Chapter 251: Target: Senior Management, Factory Undercover, Activate
Seeing Maya get put in her place,
The audience from Dragon Country was delighted.
They couldn’t stand that bitch.
Now she’d poked the bear and regretted it?
What a moron!
Who ever said the people of Saint Country were smart?
They’re just a little cunning, which they use to brag and show off how "unique" their race is. Plenty of people from Dragon Country used to believe it, but now they just scoff!
Just a moment ago, they were hoping Maya would stir up some trouble.
Now their wish had come true, and they were all grinning.
[Weren’t you enjoying playing the part of the Ghost Section Chief’s wife? Afraid of a little pain now?]
[Sometimes I wonder if these broads left their brains at home when they got matched. Don’t they know who to mess with and who to leave alone?]
[They’re probably just used to simps fawning over them in the real world.]
[Just because they’re jealous of Yun Zhenyue, every last one of them wants to bully her. The moment things start going their way, they start acting up.]
[So true. Besides Yun Zhenyue, none of these foreign spouses can handle it when they have the upper hand.]
...
The audience from Saint Country was extremely frustrated by this.
They had lost face in front of the global audience.
Many otherwise dignified-looking people had veins bulging on their foreheads, furiously typing rebuttals on their phones and computers like rabid beasts.
[Just you wait! You people from Dragon Country will regret this!]
[With that tail of hers, Maya will climb her way into upper management sooner or later.]
[Exactly! It’s an Abyssal Organ, after all. Do you have one?]
The Great Cold Country, on the other hand, was a bit quiet.
Usually, they were the ones arguing with Dragon Country.
Now, someone else had taken their job.
Besides, it was Maya’s fault that Han Sumei had been assigned to the garbage workshop.
Many people from the Great Cold Country were secretly thrilled to see Maya looking so miserable.
Now they didn’t know who to root for.
[Aish... Ugh, I can’t even be bothered to argue anymore.]
[Let’s just watch them tear each other apart.]
[But both Yun Zhenyue and Maya have a chance to make it into the higher ranks. It doesn’t seem likely for Miss Sumi, though.]
[Bullshit! Just wait until Miss Sumi gets her loyalty tested! Hers will definitely be high too!]
...
At that moment, having eaten their fill, Yun Zhenyue and Huang Ting returned to the assembly line.
I had to admit,
the premium restaurant on the second floor was amazing!
They had professional chefs who could cook anything you wanted.
Deep-frying, stir-frying, flash-frying, stewing!
Braising, simmering, roasting, grilling, pan-frying!
Desserts, vegetable salads, and drinks were all free!
Staple foods?
What were those?
Yun Zhenyue had ordered five dishes in a row.
She only stopped eating when she was about eighty percent full.
Huang Ting, on the other hand, was responsible for finishing off whatever was left.
And she still looked like she wanted more.
"BURP—"
"I haven’t been this full in ages! From now on, you’re my big sister!"
"C’mon, sis, give me a hand."
Huang Ting rubbed her bloated stomach. She felt like she’d come back to life, but just moving her legs was a struggle.
"I told you to eat less..."
Yun Zhenyue sighed helplessly.
She could see that Huang Ting’s little belly had gotten bigger.
She supported her with one hand, as if helping a pregnant woman.
With her other hand, she pulled a small cart.
It was piled high with all sorts of snacks.
Dried and candied fruits, cured meats.
These were all snacks the premium restaurant was going to throw out.
So Yun Zhenyue had asked for all of them.
’As for seeing Maya apologizing to that Ghost Section Chief on her way out?’
’Hmm~’
’What’s that got to do with me?’
’It’s true that the Ghost Section Chief’s arrangements led to her meeting Huang Ting, and then the whole loyalty test and everything that followed.’
’But Yun Zhenyue didn’t want to accept it.’
’She was a five-star deputy manager, after all.’
’...even if it was a title she’d gotten for free.’
’She had to look the part!’
Hearing this, Huang Ting chuckled. "It was my first time eating at the premium restaurant. I couldn’t help myself~"
"These snacks... let me hand them out. It’ll help me walk off the meal."
As she spoke, she took the small cart from Yun Zhenyue.
She started handing out the snacks to the workshop employees who were still working.
There wasn’t much.
Each person only got a little.
But even so,
they all looked toward Yun Zhenyue with gratitude.
It was because in this Purgatory Factory, it was normal for leaders to punish the grunts.
But who actually cared about them?
It was unheard of!
This small snack
gave them an unprecedented sense of respect.
"This is our new deputy manager! She saw how hard we were working and felt for us, so she brought us these premium snacks, full of Yin energy," Huang Ting announced, clapping her hands.
Hearing the words "deputy manager,"
many of the employees’ breathing quickened.
The movements of their hands sped up.
A 5-star leader!
Such an important person!
Many of them hadn’t seen anyone of that rank since they’d entered the factory.
One employee secretly sized up Yun Zhenyue.
Seeing she was just a young, pretty girl,
he couldn’t help but feel surprised and envious.
"She’s so young..."
"She’s so good to us. Hss— I’m saving this candied fruit for the New Year."
"I feel re-energized. Let’s work faster to repay her kindness."
Hearing the employees’ grateful whispers,
Yun Zhenyue fiddled with a strand of hair at her temple.
’She hadn’t expected such a small gesture to earn her so much goodwill.’
She looked around.
Under the ghastly white lights, endless conveyor belts wriggled slowly.
Cold iron hooks hanging from them carried chunks of meat, from which dark red blood dripped. The environment was exceptionally harsh.
The employees of the Flesh Workshop all wore rubber aprons, mechanically swinging their cleavers. Some chunks of meat still had bones, and the blades would strike them, sending fine shards of bone flying. No one had time to wipe them from their faces.
Many employees were also missing a few fingers.
The air was thick with the rich, metallic stench of blood and flesh.
’This factory really doesn’t treat people like human beings!’
Yun Zhenyue’s mood grew heavy.
As a mid-level manager,
her job now was to supervise them.
She could enjoy a pile of benefits without having to do anything.
Like a leech, feeding on the blood of those at the bottom.
Meanwhile, "consumables" like Huang Ting could give everything they had, exhausting all their strength, without receiving a shred of pity from the factory.
’This factory must be destroyed!’
’Not just for Gu Yuan’s reputation,’
’but also for these ghosts.’
"What’s wrong, sis? You don’t look too happy," Huang Ting asked, glancing over at Yun Zhenyue.
"I was thinking..."
Yun Zhenyue rubbed her temples.
"...about how to destroy this factory."
"Er..."
Hearing that, Huang Ting shrank back. Her greatest ambition in life was just to climb to the factory’s middle management so she could slack off a bit more. As for destroying the factory, that was something she wouldn’t even dare to dream of!
’Didn’t you just shoot straight up to 5-star? Wouldn’t it be great to just eat, drink, and wait for death in the factory!’
"Shh! Be careful what you say!"
She glanced left and right, only breathing a sigh of relief when she saw that no one had heard what Yun Zhenyue just said.
"I know, I was just talking," Yun Zhenyue said, shaking her head.
Huang Ting’s mouth twitched.
’She didn’t believe for a second that was something you could "just say"!’
Huang Ting pulled Yun Zhenyue into a corner and whispered, "I’m just a low-level employee. I don’t have such lofty ambitions."
"But if you want to change all this, you at least need to climb into the factory’s upper echelons."
"We’re talking 7-star, 8-star, right?"
"Otherwise, it’s all just empty talk."
True enough.
Yun Zhenyue completely agreed with Huang Ting.
But that was precisely where she was stuck.
Her loyalty was high enough, but to get promoted, she had to complete missions!
But those missions were always about catching people and doing bad things!
Yun Zhenyue didn’t want to do them, and sighed helplessly. "That’s a bit of a problem..."
"I get it now. You don’t want to do bad things, right?" Huang Ting said, suddenly understanding.
"That’s fine, too. The factory is actually pretty decent about that."
"Even if you don’t complete the mission, as long as you genuinely contribute your efforts, you can still accumulate contribution points."
Yun Zhenyue seized on the key point.
She lowered her voice. "Are you saying... I can be a mole?"
"Work hard on the surface during a mission, but secretly sabotage it?"
Huang Ting coughed twice. "I never said that. That’s all you."
"I understand. Thanks, Ting!"
Yun Zhenyue’s eyes lit up.
Now that she had a clear goal, her mood improved.
Operation: Factory Mole, engage!