Entering the base
They were currently located at the outskirts of the base, filled with patrolling and training psychics. She silently glanced around the surroundings and suddenly felt a gaze that could not be ignored.
Jiang Lin turned towards the source of the gaze and was caught off guard by a pair of deep eyes. Jiang Lin felt as if he had seen him somewhere before, but he couldn't remember where.
A gust of wind blew past, blowing off her unstable headscarf, revealing her slightly dry and yellow hair and thin, fair face.
Wen Yan's eyes moved in the distance. It turned out to be a girl. When he first saw Jiang Lin, he only saw her eyes, the only part of her body that was exposed. She looked like a little wolf cub, and he thought she was a little boy who had not grown up.
The wind and sand made Jiang Lin's face hurt, but his clothes were too worn out and it was difficult to wrap the headscarf around his face back on.
"Just bear with it a little longer, you can get the patrol uniform up ahead." Lin Dehou noticed Jiang Lin's face exposed to the wind and sand.
She nodded and tried her best to cover her face with the gauze scarf, finally relieving some of the pain caused by the wind and sand.
After entering the building in front, the dazzling sunlight and the whistling sandstorm suddenly disappeared, and Jiang Lin loosened his hands that were covering the scarf.
"Xiao Xu, get me the smallest patrol uniform." Lin Dehou brought Jiang Lin to the registration place.
"Is this the new patrolman?" Xiao Xu raised his head and looked at Jiang Lin in front of him. The wind and sand outside had left some tiny wounds on her face, which were particularly obvious on her pale skin.
"Maybe the smallest size clothes will be a little big for you."
"It's okay." Jiang Lin really didn't care whether the clothes fit her. She was still wearing a very casual protective suit made of various fabrics, which could only block the ubiquitous wind and sand in the summer.
"Then come with me." A friendly smile flashed across Xiao Xu's round face, and the dimples on her face were faintly visible, making her look very kind.
Jiang Lin followed her silently.
"My name is Xu Anan. This is your bracelet. It contains your monthly salary, a total of 1,500 points. From now on, your salary will be paid on the first of every month. The salary for a junior patrol officer is 3,000 points per month, which includes accommodation and three basic meals a day."
As they walked, Xu Anan introduced some basic information about the base to Jiang Lin, and Jiang Lin listened attentively.
"The bracelet is very important. It has a navigation system and a payment system. You can use your points to buy extra daily necessities at the market, or you can buy some life-saving equipment."
Xu Anan stopped at the door of a room: "Wait here for me, I'll get you some clothes. By the way, what's your name?"
"Jiang Lin, Jiang as in ginger, Lin as in sweet rain." She spoke suddenly, her voice slightly hoarse. Jiang Lin could not remember how long it had been since she had communicated with other people.
Xu Anan nodded and moved quickly. After a while, she came out wearing a black suit and a silver badge.
"This is your work badge with your name and number on it." Xu Anan handed it to Jiang Lin. "The locker room is in front. Go change. I'll wait for you here."
Jiang Lin nodded and walked forward in the direction Xu Anan pointed. The locker room was not big, like the place where one needs to change into work clothes at work. There were many small cubicles, and she entered one at random.
Xu Anan was right; the smallest patrol uniform was still a bit too big for Jiang Lin. Patrolmen, both men and women, were generally tall, and Jiang Lin was a bit too thin. She hadn't been able to get enough nutrition, either before or after the apocalypse, and had missed the optimal time for growth.
Jiang Lin tried to move his limbs and didn't feel any uncomfortable restraint. The fabric was cool on his skin for some reason.
When Jiang Lin walked out of the locker room, there was a large box at Xu Anan's feet: "These are clothes for all four seasons, some daily necessities, and your helmet."
Xu Anan looked around at Jiang Lin and said, "It's still a little big, but it doesn't matter. Where's your ID card?"
Jiang Lin handed over the silver rectangular iron piece, and Xu Anan put it into a depression on Jiang Lin's left sleeve.
"This is where the work badge is." After saying that, Xu Anan pressed the helmet next to her towards Jiang Lin's thigh, and the helmet was buckled tightly on the side of her leg.
"In the future, you can take off the helmet indoors and buckle it here." Xu Anan introduced some details that Jiang Lin didn't know in detail.
Jiang Lin followed her and listened carefully. The two returned to the hall again, and the intelligent computer at Xu Anan's workstation projected a 3D base simulation disk.
"Now there is only one dormitory with a hibernation capsule left." Xu Anan zoomed in on the location of the dormitory, and a small room appeared in front of Jiang Lin.
"Anything else? I don't really like the hibernation pod."
"There are many rooms without hibernation chambers, but patrolmen generally prefer rooms with hibernation chambers so that they can recover better." Xu Anan was a little surprised when she heard Jiang Lin's words.
Jiang Lin shook her head. She didn't like the feeling of being locked up inside, as it brought back a lot of bad memories.
"Then I think you might like this." Xu Anan pulled out a small courtyard from the map. Inside the one-meter-high wall was a small house.
"But the location of this house is not very good. It is far from the trade zone and your workplace, and the people living around it are quite mixed."
"This is it." Jiang Lin didn't expect that there would be a separate small courtyard.
"There are shuttle buses to that area from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm. If you can't find your location, you can use the navigation bracelet."
"By the way, do you have an intelligent computer? If so, I need to connect your information to the network for mission notifications."
Jiang Lin glanced at the small ball on his shoulder, wondering if it could still be used as a normal intelligent computer now that it had been invaded.
"Yes, but the style is quite old. I don't know if it can be connected to the Internet." Jiang Lin took off the small ball on his shoulder and handed it to Xu Anan.
[Host, the original intelligent brain functions normally, and I have upgraded it since my arrival.]
[Will your presence be discovered?] Jiang Lin was curious.
【Won't. 】
"The network is connected successfully. Your work schedule for tomorrow will be sent to you on the smart brain later. Please pay attention to receive it." Xu Anan handed the ball back to Jiang Lin.
"Thank you." Jiang Lin's tone was still a little unfamiliar, like a not very intelligent artificial intelligence.
Xu Anan couldn't help but smile when she heard the tone of her voice. There were two dimples on her round face, which made her look very appealing: "Do you want to add an intelligent computer friend?" She leaned close to Jiang Lin's ear and whispered.
"Okay." Jiang Lin opened the original intelligent brain interface, and Xu Anan quickly entered her information.
"Let's chat online. I have to go back to work." Xu Anan winked playfully.
"good."
Jiang Lin put on a helmet and walked out of the hall. She fiddled with the bracelet on her hand. This thing was similar to an intelligent computer, but with simpler functions and a more portable form.
She still remembered the seeds that 110 mentioned, and immediately located the free trade market.
"Get ready to go, it's about a 10-minute walk." The voice of the bracelet came from the headset in the helmet, and some virtual arrows appeared on the ground.
Jiang Lin followed the instructions of the bracelet and walked towards the free trade zone market. Along the way, she met ordinary people she hadn't seen for a long time. They had no guns and no special abilities, and were walking slowly on the stone floor of the base.
If it weren't for the yellow sand still floating in the wind, Jiang Lin would have a trance-like feeling of returning to the past.
The box in his hand was not too heavy. The small courtyard was indeed very far away, probably at the back of the base. As Xu Anan said, it was far away from the patrol point and the trade area. Jiang Lin could only take the big box to the trade area to buy things and then return to his residence.
Jiang Lin was moving very fast, and the free trade market was right in front of him. It was a long and narrow glass house, and the people inside had simply set up stalls on both sides.
[Seeds detected at the second-to-last stall on the left.] The voice of 110 came from my mind.
There were two security guards at the entrance. Jiang Lin watched as everyone before her swiped their IDs on the door. She followed their lead and swiped her wristband against the black sensor at the door.
"Verification successful, welcome to the free trade market." A voice came from the headset in the helmet. The glass door opened to one side. Jiang Lin walked in and heard the lively noise.
She was a little surprised at the soundproofing ability of the building. She didn't hear any sound outside just now.
Jiang Lin took a quick look at the stalls next to her, which sold everything. She didn't stop and walked straight towards the stall that 110 mentioned.
The stall owner was an older middle-aged man. Jiang Lin glanced at the things on his stall through her helmet, and a cloth bag in the corner caught her attention.
Jiang Lin picked up the tightly tied cloth bag and placed it on the palm of her hand, feeling the texture of the grains inside. Although she had never seen seeds before, she had seen pictures of various seeds in books, and most of them were like this. This was probably what she wanted.
"How much is this?" Her voice was accurately transmitted to the outside through the helmet.
The middle-aged man slowly raised his head and glanced at her: "100 points."
Jiang Lin raised her eyebrows hidden in her helmet. Her average salary was only about 100 points per day.
Seeing that she didn't reply for a long time, the middle-aged man became anxious: "These seeds are well preserved. If you buy some, I will give you a planting book."
"What seeds are inside?" Jiang Lin did not open the cloth bag. She had never seen seeds before and was afraid that opening it rashly would affect the things inside.
The middle-aged man hesitated and finally sighed, "50 points, a packet of seeds and a book. I don't know what the seeds are in there, but they were left to me by my father."
"My father was a botanist in the past. There is absolutely no problem with this packet of seeds." Jiang Lin did not respond. The middle-aged man was a little anxious. Seeds were really not an important thing for ordinary people in the wasteland world. He was afraid that Jiang Lin would regret buying it.
"How do I pay?" Jiang Lin didn't quite understand the payment methods there. He looked around but didn't see any payment machines.
Hearing her voice, the middle-aged man quickly tapped his watch a few times, and a blue payment interface appeared in the air.
【Pay 50 points to Huang*Yi】
The middle-aged man gestured to Jiang Lin to swipe his bracelet over his. Jiang Lin looked around warily at the people around him and found that everyone was paying in this way, so he swiped his bracelet with confidence.
"Payment successful, balance 1450 points." A prompt sound came from the headset, and Jiang Lin breathed a sigh of relief.
The middle-aged man took out a book and a seed and handed them to Jiang Lin. A trace of reluctance flashed in his eyes: "Can you protect this book?" He asked pleadingly.
Jiang Lin was a little surprised, but she was someone who cherished things: "Okay."
Hearing her promise, the middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief.
[Task successful, reward: 0.5m*1m planting trough.]
Now that the goal had been achieved, Jiang Lin didn't want to carry a big box around anymore. He put the things he had just bought into the box and followed the guidance of the bracelet to the stop where he was waiting for the shuttle bus.
It takes an hour to walk to where she lives, so she can only wait for the shuttle bus to pick her up. There are rest seats at the station and an electronic display screen that records the location of each shuttle bus.
Jiang Lin glanced at the display screen. Bus No. 8 bound for Area 99 would arrive at the station in about ten minutes. She glanced at the silver work badge on her arm.
Her name and number were clearly engraved on the small silver plate: [Jiang Lin·110]
Jiang Lin's pupils shrank slightly. It was such a coincidence. She suddenly realized that since she was bound to the system, she seemed to have been pushed by this system called 110.
What is its purpose?
Jiang Lin tried hard to recall all the conversations between him and 110, and extracted a piece of information: when binding, 110 said that all items in the system could be exchanged for used batteries.
Used batteries are the most abundant and least valuable things in the world. Countless used batteries are buried deep under this lifeless land.
"Ding, ding." A reminder sound came from the electronic display screen, interrupting Jiang Lin's thoughts. A car with a big "8" shining on the front of the car slowly drove towards the station.
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