I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 431

Chapter 431: The Strange Hobby of the Undead

A simple meeting quickly concluded in one of the private rooms at the Little Bird Lounge on the basement level of the café.

Although it was called a meeting, it was actually more of a small discussion, without any cumbersome ceremonies or opening remarks.

This is one of the main features of having a “meeting” at the café: it’s quick, precise, and concise.

If there’s something to discuss, you discuss it. If not, the meeting ends.

Personally, I dislike meetings. Back in college, I joined some university clubs, but those clubs would frequently hold meetings, choosing “auspicious days” for them.

Once you got there, you’d wait for everyone to arrive, exchange pleasantries, drag things out, and the meaningful content would only occupy about ten minutes of the actual meeting, which could have easily been shared in a QQ group or WeChat group.

In the professional world, meetings become even more frequent and ceremonious. There’s advance notice, employees show up, set things up, and make the venue quite grand. Then the leaders arrive, give speeches, and express gratitude to everyone from top to bottom—thanking leaders, friends, and anyone who provided opportunities.

In a way, meetings are similar to drinking culture—they’re more about testing obedience to authority rather than the content or the alcohol consumed.

Now that I’m the manager of the café, meetings are unavoidable. Some important matters require my presence to ensure everyone gets the message, but I usually focus on the key points and skip the gratitude segments.

Today’s “meeting” felt more like a “gathering” among old friends. Officially, it was about discussing “Vivi’s” inclusion, but in reality, it was more of a drinking party for this group.

It’s a rare chance to get together, have a drink, flirt a bit, and reminisce about the past. Vivi’s situation was secondary.

However, I could clearly sense that Vivi didn’t seem to mind.

Her personality is quite peculiar, it seems like as long as she can stay by my side and “assist” me as the “Queen Diwu,” she’s willing to do anything.

?Considering that the café’s business has been getting busier lately and only a few of the on-duty maids are able to keep up, Xiao Mo and I have decided to hire another staff member.?

?Her name is Vivi. She’s also a girl from another world, so you can just call her Vivi.?

?Vivi’s job is similar to a substitute. Today we will teach her all the tasks in the café, such as greeting customers, delivering food, making milk tea, etc. If you’re too busy, you can pass any work on to Vivi.?

After leaving the Little Bird Lounge and watching Xiao Mo leave to “make the ID card,” I took out my phone and quickly entered the above information in the “Cute Ones from Shangjing Cat Café” group—

?Unless something unexpected happens, Vivi’s working hours will be 24/7. She’ll be working at the café all day long, so any work-related issues can be entrusted to her.?

?Dolly, Yueyue, Lan Jiajia and Ai Luodi, please take a moment to respond when you see this information.?

Just after sending the message, I saw a notification pop up in the café’s work group from Yueyue: ?Is Vivi the same Vivi I know??

Then came Dolly’s message: ?It should be, right? If it’s master Nuo’er and master Momo, there’s only one Vivi that matches.?

?Dolly and Yueyue received it.?

I was amused by these two little ones: ?Aren’t you two delivering takeout??

?Yes, but the person who ordered is taking a shower, so we’re asked to wait for a while.?

Taking a shower at this time?

Soon after, Lan Jiajia also replied to our message: ?Received.?

After a few seconds of silence, Lan Jiajia added: ?By the way, Nuo’er, Xiao Mo, are you not hiding it anymore? Just saying she’s from another world??

?Well, she is from another world.?

?So what about the new employee… Vivi, what’s her attribute??

?Undead.?

?Are you sure having an undead and an angel working in the same place won’t cause any trouble??

?It shouldn’t be a problem. I see that she gets along quite well with Gabriel.?

After sending this message, I looked up at Vivi and asked, “By the way, do you have a good relationship with Gabriel?”

“Quite good.”

Vivi’s face still had that blank expression. “Gabriel once needed to investigate the undead for her work in the Holy Heaven, and I helped her a lot.”

The work of Holy Heaven involves… investigating the undead?

“We undead and angels don’t have direct conflicts of interest.”

Seeing that I was still puzzled, Vivi continued to explain. “Angels dislike demons mainly because many demons like to preach in the human world, promoting their demonic gods. This is contrary to the teachings of the angelic gods, leading to frequent conflicts between the two. We undead don’t have any faith, so we don’t have direct conflicts with angels.”

I see…

“Then you…”

I was still curious. “Are you afraid of light? Or afraid of light-based magic?”

“Lower-level undead might be afraid, but I am not.”

Vivi paused for a moment. “Rather than ‘afraid,’ I would say we ‘dislike’ light magic, much like cats dislike oranges.”

Ah…

I felt a bit embarrassed. “Xiao Mo asked you to work 24 hours here, so… why did you agree?”

Vivi asked in return. “Nuo’er, isn’t your daily work here about 8 hours or so?”

“Pretty much.”

I thought for a moment. “Without additional days off in a month, there are 8 days of rest, and the rest are 8-hour workdays.”

“For me, working 24 hours means I can be with Nuo’er for about 22 days a month, and I can also be active.”

Vivi said in a calm tone. “Nuo’er, you’re still young and probably view the world from your own perspective, right?”

“Eh?”

I was a bit confused. “Why do you say that?”

“For humans, work is often seen as a burden—something undesirable, something they don’t want to do. They hope for the shortest working hours possible. That’s the human worldview. However, some undead are different.”

Vivi explained. “For undead, remaining still is the real burden. Rest is undesirable and unwanted because it reminds us of our own death. Only by being active do we feel we still exist in the world. For high-level undead, daily exercise consumes almost no soul power or magic.”

“We need constant movement to feel… well, the word should be happiness, perhaps. Happiness might be a bit much, but exercise for us is probably like your ‘rest’—almost all undead wish to stay active.”

This…

I felt as if a brilliant universe appeared behind my long hair at that moment.

My brain also froze for a long time.

So, the undead’s experience of “rest” and “work” is… the opposite of ours?

We pursue rest and would prefer not to work every day if possible, just lying down and earning money. But for the undead, they would rather not rest if they can avoid it. Only moving around makes them feel happy?

This…

This isn’t just capitalist ecstasy, it’s more like slave master ecstasy.

No wonder, in some anime and movies, necromancers often enslave zombies or skeleton soldiers. It seems this group’s XP is quite peculiar…

“I see now, I completely understand.”

Under the cool air conditioning of the café, feeling that my worldview had been shaken again, I took Vivi’s hand and headed towards the second floor.

“I… will try to assign you more challenging tasks.”

“……”

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