Chapter 469 Above the Posa (4) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
The place where the car accident happened was not far from where they were now. It only took a few minutes to walk there from the winding mountain road below.
However, in order to avoid being noticed by the police, the exploration team members all chose to walk through the hillside by the road, trying their best to avoid being noticed by the police.
It sounds like it would be difficult for the police to notice them.
"Let me go! Let me go!"
"Who the hell are you all?"
The hoarse voice kept shouting.
"Hold it, hold it!"
"Handcuffs!"
"Why are you still biting?"
The police's voices were also noisy.
"Who brought paper? A handkerchief or something will do, or a tie will do, too."
"I have a job! How can you say I don't have a job!"
"I will fight you! I——"
"Hurry up! Throw the tie over here!"
“Help—help—mmmm.”
"hiss--"
But it sounds like after being caught by the police, the man did not surrender obediently. Instead, he struggled hard to break free and tried to call for help. He even bit the police officer who caught him, forcing the police to find a tie to temporarily stuff the man's mouth.
The scene was in chaos, and the exploration team members quietly arrived above the site of the accident.
"This guy doesn't look like one of our team members," Zhao Yinglai carefully pushed aside the weeds in front of him and looked at the car accident scene on the winding mountain road. "If he was an exploration team member of the Foundation, would this be necessary?"
On the road in front of him, a policeman hugged the struggling driver from behind, and bit the policeman's forearm with his head.
One of the remaining policemen was holding a black tie in his hand, and he seemed to be the one who was just shouted at to untie his tie quickly. Two of them were trying to pry open the driver of the car accident beside the policeman whose forearm was bitten, and another one reached out to hold the driver's legs to prevent him from struggling.
This scene doesn't look like a chase scene, but more like someone is trying to subdue a manic patient, or trying to kidnap an innocent citizen who would rather die than surrender.
After all, the driver just shouted "Help", which inevitably makes people feel confused.
If he was an exploration member of the Foundation, why would he shout like that?
"If the captured person is really the team member we lost, then he ran too fast, right?" Bai Jinshu looked at the mess in front of him and said softly, "Will he make it in time?"
The place where they entered the unknown space was in a residential area on the mountain. As long as they walked out of the residential area in the right direction, it would only take a few minutes to reach the winding mountain road, and then they would just walk down along the road.
"If we go down the mountain, based on the speed we just walked, it will probably take at least two to three hours to get to the bottom of the mountain," he mentioned casually, "It hasn't even been an hour since we entered here, right?"
From the time they entered this unknown space until now, the time that has passed is far from enough for one person to walk down the mountain.
If this person was really the team member who landed into the unknown space with them, could this person get down the mountain in less than an hour, then attract the attention of the police and be chased, then find a car that was big enough to drive around and escape, and finally return to the place where they landed in the unknown space?
This seems a bit too fast.
"It's a bit fast," Di Xueni replied, "but if he finds a car and drives down the mountain, won't he be in time?"
It only takes about twenty minutes to drive down the mountain, which is just enough for a round trip.
"That raises more questions," Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows. "If this person drove down the mountain, then he was clearly a member of the exploration team. Why did he abandon his teammates and drive down the mountain alone?"
This doesn't make sense.
"Well...indeed," Tang Ling was the first to say that the driver who had the car accident might be a member of the exploration team, "Then what do you think..."
"I don't think he's a member of the exploration team," Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes, "At least he's not the missing member of our team."
"Kao is right," everyone fell into deep thought, and Chang William came out again, "I have always felt that there is something wrong with this person, but I have never said anything. Now it seems that we heroes have the same opinion."
"Who says he is a hero..." Tang Ling scratched his hair, "This person is not our teammate, nor is he an aboriginal. Could he be someone else?"
Besides these exploration team members, are there other people entering the unknown space?
"Sister, is this situation possible?" Qiu Zihan looked at Tang Ling curiously.
"I don't know, I've never encountered one before," Tang Ling shook his head honestly, "Have you ever seen one?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Bai Jinshu knew that this kind of situation would occur, but the last time someone other than the foundation entered the unknown space, the investment bank had not collapsed, and the other side kept sending people in to cause trouble.
Now they have entered an E+ level space, and the investment bank no longer exists. It is unlikely that another friendly company will come to cause trouble for the Foundation for the time being.
The comments were also speculating on this person's identity:
[If it wasn't the lost team member, then what could it be? Could it be someone from a friendly company, like the investment bank, who came to cause trouble? ]
[To be honest, I think there is nothing to mess with in an E+ space. If you want to go, you should go to the A. level or A+ level space above, right? ]
[Who knows what they are thinking? Maybe they are targeting Aoshen.]
[We didn't know that Aoshen would enter this dimension, how did they know? ]
【Then who is this person? 】
"Maybe it's a mental illness?" Qiu Zihan had a strange idea, "Persecution delusion or something."
He pointed at the driver who was still struggling frantically on the mountain road. "I had a classmate like this before. He thought everyone was out to kill him. In the middle of class, he suddenly asked who the teacher was. Then he called everyone an alien spy who was spying on him. In the end, he was sent to a mental hospital. We all said he was too stressed out by the approaching high school entrance exam and went crazy."
"Impossible," Tang Ling denied decisively, "Just now these police officers said they were going to take him to the police station."
If it is a mental illness, he should be taken to the hospital now.
They were out of work now and did not dare to appear in front of the group of police officers. They could only stand on the hillside and watch the whole process of them subduing the driver who had an accident. With a few engine sounds, the police cars that were parked on the roadside drove down the mountain again.
"Hurry up," Zhao Yinglai jumped down the hillside, "The police just said that a tow truck will come to tow the car away soon. Before they come, let's take a look at the car to see if there is any problem."
"This car looks quite expensive..." Qiu Zihan looked at it subconsciously, "It's been crashed like this...but the driver is still okay, he's really lucky."
"Let me see, let me see." Chang William came over as soon as he heard the word "expensive" and looked at it seriously for a long time, "This car is weird."
"What's strange? Is there something wrong with the car?" Tang Ling asked immediately.
"Hmm..." William Chang pondered for a while, "It's pretty cheap."
"I've never ridden in such a cheap car since I was a child," he shook his head slowly, a look of regret on his face, "The cars I've ridden in are at least several million and are limited edition worldwide."
Tang Ling: ...
"Haha," she said with a fake smile, "When I was a kid, the cars I drove were also several million and had limited numbers. Now that I'm grown up, the cars I drive are also more expensive, but they're only about 50 or 60 million, which is only dozens of times more expensive than your car."
"What kind of car is so expensive?" William Chang was shocked, "Impossible!"
"Nothing is impossible. Your vision limits your knowledge." Tang Ling curled his lips, "Let us go. Don't delay our search for clues."
"How is that possible?" William Chang stood there, refusing to move away, his face full of disbelief. "Are you riding in some limited edition supercar? Or are you driving an F1 car on the street?"
"Guess?" Tang Ling crossed his arms.
"I know, you're lying to me," Chang William paused for a few seconds, with an expression that showed he had seen through everything. "I know that my identity and family background may have made you feel a little inferior. If it weren't for a platform like the Foundation, you might never have met someone like me in real life who has a title of the British Kingdom and a deep friendship with the prince..."
Bai Jin said: "Tang Ling was talking about buses and subways."
Chang William was interrupted in the middle of playing:?
Tang Ling: “Hmm.”
"I've already said that your vision limits your knowledge," she patted Chang William's shoulder earnestly and pushed him aside, "Okay, go play, we're going to start exploring."
"Qiu Zihan." she shouted.
"Hey, here I come!" Qiu Zihan came over happily.
"Go in and see if there's anything on the driver's seat."
"Understood!" Qiu Zihan was full of energy, "Brother Chang William, please move aside. My sister will let you play on the other side."
On the barrage:
[I have the same sense of humor hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha]
[Team member Tang Ling has a talent for telling jokes. It's hilarious.]
[Chang William has this expression of being fooled. I'm so happy. There's actually someone who can handle him.]
[What do you mean by go play somewhere else? Hahahaha. 】
[To be honest, a subway train does cost 50 to 60 million yuan per set. What Tang Ling said is correct. The subway track costs several hundred million yuan per kilometer.]
[If you calculate it, she takes billions of dollars worth of transportation to and from work every morning. Isn't that amazing? ]
[I am dying of laughter. I like this kind of temper. I will just post this for fun.]
"Hey, who gave me angel investment?" Tang Ling's watch vibrated on the screen. She opened it and looked at the panel, and immediately smiled. "Thank you, boss. You have a good vision. Next time, if you are interested in unknown space, you can contact me. My quotation is fair, honest, economical and easy to use."
Her action caused different reactions from the other exploration team members who were still searching for the vehicle.
Di Xueni and Bo Jiren were visibly envious. As members of the low-end exploration team, they had never received angel investment. These treatments were only given to members with potential.
The expression on Qiu Zihan's face was one of pride. Tang Ling was his sister, and Tang Ling's angel investment was a recognition. As Tang Ling's younger brother, he was of course proud.
The remaining Chang William showed a trace of embarrassment on his face, and whispered to himself, "What is my identity? Of course, I can't take the subway or bus with my identity. What's the use of 50 or 60 million if it's not my own car."
And Zhao Yinglai came close to Bai Jinshu.
"Brother Faye," she humbly asked the captain, "What is angel investment?"
"You don't know?" Bai Jinshu turned his head and glanced at Zhao Yinglai with slight surprise.
Didn’t Guan Hongyan and the others mention it?
But that's normal... Zhao Yinglai was in a special space when he first entered the Foundation. Most people in this place had climbed up from the low-end space, so why would they inexplicably mention these basic common sense that only appeared in the space below?
"I don't know," Zhao Yinglai shook his head, "No one told me."
"Angel investment is something like a selection qualification. It is an investment made by investors in individual exploration team members. It's normal that you don't know this since you just joined the foundation." Tang Ling had just received an angel investment. He came over with a smile on his face and put his arm around Jiang Jie's shoulder to introduce, "With this, you no longer have to be randomly assigned to an unknown space by the foundation at a certain time. Instead, you can accept invitations from others and have the opportunity to choose a mission."
Qiu Zihan clapped in unison: "That's it, sister, you're awesome!"
Tang Ling raised his chin towards him: "Stop flattering me. Have you found anything?"
"Nothing." Qiu Zihan's smug and proud expression suddenly dropped. He pointed at the cab and pouted. "There's nothing here. It can only be seen that the car was hit very badly. The cab is deformed. I tried for a long time but couldn't squeeze in."
"The cab is deformed?" Tang Ling muttered, "How fast was it going?"
"We are running for our lives, how can we not be fast?" Bai Jinshu curled his lips and took the initiative to look at the other two team members, "Di Xueni, have you found anything?"
"Huh?" Di Xueni, who was at the rear of the car, looked up. "Me neither."
"I found a driver's license," Bo Jiren looked up from the back seat, "Let me show you."
Bai Jinshu took the certificate from his hand.
It's called a driver's license, but it's actually a vehicle registration certificate, which is for the car, not the driver. The certificate only shows the basic information of the vehicle and simple information such as the annual inspection time and scrapping time. The last page has the name of the vehicle owner [Mu Shilong].
I don’t know if this Mu Shilong is the one who was taken away by the police.
The only special thing is that for some reason this certificate has an option that an ordinary driving license does not have, which is [Is the vehicle equipped with a driver], and the check mark on this certificate is [No].
The driving license was circulated around. Bai Jinshu wrote down the name of the owner and the strange option, and asked Bo Jiren to put the license back.
In addition to the driving license on the vehicle, an umbrella, a glasses case, and a pack of tissues were found in the back seat which was not squeezed or deformed.
Qiu Zihan said that his myopia was the standard 200 degrees. He opened his glasses and tried them on, and found that the degree of myopia of this lens was much deeper than his reading degree. He felt a little dizzy after putting them on.
Apart from this, the interior of the entire car is very simple, with no special information or unique logos or marks.
We walked around the car a few times, but finally, due to time pressure, we knew that if we stayed any longer we would meet someone who might come to the accident scene to deal with the wreckage of the vehicle at any time, so we could only write down the license plate number and leave for the time being.
When they were halfway down the mountain, the exploration team members walking on the side of the road met a semi-trailer truck going up the mountain. Ten minutes later, the trailer came roaring down again, carrying the car that had been hit to pieces.
This is probably the tow truck that the police called.
Everyone entered the unknown space at around seven in the morning. The late sign-in delayed us for more than an hour, and the car accident delayed us for almost another hour. When we walked down the mountain, it was exactly noon.
When the police were chasing the car accident driver suspected to be Mu Shilong, they specifically confirmed whether he had a job.
"We have to find a job." Bo Jiren muttered subconsciously.
"Work..." Di Xueni pressed her temples with a headache. "We are new here and have no identity. What kind of work can we have? Sweeping the streets? Where will we stay at night if we find a job? We won't have to live under a bridge, will we?"
"There is absolutely no way I can sweep the streets!" Chang William suddenly spoke up.
"Then you will be arrested," Zhao Yinglai said mercilessly, "the police here will not tolerate you."
"I'm different from you. I'm..."
"You are nothing here," Tang Ling glanced at him speechlessly, "Brother, we are all human beings, with two arms and two legs. How precious are you? You can't even sweep the streets."
"That's right." Qiu Zihan cheered and waved the flag beside him.
"Kao..." Chang William wanted to seek a sense of recognition from Bai Jinshu.
"It's not like sweeping the streets," Bai Jinshu continued, as Chang William was touched. "The most convenient job to find would be screwing in a factory. Food and accommodation would be provided."
Chang William: ...This is not good at all!
He doesn't want to screw in the screws!
Who enters the unknown space just to screw in screws?
"Drilling screws is good," Qiu Zihan laughed foolishly, "Our teacher always said that if we can't get into high school, we can only go to the factory to drill screws."
"Did you pass the exam?" Zhao Yinglai couldn't help but be curious. "You should be in the first year of high school now, right? Why are you here at the Foundation?"
"Well..." Qiu Zihan's face flashed with embarrassment, "This is due to some personal reasons..."
"He doesn't want to go to school," Tang Ling said mercilessly, "His fixed attribute is that he doesn't want to go to school."
Qiu Zihan touched the back of his head and said, "Ha...haha, isn't it magical? I never thought that I could actually not go to school if I didn't want to."
Others: …
Barrage:
【……】
[I can see that I really don’t want to go to school. ]
[It's so strong that it was captured by the Foundation. Kid, you really don't want to go to school! ]
[The resources of our foundation are becoming more and more amazing. ]
[If I had the willpower to not want to go to school when I was in school... I wouldn't have had to suffer all the way to a doctorate. ]
[Sister in front, you already have a doctorate, so don’t be so Versailles. ]
[? I’ve been studying for a doctorate for eight years… Let me graduate… I want to graduate… Ugh ahh ...! Help me, help me! ]
[How pitiful! Those who study for a doctorate have become mutated sisters. ]
[I understand. As long as I persist in not wanting to go to work every day, I will be turned into an exploration team member by the foundation sooner or later.]
[So as long as I persist in wanting to get rich, I will get rich sooner or later, right? ]
[It makes sense, someone will give me hundreds of millions for no reason! ]
[Who will give me hundreds of millions for no apparent reason! ]
[Who will give me hundreds of millions for no apparent reason! ]
The barrage was instantly filled with this sentence.
In the unknown space, the expressions of the exploration team members were also very subtle.
"So what are the specific contents of your fixed attributes?" Di Xueni looked curiously at the child laborer who entered the foundation in the first year of high school.
"Don't ask that... don't ask that," Qiu Zihan said with a fleeting embarrassment, "I'm hungry, are you hungry?"
This method of changing the subject was too abrupt, but everyone was really hungry.
As soon as Qiu Zihan finished speaking, Chang William and Bo Jiren felt their stomachs growl.
Except for the Zhaoyinglai shadow puppet who did not need to eat at all, the other six people present were real mortal beings who needed food and water.
"I have some emergency food in my bag," Bo Jiren rummaged through the bag and took out some energy bars, "but this is all."
"Forget it, let's not use these emergency resources." Tang Ling held his stomach, which was already complaining, and with difficulty turned his eyes away from the energy bar in Bo Jiren's hand. "Let's look for a restaurant that is hiring waiters?"
Normally speaking, jobs that do not require any threshold include working in a factory to screw screws, being a waiter in a restaurant, handing out flyers on the street, and so on.
The former is not convenient for them to explore. After entering the factory, they certainly cannot come out casually. They are not here to screw around in an unknown space for seven days. Even if they want to hide, there is no way to do it.
The job of restaurant waiter and street flyer distributor mentioned above are both good. Street flyer distributor has higher priority than restaurant waiter. When distributing flyers, they can walk around the streets and observe the surroundings. They don't have a fixed work place and can go anywhere. It is an ideal job for them.
Similarly, sweeping the streets that Di Xueni had joked about before is now also an ideal career.
After walking into the city from the small hill, it turned out that everyone's previous guess was correct. This city is also a messy mix of ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign elements, but with more modern elements, accounting for almost 95% of the city.
Occasionally, an ancient building with carved beams and painted rafters appears among modern high-rise buildings, which always gives people a strange feeling of time travel at first glance.
The same is true for restaurants on the street. Among the dozen or so normal modern kitchens, there is occasionally an old-fashioned earthen stove. Surrounded by a circle of modern kitchens, it seems to have a unique atmosphere.
There were no recruitment notices posted at the doors of the roadside restaurants, so we shamelessly asked each one and actually found a restaurant that was hiring waiters.
"But we are only short of one waiter," the shop owner looked at the seven people at the door, a little embarrassed, "our shop is small, and we don't need so many people."
It was naturally impossible for Chang William to ask for the waiter position.
"You go first." Bai Jinshu extended his hand gentlemanly.
"You first, you first, ladies first." Zhao Yinglai, wearing Jiang Jie's shell, also stretched out his hand.
Since both of them said so, Bo Jiren and Qiu Zihan also followed suit and said, "Ladies first."
"Then I won't be polite," Tang Ling took a step forward frankly, "Let me do it."
"Okay," the store manager saw that they had a good relationship and didn't fight or quarrel over a position. His worried expression became much friendlier. "Then come in with me. Your other relatives will have to find other jobs. After all, here, you can't be without a job."
Everyone looked at each other and realized that they had to work.
"Boss," Tang Ling said without hesitation, "My friends and I have been hungry for the whole morning. Can you take us in for a meal and then let them find jobs? Can you deduct the meal money from my salary?"
"You didn't eat?" The store manager seemed a little surprised that they didn't have food to eat, but he nodded kindly. "It's okay. No need to deduct your salary. Our employee meals are just some simple fried rice. I'll ask the chef to make you something. Do you have any dietary restrictions?"
Everyone waved their hands to indicate no.
The store manager led everyone into the store and sat them down. He opened the curtain of the kitchen and walked in to call the chef to cook.
Everyone sat at the table outside and discussed the current situation in a low voice.
"Since the store owner has said that we can't live without a job, we can ask her if she has any way to find a job," Zhao Ying looked in the direction of the kitchen, "or ask her to introduce something."
"The ideal job nowadays is handing out flyers, sweeping the streets, doing door-to-door sales," Tang Ling counted on his fingers, "or doing some leisurely jobs where you can walk around during working hours."
"It would be best if we could get in touch with the police." Bai Jinshu added.
"Oh, yes, police," Di Xueni said, "We'd better find a way to find out about Mu Shilong."
As everyone was talking, the owner came over with two plates of fried rice: "Here it is, the kitchen didn't prepare any dishes, so the chef simply fried some egg fried rice, let's make do with it."
"It's fine if we don't make do." Everyone stood up quickly and expressed their politeness.
Tang Ling stood up from the table and took the plate: "Boss, what are you serving? Let me serve it."
She consciously got into the role, went into the kitchen and started serving plates of fried rice to everyone.
After three trips back and forth, all the plates were served.
"Hey?" Qiu Zihan shouted in surprise, "Sister, one plate is missing."
There were seven of them, but only six plates of fried rice.
"Is there one plate missing? I counted according to the number of people," the shop owner came over curiously and counted, "one, two, three, four, five, six... That's right, there are six of you, right?"
One stone can cause a thousand ripples.
Everyone at the dinner table was stunned for a second, and suddenly felt a chill behind them.
Where are the six people? Haven’t they always been seven?
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I wrote 3,000 words today but I was not satisfied, so I deleted it and rewrote it. When I finished writing, I looked up and it was already dawn. What can I use to save you? A sugary schedule...
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