National Juggernaut

Chapter 2 The World of Infinite Traversal

Lan Mengqi is a border crosser, or in layman's terms, a traveler from another world.

From the modern world of science and technology that has entered the fourth technological revolution, I fell into a space crack that suddenly appeared, and jumped into a strange world where oil lamps, horse-drawn carriages, gods, and webcasts are parallel.

The living environment has leapt for thousands of years, and what you see and see is beyond recognition.

The strange and strange scenery made the female college students who are used to the modern life of surfing and shopping on the Internet a little confused.

In her era, time travel novels were actually quite popular.

A girl/boy who combines the knowledge of the advanced world travels through ancient/different worlds, using advanced knowledge/talents to kill specials, open X and so on.

Although the routine is clichéd, it is simple, rough and cool, and the routine is easy to mass-produce. It has become an industrial chain after a long reform and a light reform.

Meng Qi, a sophomore, hadn't considered getting a job yet, and while following dramas, she had read a lot of popular lightly reworked original novels.

At the beginning of time travel, for a moment, she even had her own time, and she could rely on the knowledge difference between the two lives to become the protagonist of the legendary story.

Uh, if she hadn't been caught by the Boundary Management Agency, commonly known as the Time and Space Administration

"Brother, if you catch the traverser, you won't really slice it directly, will you?"

At the same time, he tried to blink his big eyes to make himself look more cute.

Brought into a small dark room, Lan was full of panic, like a rabbit whose ears had been caught,

But sitting on the other side of the table, a young black-haired official who was suspected to be from the Space-Time Administration, looked at her with subtle eyes.

"It seems that you come from a technological civilization. This is their most common doubt. I have encountered it three times this month. According to the training manual of the Authority, I will give you the most effective standard answer."

After a pause, the young man really took out a booklet from the drawer, turned to the bookmark, and read aloud.

"The average number of cross-border incidents in Qianshi City in the past ten years is 37281 per year, with 3121 people crossing the border each year. The cumulative cross-border population exceeds 120 million, accounting for more than 7% of the total population. We just want to dissect. There is neither enough time nor enough professionals."

Talk, talk, laugh out loud.

"Dissect you? Is it worth it? Can the parts obtained after the autopsy pay the doctor's overtime pay? Even if you sell your organs, no one will use them."

Such an answer frightened Lan Lanmengqi.

Tomorrow your world will be turned into a sieve, so is my technological knowledge still useful?Isn't this my legendary story?

"Let's sit down and talk. Some time ago, our department was complained about. It was said that a group of people were sitting in the office and one of them was standing alone, complaining that our corporal punishment was inhumane."

"Oh."

Lan Mengqi looked at the chair by the wall, feeling a little strange.

"Why is it a deck chair? Or three?"

"Isn't this another complaint to the human rights organization that we are inhumane? The mental pressure is high in a closed environment, and there are a bunch of standing people staring at the sitting ones, making the office look like a collective trial, and changing the chairs. recliner."

Lan Mengqi's eyebrows could not help but twitch, which seemed to be a bit out of rhythm.

She found a recliner in the middle, and just lay down, the staff on the opposite side yelled again.

"Don't lie down, don't lie down. The Disciplinary Inspection Office only talked to us some time ago, saying that someone complained that doing things while lying down is too serious, and it will damage the image of Qianshi City's civil servants."

"Then what should I do?! Can't stand, sit or lie down?!"

"Half-sitting, half-sitting on a reclining chair is enough. Sitting on the third of the front end, the front half is suspended in the air, reclining against the Queen Mother is not dignified, and will be complained by inspectors."

The clerk who said this looked serious, he was not kidding, he was already frightened by the complaint.

"I'll just stand. Standing against the wall isn't considered corporal punishment."

"Okay, just wait until you sign a letter of commitment that requires you to stand up and do things. Don't look at me like that, we don't want to, aren't you afraid of being reported. You will be deducted from your salary, Miss Sister."

"Pfft, it's not easy for you either."

The small farce made Lan Mengqi dumbfounded, but at the same time, her uneasy mood calmed down a lot.

Seeing a reclining chair dragged over there, the standard black-haired clerk sitting in one third of the front, smiling and writing and drawing with a notebook, Lan Mengqi also showed her first smile since time travel.

It seems that, unlike expected, this is a more civilized and equal era?The world is not too bad?At least, it sounds very orderly, although it seems that the order has reached the point of pedantry

The young clerk also smiled, and the work can enter the next stage.

Perhaps, the current relaxed communication atmosphere is what they want to achieve.

"Well, as usual, in addition to telling you that such a transgressor is not too special, we are very experienced in dealing with it, and will also protect your basic human rights as intelligent creatures. Next, let me tell you that our side situation, it also affects your future life.”

Mercury is the sixth planet in the solar system named because more than [-]% of its surface is covered by oceans.

It was originally just a gathering place for the human species known as the terrifying upright ape, and it was an ordinary technological planet that could no longer be ordinary.

But after an event known as the "Great Collision," the entire worldline went awry.

"It's the 372nd year of the new calendar, and the exact time of the big collision can't be counted. At least a thousand years ago, it seems that scientists from a certain country messed up when they carried out the 'observer' effect. Oh, the physical level of your world has also reached That level? That's easy to explain."

"The microcosm is the theoretical cornerstone leading to the macrocosm. The Continental Large Particle Collider breaks through the theoretical limits of microcosmic particles, and verifies the observer effect of 'observation is real' in an ultramicrocosmic environment."

"Maybe you call it another name, but our so-called observer effect in quantum mechanics, simply put, is that the observation of a conscious body will have a major impact on the state of the material world, that is, consciousness can participate in the formation of the material world."

"What I see and think is reality. Personal will directly rewrites reality, isn't it very similar to the power of gods? Hehe, yes, it is the realm of gods. It's ridiculous, the top of technological civilization has become theology .”

"Large particle collision experiment succeeded, although we would rather it fail. The moment physics reached the state of the gods, our civilization also reached the state of the gods in a moment, announcing our existence to the multiverse and their 'observers'. "

"The result is that observers will also be observed, and we have become competitors in the eyes of the gods, the weakest and weakest ones, so they really came, and slapped us down, reaching the technology of the gods The trees were all destroyed, and what happened later caused the population of Mercury to drop by [-]%."

"In modern times, there are some researchers who say that it's not that they came, but that we have passed, and arrived at the arena of the gods and civilization. But it's pointless to dwell on these. The barriers of the world have become fragments, and we don't have enough weight." observers' to maintain the stability of the physical world"

"Today, the plane barriers of the entire world are still fragile. Our world is directly connected to at least three large worlds. There are too many cross-travel events to count, and it is terrible to deal with all kinds of illegal cross-travel beasts. You are so helpless Harmful traversers are a daily occurrence for us, no one will slice you into slices, you can rest assured now."

"Still don't understand? Uh, anyway, it's irrelevant background, so it's okay if you don't understand. The point is that in this era, the space barrier is as thin as paper, and it's very common to reach another world and become a transgressor, but it's super difficult to go back. "

"If you can't return, how are you going to survive in our world? Do you have any specialties, are you inclined to employment? Your past degrees and certificates have become meaningless. In order to prevent you from becoming a new factor of social instability, yes It is also my job to support you in reemployment."

Under the introduction of the enthusiastic staff of the management bureau, Lan Mengqi finally had an understanding of her situation.

This is a civilization that has re-emerged after the end of the world, and because the entire world space is unstable, "crossing" events are frequent, and the security is relatively low.

The adaptability of human beings is astonishing. Although the original technology tree has been devastated, the new era still has the technology of the new era. They still found a way to relatively stabilize the spatial order, but they must also face the challenges of any new technology. right question -

cost and efficiency!

The cost of each stable area is extremely high and cannot be easily mass-produced. Naturally, the lifestyle of a large population gathering centered on the stable point has become the main choice. The 53 super-large cities have concentrated more than [-]% of the population.

The Qianshi city that the administrator said has only 400 years of history, and it can be regarded as an emerging quasi-first-tier city.

The total area of ​​the city is about [-] square kilometers. It is said that a city is closer to a province, and it is a super-large city composed of six super-giant ring areas.

The total population is more than 4000 million (census three years ago). The closer to the center, the more stable and safe the space, the better the living conditions and the better the employment situation.

reason?It seems that there is no need to explain, the old tradition of the intelligent life group, the housing prices on the first ring road are unaffordable, and the houses on the sixth ring road are not available to you.

In fact, when it comes to the fifth and sixth ring roads, there is basically no urban area in the modern sense. Just the fifth ring road is several times larger than the first four ring roads combined, and most of them are undeveloped wild lands.

But that doesn't mean the outer ring is unimportant.

The small and medium-sized fortress towns in the outer ring are not only resource acquisition points but also first-line processing factories, and they are the main artery of the entire Shiqian City.

For ordinary outer-ring residents, regardless of the comfort of life, the wages given are quite high.

"Considering that you don't have any life skills and you can't read words, working as a general worker in the outer ring will make you quicker and easier for you to integrate into society. If you are willing to work as a factory girl in the sixth district, I can write you a letter of introduction right now. The train can enter the factory at five o'clock in the evening, and it can also catch up with the payday on the 28th of this month."

The staff member smiled like a successful black intermediary, as if the factory's introduction fee red envelope had been placed in front of him.

To be a factory girl?Lan Mengqi hesitated a little, it's not that she can't endure hardship, it's just that she can't believe it.

This staff member was the first person from another world I met. Although what the other party said was very nice, who knew how many tricks there were in it.

In a completely unfamiliar environment, it is too reckless to make a decision just by listening to one person, let alone make an important decision related to the future.

Moreover, this person is too scary!

The gill organs under the ears and the shark teeth exposed when he smiles, he seems to say "you look so delicious" when he smiles, can this be considered human? !Can you still be a receptionist?

"He won't trick me into a canning factory to make canned meat?! Uh, the smell of meat in that mouth is disgusting"

Keenly noticed the raw minced meat on the staff's jagged fangs, which were obviously carnivorous creatures, the girl subconsciously took a step back.

"After going to the factory area, it will be difficult to come back here. I'd better think about it first."

Seeing the other party's firm refusal attitude, the shark-toothed black-haired staff member shook his head regretfully. It seemed that the deal was going to be ruined.

When he spoke again, his tone became much colder.

"Okay, you decide for yourself. If you change your mind, just contact me with the watch. But you have to pay attention, before the end of the three-month temporary rental period, you must make up the rental fee of the 'watch', otherwise your network and With the translation function, you will be unable to move an inch."

Lan Mengqi looked at her right arm, where there was an olive wrist watch, which had just been issued by the management office.

This wristwatch, known as an artificial spiritual weapon, also flashes blue light at intervals. It is full of black technology. After wearing it, it not only understands the other party's language instantly, but also speaks it.

But looking at the tear-eyed gemstone on it, the faint fluorescence that penetrated people's hearts, Lan Mengqi felt very uncomfortable, as if she was being stared at by some dangerous creature.

"It's normal for a positioning system to have a monitoring function. If you earn money, you can change it to your own. This is similar to a mobile phone-style information terminal. There should be civilian and commercial versions with the same function."

After making up her mind, Lan Mengqi politely rejected all the temptations of the other party, even if the other party's hype was just a one-sided statement.

She repeatedly repeated herself to learn more about the situation before making a decision. In the end, under the regretful gaze of the other party, she left the administration branch of the fourth district.

"It actually made me leave."

When she walked to the street, she couldn't believe it herself.

As a traveler from another world, she walked to the street so blatantly, looking at the locals who were obviously different from her, Lan Mengqi felt that most of the time-traveling tutorials in that novel were useless. Traveling from the very beginning, just passing through, and still full of time travelers?

"Get a job first."

At least one point, Meng Qi still quite agrees.

Work can not only provide the materials and currency needed for life, but also provide the opportunity and position to integrate into society. It is indeed a necessity in modern society.

Her requirements are not high, the teller of the sales shop and the like are fine, so let's do it first.

With a stable income and contacts, then consider other things.

Fortunately, here has not started to use machinery to eliminate low-end labor and artificial intelligence to eliminate mid-end office talents like her hometown. With so many shops along the street, it should not be difficult to find a part-time job.

But soon, she received a blow to the head.

"Are you a stranger who just came here? Sorry, we don't accept strangers here. You probably don't even know the currency, and you can't do the cash register."

"Do you have a certificate? It's not a health certificate, and we don't want to eat you, although you do look delicious. Uh, I mean a degree certificate. Now that the economy is in a downturn, you need a professional certificate even if you serve dishes. No certificate, no Address, uh, let’s do it for a while.”

The big orc who was drooling at him gradually changed his mind and was willing to offer a job, but it was Lan Mengqi's turn to dare not do it.

"An alien? No need, thank you. Don't understand? Heh, look over here, alien, please go away."

The sign outside this restaurant said "Foreigners and pets are not allowed to enter". These words are simple, but the things contained in them made Lan Mengqi dare not think too much.

After several hours of looking for a job in five or six streets, besides a pile of hard or soft nails, Lan Mengqi also received some overt or covert hostility and vigilance.

"At this time, I finally have the sense of reality of traveling through another world. But the question is, what to do tonight."

The sky is getting darker and the wind across the street is getting colder. Seeing the lit oil lamps one by one, and the carriages being dragged away by various strange beasts, I once again sighed that the technology tree in this world is crooked and incomprehensible. Lan Mengqi also had a headache for today's destination.

At this time, she remembered the shark tooth man's last order, and the business card with the address on it.

"If you're desperate, you can go to the man on Heishui Street in the third district and give him this business card. But if it's not a last resort, please don't ask for trouble."

You mean suicidal, right?It's suicidal!Finding that man needs to be described as a dead end?

"What's that man's name? Uh, just go to that street and ask 'that man', the locals know it."

Lan Mengqi was very hesitant. She took out the business card. Apart from the shark-toothed man's unspeakable signature and tooth marks, it was a black silhouette of a man. Turn it over, and there was the trademark of "that man".

Yes, "That Man Consulting Technology Co., Ltd.", the name of the company that makes people vomit and don't know where to start.

"So it was called 'that man', it's full of bad taste of paper, obviously it's not a serious person or company, but now I"

But before she could make up her mind, a voice suddenly sounded from behind.

"Beauty, you have potential, do you want to be a star?"

Looking back, it was a fat uncle dressed as a businessman, who was looking up and down at himself with curious eyes.

"I'm the boss of Huohuohuo Media Company. It just so happens that we have a plan to launch new celebrity trainees. Miss, are you interested in learning about it?"

Well, it’s back to square one where someone who thought he had skipped one of the insidious locals’ routines jumped into another.

Back to the original point, the "Huohuo Rabbit", who was cheated by the Huohuohuo company, was lying on his small bed with sore body after a day's work.

She looked at her "star schedule" for tomorrow, and the long list had reached next month.

She just glanced at it and then put it aside, she felt that with the current trend, she probably wouldn't live up to Table 2.

"In the morning, there is a catwalk show on the cliffs of Hong'an, and in the afternoon, there is a wild survival show in the level 5 risk zone (Warcraft danger level). Heh, you don't need to bring dinner. I guess I will just deliver a bento dinner to your door."

She took out the business card again.

"When you're desperate, should you go to that man?"

(End of this chapter)