He Suining was feeling a bit strange when Manager Zhong looked at the anxious woman weaving through the crowd and shook his head.

He explained to her, "Zhuo Shanshan is a very good employee. Last time she took on a normal task, but for some reason it was very difficult, which caused her to fail once. This should be her second time now, no wonder she's in such a hurry."

Faced with her questioning gaze, Supervisor Zhong smiled patiently, "A fifth-level formal employee has three chances to fail a task, and each failure will deduct one hundred points. However, after three failures, the points will double. That is to say, the fourth failure will be eight hundred, the fifth failure will be one thousand, until you voluntarily apply for a failed task."

"As I mentioned before, fifth-level regular employees have five chances to fail to submit a task. If they fail all five times, they will be demoted to the internship area to start over. I don't think any employee would want to suffer such humiliation, so Zhuo Shanshan would rather give up a thousand points to transfer the task and do a losing business than fail to submit a task."

He Suining nodded in understanding.

However, even though Zhuo Shanshan was willing to pay 1,000 points, the difficulty of the task was fully demonstrated by her, and everyone looked a little embarrassed.

The employees she caught all tried to dodge her, and after searching around, no one was willing to take over the task.

Wouldn't that mean she really has to submit the mission as a failure?

Zhuo Shanshan crouched on the ground, her head in her hands, crying helplessly.

Supervisor Zhong sighed and shook his head. "You'll get used to it. This kind of thing happens all the time in other formal areas too. Come on, I'll take you to your dormitory."

"Wait a moment, Manager Zhong."

He Suining would rather not miss out on a thousand points.

She knew how difficult it was to earn points, but since she was going to take on tasks anyway, she decided to give it a try. At worst, she could submit the task and fail.

No one will die in one go anyway.

Under Manager Zhong's surprised gaze, she walked towards Zhuo Shanshan and said, "Zhuo Shanshan, right? I'm willing to hand over the task to you."

Zhuo Shanshan thought she was hallucinating.

It wasn't until He Suining repeated it several times that she was sure she hadn't misheard.

He jumped up from the ground, grabbed He Suining's wrist as if it were a lifeline, and asked, "Really? You really want to?"

"Transfer the points to me first."

"Sure, sure." Zhuo Shanshan wasn't afraid that she was a scammer, and transferred the money immediately.

Manager Zhong quickly intervened, "Wait, don't be silly, He Suining. You've only just transferred here, are you going to have a bad start already? Everyone wants a good omen."

Upon hearing that she was a new transferee, and with Supervisor Zhong intervening, Zhuo Shanshan's eyes gradually dimmed.

He Suining smiled at Manager Zhong and said, "Manager Zhong, I don't believe in this."

"That won't do either." Supervisor Zhong had been trying his best to stop her, and his attitude became serious. "He Suining, don't think you can be arrogant just because you've completed two S-level tasks. The interns' tasks are selected based on data and are generally quite simple. But the tasks for full-time employees are much more difficult. Sometimes you'll even encounter situations like Zhuo Shanshan's that they can't complete. Others would rather not have to encounter such a situation, but you've taken it on yourself."

He Suining stubbornly shook her head.

After a brief standoff, Manager Zhong, seeing that she was unyielding, gave her a disappointed glare.

He ignored her and turned away.

Zhuo Shanshan looked up at her with concern, "Are you really alright? Because I offended Manager Zhong."

“I don’t think Manager Zhong is such a petty person. She’s just temporarily angry. Besides, wouldn’t it be even more impressive if I completed the task?” He Suining said casually. Zhuo Shanshan smiled awkwardly, seemingly not believing that she could complete it either.

But people are selfish.

She certainly hoped that He Suining, for whatever reason—whether it was arrogance or something else—wouldn't make her suffer the consequences.

The two went to the machine in the time capsule and completed the handover.

Fearing she might regret it, Zhuo Shanshan hurriedly ran off after handing over the item.

He Suining didn't care much.

After leaving the house, she opened the map and glanced at it, then ran to the management area to find customer service and bought a single dormitory room. Afterwards, she went to the cafeteria and ate something delicious.

Good guy.

150 points gone just like that.

[...] Heartbreaking to see it all broken.

The next day, He Suining bought some snacks and went to the internship area to find Zhong Zhanzhan.

Zhong Zhanzhan was deeply moved that He Suining would still think of her. She sat with He Suining on the bed eating snacks and told her, "Chifeng has gone on another mission. I think she'll be coming to the official area to find you soon, so you have to be careful."

"Ah."

"Oh right, right." Zhong Zhanzhan remembered what her aunt had told her.

She closed the dormitory door and whispered to He Suining, "Ningning, do you know about the arena?"

He Suining honestly shook his head.

Zhong Zhanzhan puffed out her cheeks smugly, "Hmph, I got this exclusive news from my aunt. Since we're good friends, I'll tell you for free."

She watched Zhong Zhanzhan eat many bags of potato chips and fell silent.

"The arena is a small world where players participate together. Sounds simple, right? But the arena on the spaceship is not an ordinary arena. They are all terrifying dungeons."

She made a grimacing face, which wasn't scary but rather kind of cute. "It's the kind with ghosts. My aunt told me that you shouldn't go if you can avoid it. Because sometimes you might not only get killed by the ghost, but the players will also fight each other."

"But," Zhong Zhanzhan tore open another bag of glutinous rice strips and munched on them, "the arena's points are four times higher than outside. If you participate once, complete the mission, and come back alive, you'll get 4000 points."

He Suining's eyes lit up.

The ragged creature sensed something and trembled as it hugged its chubby body.

I wasted an afternoon with Zhong Zhanzhan.

He Suining returned to the regular employee area.

And so, three days passed.

She was preparing to head to the small world.

Upon arrival at the time capsule, I checked in at the check-in machine and saw that I had 1630 points remaining.

He Suining spent another 10 points to buy a memory-erasing capsule and swallowed it.

"He Suining." Just as He Suining pressed the sign-in button and was about to pass through the time portal, the voice of Manager Zhong, whom she hadn't seen for several days, came from behind her.

She turned away.

Manager Zhong's expression was still not good, and she wasn't very nice to her. Just seeing her gave her a headache.

But what she said made He Suining pause in surprise: "I used my privileges to apply for a musical genius cheat for you. When you receive the mission, remember to select this one."

She glanced to the side discreetly, not daring to let the other players hear; this was essentially giving He Suining preferential treatment.

It wouldn't be good if other players found out. "I secretly checked the database. The small world Zhuo Shanshan entered is a small world that revolves around music. Zhuo Shanshan's initial identity is not good. She is a cannon fodder character, and her musical talent is very average... But that's all I can find out. I don't know why Zhuo Shanshan can't complete the mission."

He Suining felt a warmth in her heart. "Thank you, Sister Zhong."

Manager Zhong snorted and turned to leave.

She watched as Manager Zhong's figure disappeared, then turned and entered the time portal.

In the blink of an eye, the person disappeared.

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