The decline in Dr Value will become increasingly exaggerated.
This point was actually deduced not only by Wen Xishu but also by Yun Xinghe.
Wen Xishu had long felt that the store design was unreasonable.
Working overtime increases Dr Value, but when employees don’t work or work overtime, Dr Value also increases.
Even a simple encouragement from the boss can increase Dr Value...
This extremely unreasonable setting made Dr Value very cheap in the early stages, yet the items in the store are meant to increase Dr Value.
So Yun Xinghe also felt this was unreasonable.
But he didn’t care.
In his view, when Dr Value hits zero, you won’t die. The initial rules only mentioned that hitting zero HP would result in death.
Moreover, he believed that under his management, everyone was like fierce and brave wolves, even quickly wiping out Zone B, though Zone B’s management had its own significant issues.
But now, they were the team most adept at offense, the team with the sharpest edge.
How could such a team have insufficient Dr Value?
A desire for victory, coupled with the thrill of buying stimulants in bulk for just five points...
Under these factors, Yun Xinghe ultimately underestimated the importance of Dr Value.
When the drive drops below fifty, work efficiency decreases, and error rates surge; when it drops below 20, stray thoughts become desires, and hallucinations and auditory distortions begin to warp reality.
A11 saw her own child.
This child cut open A11’s belly and climbed out from it.
After crawling out, he said with a smile:
"Mom, there’s a person over there who can get everything you might never achieve despite working overtime relentlessly."
"Mom, if it weren’t for him, maybe that person would be you?"
It was all just a hallucination.
But because her Dr Value was so low, A11 began to feel that it was all real.
She suddenly thought it made a lot of sense.
That honorary member earned his membership from working overtime more relentlessly just a few days earlier, allowing him to always enjoy the points from the pool...
Is that reasonable?
It’s completely unreasonable.
"Mom, for my sake, shall we make him disappear?"
A11 heard the child’s voice and thought it made sense. She was even so mentally unhinged that she didn’t find it odd for her child to speak.
She simply flashed a sudden smile.
The child seemed as though he was nestled in her belly.
All at once, she stood up and began to head toward the rest area.
There was nothing particularly attention-grabbing about this, as some people occasionally needed to attend to personal matters during overtime.
A11 was not going to the wash area but was heading toward the rest area.
In the rest area, there was an employee with a name.
He was A09, named Zelatan.
An unfortunate soul with only 10 HP left.
These days, Zelatan was enduring immense suffering. Simply because he didn’t have to work overtime, his Dr Value was declining, albeit slowly.
Zelatan was as fragile as a patient.
When he saw A11 approaching, he was a bit surprised because no other honorary members had emerged these days.
During overtime, this rest area was his to enjoy alone.
However, Zelatan didn’t think much of it; after all, A11 was very meek by nature, and right now, she was humming an unknown tune, her face adorned with a smile.
Her steps were even somewhat light.
Zelatan’s first thought was, had her Dr Value recovered? Was she coming to deliver some good news?
To be honest, Zelatan had been having a hard time these past couple of days. After becoming an honorary member, he found himself somewhat isolated by others.
Moreover, he was experiencing severe auditory and visual hallucinations, which sometimes even affected his work.
Even the boss, Yun Xinghe, didn’t pay much attention to him or talk about giving him a stimulant injection.
Now, he even felt a bit expectant, thinking someone had finally come to talk to him.
But what happened next was entirely different from what Zelatan had anticipated.
The always meek and low-profile A11 had a smile that grew more evident on her face, a smile that was a bit eerie.
Smiles with sinister glances often carry a peculiar sense of horror.
By the time Zelatan wanted to evade, it was already too late.
A11’s hand had already pierced Zelatan’s stomach.
In the apocalypse, even a pregnant woman has her own means of attack. A11’s normalcy was only in comparison to those who could establish their own authority in the apocalypse.
Her weakness was merely due to the extreme prowess of those around her.
Being able to conceive during the apocalypse and still be selected by Three Towers Company meant she naturally had her methods.
Numerous times of digging through garbage heaps, countless times uncovering dirt in the ruins, had made her fingers extremely sharp.
This was merely an ordinary Slaughter Sequence, akin to skills like steel armament. In theory, Zelatan was also no simple foe, as there were no weaklings surviving the apocalypse.
However, Zelatan’s HP penalty was too severe.
A massive feeling of weakness engulfed him, so much so that after being marginalized, his craving for communication blinded him to what was coming.
By the time he realized he was under attack, it was already too late.
Zelatan collapsed to the ground.
This honorary employee could never again retrieve the points from his pool due to external factors.
The immense shock following the murder of her colleague caused A11 to start crying.
She began to wail, the immense pressure leading her to a breakdown.
Her cries, along with the warning from the electronic screen, interrupted everyone’s overtime.
The electronic screen symbolizing the rules suddenly flickered and played sound once more.
[Notification to the entire Zone: Zone A employee Feng Shan has killed Zelatan, a severe violation of the employee code, will be erased.]