If the company explodes, I'll go off work; if the world ends, I'll go to sleep
In short, in the midst of chaos and public opinion, a group went on a spring outing.
I go off work when the company explodes, and I go to sleep when the world ends.
"Team leader, is this really okay?" Ji Yunding was the first to feel a little uneasy. In order to avoid being recognized, Ji Yunding and Ji Liuxing both wore masks. "Didn't the liaison just tell me to stay in school?"
"What's wrong with that? Is there any place safer than here? If you're talking about other places, there's a blizzard going on in the continent where the 180th meridian passes through. We can't go to the East Pole for the time being. Don't be so anxious."
Ji Liuxing pointed at the group of people next to him and smiled. Through the mask, one could only see his eyes curved.
"Besides, we haven't had a team building in a while. You can choose what to do this time."
“What do we usually do during team building?”
"Go and have fun on your own."
After hearing this, Zheng Nuo couldn't help but complain: "Okay, there is neither 'tuan' nor 'jian'."
Lin Shu hugged Zheng Nuo and smiled: "It's good. Everyone shared what they did in the group. It's a peaceful day where no one will die. However, today we agreed to act around Ji Yunding."
Seventy or eighty people were walking in the street, scattered and playing with people they were close to. Ji Yunding took a quick look and remembered who was close to whom.
The relationship between a group of people is not very good. Even if someone dies, no one will make a fuss because everyone has become numb. But if you say that the relationship is good, it is really good.
"Nono, what is the general team building?" When it comes to choosing a topic, Ji Yunding chooses to seek help from professionals.
"At a dinner table, the leader will say a few words, and then we should build relationships." Zheng Nuo sighed, "But I guess the team leader is too lazy to say it, and the people in the team are not interested in building relationships with each other, so you can just do it casually."
Zheng Nuo has given up seeking normal social interaction with colleagues in a group, but she has to admit that this model is very comfortable.
"How about this, in return for our company, newbie, you introduce us to the civilized world."
As he spoke, Lin Shu grabbed two more people from the team.
"Wang Han, Sun Siqing, I remember that you two were also admitted from the civilized world, right? I'll assign you to be responsible for providing additional instructions to the newcomers."
“Eh…but I haven’t come into contact with anyone.”
Sun Siqing raised his hand and said,
"I was locked up at home taking private lessons. I did nothing but study. But I just couldn't learn. In the end, I only got a good score in a key university. I didn't apply for admission myself, but my parents threw me into this university out of spite."
Wang Han scratched his head: "My situation is not that serious... But I kept changing schools because of my parents' work, and I never made any friends. After entering university, I became isolated from society."
People in different environments have different psychological traumas, and the personal experiences of these two people clearly bear the characteristics of the civilized world.
In comparison, at first glance, Zheng Nuo seemed a little out of place among this group of people. But if you think about it carefully, her college entrance examination score exceeded the admission score of this school by nearly 50 points, but she chose this school as her first choice - from the perspective of the civilized world's values, this is also extremely abnormal.
In short, inexplicably, the team building theme became "Deepen understanding of the civilized world."
"Generally speaking, children should go to kindergarten from the age of three or four and play with other children under the care of teachers every day, but I have never been there because it is not compulsory education."
Ji Yunding pointed inside through the railings - today is Saturday, the kindergarten is closed, otherwise there would be so many people gathered around, it would look like they were looking for trouble,
"After the age of six, they start primary school. In the past, they basically played during these two stages, but I heard that primary school students seem to be having a hard time these days."
"So, people in the civilized world are fragile until they are ten years old?" One team member scratched his head. "I was wondering why the child cried so miserably during the last rescue mission. I was thinking that he is already ten years old, so it shouldn't be that serious."
For them, ten years old is the beginning of their official experience of facing the weird.
"Then I went to middle school and high school, and started to face the pressure of entrance exams." Ji Yunding said, thinking about the people around him, "Maybe I'll have someone I like, enter puberty and quarrel with my parents, etc. I'm not sure."
Ji Yunding found that with his understanding of the civilized world, introducing this place was not as smooth as when he introduced the school to his high school classmates.
"Newbie, just say whatever you want."
Lin Shu felt that Ji Yunding was at a loss for words, so he smiled and patted her shoulder.
"I really like wandering around in the civilized world, but most people here have rarely left school. After all, the outliers have to stick together to have the courage to go out."
Wei Qianqiu nodded, staring at the brightly colored swings and seesaw through the railing, as if imagining another life.
"After that, slowly, the basic education of ghost stories will have to sink."
Ji Yunding's casual words seemed to attract Wei Qianqiu's attention, and Zheng Nuo nodded and continued,
“There is a big shortage of investigators now, and our university graduation rate is not high enough, but the graduation standards can only be tightened, not relaxed.
At the last meeting, we decided to move some of the investigator courses to middle and high schools to bridge the gap in the quality of investigators between the civilized world and the aristocratic families. "
Wei Qianqiu turned his head and took another look at the interior furnishings of the kindergarten, wondering what he was thinking.
"This is a commercial street. There are snack shops and shopping shops all over the street. Some of the food is better than restaurants, but you need to pay attention to hygiene issues. If you don't clean the beverage machine, there may be cockroaches inside."
“Generally speaking, you can take the bus, subway, light rail or use a taxi app on your phone, which will be cheaper.
I see that the seniors seem to just take a taxi on the roadside, which is usually no problem, but you have to be careful of illegal taxis near the train station."
"This is the park's fitness equipment, and there's a basketball court next to it. It will be more lively in the evening than it is now."
"That's a high school, and some students don't have Saturday off. The high school and the school lake are similar, and occasionally someone wants to jump in."
Although it was not good to disturb people in class, this group of people were inexplicably excited and insisted on going in for a look. So they found the principal through the security guard and explained to the principal for half an hour that there was really nothing strange here, they just wanted to go in and take a look.
"Keep quiet in the teaching building. The college entrance examination is an extremely important matter for people in the civilized world." Ji Yunding emphasized and put his finger to his lips, signaling the seniors not to speak.
Fortunately, the investigators themselves must have passed the discipline test. A group of people passed by the classroom quietly, just turning their heads to look inside through the window.
The students inside seemed equally curious about this group of people. Some of them turned their heads to look at them. On the glass in the corridor, the figures inside and outside seemed to overlap for a moment, and then quickly separated.
After leaving the teaching building, everyone breathed a sigh of relief for some reason and dispersed into small groups to visit the playground. The seventy or eighty people dispersed in twos and threes, making them less conspicuous.
"Ah... there is indeed a kind of, how should I put it, indescribable sense of urgency?" Lin Shu patted his chest, commented, and looked towards the stadium, "Newcomer, why are those people over there outdoors? Do people from the civilized world also need to train?"
"Physical education classes usually involve playing outside." Ji Yunding took them to the court and watched the students play basketball. "That's great. I didn't have many physical education classes when I was in high school."
"Indeed, the pressure of the college entrance examination is quite high in your place." Zheng Nuo nodded. "I was shocked when I first heard you say that you didn't have spring and autumn outings."
At this moment, a ball shadow flew over from the field and hit Ji Liuxing in the face. Ji Yunding, who was relatively close, reacted quickly, raised his hand to catch it, and looked at Ji Liuxing with some doubt.
The ball was obviously thrown intentionally, but there was no reason for it.
Zheng Nuo looked over there, sighed, and muttered, "No way, this is too petty."
After saying that, he pointed to the people on the sidelines who were watching others play basketball, and then pointed at Ji Liuxing's face.
First of all, in a high school where hair dyeing is not allowed, the light blonde hair is enough to stand out. In addition, Ji Liuxing's face is good-looking enough even if only his eyes are exposed. Just by standing on the sidelines, he stole all the limelight on the court.
"You really are good at picking on the weak." Lin Shu couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark.
Ji Liuxing tilted his head as he looked at the basketball. He seemed to care more about this than the fact that he was almost hit by the basketball just now. "Student Ji Yunding, how do we play this?"
"I do know a little bit. I was forced to learn it by my physical education teacher when I was in elementary school."
Ji Yunding tried to pat the ball to get familiar with it, and ignored the gesture of the boy on the court who had just thrown the ball to Ji Liuxing, asking her to return the ball. Instead, he lowered his center of gravity and dribbled forward, and after dribbling past two people, he jumped directly.
The basketball hoop on the high school playground, which was not of very good quality, was bent down by the dunk, and the basketball board behind it was shaking and making noises. Ji Yunding hung one hand on the edge of the basket, twisted her body and kicked casually, kicking the basketball, which had not yet completely fallen to the ground, back to the boy who had asked her for the ball, hitting him neither lightly nor heavily.
The students who were studying in the classroom were startled by the sudden cheers from the playground outside. The student sitting by the window leaned out to look, unable to make out what was going on, and whispered a few words to his deskmate.
"Yunding, don't come down yet, let me take a picture." Zheng Nuo shouted from a distance, raised his cell phone and looked at Ji Yunding hanging there with a somewhat amused look.
The students and a group of team members nearby watched the fun and applauded and cheered. Ji Yunding waited for Zheng Nuo to finish filming before jumping down and walking back as if nothing had happened.
"Team leader, how did you almost get hit by something that fast?"
"It's okay." Ji Liuxing smiled and curved his eyes, seemingly not caring at all, "I was a little distracted."
Ji Yunding looked at him with some suspicion, but didn't see anything unusual, so he continued to take everyone to visit somewhere else.
After returning to school, Ji Yunding thought about it carefully - it seemed like they had just been street urchins for the whole day and did nothing.
Never mind, as long as we have fun.
"Newcomer, I have signed up for the Dongji Project centered on you." Lin Shu hugged Ji Yunding and smiled, "Our team's new shifts have been announced, and some of us will have to stay with you for a long time."
As things stand now, there is no result in the research on Leviathan, and the controversy on the Internet has been slow to subside. The war of public opinion has even spread to other fields, with accusations flying everywhere.
There is nothing much I can do even if I stay in the country, so I might as well run away.
In fact, Ji Yunding didn't know whether she was in a horror story or not, or whether the boundary between horror stories and reality was not as clear as she thought.
While thinking, Ji Yunding picked up his mobile phone and looked at the new schedule. He was stunned for a moment, then turned around and ran towards the North District and pushed open the door of Ji Liuxing's office.
"Team Leader, you are..."
Ji Yunding didn't hear a response when he was halfway through his words. He only saw Ji Liuxing sitting on the floor, leaning against the desk, as if he had suddenly fallen down. He closed his eyes, his light eyelashes trembling slightly, and didn't answer.
Ji Yunding squatted down and rolled up his sleeves. Black meridians spread along the skin at the edge of the white gloves to his arms. The skin felt as rough as dead wood. As soon as Ji Yunding touched it, he felt the familiar tingling pain from negative energy.
An extradimensional channel was indeed opened again a few days ago, but this time something was obviously wrong.
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