Chapter 140: The Meaning of Time
"A little left, a little left, a little right." Under the command of Li Yijia, the Minotaur is changing the direction of the newly installed chandelier on the top, and the huge horns will raise their heads against the roof from time to time, making a squeaky sound.
After a lot of work, she finally put it in the right place, and the Minotaur jumped down, clapped her hands to break up the dust on her body, and said with a smile: "Sister, this is almost the same for you, the rice you said before should be fine, right?" "This building is an old apartment from 50 years ago, and she chose it because of the cheap rent, no elevator, no heating, and even all kinds of small problems from time to time, some of which she can solve by herself, such as leaky pipes, non-ignitable gas, and exhaust fans that do not exhaust.
Some of them need the help of the neighbors next to them, such as the lights that flash from time to time, mainly because they are really too high, and she can't reach the ladder, and after breaking for a while, she finally can't help but fix it.
Hearing the demand for food from the aunt of the Minotaur, Li Yijia gritted her teeth and nodded to indicate that there was no problem, her skin was slightly blue, and her hair was curly, but she looked very docile.
Soon she regretted it, and watched Aunt Minotaur and her two children eat hase, and eat her share of the week's food.
Seeing Aunt Minotaur waving goodbye enthusiastically, Li Yijia was a little skeptical of life, wondering if it was a wrong choice for her to ask a neighbor for help instead of hiring a repairman in order to save money?
But it must be spent, otherwise Leopold came back and found that the lamp was completely broken, and it would have to be talked about for a while, after all, he had wanted to repair this thing for a long time, but under his own persuasion, he never realized his wish to repair the broken lamp.
A dim light was lit in the house, and Li Yijia sat at the table and drew the light curtain, absentmindedly watching what was happening recently: "My lights have been repaired, not only did it take time, but I was also eaten so much food, if you don't come back, I'm going to be angry." The sound of the door being opened.
"What are you angry about, who dares to make our little princess angry?" Liyika jumped up, her face full of surprise: "Leopold! "A big hug.
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"I thought that if I didn't survive, fortunately I had made a will before, and I could transfer the rest of my time to you, but this inheritance tax will be charged at 20%, and I feel a little heartache when I think about it."
"How much time do you have now? I'd like to hear what it is that I can inherit 80%, and consider whether I want to send you away now. ”
"Hehe, I won't tell you, my stupid sister!" Leopold explained to his sister about his experiences these days, and introduced the frustrated spirit man he had picked up.
Zhou Yizhi changed back to his original appearance, and Li Yijia looked at the amnesiac spirit man curiously: "The spirit people are all employees of the Time Bank, if you are attacked, then what happened, is it related to the internal affairs of the bank?" After all, time is getting stranger and stranger now, the time for the change of seasons is getting shorter and shorter, and the number of times each extreme season appears is increasing. ”
"What is this in the Counter-Time Hall?" Leopold didn't speak, but asked Liyijia to explain that if his sister is there, he usually doesn't need to speak, but it's okay to say it right, if he makes a mistake, he will be disliked, my stupid brother!
Li Yijia explained: "There are two factions in the Time Bank, two promotion routes, and you can see the two cities above your head, which represent two routes, clockwise to City Seven and counterclockwise to City Five. The purpose of the Counter-Time Department is to be at peace with the situation, conform to the destiny of heaven, and do not interfere too much with the flow of time, and the purpose of the Counter-Time Department is to do a good job and hold more time in their own hands, so they are more active and compete with each other. The Chronicle is an old faction of the World Bank, which has developed in strict accordance with the laws of generation that have been handed down since ancient times, and it is a relatively new faction compared to the Counter-Chronological Hall, but it is also relatively speaking, it has a long or even thousands of years of history, otherwise it would not have developed such a large faction. Zhou Yizhi nodded: "Then why do you say that I am from the Counter-Time Hall?" What is the difference between these two? ”
"The characteristics of your clothes are very similar to those in the Counter-Time Hall, quaint and wonderful, and the main thing is that they are very expensive at first glance. People who follow the current situation, advocating trendy and full of science and technology, will not be like your clothes. Zhou Yizhi bowed his head, wearing a magic robe engraved with a heroic magic circle, which could resist the damage of the sixth layer of Qi training.
It's a little strange, shouldn't it be the older side that follows the Mandate of Heaven and circulates according to time? How can the anti-time hall advocate the simple style, Zhou Yizhi listened to this, and his heart moved.
If there had been outsiders in the human race before, relying on their cultivation, then as long as they had been here, they would definitely have changed this world, so where was the impact, and now it can be guessed that mastering the direction of the fifth city of this anti-time hall may be promoted by previous cultivators.
Leopold was surprised and sighed: "Sister, how do you know so much?" Li Yijia rolled her eyes: "Don't you know that I have to prepare for the exam of Time Bank?" You don't have to know more about this, otherwise you won't be able to get in. Li Yijia smashed the thick information in front of Leopoldus: "Remember to reimburse." "Leopold looked up at the sky and pretended not to see all this, sister, what are you talking about?
This lamp still looks pretty beautiful, and you actually secretly repaired it, saying that I would come back and fix it.
Zhou Yizhi thought about it and looked at the light curtain in Li Yijia's hand: "Can you lend me this?" ”
"No problem, you use it at night, and I want to study during the day!" Li Yijia went to the kitchen and finally brought out two bowls of clear soup noodles with poached eggs: "Eat!" I just heard you say that you haven't stopped rushing back, you have been outside for so long, you must be hungry, eat a little first, there is still a lot of food, just now in order to repair this lamp was basically eaten, I knew that I would not repair this broken lamp! Leopold and Zhou Yizhi glanced at each other, and suddenly felt a little hungry, and inhaled at the speed of light.
"Eh, eat slowly!" …… In one room, the room is small, with only one bed, various connections on the bed, and a clock that takes up half the size of a wall.
The strange fish lay on the soles of his feet, Zhou Yizhi fed a handful of Bliss Pill to Bamboo, and Bamboo lay on the bed and fell asleep, in addition to the excitement of just crossing over, it was obvious that breaking the boundary was also too consuming for Bamboo.
Li Yijia didn't express much love for bamboo, when the bamboo jumped up and down in the room, she just rubbed her nose and sneezed, and she automatically chose to stay away from allergic rhinitis.
Zhou Yizhi looked at the light curtain and had a clearer understanding of this world. Through time trading, you can get everything you want, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to luxury enjoyment, as long as you can give enough time, you can do anything.
If you can't think of it, you can't do it. Zhou Yizhi said that it was an eye-opener, in order to get time from others, there are more entertainment channels in the world of ancient clocks than he imagined, the game of virtual helmets has appeared in this world, Zhou Yizhi even went in and tried it, with himself as the protagonist, all events are at the service of him, all kinds of difficulties and trials are maintained at a just right, and the coolness is full.
Other soft pornography or film and television works have stimulated the senses of the world to the extreme, or all kinds of other services have been exerted to the extreme, after all, time does not deceive, only if you are willing to pay time from your hands, you can get it.
Zhou Yizhi roughly calculated according to the examples given by everyone on the Internet, basically speaking, in the most ordinary job, if you maintain the normal ratio of work and leisure time, you can be almost the same as your initial lifespan, or even more.
Normal life here refers to three meals a day without worry, and the ability to have your own housing, but other than that, there is no guarantee.
But if you want a better life, or a higher level of enjoyment, you need to work harder, extend your working hours, and compress your leisure time to make your short leisure time more valuable and enjoyable.
Or you can have a more efficient way to gain time, constantly improve yourself, and engage in more rewarding work, such as exploring the metaverse, which requires a certain amount of courage and ability, of course, the best and brightest of them is naturally to enter the time bank, where the time reward is the highest, and it can be said that it is a job that can truly achieve class leapfrogging.
It's just that a good job has only one drawback, and that is that it is difficult, and often only the best people can get into it.
Rioka is constantly working towards this goal. Of course, the income is not only this, but there are often some other subsidies, such as completing the tasks released by the time bank, and being able to get a large amount of time rewards.
Another example is the most common marriage and childbirth, which can transfer 10% of the child's time to the parents, with an average of 5% for each parent.
This is what parents are paid for raising their children. But this can only be received after the child successfully lives to the age of 18, which is to avoid the occurrence of the kind of thing that does not care about childbirth, which happened a long time ago, and the family was crazy and only cared for childbirth, regardless of raising, resulting in many babies being starved to death in swaddling clothes.
Of course, you don't have to worry about a sudden reduction when you are an adult, and the 10% fee has been deducted from the time bank in advance when you were born.
The older generation has this kind of multi-birth, they can live longer, and treat their children more attentively, which is also a mutually beneficial behavior in their eyes.
However, the new generation of young people don't think so, they basically just want to live their own lives, so they often complain to each other in the light curtain forum, and the older generation says that the new generation's ideological changes are too selfish, only caring about themselves, without a little dedication.
The new generation says that the older generation is too verbose, and the purpose is not simple, and they treat their children as money-making machines.
Time is clearly placed here, whether you cover your eyes and pretend not to see, he will not change, little by little, so it will always inspire you to do all kinds of things, the ancient clock world is like this, so the crowd is also divided into different life concepts.
Some are happy in time, as long as they live this life happily, they will spend their time value in a very short time and at a very fast speed after adulthood, live a brilliant, short, and beautiful life, and then say goodbye to the world in a comfortable way, but such people are extremely rare, and they are often not understood by the public, but now they are slowly becoming more.
However, both the official media and public speculation are extremely critical of this kind of person. Some are minimalist, saying that the flowers that should be spent, and the flowers that should not be spent are not spent, trying to use all kinds of means to reduce unnecessary expenses, Zhou Yizhi entered a group of frenzied festivals, and watched with relish.
There are a lot of tips to save time and money, such as getting various cards to become members, being able to receive some small gifts for free every year, and various discount coupons that you can't miss.
Of course, the most is the most universal, and it is also the most universally recognized, working hard to save a lot of time, just to live more comfortably after work, as the so-called do your best, no regrets.
Even if they can't engage in high-level work, they often choose high-intensity work in their own positions, and even modify their organs for more convenient work, so as to engage in higher-intensity work for higher pay.
As well as compressing in unnecessary places, of course, without exception, they will choose to reduce their sleep time, sleep time is a very precious and luxurious thing in the eyes of the people of the ancient clock world, and when they wake up, they will find their own life, and a few hours have passed unconsciously, so they will basically choose to modify their bodies and reduce sleep.
There are other things such as eating, the cumbersome process is disliked, a mouthful of energy pills full of various essences and concentrated one pill, the energy pill company has even become a giant with this product alone, and the slogan is also bright and exciting.
"Save half an hour at each meal, save an hour and a half a day, and after a year, you will have nearly a month less time than others." Such a clear contrast in slogans is extremely heartwarming, and some people call the energy pill the greatest invention of our time, which not only saves time, but also saves time on food.
Outside of work, they live their lives to the fullest and devote themselves to the places they want to know and play more.
…… Zhou Yizhi saw one point, it turned out that this world is not without cultivation methods, but this cultivation method is a little peculiar.
To enter City 5 and City 7, you need a time value condition. You must have at least 70 years of time remaining and pay for 5 years to become a permanent resident of City 5 and City 7.
This stopped a large number of people, each race has a different lifespan, but generally speaking, it is not too long, and the fish-people generally have a lifespan between sixty and sixty-five.
That's not all, some races of different ages can even meet this standard at the beginning, but there are still ways to break through the limit.
At a certain point, the watch must be upgraded to be able to store for more time, and the watch can make the body stronger when upgraded.