It's a hell game, who can still be a human being?

Chapter 378 Bowing is also a science
"Minister, is it my illusion? I feel like you are smiling with malicious intent."

Liu Zhengxu said with his eyes wide open.

Now that you have joined the company, the title will also be changed.

"What are you talking about? It's your first day on the job, and you're a relative of an acquaintance. What ill will could I have towards you?"

Thirteen Yao flatly denied it.

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, and I'm going to arrange a good job for you."

Thirteen Yao said seriously.

"It's not a good idea to arrange a good job for me right after I arrive. How about I give this opportunity to the old employee?"

Liu Zheng declined.

Judging from the clothes he wore, it was unlikely that the job Thirteen Yao had arranged for him would be a good one.

"Stop talking nonsense. A newcomer has no right to be picky. Just do whatever you are told to do."

Thirteen Yao suddenly frowned and shouted loudly.

"Oh."

Liu Zheng responded calmly.

Although the other party's performance was somewhat different, he didn't care.

Anyway, he didn't really plan to continue working in Baiguixing. If he really encountered a job that he couldn't do, he could just quit.

"What? I can't hear you clearly, please speak louder."

Thirteen Yao put his hands to his ears and said in a pretentious manner.

"Yes!"

Liu Zheng stood at attention and shouted.

"Louder, louder, there's no spirit at all!"

Thirteen Yao was still not satisfied.

"Yes!!!"

He took a deep breath and then roared loudly.

Despite his ferocious expression, he was actually calm inside and even felt like sighing.

This is the same CPU rhetoric you hear everywhere in the workplace. I'm tired of hearing it.

"Very good, very energetic. Follow me."

Shisanyao changed into a black work suit and walked out of the barrier house with Liu Zheng.

After passing about fifteen barrier houses, they came to a fork in the road.

"Remember, people in the massage department should go right when they come to a fork in the road. If you go the wrong way, I may not be able to find you back."

Thirteen Yao suddenly said.

"Minister, what's on the left?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"You'll know if you see it for yourself."

Thirteen Yao said lightly.

He looked to the left as he was told, and saw that both sides of the passage on the left were also lined with barrier houses, and there were lights in each house, and the sound of music could be heard coming from inside.

From time to time, guests came in and out, hugging maids who were wearing very little fabric, with drunken flushes on their faces.

Some guests saw Liu staring at them and made inviting gestures to him. The scene was full of singing and dancing and a happy atmosphere.

"Do you see anything wrong?"

Thirteen Yao asked.

"I see it."

He nodded.

"tell me the story?"

"Those guests were all human."

Liu Zheng replied.

"Hmm? Well, that's an idea."

Shisanyao originally thought that he would analyze the guests based on their clothing, facial expressions, music, etc., but unexpectedly he would analyze them based on the guests' race.

But if you think about it carefully, there is no problem.

There weren't many humans coming to the bathhouse street to begin with, and even fewer coming to the Hyakkiryo Bathhouse. So when a large number of human guests suddenly showed up, there was definitely something wrong.

"You are standing at the intersection now, so you can still tell the difference. Once you take the wrong road, your mind will not be so clear anymore."

Thirteen Yao pointed out.

"As long as you follow closely behind you, Minister, you won't go the wrong way."

Liu Zheng said with a smile.

"Ok?"

Thirteen Yao looked him over.

"You've just arrived and you want to line up. It's a little early, newbie."

"Since I'm a newcomer, I have no right to be sold. I believe that my uncle will not harm me. Since she has handed me over to you, I will treat you as a reliable elder. Just like little ducks always follow big ducks, it is only natural for younger generations to follow their elders."

He said this without changing his expression.

"Humph, Old Man Qing's nephew is not my nephew, and I am not your elder. Remember, in the workplace, you have to refer to your position!"

Thirteen Yao scolded.

"Yes, Minister."

Liu Zheng immediately changed his words.

"Yes. Loyalty without ability is just the heat on the surface of a hot spring. It may seem to have a strong presence, but it is actually useless. If you want to stand in my team, you have to show more."

Thirteen Yao's tone softened a little.

"Understood. I promise I won't let you down, Minister."

He bowed slightly.

"You are in the massage department. If you were in the service department, you would be asked to pout your belly for the way you bow."

Thirteen Yao commented as he looked at the arc of his bend.

"Stick out your belly and apologize."

Liu Zheng couldn't imagine what kind of apology that would be.

Of course, he wasn't going to ask.

After arriving in the metropolis, although his rationality value did not decrease much, his rationality suffered a great impact.

In order to be a normal person as much as possible after returning to reality, Liu Zheng would better reduce his intake of some magical little knowledge.

"Don't take it lightly. Bowing is a very important skill in our bathhouse. If you learn how to bow well, you will not only be recognized by your colleagues and superiors, but you will also have more chances of survival when facing customers."

"The last Thirteenth One was eaten on the spot because he failed to get the guest's approval when he bowed to apologize."

Thirteen Yao said.

Generally speaking, new employees who inherit a code name will learn about the cause of death of their predecessor and then avoid it in future work.

Although there is no evidence that this increases their survival rate, it is still commonly spread as a metaphysical practice.

"Isn't bowing just bending over? What else can you do with it?"

Liu Zheng was puzzled.

"Of course there are tricks. Angle, strength, speed, accuracy, sense of rhythm, language coordination, costume coordination, etc. There is a lot of knowledge involved."

Thirteen Yao said seriously.

"What does accuracy mean?"

He could roughly understand the rest, but he really couldn't imagine what the accuracy was.

"What kind of bow do you think is an effective bow?"

Thirteen Yao asked back.

"Showing enough sincerity?"

Liu Zheng thought for a moment and said.

"So what kind of bow is considered sincere?"

Thirteen Yao asked again.

"The greater the force, the more sincere it is, right?"

Just like what Thirteen Yao and Old Man Qing did just now, they almost bent their heads into their butts.

"Wrong. The force should match your crime. Too little force or too much force are both manifestations of insincerity."

Thirteen Yao shook his head. "For example, when you are giving a massage to a customer and he shows disgust because of his strong body odor, you should kneel down immediately and prostrate yourself. Because you have committed the crime of insulting the customer, even if it eats you or kills you on the spot, the bathhouse will not give you any compensation."

"But if your technique is wrong and makes the customer feel uncomfortable, you just need to stop immediately, bend your waist to about 150 degrees, then tell the customer your master and admit that you have brought shame to your master's school."

"If you prostrate yourself or do something more forceful at this time, the customer will think you are making a fuss and looking down on its ability to withstand it."

He spoke eloquently.

"Bows are so complicated. I've really learned something new."

Liu Zheng said sincerely.

"If it's somewhere else, it's naturally not that complicated, because they don't have the ability to enforce it even if they want to. But in our bathhouse, hehe."

Thirteen Yao made a strange laugh.

"Do you know how long our bathhouse has existed?"

he asked.

"I don't know. I just heard that our bathhouse is the earliest bathhouse on Bathhouse Street and has been the leader since the establishment of Bathhouse Street."

Liu Zheng said.

"wrong."

Thirteen Yao shook his head.

"It's not that the Hyakki-gyo existed when the bathing district existed, but the bathing district existed only when the Hyakki-gyo existed."

"The Hundred Ghosts is not a dead building, it has its own rules. As long as you abide by its rules, you can get its protection. The rule of bowing is one of them. But..."

A strange look flashed across Shisanyao's face, but he didn't say anything else.

"But what? Minister."

"Nothing, it's not your turn to tell. Just shut up and move on."

Thirteen Yao scolded.

"Oh well."

Liu Zheng pretended to be disappointed, but he knew what was going on inside.

It's just a trick of playing hard to get. I really don't want to tell him, so I wouldn't have said so much before.

It was nothing more than wanting to plant a seed in Liu Zheng's heart, waiting for his curiosity to sprout.

As for why he didn't just show up, besides not trusting his position and ability, it was probably because the information he got from his own exploration was more credible.

The two walked towards the fork in the road on the right for a while and came to three elevators.

The elevator doors are also made of wood, with three different masks carved on them, namely a crying woman, an angry man and a laughing old man.

Whether men, women or the elderly, their faces were covered with thick white paint, and their teeth were painted black. They were all sharp fangs, and their number was much more than that of normal people.

It looks more like a ghost than a human.

"As I mentioned before, there are many rules in the bathhouse. Now guess what the rules are for taking the elevator?"

Thirteen Yao pointed at the three elevators in front of him and said.

"Is there any reward for guessing correctly, Minister?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"No. But there will be a penalty for guessing wrong."

Thirteen Yao shook his head.

".Fine."

After a pause, he shrugged.

A higher-ranking official can crush a person to death. He had fully realized this when he was in the bloody restaurant.

Speaking of which, Liu Zheng was really curious about who was stronger, Shisanyao, the director of the massage department, or Niuma, the director of the takeaway department?
Considering the Bloody Restaurant's status in the underworld, Niu Ma should be stronger.

Shaking his head, he focused his attention on the elevator in front of him.

Two very obvious points are the gender and expressions of the three masks.

Men, women and old people.

Anger, sadness and joy.

It is possible for two points combined to form a rule, but it is unlikely for a rule to be formed by two points combined.

“Does the mask correspond to biological or psychological gender?”

Liu Zheng asked.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Shisanyao was a little confused by his question.

"For example, a person's physical structure is undoubtedly male, and he has all the physical abilities of a man, but he thinks he is a woman. Then, will he be judged as a man or a woman by the mask?"

He gave an example.

"Of course it's a male."

Thirteen Yao said without hesitation.

"You city folks may be able to have fun, but we country folk only care about our physical structure. You're a pure male, and you say you're a female and want to enter the female bath. Isn't that pure hooliganism?"

"What if he thinks he'll be taken advantage of if he takes a bath in the male hot spring?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"If you have money, you can book a private room. If you don't have money, you can just go at home. You can be whatever gender you want. No one will care."

"You want special treatment without any real talk. What are you dreaming about?"

Thirteen Yao said unhappily.

"Minister, have you ever encountered this?"

he asked curiously.

"I have indeed encountered this. Not long after I joined the massage parlor, I encountered a customer who was making a fuss. He was clearly a male kappa, but he insisted that he was a female and asked me to find a female technician for him."

"That's not a problem, so I found a female technician to come over for it."

"Then it said it was an extreme purist and would not allow other species to touch its body. It also asked me to find a female Kappa technician for it. Where can I find one for it?"

Shisanyao still seems a little indignant when talking about it now.

"Then how was it resolved in the end?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"Of course I reported it to my then minister and had the guy thrown out. By the way, I also peed in the plate on its head. Hehe."

Thirteen Yao smiled complacently.

"Uh, won't this affect the reputation of the bathhouse?"

"That was not something I needed to consider at the time."

"What if it's you now?"

he asked again.

"If it were me now, I would probably give her a small gift and then use both hard and soft tactics to get her to leave. Sigh, I'm getting old. If it were me back then, would I still need to use the excuse of asking for incense to create more opportunities for me to meet with Old Lady Qing? I would just bring her flowers, have someone send her a candlelight dinner, and then talk with her all night long."

Thirteen Yao sighed.

The unruly young man who was full of vigor and vitality and worked from the massage department to the boiler room has finally become a mature, steady but boring old leader.

"Forget it, I'll just tell you straight away. When taking an elevator, first look at your emotions. If there's no corresponding emotion, then look at your gender."

He said lamely.

"What gender does the old man's mask correspond to?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"It's not gender that matters, it's seniority. Old employees who have worked for more than 30 years or managers above the level of department director can take this elevator directly without considering other rules."

Thirteen Yao said.

"I see."

"So, which elevator do you think you should take?"

Thirteen Yao threw out a test question.

"Should I take the middle seat?"

He said, pointing at the angry man's mask.

Sadness, anger, and joy, he doesn't have any of these three emotions now, so it all depends on his gender.

"If you're sure, go ahead and take your seat. Press the 7th floor button. When you get there, wait for me at the elevator entrance and don't walk around."

Thirteen Yao said.

"Minister, won't you sit with me?"

"If it was just now, I could still take an elevator with you. Now, you can only rely on yourself."

Thirteen Yao shook his head and walked towards the sad woman mask.

(End of this chapter)