Chapter 481 The Real Tragedy of Workers
It is difficult to tell whether playing such a fitting song at this moment was intentional or accidental.
Well, the driver is smiling.
It must be intentional!
"You'll easily get a bad review if you do this, Master..." the boy said resentfully.
Don't judge a book by its cover. Although Lin Li is very young, perhaps he can be called "driver master" instead of "brother".
Lin Li: "You can't beat the bad review OvO."
Boy: “…”
It’s true. This time I didn’t place an order on the platform, so there is no such thing as evaluation.
Even sadder.
The boy's face was slightly sad. He listened to the song that was still floating in his ears and even pressed the volume +, and sighed:
"A senior once told me that salary is like menstruation, which comes once a month and is gone in a week. Some people have different physiques, so it can be gone in three days.
But it is normal for the period to be long or short. What is most worrying is that it comes irregularly and irregularly, which is a very dangerous signal.
Finally, if you are strengthened by life, you can go ten months without having periods.
It hurts, it hurts so much."
Lin Li: Oo?
Lin Li glanced at his buddy with amusement through the rearview mirror.
Quite insightful.
Beggars in the past would say "Please be kind", but beggars now say "OK, OK, OK".
The ox will be murmuring and the horse will be panting, but only the ox and the horse will receive it, receive it.
Fortunately, I have a cheat, so I don’t need to experience this kind of thing in the future.
What's more, my girlfriend is very rich, so even if I am poor, I can still be a freeloader. That's great.
"Getting a salary of 3,000 yuan, but doing the work of 30,000 yuan, perhaps this is the hardship of working people."
Therefore, Lin Li had no empathy at all and only expressed his feelings verbally.
"Um... that's not the case..." Upon hearing this, the buzz cut man on the left smiled and touched his buzz cut:
"Why would I work so hard for a mere 3,000 yuan? Who would honestly work for 30,000 yuan? My salary allows me to slack off without feeling guilty. I believe I have no regrets about asking for my salary."
Too.
Lin Li felt that what he said was right.
"However, being able to slack off without feeling guilty isn't enough, is it?" Lin Li said seriously. "I have a friend who manages to make his boss think he's working hard even when he's slacking off, and they even give him a small bonus occasionally."
"Holy crap? There are such masters? How did they do it? Do you have any experience to share? Coach, I really want to learn this!" Several boys asked in surprise.
"He doesn't have any experience or skills to speak of. He's just seriously slacking off. It's mainly because the nature of his work is different." Lin Li said casually.
"Hey buddy, what does your friend do for a living?"
Lin Li: "Ocean fishing."
"Far--"
Three men: "..."
If he touches you too much, his boss will think he is working very hard.
"What the hell is your friend touching?" the boy in the middle asked with a twitching mouth.
Lin Li: "Cod, herring, squid, tuna..."
I didn’t ask you to actually answer this question!!
Seeing Lin Li's serious answer, the boy's mouth twitched uncontrollably faster, and then thousands of words turned into a sigh.
Alas, I’m on my way home from get off work, but why do I feel as tired as when I was working overtime?
Looking at the sincere smile on the driver's lips and his eyes looking forward to continuing the conversation, the boy suddenly understood why this trip only cost five dollars per person.
There is no good thing that is cheap!
Perhaps his purpose of bringing people with him was not to make some money, but because he was worried that they would be bored and have no one to torment them on the way back.
He even raised the price to ten yuan per person. Why don't you, driver, compensate us five yuan each?
"Aiping, I'm a little tired. I'll take a nap. Call me when you get there..." Seeing that Lin Li still had the desire to communicate, the boy decided to sleep here forever.
Lin Li smiled when he heard that, turned off the music, stopped talking to the three people, and concentrated on driving.
Because some people were sleeping, there was no conversation for the rest of the time.
Twenty minutes later, they arrived at Xiujin Garden.
"Just stop at the door."
"good."
After Lin Li's car stopped, the man with the buzz cut on the left thanked Lin Li and shook the sleeping man beside him:
"Yi Yang, we're here. Get up. Wake up. We're home."
The boy in the middle seemed to be truly asleep. When he heard his companions calling him, he just frowned and tilted his head to the side, shaking his head slightly irritably: "You go up first, I'll sleep a little longer."
"We're home, not at the company. If you sleep any longer, you'll be with Xu Chen tonight."
Boy: “Zzz…”
The buzz cut man sighed helplessly, leaned close to the sleeping boy's ear, and began to chant:
"Notice: Team building on Saturday. Gather at the company entrance at 6:30 AM. Attendance is mandatory. Failure to attend will be counted as a day off and will result in a deduction of full attendance. The budget is 200 per person, which has been deducted from next month's salary. Each person must prepare a program and perform on stage. After the event, please share the performance video on your Moments. Group blocking is not allowed. Department heads are responsible for review."
Boy: “(；☉_☉)WHAT!!!”
The boy who looked unconscious just now now had his eyes as big as bells and stood up with an extremely palpitating look on his face.
I sat up in shock from my dying illness, and found that the cows and horses were actually myself.
"Is this true? It was just sent? Are you crazy? The company is fucking screwed again?" He looked at the man with a crew cut, but only glanced at him, then took out his phone in a panic without waiting for an answer.
"That's fake. You were half asleep and I told you to get up."
The man with a crew cut looked at his colleague's reaction and sighed helplessly and sadly.
"Fuck - I was so scared -" The boy heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, patting his chest repeatedly, and looking at the crew cut man with some complaints:
"Next time I fall asleep, why don't you just slap me? Don't say such harsh words..."
"Okay, okay, okay, got it, let's go."
"Xu Chen, I'm leaving. See you tomorrow. Thank you, brother."
"Bye." Lin Li, who was so happy that he took out some melon seeds from his pocket and started eating them, smiled and waved goodbye.
I didn't expect these little cows and horses to be so interesting~
I'll raise a few for fun when I have time.
…
After sending the remaining boy to another location, Lin Li drove towards his own community. Wu Min had just called to urge him to return.
Lin Li frowned slightly.
[Complete at least 10 commissions from strangers in the Empire while piloting a mecha (0/10)]
On the system panel, at this moment, the task progress is still 0.
When Lin Li first heard that the three people had two destinations, he even felt that if the system were a human, it might be able to directly calculate it as two task progress.
But I didn’t expect that after all three of them were delivered, none of them would count.
Grooved system.
What's the problem?
Is it because my attitude in serving them is inappropriate and I can’t treat passengers as toys for fun?
Or does it mean that only orders given by the platform can be considered as commissions from the empire?
At the time when the task can be triggered, Qu Wanqiu "plays" the role of a passerby who stops a car on the roadside.
After pondering for a moment, Lin Li's brows relaxed slightly again.
The key to the problem is to find the key problem.
I should have found it.
This is a mission for the entire female world. Before Qu Wanqiu, Bai Bufan had also made a similar joke, and he had had his driver's license for quite some time, but the mission had not been triggered.
After all, in an all-female world, there are only women and mechas. Well, now you might know there are also "black bugs," but as for men? What are those?
The same was true for other all-female world missions before, which had nothing to do with men other than herself.
So in the eyes of the system, I should have carried three pieces of air just now.
After figuring this out, Lin Li knew the angle for subsequent experiments and probing this task.
However, the second thing that needs to be considered now is not whether to accept orders from girls or boys, but how to accept orders in the future?
The car issue is easy to deal with. Although Wu Min will leave home for work in a few days and will drive the car away, it is still convenient to rent a car now.
If it wasn't for the fact that it was inconvenient to disclose the source of the money and therefore needed to be hidden from Wu Min, which would have caused trouble after buying a car, Lin Li might have simply bought a car for himself.
But whether renting or buying a car, a person who has just obtained a driver's license is not eligible to register for an online car-hailing service on any order-taking platform.
It would be difficult to replicate the situation tonight where a crowd gathers and calls for a ride. After all, tonight many people are out celebrating the New Year, making it difficult to get a ride, which gave me this opportunity.
But there are always more solutions than problems.
At that time, I will see if I can contact some online taxi drivers who already have cars and accounts, and use their cash ability, just like when I was doing the food delivery task.
It was already two o'clock when they got home. After seeing Lin Li return safely, Wu Min chatted with him briefly, asked him what he was going to do tonight, and then went back to his room to sleep.
But Lin Li can't rest tonight.
I checked the group chat and had some daily conversation with Chen Yuying. When she got sleepy, we said good night to each other and let her go to bed. Wu Min should have fallen asleep too.
Lin Li looked towards the system.
The system will have a toothpaste-like update every month and refresh the "return" opportunity, and this month is no exception.
After the update at the beginning of October, there are a total of four buttons on the interface of the other world - "Return", "Terminate", and "Current Reset Price: 200 System Currency". These three buttons can be used normally.
In addition, there is a button that appears at the beginning of October but has no text and is dark and cannot be pressed.
The button became illuminated in November, but still had no text.
This month, in addition to the fifth dark button with no text, this button finally had text on it.
「Select and switch regression nodes」
I didn’t see the text before so I didn’t dare to press it, but now that I can see the text above clearly, it’s different.
After determining that pressing the button would not cause any immediate changes, Lin Li had an idea.
Sure enough, after pressing it, the sub-interface appeared.
There is a selection bar on the sub-interface, which is similar to the game's save interface:
「Unnamed history node 1 (currently selected node)」
Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing
There are five fields in total, but except for the first one which is lit and shows selected, the next four are dark and non-selected.
Below the selection bar are two buttons.
Both are lit, but one has text and the other doesn't. As for the text button:
Add a new random node.
Looking at the changes in the system this month, Lin Li pondered for a moment and then had some speculations in his mind.
Node, either a place or a point in time.
But if it is a time point, then it seems a bit too supermodel and too powerful. The system has never demonstrated the ability to travel through time and space before, so this node should refer to the place where one "returns".
There is actually a "historical node" in the selection column, which means... the other world this month should be one that I have visited.
Judging from the order in which they went, the most likely place should be the first doomsday world.
If it is the doomsday world, then this "Unnamed Historical Node 1" is the node when I went to the doomsday world for the last time at the end of October to test the mecha, and left near the shelter?
Lin Li clicked "Add Random Node" with his mind.
Unnamed Node 2
There is indeed an extra node in the selection column.
But unfortunately, there is no information, and clicking it only shows two options: "Select" and "Delete".
"Add random node" does not have a CD. Lin Li tried a few more times, and "Unnamed Node 3", "Unnamed Node 4", and "Unnamed Node 5" appeared in the selection bar.
After five nodes appear, click Add and you will be prompted with "The current node limit has been reached. Please delete the old node before adding a new one."
This is probably what interface research is like.
Without any hesitation, Lin Li immediately went to the bathroom to prepare.
The preparations were very comprehensive. After all, everything he had just done was just speculation. He was still not 100% sure that he had returned to the doomsday world, so he had to be vigilant and take necessary safety precautions.
After completing the preparations, Lin Li clicked "Return".
A white light flashed, and the scene in front of my eyes changed.
There were broken walls and ruined cities, and a faint stench in the air.
A few wandering zombies in front of them noticed Lin Li who suddenly appeared. After a brief assessment, they roared softly and twisted their bodies as they rushed towards Lin Li.
Lin Li smiled with relief and put on the title of [Demon's Breath] without any panic.
As expected, the zombies that rushed over, as they did before, seemed to have suddenly lost their target after closing the distance to a certain extent. They stopped in confusion, and then either stood there in a daze or started wandering aimlessly again.
After searching my memory, I found that this was indeed the place where I left last time. The difference from before was probably that the surroundings were more dilapidated and desolate.
I don’t know how much time has passed in this world.
Lin Li still had some anticipation in his heart.
But what we are looking forward to is not the changes in this zombie world.
To be honest, this world is not very attractive to Lin Li.
What is worth looking forward to is that according to the rules, I will be able to go to the world of immortal cultivation again next month and meet Grandpa Shanqing and Senior Deng Wen.
They are still very fun and good to me, and have brought me a lot of benefits. Lin Li sincerely hopes and looks forward to meeting them again.
But the earliest it will happen is next month.
For now, let’s study the changes in this doomsday world.
There is no need to be as cautious as before and rely on the title effect of [Demon's Breath] to avoid fighting with zombies.
When a man has been away for three days, he will definitely be looked at with new eyes.
But now there are a lot of times when we need to clean up our heads.
The battle mecha materialized, and the plasma blade spun, instantly smashing the heads of the zombies gathered around it.
I originally wanted to cut them in half, which might look cooler, but the zombies are too short, and the mecha has to squat down and sweep horizontally to do that.
In fact, even without the mecha, with Lin Li's current strength, he can easily deal with these zombies, but it is better to save trouble.
Then, according to his memory, Lin Li controlled the mecha and flew towards the location of the shelter.
The distance was not particularly far, and with the flying speed of the mecha, they arrived at their destination in less than three minutes.
Nothing has changed from before, and there shouldn't have been any bloody incidents where people were massacred as soon as they left.
Lin Li still remembered the entrance to the shelter he had come out of, so he landed the mecha on the ground not far from the artificially hidden entrance.
"Hello, someone should be watching me now. Are Hu Fei, Ye Jing, and Shi Dongchen here?"
"I'm Lin Li."
"Please tell me I'm here."
After finishing speaking inside the mecha, Lin Li waited quietly.
He didn't have to wait long, and in less than five minutes, the entrance door was opened.
Hu Fei poked his not-so-bright face out, looking uneasily at the completely unfamiliar mecha: "...Brother?"
Lin Li smiled, walked out of the mecha, took off his mask, and nodded: "It's me."
“Big Brother!!!”
After seeing that it was really Lin Li, Hu Fei became even more excited. He rushed up and tried to hug Lin Li, but was avoided by Lin Li.
Hu Fei was not angry, but just sobbed and cried:
"Brother!! My sister-in-law has been taken over by Shi Dongchen!!"
"He's such a heartless person..."
"Sister-in-law...sister-in-law...ahhhhh TAT (choked) (tears streaming)——"
Lin Li: “(；☉_☉)?”
(End of this chapter)
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