Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 353 Restricted Area
There is a restricted area on the eco-ship.

When the assistant was assigned to the Life Science Department, he heard about the existence of the restricted area. Unless required for work, employees of all departments stayed away from the restricted area and were unwilling to set foot in the restricted area. Even if there was a job, they would mostly push it to newcomers who had not been there for long.

The common point is that when the newcomers come back from the restricted area, they usually fall seriously ill and miss work for several days.

Director Fuling is no longer surprised by this. She will reward these employees with a vacation until their physical and mental states are fully recovered.

The assistants have always thought that these are just weird stories made up by people when they are bored, specifically used to scare newcomers who have just arrived for a few days.

In fact, it is not a restricted area at all, and those living there are not evil ghosts, but two fox demons from Blue Star, one is a fox of misfortune, and the other is a fox of good fortune. Even in Blue Star, their birthplace, they are extremely rare and have high research value.

Not long ago, the armor they made based on Ruihu's life energy has been put into use. As long as the compatibility of the armor and life energy can be fully adjusted, Changzhi will have another official member.

This is exciting news.

Because in the past ten years, Changzhi has not expanded its official staff. Only after the death of the existing members, the armor will be passed on to the next holder for replacement. What's worse is that when the Life Science Department visited Blue Star not long ago, Changzhi's guard Xifeng was missing, and this loss was naturally counted on the Life Science Department.

Every member of Long Branch is the most valuable asset of the company.

They have been through hundreds of battles and faced dangerous environments in the universe, but more importantly, the company has invested heavily in each of them. Whether they can have their own armor is the key to distinguishing between official members and candidates.

There are many candidates, but the company's current capabilities are not enough to take care of all of them.

The assistant calmed himself down.

What do those two fox demons mean to the consortium?
assets.

An extremely valuable asset.

And as owners, why should they be afraid of their own assets?

He convinced himself in his heart, but to be on the safe side, the assistant took advantage of breakfast time and sat next to a Semitic scholar.

"The Director asked you to go to that damn place?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as the assistant opened his mouth, the Semitic fellow became as if facing a great enemy, and looked him up and down with eyes full of sympathy.

The new director did not like the assistant assigned to her by the senior management, or maybe she was different from her mentor and did not wholeheartedly agree with the Semitic style of doing things. After she took office, there was a lot less office politics, and people were finally able to devote more energy to academic research, so that many projects that were originally stagnant were promoted to varying degrees after Fuling took office.

Coupled with her relationship with Blue Star, the entire department's life energy business was in her hands, causing the idea of ​​replacing senior management to fail repeatedly.

Fuling is good in every way except that he doesn't really listen to the higher-ups.

Especially during this sensitive period, the top management of the consortium hoped that the director would be a Semitic person, or at least a puppet who would obey their orders - just like Fuling's mentor.

Fuling, however, has mastered the tactic of pretending to obey while actually disobeying to perfection.

Just like now, she seemed to want to punish this arrogant assistant. What's worse is that the assistant has just arrived and has no idea how terrible the restricted area is.

"Since this is a task assigned by the director, you have no choice but to go. Grit your teeth and get through it, then get ready for your vacation."

The assistant saw that his fellow villager's worried expression was genuine, so he frowned and asked, "Are you saying that I will be attacked by a fox demon in the restricted area?"

This made him feel incredible.

Are they just going to swallow their anger when their assets are attacked on their own territory?
As long as there is solid evidence, he can just call the top management of the consortium and they will send someone to punish these disobedient assets, for example, putting collars on them to help them understand their identity and situation.

The consortium's business spans the universe, and they will certainly encounter many assets that are unwilling to cooperate, but in front of those professionals, they are often trained to be very obedient.

"They won't attack you, but that doesn't mean you can get away safe."

The fellow hesitated for a long time and didn't know how to explain to his assistant for a moment.

This is the disadvantage of meeting laymen. What you think is common sense is like a mystery to them. If you want to fully explain to your assistant the mechanism of how life energy acts on the human body, he will probably have to spend the whole day here.

He heard that the assistant was in charge of administrative management at the foundation's headquarters, which had nothing to do with the projects run by the Life Sciences Department.

But he is a member of the Shan tribe and is trusted by the higher-ups, which means he represents the higher-ups' opinions to a certain extent. "To put it simply, most of the life forms on Blue Star possess a power called life energy. As long as this energy is used, super powers that conform to conventional cognition can be born. Although the ones in the restricted area are all fox demons, their abilities are completely opposite."

The fellow villager put aside the scientific terms for the moment and explained in words that were easy for the assistant to understand, "Simply put, everyone who went to the restricted area was infected with bad luck."

"Bad luck? You mean bad luck?"

“It’s hard to explain.”

The fellow shook his head. He felt that perhaps only when the assistant personally experienced the feeling of being affected by bad luck could he understand the horror of bad luck.

Such conversations have taken place too many times on the eco-ship, and many people don't take it seriously after talking about doom, thinking it is no big deal.

Everyone has had bad luck, such as spraining their ankle when going out, or running through seven or eight red lights when in a hurry, but these are bad luck that people can imagine and exist in common sense of life, which is still a long way from real misfortune.

That's what the assistant thought.

He thought of many unfortunate situations, but this was an ecological ship equipped with the most advanced medical system in the universe. After coming into contact with the two fox demons, he would stay in his house and not go anywhere for the next few days. In this way, he could not think of any other misfortune that could befall him.

Anyway, his work is usually very leisurely, and as a layman he has no say in professional matters.

The fellow villager looked at the assistant's departing back and shook his head helplessly.

Fortunately, the evil fox knew the limits well. Although each bad luck would torture the visitors half to death, it would never harm their lives. They could even return to work in a few days. What was left to them was mostly psychological trauma.

The fear of unknown disaster was imprinted in the hearts of each of them.

After saying goodbye to his fellow villager, the assistant prepared the recording equipment and walked through the security gate leading to the restricted area.

This door is usually locked, but not to prevent the fox demon inside from escaping, but more like to isolate something inside.

As the hatch opened to the assistant, a fresh breeze blew across his face.

He was standing at the foot of a high mountain, and looking out, he could see the lush green scenery.

This place doesn't look like a forbidden area that makes people shudder, but rather a paradise with pleasant scenery. The assistant heard that this mountain was specially prepared by the Life Science Department for fox demons, and it almost perfectly replicated their original living environment.

He heard that fox demons lived in seclusion in the mountains on Blue Star all year round. There was a dilapidated ancestral hall on the top of the mountain with a fox statue inside. It was built for them by ancient humans, but with the development of the times, monsters had long withdrawn from people's lives, and those romantic legends no longer had a market.

The fox demon couple lived in the ancestral hall.

At least that's what Fuling told him.

The assistant was holding a cup of coffee. The green mountains and clear waters made him feel refreshed, and his fear of the restricted area gradually disappeared.

And now, he was going to climb to the top of the mountain and go to the ancestral hall where the fox demon lived.

He withdrew his gaze from the top of the mountain, and just as he was about to take a step forward, he suddenly stopped.

The assistant suddenly felt his nose itchy, as if something was flowing out of his nostrils.

He stared blankly at the red drops of water dripping into the coffee cup.

is blood.

He wiped his nose reflexively, and his fingers were immediately stained red.

He had a nosebleed without any warning, and the assistant couldn't remember the last time he had a nosebleed.

When he came to his senses, he found that his other hand had moved to his abdomen at some point.

There's a dull pain there.

(End of this chapter)