"Tsk tsk, dying in the zoo turns you into a staff member?" Zhisha Palace Master snuggled against Zhang Yuanqing, tilting her head, and said:

"With my aptitude, I could definitely become a staff member. If I can retain my self-awareness, that wouldn't be too bad."

It's terrible, okay? Wouldn't that make you a puppet of the zoo? ... Zhang Yuanqing complained loudly in his heart, but softly echoed:

"What a unique perspective. Sister is a remarkable woman. Um, sister, turn the page, let's look at the rules..."

When dealing with a madwoman, you can only coax her.

"Okay!" Zhisha Palace Master looked very easily coaxed, turned the preface, and the first page of the employee manual appeared in their view.

One: When you see tourists in the outer areas of the zoo, please politely ask them if they need help and satisfy all their needs. If you can help the same person twice, then congratulations, he will take over your job in the zoo, and you will get his body.

Two: When you see colleagues wearing black staff uniforms in the outer areas of the zoo, ignore them, do not talk to them, and remember, do not talk.

Three: Every night, you must patrol according to the prescribed route and report the problems to the zoo manager.

Four: If you encounter a colleague in a black uniform while patrolling the core area, shout loudly to attract the manager or other colleagues and take him out of the core area. If the manager and colleagues do not respond, you can ask the pandas or white lions for help.

Five: If you encounter thick fog, please stay where you are, do not move, do not speak, and wait for the fog to dissipate.

Six: When passing through the Dodder Garden, try to pass quickly, and do not look back when you see someone calling out.

Seven: There are no cats in the zoo. If you see a cat, please end the patrol immediately and report to the manager or the white lion.

Eight: Please remember that pandas are soft and adorable animals. If they are not, please loudly say your name to your employee ID.

Nine: Pandas are respected animals and must be bowed to. Remember, do not mention the words "Shitie Beast" in front of them.

Ten: The monkeys in the zoo cannot talk.

Eleven: There is only one patrolman on each route. If you see a colleague in a blue uniform on your patrol route, pay attention to his employee ID. If his employee ID is still there, call out his name. If his employee ID is gone, run immediately...

Twelve: Each patrol must be completed within half an hour. If it exceeds half an hour, pay attention to the color of your uniform and run back with all your might.

Thirteen: When you don't have a patrol mission, please stay in the staff dormitory and do not go out. If you hear any abnormal noises, please lie in bed, pretend to sleep, ignore it, and never leave the bed.

The first page ends here, but there is a handwritten line at the bottom: New rule supplement for the game: If your last name is Zhang, please cross out the last name on your employee ID. Please do not call out the name with the last name Zhang. Once it is called out, whether it is the person calling or the person being called, it will be noticed by it.

Zhang Yuanqing immediately remembered the employee ID with the last name crossed out. He found the reason.

This new rule is clearly aimed at me, no, it's aimed at my dad... He looked at Zhisha Palace Master, and found that she happened to raise her head and meet his eyes.

"The new rules are not rules," she said.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Yuanqing listened attentively.

The Palace Master smiled and said, "Put your arms around my waist, and I'll tell you."

Princess Yinyao, who was rummaging through boxes and cabinets on the side, couldn't help but look up, her scarlet pupils revealing solemnity.

This is a terrible fox spirit. Compared to her, Guan Ya, the Queen, and Xie Lingxi are not skillful enough.

This woman will eventually overpower Yuan Shi Tianzun's group of confidantes and poison them one by one.

Princess Yinyao was greatly shocked in her heart.

Now that he was in a dangerous situation, it was really not the time to stick to male ethics. Zhang Yuanqing half-pushed and half-embraced the Palace Master's slender waist, which felt surprisingly good.

It had the softness and slenderness unique to women, making him linger.

"The rules of rule-based items are immutable. I haven't heard that they can be modified at will. The supplement on the employee manual is more like a taboo than a rule," she said.

"I understand. Mentioning the 'heartless man' will anger it." Zhang Yuanqing frowned. "In that case, if I introduce myself, would I be courting death?"

Originally, he still had some fantasies in his heart that the spirit of the zoo would know that he was Zhang Zizhen's son, and would make an exception and show mercy, or even defect.

"It's good that you know. Besides, your little plan was wrong from the beginning. The rules of rule-based items can't even be changed by the item itself. Otherwise, why are they called rules?" the Palace Master said.

"How do you know what I'm planning? Do you know me that well?" Zhang Yuanqing scrutinized the Palace Master.

"... Stop talking nonsense. The manual hasn't been finished yet." The Palace Master turned to the next page, but found that the content on the back was torn off.

"It's gone," she said charmingly.

"At this time, the tone should be more solemn."

"But I'm happy when you hold me."

Princess Yinyao immediately became solemn.

Zhang Yuanqing sighed: "I knew it wouldn't be that simple. How could they tell you all the precautions in one go? If that were the case, rule-based items would be too easy to crack."

"No, even if they tell you, it doesn't mean you can crack them." Zhisha Palace Master shook her head slightly: "For example, in the eighth rule, monkeys can't talk, but what if they do? The manual doesn't say. Many of these are precautions, but they don't mention solutions."

"If you can't solve it, you're likely to die," Zhang Yuanqing sighed.

He suddenly realized how terrifying the Dominator-level rule-based items were.

Red High-Heel is also a rule-based item, but it only has one rule, while the zoo is full of rules. Once you trigger even one of them, you are likely to return to The Way of the Extraordinary on the spot.

Even if he now has various trump cards and items, it will be difficult to survive.

Not only him, but even Palace Master Sister would be in danger if she violated the rules.

The reason is simple. Palace Master is a Level 7 Dominator, Dog Elder is a Level 8, and even the Level 8 Dog Elder has not fully controlled the zoo yet.

Dominator-level rule-based items basically have origins, but the zoo is too avant-garde, like a rule-based item that appeared after The Way of the Extraordinary was born...

As his thoughts turned, he saw Princess Yinyao lift up a dusty pillow and raise a small loudspeaker like she was trying to take credit: "There are new clues!"

Zhang Yuanqing and Zhisha Palace Master immediately walked over.

What Princess Yinyao held in her hand was a small notepad with a few lines written on it: "Another colleague 'died.' They were deprived of their lives for the second time. Ever since that guy had an accident, people have been dying in the dormitory every day. We can't stay here anymore. Fortunately, the manager promised to build a new dormitory for us."

Flipping through it, the following notes were blank and unused.

The content on the notepad made Zhang Yuanqing and the other two understand the reason for the abandonment of the dormitory. A guy had an accident, and from then on, the staff in the dormitory began to die one after another.

And the zoo manager was actually unable to deal with this matter and chose to change the dormitory.

Dog Elder is a bit of a loser... Um, it should be Dog Elder, right? It can't be something left behind by my dad... Zhang Yuanqing's attention didn't linger on the notepad for too long, and he said, "Look for a complete employee manual. See if there is one." As he said this, he threw the employee manual to the princess.

The three continued to search, but to no avail.

Fortunately, there are many rooms here, and thirteen rooms are still waiting to be searched.

They searched the rooms one by one and turned the first floor upside down, but they still couldn't find a second employee manual.

Then they began to search the second floor.

Finally, they pushed open the rightmost room on the second floor, which was also the last room.

Unlike the other rooms, the door of this room was locked, with a U-shaped lock hanging on it.

The person who locked the door seemed afraid that something would come out, so they locked the door. Even after moving away, they didn't unlock it.

This room was a little strange. To be on the safe side, a dark surge appeared in Zhang Yuanqing's eyes as he stared at the closed door.

There were no traces of Yin creatures... He deactivated "Devouring Spirit", took out the ghost mirror, opened his Star Eyes, and in his face, blood light swirled between his eyes, but there was no change.

At this time, the limitations of astrology became prominent.

He couldn't judge whether the impending disaster was related to entering the room.

"There are no signs of life inside," the Palace Master, as the Sima, gave an authoritative conclusion.

"There's no Yin energy either," Zhang Yuanqing said.

After obtaining the Palace Master's consent, he took a few steps forward, grabbed the U-shaped lock, and silently exerted force in his palm.

The lock tongue "clicked" and was forcibly pulled open.

The door opened, and a musty smell rushed into his nostrils.

Zhang Yuanqing's gaze cautiously swept across the room, the empty bunk beds, the empty long table, and... the dust that covered every corner.

There seemed to be nothing special here, even cleaner than the previous rooms.

Princess Yinyao leaned down and looked under the bed: "It's cleaned up very well. There's nothing left behind."

Strangely clean!

Zhang Yuanqing and Zhisha Palace Master walked to the storage cabinet by the window as usual. Four cabinet doors, three open, one locked. The three open storage cabinets were empty, and everything had been cleared out.

"Strange, the person living in this room seems to have moved away, while the people in the other rooms seem to have... fled in a hurry, without even packing their daily necessities," Zhang Yuanqing whispered.

Zhisha Palace Master remained silent and came to the only locked storage cabinet. Two red threads crawled out of her sleeve, wrapped around the copper lock, and twisted fiercely.

With a soft "bang," the copper lock cracked.

The two red threads hooked the lock ring and pulled it outward, and the door of the storage cabinet opened.

Inside the storage cabinet were a blue uniform, a quilt, some daily necessities, an employee ID, and a booklet.

Zhang Yuanqing happily picked up the booklet, but found that it was a notebook, not an employee manual.

"It's not an employee manual. There's only one employee manual in the entire dormitory building," Zhang Yuanqing sighed. This meant that they could not complete the zoo's rules.

"Wang Mingming." Zhisha Palace Master picked up the employee ID, glanced at it, and put it back down. "See what's written in the book." As she spoke, Zhang Yuanqing had already opened the book: "My name is Wang Mingming. I am a staff member of the zoo. The employee manual says that I died in the zoo, but I can't remember anything about the past. The only thing I'm sure of is that to survive, I have to work hard. From today onwards, I am an employee in the zoo, responsible for night patrols."

"The manager told us to read the employee manual carefully and strictly follow the rules in the manual. There are nine routes in the core area of the zoo. I am responsible for the second route. This is my first day on patrol. I hope everything goes well."

"Nothing happened tonight. I'm lucky. I don't have to be on duty tomorrow. I can rest in the dormitory all day..."

"Last night, I heard someone knocking on the glass outside the window. I didn't dare to look in that direction. According to the rules in the employee manual, I lay in bed pretending to sleep and didn't dare to move. But I heard Li Ang next door whispered to me: The shadow outside the window is two meters tall and it's a monster."

"I didn't dare to answer him..."

"This morning, when I woke up, Li Ang was gone!!"

"The manager said that this kind of thing happens often. This is the fate of those who don't follow the rules."

"Tonight's patrol went smoothly. I didn't encounter any accidents."

"Last night, I heard the sound of knocking on the glass again... This morning, another person disappeared from the dormitory."

"Tonight's patrol went smoothly."

"Another person disappeared... There's only me left in the entire dormitory."

"Tonight's patrol went smoothly."

"People have also disappeared from other dormitories..."

"Tonight's patrol went smoothly."

"Last night, another person disappeared. Ever since Li Ang disappeared, colleagues in the dormitory building have been disappearing one after another. Everyone says that there is a monster knocking on the glass outside the window every night, but it hasn't knocked on the glass in my dormitory again..."

"Tonight's patrol went smoothly."

"Last night, another person disappeared..."

Zhang Yuanqing turned the pages one by one. This was a strange notebook that mentioned patrols and employee disappearances, but didn't elaborate too much, just brushing over it in a few words.

The cause of the matter was that after a glass-knocking incident, Li Ang, who was in the same dormitory as Wang Mingming, disappeared. Then, it was as if Pandora's box had been opened, and staff in the dormitory building disappeared one after another.

This notebook simply restored the process of the dormitory building being abandoned.

"Is 'that guy' mentioned in the note Li Ang?" Princess Yinyao secretly leaned over to take a peek, taking advantage of the Palace Master's frowning in thought.

Just as Zhang Yuanqing was about to speak, he heard Zhisha Palace Master gasp and said in a low voice, "No!"

"That guy refers to Wang Mingming, not Li Ang."

Zhang Yuanqing's pupils shrank.

"Why?" Princess Yinyao blurted out. After asking, she probably knew that this unruly woman wouldn't answer her, so she consciously turned the small loudspeaker to Zhang Yuanqing and said, "Why? It's Li Ang who disappeared."

She had just finished reading the contents of the notebook and hadn't had time to think.

Zhang Yuanqing's face turned ugly: "Look carefully at Wang Mingming's patrol experience."

"Patrol experience..." Princess Yinyao scanned a few pages of the notebook, and her tone suddenly became solemn: "Smooth, every day is smooth!!"

"Yes, every day is smooth, but this is impossible. If every day is smooth, why would there be so many rules and so many precautions in the manual?" Zhang Yuanqing said with a somber face: "There's only one explanation, Wang Mingming has a problem, but he doesn't realize it himself. Perhaps, the one who 'disappeared' that night wasn't Li Ang at all, but Wang Mingming."

Although Princess Yinyao was a Yin corpse, after thinking about it carefully, she also felt a little horrified.

Zhisha Palace Master suddenly said, "There's another possibility. Wang Mingming didn't have an accident when the monster knocked on the window, but earlier, when he went on his first patrol."

"But he didn't realize that he had a problem, so he returned to the dormitory... The monster knocking on the door in the notebook is Wang Mingming himself."

"He killed one colleague after another, which also fits the information left in the note."

Princess Yinyao held up the small loudspeaker and said, "Then why is this room locked?"

Zhang Yuanqing's face changed: "Wang Mingming wants to return to the dormitory, he has to return to the dormitory every night. The staff wanted to stop this behavior, so they locked his dormitory door. Wang Mingming, who couldn't return to his dormitory, returned to the other employees' dormitories, so people died every day..."

Just then, stiff footsteps came from the corridor outside the door.