Chapter 039 Three Sentences Fill the World-weary Villain with Hope (Part 4)
Hearing Chen Yunli's voice, Ning Bufan, who had just walked down two steps, turned around and asked, "What's going on? Is there anything else?"
His real name is Ning Bufan? !
Chen Yunli's pupils suddenly shrank, and his calm expression was almost frozen. "Nothing, thank you."
"It is my duty as a landlord to ensure the quality of life of my tenants as much as possible." Ning Bufan nodded, said a polite word to him, and continued to go downstairs.
Soon, his figure disappeared around the corner of the stairs.
Chen Yunli stood there in a daze for a long time. He felt something furry grabbing his clothes at the waist, and then he slowly came back to his senses.
He held the little black cat wrapped in a towel in front of his eyes and met its round eyes, which were filled with human doubts and worries.
"……fine."
There were footsteps coming from the direction of the bathroom. Xu Bai was coming over. Chen Yunli put it in the basin and quickly went back to the room and locked the door.
Sitting back on the bed, he was upset by the noisy cleaning sounds outside the door, but when he saw the kitten in the basin sticking its head out to look at him, he felt his heart slowly calm down.
Chen Yunli lowered his head and smiled: "So it's you again. Well, that's good."
As he spoke, he poked Chen Wenjian on the forehead with his finger, causing it to fall back into the basin, struggling in the towel with its four paws facing the sky.
Thinking of this stupid cat and Chen Wenjian, he couldn't help laughing out loud.
Chen Wenjian struggled to kick free from the towel, climbed out of the basin with his messy fur, and rested his head on his legs. He jumped up with his hind legs and curled up into a ball.
It licked its fur seriously, glancing at Chen Yunli from time to time.
Although I don't know what he is laughing at, laughing means he is happy. It's a good thing that he is happy, so just laugh.
Chen Yunli stared at it for a while, and when it finally licked its fur smooth, he stretched out his index finger and ruffled the fur on its back again in the opposite direction.
Chen Wenjian looked at him helplessly as he was secretly laughing.
Just as whatever a cat does is reasonable, no matter how impulsive a cat owner is, it is also reasonable.
The noise outside gradually died down. With the last sound of the door opening and closing, Xu Bai returned to the room, and soon the snoring sounded again.
Chen Yunli calmed down, picked up Chen Wenjian, whose fur he had finally licked after his messing around, and asked softly, "Do you want to go out with me? I'm going out to look for a job. If you want, just blink your right eye."
Chen Wenjian cooperated and gave him a wink.
"Okay, let's go!"
Chen Yunli took his keys, a communicator, and a stack of handwritten resumes, and walked towards the place where the recruitment market was located in his memory.
The market is located in the center of Ancheng City. Since people from inside and outside the city come here every day to look for jobs and apply for jobs, and companies also handle entry and exit procedures here, the flow of people is extremely large. It is also connected to the four main roads in the city and is well-connected. Shortly after the city was built, this place replaced Ancheng University and became a landmark building in Ancheng.
The job market is a twelve-story steel building, resembling a column reaching into the sky from the outside. A steel spiral staircase stands in the middle of the building, surrounded by curved guardrails that rise in layers. Behind the railings, up and down the stairs, job seekers and company employees can be seen everywhere, busy yet orderly and orderly.
When Chen Yunli saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel a long-lost sense of familiarity in his heart - isn't this just a large talent market?
"Meow……"
It was rare for him to come to a crowded place. Chen Wenjian recalled the experience of being shouted at and killed. He squeezed deeper into Chen Yunli's pocket, leaving only his eyes looking out, and his ears drooped.
Chen Yunli rubbed his head, stood in front of the building distribution map in front of the door and studied it for a while, and decided to go to the talent resource pool on the first floor to submit his resume first.
The so-called talent pool, as the name suggests, is a database of job seekers. When companies recruit, they symbolically review the resumes in the database and, if they find any candidates who meet the requirements, they select them and invite the applicants for interviews.
But it's also symbolic. The job market has always been in an oversaturated state of oversupply. If a company is short of people, it either looks for relatives and friends of superiors or senior employees to fill the position, or it goes to the job fair and shouts out. There are so many people scrambling to apply for the job, and the talent resource pool is just for show.
Chen Yun left to submit his resume, but it was just a formality.
After submitting a resume to the resource pool, he estimated that with his education as a college dropout, he would have no chance of being recruited by large companies on the third floor and above, and could only try his luck on the second and third floors.
Chen Yunli took the remaining fifteen resumes and went upstairs. As soon as he reached the stairs, the deafening sound of conversation seemed to hit him in the face, causing him to reflexively step back and almost fall down the stairs.
The second floor was enormous, filled with hundreds of job postings, most of them construction sites hiring. The recruiters, still wearing their hard hats and mud-stained plastic rain boots, shouted at the top of their lungs, clearly demonstrating the shortage.
The louder the recruiter's voice, the more job seekers will be surrounded by him. Those who can squeeze to the front are tall and strong and suitable for physical work. Those who are a little thinner will not even get a chance to work.
Chen Yunli pinched the thin muscles on his arms and could only regretfully give up the idea of moving bricks.
The remaining small number of recruitment sites are mostly for clerical positions, including typists, proofreaders and editors, with low salaries, almost no benefits, two days of vacation per month, no food and accommodation provided, and treatment far worse than that of construction workers.
But even so, there were thirty or forty people competing for each position, and many of them had a college degree or above. Chen Yunli went over and watched for a while, then left quietly again.
If the second floor was like this, let alone the third floor. The positions were more technically demanding, and the competitors were more numerous and more skilled. Chen Yunli didn't even leave the stairs. After seeing the grand scene on the third floor, he turned around and left.
In desperation, he could only return to the first floor.
There are several recruitment boards scattered in the corners of the first floor, with several recruitment notices hanging on them. These are positions that are often not filled or cannot be filled all year round.
The workplace in Ancheng is in such a mess that there are still positions that cannot be filled. One can imagine what the situation is like for these positions.
Chen Yunli approached one of the columns and took a look. Among the ten notices, nine were photos of full-time and part-time monster hunters. The salaries were extremely high, but the mortality rate was close to 90%.
The remaining job posting is for a monster catcher, who is responsible for finding, identifying, and organizing various information about monsters from the city library. The salary is one-ninth of that of a monster catcher, and the mortality rate is also one-ninth, but they work year-round, the workload is heavy, and there is a chance of being retaliated by monsters.
This position is not so short of people, but it has never been filled either.
“Meow! Woo…”
Seeing the three words "Monster Catcher" on the notice, Chen Wenjian let out a low growl of vigilance and hatred, his teeth bared and his fur standing on end. His claws easily pierced Chen Yunli's pocket, and a cold light flashed.
Chen Yunli stroked its head with his hand: "Don't worry, I value my life very much and will not apply for these two positions."
In addition to this reason, the two more important reasons for him not to apply for the job were that he did not want to stand on the opposite side of Chen Wenjian, and that being a monster catcher was not a completely legal profession. Many monster catchers were desperate criminals with all five poisons. They used vicious methods not only to deal with monsters, but also to deal with their own kind. A small number of them were even wanted fugitives who had been on the run for many years and were listed in the database of the Supervisory Office.
Today's monster hunters have long since strayed from the original intention of those who established this position. In this group, abiding by the law has become a derogatory term.
During the founding war of the Li Kingdom, many generals were half-demons and monsters. The higher-ups have been trying to merge the two tribes, intentionally easing the conflicts between humans and monsters. They have issued new regulations several times requiring people to keep their distance from monsters as much as possible, not to harm monsters unless necessary, not to clash with monsters, etc.
Today's demons are no longer the ones in myths and legends that feed on humans and are cruel and bloodthirsty. They have been hiding and immersed in human society for many years. Apart from their longer lifespan than humans, they look almost the same as ordinary humans.
Even their lifespan, which is most different from that of ordinary people, has become shorter with each generation as the two tribes secretly intermarry on a small scale and dilute their bloodline.
As for the gap in physical fitness and strength between the two races, it has been narrowed to the extreme after the huge breakthrough in the research and development of the crystallization of human technology - the Truth Type I and Type II cannons and the strengthening and miniaturization of related equipment.
If bloodline talent and the crystallization of wisdom cannot coexist, they will be destroyed together.
Obviously, the top leaders of Li State chose the former.
Under such a general trend, the existence of monster hunters is quite conspicuous, otherwise they would not be neglected to this extent. They cannot even apply for a proper recruitment platform and can only post announcements to recruit people.
The reason these two positions are difficult to recruit, in addition to the high mortality rate, is also partly because smart job seekers see that their prospects are bleak, while less smart job seekers simply cannot do these two jobs.
Chen Yunli walked past the bulletin board in front of him and went to the next one.
He searched all the bulletin boards on the first floor. Maybe because not many people came here normally, he actually found a job announcement by flipping through the lower right corner of the last bulletin board.
This notice seems to be a bit old, with yellowed and curled edges, and slightly damaged. It has been covered by other notices, leaving only a corner. If Chen Yunli hadn't been careful, he really wouldn't have been able to find it.
The announcement was concise, consisting of only two lines:
The City Library is recruiting two librarians.
Contact number: 010121010.
Chen Yunli tried to peel off the notice, but found that it was stuck very tightly, as if it had no intention of being torn off.
I don’t know when this was posted and whether it has recruited enough people.
Chen Yunli didn't hold much hope, so he converted his resume into text and sent it to the number listed on the announcement.
"I hope there's still a chance." Chen Yunli rubbed Chen Wenjian's cat head. "Okay, put away your teeth and claws. Look at how much you've scratched my clothes."
Chen Wenjian was stunned, and his claws subconsciously retracted into his pads, and his bared teeth were also retracted.
"Meow, meow..." It glanced at Chen Yunli guiltily. Seeing that he did not doubt it and was not angry, it secretly breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed against his hand like a spoiled child.
In the future, I must try my best to act gentle and cute, and I must not let him see that I am not his "Mimi", otherwise... he will throw me away.
Chen Wenjian thought with his eyes downcast, flapping the tip of his tail curled up beside him twice. A dark feeling of annoyance surged in his heart, but was quickly suppressed.
You also can't feel dissatisfied with the act of playing Mimi, as it will easily be exposed.
"Congratulations, reviewer. The protagonist's mentality has increased by 10%. The positive mentality is now 20%, the negative mentality is 50%, and the yandere value is 30%."
The system's prompt came unexpectedly.
Chen Yunli was stunned: "...Ah?"
Is Yandere value tied to a positive attitude? And what did he do?
He held up the Chuchen letter, poked the cat's head and sighed, "The heart of a cat is as deep as the sea."
Chen Wenjian looked innocent.
The man and the cat were facing each other in a daze, when suddenly, Chen Yunli's communicator rang.
He quickly checked and saw a new message under the resume he sent: Congratulations to the job seeker for passing our resume review. Please go to the City Library Hall for an interview within one hour.
Chen Yunli: “?”
Oh my god, it was so easy to pass?
It feels like I'm about to board a pirate ship.
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