A Bank Teller's Night-Shift Side Job

Five years after joining the underground branch, I, a bank teller, thought back once more to that perfectly ordinary afternoon. The human resources department tricked me into signing an indenture, and from then on, whenever night fell, I could see those shadowy figures. They swayed as they came up from beneath the earth. Some had their tongues hanging out, some had dangling arms, and some were covered in blood and gore...

I still remember how HR patted my shoulder insincerely. "It's all work, no matter where you do it, right? Besides, the night division belongs to the Tiandi Bank, a state-controlled enterprise. It's a job for life."

For the sake of those words, "a job for life," I gritted my teeth and set out on a road of no return: providing deposit and withdrawal services to the things underground.

"Hello. This is my head. I just found it, and it's still warm. Could you keep it at your branch for me? I'll come back for it once I've figured out how to put it back together."

"I can't have her heart, so I don't need my own anymore, either. Please keep it for me."

I nearly broke down. What kind of transactions were these?

But there was no turning back, so I cheered myself on. "Keep it up, Xiao Zheng! You've only got two hundred years until retirement!"

Note 1: This book is really just my work fantasy taken to an extreme. The monsters and demons in it are like the fraud and money-laundering schemes hidden behind the scenes, things we indirectly deal with and guard against every day. Bank employees will understand!

Note 2: The blurb and the story differ slightly, but the setting is completely true to life. I wrote this just to entertain myself after being at work too long. As long as it's fun!

Theme: Prevent money laundering before it happens!