Chapter 2: Stepping into the Otherworld (Part II)
The video starts playing:
"The first picture that appeared in the video was a medium-sized two-story hospital in X City in the 90s of the last century, which seemed to be almost good, but not too good."
Then the text also popped up - at 10:27 on July 10, 1996, the video played for two seconds, and then suddenly bounced into a delivery room:
And on the only bed in this delivery room sat a pregnant woman with a big belly but a very uncomfortable expression, and the pregnant woman looked at her belly while touching the belly of the arched belly with her hand, and screamed in pain...
Then a few nurses in white nurse uniforms walked in, and when they came in, they immediately gathered around the pregnant woman..."
Then the video begins to change from clear to blurry, until the video disappears completely...
And at this time, the picture on the video suddenly turned into text, and the text appeared - 10:59 on July 10, 1996, Liu Ding was born -"
Liu Ding looked at the pictures and text in this video, and felt a little scary.
What he was thinking was-
(How do you know the date and time of your birth and the video clip of your mother giving birth to him?) )
And when he wanted to reach forward and touch this video screen—
Suddenly, a voice came from above the hallway:
"Liu Ding, you must be curious, please continue to watch the video screen"
This voice is the same as the one that said just now (Liu Ding, welcome to our warriors' house), majestic, like the voice of a hellish devil calling himself.
Liu Ding was stunned in place, and then he slowly moved towards the door at the exit of the apartment door...
After walking to the position of the door, he was still the same as before, his body was facing the door sideways, his back was facing the other party on the screen a few steps in front of him, and his body and face were looking at the screen...
At this time, the screen pauses the text and suddenly the font disappears...
Then the first text that appeared on the screen -
"October 13, 2023 00:00"
After a few seconds of the text, it disappears, followed by a video screen:
"A passenger train is speeding down the railroad tracks in the dark of night."
The video of the train running in the dark played for two or three seconds, and then the video cut to the scene in the hard seat car of the train:
"At this time, Liu Ding was leaning on the glass of the window position of the hard seat, closing his eyes and sleeping, while the other hard-seat passengers sitting next to him were looking at their mobile phones, and some were also sleeping by the seats.
After the video in this carriage was played continuously for more than ten seconds, then the video screen began to change from clear to blurry, and then disappeared, and finally a few words popped up on the screen-
"October 13, 2023 07:55"
The font appears two seconds before disappearing, and then pops up:
"The train stopped at platform 7 of Beijing Railway Station, and after the conductor opened the door of the carriage, the passengers in the carriage got off the train in an orderly manner with their luggage."
And the picture also appeared for a second or two, and then switched to Liu Ding's picture:
Liu Ding stood on the passenger seat that had already gotten off the train, took his suitcase and backpack off the rack above the carriage, and after taking it down, he also pulled the trolley case with his left hand, and walked in the direction of the car door with the luggage backpack in his right hand...
Got off the train and came to the platform, he looked at the platform, at this time the platform except for the staff wearing work clothes at the station, basically all the passengers who got off the train have left the station, so he took out his mobile phone from his pocket, took a few photos of the platform, at this time, he carried the backpack to the back, and then walked out of the station with a suitcase in his hand...
After leaving the station, he looked around, he first saw the station square in front of him was densely packed with people, and then looked at the most iconic buildings of the railway station and the three big characters (Beijing Station), and at the same time saw the most eye-catching Beijing Railway Station subway station, and then he pulled the trolley box to the location of the subway station...
After entering the subway station, getting on the subway of Line 2 and getting on the seat, he took out his mobile phone and directly clicked on the software of the 58.com APP, after the software was opened, he quickly clicked to the page to find a job, and the page also popped up a prompt for the interview invitation time-
"At 10:00 on October 13, 2023, programmer - Beijing xxx company, address: Beijing Muxiyuan..."
He clicked the X button (exit button) on the prompt page, and then the information on that page and the chat history information of that company, he immediately typed:
"Leader, I'm out of the station and on my way to the company's location, about 9 o'clock."
Then click Send.
After sending it, the other party also replied to him with a message:
"Okay, pay attention to safety on the road, and when you get downstairs to the building, go straight up with your luggage."
He immediately replied:
"Okay, okay"
Then he withdrew from 58.com.
Then he opened the Baidu map and began to search for the route to the company's location, and after confirming the traffic route, he began to change the subway to...
For about half an hour, he carried a backpack and pulled a trolley box to the downstairs of the office building of the company that was located, he looked around and felt that there was nothing unusual, because the surrounding area is basically not an office building or a community, people come and go, and there are merchants and restaurants next to each other, and go forward to the largest clothing wholesale base in Beijing and even the entire North China that he has heard about when he did not come to Beijing - Muxiyuan clothing wholesale market, as well as the surrounding overpass and the highway lanes, the traffic is busy...
After going downstairs, he still opened 58.com first, and sent a message to the company personnel half an hour ago:
(Leader, I'm downstairs and ready to go up)
information. Then, the other party also replied to him:
"Okay, come up"
After seeing the other party's reply like this, he entered the office building with his luggage, came to the elevator, pressed the elevator, and after the elevator came down, he went directly into the elevator without waiting for others, and then got on the elevator, and after pressing the number of the floor where the company was located, he arrived at the floor of the company after a while...
After the elevator door opened, he saw two white-collar girls in suit uniforms facing him, he hurriedly stepped out of the elevator, stood in the same position of the elevator entrance on that floor, and looked at the two white-collar girls in suit uniforms.
"Hello, you're here for an interview."
One of the girls looked at Liu Ding and asked,
Liu Ding hurriedly replied:
"Yes"
"Hello, your name is Liu Ding, and you are here to interview for the position of programmer in my company."
The other girl looked at him and asked.
"Yes, yes, yes"
"Okay, let's take your luggage for you first, this is the company's regulations, everyone who comes to the company for an interview is like this, please abide by it"
One of the girls said to him.
"Oh, okay, won't lose it"
Liu Ding looked at the girl who had just spoken to him and asked,
"No, no, you can rest assured"
The girl said.
"Little brother, don't worry, because our position is special, and our boss will test you on the computer, if you hold your luggage, it will definitely be inconvenient, and it will also affect your performance."
Another girl said the same to him.
"Oh, well-then"
Liu Ding replied, and then handed the suitcase and backpack to the two girls...
A girl with his backpack and suitcase walked straight to the right aisle of the office building, and another girl said to him:
"Mr. Liu, come with me"
Then, the girl led Liu Ding to the left passage...
Following the girl in front of him, he looked around at the same time, there was nothing unusual, other companies not only hung their company names in front of the door but also opened the glass doors, and he also saw other people walking around on this floor...
followed the girl, and then came to a company that leaned against the corner but opened the door, Liu Ding looked at it, the company in front of him not only hung the house number in the upper right corner of the door, but also opened the glass door, like the other companies that he had just passed by with the girl who led the way in front of him...
"Little brother, our company has arrived, please follow me in"
The girl said to him,
Then Liu Ding followed the girl into the company, the first thing he came to was the front desk, Liu Ding saw the decoration and big characters on the wall behind the front desk at first sight: the wall behind the front desk was pasted (Beijing xxx company), and then under the company's font was written the company's philosophy... Pursue...
Then Liu saw a girl sitting at the front desk, looking at the mobile phone, after seeing the two of them, the girl immediately got up, looked at the two of them, and said to the girl who led the way in front of Liu Ding:
"Sister Ziran, this person you brought should be here for an interview again."
"Oh yes"
The girl named Ziran in front of Liu Ding replied.
Then, the girl at the front desk sat down and started playing with her phone again...
"Come with me"
The girl named Ziran said to Liu Ding,
Then Liu Ding was walked past the front desk by this girl named Ziran, and came to a hall with a lot of computers, like an Internet café, but this hall was a little messy, and there were only a few people sitting in the hall looking at the computer...
After walking through the hall, Liu Ding followed the girl named Ziran to the hall and walked over to the position of several independent offices against the wall...
When I came to the door of the room where the door of one of the offices hung (interview room), at this time, the girl named Ziran directly pushed open the glass door of the room, and when she pushed it open, it was empty...
The girl named Ziran said to Liu Ding:
"Little brother, you fill in your resume first, and then sit here and wait, our boss will be there soon"
So, Liu Ding sat on the interview chair, and the girl named Ziran took down the pen on the table and the paper of the resume sheet and handed it to Liu Ding.
Then she went out, and Liu Ding began to fill out her resume in the house...
Soon...
The glass door was pushed open from the outside, and then a middle-aged man with a fat figure and a tall man came in, and Liu Ding also looked at this middle-aged man, after the middle-aged man came in, followed by the girl named Ziran also walked in, after both of them came in, the girl took the lead in saying to Liu Ding:
"Little brother, this is our boss, you talk slowly"
After that, he went out and closed the glass door.
As the glass door was shut,
The middle-aged man called the boss sat on the opposite seat from Liu Ding, his face just turned from anger to joy, first smiled at Liu Ding, and then immediately converged, first looked at the completed resume in front of Liu Ding, then looked at Liu Ding, and said:
"Please show me your resume"
So, Liu Ding held the resume with both hands and handed it to the middle-aged man's boss in front of him, and the boss also took the resume with one hand, took the resume and held it in his hand, and then said to him:
"Hello lad, you don't mind if I smoke."
"Don't mind, don't mind"
Liu Ding replied.
So, the boss put his resume on the table, then took out a lighter and a cigarette from his trouser pocket and put it on the table, and then took the ashtray on the ground to the table, then opened the cigarette case, and said to him again:
"Young man, you don't smoke or not"
"Boss, I don't smoke, I never smoke"
Liu Ding replied,
The boss laughed a little, and then said:
"Good, good guy"
So, the boss only took out a cigarette, lit a fire, and after lighting the cigarette, he quickly put the cigarette and the lighter in his pocket at the same time...
After putting the cigarette and the lighter away, he directly held the cigarette in his right hand, first took a puff, and then spit out the fog...
Then he looked at Liu Ding's resume in his hand...
After a glance, there are only a few tens of seconds.
The boss looked at Liu Ding and asked:
"Young man Liu Ding, you wrote on your resume that your expected monthly salary is 10,000, please give me a reason to give you 10,000"
Liu Ding replied,
"Boss, that's right, I studied computer science in college very hard, and I know all about Jave's program development."
Then he said:
"The personal URL I filled in has my personal code written with the jave program, you can log in here to take a look, I personally think that with my ability, even if I am given 2 to 30,000 yuan, I can do it"
"Okay, Mr. Liu Ding, let's do it, I won't beat around the bush, I will give you 20,000 5 directly, and at the same time go to Beijing for five insurances and one housing fund, including food and housing, what do you think?"
The boss said,
"Okay, okay, I accept"
Liu Ding replied,
"However, I have a request from my side"
The boss paused abruptly, then added:
"Presumably you have also seen the introduction of our company in 58 city, our company is a service to the top domestic first-class Internet manufacturers, like you are familiar with BAT-Baidu Tencent Ali are our company's long-term customers, at the same time we are also a long-term partner of the national government departments, it is precisely because of this, our company when recruiting externally, although the benefits are good, the salary is also high, then the natural requirements are also high, this personnel has not told you"
"I remember telling me that I had to take a test before I could get on the job, and that no matter what the test results were, I could get the job done."
Liu Ding replied.
"Yes, yes, yes, as long as you come to our company, then you are a person from our company, there are many positions in our company, and you will definitely be able to arrange you, and all of them are food and accommodation, pay five insurances and one housing fund, and the minimum wage is also more than 9500, and the high salary is 180,000 / month, can you take up the post immediately after the test now?"
The boss said with a smile,
At this time, Liu Ding, who didn't realize the danger coming, immediately nodded and said:
"Convenient, convenient, boss, I'm convenient now, and I also handed over my personal luggage to your two sisters, they said it was the company's rules, let me abide by it"
"Oh good"
The boss said, then took out a wallet from another pocket, opened it, took out a wad of hundred-dollar bills from the wallet, handed it to him, and said to him:
"Comrade Liu Ding, come, this is a little bit of our company's heart, you must accept it"
"No, no, boss, I haven't gone to work yet, how can I ask for the company's money?"
Liu Ding said,
"No, you misunderstood, I mean, you don't have to test directly, go directly to our service Tencent project to work, our project is now very short of people, but the contract is about to expire, if within the deadline, we have not made a product, we will face huge compensation, you come, go directly to work, this is your hard work, you must accept it, otherwise you don't trust our company, don't accept this job, you are refusing"
"No, boss, I haven't tested it yet, didn't you just say it? I can't go to work until I'm done with the test."
Liu Ding replied,
The boss smiled awkwardly at this time, and then said:
"Okay, then go directly to the project to test, can you go directly to the post after the test?"
"Okay"
Liu Ding replied.
"Then you can take this money first, it's not much, it's just a little more than 10,000, but if you can buy it, you can help us work immediately, it's worth it."
The boss said, so he handed him the money again, this time directly to his hand.
Liu Ding looked at the boss's approach, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart, it is true that the first time he was looking for a job, he encountered such a good thing, he could receive a sum of money in the interview, and he could go to work immediately, wow, this is simply pie in the sky, don't want it.
So, Liu Ding accepted the money handed over by the boss, counted it, and after counting, put it directly into his pants pocket. The boss was also secretly happy when he saw him doing this, and then said to Liu Ding:
"Comrade Liu Ding, after the money is collected, then you should follow me to work on our project."
"Well, good"
"However, my luggage, it seems that one of you women took it, and it was said that it was the company's regulations."
Liu Ding said,
After listening to Liu Ding's words, the boss directly took out his mobile phone and made a call...
After the phone was connected, the boss said directly on the other end of the phone:
"Please bring Comrade Liu Ding's luggage to him now, and take it to my office."
Then he hung up the phone directly.
After a while, the girl who was holding Liu Ding's luggage and the girl named Ziran took Liu Ding's luggage and pushed the door directly into the interview room.
"You two don't apologize to our new comrade Liu Ding soon, you have made our new comrade Liu Ding unhappy"
The two girls were stunned for a moment, and then immediately quickly bowed and apologized to Liu Ding:
"I'm sorry, little brother, I was wrong"
"I'm sorry, Comrade Liu Ding, we shouldn't have detained your luggage"
"I'm sorry"
"I'm sorry"
The two girls bowed their heads endlessly.
"Don't, don't, don't"
Liu Ding hurriedly stopped,
"That's it, Comrade Liu Ding, the two of them are unhappy because they have provoked you, I will deduct their wages for this month to compensate you, what do you think?"
The boss said,
At this time, the two girls hurriedly knelt down and said to the boss:
"Boss, I was wrong"
"Boss, please don't deduct your salary"
"Boss, boss"
And at this time, the girl named Ziran knelt in front of Liu Ding, Liu Ding wanted to go up to stop it, but was stopped directly by the boss, so she knelt directly in front of Liu Ding, and the other girl also knelt in front of Liu Ding at this time, and they both pulled Liu Ding's trouser legs and said:
"Little brother, please, don't let the boss deduct our salary, we were wrong"
At this time, the boss roared and said to the two of them:
"I also told the two of you, if you delay our Comrade Liu Ding because of your waste, I will fire you both today."
After hearing the boss's roar, the two girls knelt down in horror and pulled Liu Ding's trouser leg and pleaded:
"Little brother, please go, if you don't go, I won't have a job today, I'm old and young."
"Little brother, the two of us beg you, can you go quickly?"
……
The two girls said pleadingly.
And Liu Ding looked at the boss at this time and said:
"Boss, I'll go with you now, don't fire the two sisters, it's not easy for everyone"
"Okay, today I will let go of the two of you in the face of our new comrade Liu Ding, and I will tell you both, in the future in the company, you will serve the new comrade Liu Ding well, he wants to sleep with the two of you, you can't refuse, if you dare to provoke a new comrade Liu Ding is unhappy, I will fire both of you like this"
"Did you two garbage hear that?"
The boss roared and said,
"Heard"
"Heard"
The two girls replied,
"Don't get out of here yet"
The boss scolded again,
So, the two girls hurriedly got up and stood up, pushed open the door and walked out...
After seeing the two of them walk out, the boss then said to Liu Ding:
"Comrade Liu Ding, look, can we go now?"
"Okay, boss, let's go now"
Liu Ding said,
At this time, the boss took the initiative to help Liu Ding pull over the suitcase, and said:
"Comrade Liu Ding, I'll help you pull the suitcase"
"Boss, no, no, I'll do it myself"
Liu Ding said,
The boss saw Liu Ding's determined appearance, so he pretended to be reserved and smiled and said to him again:
"Then, let's go over now, you take your luggage"
"Good"
So, Liu Ding followed the boss out of the interview room with a backpack and a trolley case in his hand.
When I walked to the office hall, I found that the hall was empty.
Liu Ding looked around, except for the lack of people, the scene was still as messy as when he was brought over by the girl named Ziran just now.
Maybe the boss saw his suspicion, so the boss stopped, hurriedly turned around and explained to Liu Ding:
"Comrade Liu Ding, I forgot to tell you, our company has many office locations, and this is only one of them, and this is our company's warehouse, and generally only a few people are staff members who look at the warehouse, and now it's their lunch break."
So, the boss took out his mobile phone at this time and lit up the screen, and specially stretched out the screen of the mobile phone to Liu Ding to show him, and said:
"Look, yes, it's 11:20"
"Then let's go, as the saying goes, time is money, let's rush over early"
"Well, good"
Liu Ding replied,
Then Liu Ding pulled the luggage and followed the boss to the elevator entrance, the boss specially pressed the elevator 1 floor, the elevator came, and they got off the elevator...
Everything looks calm and unpredictable...
When he arrived at the elevator on the first floor and walked out of the office building, the boss said to Liu Ding again:
"Let's go, go to my car, my car is parked on the side of the road"
So, Liu Ding was taken by the boss to a small van car that looked a little dilapidated Wuling Hongguang on the side of the road, but it was the beginning of the Beijing brand, and Liu Ding saw this little dilapidated Wuling Hongguang minivan, and also felt incredible, and when he was stunned, the boss said to him again:
"Comrade Liu Ding, I'm really embarrassed, I didn't drive my car today because of Beijing's limited number, so I drove this car from my family to pull goods, you won't mind, I'm really embarrassed."
"It's okay, boss"
Liu Ding replied,
So the boss took the initiative to open the back door for Liu Ding, and said:
"Comrade Liu Ding, you better sit in the back"
So, Liu Ding got into the car behind, and after seeing Liu Ding get into the car, the boss also came to the cab at this time.
In the car, the boss asked again:
"Why don't we eat something first, it's a bit far, what do you want to eat, I'll ask someone to bring it to us, you see how the burger is"
"Well, okay, Liu Ding replied"
So, the boss took out his mobile phone and made a call...
A few minutes later, a man with two KFC in his hand walked to the cab of Wuling Hongguang's car, and the man said to the boss:
"Boss, your package is here, this one is yours"
The man first gave a package to the boss, and the man glanced at Liu Ding, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, and his eyes revealed that he was very scared...
"Well, what are you doing?"
At this time, the boss was angry with him,
"It's okay, it's okay, boss, I'm in a hurry, I'm going to go to the toilet in a hurry, this should be for him"
After the man put down the KFC in his hand, KFC also fell straight into the car, so he hurriedly ran away...
"Boss, I can't hold it back"
Said as he ran.
The boss looked at the KFC that fell in the car and broke the package, and he immediately understood that the KFC must have been poisoned, and the KFC that fell and broke the package must be no problem, as the boss, it must also be good for the guests who are about to take the bait, so as to greatly let the guests who are about to take the bait let down their guard...
At this time, the boss picked up the KFC that had fallen off the broken package, he didn't eat it, put it in front of the car glass, and said to Liu Ding:
"Comrade Liu Ding, I'm not hungry, you eat first"
After speaking, he took the KFC package that was not intact and was the first time that the person handed him to Liu Ding, and smiled...
Sure enough,
After Liu Ding took the KFC handed over by the boss, he ate it...
And after the boss saw him eat, he also started the vehicle directly...
After Liu Ding finished eating the intact KFC package, he first felt nauseous, and then felt unbearable pain in his stomach, like he was poisoned, and shouted in pain:
"Boss, this KFC is estimated to have expired, send me to the hospital"
Seeing this, the boss then accelerated the car, and then took a spray bottle similar to air freshener from the car glass, without saying a word, one hand held the steering wheel, and the other hand directly aimed the air freshener nozzle at the struggling Liu Ding who was sitting in the back seat and sprayed it...
After spraying it, Liu Ding fainted and stopped making noise, while the boss accelerated and drove to the highway out of Beijing...
Then
And the boss sold him to the traffickers, who changed hands ...