Chapter 1: I'm done
"I'm done."
Zheng Zhuo lay on the narrow bed in the rental house in a large shape, looking at the familiar ceiling and muttering to himself.
In the small room, a few cardboard boxes were scattered in the corner, and you could see that there were some pens, paper, drinking glasses and other small things inside.
But their owners are clearly not in the mood to clean up at the moment.
"Haha......"
Zheng Zhuogan laughed twice.
"I'm really unemployed."
……
To be precise, Zheng Zhuo has been unemployed for a week and three days.
After graduating from university, Zheng Zhuo entered a well-known company with his personal ability. At that time, he was still complacent for a while, thinking that his ability had finally been appreciated.
Now that I think about it, HR probably just took a fancy to the work-study experience that was full of his resume.
Overtime, overtime, overtime. Overtime at noon, overtime at night, overtime on weekends, and overtime on holidays.
"You're a highly anticipated newcomer" is followed by "It's a time for business development", and "It's a time for business development" is followed by "You see your peers are working overtime".
Zheng Zhuo, who was trapped by one after another words that were difficult to distinguish between true and false, lived up to the tenacity he honed during his work-study and stayed here for six years.
However, the situation has not gotten better, but worse.
As more and more competitors squeezed into Zheng's piece of cake for their industry, the overtime culture quickly swelled to a terrible point.
Ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, one o'clock. The time to go home is constantly delayed, but the time to go to work is not delayed for a minute. Bosses began to use increasingly high-pressure methods to manage their employees.
Finally, Zheng Zhuo, who had only slept for four hours a day for three weeks, quietly unplugged the connecting cables of the computer case one by one at the morning meeting, and then lifted it up.
In the next second, the computer case flew past the boss's head.
"Bang!" There was a loud bang.
Zheng Zhuo, who had regained his senses a little, heard the sound of his future falling apart with the chassis.
……
"Haha...... The job list said salary, but it was good......"
Zheng Zhuo swiped his phone aimlessly and said with a wry smile.
The compensation that should be compensated and the compensation that should be received. After leaving the company for more than a week, if you want him to describe his current mood, it is more suitable than "happy", "relieved", "frightened", "helpless", or "dazed".
But even if the mind has not yet calmed down, the mind has already understood one thing.
"If you don't look for a job, you can't do it......"
28 years old, male, single, four-digit deposit, upper average height, medium to low weight. The stunt is to be good at neatly breaking disposable chopsticks into two. Business Skills ......
I worked for six years and did all the odd jobs. If you think about it, you don't have any business skills.
“…… Am I finished? ”
Zheng Zhuo didn't know how many times he said this sentence today. He indifferently searched his phone for employment-related content.
"Let's take a look at the forum first."
Hot post: Ten reasons not to quit during this period.
Hot post: If I knew this was the case, I wouldn't resign.
Hot post: I quit my job because I was dissatisfied with the nature of my work. Re: The landlord is a fool. It's too late to cry and beg for help. In the future, you will want to beat the current you to death.
“……”
Swipe up to close the page.
"Let's find some apps to find a job."
Zheng Zhuo turned to the mobile app store.
Employment, employment, employment games, business games, employment psychology tests, games......
"There are a lot of games with this genre. No, how can I be in the mood to ...... now"
“…… Can you be employed as a crocodile? What kind of strange game is this......"
“…… Huh! Why are you dead again......"
“……”
“…… Ha! ”
Zheng Zhuo raised his head suddenly. Outside the window, where the sun was still shining, it was already dark at the moment.
……
"Perhaps the last person I should trust is myself."
Zheng Zhuo finally got up from the bed. He bites into the plastic packaging of instant noodles and begins to cook dinner, while working to remove the software that had been added to his phone within hours of disappearing.
"Game deletion, game deletion, software deletion that is deceptive at first glance, famous job search software stays, game deletion ......"
“…… Well? ”
Zheng Zhuo's finger swiped across the phone's screen and stopped on a software icon.
The icon itself is completely black, with a red arc in the lower half of the icon. It looked like a smiling mouth...... It's just that there is no face.
"It's really simple enough icons."
Zheng Zhuo's gaze slid down.
Collective subconscious.
This is the name of this software. The name is also very concise.
"Have I downloaded this? Ah, isn't it some kind of psychometric testing software......"
Zheng Zhuo didn't think much about it. He clicked in.
……
Collective subconscious.
This is the collective experience that mankind has gained in the course of historical evolution. It is a psychological activity that transcends the individual's acquired life experience and transcends the ordinary and collective nature of all human beings as individuals, as well as nations and races. In the hypothesis proposed by Carl Gustav Jung......
"Wait, wait, wait."
Unexpectedly, after clicking into the software, the background of the application is all black, and there are no icons, buttons or guides on the interface, only large paragraphs of white words.
Zheng Zhuo kept sliding. The further down you go, the more jargon there is in psychology and the more obscure the article becomes. Obviously, they are all written in Chinese characters, and he knows every word, so he can't understand them when they are connected.
"What is this? Psychology Essay Software? Who would develop such a thing...... Yes. ”
He finally slipped to the bottom. There, at last, there was a line of words he could read.
"This software has been developed to conduct experiments related to the collective subconscious. The purpose of this experiment was to obtain data on the behavior patterns of individuals in unconventional environments. ”
There's also a button underneath this line. The buttons are black on white.
[I have learned]
“…… The human-computer interface is not very well designed......"
It turns out that the first paragraph is an informed consent form. Just like the kind of long article that needs to be confirmed before following up on the game.
Zheng Zhuo thought so and clicked the [I know] button.
Immediately after, the screen went completely black again. Immediately, a white frame appeared on the screen of the phone. Above the white box are two tabs. The tab that is currently being displayed is Subconscious World, and the second tab that is not displayed is Subliminal Voting.
“…… World and ...... Vote. ”
Zheng Zhuo frowned. They don't seem to be related.
Moreover, the [Subconscious World] page currently displayed has nothing. No matter how you swipe the phone screen, only the black page is displayed.
So, Zheng Zhuo clicked on the second tab, [Subconscious Voting].
There's content on the screen this time. But......
"You need to fill it out all by yourself...... Is it really psychometric testing software? ”
Zheng Zhuo studied the content on the screen.
At the top is a line of small print.
"Ask questions with options. All of humanity will subconsciously choose options. ”
Below this line is the fill in area.
【Question】
【(To be filled)】
[Option 1]
【(To be filled)】
[Option 2]
【(To be filled)】
【+Add Options】
【Initiating a Vote】
"All of humanity...... That's an exaggeration. Is it some university doing experiments? It's the type of person who tells the subject, 'All of humanity will answer your questions,' when in fact only some of the volunteers you find will answer your questions. ”
Zheng Zhuo touched his chin and thought.
Even if there were just some volunteers on the other side, he was a little tempted to try it, but ......
"Suddenly asked me to ask all of humanity a question, and I don't know what to ask."
If you say that you are most concerned about the thing now, it must be employment. Q: Employment?
"Wait, if you want others to make a judgment, you have to write a lot of your own personal information. I don't know the details of the software, and it's too dangerous to write personal information...... I've got it. ”
Zheng Zhuo suddenly laughed.
"That's what you said." All of humanity will subconsciously choose options'. In that case......
Let all of humanity evaluate your software, shall we?
Zheng Zhuo tapped the screen and typed in the question.
【Question】
Suppose you are unemployed. When searching for job search questions, software has emerged that can ask questions to the subconscious of all human beings. What should I do? 】
[Option 1]
[God-given opportunity! Trust the software and enter more intelligence to find a way to make money quickly]
[Option 2]
[What's the use of this?] Stay in your phone and try to play with it when you remember. Should you find a job or do you have to find it. 】
[Option 3]
[Suspicious software! Occupancy memory may also contain viruses. Delete immediately and go for a serious job. 】
【Initiating a Vote】
……
"Let me see what all of humanity is thinking."
Zheng Zhuo said half-jokingly and pressed the [Start Vote] button.
Fillable content immediately becomes text displayed on the screen. At the same time, a bar chart appears below all the options. At the top of each bar is a percentage number, and all the bars are constantly floating up and down, and the numbers are jumping at a speed that is difficult to see with the naked eye.
"Oooh...... It's amazing, it's really moving. ”
Zheng Zhuo couldn't help but sigh.
Has this software really made it into the statistics? No, no, you can't vote so quickly. Even if you are a volunteer, it takes time to receive the question, read the question, think about it, and then vote. This should just be the "polling" dynamic effect that the website does.
Zheng Zhuo stared at the voting page. After a while, his eyes began to glaze, and the dynamics of the vote did not change in any way.
"How long does it take...... Yes! My instant noodles! ”
Zheng Zhuo threw his phone aside. He lifted the lid and frowned—the noodles were rotten when he had just deleted the software.
"Evil ...... Ay. Forget it, it's the same when you eat it in your stomach. ”
Whether it is out of moral considerations or savings considerations, Zheng Zhuo's current situation does not support him to waste it. He sighed and began to eat cheap instant noodles that shattered at the slightest mention of it.
"Is the collective subconscious ......"
Zheng Zhuo never felt that he was a smart person. Like now, he downloaded a software that would have a lot of people voting on his questions, not knowing what it would do.
(can think of usage...... I want to think about it...... )”
Zheng Zhuo thought of himself. A little more than a week ago, he was fired because he couldn't stand excessive overtime. And until now, he doesn't know if the decision he made at the time was right or wrong.
Isn't it better to endure it? Or would it be better to resign earlier?
It's a hard question to ask anyone else. Even if he asks relatives and friends, or posts on the Internet, he always feels that the other party's opinion has its own position, or thinks that it is the minority opinion of a few people.
So, is using this software the best answer?
I don't know who the questioner is, I don't know who the answerer is. Answering out of the "subconscious", there is no position of one's own, and there is no one who watches the excitement.
If there really is a correct answer to the world's questions, will the one that is closest to the correct answer be the answer that was most chosen by the people in this poll?
“…… Hey, hey. Don't put your hopes in software that comes out of nowhere. ”
Zheng Zhuo smiled. He muttered to himself.
"Anyway, let's take a look at the results of this vote."