Chapter 092: Sleeping Pod
Lin Luyou turned her head and realized it was Tang Xiao. Biting into a corn cob, Tang Xiao said, “If I heard right, Xu Jia just asked you to apply for a sleep pod? Then you’d better be quick, or they’ll all be gone in a moment.”
“Exactly, exactly. Hurry up and submit the application, and I’ll approve it for you!”
After Tang Xiao’s reminder, Chen Xujia also caught on and hurriedly urged Lin Luyou to move faster.
At that, Lin Luyou quickly set down her water glass and opened the employee service app. In only a few taps, she filled out the form and started the application process.
“Xujia, I’ve submitted mine.”
“Mm, good. I’ll approve it right now.” As she spoke, Chen Xujia opened the app as well. “Oh, right, Xiaoxiao, send another message in the group chat and ask who else still needs to apply for a sleep pod. Tell them to hurry.”
“Don’t worry, I already sent it.” Tang Xiao waved her phone. “If it comes to it, they can always come to my place and sleep on the floor!”
“Sleep on the floor? You planning to cram us into a dog kennel?”
“Please, my place has open space besides the dog’s bed, okay!”
On her way to the break room, Lin Luyou could still faintly hear the rest of their banter.
After everyone in the team had arrived, Chen Xujia brought the topic back to where to stay for the night.
“If your homes are far away, hurry up and submit your applications. If the sleep pods get claimed in a minute, you’ll have to go sleep under a bridge! No, wait, there aren’t any bridge underpasses around here. Then I guess you’ll have to go sleep in Tang Xiao’s dog kennel.”
“My place would still be a few hundred times better than a bridge underpass, wouldn’t it?”
“That’s true enough, except you’d get Tang Tang’s facial treatment service in the middle of the night.”
Su Zhenxin could not help joining in. She had once stayed at Tang Xiao’s place, but she had never expected that in the middle of the night, Tang Xiao’s Alaskan malamute would leap onto the bed and lick her face raw.
“Well, who told you to use a honey face mask?”
“Who knew your dog liked honey that much?”
“If she didn’t like sweet things, how could I call her Tang Tang?”
Seeing Tang Xiao’s teasing smile, Su Zhenxin was utterly defeated.
While they were bickering, Yang Tianqi, Su Zhenxin, and He Suzhen also finished their applications.
As she reported the applications she had received, Chen Xujia asked again, “Anyone else? Anyone? If not, I’m calling Old Wang to stamp the approvals.”
“Hey, Tianqi, aren’t you already with Tan Fang? Why not just stay at his place? You can get an early taste of pre-marital cohabitation.”
Su Zhenxin, delighted by the spectacle, rested her chin in her hand and egged her on.
Caught off guard by the sudden attention, Tan Fang seemed to startle, giving a shiver, and then his ears turned visibly red.
“Oh ho, Tan Fang, you’re blushing!”
“To be honest, what exactly is going on between you two now?”
With everyone’s attention now turned to her would-be boyfriend, Yang Tianqi rarely showed a bit of forcefulness.
“Come on, I still need to keep observing him. Besides, he’s sharing an apartment with someone else, so it wouldn’t be right for me to just show up out of nowhere. And stop picking on my little Fang Fang all the time!”
“Xu Jia, what kind of approval flow did you send?” Wang Shi came over at that moment, holding up his phone.
“For the sleep pod, of course. I told you in private message just now.”
“How come the process has only reached this stage?” Wang Shi frowned. “All the spots upstairs are already gone.”
“That fast?”
“You haven’t even approved it yet. What if there are still some left?”
“There definitely aren’t any. Don’t believe me? Look.”
Seeing that the colleagues from the second group were all acting like they would not believe it until they saw the coffin, Wang Shi clicked approve one by one right in front of them.
“There, there, there—I told you they were gone!”
No sooner had he finished than a notification box popped up on Wang Shi’s phone, displaying:
Sleep pod slots are full. Application failed.