Chapter 14: Don't Want to Work Overtime (6)
This time, Liu Sheng obediently returned to the company to work overtime first.
From today onwards, be a qualified corporate drone.
Okay, received.
Bowing and scraping.
The only rebellious thing Liu Sheng did was constantly running to the restroom.
When her Manager asked if she was slacking off in the restroom, Liu Sheng smiled and replied that she wasn't.
She said she just drank too much coffee to perk herself up, and didn't her Manager know that coffee was good for bowel movements?
Then her Manager also mentioned that there was a dinner party that night and she needed to dress nicely.
This time, Liu Sheng chose to ignore him.
This was the second rebellious act.
"What's wrong with you? I told you to spruce yourself up, and you wear this?" her Manager grumbled through gritted teeth.
Liu Sheng looked innocent: "This is just my style."
Her phone vibrated, and her mother's message arrived as expected.
"I left soup for you tonight, it's in the rice cooker."
"Learn how to socialize more from your leaders, remember to smile more, your face has been too grim lately, no one will deal with someone who doesn't like to smile."
"Okay," Liu Sheng replied.
Then, when her leader picked up food, she spun the table.
When her leader toasted, she didn't drink, even chewing on her food.
When her leaders started making moves on the girls, Liu Sheng also made her move on the leaders.
Black tentacles bound them, one by one, tossing them into a corner and force-feeding them several bottles of alcohol until they passed out.
She believed they wouldn't remember what had happened to them tomorrow.
"Don't tell anyone, okay?" Liu Sheng said to her female colleagues, her finger on her lips, smiling purely.
However, the wriggling tentacles behind her made it impossible for them to remain calm; they could only shiver and nod.
Then Liu Sheng retracted her tentacles and left the place.
She walked down the hotel corridor, took out her phone, looked at Yi Yu's face reflected on the screen, and whispered, "You have power, do you know that?"
It wasn't in vain that she had practiced diligently in the restroom for a day, finally figuring out how to use the strange tentacles from her second analysis.
This was a power hidden deep within this body, only it had never been discovered.
Or rather, it wasn't that it hadn't been discovered, but that it was intentionally suppressed.
"That's right, you probably don't want to use it too much."
Liu Sheng saw a waiter walking over with a puzzled expression and quickly raised her phone to her ear, pretending to be on a call.
"Don't be afraid, I'll help you."
She felt the tentacles inside her trembling.
After leaving the restaurant, Liu Sheng hailed a taxi.
"Where to?" the driver asked.
"Xiaoyu, where are you going!" her phone message asked simultaneously.
Liu Sheng coldly pressed the screen off.
Then, the driver saw the woman who got into the car look down at her phone in the rearview mirror and ask, "Shall we go home?"
The driver noticed there was no verbal reply, and the screen was completely black.
But the woman seemed to sense some reluctance and said again, "No choice, you have to face it, right?"
"Forget it, okay, okay!"
The woman looked quite helpless, then looked up and smiled at the driver, saying, "Please go to Wannianyuan."
To the driver, that smile was unsettling.
Wannianyuan was a famous cemetery in the city.
He remembered the eerie stories he'd heard on the radio while driving at night, about taxi drivers who ended up driving hearses...
For example, on a rainy day, a mysterious passenger gets into the car, says they want to go to the cemetery, and keeps their head down. The driver, being nosy, asks why they're going to the cemetery, and the passenger replies, 'Because I'm going home,' then smiles and looks up...
That's right... what was she just saying about going home...
The driver shivered, scared by his own imagination.
Liu Sheng tilted her head in confusion and asked, "Driver, why aren't you driving?"
The driver looked up at the rearview mirror, and a quick glance made him even more panicked.
A strange, wriggling tentacle had appeared behind the woman!
He dared not speak or ask any more questions, stomping on the accelerator and speeding towards Wannianyuan.
After driving for a while, Liu Sheng finally noticed something freely swaying behind her and quickly pushed it back into her body.
...
Further down the road, the way to Wannianyuan was a gloomy path lined with ancient trees, and the streetlights were dim and hazy beneath the tree cover.
Moreover, as they drove, it started to rain.
This was even more like the radio stories!
The driver was terrified, not daring to think too much, just driving with his head down.
Perhaps it was too dark, and his attention was split in two—half on driving, half on the back seat—so he didn't notice the color of the rainwater.
But Liu Sheng did.
It was all black.
Just like the tentacles on her body.
Her phone vibrated wildly, and messages popped up one after another.
"Where are you going?"
"Did you offend your leader?"
"Are you running away from home?"
"Are you not going to work tomorrow?"
But Liu Sheng didn't reply.
"Do you see? There's a tracker inside you," she said to her phone.
Her phone didn't answer, then suddenly made a crackling sound, emitting a burning smell.
The screen flashed with colorful lines, then went completely black, and wouldn't light up no matter how many times she pressed it.
It was fine; Liu Sheng didn't need her phone anyway.
She only needed Yi Yu.
...
They arrived at Wannianyuan.
As soon as Liu Sheng got out of the car, the taxi fled like the wind, leaving a trail of exhaust.
The rain was getting heavier now, collecting into puddles of black liquid on the ground.
The sky was already pitch black, but Liu Sheng knew this black wasn't the black of night, because the clouds, which should have been soft, were now wriggling and black, as if countless tentacles were dancing wildly in the air.
"Your mother is very powerful," Liu Sheng said, holding her phone and looking up in admiration.
The tentacles on her body responded, emerging from her skin and dancing excitedly, as if in agreement.
It was already past opening hours, so Liu Sheng naturally wouldn't use the main entrance.
Using the tentacles on her body, Liu Sheng easily climbed over the wall.
Landing on the neatly trimmed lawn, Liu Sheng clapped her hands.
The trees in the cemetery began to twist, their canopies hung with viscous tentacles, and the tentacles were covered with dense, tiny eyes.
The lawn also transformed into a giant carpet with tiny tentacles extending from it, spreading across the hillside and swaying in the wind.
Countless square plots covered the hillside, reflecting a cold light in the darkness.
Liu Sheng noticed a few surviving small white flowers at the base of the trees, so she extended a tentacle and picked them.
She carefully protected the small white flowers to prevent them from being splashed by the black rain.
Liu Sheng ascended the hillside steps of the cemetery, and layers of gravestones met her gaze in the darkness.
The photos on them seemed to turn their faces to meet her eyes.
Liu Sheng maintained her composure, silently clutching her phone tighter.
She walked until she reached the layer where the sensation was strongest, then stepped in, passing gravestone after gravestone, until she finally found it.
At this moment, tendrils of tentacles hung down from the dark clouds above, and a giant eyeball in the center of the tentacles rotated, finally casting its gaze upon Liu Sheng, or rather, upon the gravestone in front of Liu Sheng.
One gravestone had a photo of Yi Yu and read, "Tomb of Beloved Daughter Yi Yu."
Right next to it was another gravestone, with a photo of a slightly plump middle-aged woman, reading, "Tomb of Wife Wang Juan."