Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?-Chapter 113 - 110: At a time like this... you’re zoning out?

Chapter 113: Chapter 110: At a time like this... you’re zoning out?

Erin Group Headquarters Building, 4th floor, inside point G.

As Hu Jiayao smashed open the floor, the moment Gu Jinxing pushed the secret door inward, a piercing alarm immediately sounded from the wall behind them.

Startled, Hu Jiayao, who was crouching nearby prying at the floor tiles, dropped the ceramic fragment in his hand and raised his hands, saying, "I didn’t touch anything, it’s not me who triggered it!"

Gu Jinxing shook his head helplessly, "This secret door probably has a built-in alarm system; it’ll definitely be triggered as soon as it’s opened."

"What do we do then?" Hu Jiayao nervously glanced toward the doorway.

Gu Jinxing wasn’t sure if there was a way to disable the alarm, but he thought that even if there was, it would probably require the key’s original owner—the big boss or one of her trusted aides—to intervene personally. They had sneaked in without permission in the first place, and this alarm was obviously designed to guard against them, so there was no way they could disable it.

Looking up at the warning sign on the wall, Gu Jinxing said sternly, "The security personnel will arrive on the scene in 5 minutes, so we have 5 minutes to quickly find the crucial item the chairman mentioned and then leave the scene."

Without further delay, as Gu Jinxing’s voice fell, the two immediately jumped into the secret door, one after the other.

Sliding down like on a slide, they fell through a narrow passageway into an even dimmer room.

The room was large, with a height of about five meters, oval-shaped, like a giant egg.

Standing inside this "egg," looking around, all they could see were rows and rows of storage shelves, arranged densely, with only narrow aisles left in between, like some underground library repository.

However, on those storage shelves were not books and magazines, but neatly arranged black square metal boxes.

"What... are these things?" Hu Jiayao asked.

Gu Jinxing didn’t recognize them either. He had a vague suspicion in his mind but thought this wasn’t the time to discuss such questions, "No time, let’s find that document first!"

When the chairman handed him that key, he also informed him of those strategy characters’ plots.

So Gu Jinxing knew that what they needed to find now for the main mission was a crucial item—a classified S-level document.

This kind of document was likely stored in some safe or hidden compartment.

Hearing this, Hu Jiayao looked at the endless rows of shelves, his face creased, "With so many shelves, even if you’re level 4 now and your agility attribute is maxed out, there’s no way you can search them all in a few minutes, right?"

Gu Jinxing had already stepped between two shelves, scanning the edge of the black metal boxes with his palm like a mine-detector.

"Turn on the player scanning system, set sensitivity and detection range to the highest. Once you receive a prompt, narrow down the area and you should find it soon."

Obediently, Hu Jiayao opened the scanning system in his mind, but after scanning just half a shelf, he gave up.

He had primarily invested in strength and armor, and his agility attribute was too low, less than a tenth of Gu Jinxing’s. Half a minute passed and he’d only scanned half a shelf; the efficiency was just too low.

Besides, he simply wasn’t cut out for such meticulous work like searching for documents.

"I’m just wasting time here," Hu Jiayao said, lifting his foot to head back towards the passage they came from, "I’ll head back to point G and keep watch for you. If they arrive, I can stall them for a few more minutes."

Gu Jinxing didn’t oppose his suggestion, and his hands continued rummaging without pause.

Reaching the entrance, Hu Jiayao was just about to slip into the passage when he caught sight of a light in the corner from the corner of his eye and stopped.

There, in the corner, was a small square table with a matching folding chair, and on the table was a desk lamp emitting the glow.

It seemed to be a desk and chair prepared for the room’s administrator.

Hu Jiayao approached, finding a pile of documents, a notebook, two pens, and a cup on the table.

Like the items placed in the cubicles outside the office, the desktop, chair back, lampshade, and even the cup in front of him were all imprinted with the A.L. logo.

The two pens were resting on the documents, their ends each connected to a spiral cord, similar to the pens placed at bank counters for signing, to prevent them from being taken away easily.

Hu Jiayao removed those two pens, picked up the documents below, and saw a line labeled [Classified] on top.

...What does it mean?

Hu Jiayao, taught by a physical education teacher in primary school, couldn’t understand it. He wanted to ask the system, but when he brought it up, he found a prominent prompt that had already popped up on the interface—

Yo: [Congratulations, player! You’ve found the key item for Main Task 2, the crux of the ailment.]

This...

Isn’t this the confidential document the chairman and Gu Jinxing mentioned, which the strategy character is looking for?

Such an important item, just casually left on the administrator’s desk like this?

Truly hiding in plain sight under a lamp, huh?!

Just as he was thinking this, suddenly, the ground began shaking violently, causing the table, chair, and shelves around him to sway along, making rattling sounds.

...Is it an earthquake?!

Hu Jiayao instinctively looked around, quickly realizing that the current tremor didn’t resemble an earthquake, but rather a rhythmic contraction.

It felt a bit like... some part of the body spasming.

"What’s going on?"

Hu Jiayao asked blankly, turning to find that Gu Jinxing had already rushed to his side.

Without hesitation, Hu Jiayao handed the document in his hand to Gu Jinxing, "Is this the one?"

Gu Jinxing took the document, scanning it, "Looks like it is."

With that, he stowed the item away, "No time, the 5 minutes are up, let’s get out of here quickly."

Nodding, Hu Jiayao leaped up to the passage from which they had come.

Gu Jinxing glanced at the small table beside him and casually grabbed the notebook before catching up with Hu Jiayao.

But at this moment, Hu Jiayao released his grip, dropping back down from the passage entrance.

Seeing this, Gu Jinxing’s heart sank, and sure enough, he soon saw the entrance of the passageway, where fully armed security NPCs were dropping in like frog eggs, one after another.

Time’s running out...

...

...

In the underground garage, in the back seat.

Wen Nan used a pair of handcuffs with white fur trim to restrain Yang Jingyuan’s hands behind her back. After she had cast a reproachful look his way just now, he went ahead and used a white lace ribbon to blindfold her eyes, and then continued his activity.

This time, he took out a maid dress similar to Rem’s style from his equipment inventory and put it on Yang Jingyuan.

Yang Jingyuan, although not as well-endowed as Guan Ailin, still had a very nice figure, with pleasing curves, and the outfit fit her well.

However, Wen Nan felt that pairing it with her Eastern facial features seemed a bit off.

Fingering the white lace trim clinging to her legs, Wen Nan couldn’t help thinking, had he known earlier, he should have just let her wear lace alone...

Sure enough, clothing of this style should be paired with someone like Xiao Jun, with blonde hair and blue eyes, to create a complementary look.

Thoughts ran uncontrolled, and in his mind, the image of Yu Shujun lying beneath him surfaced...

Wen Nan shuddered, sitting up straight.

So startled he almost quit halfway through, abandoning everything.

What the hell...

Why am I thinking of that face at a time like this?

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Noticing something amiss, Yang Jingyuan said angrily, "At a time like this... you’re actually getting distracted?"

Wen Nan shook his head in a panic, trying to shake off the inappropriate thoughts in his mind.

But the mood had been ruined, and he couldn’t get back to being as involved as before.

That’s when he noticed the 99+ messages in the guild chat that had popped up.

He quickly opened the chat group from the system, and the contents flooded in.

[Jiu: How’s the situation?]

[HuoHuoHuo: Boss! You’re finally here! Those two haven’t shown up yet, feels hopeless!]

[Jinxing: We’ve already evacuated from point G]

[HuoHuoHuo: No way! Did you actually make it out alive?!]

[yao: Chairman, we have one good news and one bad news here, which do you want to hear first?]