Chapter 1233 Reality

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"Your medical certificate report..."

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Life as always begins with work in the early morning and continues until two o'clock in the afternoon.

Huaishi handled her work numbly, like a walking zombie, replying to emails, receiving customers, making phone calls and sending faxes, or denying her responsibilities and passing the blame.

Just like those times in the past, relying on instinct to deal with all this.

Don't think about it, don't think about it.

Just like usual.

But it's different from usual.

When he was distracted, he didn't even know what he was thinking about...

"Okay, Huaishi, today's performance is much higher than yesterday."

Just when he was hesitating whether to linger a little longer or go to eat something, he suddenly heard a voice behind him and a hand patted his shoulder.

The visitor smiled warmly.

But when Huaishi turned around, she couldn't help but scream.

The colleague who was just an acquaintance in the past was actually covered in blood, with a distorted expression. Behind the ferocious smile, the head was mutilated, as if it had been split open by an axe. The worm in the crack extended its tentacles, and an eye was slowly looking through the crack. Peep outside.

But soon, all illusions disappeared without a trace.

The colleague returned to normal.

It's not a worm or a monster, it's just a thinking plug-in...

However, now the smile is awkward.

Sensing the gazes of the people around him, his colleague's smile disappeared, he glanced at Huai Shi, and turned away: "Damn, I'm sick."

Huaishi, on the other hand, was still sitting on the chair, panting.

I just feel sweaty.

Something is wrong.

Nothing felt right all day today.

"What's wrong?"

He leaned back on the simple chair, rubbing his eyes that were sore and dizzy after looking at the screen for too long, and reached out to get the eye drops, but what he got in his hands was a bottle of foul-smelling plasma.

Huai Shi's hair stood on end and he opened his mouth, wanting to shout.

But in his hands, the plasma quickly turned into eye drops.

There was only silence, a tiny whimper coming from his throat, and the strange looks from his colleagues around him.

Something is wrong.

This time, he knew that something was really wrong with him.

"Sorry, let me, let me go to the bathroom..."

Huai Shi stood up, staggered, and panted into the bathroom stall. She couldn't help vomiting violently, and vomited out everything she had eaten last night.

My stomach is empty.

When he turned back to look in the mirror, he saw a miserable middle-aged man with a pale face and a depressed expression.

He was unshaven and his collar was wet.

Tears were already welling up along with the vomit.

"That's not right, that's not right..."

He turned on the faucet in a daze, washed his hands, washed his face, washed his hands and face again, again and again, forgetting the constant toilet time warnings from the terminal, and muttered to himself dully.

Since when did something feel wrong.

Huaishi thought doubtfully.

After a breakup?

No, he didn't even feel that.

When his girlfriend, whom he had been with for so many years since college, broke up with him, he felt as if he had lost a plastic bag.

There is no reluctance.

He didn't even call and come to the door with gifts to apologize like in the past.

This morning, when I received abusive and angry messages, I showed no emotion and calmly clicked delete.

He felt that something must be wrong with him.

But he felt that if he was sick, something must have gone wrong earlier...

Even earlier than breaking up.

before that……

His head suddenly hurt, and he couldn't help but cover his face. Broken memories appeared in his mind, the cold streets, the shouting defenders downstairs, the beggars in the dark alleys, and... and...

And the man in the weird cloak.

"Please give me a moment and let me introduce you--" The hoarse voice echoed in the ears: "Our Heavenly Father and Savior, Baha..."

Baja?

Is it called Baja? Or Baja or something?

In the sluggishness and trance that came again, he felt that his thoughts were diverging uncontrollably again: Baha... Baha... Yoha Bach? It feels like he's just a show-off, not quite. Pavlov? Who is that? Doing research? Publius? Who is that? It sounds like I deserve a beating...

And, Badr?

Without any warning, he felt his heart twitching violently and feeling unprecedented pain.

"Goodbye, Huaishi." A soft voice echoed in the soul, sending the last blessing: "Goodbye, my dear friend."

So calm and joyful, with absolutely no sadness or pain, but it made Huai Shi unable to help but want to cry.

"Oh shit!"

He held on to the sink, gritted his teeth, and cursed subconsciously, his expression becoming more and more ferocious: "Fuck, fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"

Bang!

In fear and unknown, he smashed the empty hand sanitizer next to him with an angry punch. The broken bottle rolled and fell on the person next to him who had just rolled up his sleeves.

An unsightly water stain was left on the custom-made shirt.

silence.

Huai Shi looked up blankly and saw the original photo of the supervisor who had just finished using the toilet and was about to wash his hands through the reflection in the mirror. Yuan Zhao was also looking at him, full of astonishment and shock.

"……sorry."

Huai Shi wiped her face subconsciously, forgetting her confusion and anger just now, and forced out a flattering smile. She bent her waist and apologized, trying to make up for her mistake: "I'm sorry, supervisor, I didn't..."

"That's it!"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the original photo.

Yuan Zhao reached out and held his shoulders. A trace of surprise and appreciation appeared in his originally stunned expression: "That's it, Xiao Huai!"

"Ah?" Huaishi was stunned.

"You understand, I know, you understand - wolf nature, wolf!"

Yuan Zhao was beaming, not caring about the water stains on his body, and praised him greatly: "I knew you were a talent. As early as the first time I saw you, I knew you were an eye-catcher. There are countless beastly men hidden inside!

When your workload increased so much this morning, I had completely changed my view on you. Sure enough, you have endless potential! "

"ah?"

Huai Shi was still sluggish, unable to understand what he was talking about.

However, when I saw that young face talking nonsense about success, struggle, and experience in front of me, I couldn't help but want to punch this stupid idiot.

Boy, are you doing something wrong?

Wait, what is fecal insertion...

After subconsciously ignoring the inexplicable bad comments she gave to her supervisor, Huaishi once again fell into divergent thoughts about this issue.

Incomprehensible.

When he stood in front of the window and looked blankly at the familiar things outside the window, everything was completely different in a trance - the building covered with tentacles of flesh and blood, the boiling things floating in the air like strange eyes, the people in the busy traffic. Weird monster. There are also those strange things in the reflection of the windows, mixed among colleagues...

The whole world becomes incomprehensible.

Making it hard for him to breathe.

But when he stared at his reflection intently, he found that that reflection had become so unfamiliar.

Gradually, he became younger, handsome, and full of energy.

There was a certain light in his eyes that could only appear in dreams.

Who is that?

——That’s Huaishi.

There was a voice whispering in his ears, like an auditory hallucination in his soul, making him gradually become sluggish in a daze.

Once again, I forgot where I was.

And just in the afternoon, during the office's usual mobilization meeting, the newly appointed supervisor excitedly relayed the good news from the management.

“When I took over, our entire fourth business department ranked last in the entire company—now, it has risen to second place!

As long as everyone keeps up the good work and works hard, our entire department will be able to escape from the layoffs this time... What a joy, what a joy! "

He was responded to with ecstatic and warm applause from countless colleagues.

“Such an achievement would not be possible without the dedicated work and efforts of all of you. Likewise, it would not be possible without the strong support of the company. Here, let us first thank the board of directors and the head of the business department.

In order to express the determination of our fourth business department to strive for the top and get rid of the bottom, I have taken the lead in making a commitment to the board of directors! "

Yuan Zhao rolled up his sleeves, raised a finger, and said in a loud voice: "Starting from this month, this quarter, the overtime hours of all employees in our department must be ranked first in the entire company!

Our performance has also reached the top ten in the business department!

Some people say I can't do it, some think I'm ridiculous, what about you? Do you think what I said is ridiculous? "

"It's just overtime, what are we afraid of!"

During the brief stagnation, the interns who had just entered the company and the newcomers who had just become regular employees began to applaud enthusiastically and crazily.

"Yes, that's right, work overtime and beat them to death!"

"We are number one!"

"First!!!"

"Very good, very good! Very good!"

Yuan Zhao clenched his fists with both hands and shouted: "Work hard, achieve yourself, work together, and gain wealth and freedom!"

Everyone in the audience had red eyes and waved their fists.

“Achieve yourself!!!”

“WEALTH FREEDOM!!!”

The high-spirited shouts came one after another, making Yuan Zhao's face turn red with excitement.

He pointed at the faces in the crowd and praised them by name. At the end, he suddenly turned his finger and pointed at Huai Shi: "Here, I want to introduce an old friend to you - no, he has been reborn and completely reborn. Come on, Xiaohuai, come to our side——"

Huaishi's poems are dull.

"Huai Shi? Huai Shi..." The person next to him pushed him before he reacted. He looked around in confusion before he understood what had happened.

He walked forward as if he had just woken up from a dream, but he looked sluggish, as if he was still in a dream.

"Since yesterday's conversation, I believe everyone has witnessed today's new Huaishi, a alpha wolf that fits our corporate culture and company atmosphere, is being born! Look, this fighting face! Look! This calmness that looks down upon all things. Eyes——"

Yuan Zhao excitedly stopped Huai Shi and introduced it to everyone, ignoring the sleepwalking look on Huai Shi's face next to him.

"Come, Huai Shi, tell everyone about your mental journey and your thoughts -" the microphone was put to his mouth.

"...It's just, quite sudden."

Huai Shi was sluggish, as if he was thinking, but he had no idea what he was thinking. He could only answer instinctively: "It just feels like everything is different."

"What's the difference?" Yuan Zhao came closer excitedly: "Tell me more!"

"This world, me, and you are all different from the past..."

He looked at the world full of illusions in front of him and smiled hard: "I don't know which one is better."