Wen Shi started the car again and had just started on the road when his cell phone suddenly rang.
Kong Zhuoshuang.
When he saw it was an unfamiliar name, he reacted for a moment, and then matched it with the floral shirt of the man who came to pick him up in the wilderness that day.
"Hello." Wen Shi turned on the speakerphone.
"I saw what happened to your family on the news. My condolences." The man in the flowered shirt said, "I think this is too evil. I'd better find a reliable person to exorcise the evil spirits."
Wen Shi followed up by asking, "Where can I find a reliable person?"
"The City of Gold," Flowered Shirt said speechlessly, "Is there even a need to ask? As long as you can afford the price, anything can be traded."
The City of Gold also has another unpleasant nickname: the Devil’s Brothel.
All kinds of evil transactions are happening there all the time, and the transaction method is very direct, one pays the money and the other does the work.
The flowered shirt asked, "I happen to be going there this weekend, would you like to join me?"
"Okay." Wen Shi paused for a moment and said, "I want to bring a friend."
"It's okay, I'm not alone either." The man in the flowered shirt comforted him a few more words before hanging up the phone.
The game prompt sounds came one after another.
"The third story you need to save, "The City of Gold", is about to begin."
[Whatever you ask for, you can get it in the City of Gold.
We welcome every talented young person!
Mission content: After entering the Golden City, you need to find a job within one day and obtain the status of [Junior Worker].
Tip: The Golden City does not keep useless people. Each profession implements a last-place elimination system. If the initial rating is the last in the industry, the player will be eliminated directly.
Tip: I hope you know yourself and find a career that you are best at.
Tip: If your profession is unable to pay a certain amount of tax to the City of Gold, the player will be eliminated directly.]
"I hate working." Wen Shi is now an emotionally unstable driver.
Xiaohua shared the same view. She calmly analyzed the task: "The Golden City should have a high-tech intelligent assessment system."
Otherwise, relying solely on manually collected data and resumes, it is impossible to objectively determine who is truly the industry leader in a short period of time.
"And we have to choose a hot profession." Only hot professions can make money. For a niche business that can only make a living for a year, the story will probably enter the stage of paying taxes before the business starts. Xiaohua said seriously, "But the competition in hot industries must be extremely terrifying."
She tried to call Li Nan, but the phone was busy. She didn't know if it was because of the game mission.
"We don't lack money right now," Xiaohua said, considering the matter, "but I'm afraid it won't work to just give money to the City of Gold."
Wen Shi nodded: "The game has clearly hinted at the identity of workers by specifically emphasizing it and giving different types of currency."
Half an hour later, the car stopped outside the villa.
Workers came to the villa to repair the stairs. Most of the other players stayed in their rooms, while some ventured out to see if they could trigger other tasks.
Wen Shi found A Yu and gave her the mobile phone he bought yesterday. There was a sunny doll hanging on the mobile phone, which was a pendant that Wen Shi specially selected from a boutique.
A Yu smiled from ear to ear: "It's good to have a son falling from the sky."
"..." Wen Shi got down to business: "I'm going to a place called the Golden City. I don't know what the situation is there, so it's best for me to go there first to find out..."
Ayu waved her hand, and the bell on her waist swung: "It's okay, let's go together."
Seeing that she had made up her mind, Wen Shi said no more, and ran to the study again, tentatively speaking:
"Mr. Demon, I may need to take you with me to the City of Gold."
Wen Shi did not place any offerings or burn any incense. If the demon did not respond, he would just take it as consent.
Because the difficulty of the mission might exceed his estimation, Wen Shi temporarily adjusted his strategy and prepared to bring the shrine with him, but this thing could not be kept with him all the time. When he arrived at the Golden City, he would find a corner to store it.
A cloud of black gas was floating on the surface of the statue quietly staying in the shrine, and it actually responded to Wen Shi.
"Try not to draw the attention of other great demons." That was all it asked.
It seemed the devil was very busy and needed to run a errand. After he said that, the black gas on the surface of the statue disappeared in three seconds.
Wen Shi tried hard to force a smile.
So you also know that you are the one who escaped the net
The weekend is coming in one day.
Early in the morning, a man in a flowery shirt came to the villa to find Wen Shi. He was accompanied by a trendy man who looked at Wen Shi with disdain.
Apart from anything else, Mr. Lin was very good at doing business. With his death, the Lin family will soon be on the decline.
The man in flowered shirt was driving an extended version of the luxury car today, which could easily seat seven or eight people.
A Yu is a bit like the old lady. He has a low sense of presence and he didn't deliberately sit in the back after getting on the bus, but he just wasn't very conspicuous.
Wen Shi was studying how to fasten the seat belt for the shrine when the man in the flowered shirt suddenly stared at the rearview mirror and asked curiously, "It looks like your eldest brother's car is behind us. What is he doing here?"
Wen Shi said perfunctorily that he didn't know.
I knew deep down that I wanted to follow them to see if I could catch the beginning of the next part of the story.
"Smart as heck." Xiaohua shook her head.
They can trigger a new chapter by successfully completing the rich chapter or by touching the banknotes. Both are indispensable.
Wen Shi turned on the navigation at first, wanting to study the route, but after the car drove out of the national highway, it suddenly disappeared from the navigation map.
The weather forecast said it would be sunny today, but in reality the sky was quite gloomy. In the end I didn't know whether we drove into a desert or a Gobi desert, the temperature was very high, but the brightness of the sky didn't change at all.
After nearly three hours, when Wen Shi was a little numb from sitting, the luxury car braked suddenly. Wen Shi grabbed the handrail and used his other hand to steady the shrine in time.
"We're here." The man in the flowered shirt's tone lacked his usual slickness, as if he was quite afraid of the place he was about to go.
His trendy boyfriend also put away his superior attitude and seemed to be keeping a low profile.
Wen Shi looked at the electronic watch. He hadn't done anything yet, but the number of readers had risen to eight hundred, and was still on the rise. This showed that "City of Gold" had a certain popularity.
It is surrounded by a desert, and the city standing in the central area looks very unreal. Outside it is a magnificent city wall, and the city gate is made of gold. In the middle, the three big characters "Golden City" are bright black.
The gloomy sky weakens the sense of prosperity that the city itself should bring.
The air was stuffy and Wen Shi felt as if he couldn't breathe, so he followed the man in the floral shirt and walked forward.
You must register before entering the city, and foreign cars cannot drive directly into the city.
The person in charge of registration was wrapped in black cloth, and his voice was as hoarse as those of the ghost children in the orphanage. All one could tell was that he was a man.
The shrine was difficult to carry, so Wen Shi simply took out the statue.
"What are you going into town for?"
The person in charge glanced at him, then took out the banknotes from the box and pulled Xiaohua to his side: "We are together. Someone introduced us to work here."
It was indeed the damn game intermediary that forced them to come to the City of Gold.
The person in charge checked the banknotes and stamped Wen Shi and Xiao Hua's arms. Then his eyes fell on A Yu. His eyes were like electronic scanners that could tell the strength of a person. When he saw A Yu, he nodded slightly without asking too many questions.
The group entered the city smoothly.
Just now, Wen Shi's words of working shocked the man in the flowered shirt. After entering the city, he dared to say "Fuck", "Brother, are you kidding me?"
Wen Shi replied with four words: "Life forces me."
Just as I passed through the city gate, a terrified voice suddenly came from behind: "I, I'm not here to make trouble, I'm leaving now!"
It was the player who was driving after them who was stopped by a patrolman outside the city. His two arms were grabbed and he obviously felt that something was wrong.
After the person in charge scanned the player's electronic ID, he said coldly: "You don't have enough property and you are involved in a lawsuit, so you are not qualified to enter the city; you don't have any proof of your ability, so you are not qualified to work as a laborer."
When he made the judgment, the player was pulled away by two people behind him. The attack props seemed to be a broken magic. No matter how he wailed and struggled, it had no effect at all. In the end, the player didn't know where he was taken.
Wen Shi looked back and saw this scene, and felt the tyranny and barbarity of the Golden City.
Soon he no longer cared about the life or death of the player and began to look at the new map he was about to enter.
Two words can highly summarize the Golden City: technology and violence.
The entire city is full of advanced high-tech products. The height of the buildings has not been reduced due to the desert environment. No area is blank or wasted. Electronic screens and advertisements are everywhere, and the projection coverage is even more exaggerated than that of the virtual world.
All the projections show the best in various industries. To put it bluntly, they are electronic business cards. Huangjincheng is extremely keen on strong people and respects talents. As long as they have the ability, Huangjincheng’s managers will advertise for the top talents in the industry for free.
"The evaluation system is similar to that of a game." Wen Shi narrowed his eyes.
For example, there is a lawyer’s projected business card on top of the skyscraper on the left.
[Zhou An'an: S-level lawyer
Resume: The second-ranked lawyer in Golden City, helped UHY win the lawsuit last year...]
There is no detailed life experience, and only a few of the most famous lawsuits are selected in the resume.
The game prompt sounded at this time—
"Players please choose a profession as soon as possible and go to the Talent Building for level assessment."
"Please note that there is only one opportunity for initial professional qualification certification, so please choose your job carefully."
Ayu suddenly stopped and looked towards the building on the side. It seemed that someone was staring at this side, but the windows of that building were almost all half open, so it was impossible to determine the source of the peeping.
Inside the building.
A player moved to lean against the curtain and said, "President, Pei Wenwei is here. If nothing unexpected happens, he will go for professional qualification certification first."
I don't know what was said on the other end, but the player smiled and replied, "Don't worry, I have arranged everything. Once he is certified as a doctor, he will definitely die."
The person who was talking to this player was currently sitting in the casino, playing cards with another player.
The person in the middle who plays the role of dealer and deals the cards is Li Nan, who is currently working in the casino.
The president of Wangcai Bank rubbed his brows and said, "President Li, could you not portray the humbleness of workers in such a standard way?"
Other high-level players would exude a unique temperament even when they were working, but Li Nan bowed when he should and greeted customers when he should, without any airs.
Li Nan just smiled and nodded, then continued to do his work in a serious manner.
The president looked at the new card and suddenly said, "Pei Wenwei is here. Do you want to guess whether he can get the business after the certification?"
Li Nan said as he dealt the cards: "With you getting in the way, it will be difficult. But Huangjincheng will advertise for the industry leader, and you won't be able to stop it then."
The president laughed. “The code name does help increase the initial assessment level, but it is impossible to classify him as a top talent.”
Pei Wenwei is a person who has absolutely no medical knowledge. Because of the title, the Talent Building may give him a C or D rating, but it is impossible for him to get a higher grade.
"Oh." Li Nan didn't argue with him.
The president threw out a card and asked, "Want to bet?"
Li Nan thought for a moment and said, "Five thousand points."
For people of their status, verbal promises alone are enough. The president nodded and said, "Okay, let's bet on the qualification level he will certify in the end."
The boss was playing cards, and Wen Shi was still walking to the Talent Building.
If he knew that these people treated 5,000 points as a joke, he would definitely call them evil capitalists. The man in the flowered shirt and the fashionable man did not work, and they were quite afraid of the Talent Building, so they did not follow them in.
The Talent Building is the largest building in the entire Golden City.
There are 108 floors in total, and they are equipped with the world's most rigorous and meticulous identification machines, which can read out all the work experience of people coming and going to prevent resume fraud. The Talent Building can certify nearly 2,000 occupations in total, and countless people come here for assessment every day.
If the evaluation results show that the employee is ranked last among the peers in the Golden City, they will be killed for delaying the time of the evaluators and wasting the start-up of the machine. The Golden City will re-rank once at midnight every day. If the employees in the city are squeezed out by the newcomers and fall to the last place, they will also be killed.
So basically every day there is new blood joining every industry and profession, and at midnight the whole city will usher in a new reshuffle.
Of course, for some unpopular professions and special situations, there will be special "Codes" recording specific coping strategies.
Golden City collects taxes once a month. The industry can be unpopular, but the income cannot be out of this world. If it fails to reach the average level, you will die sooner or later.
The lobby is attended by intelligent robots.
"What profession do you need to be certified for?"
Wen Shi smiled and said, "Bodyguard."
"Puff—" The environment in the hall is very good, with free desserts and drinks provided. Xiaohua, who had just opened a bottle of juice behind her, sprayed it out in one gulp.
Wen Shi himself stood in front of the intelligent robot with a confident look on his face.
With his [One Sword to Peace] and his excellent examples of saving other people's lives in the past, an S might not even be enough to describe himself.
A Yu tugged at Wen Shi's clothes from behind and looked him up and down: "Son, are you okay?"
Wen Shi nodded: "Starting from S-level, there is no upper limit."
Xiaohua had a complicated expression: "Yes, he really can."
Xiaohua and Wenshi have been to the Sunset Town dungeon together and witnessed with their own eyes the method of saving people by turning a human pig into a human pig, as well as the method of saving people by turning the player into a bug man... In short, as long as there is still a breath left, the opponent can be revived!
"Let's go." Wen Shi followed the intelligent robot.
I took the elevator up to the 34th floor. The moment the door opened, I saw a group of burly men standing in front of me, and the whole space seemed oppressive.
The young man in the car was just the opposite, with a thin waist, long legs, and skin as clean as a porcelain doll. Compared with this group of people, he was like a little lamb that had strayed into a herd of wild beasts.
But he held his head high and walked towards the authentication machine with pride.
(End of this chapter)