to check the trash cans, it happened to be before the cleaning staff collected the trash, so the trash cans contained the day's garbage. That's why she saw a few bunches of lilies among the pile of trash.

Is this line of thinking correct?

Damn! Of course that's wrong!

Who would keep a dried-out flower, whose species is hard to identify, in a vase?

Basically, once the flowers start to wilt, they become an eyesore on the table, and most people will throw them away within a day or two of them starting to wilt.

In other words, the flowers still in the trash can are just withered, not completely dried out.

It would probably take at least five days for the flowers to go from withering to drying out. Wenjie glanced at the environment of the garbage room; it was dark and damp, with no direct sunlight. So, it would probably take even longer for the flowers to completely dry out.

The cleaning staff must dispose of the day's garbage before leaving get off work each day; they cannot leave the garbage until the next day.

In other words, someone deliberately left the flowers to wither and then left them in the trash can, and Liu Qingqing saw it before the trash was even taken out.

That's why there's talk of dried lilies.

Besides, there is another possibility: Liu Qingqing is lying.

Wenjie pondered the matter, unable to say for a moment whether Liu Qingqing was lying.

The thought of Liu Qingqing immediately brings to mind the system tasks.

Damn! I haven't even claimed my reward after completing the system task.

Receiving a reward is such an important thing, how could I have overlooked it?

Am I... stupid?

He quickly went to the elevator and pressed the up button.

The elevator arrived quickly, and just as he was about to enter, he saw a cleaner wiping the inside of the elevator.

After closing the door, he asked, "Excuse me, what time do you usually dump your trash?"

The cleaning lady glanced at Wenjie, her eyes quickly scanning his name tag, then nervously dropped the rag in her hand and answered earnestly:

"Mr. Wen, we start collecting garbage at our workstations at 3 PM, and all the garbage is collected and sent downstairs at 4:30 PM. The garbage truck will come and collect the garbage at 5 PM."

"Three o'clock?" Wenjie repeated, puzzled, then pondered for a moment before saying, "The large trash can at the end of the 16th-floor corridor is empty. Who took the trash?"

"Huh? I'm in charge of the 16th floor. I didn't touch the trash in the bins. They were more than half full. How come they're empty?" the cleaning lady said in surprise.

"Hmm," Wenjie nodded, the cleaner's words making him think: "Has this happened before?"

"Hehe, no, how could that be? Nobody wants to do garbage collection, so why would anyone secretly help you collect it?" The cleaning lady chuckled, as if she had heard a joke.

In the blink of an eye, Wenjie arrived at the top floor. After thanking the cleaning lady, he got out of the elevator and headed towards his office.

I waved the magnetic stripe from my work card in front of the door lock, and the door clicked open.

Wenjie went straight into the house and closed the door behind him.

Forget about the withered lilies for now, collecting the system reward is the priority.

Wenjie turned on the system, which is now offline.

In other words, only the motherboard area is lit up, while the other three areas are gray.

Upon logging in, a line of text appeared on the system interface and personal motherboard.

You have a new system message.

[Should I receive new messages?]

【Yes】

A thought flashed through Wenjie's mind, and the small envelope flew to the center of the interface. The envelope opened automatically, and a yellow piece of paper flew out.

The above message states: Patch carrier 101 has successfully completed the online system task and has received the following rewards based on its contribution:

1. Concealing identity once

2. Virtual scene once

3. Open the lottery box once.

[Open the lottery box now?]

【Yes】

Wenjie felt a sliver of hope, but it was only a faint one.

From noon until now, his low spirits have finally been lifted, and he should be happy.

A golden lottery box appeared before us. It slowly moved to the center of the screen, and then the spinning wheel at the bottom of the box began to spin, faster and faster...

[Draw reward now?]

【Yes】

The lottery box stopped abruptly, and the heavy, jewel-encrusted lid opened with a rumble, from which a slip of paper flew out.

Wenjie looked closely and saw that he had obtained an escape item once.

Escape tools, escape tools, escape tools!

Although Wenjie didn't know how this item would help him escape, he knew it was an extremely valuable item, equivalent to escaping death once.

Although not as valuable as a life, it is second only to it.

Wenjie re-entered his personal attribute interface and browsed through it item by item: Basic Skills: Omitted, Rewards: 2, Items: 2...

Seeing that he had all three items in his possession, he suddenly felt a sense of security. He knew that he wouldn't have to fight them bare-handed during the next online mission.

Wenjie thought of Liu Qingqing. He closed the personal attributes page and returned to the personal motherboard interface he had just been on.

The system message only contained my own reward information; there were no other patch carriers.

So the system even keeps this secret? What a community.

However, Liu Qingqing's contribution value is not as high as his, so she probably won't get as many benefits as he did.

He shut down the system, looked around his office, and noticed a strange-looking pen on his desk.

He got up from the sofa and walked towards his desk. When he was a few steps away from the desk, he saw that it was a green quill pen placed on the side of a piece of paper.

The paper read: Wenjie, save me!

The signature is: Li Shiman

Time: October 2019, 7.

(End of this chapter)