Chapter 39: Symbiosis

"Welcome to Ether Corporation."

When Qi Jie said this, Lu Yun noticed the change in the mood of the other people present.

It was an undisguised pride, but compared to the people in the city who had bright eyes and wanted to do something big with excitement, although a few people from the suburbs like Lu Yun and Xiang Yan were also happy, there were also some doubts mixed in them.

Just like Lu Yun at the beginning, I don't know why I was able to enter the greatest company in the world today.

"There were a total of 19 new recruits present, 5 from the suburbs and 14 from the urban area."

"Next, we will issue each of you a portable terminal, please read the built-in company contract as soon as you get it, and sign it if you have no objections."

"Please note that once you sign a contract, you can't change it, until then you can choose to turn around and leave, return to your normal life after memory processing, or try to join the above-ground department."

"But after that, you will no longer have the opportunity to become an employee at the authority level."

As soon as Qi Jie's words fell, the door of the onboarding office was pushed open, and several employees in dark blue uniforms walked in with multiple watches and a small box covered with a black cloth.

The employee holding the watch distributed it to everyone in the team, and the employee holding the small box covered with a black cloth walked up behind Qi Jie and placed it on the table.

After the distribution, all the employees in dark blue uniforms retreated behind Han Yueqiu and Qi Jie, standing quietly without saying a word.

"Now, put the terminal on your hand, turn it on and read it."

Lu Yun, who came from the suburbs, had never seen such a high-end item as a watch, and it took him a long time to tie this blue-black gadget to his hand.

Lu Yun looked around and found that those people in the city had already skillfully fastened their watches, while people in the suburbs like him were still struggling to toss.

When everyone put their watches on, Zijie asked them to press the button on the side.

With a single drop, a blue light was cast into the air from the dial, creating a page-like shape in the air, and indeed the words were written on it.

Miraculously, although there were many words in it that Lu Yun didn't understand at first glance, he quickly understood what it meant.

"The Ether cognitive technology inside the portable terminal allows you to directly understand the meaning of the text, so you don't have to worry about not being able to understand the content of the contract."

As soon as Lu Yun wanted to ask, Qi Jie answered his doubts directly like an unpredictable prophet.

Everyone in the room nodded, and then carefully read every clause of the contract.

For Lu Yun, who has spent a lot of time in school, it is not difficult to read a large section of text, and soon, he has a general understanding of the content of the contract.

In addition to the basic benefits package and holiday arrangements, the content of the Ether contract is unexpected.

There are only 3 important ones:

1. Everything related to the Aether Company must be kept confidential, and high-privilege information cannot be shared with low-privilege information, and violators will be amnesticized and disposed of.

2. All arrangements from the high authority must be carried out, and the offender will be dealt with regardless of the circumstances.

3. Obey the company and follow yourself.

Lu Yun saw it very clearly in front of him, only in this last cloud and fog, he didn't understand what it meant to "follow himself".

"Mr. Section Chief, what is compliance with oneself, and doesn't it contradict obeying the company?"

A girl with two ponytails from the city, who looked very energetic, asked Qi Jie, and when she said the question, everyone looked at Qi Jie, expecting the answer to the question.

"To put it simply, as long as you don't violate the company's rules, you can use the company's resources within the scope of your authority to do whatever you want, and it is also allowed to fire employees with low or no authority."

Qi Jie's bland speech caused an uproar in the ranks of new employees, and Lu Yun instantly understood why those employees without authority looked at him so cautiously when he was on the surface just now.

"In addition, there is no contradiction between obeying oneself and obeying the company in most cases, and the company has always only looked at the results when assigning tasks, and the determination of whether there is a casualty or injury is in the hands of the executor."

This explanation coincides with Lu Yun's impression of the employees of the ether company, and among the rumors about the company's employees in the suburbs, there are those who are extremely concerned about casualties, and there are also those who do not care about death and injury at all.

Many of the actions that do not look like the same company at all are explained today.

Drip.

Lu Yun pressed the confirmation button of the contract, and then, as if in response to his actions, the confirmation prompts on the terminal came and went.

"Very well, the contract is made, and everything that happens next will involve confidentiality clauses."

After the last person also pressed the confirm button, Qi Jie nodded, turned around and took the box covered with black cloth on the table behind him in his hand.

"As you should all know, before the settlements were built, they were as ruins as the rest of the world."

"Ethereum spent a lot of time sweeping thousands of miles of rubble from the coast, and finally established a residential area and created a new energy ecosystem based on Ethereum."

"So, how did the company clean up the post-war anomaly, and how did the company's aether be produced?"

Lu Yun knew the answers to these questions, but when he subconsciously wanted to answer, he realized that most of the people here, especially those in the urban area, had been completely isolated from the post-war period before.

Call... Call...

A few heavy gasps caught Lu Yun's attention, and he noticed that there were several people in the city who were dressed luxuriously and their breathing was heavier, and they seemed to be eager to know the answer to this question.

Among them, a young man with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, neat short hair, and Lu Yun's age was extremely excited, which made Lu Yun somewhat understand the value of this information in the urban area.

"The answer is a post-war anomaly."

As he spoke, Qi Jie lifted the cloth covering the box, which was a fully transparent cube made of glass, so that everything inside could be seen unhindered.

In the transparent box, there was a creature shaped like a small human, but that... Although it has all the parts that can be called human, it is completely impossible to recognize it as a human.

The head of the thing was at the same place as it had been on its chest, but its eyes were on its chin, and it was attached to its revealing neck, and now it had a left leg that was pulled down, and the right leg was in the center of its back, stretched straight.

The hands replaced the eyes, the arms became the mouth, and the mouth became the navel.

The little man, who did not have a part of his body that grew in the middle of the transparent box, was crouching in the center of the transparent box at the moment, and a pair of eyes on his chin were closed.

Of course, the premise is that his movements can still be called "squatting".

And when Qi Jie pulled away the black cloth, the little man seemed to notice the change in the environment, and opened his eyes in a dream, and when he got up, the parts of his body changed again.

Like a boat drifting on the water, the body parts of the little man also cruise freely on the body.

When he stood up, the eyes that had been on his chin had moved one to the spring bag in the straddle, the other to the middle of his chest, and the rest of the body had a new position.

"Gross!"

The women from the city and a few men retched, and the young man with neat short hair leaned over to the glass to watch, without fear at all.

And Lu Yun and Xiang Yan, who knew that it was an anomaly after the war, took a few steps back, although they knew that there was probably no danger, but it was always right to be careful.

The rest of the people in the suburbs saw Lu Yun and Xiang Yan's movements, so they also retreated, except for a young woman with a high ponytail who didn't move, she just gritted her teeth and looked at the thing.

Lu Yun could feel that she had an incomparable hatred for the thing in Qi Jie's hand.

Qi Jie waved his hand to let several men in the nearby urban area retreat into the group, and then dragged the glass box with one hand and calmly continued to explain:

"Whether it's cleaning up post-war anomalies or producing aether, only containers who are qualified enough to contain them are capable of doing so."

"So, the last thing you have to do before deciding on the assigned department and the authority to assign is to try to contain it."

"Rest assured, your qualifications have passed the initial tests, and there will be no serious surprises even if containment fails."

Qi Jie said, looking at the little man who was still "walking" around the box, its parts still drifting around with the movement.

"Material-type post-war anomaly, Hazard Level: F, caused 5 deaths and 34 injuries in Sector Q (17), officially designation..."

"Symbiosis."