Gathered together again, we looked at each other and felt a bit scared inside.

The pig mask was painted with a weird image, with a wide grin, and two sharp fangs pointed upwards.

It looked very evil.

Unaccustomed, I played with the mask on my face.

Xu Chencheng greeted, "Let's go!"

First, we entered the monitoring room of the red brick building in the breeding farm.

There were five electric prods inside, which seemed to be prepared for us.

There were also five white plastic barrels in the monitoring room, with each barrel filled with well-balanced fresh food.

"The pigs eat so well? Better than us." Hong Bo teased.

Through the monitoring, we observed the scene inside the building, where the pig pens were surrounded by cement.

It was only about one meter in height and had a strong and finely-meshed net material on top.

The length was two meters, with a feeding trough and a manure trough in the front and on the sides.

Densely packed, there were over a thousand pens, with a healthy white boar in the middle of the first five rows, all newly arranged.

Each pen was numbered, with the boar's pen in the first row numbered 11, and the second to fifth rows numbered 22, 33, 44, and 55 respectively.

Suddenly, a bell rang loudly in the building, causing the boars inside to frantically scramble about in their pens.

"It's two o'clock." Zheng Huan spoke up.

We sprang into action, carrying the food buckets to the pens inside the building. I was responsible for the boar in pen 33.

The boar inside the pen went crazy when it saw us and started to howl, filling the entire building with heart-rending cries.

"What are you yelling about? Even pigs like you are not happy to get food!"

Hong Bo used an electric prod to strike the pen's fence.

The response was the boar fiercely charging at the fence.

This group of boars indeed possessed a strong aggressiveness, as described in the guide. I even felt that the boar in front of me wanted to break out and tear me apart.

"Damn you, you stupid pig!" Hong Bo's voice suddenly grew louder.

As there was no light, I could only vaguely see his back, not knowing what was happening.

In a hurry, I poured the food from the bucket into the feeding trough. Then, I immediately turned to the monitoring room to turn on the bright light in pen 33.

Xu Chencheng, Du Lin, and Zheng Huan also returned to the monitoring room, leaving only Hong Bo behind, still cursing constantly.

He furiously used the electric prod to strike the breeding boar, and only stopped when the boar cowered in the corner, after which he adjusted his white coat.

Suddenly, his body stiffened, and he slowly stopped what he was doing to turn around.

Our breath was caught in our chests.

We only saw a pair of red eyes flashing in the darkness, and his pig mask was actually beginning to melt and deeply embed into his flesh.

Sss! I gasped.

Zheng Huan asked haltingly, "What... what's happening to him?"

"I'm not sure, but he definitely broke some rules!" Xu Chencheng said solemnly.

"Look, he's gone!" Du Lin pointed at the monitor.

A faint shadow crossed the screen, and Hong Bo's figure had disappeared from the monitor.

We waited for a long time, but he still did not return to the monitoring room.

Stiffly, I spoke, "Should we go out and look for him?"

"No!" Du Lin firmly said, "If he really broke the rules as Xu Chencheng said, something will happen. It's also against the rules for us to go out and look for him. Absolutely not!"

Several people did not continue to speak, tacitly agreeing with this approach.

Until three in the morning, I tightly gripped the electric prod in my hand.

"We should go back to the dorm."

"Okay."

The group instinctively did not let go of the electric prods in their hands, as if it were the only lifeline.

I took off my work clothes, lay down on the bed, and immediately heard the vibration of my phone.

There was a new message in the pig head app.

Zheng Huan: "What's going on with Hong Bo right now?"

Du Lin: "I don't know, but I saw that the mask seemed to be eating his face!"

Zheng Huan: "Has he died?"

Xu Chencheng: "You guys can check the number of people online."

After her reminder, I looked at the number of people online in the group, and it was still 5.

Me: "Where do you think he is now? What punishment will someone who breaks the rules receive?"

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The knocking at the door startled me.

"Who is it!"

No one responded as the incessant knocking continued.

I sent a message in the group chat, "Did any of you knock on my door?"

Du Lin: "It was me."

I frowned and looked at the window. The dormitory had an old-fashioned wooden door with no peephole, and beside it was a window covered with a layer of newspaper.

The knocking abruptly stopped, followed by knocking on the window.

Bang! Bang! Bang! It sounded like something hard was hitting the window over and over again.

A blurry pig head shadow was visible outside the window, definitely not Zheng Lin!

My heart was hanging in my throat as I continued to message in the group chat.

"Stop joking, there really is something outside my door!"

Du Lin: "Did you see anything? What was it?"

Me: "A pig head, a very large pig head!"