Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 2 The recent virus is so powerful

After a while, the options stopped.

"Option 12.9 is 67.7%, option 19.4 is [-]%, option [-] is [-]%...the statistics really come out."

Zheng Zhuo has already prepared for this to be an empty shell software with a moving picture posted on it.

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【Option [-]】

[What's the use of this?Just keep it in your phone and just try to play it whenever you remember.Jobs should be found or have to be found. 】

……

Most people think that life must go on.It is best to do things down-to-earth.At the same time, it also leaves room to wait and see.

"The ticket shape looks like that... Is there really someone voting behind the scenes?"

Zheng Zhuo glanced at the result and put the phone aside.

"Hey, let's go to work tomorrow."

……

the next day.

"I'll take a look. I'll take a look...ah, there it is. 'Employee Urgent'."

After walking several alleys.Zheng Zhuo successfully found a small supermarket that was recruiting workers.He came a little early, only a few lights were turned on in the store, and it was dark in the depths.

"Hello—is anyone here—are you looking for a job here—"

He poked his head inside and called out.

Followed by.

"Dad—someone is looking for—"

"Wow."

A girl shouted beside Zheng Zhuo, startling him.He hadn't noticed anyone else nearby just now.

Zheng Zhuo turned around.A girl who looks like a college student is wearing a thick and heavy fur coat, nestling behind the counter on the right.

The female student cut a mushroom head and wore thick black-rimmed glasses.She stared at the laptop screen, frowning, and the black coat she wore was so fluffy that she looked a bit like a giant badger.

Her black outfit blends so well with the shade under the counter...

Zheng Zhuo wanted to take a few more glances to see where the boundary of her fur coat was.However, the boss came out from the back warehouse at this time.

He hurried forward.

……

After Zheng Zhuo explained his intentions, the boss expressed deep sympathy for what happened to him.

"It's not easy to do recently, it's not easy to do. Our former helper has also returned to his hometown. In terms of salary..."

The boss said an amount that was much lower than his original salary.However, it is a normal market price.

"...boy, when can you come to work?"

"I can do it now, I can do it right now."

Zheng Zhuo said immediately.

He had no other choice.

"Eh...then..."

The boss, who looked about 50 years old, touched his shiny bald head and said.

"Let's try it first. See if you have a good hand and foot. Come, there is something to be moved here."

Is that what you mean by trial?

Zheng Zhuo couldn't help but slander.Don't you always fill in the form first, starting from the familiar environment?
"(Am I treated as free labor?)"

"Why are you still standing there?"

"Ah! Sorry, here we come!"

Don't worry about it so much.The most important thing now is work.Work.

Zheng Zhuo decided to do it first.He put his mobile phone into the back pocket of his jeans, and started to move the boxes of mineral water, instant noodles and snacks he had never eaten.

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after an hour.

"Ha...ha...that's all..."

Zheng Zhuo wiped the sweat off his chin with the back of his hand and straightened his waist.

He looked at the warehouse that had changed from chaotic to orderly in just one hour, feeling a little sense of accomplishment in his heart.

"Haha, the experience of moving and tidying up things in the past six years has been retained. If I knew it, I would have worked in a small supermarket earlier, and maybe I could be a reserve store manager..."

Zheng Zhuo smiled wryly.

"Thanks for your hard work."

The boss who was also tidying things up walked by and handed him a bottle of water.

He stretched his waist again, left the warehouse with the boss, and walked to the front desk.

The schoolgirl is still sitting there.She, who was frowning tightly before, seemed to have entered the state now, her hands fluttering on the keyboard.

"You're doing well."

The store manager said as he walked that he seemed very satisfied with Zheng Zhuo's work efficiency.

"Thank you boss."

Zheng Zhuo replied gently.

"I'll make a form for you, you can fill it out later, and I'll go to the street to go through the formalities later."

"Is there anything I need to do? I can- ouch!!!"

Without warning, Zheng Zhuo suddenly screamed and jumped up.

……

"Ok?"

The store manager looked at the new helper suspiciously.I saw that his expression suddenly became strange, and he couldn't help grinning.

"Wait, wait. Excuse me, wait, I'm sorry—hiss!"

"Are you okay? What's the matter, did you flash to the waist..."

"No, no, it's all right! It's all right - I remembered that I forgot to move something just now -"

"Huh? Don't worry, let's rest first..."

"Wow - I'm in a hurry! Ah, that, what, I put it on a high shelf! If you don't move it quickly, it will fall off - I'll fix it right away!"

Before the boss finished speaking, Zheng Zhuo backed up and quickly rushed to the back of the shelf.

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…………

"Hiss—what—what's going on!"

Zheng Zhuo reached into his back pocket.

"It's hot! It's hot—ha—battery's on fire? Isn't it—"

Just now, while he was talking to the boss, the mobile phone he put in his back pocket suddenly became hot, as if it had turned into a red-hot soldering iron.

"Hush, hush..."

He wrapped his hands with the hem of his shirt and pulled the phone out with difficulty.His hand was hot and painful, but if he didn't pull it out, it would hurt more elsewhere.

"It's too tight...well...it's almost..."

at this time.

chapped.

Zheng Zhuo heard the sound of a fiber breaking.

"How--"

He turned his head and looked, almost unable to believe his eyes.

The gleaming blade of a pocket knife poked through the back pocket of his jeans.

"Huh—knife—?"

Zheng Zhuo couldn't help making a loud noise.

"Are you okay?"

The voice of the boss is approaching.Zheng Zhuo heard him coming.

"It's okay! It's okay! It's very good, very good, very good!"

Zheng Zhuo could only try his best to cover up.Now, there was a knife in his trouser pocket!Anyone who came to see it couldn't tell.

"You, you-"

He gritted his teeth hard, and the small knife with only the blade fell to the ground with a clang, accompanied by a faint smell of burning in his hand.

He pulled out the phone.

"Okay, I'll see—look—"

Just when he took the phone in front of him.

Bang!
A fireball the size of a human head sprayed out from the screen of the mobile phone, illuminating the depths of the shelf in an instant.

"I--"

Zheng Zhuo was so frightened that he dropped his phone on the ground.

on fire!

He wanted to stretch out his foot to step on it, but before he could step on it, the ball of fire disappeared together with the sparks it splattered.

The only thing that was still on in the field was the screen of his mobile phone.

Zheng Zhuo saw the weird software at a glance.Its icon has changed.

Now, the icon of the software becomes a red circle.There are also many non-concentric circles and short lines, constantly swimming inside the circle.

"Virus!? The recent virus is too strong!?"

Zheng Zhuo pounced on it, trying to long press it to delete it.However, the instant his finger touched the icon, it opened.

It's still the original black and white interface, but this time it's a little different.

A box appeared on the [Subconscious World] page.Inside the box, countless colors are constantly twisting.

"Close, close, hey, why can't I exit—"

Suddenly, Zheng Zhuo's eyes flashed!
A purple arc shoots out of the box.

"————"

Zheng Zhuo narrowed his eyes reflexively.The electric arc hit his lower eyelid, making him jerk with pain.

"No way--"

No matter how he swipe the page indiscriminately, this window cannot be closed.This made Zheng Zhuo even more desperate.

In short, in short, click to another page first.

[Voting] window pops up.It's still the same.At this time, you can still use it.

"Boy?"

Probably Zheng Zhuo's position made too many strange sounds and lights.The boss really came over this time.

"Ah—I'm fine! I'm fine!"

"You—ah, welcome."

Several guests walked in.He slightly delayed the boss's footsteps.

But for Zheng Zhuo, the situation is still not resolved.His phone started to get cold again, and there was a slight "cracking" sound.

This is how to do ah?

He really lost his mind now.

"Hey, hey! You know what to do!"

Zheng Zhuo really can't help it!He started typing very fast - he thought he must be crazy.

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【problem】

[During an important meeting, your phone suddenly spews out fireballs, knives and energy radiation.what will you do? 】

【Option [-]】

【Confess the strange things that happened and ask the people around you for help】

【Option [-]】

[Simply speaking, the phone is on fire and needs to be dealt with, run out]

【Option [-]】

【Hide your phone first, let's talk after the meeting】

【Option [-]】

[Forcibly throw the phone out of the window, as if nothing happened]

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"Initiate a vote... [Initiate a vote]!"

Zheng Zhuo pressed the button hard.

"This time you can hurry up, hurry up!"

　After [Option 1], [Option 1], [Option [-]] and [Option [-]], you can leave a message in the form of [this chapter says]. A message under [-] id counts as [-] vote.

　　The voting deadline for Chapter 2 is 2022.11.3 20:00.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)