Wasteland Development Diary

Emerald City flew steadily in the stratosphere.

5 hours later.

A piece of land appeared in the misty Dead Sea.

The flying alien began to descend.

Through the floor-to-ceiling window, Zhou Yi looked at the city on the ground.

The Kestrel introduced from the side: "Recursive City is a young, small city, founded 114 years ago. Its pillar industry is the service industry provided to the outside world, and some goods from other cities are also sold here."

"The main mechanical energy here involves the installation, maintenance, and repair of various equipment, and undertakes the testing and debugging of some new facilities. Recursive City also provides various professional services to human cities, including sewer construction and maintenance, security co-management, rescue teams, architectural engineering design, asset management, various information services, and so on."

Zhou Yi said: "In simple terms, it's about exporting services."

"Yes."

"Then we came to do publicity and recruitment, we came to the right place."

"That's right."

The Kestrel reminded: "However, Zhou, this is only a small electromechanical city with a small population after all, and there are very few advanced professionals. Recruiting here will most likely only find professionals with basic skills."

"That's enough."

Zhou Yi said.

Emerald City slowly landed on the ground, creating a small shock wave.

Zhou Yi went downstairs from the elevator, and an electromechanical life was already waiting outside.

"Welcome to Recursive City."

"I am Sigma from the city's program department, responsible for connecting and cooperating with your company. I will be responsible for the entire reception during your visit."

Sigma is a small go-kart, with black and yellow color scheme, with the English logo "SODI" on the body, and two spherical electronic eyes on the front of the car.

Zhou Yi also waved to him: "Hello, Sigma, take me directly to the labor market."

"Okay. Mr. Zhou, please get in."

Zhou Yi got into the go-kart.

So it made a flexible turn and drove towards the city.

The Kestrel followed the flight.

Recursive City is built on the ruins of an old human city.

Those broken reinforced concrete structures have been repaired and rebuilt, covered with many pipes, valves, cables and metal shields, making them look both new and old.

If Coral Mouth is planned and customized with great wealth, then Recursive City is patching and repairing based on the existing environment.

Zhou Yi took the go-kart all the way forward on the street, and saw many electromechanical lives working along the way. Most of them are small in size, with many metal patches on their bodies, and it seems that their economic situation is not very good.

The road itself is also quite narrow, with many cracks on the road surface. Some parts of the road surface have been repaired, but more places remain cracked and damaged.

The labor market is transformed from a farmers market, with booths inside.

The job-seeking electromechanical lives are sitting in the booths, each with a reinforced glass panel in front of them, displaying their profession and basic personal information.

Zhou Yi was shocked by this simple and crude vegetable-selling display.

He couldn't help but ask: "Sigma, will this design of the labor market make professionals uncomfortable and hurt their self-esteem?"

"Mr. Zhou, we don't have those extra emotions, so this is not a problem."

The go-kart replied: "Although the recommended display here seems simple, it is enough to achieve the purpose, and there is no need to waste unnecessary additional construction expenditures."

"Even the 50 positions here require scheduling to obtain."

"In addition to face-to-face displays, we will also publish the information of 50 job seekers every day on the city page, and recommend them to the outside world through the machine station service."

Zhou Yi immediately understood.

This is actually a recommendation with traffic tilting.

He began to search for talents in Sigma's company.

There are many agricultural machines in the labor market booths.

Just as Iron Horse said, the agricultural machinery field is now in a downturn, especially small and medium-sized agricultural machines, many of which are unemployed or about to be unemployed.

Zhou Yi's eyes stopped on one of the booths.

There are three agricultural machines parked here.

The electronic screen shows that they are a team, belonging to a brand called Lovol, all in blue.

The three members are "Oubao M3004-7N" four-wheel drive tractor, "Gushen GE80S-H" wheat machine, and "RG80 King Kong II" crawler soybean machine.

The introduction says that they are good at cultivating, planting, and harvesting, and can be applied to wheat, soybeans, rapeseed, sugar beets and other crops. They all have more than 15 years of work experience, but only accept team employment.

What Zhou Yi couldn't understand was that the team's quotation was a long-term contract of 100 light seeds/3 years.

Calculated, the per capita annual salary is just over 11 light seeds, which is even lower than the agricultural machinery brothers.

Zhou Yi whispered to Sigma: "Is the agricultural machinery business so bad now?"

"Yes, Mr. Zhou."

Sigma did not shy away: "The agricultural market is getting worse, and more cities are choosing cheap labor to replace agricultural machinery to reduce expenses. After calculation and assistance from the program department, agricultural machines have to cut their salaries to compete for job opportunities."

Agricultural machinery salaries are very low, but they have requirements for supporting facilities, and the cost of fertilizers and seeds cannot be reduced, and there are strict basic standards for soil. In addition, they avoid being scammed and do not consider cities with low credit ratings, so the employment surface is getting narrower and narrower.

Zhou Yi checked, and these three did not have any stains on their resumes, but in the past they were all short-term contracts of one year, and the employers were mostly human cities.

Their renewal was pigeoned, so they hugged each other to seek a long-term contract to avoid working hard to lay the foundation for farmland, and then being kicked out.

Zhou Yi walked to the Lovol team's booth.

He looked at the tractor at the head: "Hello. Oubao, you are the captain of this team, right?"

The blue tractor is nearly 6 meters long, 4 meters wide, and more than 3 meters high. The body is strong, and there are many wear and tear and scratches on the shell. Not only it, but the other two agricultural machines also have wear and tear.

"Yes."

Oubao's voice was very loud: "Are you Mr. Zhou from Wasteland Development Company?"

Zhou Yi was curious: "Do you know me?"

"Of course, you are a big shot now."

Oubao is better at communication than the agricultural machinery brothers.

"I read the deeds of Wasteland Development Company on the city page, and you are also an important partner of our city. The alien flight last winter, and the bombing deterrence against the Shuanghe area, I think the citizens of Recursive City have paid attention to it."

Zhou Yi smiled: "I want to hire your team, are you interested in working in our company's agricultural department?"

"Very honored."

The two sides communicated briefly and immediately signed an electronic agreement.

Then Zhou Yi asked the Kestrel to transmit information to it, introducing the current situation of the company's agriculture.

Oubao said: "The previous two agricultural machines have created a suitable farming environment. We will cooperate well with them to do a good job in new farmland reclamation, as well as planting and harvesting. Please rest assured."

Zhou Yi nodded: "You seem to be in not very good condition?"

The agricultural machinery captain said: "Our basic functions are fine, but there are some small flaws. For example, my engine oil is sticky, Gushen's tail light is damaged and cannot be used, and King Kong's track also has a small problem."

Zhou Yi immediately told it: "You all go for repairs first, replace what should be replaced, repair what should be repaired, and the company will reimburse you for this part of the repair and medical expenses."

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"After it's done, take the list to Emerald City outside the city, and I will reimburse you."

Oubao was stunned: "Really?"

"Of course."

The other party hesitated a little.

Zhou Yi knew that this was just his verbal promise, which made them still a little uncertain.

He directly took out the Guangna Box, asked the Kestrel, and then gave it 50 light seeds.

"Refund more and make up less, go."

"...Thank you very much!"

The agricultural machinery captain's electronic eyes lit up: "We will not misuse this fund, we will only use it to repair the parts we must, the list is verifiable, please rest assured."

Zhou Yi did not doubt it.

Electromechanical lives are very disciplined due to the mechanism.

In addition, this is also to show other job seekers, which is a small publicity.

The agricultural machinery team immediately left the booth and drove towards the outside.

...

The manpower on the agricultural department side has been supplemented.

Zhou Yi continued to look at other electromechanical lives.

Due to his previous actions, many electromechanical lives began to actively recommend themselves.

"Mr. Zhou, I am an agricultural machine with 12 years of experience..."

"Mr. Zhou, I am good at repairing pipelines, especially sewer systems..."

"Mr. Zhou, I can repair the road surface..."

...

After some observation and communication, Zhou Yi found that there was indeed a reason why they couldn't find a job.

Except for agricultural machinery, the rest are city butlers, asset management, sewer maintenance, construction engineers... completely inconsistent with the current needs of the wasteland era.

Most of them are sky-pit industries in this period, with a small demand and biased.

Just as Zhou Yi was about to leave, he suddenly noticed a silent job seeker in the corner.

This one looks like an old bookshelf speaker.

Music major?

Zhou Yi became interested for a while.

Mike King might be able to cooperate with it or produce a reaction, to improve the music field.

The screen in front of the booth shows.

This speaker, named "Diamond 9.1", is mostly made of wood, with one speaker on the top and bottom, and four universal wheels on the bottom.

It stayed quietly in its place.

This electromechanical life is not engaged in music. The profession written on its personal resume is "teacher", with 210 years of work experience, a real old teacher.

Zhou Yi was puzzled: "Will this Diamond also be unemployed?"

Sigma next to him said: "Diamond's [teaching] teaches language and history, and was once a C-level teacher. But because of a virus program infection, a large amount of its existing data was lost, and it had to start all over again... For various reasons, it has now fallen to E-level."

"The electromechanical society is developing very fast, and a lot of knowledge has been made into information streams, which can be purchased and obtained through the city page. Higher-level ones also have Xue County's Wisdom Auspicious Cloud... There is no longer a need for teachers in the traditional sense, only experts are not affected."

"But the biggest impact and damage to it is still that virus program, which caused its original unique voice to become turbid and dull. This irreversible damage has also made it difficult to improve."

"In addition, Diamond has not installed a machine station service. It insists on the old-fashioned physical connection, and the data update is also small."

"Fortunately, it belongs to an old-fashioned electromechanical life, and its structure is not complicated, and it does not consume much. Occasionally, some emerging cities hire it, but its price is not cheap, and the annual salary requirement is 100 light seeds, so there are very few who look for it."

Zhou Yi frowned: "Virus program...what's going on?"

Sigma said: "These things happened before it came to Recursive City, and our information records are not perfect."

Zhou Yi walked to this quiet electromechanical teacher.

"Hello, Diamond, are you interested in joining our Wasteland Development Company?"

What responded was a slightly hoarse alto.

"Do you need me to teach language and history?"

"Yes."

"But I will only teach the real history before it was tampered with, can you accept it?"

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows.

"Tell me about it."