Chapter 20: The Gap Between the Superpowers and the Superpowers
"Would you still like to be my assistant? If I take matters into my own hands to quiet some people before the exorcism, it will make people think that I am a violent maniac, and I will become less mysterious, and you will have enough strength to calm down those who don't want to be quiet, how about it, think about it." Charles, thinking of Jessica's usefulness, extended an invitation to Jessica and waited for her answer.
"Of course, I'm here for this job. The first time she met someone with superpowers in reality rather than in a newspaper made Jessica Jones curious and immediately agreed to Charles' invitation.
"Okay, I'll start going to work tomorrow, and I'll get paid for the exorcism, no problem. Charles said very generously.
"Shouldn't the assistant job be paid by the hour?, why do I feel like I've become a partner in terms of pay?" Charles's proposal made Jessica stunned for a moment, and she felt as if she had fallen into some big hole.
"Yes, I've always been like this before, and it's hard to calculate it in another way, so it's always been like this, don't you want to?" Charles didn't plan to modify this sharing method, the hourly salary method in the United States is still quite expensive, and judging from Charles's exorcism income in the previous few months, it is still more cost-effective.
"Of course you can, the partnership is very good, everyone will be very free, not too restrictive. Jessica thought about it for a while, but still agreed to Charles's way of sharing, she doesn't have a job now, and she blackmailed her boss, she still has enough money to squander for a while, and the working environment of the exorcist in New York is not bad.
In this way, Charles's exorcism office welcomed its first inhabitant population, and Jessica began her 9-to-5 working life again.
"Charles, can you tell me how many exorcisms you can get a month?" After a week of living without income, Jessica, who was sitting behind another desk, could no longer bear this idle life, and questioned Charles, who had nothing to do more than herself.
"Before the New York War, there were still a few businesses a month, and the income was still good, but after the New York War, most of those who were scared began to feel that they had awakened their abilities like the Hulk or were controlled by alien technology, so they began to consult the Alien Research Association first, so now is the cold winter period of this industry, and it will pass. ”
Charles started the Dafa of fooling, like every CEO, and wanted his only employee Jessica to understand that you are not entering the wrong industry now, but the timing of entering the industry is not very good, and it is just the cold winter period of the industry, and then insist on insisting until spring.
"Why do I hear from your words that I have not entered the cold winter period of this industry, but the ice age period of this industry, Charles, you have to explain well, what is your income, I don't believe that this low-paid profession that relies on exorcism can give you something as powerful as Victoria. ”
Jessica didn't do nothing this week, Jessica, who has a talent for detectives, already has a certain understanding of the current situation of the exorcism industry, Charles's exorcism office is already a relatively famous firm in the exorcism industry in New York, because all the problems of people who enter this office can be solved by Charles, but I heard that Charles, the exorcist, is very willful and often closes his doors and does not do things, so the business is sluggish.
But Charles's exorcism office has been in a state of open business now, and there is no business to the door, so it seems that the business of exorcism is really not easy to do.
Let's talk about Charles's intelligent butler Victoria, when she first met Victoria, Jessica was really shocked, although in this Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man Tony Stark leads the earth's technological level, but the intelligent butler Jarvis is still just Tony's personal belongings, and Tony himself has no intention of promoting, so the economy is just an ordinary person Jessica has really never seen such a high-level intelligent housekeeper.
The smart housekeepers on the market can help people manage their work and rest time, and the level of controlling some smart machines is no longer something Jessica can afford, and Victoria can form a humanoid projection, and the behavior makes people feel that there is really someone arranging Charles's diet and daily life, if this kind of smart program appears on the market, it can only be sky-high.
So before Charles told Jessica about his source of income, Jessica couldn't understand how she could earn so much money just by exorcising demons.
"It's nothing, I occasionally go out to earn some extra money, that's how Victoria got it, as for what kind of extra money, I blackmailed the government department with superpowers, and I blackmailed Tony Stark a few times, you know, they are all rich, and they don't care about money, so I'm quite rich now. ”
Charles didn't hide Jessica's own source of income, and said something very indifferently that made Jessica want to die.
"So, is your so-called exorcism just a rich man playing a family game? Have you ever considered that I, a man of average income, am still unemployed, waiting to earn some wages to support myself?"
Jessica finally understood why Charles, who had a daughter, was not nervous about such a cold business, blackmailed Iron Man and the guys in the government department, how could the guys who could continue to do business if they were alive and well have no money.
"Take it easy, at most, if you have extra money in the future, I'll take you to earn it, to be honest, the government's money is very easy to earn, as long as their head nods and agrees, how much money can be earned." ”
Seeing that Jessica was starting to go crazy, Charles hurriedly calmed down, although it was an assistant who ran into it, but having an assistant with superpowers would make Charles force his personality to rise in a straight line, and Charles didn't want this rare assistant to run away.
"Government department, that government department will ask an exorcist to do things, even if this exorcist is a superpower?" Jessica heard Charles's words, and asked in a way, the FBI, the CIA is not unaware of this kind of department, the bureaucracy is extremely heavy, and the consultant has to be at the level of a professor to be qualified, where can Charles, a folk exorcist, climb this kind of high branch.
"S.H.I.E.L.D., you should have heard of it, it is S.H.I.E.L.D. who brought the Avengers to save the world in the New York War. Charles also gave Jessica a thorough idea, the famous S.H.I.E.L.D. has asked him to be a consultant, and as an assistant to the S.H.I.E.L.D. adviser, you will not be short of money in the future.
"Of course, what superpower person doesn't know about S.H.I.E.L.D.? You know, I've been warned by them not to use superpowers to do illegal things, and there's even a long-term supervisor, although my supervisor doesn't care much about my business, but when he wants to, I'll be annoyed. ”
Compared with Charles, a guy who dared to single-handedly challenge the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. at the beginning, the other superpowers on the earth are trembling under the management of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Chen Haoran, who can set fires, is like this, and Jessica, a person who doesn't hide his superpowers much, will naturally get a warning from S.H.I.E.L.D.