Cheng Zhu finally understood; they were also there to recruit people.
Just as Cheng Zhu was about to directly reject Joey, the personal reminder bell from the intelligent system suddenly echoed in her mind. This voice meant only one thing: someone on her blacklist had approached: "Hey, Christine, you've got a lot of holes in your clothes—we run into each other everywhere!"
Cheng Zhu was all too familiar with this speaking style, and simply glanced at it coldly.
However, Janice just acted coy and asked in a high-pitched voice, "Are you captivated by my beauty? Don't look at me like that~ I'll get embarrassed~"
Cheng Zhu turned his head away expressionlessly: "Who are you? I don't know you."
"Then I'll just say it—enough with the nonsense, there are so many people in line, can I cut in line?"
"Get lost." Cheng Zhu hates people who don't follow the rules the most.
Watching Janice walk away with a wronged look on her face, and then ask others if they could cut in line, only to be refused, Cheng Zhu felt even more disgusted with her. Regardless of whether she was male or female, fat or thin, good-looking or ugly, her personality and values were incredibly annoying.
However, what Cheng Zhu didn't expect was Joey's message: "You also know Janice?"
Cheng Zhu quickly typed a question mark at her: "?"
“She’s my roommate. Apparently, another noble lady was supposed to come to our dorm, but she insisted on living in room 402, so we gave her some money and swapped rooms with her.” Joey said it casually, but Cheng Zhu felt a little envious when he thought about that amount.
That's 500,000 universal points!
However, this made Cheng Zhu belatedly remember something.
Previously, Cheng Zhu had been so busy outsmarting humans and the rules that she had almost forgotten about this matter: "Did someone in your dorm persuade her to get plastic surgery?" She hadn't forgotten that Janice had spent all her money to become thinner and more beautiful, and it was her roommates who had encouraged her.
"Oh? You know that too? Janice really loves to tell other people her private affairs."
After making a joke, Joey answered honestly, "Amanda encouraged her. But Janice probably doesn't know that the company Amanda recommended is Amanda's family business; she was just trying to get business for her own family."
Finally, Joey added a bit of gossip: "You have no idea how much money her family has spent on advertising for home-use AI—nine figures! Of course, that's just a drop in the ocean for the Beatrice family. She said that for them, plastic surgery is just a highly profitable business. After all, they directly modify how others perceive a user's appearance through cognitive filters. As long as they have the core technology, they don't need to spend any money. Unlike my family, we still have to take care of animals!"
Although he genuinely disliked Janice, Cheng Zhu kept things separate and focused on one thing at a time. He also disliked Amanda's actions of tempting unsuspecting suburban immigrants to spend their entire fortunes on cosmetic surgery: "Don't you think Amanda's behavior is excessive?"
Janice is now obsessed with her looks and has no interest in studying. She only thinks about profiting from her beauty, and she's basically ruined.
She is just a microcosm of countless suburban immigrants, a microcosm of a group that couldn't resist the technological allure of the smart city and tried to take shortcuts to integrate into the city faster. She was indeed rude and greedy, but how many other suburban immigrants could remain completely unaffected by the smart city environment?
Cheng Zhu typed out this sentence, then deleted it.
Because she suddenly remembered that she was in a dungeon, a world completely different from the future star culture, so they probably already thought that teasing suburban immigrants was normal.
Nine figures are just numbers to nobles, and six figures are simply pocket money to be given away casually.
Cheng Zhu deleted it simply because she realized that arguing with someone who had already been brainwashed by the environment was pointless. Perhaps after leaving this stadium, she wouldn't even be able to see Joey's existence. Their situations were different, their values were different, their majors were different, and their interests were likely to be different as well.
I'm just a passerby who only stayed in the instance for a few days, there's no need for me to make enemies for Christine.
So Chengzhu changed his tune and directly echoed Joey's words: "Yes, although meat is expensive, it still takes a lot of cost to raise cubs to adulthood."
Joey seemed to have found a kindred spirit and immediately began to talk at length about his family and his future major.
Human-Bio Fusion, simply put, involves transplanting animal genes into the human body, thereby giving the person some animal talents or appearance. These are two branches, and Joey is pursuing a dual major, which is why she earned her master's degree and is now working on her doctorate.
If it were merely about growing animal features into a human body, Joey had already mastered the technology; her current appearance was proof enough. Cheng Zhu casually searched for information and was immediately shocked by the prices of animal modification, closing the webpage in fear that he might accidentally click on something and spend the money.
As for how to give humans the sense of smell of a dog, the eyesight of an eagle, the color-changing ability of a chameleon, the gill breathing of a fish, and the photosynthesis of a plant, Joey is currently only exploring this. However, she told Chengzhu with great certainty: "Selling ordinary meat only earns small amounts of money, which can only maintain the basic survival conditions of humans. But enabling humans to break through the genetic lock and leap to a higher limit, that's where the big money is made! No one can resist the temptation of becoming stronger. As long as they can become stronger, there will always be people who want more special abilities!"
Even through the screen, Cheng Zhu could see the ambition in her eyes.
Joey is absolutely right. Humans are inherently greedy. To be precise, all biological genes are incredibly greedy, wanting to reproduce, wanting to dominate more territory, and wanting to possess more benefits.
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