Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 355: Employees are prohibited from exchanging wages
The box was not big, but square. The metal edging at the four corners was worn, and the patterns of dragons and phoenixes carved on the lid were blurred.

There was no mechanism or secret in the lock, and a broken lock made of gold-covered copper hung crookedly on it.

It looks worthless, the kind that even thieves would dislike.

But the more Zhang Ze looked at the box, the more familiar it seemed to him.

Because he had a similar one back then.

Back in Baiyu County, Xiao Qingyun came to him to join the gang, and the gift of joining was a Tai Sui.

The Tai Sui was placed in a box carved with dragons and painted with phoenixes.

Tai Sui disappeared later, but the box was kept by Zhang Ze.

Used to store books or some miscellaneous things.

Zhang Ze stood up and walked forward, pulling at the broken lock made of gold-covered copper. The cold touch brought back Zhang Ze's memories. Even the lock was almost the same as it was back then.

He tapped the box lightly with his fingers, and a hollow echo came from inside.

I don't know if it's empty or not full.

Zhang Ze cast a spell to use his spiritual sense to see through the box, but found nothing. His spiritual sense was like a drop in the ocean, disappearing without a trace the moment it touched the box.

A power different from traditional magic shrouds the box.

Just as he was about to take the box off the shelf to take a closer look, there was a rhythmic knock on the door.

"Sister Mee Mee, here is a letter sent back from the Qianji Town branch. Could you please take a look?"

A brown-skinned barbarian girl wearing a Nadoutong uniform walked in with a stack of documents.

"Qianji Town? What happened over there?" Zhang Ze was stunned when he heard that.

The barbarian girl sighed, "The Nadutong branch in Qianji Town was demolished."

Zhang Ze, "?"

This matter was a little difficult for Zhang Ze to understand. The public security in Qianji Town was among the best in the four continents.

How could it be possible that someone else's shop was demolished by force?

"What happened? Who did it? Is there no one from Jianzong and Longhu Mountain in charge?" Zhang Ze asked.

Faced with Zhang Ze's question, the barbarian girl frowned. She thought about it for a long time but couldn't explain it clearly. It seemed that this matter was a bit too complicated.

"I'm from the west, and I don't quite understand their customs. Sister Mee Mee, you should learn for yourself."

After saying that, the barbarian girl placed the envelope containing the photo stone on the table, took a few steps back, and stood aside waiting for "MeeMee's" instructions.

Zhang Ze picked up the envelope, took out the letter, glanced at it, and smiled with relief.

As Zhang Ze expected, the war criminals this time were the same people.

Lily, Stone Girl Xiaoxuan, Xiaotang, Baitao.

This group of idle people came up with some new tricks during the few days when Zhang Ze was away.

They combined the duel cards that Zhang Ze had previously stitched together with the wheelchair competition, and created a new event called High-Speed ​​Wheelchair Duel without any guidance.

Under the pretext of training the monks' adaptability and multitasking wisdom, they conduct wheelchair prop races and card duels at the same time.

This group of highly motivated devils joined forces and, with the help of magic and Qianji Technology, built the track in just half a day. They also found sponsors and launched the first "Wangwang Pet Shop Cup High-Speed ​​Wheelchair Duel Competition."

As expected, an accident occurred in this first high-speed wheelchair duel competition.

In the final, Lily secretly drove a modified banned wheelchair and used magic to secretly provide off-field assistance.

Her opponent, a cat girl from Zhashide, released real Qilin and elephants from the Beast Taming Ring when using the Zoo deck.

Zhang Ze picked up the photo stone, and the scene recorded by passers-by appeared in front of him.

Lily was shouting, "My deck is better than yours, your life is like a candle in the wind," while stepping on the accelerator of her wheelchair.

And her opponent, the cat girl, shouted, my deck will respond to my call, leaving behind my companions, there is no real freedom!

After saying that, he raised his hand and summoned a Qilin and three elephants.

The subsequent scene was a mess. Lily's prohibited wheelchair exploded, the synchronized summoning of three elephants failed, a car accident occurred and collided with Lily, and the rushed track broke under the load.

The location of the fracture happened to be right above the Qianji Town branch of Nadutong.

The fragments of the track, Lily, the cat girl, and the three elephants all fell on the roof of the branch, razing the front of the branch to the ground.

The little Qilin was safe and sound because, unlike those idiots, it could fly.

Putting down the photo stone, Zhang Ze looked at the barbarian girl and said, "The person in charge of that branch is Brother Qiang, right? How is he? Is he injured?"

"No, Brother Qiang is fine." The barbarian girl replied.

"Brother Qiang skipped work to participate in this wheelchair competition, but was eliminated in the first round. When the semicolon collapsed, he was bragging to others in the lounge area."

The barbarian girl from the west told the story of Brother Qiang skipping work in a serious tone.

Zhang Ze, “.”

Zhang Ze didn't have any ideas, he just felt a headache.

"Forget it, I won't pursue the matter of skipping work. As long as he's fine, it's good. Qianji Pavilion will take care of the compensation, and I'll handle the rest."

Zhang Ze, who is a dual boss, made the final decision.

The barbarian girl nodded, and just as she was about to leave, Zhang Ze stopped her, "Wait a moment, I have something to ask you."

Zhang Ze waited for the little girl to turn around, then pointed at the box on the shelf and asked, "What is this?"

"A vase," the little girl replied.

"What kind of vase?" Zhang Ze asked.

The little girl looked at it for a while and said, "It looks very expensive. Please don't ask me to clean it. I'm clumsy. If I break it, I can't afford to pay for it even if you sell me."

Zhang Ze, "Okay, it's okay."

After the little girl left, Zhang Ze came to the bookshelf again and fiddled with the broken lock made of gold-covered copper, wondering whether he should just pull it off to see what was inside.

Just as he was thinking about it, a bleating sound rang in his ears.

"Don't move, or you'll be struck by lightning."

Meeme, with a faint soul, floated out of Zhang Ze's body and stood between him and the box.

"What is this?" Zhang Ze asked the same question again.

"It's the old man's collection, even I can't touch it, so no matter who you are, you are not allowed to touch it." Mee Mee put her hands on her hips and looked at Zhang Ze.

"I know you have a lot of questions, because I do too. But wait a moment, I need a body right now."

Meow Meow's soul was floating around the house, as if looking for something, talking to itself as it searched.

"Where are my books? Where is that huge family tree?"

Zhang Ze, "Hey, your book."

Meow Meow, "Don't talk, let me find something first, I'll explain it to you later."

Zhang Ze, "I mean, your book is here with me."

Meow, "..."

Zhang Ze put the big book that looked like a system interface on the table, then stood aside and watched Meeme operate quietly.

MeeMee is trying to get a new body, but due to financial reasons, the process is not going smoothly.

After the nineteenth attempt, MeeMee finally exchanged a new body from her system through a small points loan.

A sheep's head rag doll.

"Forget it, let's just make do with it for now." Meeme flew under the table and pressed a mechanism. A moment later, a magic formation appeared on the ground behind the screen, and Meeme walked into the formation with the doll.

"Don't peek." After saying that, her soul and the doll disappeared into the formation.

After a moment, Meow Meow in doll form walked out of the magic circle again. She flew in front of Zhang Ze, looked into his eyes and asked.

"Who are you? Why do you have the authority of this old man?"

This is what Meeme doesn't understand the most.

After Zhang Ze entered the range of Nadutong, Mimi had already woken up. At first, she thought that Zhang Ze was mistaken for "Mimi" because of her own problem.

But when she found out that Zhang Ze could see the box and the big book, she realized something was wrong.

She had never heard of such a thing and was a little confused for a moment.

The 'old stuff' can't make mistakes, but why?
After much thought, Meeme decided to confront Zhang Ze directly and make things clear.

Zhang Ze did not answer Meeme's question immediately, his eyes were still fixed on the box.

After a long while, Zhang Ze finally spoke, "Is it possible that I'm your senior, or...your colleague?"

"What evidence do you have?" Meow Meow asked.

Zhang Ze pointed at the box and said, "That's mine."

Without waiting for Mimi to object, he went forward and took the box down from the shelf. He wasn't struck by lightning, nor did he encounter any unexpected disasters. He placed the box on the table, then placed two fingers on the copper lock and gently pulled...

However, nothing happened and the copper lock was intact.

Baa, "?"

Zhang Ze was a little embarrassed. He coughed lightly and said, "Don't worry, I didn't eat this morning."

After he finished speaking, he gathered spiritual energy between his two fingers, which were as sharp as a blade, and slashed towards the bronze lock.

This time there was a reaction, but it was not the box, but Meow Meow's big book.

[Unknown attack detected, counterattack... Attack source detection...]

[Error, counterattack stopped... Error, error, command reset]

[Abnormal, please open the copper box within ten seconds, the authentication process begins... Ten, nine,...]

Baa, "?"

Mimi now wanted to strangle Zhang Ze to death. She regretted not stopping him and letting him touch the box.

The box itself is actually not important to Meow Meow. She doesn’t care what’s inside, but the existence of the box is extremely important to her.

Mee Mee knew without a doubt that once the box was destroyed, the 'old man' would definitely put the blame on her.

Her points had already been reduced to zero, and after this, she would never be able to repay the old man's kindness in several lifetimes.

But just when Mimi was thinking about whether to die together with Zhang Ze and put an end to it all, she saw Zhang Ze suddenly took out a bunch of keys from his treasure bag.

A bunch of identical keys.

All these keys were issued to him.

There was a period of time before the Qinghe Conference, probably because the Hundred Demons Sect was disturbing the earth veins, rumors broke out in various places that the creatures of the ancient world were beginning to awaken.

The system gave Zhang Ze many tasks to collect these ancient creatures.

After completing the first task, Zhang Ze outsourced the work because he felt it was too troublesome.

He issued tasks to the Sword Sect and the Beast Taming Sect, and he was only responsible for receiving the tasks.

If you touch it and try your hand at it, it can be considered as catching it yourself.

As these capture missions are completed, in addition to the increase in system points, he will also be given a large number of identical keys.

It was as if she was afraid that he would lose the key.

There was no explanation of the purpose of those keys at the time, and there were no subsequent tasks.

Even the description is nonsense.

[Key, can be used to open the lock]

At first, Zhang Ze was quite interested. Whenever he encountered a lock he didn't recognize, he would take out his key and poke at it a few times.

But after poking around a lot, he still couldn't find a big lock that matched it. So the matter was left unresolved and was thrown aside by Zhang Ze.

Zhang Ze's keys accumulated more and more.

I took out the key at this time just because of my intuition.

A brass key matches a copper lock. Zhang Ze picked up a key from the pile and inserted it into the lock.

The key and the lock fit perfectly. After Zhang Ze inserted the key, the tense and oppressive atmosphere around the box caused by the countdown disappeared.

An inexplicable force swept through his soul, as if verifying his existence.

Before Zhang Ze could turn the key, the lock and the key disappeared together.

The box was opened.

Zhang Ze did everything at the right time, and a daily task popped up like a virus pop-up window.

Your uncle's dog

[Mr. Li's dog is lost in Qianji Town. Go find it.]

[Task reward, one point.]

Zhang Ze looked at the task name with typos. He suspected that the system was scolding him, and he had sufficient evidence.

But there was nothing he could do.

After clicking the pop-up window, Zhang Ze ignored the stunned Meeme and put his gaze back into the box.

The things in the box are not magic weapons, nor are they rare treasures, nor are they some ancient secrets.

But some small bits and pieces.

A tree root with a perfect shape, covered with patina, like a peerless divine weapon, with an ugly little character engraved on it.

【Xiao Qingyun Award】

A jade plaque with an ancient shape, which looks about 70% similar to the waist plaque of today's Tianzong disciples, with the word "Chen" engraved on it.

It was probably given to him by his junior sister in his previous life.

Zhang Ze unfolded a scroll, which depicted the scenery of Baiyu County at that time. Of course, his skills were limited and he could barely make out that the painting was of mountains.

There is a small seal printed on the lower right.

The four small words on the seal are squeezed together.

Xiangxiang painting.

The remaining items are mostly like this, all of which are worthless little things given to me by friends in the past.

Zhang Ze sighed, not knowing what to say. He closed the lid of the box and carefully put away the box and its contents.

"Who are you?" Meeme's somewhat collapsed voice once again reached Zhang Ze's ears.

"Didn't I tell you that I'm your colleague? I might even be your senior." Zhang Ze scratched his head innocently. "Of course, I might not be. I've been looking for you everywhere just to investigate this matter."

Zhang Ze pointed at the big book on the table and said, "You call it an old thing, right? Where did it come from? How come it can be everywhere?"

Baa, "You know this? Don't you..."

"Well, I have one too. It's probably here." Zhang Ze pointed to his head. "You still remember what happened in the Jade Book Illusion, back in Baiyu County..."

Seeing that Mimi was still confused, Zhang Ze was a little surprised, "You don't remember what happened in the Jade Book illusion?"

Meow Meow's head shook violently.

Although he didn't know what happened to Meeme, Zhang Ze still explained some necessary things for smooth communication.

But the more Mee Mee listened, the more she couldn't accept it.

Many times ignorance is bliss.

"Ah? You failed the mission, or you refused to accept the punishment?"

"Huh? You can outsource a lot of tasks. All it takes is a quick check by you. No lightning will strike you?"

"Huh? You don't need to have your memory cleared after completing the mission?"

"Ah? You won't be forced to log in by that old noob?"

"Ah? No, how many points and credits do you have now?"

Meow Meow knelt on the table, looking like a loser eating dust.

After hearing Meeme's question, Zhang Ze opened the system and took a look, then gave her a number.

"I'm just counting, tens, hundreds, thousands, millions, the total now is..."

Before Zhang Ze could finish his words, Meow Meow, in doll form, jumped onto Zhang Ze's face and refused to let go like a facehugger.

"Hey, I don't want to do this anymore. I'm not going anywhere. I want to hang out with you. I want to be your dog."

"Hey, since I see there's a share, sir, please give me a little change. I'll first pay back the old man's high-interest loan."

The collapse of workers comes so suddenly, often in an instant.

Zhang Ze took great effort to take Meeme off his body. He held Meeme in his arms and asked.

"We'll discuss the salary later. Can you please call the 'old thing' out? I have something to ask him."

Although Zhang Ze's own girlfriend seemed to know something, she never spoke to him except for occasionally using some small tricks to express her dissatisfaction in a sarcastic way.

There seems to be some restriction.

In this regard, he is really not as good as this "old thing" in Mee Mee's family.

Although her pet is a dog, it seems to be able to communicate.

However, Meeme, who had transformed into a little earth fairy, stared at Zhang Ze for a long time, and suddenly said with some disappointment.

"The old thing seems to have disappeared. I can't contact it now."

(End of this chapter)