The doctor could only smile awkwardly.
As if he had sensed something from the smile, the delivery man thanked the customer for the tip and backed out of the room. Perhaps he thought that since he could live in a place surrounded by public toilets, he must not be a normal person, so he left very quickly.
Weiwei followed the boy slowly with her hands in her sleeves. The boy walked onto the empty road and moved his arms and legs as if he wanted to do something. Weiwei asked him quietly from behind, "Was your delivery car stolen?"
The young delivery man almost jumped up. He turned around suddenly and was relieved when he found it was Weiwei. He scratched his hair awkwardly and said, "Maybe?"
Peter Parker didn't know how to explain it... After finding that there were no people on the road, he relied on spider webs to stick to the street lights and wandered over.
"Why are you here...ah," Peter understood, "the layout of this town..."
No wonder the map shows that kind of pattern. I don't know why, but the logic of the girl in front of me is different from that of normal people. If the town is related to her, then it's not surprising.
"Hmm..." Weiwei rested her chin on one hand and thought, "Are you always working, Peter?"
From construction worker, witness, church volunteer to food delivery man, this boy seems to have a lot of jobs? The above is only part of what Weiwei saw. Maybe when she didn't know, he was still in other workplaces. When he was working as a construction worker, she saw his resume. He was strong, fast, kind, reliable and honest. The only bad thing was that he was still a student, so he could only work part-time.
Seeing that Weiwei seemed to want to learn more about her part-time job experience, Peter felt that there was nothing shameful about it. The two sat on the guardrail by the roadside and had a detailed conversation, focusing on the salary. Then Peter scratched his hair and said, "Just like the slogan painted on the Gotan College, experiencing various careers during the student period will help us make future choices. I was the one who painted the slogan... Um, why do you look so weird?"
Nothing, Weiwei patted his shoulder sympathetically and asked, "There will be a lot of job opportunities in Nan Hinckley recently. Are you interested in promoting it among your classmates?"
"I'll try my best," Peter decided not to think about what kind of job opportunities there would be in a town like this. He thought for a while, "I joined a group of part-time workers. Private schools like Gotan College have mostly wealthy families, or are top students with full scholarships, or exchange students who pay all the expenses... They've been obsessed with Children's Day activities lately, so part-time jobs won't attract many people."
"If South Hinckley really needs people," Peter said, "you could consider some public high schools with low enrollment rates, such as Gotham City No. 5 High School."
…
After Professor Daisy and her group moved out, the top floor was naturally vacant. However, Stark did not take over a room that no one else wanted. On the contrary, after entering the maze again and watching Batcat's "performance", he contentedly (fortunately) gave up the next game.
Look at those kindergarten kids queuing outside, the chattering high school students, the office workers working on their mobile phones, and even the old ladies with crutches... Tony thought, they are here to experience the game, and they want to have fun in the game.
Having fun is the essence of the game.
On the one hand, superheroes know more and think more complicatedly, and he may not be able to be just a player like them. On the other hand, Tony has to deal with the problem that Old Jar "can't leave Gotham".
Although Jia decided to stay, a super AI can be here and there at the same time. How can AI be restricted by location? This is too absurd.
So while others were experiencing the festival, Tony was testing various props and checking for problems with Old Jia's code. He knew there was magic in the world, but who said that magic couldn't be explained by science?
Natasha wanted to give the composite bow to Clint because he really liked this bow that couldn't hurt anyone but could be used for pranks. However, after giving it to him, he found that he couldn't draw the bow... It turned out that the prop was tied. Clint had no choice but to return the bow to her: "Na, it's not just for pranks. You can also use it to mark enemies on the battlefield."
So Tony had to add another item to his research, to confirm whether it was soul binding or body binding, so he had to consult Dr. Strange who had studied the soul.
After being harassed by him three times in one afternoon, Strange blocked his number, but Stark hacked into his phone.
In this chaotic situation, Tony finally confirmed that
"Not only is it restricted by geographical location, but it can't even receive messages from other cities?"
Doesn't it mean that if he wants to talk to Lao Jia, he has to make a call and ask someone else to transfer the call?
This made Tony feel strange, as if the AI he left behind in another city seemed to have become a real person. Although it had no human limbs, it perfectly replicated the troubles that ordinary people would have.
Iron Man frowned and thought for a while in the laboratory, then said, "I'll make a body for you, Old Jia."
It is not a mechanical creation, but a real body that is more like a real person.
…
Thanks to Peter who kindly provided the information, Vivi stood on the road and soon waited for the violin convoy to arrive.
Unlike the main city area where lights are shining like stars, only a few houses in South Hinckley Town on the island have lights on.
The town was shrouded in darkness, while the main city next door was a prosperous city that never sleeps, especially when there was a lot of activity, people were walking through the streets. In the most prosperous neighborhoods, the changing light of the colorful street trees shone into everyone's pupils, and the wind brought a faint rose scent, making South Hinckley seem even more desolate.
But Weiwei didn't think so at all. She looked at the main city area not far away and felt that it was her pearl.
Sooner or later, South Hinckley will be the same.
After seeing Vivi sitting on the railing on the side of the road, Violin immediately stopped the car, asked his subordinates behind him to go into the town first, and then went to meet her.
The red-haired man cut his curly hair short, and his originally slightly crazy temperament became restrained and calm. Fortunately, he was not like the penguin man who gets fat when he has money. He just had the melancholy of a social animal between his brows.
"Is there anything that can't be said on the phone?" Weiwei asked.
There was no one else around when they were talking. Weiwei took a quick look and confirmed that there was no bug on the violin.
The man took a deep breath and said directly: "Ms. Weiwei, I submitted the company's monthly report to you before. After the company was able to operate normally, I increased the salary of the employees. Now the salary of regular employees is about 2/3 of the average salary in Gotan City, and the monthly income of temporary workers can barely reach 1/3."
After all, Gotham is a prosperous metropolis, especially in the East District. Such a salary is enough to crush most people.
Weiwei nodded, a little confused - although she was said to be the representative of "forever young, always working hard", she agreed with the other party's salary increase, because Weiwei was not good at personnel management, especially since the IA of NPC was so high. Professional matters should be left to professionals, that's what Weiwei believed.
“But,” said Violin, “just last week, two employees nearly jumped off the roof of the office building because they had no money.”
Weiwei: "Did they go gambling or..."
"It's a loan," Violin handed her a handwritten document, "In fact, most of my employees have loans. When they were unemployed, they had to borrow money to get by. In Gotan..."
"Loans with monthly interest rates higher than 20 percent are legal," he said.
——Usury is legal in this city.
"20%?" Weiwei was stunned.
With such a high interest rate, why don’t you just leave it to the mayor... No, why don’t you just go and grab it?
The violin lowered his head, and the man frowned in disgust: "Many people were deceived when they didn't understand the tricks of the loan company. The employees who could only make a living by selling hard labor received too little education. At that time, they muddled along and borrowed money from another company to fill the vacancy of one company. But after entering the company and being able to receive education, they knew how high the interest rate of such high-interest loans would be-"
Extreme despair overwhelmed them. When they saw a bright future, they were overtaken by the darkness of the past. Some of them who were unable to endure psychologically chose to jump from tall buildings.
Weiwei frowned: "We have to find a way to solve these loans."
Violin nodded and gestured at her neck with her hand as if it were a knife: "Do you want me to lead people to capture the company's top executives and kill them? I have a group of people who are willing to do it. They have no obvious relationship with the company, so they can't find us."
Weiwei: “…That’s not necessary.”
She put her hands in her pockets and stared at the city in the distance: "Although the law protects them from lending, the law is also very detailed. Through deception and inducement to lend, its legality can be revoked. If violence is used when collecting debts, the people of the loan shark company can get a VIP cell in Blackgate Prison."
Violin nodded, and the man took out a tablet. "This is the evidence I collected recently. It's about how Olike Credit Company created loan items and took advantage of borrowers' unfamiliarity with the terms to cheat them into paying higher interest rates. There are also videos and audios of them forcing repayment with violence. However, these are temporarily stored on the company's computer."
Weiwei glanced at him and raised an eyebrow.
[You get the side quest: Gotan City Loan Shark]
[Task Description: In this city, high-interest loans are a legal industry and a major taxpayer. Of course, these taxes will not reach you. You have received the investigation report, and it is time to find a way to solve this matter.]
【Note: Be careful of retaliation from loan companies...】
[Mission Rewards: 0~200 Diamonds, 10 million Gold Coins]
Apparently, Violin has been paying attention to this matter for a long time and has conducted an in-depth investigation into Orlik. On the surface, the other party is a credit company, but since they can violently collect debts in a place like Gotan where the people are simple and honest, they must have power.
Olike has its own security subsidiary. During the previous raid, a group of people were arrested but not taken away. The loan company also has investments from other companies. Weiwei took a quick look and found several familiar names.
For example, Justice Meg Scott's last name is Scott, and for example, Rothesay.
Weiwei: “…”
The game missions always remind her again and again that she is actually on the side of the bad guys.