sbdcsierra Chapter 19 Word Games
Chapter 19 Word Games
Jiang Yu let out a long breath.
He was really bursting with pent-up frustration!
From the moment he entered this underground simulated city, he had been tormented by all sorts of bizarre things.
Fortunately, it's all over.
He won!
Free three meals a day, weekends off, full social insurance and housing fund coverage...
All these wonderful things belong to him from this moment on!
Jiang Yu suddenly felt like he had survived a disaster.
It's like a ship that's about to sink. When he swims to shore and looks back, the ship has already sunk to the bottom.
That's why everyone keeps saying "get ashore, get ashore."
So this is what it feels like...
Jiang Yu was secretly pleased for a while, but then he discovered a problem.
Lin Wei did not call off the physical examination.
She simply recorded her own scores.
Then he continued to stand there, waiting for the others to return.
"No... I finished first, so the physical exam is over, right?" Jiang Yu asked curiously.
Lin Wei glanced at him, a mischievous smile appearing on her poker face—a stark contrast.
"Who told you that the test was over once you were the first to finish?"
"You said it yourself, you said the first person to come back would be hired."
"Yes, but I didn't say I was only hiring one person."
"..."
"Others will continue with the physical examinations, but this will not affect your eligibility for employment."
Jiang Yu fell silent.
It seems this recruitment drive isn't just for one person?
Goodness, everyone's been fooled by her wordplay.
It felt like playing Werewolf, but the judge was the real werewolf.
It doesn't matter.
As long as he's among the people we hire, that's fine.
Jiang Yu leaned against the railing, arms crossed, adopting a spectator's mentality.
He was a contestant before, and he worked incredibly hard on the practice.
Now he's the audience, able to comfortably watch others make fools of themselves.
This feeling of "it's none of my business"...
So awesome!
……
10 minutes later…
The second person to return was Wan Jiayu.
She was soaking wet, her hair plastered to her face, and water droplets dripping from the ends of her hair.
My clothes were completely soaked and clung tightly to my body.
She was clutching the power bank in her hand.
After being submerged in water for so long, the indicator light on the power bank has long since stopped working.
That doesn't matter. The rule is that you just need to return an exception; it doesn't say that you have to still be able to use it.
Wan Jiayu walked up to Lin Wei and handed her the power bank.
"I found it!"
Her voice was still blank, but it sounded more tired.
Lin Wei took the power bank and looked at it.
Then she opened the notebook and wrote something on it.
"Wan Jiayu, the second to complete the physical examination."
Wan Jiayu was stunned for a moment.
She didn't seem to understand why she wasn't number one.
"The second one? How come it's the first one?"
Lin Wei winked at someone to the side.
Wan Jiayu followed the gaze...
Jiang Yu was leaning against the railing, a smile on his face that said, "Surprised? Unexpected?"
Wan Jiayu frowned for a moment, then quickly relaxed.
She stood aside without saying a word.
That son of a bitch is something else.
A few more minutes passed...
The third person to return appeared—the spirited young woman, Chen Yutong.
She was the first one to come back.
Of course, that's assuming that the car doesn't crash into the wall, she would definitely be the first to cross the finish line.
Finding a Li Auto bike in a hidden bike shed is already considered lucky.
It's really impressive that it can be driven that far.
After all, she didn't even have a driver's license.
My driving skills were honed entirely through a season of practicing vehicles in Peacekeeper Elite.
That ideal car crashed into the wall and could not be restarted or driven to the destination.
Then she saw Jiang Yu's QR code and got an idea.
QR codes are fine, so license plates are fine too!
So she ran to the front of the car and removed the new energy vehicle license plate.
There were no new energy vehicle licenses in the 1980s.
Thus, Chen Yutong became the third person to complete the physical examination.
……
The fourth person to return was Zhao Mingyuan.
The mine-clearing guy in the suit.
The unusual thing he brought back was different from everyone else's—roast chicken.
The kind that you can eat.
The problem is...
He brought a blue roast chicken.
It's blue from head to tail, even the rooster's comb is blue.
The skin had an eerie fluorescent blue hue, which looked particularly creepy under the dim light.
They look like alien creatures that stepped out of a science fiction movie.
There are no blue-skinned chickens in the world.
The blue color of this roast chicken is clearly beyond the normal range; it must be the abnormal food that Lin Wei mentioned.
Or... an unusual animal?
I just don't know how the planning bureau managed to make the roast chicken blue.
Artificial pigments?
Anyway, it's impossible for blue-skinned chickens to actually exist.
According to Zhao Mingyuan's description, he found the blue chicken at a delicatessen.
He saw two blue things hidden among a pile of roast chickens and thought they were plastic bags or something.
When Zhao Mingyuan handed over the roast chicken, he grinned, revealing two rows of Bluetooth strips.
Jiang Yu was stunned.
No wonder he only brought one back.
Did he eat the other one?
Wow, that's brave of you! You dare to eat a blue chicken?
This thing doesn't look like something you could eat.
Even with artificial coloring, I can't bring myself to eat it!
Sure enough, this minesweeper guy was the most abnormal one.
……
The fifth and sixth ones came back together.
Zhou Zhu and Zhang Yang.
The two men had bruises all over their faces and their clothes were tattered; they looked even worse than the scene of a car accident.
Zhou Zhu was holding a robot vacuum cleaner in his arms.
Robotic vacuum cleaners first appeared in 1996; they certainly didn't exist in the 1980s.
This is abnormal, nothing wrong.
Zhang Yang brought back a newspaper.
That was a copy of the Binhai Evening News.
The paper has yellowed, the edges are torn, some parts are soaked in water, and the writing is somewhat blurry.
However, most of the content is still clear, and the date is "1987...".
The front page featured a news item—a leader inspecting a factory—along with a black-and-white photograph.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Newspapers from the 1980s, news from the 1980s, photographs from the 1980s…
Everything is just like it should be in the 1980s.
The problem is with the center seam of the newspaper.
There was a recruitment notice about the size of a piece of tofu along the seam.
The font is small, but very clear.
"We are hiring short drama actors, male or female, aged 18-30, with good looks and temperament. Those with acting experience are preferred. Salary is negotiable. Contact person: Director Wang, phone number: XXXXXXX (WeChat ID is the same as phone number)."
WeChat, which was launched in 2011, appeared in a newspaper in 1987.
If there's no problem with this, then what is?
"Zhang Yang, the sixth to complete the physical exam."
Lin Wei wrote the last name in the notebook.
At this point, all six people returned with unusual characteristics.
Lin Wei closed the notebook and announced that all six people had passed the physical examination and officially become trainee staff members of the patrol section.
Zhang Yang and Zhou Zhu exchanged a glance.
Their eyes both conveyed the same message: "Did we fight for nothing?"
"The injuries we sustained during the physical examination..." Zhou Zhu said helplessly.
"It's considered a work-related injury, and all expenses will be covered by the bureau," Lin Wei replied calmly.
"..."
Zhou Zhu and Zhang Yang were speechless.
They started the fight themselves.
It's just that they didn't "carefully read the question" at the beginning.
If I'd known this would happen, I wouldn't have bothered with the chicken feathers!
Lin Wei glanced at her watch: "It's getting late. Next, I'll take you for your pre-employment medical examination."
"Also, treat Zhou Zhu and Zhang Yang's wounds."
After saying that, she turned around and led everyone to the other side of the simulated street.
Jiang Yu walked last.
Looking at the group of people in front of him, he suddenly felt a little dazed.
A spirited young woman who can't distinguish up from down, left from right; a tough, street-smart guy; a legendary, incredibly strong girl who can withstand any impact; a suit-wearing man who's on par with Xiang Zuo; and a blond guy who'll even hit himself when he's angry…
And himself.
An orphan who was misdiagnosed and admitted to a mental hospital.
It seems that none of these guys are normal except for him.
But it is precisely this group of people...
They all turned out to be my colleagues?
The entry requirements for this city planning bureau are really low...
Why do they hire all sorts of weirdos?
……