Chapter 276

"I have a fake bird's egg here. I guarantee you'll be interested. It's the super valuable fake kind."

The seller said.

"No matter how precious it is, it's fake. Won't it be discovered? Even if others can't find anything unusual in your exquisitely crafted handicrafts, what if they check the transaction records?"

I said.

"Ordinary people can't just check the transaction records. Even if they find it, they can just say that it was bought for fun. So what if it was accidentally broken?"

The seller said.

"I'm not interested."

I'm going to leave.

“But this thing can protect you.”

The seller said.

I turned to look at him and he nodded in affirmation.

"I suspect you are a fraud. How about coming with me to the foundation?"

I pulled him aside and said.

"Don't be like this. Even if the deal doesn't work out, we're still friends. Why make such a fuss? It's not good for anyone. Let me go. I won't sell you anything. How can I be a liar?"

He laughed and tried to shake my hand off.

"You can't get away, right? Go to the foundation. As long as you can prove that you're not a liar, I'll buy your stuff."

I said to him.

“That’s not good.”

He dilly-dallyed.

"Then let you die, okay?"

I asked him.

"That's certainly worse."

he whispered.

"Then what do you want me to do? No liar can get away from me, even if they are pretending, even if they just look like me, because I have to confirm it."

I pulled him toward the door of the foundation.

"Then you have to buy all my stuff."

He said from behind.

"Do you think I'm giving you a choice? Of course not. The most I'll buy is the egg."

I told him.

"Oh well."

He knew it was irreversible and walked into the foundation.

The foundation checked him and found out that he had a criminal record for theft and fraud.

"Didn't you say you weren't a liar?"

I looked at him and asked.

"I'm not a liar now, of course not."

He said.

"Once a liar, always a liar. You lied to me. You didn't tell me before that you were a liar before. You still want to ask me for compensation. You really think too highly of yourself."

I said.

“Even the Foundation can’t kill me now because I’m not committing any crime. And the evidence of my previous crimes has been dealt with. I’ve already paid the price for what I did before.

You can't ask me to pay a second time.

If you don't want to pay, forget it. I'm leaving now. It's my bad luck to meet you."

He said this and walked away from me.

"It's not over yet. You lied to me, and I want compensation from you. I want that egg. The one you told me about."

I said.

"What do you rely on?"

He asked me.

"Because you're a liar."

I said.

"What's wrong with you? You keep swearing. It's so annoying. Since you want it, I'll give it to you. I hope you won't regret it."

He reached into his pocket and threw the egg to me.

I picked up the egg and he left.

I went out of town to complete a mission and got a real one, then used that real one to hand in the work. However, during a meeting in the office, Zheng Er suddenly pointed at me and said that I had used a fake one to make up the number.

I think he must be in cahoots with that liar, or that liar left and went to find him.

In any case, even if they are not a group now, they must be a group at some point when I don't know.

"What do you want to say? Is the thing you took fake?"

The boss looked at me and asked.

"It's not fake. If it's real, you can check it now, or send it to a foundation or somewhere else. If you can't tell it's fake, then it must be real."

I replied.

"I have records here of him buying fake things. They were things he needed to hand in for his mission. He must have used the fake things to hand in his work. It was too dangerous to go out. He didn't want to go out."

Zheng Er shouted beside him.

"In fact, I did buy a fake item, but the item I handed in after completing the task was indeed real."

I said.

"Then let us check it out."

The boss said.

The thing was checked and confirmed to be genuine.

"I said this for the sake of the company. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have to say it. If it were false, it would definitely have an impact on the company. Please don't misunderstand me."

Zheng Er explained to his boss.

"I won't pursue you for now, but I can't let this kind of behavior spread in the company. I still need to punish you, so I'll fine you half a month's salary. Do you have any opinion?"

The boss thought about it and asked him.

He shook his head and said he had no objection, was very grateful and accepted the arrangement.

The boss adjourned the meeting.

Everyone around left.

The boss kept me.

"I said I wanted to check that thing for the sake of the company. Don't take it too seriously. It's not good to be narrow-minded."

The boss said to me.

"I know."

I replied.

"There's a new Eggplant Park just outside the city. I wonder if you're interested. If you want to go, I can write you a note for a visit so you can have fun and come back later."

The boss said to me.

"I don't have anything I need to go out for right now, thank you."

I thought about it and shook my head.

"Would you like to order something?"

The boss asked me.

"If you ask me what I want, I want money. Is that too much to ask?"

I said.

"Not too much, of course not too much. Since you want it, I'll give it to you as a reward for completing the task. You can go to the Finance Department to pick it up later."

The boss wrote me a note.

I put it away, nodded, and left the office.

When I went out, someone came over to deliver a message.

The boss called me back.

"I wanted to give you a day off, but the situation doesn't allow it, so I'm sorry. Go out and play when you have time. Now there is one thing. Please let them in for a meeting."

The boss said to me.

I called the others in and the meeting began.

"What happened is that famine broke out on the edge of the city, but it was not caused by a lack of food. The food supply here has always been just right.

This time it's because there's a big-mouthed monster that's been eating all the time and has eaten up all the edible things, which has led to the current situation. Others have no food to eat at all.

But although people further away were not affected by the accident and had some food left, they also needed to eat and they had no way to lend out food.

Or we go to merchants and spend money to buy their things.

Otherwise, we can just ignore it and wait until all the people over there die. Then this matter will be over and there is no need to worry too much.

At most, we can catch the big-mouthed monster and kill it.

What do you think?

The boss asked.

"We can't just sit there and do nothing. If we don't deal with it, who else can?"

Zheng Er said.

"But there is still the foundation and themselves. If they wait for others to do everything, then let them die."

"Yes, yes, although we have obligations, we don't have that many obligations."

"They are so poor that they are dying. Even if we go to help them, we will get nothing. Is it a waste of our time? We will die soon too. This is something we cannot ignore."

"The company will give us money for completing tasks, but each task is only paid once. How should we divide it among so many people? It is better to send only one person if one person can solve the problem."

The person next to him said.

"But we can't just do things based on money. If there's no money, will we not do it?"

The second staff member was puzzled.

"If we don't look at money, do we look at the air? If we don't have money, how can we survive? If we are all going to die, then others should die even more because they are poorer than us."

Other staff members answered.

Boss, look at me.

"What do you think?"

The boss asked me.

"I can take charge of this, but it will cost a lot of money. Actually, I have a method that doesn't cost a lot of money. But I'm not sure it will work."

I said.

"Don't go too far. Is this something you can joke about? If you can't do it, just say you can't. You don't have much face anyway. Who cares about that?"

The second staff member shouted.

"No one else cares, but I do. If you have that ability, just do it yourself. In fact, I would rather kill you before you do it. After all, anything you do can get you killed."

I said to him.

"Everyone calm down. Let me ask you carefully what your solution is."

The boss looked at me and asked.

"We can send people out of the city to nearby cities to trade with others. If the people there are willing to trade with us, we will trade with them.

The transaction consisted of lending and borrowing food.

We would borrow some food from them and give them more food after a while.

They would be willing to lend us food because we would give them a lot of food back.

During the food collection period, we could try to control things that were closely related to food and could affect the price of food. I remember we had a price regulator.

Even though it may become scrapped after one more use, as long as it can be used once, then this matter can be accomplished in this respect.

When food prices are highest, we sell the food we get, and when food prices are lowest, we buy it back.”

"How do I buy it back? How much does it cost? How much can I buy?"

Zheng Er raised a question.

“It depends on the specific situation, but the general situation may be:

We collected some food from retail investors at the beginning and told them that we could return more food to them after a period of time.

They gave us the food and we sold it when the price was highest, but we still had some left.

Find them in advance when food prices are lowest, and if they still want food, give them food, and if they want money, give them money."