The night is thick, but it is dispersed by the colorful neon lights, which keeps the city bright during the day and keeps the crowds on the street flowing. In the luxurious shops on both sides of the road, the lights are bright, almost as bright as the noon
The sun is up.
But not all places are so bright. In the dark night, darkness has an absolute advantage after all. Even in the city known as the city that never sleeps, there are too many places that are still dark.
Just two to three hundred meters away from this lively and bustling shopping street, the height of the building suddenly dropped by more than half, leaving only a few meters of narrow roads. The brick walls on both sides and the houses also changed from new to old.
The styling and decoration both look very old.
In the middle of this street, there is a low-rise izakaya. The doorway, which can only allow one person to pass, is hung with a white cloth that has become yellowed due to time. Under the light, it can be clearly seen that it has been damaged by too many times.
Roughened by washing.
The area of the house is only twenty or thirty square meters, with only an open kitchen and a half-circle of seats. At this moment, it is full of people. Men in their thirties, forties or even fifties, wearing clothes that are not old but not new.
, drinking cheap wine, ordering a few skewers of meat and vegetables, talking loudly, or being taciturn, sitting for an hour or two, and then staggering away until late at night, staggering home.
Such small shops are found in every corner of the city. They have no special delicacies, no delicacies, and the taste is average. There is no decoration in the store. The most important thing is that they don't cost much, but they can pass the time for a long time.
"Ikuta, I heard that you are a spaceman," a drunken man with a red face suddenly collapsed on a middle-aged man next to him and said drunkenly: "Where is your spaceship? Come out and let us
See you and see."
"Yes," a man next to him who was also drunk, stared at the cowering Ikuta Katsuma with his red eyes, and said with a smile: "I heard that you also know that... uh, Tiga
Ultraman, call him out and have a drink together, we just want to toast him."
"You're joking." Katsuma Ikuta forced out a smile and smiled at this person. Then he lowered his head and looked at the dinner plate in front of him in a daze, as if he wanted to eat these simple things on the plate.
The green vegetables are showing their flowers.
"Okay, okay, stop making fun of him," a man who looked like a standard office worker in his dress stood up to smooth things over and asked the boss to give the two drunkards two more beers to get their attention immediately.
Turning to the two large glasses of beer I was receiving, I couldn't take my eyes off them, for fear that the boss would give me less.
This also made Katsuma Ikuta whisper gratefully: "Thank you!"
"You're welcome," the office worker sat next to Katsuma Ikuta and said with a smile, "Would you like a drink?"
"No...I can't." Ikuta Katsuma also smiled back, but there was no caution in that smile. He only smiled politely twice and then turned his head again and continued to look at his plate in a daze.
"You seem to be very distressed," the office worker said to himself, "Do you want to talk about it? Sometimes it makes you feel a lot better if you talk about it."
"I..." Ikuta Katsuma lowered his head and was silent for a while before saying, "I don't know what else I can do?"
"Why do you say that?"
"Because I... have been drawing since I graduated, using pencils, drawing boards, and A1 paper," Ikuta Katsuma lowered his head and looked at the plate in front of him with a sad expression, "I have been drawing for more than ten years.
Every picture is drawn with care, and I rarely make mistakes every time. Even the most demanding boss praised me for drawing the best picture.
But...
Suddenly I couldn't find a job."
"Maybe it's because of the computer."
"Well, what about smart drawing, AI algorithm," Ikuta Katsuma said with great frustration: "The picture that took me a day to draw only takes one minute on the computer. I don't need to buy a drawing board, consume pencils and paper, and don't need to pay a salary.
, just need to click on the power button.
I...after I came out of the hospital, I discovered that no company needed manual drawing anymore, and I didn't know what else I could do or what kind of job I should look for."
Speaking of which, Katsuma Ikuta grabbed the cup next to him and drank the beer in one gulp. However, he choked because he drank too fast and too quickly, and he suddenly coughed rapidly.
"Cough-cough-cough-"
"Slow down, slow down." The office worker patted Ikuta Katsuma's back to relieve his cough. With his left hand, he called the boss over and gave Ikuta Katsuma some meat skewers and a glass of beer.
With the help of alcohol, Katsuma Ikuta vomited loudly and poured out the depression he had been feeling during this period.
He woke up and was in the hospital. No one told him what happened. They only said that he was found unconscious and sent here. After he was discharged, it was discovered that he had been in a coma for three or four months.
Not only did he have to pay a large amount of medical bills, but he also lost his high-paying "guinea pig" job.
He came to the door with the contract he had signed before, but he couldn't even get through the door of the Biological Research Institute. He was told by the security guard at the door that "the experiment has stopped and the team has been disbanded" and asked him to go back.
When Katsuma Ikuta asked why the allowance had not been paid to the card in the past few months as stated in the agreement, the security guard said that he was just a gatekeeper, so how could he know this?
Hearing that the money might be lost, Katsuma Ikuta became anxious at the time. He, who was always timid, even started arguing with others, saying that the contract had the three characters TPC on it, so how could he keep his word?
As a result, he was driven away before he even yelled a few words, and he was asked to find whomever he signed the agreement with. As for Ikuta Katsuma not being able to find that person, it was Ikuta Katsuma's own problem. If he continued to argue, it would be his fault.
Catch him in.
There was no way to ask for help, and the money was almost spent, so Ikuta Katsuma had no choice but to start looking for a job again. But this search for a job did not matter. Ikuta Katsuma was surprised to find that in just two or three years,
He was actually eliminated from the job market.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! No company requires manual drawing anymore, all of them use computer drawing. Most of his colleagues have changed their careers. He once thought that he could work until he retired.
The job just disappeared without a trace.
This left Katsuma Ikuta quite at a loss. He had been working in this industry since graduation and had never held any other job and had never thought about changing his career.
After traveling to various job fairs for more than half a month, Ikuta Katsuma felt as if he was in another world. He had always lived in this world, but he didn't know when manual drawing turned into intelligent drawing.
Without his knowledge, the skills he had mastered were eliminated and were no longer useful.
This made Ikuta Katsuma, who didn't like changes, feel very scared. He felt that the future was uncertain and he didn't know what to do, so he came to the izakaya and wanted to get drunk.
After listening to Ikuta Katsuma's troubles, the office worker sighed and said: "The world is like this. It is changing every moment. You may be eliminated at any time, and it has nothing to do with whether you made a mistake."
Hearing this, Katsuma Ikuta became even more depressed. He picked up the beer he had just refilled and started drinking again, looking like he was drunk.
"I know there's a place that's hiring, maybe you can give it a try."
"But I can only draw pictures, and I don't know anything else."
"It doesn't matter, this job has very low requirements and is very easy." The office worker said, took out a business card, put it on the table in front of Ikuta Katsuma, and said: "Go to this address and say, 'Are you here?
Just look for a job."
Ikuta Katsuma lowered his head and glanced at this business card. It was a rare black paper, printed very beautifully, but it was completely blank, with only a line of address on the front.
There is no name or phone number, and there is a goat's head-like pattern on the back.
It looks very weird.
"This is..." After reading the business card, Katsuma Ikuta wanted to ask more questions, but when he looked up, he found that the man had disappeared.
"You're walking so fast," Ikuta Katsuma muttered, but his eyes couldn't help but focus on the food on the plate. He hurriedly put the food into his mouth, chewed it while taking out the money to settle the bill. After thinking about it, he still put his business card.
I carefully put it in my pocket and ran out of the izakaya as if I was running away.
Because the address on the business card was very close to here, he wanted to visit it. He hadn't had a job for a long time, and he didn't have much money in his pocket. He really needed a job, even if it was just for a while.
Walking through the streets and alleys, the further I walked, the more uncertain Ikuma became, because the surroundings were becoming more and more remote, and the sound of cars was disappearing, replaced by the chirping of insects in the grass.
"Who are we hiring for this place?" Ikuta Katsuma no longer dares to go forward. Is there an easy and high-paying job in such a remote place?
If he were a woman, then maybe, but he was a man, and he was an unhandsome middle-aged man with no good looks at all, and the only thing that was useful was his own weapon...
As soon as he thought of this, Ikuta Katsuma was tapped on the left shoulder, which shocked him so much that his whole body jumped up and his heart almost jumped out.
Then I heard a familiar voice: "You're here."
Looking back subconsciously, I saw that it was the office worker, still wearing the neat suit, but there were several more people behind him, including men and women, old and young, and all of them looked like...
The way he works honestly.
It was obviously a new recruit from this person, but why did he recruit such a person?
Ikuta Katsuma was full of confusion, but everyone came and had already arrived at the door. In addition, there were so many people, so Ikuta Katsuma followed him in.
It looks like an ordinary farmyard from the outside, but when you go in, you find that there is a downward passage. Going down the stairs, what appears in front of Ikuta Katsuma is a basement with an area of hundreds of square meters, with a series of
The rows of tables and chairs, a rough count, there are forty or fifty, it looks like a classroom.
The only difference from the classroom is that there is a silver-white helmet-shaped instrument placed on these tables, just like the virtual reality helmet in science fiction movies. It is full of circuits and electronic components, and a stick extends from the back of the head.
Pen-thick cable.
This scene made Ikuta Katsuma feel very confused. What kind of work is there in this place?
But immediately, the 'office worker' who recruited them asked everyone to find their own seats and started to introduce their work.
"What you have to do is actually very simple. You just need to sit here and put on this helmet. Now we are just starting out and the conditions are relatively simple. When we make a profit, we will change it to beds to make everyone work more comfortably."
"Is this work?" Ikuta Katsuma feels that the world is too strange. Nowadays, sitting with a helmet on is considered work?
"Yes, this is work, it's simple." The 'office worker' immediately replied, "Eight hours a day, the pay can be paid daily or monthly. If you want to work overtime, we don't object, but for everyone's sake
For the sake of your health, try not to work more than twelve hours a day."
"But how can the company make a profit?" Ikuta Katsuma felt like questions were popping up in his head. This job is indeed very easy, but if you don't do anything and have no output, how can the company make money back? And how can it make a profit?
Could it be washing...
The more Ikuta Katsuma thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, and he began to retreat, lest he didn't make any money and got himself involved again.
He had just experienced the painful lesson of being unable to turn to anyone, holding a contract written in black and white, and having no place to reason, and he could not find anyone to fulfill the contract. Now that there is no contract, it is even more difficult to trust this company.
The 'office worker' still kept smiling and said: "We are an emerging technology company, and our main research project is biocomputers.
The human brain is actually very developed, but most of it is usually idle and never used in a lifetime, so it is wasted.
Therefore, our company plans to borrow the idle part of everyone’s brain to form a biological computer matrix, so as to obtain computing power that is not inferior to that of optical quantum computers.”
The 'office worker' explained it, but no one understood it very well, and few people even cared. Compared with the high-level scientific vocabulary, they were more concerned about whether cash was given, whether it was given right after get off work, whether work meals were provided, and whether Ensure safety.
While the 'office workers' were explaining the problems to the newcomers one by one, some of them had already put on their helmets and then lay down on the table skillfully and began to sleep.
This surprised Katsuma Ikuta. This was the first time he saw such an open and aboveboard sleep during work.
But the 'office worker' turned a blind eye to this, and instead lowered his voice and asked everyone to keep their voices down so as not to disturb them in their sleep.
Do you just sleep while doing this job?
Just lie down on the table and wear a metal helmet on your head, and you can make money. It's a bit easy to make money.
No wonder so many people came even though they knew this company was weird and probably had problems.
The reason is very simple, no one will have trouble with money, especially money that can be earned so easily, so they cannot let it go. Making money quickly is the main thing, and everything else should be put aside first.