Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 71 From Unemployment to Three Jobs
Ding-dong-

The automatic sensor doors of the small supermarket opened and closed, and batches of customers came and went.

"15 bucks 9."

Zheng Zhuo sat behind the cash register.He skillfully took the product from the customer, scanned the code, stuffed it into a plastic bag, and handed it to the customer.

His sense is more precise than an automatic sensor door.His head would only go up as soon as a customer started walking towards the cash register, and then lowered again as soon as the customer left.

There are several ledgers on the table.Zheng Zhuo lowered his head just to confirm these accounts.

He put down the scanner and picked up the pen.

"3089 minus 1972, deduct 4 cents for each item..."

Zheng Zhuo pressed the calculator.He pressed it so fast that the sound became an uninterrupted "click".

Ding-dong-

The guest checks out.

Zheng Zhuo looked up.

"39 bucks 3."

Ding-dong-

"8 yuan. Yes, scan here."

Ding-dong-

"……Wow."

This time, what appeared in front of Zheng Zhuo was no longer a customer looking left and right, but a face he was familiar with.

Black square glasses, short mushroom head hair.The person who came was Xue Ying, the daughter of the owner of the small supermarket.At this moment, she half opened her mouth with an expression of disbelief.

"Zheng Zhuo."

She pointed to the stacked ledgers at the counter.The account books with orange covers were stacked in a pile and neatly placed inside. What Zheng Zhuo was flipping through now was a set of account books with blue covers.

"Have you settled all accounts for this quarter?" She looked at the orange mountain and asked.

"correct."

Zheng Zhuo nodded.

"You've only been level for a few hours, right? It's too hard to imagine that you were a complete rookie seven days ago."

Xue Ying re-watched Zheng Zhuo from head to toe, as if it was the first day she saw him.

"You're already doing it faster than I am. How do you—you keep doing it? Counting things back and forth doesn't drive you crazy?"

"Alright."

Zheng Zhuo finished counting the last number in the blue ledger, and closed the blue ledger as well.He stood up.

"It's just practice makes perfect," he said, "with the help of valuable experience from the previous job."

"what……"

Xue Ying still couldn't believe it, she scratched the base of her ear.

"... By the way, I haven't seen that ledger. It's blue."

"Oh, you said this?"

Zheng Zhuo looked at the blue ledger in his hand.

"This is from the phone operator's store next door. They come to buy things. Seeing how fast I can count, please let me do the math for them."

……

Zheng Zhuo walked out of the small supermarket, turned around and entered the next operator's shop.He handed the account book to the clerk who thanked him, and accepted the labor fee for his help - 50 yuan.

Walking out of the store, Zheng Zhuo stretched himself in the night.

The content of the ledger is actually quite a lot.However, Zheng Zhuo didn't feel that bad.At least, after several hours of continuous work, his mood was still stable—it was stable from the inside out, rather than the previous stability where the surface was safe but the inside was fragmented.

"[Spiritual Resistance: Madness Ineffective]...Isn't this the one that's working?"

Zheng Zhuo exhaled white smoke in the cold air.

Is work in the real world an action that adds crazy value to people?

He seems to have discovered some incredible secrets about the real world.

"……Ha ha."

Zheng Zhuo took out his mobile phone and clicked on the electronic wallet.

This week's weekly salary has arrived.The balance has exceeded four digits for the first time since the rent was deducted two days ago.

"Er—it's okay."

To live is to survive.And, the performance is not bad.

"Let's take advantage of the valuable experience left by the previous job."

He thought of what he had just said, and turned the phone screen to another page.

【Collective subconscious】.

He clicked into the software.

【Subconscious World】.The small town world, ocean world, dungeon world and pure white world are all in a non-clickable state. [Subconscious voting] can still be used, but it is not necessary for the time being.

--Then.

A third tab is added.

【Personal information】.

……

【Participant: Zheng Zhuo】

[Position: Explorer]

[Worlds that have been cleared: Small Town World, Ocean World, Dungeon World]

[Subconscious World Ability: Appraisal/Quick Casting]

[Real World Ability: Mental Resistance: Crazy Invalid, Professional Proficiency Speed*10]

……

The last item, the ability he and the blue dragon obtained after the speed of life and death, [professional mastery speed * 10].

This is the valuable experience left by him in what he calls his "last job".

If [Spiritual Resistance: Madness Ineffective] could only give him a vague feeling that it might work in life, then [Professional Mastery Speed ​​* 10] gave him a more intuitive feeling.

He obviously felt that whether he was a clerk or an accountant, the speed at which he became familiar with the work became surprising.

After leaving [Pure White World] that day and waking up on a bench in the park, Zheng Zhuo started to work—a real work.Then, after only seven days of work, he became a veteran.

7 days of service = 70 days of service...

Maybe not.

He worked 7 days straight.In other words, if he follows the normal weekends, he has already worked 98 days.

About four months of work experience.

Accounting is even more scary.He counted intermittently for 3 hours.It's still acceptable here.But after the conversion, with 30 hours of accounting experience... it's kind of scary.

At least, he feels that he has surpassed the entry level.

Using this skill to do odd jobs is indeed a bit overkill.

"If I do some more powerful work, maybe I can get an annual salary that I can't imagine..."

Zheng Zhuo stared at the phone.

The young woman said she would notify him.But after a week, the [Collective Subconscious Mind] software did not move.

Leaving aside the notice without order, there is no remittance of tens of millions.

If people want to eat, they still have to be self-reliant.

"Why don't you go find some more skilled jobs first?"

Zheng Zhuo thought.

Anyway, he didn't have a set agenda: he didn't have to worry about looking for real people anymore.He saw them in the [Pure White Space]——Anyway, they haven't left the subconscious world, so they must be in a vegetable state now.Even if found, it is impossible to communicate with them.

"A job with a more technical level... How about a skilled job? No, a hardcover job..."

Just when Zheng Zhuo started to think.

hum.

In front of his eyes, the 【Collective Subconscious】software vibrated.

The software opens automatically. [Pure White World] began to shine.

"..."

The timing is too coincidental.

Is this some kind of anti-hopping means?

Zheng Zhuo stared at it silently for a long time.

"If it's possible, I'd rather receive a text message with a level of tens of millions..."

Zheng Zhuo sighed, and then clicked it.

……

Zheng Zhuo once again appeared in [Pure White World].He stepped on the ground and saw the difference between this place and the previous one at a glance.

The egg case that originally contained Chu Huairen and Zhuang Yusheng broke.Where they were originally, only the base of the egg remained, and the people inside had already left.

"They're recovered. They've been sent into their own bodies."

The young woman is always there, and always in the same posture—sitting facing the computer.

"Oh."

Zheng Zhuo just thought "it's useless to look for it".

"How about the remittance?"

"..."

"..."

"...It's more difficult than I thought. I'll keep trying."

it is good.Needless to say, Zheng Zhuo already understood.

"...In short, congratulations on the end of your vacation."

The young woman looked around the screen at Zheng Zhuo and said.

"Your brain wave state has recovered very well. You can consider the next world."

She snapped her fingers.A golden card appeared out of thin air.However, this time it was reduced from eleven to nine.

"That's it."

In fact, Zheng Zhuo didn't feel that he was on vacation.In other words, he feels that he has entered a sideline business from his main business.

...don't even think about sad things.

The side job is saving people.Doesn't that sound pretty good too?

Zheng Zhuo became a little happier as he said this to himself.

He clicked on the nine cards in front of him in turn.

……

【Innocent】.A young girl learns swordplay and magic at a castle-like school.

【traitor】.The fat man I've seen before is hiding on the top of the medieval castle at night, plotting something.

【magician】.The old man who once wandered in the wilderness in a RV came to the outskirts of the ruined city with his shotgun on his back.In the distance, zombies howled.

【hero】.A tall man in power armor left the battlefield to fight the monster.He returned to the mothership in the universe on a huge airship, looking for the next target on the star map.

【Love species】.The fashionable girl I had seen before walked through the dirty streets of the modern city.She squeezed into the crowded underground livehouse, entered the backstage, and lifted the curtain of the private clinic of the underground black doctor.

【clown】.The red-haired woman opened the windows of the tower that soared into the sky and shone with fantastic light.She was reciting something, and the dark light from the book collection exuded a dangerous atmosphere, and the dim cumulus clouds in the distance gradually gathered.

[caregiver].A middle-aged woman is farming in a farm deep in the forest.She grows unnamed plants with gigantic fangs or expansive canopies.

【ruler】.The explorer I met was still drinking in the inn.Only this time, the knife he stuck on the table was stained with blood.

【Creator】.A beautiful woman flies with a sword.She passed through the towering peaks, the pavilions in the distance, and flew to a fairyland in the clouds.

……

【problem】

[The third rescue operation.Who are you going to save? 】

【Option [-]】

【Innocent】

【Option [-]】

【traitor】

【Option [-]】

【magician】

【Option [-]】

【hero】

【Option [-]】

【Love species】

【Option [-]】

【clown】

【Option [-]】

【caregiver】

【Option [-]】

【ruler】

【Option Nine】

【Creator】

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

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