Neverland

After the man finished speaking, he stopped caringly, giving Xu Muzhou time to digest.

"...So." Xu Muzhou was silent for a moment before he said, "According to what you said, what happened to me tonight was actually a passive job interview?"

"Yes." The man replied.

"Then what if I fail the qualification assessment?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"You will pull away before the irreversible failure arrives. Then you suddenly wake up and find that all this is just a dream." Yan Cen said: "After half a minute, the bus you are on will pass an intersection and be caught by a Crashed by a tired-driving van. The seat you're in is thrown out, and the broken glass from the shattered window explodes your abdominal cavity. You'll be dead in 3 minutes, but the nearest hospital ambulance takes 8 minutes to arrive... yes We terminated this destiny path and arranged this interview for you before the crisis came."

Xu Muzhou: "..."

Hearing his own death was not a good experience, but Xu Muzhou still had doubts about Yan Cen's statement, but subconsciously imagined the scene he described.

The scene in his mind was really not very good, Xu Muzhou pursed his lips, trying to divert his attention: "So, I still want to thank you for saving me?"

"This is a selection mechanism." Yan Cen didn't seem to want to take credit, he said calmly: "This world needs to be adjusted at any time so that it doesn't get out of control. We will look for capable people among the dying people to carry out this work . Correspondingly, as a reward, we will give workers a chance to erase the crisis."

"That is to say, if I finish my work, can I return to real life?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"Of course." Yan Cen said as a matter of course: "We are a legal and formal system."

Xu Muzhou didn't want to complain about the legality of his sentence.

"Oh, that's right." Xu Muzhou suddenly remembered something: "You said just now that if I fail the assessment, I will be drawn away before I die. Then those who died in the game... those people, in reality dead?"

"Yes." Yan Cen said seriously.

Xu Muzhou suddenly raised his voice: "...you still say that this is a formal system?"

"People are different." Yan Cen said: "The system is like a vein. If you want to adjust the world, you need various systems to balance it. You are a selected worker, but there are people are not."

"There are too many criminals in this world who cannot be judged by the law." Yan Cen didn't care about his rudeness: "The woman who died on the high-speed rail because she pulled the door of the SUV, she protected her son and killed her pregnant daughter-in-law , and even extorted a sum of compensation from innocent people.”

"Everyone in the 'judgment' system is not innocent." Yan Cen said seriously: "This is also the balance of the world. In layman's terms, it is 'retribution'."

"Retribution?" Xu Muzhou repeated: "But as you can see, there will still be people who survived that train. There is something wrong with your mechanism."

"Yes, retribution. But we don't want to execute them." Yan Cen nodded: "As I said before, resentment is a very powerful force. They are trapped in the game, and the negative emotions generated during the escape are captured by the system. It is integrated and combed, transformed and used to compensate the victims."

This sounds similar to the retribution and merit in fairy tales, Xu Muzhou thought.

"But you don't have to worry about this kind of thing. You are the staff we invite, and your life safety will be strictly guaranteed. In addition, we will calculate the length of time according to your actual working hours, and based on the average of the location where you enter the system Your salary is calculated." Yan Cen said solemnly: "After completing ten tasks, I will hand them over to you when you leave."

"... Oh yes, what are you guys?" Yan Cen paused as he spoke, his face was blank as if he had forgotten words, he hurriedly took out a piece of paper from his pocket, glanced down, and continued with a straight face Dao: "Five insurances and one housing fund, we will also count them together."

Xu Muzhou: "..."

Xu Muzhou suddenly felt a sense of absurdity, a detached phenomenon that cannot be explained by science appeared in front of him, and before he could have any dream of saving the world, he heard this phenomenon actually talking about salary with him in a serious manner.

Xu Muzhou felt annoyed and funny to pay back the five insurances and one housing fund.

"Why don't you talk about housing and land?" Xu Muzhou rolled his eyes at him.

Yan Cen stuffed the cheat sheet back into his pocket and said seriously: "To be honest, we don't have the budget for now. But we do arrange accommodation during your working period."

"Thank you for not having this budget, otherwise I would think that I have entered a high-tech MLM organization by mistake." Xu Muzhou couldn't bear it anymore, he spun a sentence three times in his mouth, and finally couldn't hold it back. If you engage in metaphysics, it will be very unreliable to suddenly mention salary, okay, please be more professional, my Mr. HR."

"I'm sorry." Yan Cen coughed dryly, and looked away in embarrassment: "This is our first time recruiting externally, and we are not very proficient in business."

"First time?" Xu Muzhou was taken aback.

Xu Muzhou felt a little strange. He originally thought that this system relying on the laws of the world was a continuous input and output. Although most people cannot touch this field, it should be an active system that is always operating.

"Yes, it's the first time." Yan Cen nodded: "Actually, the work of 'cleaning' the system is not onerous, and it has been handled by the original personnel of the system before, but at this stage it is really insufficient manpower to turn to the world line for help. Because with the development of the world, this part of power has become somewhat uncontrollable, and according to the data detected by the system, it can be found that those who have the deepest obsession are not completely limited to the living."

"..." Xu Muzhou looked at him with unbelievable eyes: "...What do you want to say?"

"There are still the dead." Yan Cen calmly completed the second half of the sentence.

"I'm not going." Xu Muzhou said indifferently, "Just let me go and get hit by a car and die. I don't want to deal with ghosts."

"Think about it carefully, you are also a ghost after being hit by a car." Yan Cen persuaded him earnestly: "Aren't they all the same?"

Xu Muzhou: "..."

It made so much sense that I didn't know how to refute it for a while.

"Of course." Yan Cen changed the subject: "Most of the time you don't need to do this, the soul of the dead will enter reincarnation immediately. But the trouble is, the obsession has been left. So you just need to find this obsession Just focus on the core point and fix it.”

"You mean, it's because those responsible are no longer able to express their obsessions in person, so I need to find clues and solve these remaining obsessions?" Xu Muzhou finally understood a little bit: "So you guys Will love logical reasoning ability be an assessment standard?"

"That's right." Yan Cen nodded: "Of course, in addition to the dead, there are also some living people who can't find their own obsessions... In short, these are classified into one category."

It seems that because Yan Cen defined this meeting as an interview, he spoke in detail and was very patient. No matter whether Xu Muzhou asked seriously or made jokes, he answered to the best of his ability.

"I probably understand." Xu Muzhou nodded: "It's just that I have another problem. I was brought here by you, what about the one on the bus. If I am willing to stay and finish the work, But when I went back, my body was already buried in the ground, so what should I do?"

"No." Yan Cen shook his head: "Let me use an analogy, you are here because we suspended the timeline that belongs to you alone, and before you go back, this line will be suspended infinitely—— Of course, at this moment of suspension, this timeline has been independent. People on other timelines are still operating as usual, but an anchor point is set at the moment you leave to restart the timeline in the future .”

"It's so troublesome to say." Xu Muzhou sighed: "To put it bluntly, I saved a file for me. After saving, the game will continue to develop, maybe I will still die in that car accident. But the difference is that when I finish When work returns to the real world, you will read the file back to this original time for me, right?"

"It can be explained in this way." Seeing that he had already understood it, Yan Cen couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief: "So do you agree to work in the system?"

"There's no reason to disagree." Xu Muzhou leaned back in his chair, turned his head and glanced at him: "For me, it doesn't matter where I work, and since I'm so expensive, you probably won't let me go." I'm going to play with my life. It's not that you don't pay wages, but if you work longer, maybe I can earn the house money when I wake up in the car."

Xu Muzhou sighed exaggeratedly as he spoke: "The mentality of social animals is so realistic, I'm laughing at you."

The train was wobbling, and there was no intention of slowing down. Xu Muzhou felt a sense of lightness after making his decision.He thinks very openly, no matter whether Yan Cen is alarmist or he is indeed in danger, at least what this so-called "system" can do, and all aspects shown to him, prove that this is an existence that is completely beyond his cognition.

No one doesn't want to live, Xu Muzhou considers himself an ordinary person, and doesn't want to take this risk - besides, according to Yan Cen's statement, he only needs to treat it as a large-scale holographic simulation reasoning game, which doesn't seem to be so difficult.

Xu Muzhou looks gentle on the outside, but there are one or two rebellious bones growing in his flesh and blood.Not only did he not feel that his decision was hasty, but he also felt a little eager to try for no reason.

"Where is this car going?" Xu Muzhou looked out the window, only to find that the outside was not as dark as before, but more like being covered in the fog before dawn, although he still couldn't see the situation outside clearly, But he could already faintly feel a ray of dawn in the distant sky.

"We'll be there soon." Yan Cen didn't answer, instead he stood up, turned around and walked towards the door at the junction of the carriages.

Xu Muzhou picked up the backpack beside him, got up and followed behind him, and the train stopped slowly after 5 minutes.

Yan Cen stepped out of the car first, followed by Xu Muzhou. The high-speed train behind him disappeared the moment he got off the car, as if it had never appeared before.

Xu Muzhou was still a little uncomfortable with this unnatural phenomenon, he was stunned for a moment, and then he regained his composure, and took a few steps to keep up with Yan Cen's pace.

They were walking in a thick mist, but Yan Cen seemed to know the direction well, every step he took was firm and powerful, without any hesitation.

Xu Muzhou swallowed back his original doubts, followed Yan Cen forward in silence, walked straight for fifty or sixty steps, and the fog in front of him suddenly lightened, revealing a scene not far away.

"This..." Xu Muzhou exclaimed.

He and Yan Cen were standing at a place similar to the seaside. There was a narrow pontoon bridge floating on the sea, extending all the way to the middle of the sea.

At the end of the pontoon bridge, a medieval-looking castle stood quietly, with a rusty, huge metal clock dial hanging in mid-air, and the second hand on it was rewinding second by second.

"This is the core of the system." Yan Cen stopped by the bridge: "It is also our transfer station."

"Welcome here." Yan Cen turned his head and said lightly: "We usually call it——"

"—Neverland."