"Creak, creak—bang! Bang! Bang!"

  A battered bus emerged from the mist, panting as it approached and finally stopped at a bus stop by a roadside sign.

  "Unnamed Road, g Vilge, arrived. Passengers, please take your belongings a off. stop..."

  Qin Nuo got off the bus. By now, the sky was pletely dark, and the pitch-bight covered every er of the city.

  In the distahe lights of the Red Moon venieore flickered on and off. In the darkness, the scarlet light pierced through the night, resembling a red moon hanging in the dusky sky.

  The door swung open. Li Tongtong, who was leaning on the cashier's ter, bored and twirling a pen, stood up with a start when she saw Qin er. "Boss, you're back so soon?"

  Qin Nuo nodded, g Yuan Shan, who was still engrossed in his PSP, and called out to him. Yuan Shan quickly looked up, greeted the boss, and then buried his head bato his game, his addi parable to the child in Room 301.

  Qin Nuo didn't reprimand him, as it was the employees' rest time at night. He casually asked, "Liao Shen hasn't returned yet?"

  "No."

  Li Tongtong looked outside, pouted, and said, "There were some things causing trouble outside again. I strangled a few, but the rest ran away."

  Qin Nuo wasn't sure if the things Li Tongtoioned were ghosts and asked, "Were they sent by the Other Shore venieain?"

  "There's no one else but them."

  "Every night, they send those annoying flies to cause trouble aru!" Li Tongtong was both angry and helpless.

  "Boss, didn't you say you were going to solve it? Do you have a pn?"

  Qin Nuo took a sip of mineral water from the vending mae ghost and tossed the empty bottle into the trash . He said, "I nning to solve it tomorrow, but time is tight. Let's take a tonight."

  Li Tongtong's eyes sparkled with excitement. "Boss, are you going to charge in alone, wipe them out, and then drag out the boss behind the ses to for unfair agreement?"

  "Have you read too many novels or watched too many war films?"

  "Acc to yic, I might as well offer my head to them directly." Qin Nuo chuckled. Why did Li Tongtong and Yuan Shan, these two adorable employees, always think he was so impressive?

  Li Tongto out an "oh" and was about to ask something else when Qin Nuo stopped her. "Take care of the store, I'll be back."

  With that, he gave a couple of remio Yuan Shan, the game-addicted boy, and prepared to leave.

  At that moment, a bolt of lightning tore through the pitch-bck sky, a brief fsh of daylight that seemed to split the sky in two.

  Soon after, water spots appeared on the ground, and a gentle rain began to wash away the oppressive air of the night.

  "Is it raining?" Qin Nuo was a bit surprised, but sidering the perpetual night, it didn't seem toe.

  Li Tongtong eagerly handed him an umbrel. "Boss, walk slowly in the rain; the road is slippery!"

  Qin Nuo took the bck hooked umbrel, nodded, and ope, disappearing into the rainy night.

  Naturally, Qin Nuo was heading to the headquarters of the Other Shore venieore. Sihey were determio swallow his store, as the boss, he couldn't just sit bad do nothing.

  "The two trump cards I just acquired seem to be ing in handy."

  As Qin Nuo muttered to himself, the gentle rain turned into a downpour, and several ghostly shadows quickly vanished by the roadside.

  The scarlet light reflected on Qin Nuo's face as he raised his head, wearing a long trench coat, and looked at the rge sign.

  After p for a moment, he opehe system panel and took out a position card from the toolbar.

  "Use position card."

  "The position card has been used for the host. Please select a private enterprise."

  "Other Shore venieore, select position: store manager." Qin Nuo touched his nose, holy feeling a bit whimsical.

  In fact, his guess was correct.

  "Position rept failed, reason: no va this position."

  "So, a position only be repced if there's a vacy."

  Qin Nuo whispered, rep positions like deputy manager and supervisor, but they were all filled, leaving only the vat positions for him.

  "Is the store's welfare so good that no ghost employee wants tn?" Qin Nuo was a bit troubled.

  In the end, he could only pce the position at the grassroots level.

  There were plenty of vacies frassroots positions like cashier, stock clerk, and janitor.

  "Starting from the grassroots level makes it a lot more challenging."

  "The cashier's freedom is too limited, and the janitor doesn't have much free time, so it only be the stock clerk."

  After some thought, Qin Nuo firmed the stock clerk position.

  "Ding, the position of stock clerk has been loaded for the host. Rept successful. The host is now a stock clerk at the Other Shore venieore. The identity be celed at any time, but the position card will bee invalid upon celtion."

  With that, an employee card and a set of work clothes appeared ioolbar.

  Qin Nuo, holding the umbrel, entered a o avoid the rain.

  Five mier, he emerged in a new outfit, adjusted the colr of his shirt, and wore a professional smile.

  Then, he walked toward the store entra far away.

  "Charging in alone is foolish. It's better to infiltrate the enemy and cut off their resources. It's more dired effective."

  As he stepped into the store entrand put away the umbrel, water droplets spshed onto the floor.

  Qin Nuo pushed open the gss door and walked in with wet shoes.

  The store's interior was somewhat different from what he had imagined.

  Perhaps due to the rain and the night, it was empty inside, with no ghostly shadows. Maybe they were saviricity, or perhaps they were too poor to afford it, as only a few bulbs were lit, flickering with poor tact.

  In some ers, it was as dark as ink, making it impossible to see anything and creating a sense of unease.

  Besides eerie and terrifying, Qin Nuo couldn't think of any other words to describe it.

  "In the Horror World, there's nothing that doesn't involve horror. It's not surprising when you think about it."

  Qin Nuo called out, but there was no response.

  But in the sed, an unknown horror sound suddenly came from his ear.

  Qin Nuo turned his head and saw a doll sitting on a potted pnt.

  He instantly felt a chill.

  The doll was incredibly lifelike, its face seemingly made of human skin, with several hideous, bright red scars. It wore denim overalls.

  A blood-stained knife was clutched in its hand.

  "Child's Py!"

  The image immediately popped into Qin Nuo's mind, a childhood nightmare feion.

  The doll's eyes moved, slowly aligning its face with Qin Nuo's, the knife in its hand still dripping with blood, as if it had just finished cutting something.

  "Are you the ock clerk?"

  Despite the doll's appearariggering childhood fears, Qin Nuo quickly posed himself and nodded.

  "Shelves 25 to 50 are under your care. Wages are settled daily. Arrahe goods ly, discard expired items into the recyg basket, and fulfill er needs."

  "If there are work errors, er dissatisfa, or other inpetewo minor penalties will be given, and three will result in automatic dismissal."

  With that, the doll let out a strange ugh, turned around with the bloody knife, and vanished into the darkness...

  Qin Nuo put on the employee card, watg the spot where the doll disappeared, a smile f on his lips.

  "Don't worry, I'll be a w-abiding employee."

  JOSOLUNA