"Interview notification!" Lin Xi exclaimed.
"Interview notice? Then take a look quickly." Song Ranran also became excited. She knew better than anyone how much effort Lin Yan had put into finding a job in the past few months.
"Yeah." Lin Yan couldn't wait to open the email.
Dear Ms. Lin Yan:
We now invite you to come to our company for an interview for the position of accountant at 10:00 am next Monday. You will be mainly responsible for calculating the wages of employees. The monthly salary is 20,000 yuan. The work is easy and the benefits are generous. The company address is No. 106, Chunfeng Road, Guanghua District, Jin City.
The Sixth Branch of Jincheng Special Office Co., Ltd. (state-owned enterprise).
xx/xx/xxxx.
Attached are some of our benefits for reference:
1. Two days off per week, flexible work schedule, no attendance check. (You don’t have to come if you don’t have anything to do.)
2. Five social insurances and one housing fund + supplementary commercial insurance + additional medical insurance. (As long as you are sick, the company will reimburse you.)
3. Housing allowance, car allowance, meal allowance... (There are only subsidies you can't think of, but there are no subsidies that the company can't provide.)
4. New Year gifts, birthday gifts, wedding gifts... (As long as you have a happy event, the company will have gifts.)
5. Sixteenth salary at the end of the year. (Excluding additional bonuses.)
6. Travel abroad at least once a year. (You can go more often if you like.)
After reading the email, they both fell silent.
After a while, Song Ranran asked, "Are the benefits of state-owned enterprises so good now?"
"As an accountant, you earn 20,000 yuan a month and are only responsible for calculating employees' salaries. What company would pay you this way?" Lin asked.
"My brother?" Song Ranran said.
"...I made a mistake. I forgot you have a brother." Lin Xi admitted defeat.
Song Ranran raised her eyebrows proudly.
"Your brother would pay you this way, but this company doesn't belong to my brother. Also, look at these benefits and the notes in parentheses. Can this be written by a respectable company?" Lin Xi asked.
Song Ranran shook her head. Although she had never been out for an interview, her family owned a company. She had understood from a young age that the investment of capitalists must be less than the return. If such generous conditions were true, then this company must have great ambitions.
"I read in the news online before that there was a human trafficker who set up a shell company and then tricked employees into going abroad for resale. Could this company be one of them?" Song Ranran suddenly had a bold idea.
Lin felt that this made sense, and made a decisive decision: "Report it. You must report it."
If there was evidence, she would have called the police.
So on Monday, an assistant dressed up and even wore a new suit, and waited in the office half an hour early.
However, no one came for the interview.
The assistant pushed his glasses in confusion: Is what is written in my company’s benefits not good enough?
Lin had just come out of the coffin and was removing her makeup when her phone rang. It was Bao Ya, the makeup artist in the secret room. Lin pressed the hands-free button and continued removing her makeup: "Sister Xiao Ya."
"Xiao Niang, are you still in the secret room?" Bao Ya's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"I'm here. I just came out of the dungeon and am taking off my makeup." Lin Xi replied.
"Is there any team that can pass the level this afternoon?" Bao Ya asked.
"No, the boss said that the players who came this afternoon were of average strength and couldn't clear the level within an hour." Lin Xi thought for a moment and asked, "Sister Xiaoya, do you have something to talk to me about?"
"Smart, could you please bring something to the Anime Festival for me?" Bao Ya is a senior COS enthusiast. There is a grand Anime Festival event in the city today. Bao Ya came here early in the morning to put makeup on the NPCs and then went to participate in the Anime Festival. "It's just a box. I forgot it on the table in the dressing room."
There were only two tables in the dressing room. Lin turned her head and saw it: "Is it the unopened express box?"
"Yes, there is a headdress in there that I bought before, but I forgot to take it with me when I left. Can you bring it to me?"
Bao Ya bought this headdress specially for this Anime Festival. It is an authentic original product, mailed directly from Country R. The postage alone cost hundreds of dollars. Bao Ya mentioned it to Lin Nan before, and Lin Nan was impressed.
"Okay, I'll come over after I change my clothes." Lin Xi washed her face first before leaving with the express box.
The animation festival was held at the city gymnasium. After leaving the factory park, taking the bus and then the subway, Lin Yan arrived at her destination in about half an hour. Then, according to Bao Ya's instructions, she went to the side door of the gymnasium. There, Bao Ya, dressed as a cartoon character from Country R, was already waiting at the door.
At this time, Bao Ya had silver hair and a silver totem on half of his cheek. At first glance, he looked familiar, but Lin Yan really couldn't remember which anime character he was.
"Sister Xiaoya." Lin handed the box to Bao Ya, "This is it."
"Yes, that's it, thank you. I'm sorry for making the trip, and I'll treat you to dinner when you get back." Bao Ya thanked him.
"You're welcome. I'll go back first. Have fun." Lin Xi said as she was about to leave.
"Wait a minute, now that you're here, do you want to go in and play for a bit?" Bao Ya invited. "It's very interesting inside."
"Can I come in?"
"Originally it's not allowed, but I've become acquainted with the security guy, so I can use my connections to show off my influence." Bao Ya grabbed Lin Yan and said, "Come on, I'll take you in."
After brushing Bao Ya's face, Lin Yan entered the gymnasium smoothly. The gymnasium was full of cosplayers in "formal attire", and even the staff who maintained order in the venue were wearing ancient Jinyiwei clothing. In comparison, a "normal person" like Lin Yan stood out.
Bao Ya also noticed this. She took Lin Yan to a stall selling peripherals and said to the beautiful lady boss who was COSing as a nine-tailed fox, "Dear, can you lend me the dressing room?"
"Please go ahead." The nine-tailed fox glanced at Lin Ping coquettishly with charming eyes.
Beautiful eye makeup
Before Lin Xi had the chance to appreciate the red and white oil paints on the proprietress's face, she was pulled into the dressing room by Bao Ya.
"Change it." Bao Ya handed over a box.
"What is this?" Lin looked down at the box, which contained a black piece of clothing.
"Witch costume." Bao Ya explained as he opened the express box sent by Lin Nan. "Hasn't the Chamber of Secrets become famous for the curse recently? Tang Mingxu was thinking of adding some new elements, so he asked me to buy a witch costume online. This dress and my headdress were sent together. I left in a hurry this morning and took the wrong boxes. It's just right, you can put it on, it was originally bought according to your size."
He also bought a witch costume. Is Boss Tang going to continue on this road of curse until the end?
"Go change it?" Bao Ya urged when she saw Lin Nan not moving.
"Oh, OK." Lin took her clothes and went inside to change. When she came out, Bao Ya had already put on her headdress. It was a kind of hair ornament similar to a crown, with light blue beads hanging in her hair, which made Bao Ya look more elegant and refined.
Bao Ya saw Lin Nan change her clothes and was very satisfied. She chose the clothes herself. Traditional witches wear black robes, which are like a bed sheet. Bao Ya doesn't like things without aesthetics, so she chose a black dress with a medieval European style. The dress has dark red patterns and lace decorations on the cuffs. It is simple and gorgeous, and low-key and luxurious.
The snow-white figure, in a jet-black long dress, was just missing a touch of bright red.
"Come here, I'll help you adjust it." Bao Ya pulled Lin Nan over and pressed her down on the chair. She first put lipstick on her and then quickly braided her long hair into two long braids that hung down in front of her chest. "The highlight of your outfit is the veil. Only when you put on the veil will you feel mysterious."
Bao Ya took the veil that Lin Nan was not wearing, fixed it on her head with a clip, and adjusted it carefully to cover nearly half of her face. And just as Bao Ya said, once the veil was put on, the sense of mystery immediately came out.
"Okay, this is the only way to make do with it. I'll help you get back to the secret room. I have a performance later, so I have to go first. You can go shopping on your own."
Lin wanted to say that she could go to see the show with them, but maybe Bao Ya was too anxious and he ran away before Lin could finish her words. Lin had to go out alone.
"Hey, witch."
Lin turned around.
The Nine-Tailed Fox lady boss waved a glass medicine bottle in her hand: "Are you still short of a bottle of poison?"
Lin Xi waved her hands: "I don't play with poison, I'm a witch who knows how to take possession of things."
"Prophet?"
"..." Sister Fox, I'm not COSing Werewolf.
"It's okay. I have a crystal ball, too." The Nine-Tailed Fox lady boss pulled out another crystal ball from under the counter like a magic trick, and Lin was stunned. "Want to buy it? Only 299."
It turned out to be a sales pitch!
"No." She is not a cosplayer, so she won't waste money on it.
"Then... 199?" the nine-tailed fox asked again.
"..." Is the price reduction so casual? Lin Xi didn't want to buy it anymore.
"You don't look like an enthusiast. How about this, I'll rent it to you for ten dollars, no less." The nine-tailed fox set up a stall in the anime festival to sell various figures and peripherals. He had seen many cosplayers spend huge amounts of money for their favorite cosplayers, but this was the first time he saw someone as stingy as Lin Yan.
It was the first time that Lin Xi met someone who was so good at salesmanship, so she couldn't refuse. In the end, the two of them reached a deal with a rental fee of ten yuan.
But you know what, holding a crystal ball in her arms, Lin suddenly felt that she was quite like that. It was Lin's first time to participate in such an activity, and everything she saw was new. There were not only cartoon characters from R country, but also Chinese cartoons, ancient styles, and even some classic TV and movie characters. Anyway, there were all kinds of strange and varied things.
Lin Xi was watching with great interest when the system prompt sounded suddenly, and with a "pop" sound, a stick fell from the stick tube.
[Ye Ping, male, 16 years old, lost his ID card in the toilet and missed the high-speed train home.]
Lin's eyes lit up, and she looked around, quickly locking onto the three tall boys who had just walked past her. They were all wearing costumes from One Piece, one was playing Zoro, with three knives hanging from his body, one was playing Sanji, with curly eyebrows, and one was playing Lu Fei, wearing a straw hat.
Lin Xian chased after them with the crystal ball in her arms, and stood in front of them: "Pirates, before you go out to sea, do you want to take advantage of Ji Xiong?"
The three boys looked at the witch who suddenly blocked their way and were stunned for a moment. Then one of the boys who played Luffy smiled and said, "Okay, you can have some."
The three boys were very cooperative, thinking that the witch COS girl was too immersed in the role. They were not disgusted by this behavior, because they would also shout "ONE PIECE" to the sea.
"Ten yuan a time." Yes, Lin Xi wanted to charge money, which was why her eyes lit up just now. She finally found an opportunity to ask for money and take advantage of the situation.
"If you can grab the leeks accurately, I'll give them to you." The boy in the straw hat continued to act with Lin Xi.
"What's your name?" Lin asked the boy.
"Ye Ping." said the boy in the straw hat.
What a coincidence?!
Lin Yanan suppressed her joy and handed the crystal ball to him in a solemn tone: "Please put your hand on it and keep it there for three seconds."
The boy smiled and cooperated.
Lin closed her eyes and muttered something. After about two or three seconds, she opened her eyes, looked at the boy, and said softly in a deliberately low voice: "Boy, you lost something. Without that thing, you can't go home today. Go find it quickly."
"I lost something and now I can't go home. What's going on?" Ye Ping was confused.
"ID card?" asked Solo next to them. They came here by high-speed rail and needed to swipe their ID cards to pass the security check. If there was anything that would affect their return home, it would be the ID card.
Ye Ping was stunned for a moment, raised his hand to touch his pocket, and then made a sound.
"Is it really gone?" Sanji exclaimed.
Lin took out her cell phone and showed the payment code: "Ten yuan, thank you for your patronage."
Ten dollars is not a lot of money, so the boy didn't show any sympathy and just scanned the code to pay. Then he asked, "Where did I lose my ID card?"
The boy naturally didn't believe that Lin Xi had calculated it. He guessed that she must have happened to see him losing his ID card.
"Go to the toilet and look for it. Maybe you'll find something." Lin Nan said.
"Thank you." The boy and his friend left to look for their ID cards.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the task of occupying the husk and gaining 1 merit point. Help Ye Ping avoid bad luck and gain an additional 9 merit points. Earn divination money, 10 yuan."
Lin Xin held her phone in her hand, looking at the ten yuan in her account, feeling very happy: "I finally earned some money from fortune-telling. I'll spend it when I go out. What can I buy with ten yuan? I should be able to have a cup of milk tea."
Lin was planning to go out to buy milk tea when the stick holder in the system panel suddenly started shaking wildly, making crackling sounds and scattering sticks all over the floor.
System prompts came one after another, filling up the entire screen.