The candidate looks a little nervous.

The interviewer looked at the young man in front of him, although the latter's appearance was not as good as Liu Zhuangshi's, but it was still much more embarrassing than eight taels of gold. With a long face and big ears and a hairstyle, this is the initial impression he left on the interviewer.

After pretending to flip through the resume, and after uttering a syllable such as "uh-oh-ah" from time to time, the interviewer interlocked his fingers, leaned forward, and lazily opened his mouth to the candidate.

"Young man, why do you want to join us?"

It's a very, very bad question, and a normal candidate wouldn't be unprepared for it.

"Because I am optimistic about the development prospects of your company, I believe that the company can provide the most favorable environment for people who are interested in realizing their self-worth. I hope that I can join the construction of the company and become a cornerstone of the future business empire, whether dazzling or ordinary. ”

The candidate's answer was mixed with a lot of sycophancy, but the interviewer didn't seem to be very cold. After a "hmm" without humming, a new request was made. "Tell me about yourself."

This time the candidate's performance was also very, very bad. Hello, the middle stock is who I call who, who is how old I am, who graduated from where I like what specialty and what, the back stock is very honored, examiner, you can take time out of your busy schedule to interview me, I hope you can brabla blabla. Finally, there is the bundle: "Please give me a chance to prove myself".

Again, a syllable, "Oh," but then the interviewer went off the rails, "Come with me for a tour of the company." ”

"Huh?" The candidate made up for the last part of the "Uh-oh-ah" trilogy and felt dazed. The 26 common questions are only over after only two are asked? This is too out of the box, right?

While the candidate was in a daze, the interviewer had already walked to the door, "Young man, what are you still doing in a daze?" Hurry up and come here. ”

The corridor outside the door is very spacious, comparable to the waiting hall of the municipal railway station, and there is no end to it whether you look forward or backward, which is very Matrix.

"One thing you're absolutely right, we're a company with a lot of promises."

The interviewer chats with the candidate as they walk. A minotaur pushed a large vacuum cleaner past the two, dressed in overalls and headphones, humming Taylor Swift's crazier with a hoop nose.

"As you can see, we are eclectic in employing people here, and strength is paramount. If you are lucky enough to join us, I guarantee that you will get the most conducive environment for self-fulfillment. This way. ”

The two walked up to a dark green elevator door, and the interviewer reached into his trouser pocket and fumbled for it. "If I said that our company's goal is to catch up with the glass slag and kick over the soy sauce shop, would I be a little too proud?"

In the face of such a domineering cool and explosive modesty, what else can a candidate say? Only a wry smile.

"Hehe, this joke is a little cold." The interviewer snorted, inserted the key into the control panel, and pressed the button marked 1153. The elevator clanged open, revealing the stairs inside.

"I'm going to tell you about the origins of our company. If you want to join us, the first thing you need to know is our corporate culture, so you need to listen carefully. ”

The staircase formed a ring of Mebius in the gray chaos of space, and the interviewer led the candidate around and back to the entrance.

Outside the elevator doors is no longer a spacious, overly exaggerated hallway.

"Almost a thousand years ago, our world built an ultra-fast quantum computer, and with its powerful power, we calculated the equation for building the Instein-Rosen Bridge, which is a wormhole."

The candidate found himself standing in front of a metal wall filled with various pipes and cables. Although he couldn't see the full picture, as a die-hard sci-fi fan, he recognized it as part of the Super Collider.

Also, did the examiner go off topic just now?

"Tens of thousands of wormholes were mass-produced in the collision of high-energy particles," the interviewer continued, "and tens of thousands of parallel worlds were linked together to form a trans-space-time federal government, and humanity has since entered the time-traveling era. ”

The scene around the applicant switches to a huge downtown area, where people from different time and space, different civilizations, and different races bustle together to exchange ideas and bargain. Aztec warriors who choose steel blades, Mitanni aristocrats who order silk, Roman slave owners who shop for smart housekeeping robots. The applicant even saw a man in a white coat lobbying a man dressed during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to join the Federal Academy of Sciences, and respectfully addressed the latter as Mozi.

"The infinite world brings endless resources, and the combination of these dry firewood and the spark of science and technology burns out almost all the stubborn diseases of civilization. Hunger, crime, war, it's all history. After centuries of unremitting efforts, humanity has finally built the society of dreams, a society that distributes according to needs. ”

This time it's not the scene that switches, but the image of the interviewer. He turned into a bearded Jew with a pipe in hand.

But humanity was not satisfied, and the top scientists of the Federation began to try to challenge the realm that was once widely believed to be the domain of the Creator, the GUT. Anyway, have you read Wang Jinkang's novels? ”

With the English abbreviation GUT as a hint, the candidate immediately understood which novel the other party was referring to, "The Ultimate Explosion?" ”

"Yes, now that you've read that book, I don't have to explain to you how they tried it." The interviewer snapped his fingers. "But their attempts were quickly met with a lack of talent, and even with trillions of people in tens of thousands of worlds to choose from, less than a tenth of them could meet the target."

"What kind of people do they need?" The candidate couldn't help but ask.

"People with super willpower."

The image of the interviewer becomes that of an oil worker.

"The ancients said that if there are conditions, you must go up, and if you don't have conditions, you must also go up. To solve the bottleneck, scientists have come up with a crazy plan: to instigate war in a parallel world that is not subject to federal jurisdiction, commonly known as the Outlands, and to train the willpower of survivors through high-intensity survival of the fittest, in order to produce talents who can meet their needs. ”

"Nerds are in arrears of emotional intelligence." Candidates commented.

"Hehe, EQ arrears, this is an apt description, I like it." The interviewer changed back to his original image, "What did I just say?" Oh yes. In short, the plan caused an uproar as soon as it was announced. The left and right factions fought fiercely in the Federal Senate. In the end, both sides conceded, with the political correctists pledging not to interfere in the operation of the GUT project, and the pragmatists replacing the original version with a competitive development program. ”

"In this development program, the federal government will host a long-term talent selection campaign. The objects that participate in the selection are called offerings, and all of them come from the outer lands. The selection process is similar to the gladiatorial battles in ancient Rome, where the offerings are divided into many camps according to gender, creed, and race, and they are managed by artificial intelligence to fight each other according to the rules. The winner ascends to the sky, and the loser dies. ”

"After the plan was approved, the Federal Temporal and Space Administration was assigned to collect supplies. This is done by sending secret agents to known outlands, where they will conduct large-scale covert screening of the indigenous people, and then try to contact and observe them carefully after discovering suitable candidates. Once the qualifications of the offering have been confirmed, agents will teleport the subject to a designated alternate world within 24 hours. A world that has been specially adapted to serve as an arena. ”

"Doesn't sound much more humane than the original plan?" The candidate complimented, and then he snorted.

"You, aren't you going to introduce the origins of your company? Why are you telling me this? ”

"Hehe," the interviewer said with a meaningful smile, "you might as well guess." ”

"Your company is just a front, you don't develop games."

"We really aren't, keep guessing."

"You picked me and wanted me to be an offering?"

"Correct." Lao Tu put away his smile, his expression was serious, and his voice was empty and ethereal, as if he came from the abyss.

"Congratulations, Tian Ming, you have been admitted."

Tian Ming opened his eyes, and he woke up.