"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the divination task, helping Feng Huihui avoid bad luck, and gaining 10 merit points and 0 yuan in divination money." System.
As soon as Lin Xi returned to the secret room, she received a system notification that she had completed the task.
Lin Xi smiled proudly. Mencius is Mencius. He is a great educator indeed. He can teach you how to behave easily with just a used ruler.
The light of righteousness.
"What are you grinning at the door?" Tang Mingxu saw Lin Xi standing at the door grinning, so he walked over and pulled her braid.
"It's nothing, just getting rid of harm for the people." Lin Xi said proudly.
"Did you help catch mice on the way here?" Tang Mingxu asked.
I am eliminating harm, not the four pests.
"..." Lin Yan was lazy to explain to Tang Mingxu, "Is there any team that will pass the level this afternoon?"
Nowadays, all the players who enter the secret room have made reservations in advance. Tang Mingxu will estimate their strength in advance, and then notify Lin Yan, so that she can prepare the "curse words" in advance. Therefore, whenever Tang Mingxu notifies Lin Yan to come, they are usually powerful players who have passed the level.
"I was just about to tell you about this. Let's go inside and talk."
Lin Xi followed Tang Mingxu into the dressing room.
"I heard from Xiaoya that you found a job?" Tang Mingxu asked.
"Yeah." Lin nodded.
"Will you have time to work here part-time in the future?"
Lin did not answer immediately, but asked: "Do you want me to continue working part-time?"
"Of course I hope so. If I wasn't afraid that my job would limit your career development, I would have made you a full-time employee here." Lin Xi is just a part-time student and is about to graduate. Tang Mingxu has already prepared for Lin Xi's resignation. As for the cursed female ghost in the secret room, Tang Mingxu has also thought about finding someone to replace her, but if possible, he still hopes that Lin Xi can stay. Because he found that Lin Xi seems to have some potential for being a crow mouth. He analyzed the feedback from players in the past half month and came up with a data that as long as the curse uttered by Lin Xi, the success rate is above 90%.
Tang Mingxu is not a superstitious person, but Lin Xi's matter is indeed a bit mysterious.
Lin thought for a moment and replied, "I should be able to continue working part-time, because the job I found is quite easy, but I am a employed person after all, so I will definitely not be able to be on call like I am now. If there is something going on there, I will definitely go there."
Lin Xi didn't want to give up her part-time job at the secret room, because as the secret room became more famous, more and more players came to play, and this was one of her opportunities to take advantage of it. With a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan and a strong medical insurance that even covered colds, Lin Xi no longer had to worry about material things, but she would always lack merit points.
There was no way, the system was really too dark. She had just earned over 3,000 merit points yesterday, and before she could even enjoy the benefits, an item wiped them out.
Poor.
"That's no problem, of course. But what kind of job is so easy?" Although the secret room is small, Tang Mingxu is still a boss after all. Who would be so indulgent to their employees when running a company? Is it for charity?
Lin Yan thought of the confidentiality agreement she had filled out when she applied for the job, and smiled vaguely, "A friend recommended me to this job. It's an accountant job. There's not much workload, but I'll just calculate the salary."
Tang Mingxu said "oh" and vaguely understood. The position of accountant involves the company's cash flow. Some bosses who are more suspicious are only willing to find acquaintances to be accountants. Usually, the workload of this kind of accountant is not very large. In addition, if you are familiar with the boss, you don't even need to punch in at work. You just need to go to work at the end of the month and the beginning of the month. Tang Mingxu guessed that Lin Xi was probably this kind of accountant.
“That’s a good job.”
"It's pretty good." Lin Yan was extremely satisfied with her job.
"Since you can work part-time here, there is something I want to discuss with you." Tang Mingxu said, "Didn't I make the Cursed Ghost into an Easter egg? Only high-level players can trigger the Easter egg, but this setting has caused dissatisfaction among many other players. After all, high-level players are a minority, and most people can't pass the level. The experience is not very good, so I want to change it and make this Easter egg random. What do you think?"
"How is it random?" Lin asked.
"This is what I think now. The Cursed Ghost will appear once a day, but it is uncertain which game she will appear in, just like opening a blind box. Of course, this is what we tell the players, but it is up to you to decide which game it will appear in. But in this way, you will need to come here once a day." Lin Xi is the actor of the Cursed Ghost, so naturally, the Easter eggs will be opened when she is there.
Lin Yu had to admire Boss Tang's imagination. In just half a month, he had come up with three plans for the operation of the secret room. He was really hardworking. However, the efficiency was still not high enough.
Lin Xi thought for a moment and said, "Boss, I have a plan. I don't know if I should tell you about it or not."
"You say." Tang Mingxu listened attentively.
"Although the idea of opening a blind box is good, it will be very troublesome to operate. The blind boxes on the market are that the merchants put the things in the box in advance, and there will be no changes afterwards, and then the players rely on luck to open it. But we are different. Whether there is a cursed female ghost in the coffin is artificially arranged. In this case, some players who have not encountered the cursed female ghost will definitely be dissatisfied. What do you think?" Lin Nan said.
Tang Mingxu frowned: "Really? I didn't even think of this. Do you have any better ideas?"
"We can hold a lucky draw." Lin Xi expressed her idea.
"Raffle?" Tang Mingxu was slightly stunned.
"I think you have also discovered that my curse is somewhat effective, right?" Lin Xi said with a smile. Every time she casts a "curse", it is predicted by the system, with a 100% accuracy rate. If it happens once or twice, people will not be suspicious, but if it happens too many times, someone with a keen eye will definitely notice it. Lin Xi believed that Tang Mingxu must have noticed it.
Tang Mingxu was already surprised at the effectiveness of Lin's "curse". When he heard Lin say this, he was moved: "You can't really cast a curse."
"It's not a curse, it's fortune-telling." Lin Xi said, "I usually like to study gossip, astrology, tarot cards and so on, and I have some experience in fortune-telling. Those curses of mine are actually all from fortune-telling, so the accuracy rate is so high."
"You know how to eat carrots?" Tang Mingxu was excited. "Then calculate for me, when can I get rich? Also, I plan to open another branch by the end of the year, will it be successful?"
"..." Lin Yan held down the excited Tang Mingxu, "Taking the radish requires feeling, and not everyone can do it successfully."
Lin Xi had no intention of telling Tang Mingxu that she could only predict bad luck. Firstly, this was unreasonable as a fortune teller could only predict bad luck. Secondly, if she said this to others, it would sound more like a curse.
Tang Mingxu was a little disappointed, but he also understood. If Lin Xi was really that awesome and could calculate anything, how could she still stay in this little secret room of his? She could just go out and calculate for any rich man and easily make millions.
"Please continue." Tang Mingxu said.
"Here's what I'm planning. We can have a lottery and I'll be in charge of the lottery. This way I can get a piece of the pie. If I suddenly have a crush on a player..."
Tang Mingxu raised his eyebrows and looked at her, his face full of teasing.
"Oh, it's not that feeling, it's the feeling of taking advantage of others." Lin Yan also realized that her words were ambiguous, and her face turned red with embarrassment. "Anyway, if I take advantage of others, I will manipulate it behind the scenes and let him draw the prize. Because the prize is drawn in advance, the players will not be suspicious, so although it is also the result of our arrangement, it looks like random. And it is indeed random. After all, whether the other party can draw the prize depends on whether I can take advantage of others."
"Great." Tang Mingxu's eyes brightened the more he listened.
"Another advantage is that I can write down the results of the divination in advance, so that even if I'm not there, other NPCs can cast the curse." This is also another purpose of Lin Xian. It takes at least an hour and a half for ordinary players to clear the dungeon, which is a waste of time. If the results of the divination can be prepared in advance, she doesn't have to lie in the coffin herself, and can leave after drawing the prize.
"Let's do it!" Tang Mingxu was a decisive person. Besides, his secret room was not a large-scale company, so he could make changes with just a word. So that afternoon, Tang Mingxu went online and bought a lottery box that could be manipulated behind the scenes, thus starting a new mode for the secret room.
After that, Lin Xi's life became much more convenient. Tang Mingxu had only one request for her, that she should go there once a day, and it didn't matter what time it was. Anyway, as long as Lin Xi was not there, the players would never be able to draw any prizes.
After a week, Lin Xin had earned more merit points in the secret room than before, but it was still not enough. At least if she wanted to buy another ruler, she would have to wait half a year at this rate.
But there is nothing we can do. After all, collective disgrace incidents like the last one are rare.
"Bah!" Lin Wan slammed her head. "I am so evil. How could I think of such a horrible thing just for a few merit points? I am crazy."
In order to punish herself for her evil, Lin decided not to eat the spicy hot pot for dinner and eat in the cafeteria instead.
While waiting in line for food, Lin received a call from Assistant Tan. Seeing that it was Assistant Tan calling, Lin didn't even get her food, but hid outside the cafeteria with her food tray and found a quiet place to answer the phone.
"Assistant Tan, you are looking for me." Lin's voice was full of energy. Even if she received a call from her leader during dinner time, she wanted to make her leader feel her happiness.
"Are you free tonight?" Assistant Tan asked.
"Yes." Lin Xin has already finished writing her thesis. Now she just needs to wait for the defense. She doesn't have much to do at school.
"Then can you come over at eight o'clock to complete the onboarding procedures?" Assistant Tan said.
"Onboarding procedures?" Lin Wan wondered.
"We are an official organization. Not everyone can join us. Although you were recommended by Chen Chu and Jie Xingyu, you still have to go through the necessary procedures," Assistant Tan said.
"Okay, I'll come over in the evening." Lin agreed quickly. She didn't think it was wrong for Assistant Tan to ask her to come over in the evening. After all, for a job that didn't require her to go to the company, it wasn't too much to work overtime occasionally.
After dinner, Lin calculated the time and went to No. 106 Chunfeng Road.
Lin arrived at the office ten minutes early. Assistant Tan was sitting in the office processing documents. When he saw Lin, he nodded and said, "Go downstairs and sit for a while. I'll go through the entry procedures for you later."
"Okay." Lin Yan obediently went downstairs and waited for Assistant Tan to finish his work.
The office of the Special Office is a two-story building, with offices on the second floor and a reception area on the first floor. The reception area is not very luxurious, but it has everything you need, including snacks, a tea bar, and a coffee machine.
Lin Xi had just finished her meal and was not very hungry, so she used the coffee machine to make herself a cup of coffee. When she was thinking about whether to make a cup for Assistant Tan as well, there was a noise at the door.
Lin Xi turned around and saw a tall man walking in. He was holding a stick in his hand and tapping the ground lightly. His face was buried in the shadows and his appearance could not be seen clearly.
Is it a colleague?
"Hello." Lin Xi took the initiative to greet.
The man turned around and walked towards Lin Nan. Only then did Lin Nan notice something unusual, because the man was holding not a simple stick, but a blind cane.
The man walked out of the shadows with a cane, revealing his handsome features and a pair of unfocused eyes. He stopped three steps in front of Lin Xi and replied with a smile, "Hello."
"Hello... hello." Lin Xi replied subconsciously.
"I smell coffee, can I have a cup?" the man asked.
"Of course...of course." Lin went back to the coffee machine to make coffee. Behind her, she heard the thumping of a cane hitting the ground. Lin wanted to go over and help, but she was afraid that her behavior would offend him, so she just secretly watched the man's actions and waited until he found the right place on the sofa and sat down before she looked away.
After a while, Lin Xi made the coffee and walked over with it, hesitating whether to put the coffee directly in the man's hand or on the tea table in front of him.
"Put it on the coffee table, thank you." The man spoke as if he could see through what Lin Xi was thinking.
"Oh, okay." Lin Yan quickly put the coffee away. "I'm not very good at making coffee, so I don't know if it tastes good."
"The coffee beans here were brought back by Qingfeng from Country Y. They taste great if you just brew them." The man's slender white fingers touched the coffee table and soon touched the handle of the coffee cup. He picked it up and took a sip gently.
Judging from the familiar tone of the other party, he must be a colleague without a doubt.
"Hello, my name is Lin Yan. I'm a new employee of the Special Office. I'm here today to complete the onboarding procedures." Lin Yan took the initiative to introduce herself.
"My name is Xiao Wen." The man looked at Lin Yan with a pair of unfocused but still beautiful eyes, "Are you unlucky?"
"Ah?" Lin Yan was stunned for a moment.
"My ability, I feel like you don't seem to be very lucky." Xiao Wen said, "You must have been very unlucky recently."
Yes, since he is from a special office, he naturally has special abilities.
"Yes, my luck is not very good, but I think my luck has started to change." Lin Xi thinks that her luck has been pretty good recently, at least her financial luck is not bad.
"Still have to be careful." Xiao Wen warned and took another sip of coffee.
At this time, Assistant Tan came down from the second floor. He was not surprised to see Xiao Wen, as if he had known that he was coming. "Xiao Wen, you are here. I have prepared the things. They are upstairs. Come with me to get them."
"Okay." Xiao Wen stood up and walked towards Assistant Tan with his blind stick.
Assistant Tan looked at Lin Yan again: "Lin Yan, you can go back now."
"Ah? Don't you need to go through the formalities?" Lin Xi was surprised.
"It's done." After saying that, without caring about Lin's reaction, Assistant Tan turned around and went back upstairs. Xiao Wen followed behind him slowly, leaning on his cane.
Lin Yu shook her head in bewilderment, hesitated for a moment, called Chen Chu, and told him the whole story: "Senior, did I offend Assistant Tan? Why did he call me here and then ignore me?"
Chen Chu pondered for a moment and asked, "Besides Assistant Tan, have you met anyone else?"
"Yes, a colleague named Xiao Wen. Assistant Tan went upstairs with him." Lin Nan said.
"What did Xiao Wen say to you?" Chen Chu asked.
"Didn't say anything? We just exchanged a few pleasantries and then drank a cup of coffee I made." Lin Xi said.
"Congratulations, you've officially started working here." Chen Chu said with a smile.
“???” Lin was confused.
"Xiao Wen is your last step in the employment process," Chen Chu explained. "His ability is very special. Anyone who wants to enter the special office must pass his test. If he drinks the coffee you make, it means he has accepted you."
Lin Xi suddenly realized and was shocked at the same time. It turned out that this official department was not one that could be entered casually.
Upstairs, Assistant Tam asked Xiao Wen: "How is she?"
"He's a good person, but he may not live long," Xiao Wen said.
Assistant Tan's hands froze and he looked suddenly at Xiao Wen.
"She looks like she's about to die." Xiao Wen said.
"And you still let her pass the employment screening?"
"But I always feel that she won't die so easily," Xiao Wen said.
Assistant Tan was speechless. It was you who said that you wouldn’t live long. It was also you who said that you wouldn’t die easily. What is going on?
"Let her start the job first. If she dies, it will just be a matter of compensation." Xiao Wen made the final decision.
"..."Assistant Tan.
It seems I need to prepare pension in advance.