Chapter 15 The Secret

The gun was about ten times as powerful as an air bomb, and after the shot, the Pigman's entire head exploded straight away. But the Pigman didn't die, so it was confirmed that the Pigman wasn't a source of contamination. In the scene seen in Dangerous Premonition, this trash can had tentacle monsters in it. Janet gave the trash can a shot as well, then twisted her head and ran. The Pigman and the tentacle monsters were deadly and not in the same class as the fishermen. In the Dangerous trailer, it only took thirty seconds to remove all of Janet's bodies. The backyard was also an enclosed structure, and Janet couldn't get out, so she had to return to the fondue restaurant. Pigman struggled to get up, "I can't believe you're not eating." Janet didn't listen to his nonsense and went straight inside. Just as she entered, she heard a scream from the hot pot restaurant lobby. Monsters wriggled out of the hot pot, long tentacles crawling up the chopsticks and dragging diners into the hot pot along their arms. The spicy butter rolled around for a moment and screamed blood, and light enveloped the hot pot restaurant. Behind them, the pigman climbed up and chased after Janet. In front of her were eight doors: a food preparation room, a freezer, and a back door to the trash can. How was she going to choose between the remaining five doors? Janet glanced over and saw that one of the room doors read - Women's Employee Dormitory. Cleaners Employee Code #10: Be in abnormal places and do seemingly ordinary things. Janet's status as a cashier means she is an employee of the Fondue restaurant, so she should be staying in the women's staff quarters. Janet ran into this room and quickly locked the door. There were some basic rules within the contaminated area. For example, this was the women's employee dormitory, and Pigman was a man, so he had no reasonable reason to come in. Janet moved the locker against the door, left the lights on, and watched the entire dormitory room, relying on her helmet's night vision. It was a double dorm room with two beds, both of which had beds and tables. One bed was covered in dust, and the other appeared occupied. Janet darted around the dorm room and found a work logbook in the corner of a cabinet. Clues. Janet opened the bright red logbook. It was supposed to be a worklog book, which many companies give out, but this cashier used it as a journal. -January, 50 AH. Janet frowned. Fifty years after the new calendar, the year the hotpot restaurant disappeared. Janet remembered that the restaurant closed down in April of the new calendar year 50, and the posting was made on April 13 of the new calendar year 50. This diary was written earlier than the "crime." -January 2, 50 AH. I've worked as a cashier at Yummy Hot Pot for three days. But it's so strange that I have to keep a diary, or I'll lose my mind. I need help standing up and working as a cashier every day. I want to quit. But his staff meal was so good, I couldn't leave. Our staff meal consisted of leftovers for the guests, which were the same as what the guests ate. I need to find out what kind of meat it is. It could be a one-of-a-kind recipe. - January 10th, 50 AH. I can't. I've had so many nightmares. I'm having panic attacks every day. I thought I was too tired to rest for two days. But I took the day off today, and instead of getting better, it's worsening. Should I see a doctor? -January 14, 50 AH. I seem to have gone crazy. When I was cashiering today, I saw that the drawer was surprisingly full of fingers. How could they be fingers? Am I hallucinating? No, I can't keep working. I'm going crazy. -January 19th, 50th AH. I told the store manager I wanted to quit my job and go home to improve. The store manager disagreed and told me to reconsider. I could not stand it as I saw the store manager becoming more and more like a pig-headed man. But the store manager turned me down. He said I would love it here. WTF? I've been weak lately, and I feel like I'm dying. There must be something wrong with this store. There were always strange noises coming from the basement. The owner was even sick. Something must have happened to the ill owner. They seem to be working on a new drug. - January 30th, 50th AH. I finally found out what I was eating today. It's disgusting. How can they feed their customers this stuff? I want to call the police, but I don't dare. I'm afraid they'll kill me. I'm going to run away. I want to run away. I want to run away. -February 15th, 50th AH. I made a detailed escape plan. The store manager and the owner meet every Wednesday, and that's the best time to escape. I'm dying. This is my last chance. It has to work. ---------- The journal ended here. Suddenly, there was a dragging sound coming from outside. It should be the pig-headed man coming back to life. Janet put the journal in her bag. The woman had suffered the same thing as her own, and it seemed to be the usual tactic of the Hotchpotch. A cat's eye was on the dormitory door, and Janet peered through it. The cat's eye warped and distorted the entire hallway. Tony was dragging an axe across the floor, a new "head" growing out of his broken neck. A pair of eyes, a mouth, and an ear grew out of his neck, not even more of a nose for him because it wasn't needed. "Why don't you have a hot pot?" Tony was making that really weird sound again. Tony was checking the rooms one by one. He jerked open the first one and didn't see Janet. "Why don't you do your job?" Bang. Tony pushed open another door. His patience was wearing thin with Janet. "Why don't you look in the garbage bag?" Tony scratched his axe against the wall with a sharp sound, "Why are you the only one who doesn't listen?" The internal logic of the contaminated area was the same. If mental pollution didn't work, the monsters inside would opt for physical attacks. The Pigman stopped in front of the door to the female staff dormitory, "Why are you disobedient?" The Pigman's voice came through the door, and the next moment, the Pigman swung his axe and suddenly smashed the door. A big hole was made in the wooden door by him. Pigman didn't have a legitimate reason to enter the female employees' dormitory, but he could use a non-legitimate reason. Behind the door, Janet held a gun at the gate. Pigman smashed another axe, and the flimsy wooden door was about to break. Pigman raised the axe and was about to continue chopping at the door. Jingle Bells. Just then, a bell suddenly rang. The bell vibrated wildly as if it were the dismissal bell, and it seemed very abrupt in the hotpot restaurant. What was this sound? Why would the hotpot restaurant ring a bell? But after the bell rang, the movements of the Pigman outside the door stopped. He was silent for two seconds, then turned around as if he had been summoned somehow. Not only that, but the others inside the Hot Pot Shop also moved. They all stood up and walked towards the stairs at the end of the corridor. They were going to the basement. Janet remembered what was written in her diary - the store manager and owner would meet in the basement, which was the only chance to escape. The ringing of the bell was announcing the meeting. They were being summoned. Who was summoning them? If one summarizes the rules within this contaminated area, the hotpot restaurant's power structure is a pyramid. Employees privileged over diners were allowed to eat hot pot as they must. Tony had greater authority than the other employees and could make the different servers and keep the store in order. The bell ringer had greater authority than Tony, and Tony had to stop whatever Tony was doing as soon as the bell was rung. Janet wondered what was the next level up from the bell. Janet tried pushing out the door. The bell was loud and lasted for a minute without stopping. After a minute, the hallway was deserted, and they all went into the basement. The ringing still hadn't stopped, and there was no telling how long it would last. But Janet surmised that she was relatively safe for long as the bell still rang. She was going to take this time to take a good look around the other rooms. Now that she could anticipate danger, she could search them. She already knew what was behind four doors, and the last four remained. Tony smashed open two of the doors. Behind the fifth door was the cleaning room, which was filled with dishes to be washed and cleaning tools. Behind the sixth door was the men's dormitory. Janet tried to get in to see if there were any diaries or anything like that but couldn't find anything useful. Janet opened the penultimate door; it was a public restroom used for people to shower and go to the toilet. This hot pot restaurant was not in good condition. The inside of the bathroom was dripping constantly, and there were some messy marks on the walls. To be on the safe side, she wanted to avoid any dead ends. She opened every toilet and bathroom compartment to check. In the second toilet compartment toilet lid, there was something. Above the toilet lid was a waterproof bag secured with duct tape. It looked like it had been hidden away specifically. Inside was an ancient tape recorder. A plug was at the bottom of the recorder for whatever device it could be plugged into. Janet's new overalls had the connector on the inside of her wrist. Janet plugged the recorder into her wrist, and the inside of the helmet broadcast that it was importing audio data. The audio data import was complete. First, she heard the giggling sound of electricity in her ears, followed by the sound of people running and gasping for breath. Janet listened to the recording, intending to search as she listened. She had come to the last door. The door to the room read - Heavy store floor; do not enter by mistake. Janet was just about to push the door. A human voice suddenly came on the recording: "I know the secret of the owner of the hotpot store." "He, he is handicapped."