Chapter 19: The Inferior

Early the next morning, Russell boarded Amirus' float and headed for the Tianen Group in the city center.

The good weather lasted only one day.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the sky was already dark.

It's mid-May, not long after Russell's birthday, but the weather is still not warming.

The damp and cold wind blowing outside the window swept up the young leaves of the first crop, bringing a warning of heavy rain.

[At 8:10 a.m. on May 18, rain warning in Luopan District and Tianen District]

[Detected that you are in the Grace Zone.] There is moderate to heavy rain in the current location within an hour, please take shelter from the rain in advance and be careful of catching a cold]

As the float car gradually came to a halt and began to descend, two lines of prompts appeared in front of Russell's eyes.

This information comes from a special organization called the Annealing Nerve Center, which is part of Hudson Marine Mining.

It is built on each of the empty islands, inside the head office and branch offices of Hudson Marine Mining. The specific equipment is a trade secret, and even if it is the same Big Seven, other companies have no right to intervene.

It continuously analyzes and calculates a lot of data every day to accurately predict natural phenomena such as rainfall, typhoons, and abnormal waves.

The data obtained from the analysis will be transmitted to each terminal as soon as possible.

"Please thank Lord Amirus for me."

Russell stood outside the car and bowed politely to the driver, who had only leopard ears and no signs of spirit.

- If you are on Sogo Island, the driver of the float car can only be an AI.

But on Happiness Island, jobs are a very important indicator – all those who have chips must have at least three jobs. If you lose your job, you can immediately enter the lower choice; Or, if you are well prepared, jump to the top option.

Any work that can be done without the use of AI and without automation should be done by real people as much as possible...... For example, drivers, waiters, couriers, etc., are "backward occupations" that have long been replaced by artificial intelligence on other air islands.

In this way, Tianen Group creates meaningless jobs as much as possible. Even if the social efficiency will be much lower, and the error rate and failure rate will be greatly increased, they do not seem to have any intention of changing this strategy.

"Please take care of yourself, sir, too."

Mr. Driver also made a hoarse and magnetic voice and raised the door again.

Seeing the float lift off into the air, Russell turned to look at the park behind him.

This is the headquarters of Tianen Group.

This entire park alone occupies half of the area of the "Tian'en District", and the rest is the surrounding residential buildings and business districts. Russell didn't even dare to think about how high the housing prices in Tian'en District must be......

"Tianen Group" is not just a high-rise building, a building, but a whole park. It's not just the floor space – it covers an area of 16 million square meters, accommodating 100,000 direct employees working in different branches of the Tianen Group, and there are even overpasses, roads and airports built into the park.

There are artificial lakes, artificial rivers, and artificial waterfalls. There is a closed-loop aerial railway that runs continuously in the park, and the elevator is lifted by a scenic gondola...... There are also boats that run along the river like buses.

In the middle of the entire park is an extremely large statue of Russell that can be seen from the entrance of the park.

It's not a stone statue, but a statue with color and an almost realistic texture.

It was a female elf with a slender and graceful body and a delicate and beautiful face. She wore a floor-length white dress, and her long, wavy white gold hair hung down like a cape.

She smiled like a mother, holding a sun-like crystal ball in pink light in her hands on her chest.

The ball floats between the two hands, and from any angle, you can see a darker cartoon heart in the center of the crystal ball, which is the mark of the Celestial Group. The strange thing is that Russell can see the crystal ball emitting pink brilliance from the entrance of the park, but the brilliance of the crystal ball does not dye the statue or the surrounding buildings pink.

This god-like elf woman is Sailun, the president of the Tianen Group. is also one of the "eighty-four", in terms of status, it is even higher than Amirus.

Russell stood at the gate of the park and hesitated for a moment.

He decided to take a look at the map at the door.

The effect of yesterday's interview seems to be even better than he imagined. After Russell got out of the car, he clearly felt that almost everyone's eyes would definitely pass by him.

They were polite, just staring at Russell or secretly taking two pictures of themselves, instead of rushing up to ask for friends or a group photo...... If you were to be like those people last night, almost everyone would have to talk to themselves when they met, and Russell would faint.

- He can't be regarded as a social phobia, but this return rate is inevitably too high.

After studying the map for a while, he took the No. 3 Sky Railway and followed his uncle's instructions to the first area where the Executive Department building was located.

Perhaps because of his fame, or because of his cute and harmless appearance, he was constantly greeted and pulled over to give up his seat after he got in the car. Eventually, he was pulled to the last row, stuck between two big sisters with horns and horse ears.

In order not to touch the body of the person around him, or to make the person around him think that he needs more space and step away, Russell was forced to sit up straight and put his legs together to occupy as little space as possible.

This only made Russell more tired. It even reminded him of the experience of crowding the subway during the morning rush hour.

But the good thing it doesn't last long.

After Russell got off the train, the flow of people around him became significantly reduced, and the atmosphere changed and became completely different.

When you first enter the park, you are filled with a sense of joy and relaxation mixed with gold and pink......

Then the environment in Zone 1 is like a gray-black filter.

would be reminiscent of attending someone's funeral in a drizzle...... That feeling.

Russell looked around as he walked towards the Executive Building.

Suddenly, he felt a shadow cast in front of him.

"—Mr. Russell?"

A voice rang out.

Russell looked up.

It was a man who had not been noticed by Russell before, but appeared in front of him like a shadow without warning.

The man looked to be about thirty years old, and he was close to 1.8 meters tall, not counting the antlers on his head.

He wore a dark black slim-fitting trench coat and long pale blonde hair draped behind him. He has a tall and killer-like temperament, with antlers in the shape of a sika deer on his head and slightly pointed ears, which will remind people who meet for the first time to think of elves.

His expression was cold, and his tiredness could be seen through the dark circles under his eyes and his pale countenance.

"Confirm, Mr. Russell......"

There was not a trace of flattery, nor flattery and worship in the cold voice of the young man, but it was full of vigilance and scrutiny: "The new hero, the big celebrity who became famous yesterday...... Right? ”

“…… It's me. ”

Russell nodded slightly.

He doesn't have a hypocritical argument like "I don't think I'm a hero."

That can make people feel hypocritical and make people tired.

"Director Dodgerson wants me to pick you up for your inauguration."

The young man with the antlers saluted Russell with a respectful and distant attitude, and said flatly, "Please come with me." ”

Even though he was ordered by the director and received a "hero" who was worshipped by the people, the young man's back was so straight. It was as if nothing could shake his will.

"Excuse me...... How to call it? ”

"The inferior."

The young man with the antlers replied briefly, "You should also have a code name of your own, Mr. Russell." Life and work should be separated. ”

"Ah, I've thought about it too......"

Before the aura of the inferior, Russell subconsciously showed a harmless and innocent smile: "It's just that I haven't figured out what kind of code name I want yet." After all, if nothing else, this code name will be with you for a lifetime. ”

"Then you can think slowly."

The inferior walks in front and does not look back.

His cold, pale voice, reminiscent of snow, reached Russell's ears clearly:

"The working hours in the group will be long, long, maybe for the rest of my life...... Maybe it will be able to grow into the next life. ”