Book IV, 80: Seeking Wealth and Danger
I have to say that where Chen Xi is around, the plot will always deviate in a kind of collapse direction, and the opportunity to harm his teammates that he is looking forward to will soon come.
In a small, humble bungalow, a pale young man sits at an oil-stained computer desk, next to which are the three treasures of late-night sleepers—instant noodles, coffee, and wind oil—that he hasn't left for a long time.
But don't be mistaken about his profession, in fact, this young man's job is a profession with a rich history and tradition - witcher.
It's just that as a newcomer who has just entered the industry for a short time, McDonald's, who is only in his twenties, does not have many income channels like his predecessors.
There are many ways to earn extra income even if there is no main business income for a while due to the fierce competition - such as killing alien or demonized creatures, collecting a lot of materials with magical effects on them to make a profit and selling them for money, or relying on your experience and reputation to receive quest rewards in the witcher's contact point, delegating to the experienced witcher.
For example, he uses the delicate manipulation of magic to transform the actual effect of magic, and neutralizes or weakens the large-scale magic effects that reflect reality, and acts as a magician with his brilliant light and shadow, and magical effects.
Or simply use up some of the low-grade materials that were hoarded before, and use some unique techniques to pretend to be a god stick and an amateur drug dealer For this guy, there are always some unexpected ways of income to obtain the minimum survival guarantee.
In fact. Once upon a time, this was the traditional part-time project for witchers to make a living most of the time, after all, although the harm of aliens is huge, in terms of the frequency of appearance, it still belongs to a low category of luck.
Helplessly, these skills and methods needed to ensure survival were put on him as a new entrepreneur, and he became unable to get started.
The world is not as beautiful as imagined, there are too few people in this world who have the attributes of the Virgin, and not everyone is willing to hand over the ability to eat to others casually. If someone comes over, it is probably easy to understand this kind of thing, just like a certain mansion with the word dragon and tiger as the head of the mountain. Even a method of making aphrodisiacs can be like a treasure, and it has been a secret for hundreds of years. At a critical time, these skills that are usually not on the table are to solve the big problem of the life of the hero who is difficult to overwhelm the hero with a penny, and the latter has won the trust of many emperors of many dynasties and won a large amount of wealth.
Arguably. The dragon slaying skills that the witcher has are good. Grab a good opportunity. You can live without worrying about it for a lifetime, but when you don't need it, you will understand that it is also very restricted. Those who break the bottom line of the rules usually do not end well, and if they want to use it to make a windfall recklessly, they must be prepared to be fully wanted by both sides.
McDonald's feels terrible to think about such a scene.
Not to mention that the tentacles of society have spread to every corner of the world, and it is impossible to just hide in a ravine for a lifetime like in ancient times. It's okay to have no clean and hygienic water source, he has a lot of ways to make the part that can be drunk directly, but he doesn't have a mobile phone and a computer, does he want to be bored to suffocate as a young man of the I era, not to mention toilet paper, soap, toothpaste, etc.
He only knew that his peers, who were as hungry as himself, had already sharpened their knives, and were waiting with red eyes for a chance to generate income for like-minded budding birds.
So in the past few months, Fieldland has been occupied by a large number of witchers who have taken over all the income-generating jobs, and McDonald's, who is not yet desperate, or still has some savings, can only let go of that unrealistic illusion and find a job suitable for a person like him who lacks interpersonal skills and does not need any threshold.
Commentator of public opinion.
Of course, McDonald's sitting in front of the computer doesn't know who the boss behind the money is, for an aspiring young man who only needs to think about going through this difficult winter of employment, this is not important, anyway, as long as the daily salary arrives on time, he will be satisfied. McDonald's was simply confused about the purpose of his online posting.
Because the other party has made a lot of posting requests.
For example, the first point must be the representative of the public interest, and the content should exclude any words and phrases that include individual interests, but should speak from the standpoint of the collective or public interest.
Second, we must take the voice of the people as our own wishes, think about what the people think, be anxious about the needs of the people, and treat any demands they have as the highest standards of conduct and responsibility.
The third point is that we must stand on the moral high ground to criticize ZF's inaction in many incidents, deeply expose the disgraceful role played by some of the people in it, and speculate on their aims and thoughts with the greatest malice, so as to give the people a wake-up call.
Fourth, we must subconsciously regard ordinary people as morally unaware and intellectually very ignorant beings, who are easily deceived by the rulers, and in order to improve the quality of citizens and promote social civilization, they must enlighten and educate the people in a natural tone.
Fifth point.
And so on, and so on.
In McDonald's view, this is very kind of public knowledge, of course, he knows that he is by no means a public knowledge, first of all, the level of knowledge is very substandard, he dropped out of high school before he finished school, and he can't even meet the minimum standard of a master's degree, and he has not made any outstanding achievements in the field of culture. Therefore, there are only two possibilities he can think of.
First, the other party belongs to a hostile force abroad, and wants to take advantage of the period before and after the festival to focus on the attention of the whole world, and to ruin the reputation and impression of the country by creating disorderly and chaotic incidents. Second, the other party belongs to some people in China who are dissatisfied with the current ZF rulers and are not willing to take the current position, and intend to smear the former by guiding and fanning the flames in this regard, so as to create an opportunity for themselves to seize power.
But when it comes to this, McDonald's will no longer speculate, because what does it have to do with itself if it wants to understand so much?
He has been in the society for many years, and he has not been a keyboard politician for many years, and he has the leisure to care about the overall situation? It is better to think more about how to earn enough money to buy a big house in Field Land, where housing prices are getting higher and higher, and marry a wife to live a comfortable and free life.
This is also the reason why McDonald's chooses to engage in the high-risk profession of witcher now that employment opportunities are becoming more and more severe.
As long as the time comes, he may be able to soar to the sky to know the road, but similar deeds in the contact point in Field Land I don't know how many times the road has been said to be rotten, some rookies who have just entered the industry because of the mistake of mixing into the high-end monster farm team to do chores, as long as they can survive afterwards, the part assigned can directly let them out of the team of the silk.
The so-called wealth and danger are sought, McDonald's also has this kind of dream, the kind of long-term pressure of life, the whole life is idle days is not something he can bear, even the current work of this public opinion commentator is only an expedient measure, as long as he survives this difficult time, he can move towards his dream again.
"But it's also strange to say, the closer to the opening day of the festival, the more restless the atmosphere on the Internet, like today, the number of posts on this day is several times the usual, especially for the traffic and control areas of the large number of complaints and complaints, almost endless, it seems that something big has happened, is it related to the pillar of light that happened in the southern district in the afternoon"
McDonald's judged from his own experience that, unlike ordinary people, he knew very well what strange things were hidden behind these seemingly normal complaints. With the help of some magic that can change memories and thinking, many events that seem to be huge at first glance are finally lost, which is the reason why ordinary people will never know the terrifying truth hidden under the darkness.
But he couldn't know much more.
This is the bitterness of the rookie demon hunter, just like the choice Chen Xi made before entering the tavern, once the level of chaos is set, many news that can only be learned by the next level will be an existence that they cannot touch.
"I just don't know when I'll be able to get rid of this sense of powerlessness and blend into the ranks of veteran witchers."
McDonald's sighed, clicked his fingers on the keyboard, and made a remark about the current situation in the relevant direction, while using the content of the reply as a metaphor for the possibility that ZF had concealed some part of the truth. He was about to take a good rest before the night came, and by recuperating, he would fight the ignorant masses again in the second half of the night, when a sudden phone call dispelled all his sleepiness.
"What, there's a big task to introduce to me, and as long as everyone participates, they can get 100W Lunk, Pizza Hut, you're not lying to me, no, you won't be half of the task pay, and I'm not the only one who gives you a nickname of half price every day!" McDonald's hands holding the phone were bloodless, this was all excitement, and his chance to make a fortune finally came.
And the voice on the other end of the phone was also a very excited voice: "Of course not, although this time it is not a public entrusted task, but a private contact, not only is there no person in charge of the contact point as a third-party notary present, and the task content page must be confidential, but how could I lie to you, in order to make the people involved in the task believe, the local tyrant boss behind it has spoken, as long as he agrees to go, he will send 100W Lunk on the spot, or cash, in a sack!" ”
The rest of the problems are not a problem at all, stimulated by the flashing 100W Lunk words in front of him, McDonald's went directly to Pizza Hut in a hurry, and he didn't even turn off the computer! (To be continued......)