285. Chapter 282 new 0256 logical relationship between car and father
It was certainly a pleasant morning.
Li Mengnan hummed a local tune that even he couldn't name, and followed the flow of people to get onto the bus that slowly stopped at the platform.
It is true that people are in high spirits during happy events. Even the sound of coin flipping, which used to be boring and boring, sounds so pleasant today.
Of course, as a Chinese national sport that combines sprinting, sumo wrestling, long jump, hanging rings, Sanda, yoga, balance beam and other events, squeezing into the bus itself is not that pleasant, especially in the morning and evening.
Rush hour.
The pregnant ones are squeezed to have abortions, the infertile ones are squeezed to get pregnant, girls go in, women come out, chrysanthemums go in, sunflowers come out, this is not just a funny joke on the Internet.
Even a rest day like today may not be much better. Looking at the car full of adults and aunts rushing to the supermarket early to grab special offers, with big and small bags standing next to them, shivering, looking like they are dying. Regardless of whether it is true or not, you
Are you too embarrassed not to give up your seat? What if one of your ancestors doesn't like you, rolls his eyes and lays down next to you with a groan - well, you will have more biological fathers who need to be filial to you in this life.
Li Mengnan felt that it was time to have a car at home, not only for the physical and mental health of the two girls at home, but also for his own wallet.
Keeping a car is much cheaper than raising a "dad".
When I think of cars, I naturally think of my father... It seems to be a very strange thinking logic. Except for Li Mengnan, it is estimated that only the rich second generation who make money by talking have such strange brain circuits.
It is said that he has not contacted his father Li Hongming for a while. Although his stepmother Ding Linglong and the two primary school students may not welcome his visit, after all, they have such a nominal kinship, so it is inevitable that he will not show up.
It will make people picky.
After I finished reporting to the HX Institute, it was time to bring some gifts and go to Ding's house to sit down.
This is called reciprocity, and what Chinese people value is face.
As a special department that specializes in dealing with paranormal incidents across the country, the HX Research Institute is the kind of organization that sounds very high-level at first glance, but is actually very down-to-earth.
The so-called Sanshan City branch is actually a contact point similar to a company's office in a certain place. Of course, it is not as shabby as having only two or three desks, but it is far from what Li Mengnan imagined in the movie "The Dark One".
The underground secret base full of high technology like "The Clothed Man" is definitely far different.
God knows what happened to the futuristic holographic projection last time. Maybe it was just a place created by HX Research Institute to tighten their belts and save money to pretend to be newbies?
Li Mengnan guessed maliciously.
This is a large warehouse that looks quite old. It is located in a closed factory in the west of Sanshan City. The whole warehouse is still built with blue bricks. It is unknown whether it is an old building left over from the Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China.
Fortunately, although it looks old on the outside, it has been modernized inside, with air conditioning and computers. The decoration seems to have been specially designed, and it has a post-modern art style.
As soon as Li Mengnan walked into the large iron gate covered with graffiti, he saw Euonymus's iconic pink girl pickup truck. Not to mention, the flashy things outside were not that eye-catching here.
"Hahaha, you finally found this place!"
Euonymus appeared on the second platform in the warehouse opposite the door to the background music that sounded like a sacred song. He was still dressed in the same otaku-like style.
This time, the pattern on the cotton T-shirt on the chest is the island style in "Kan Musume", or the medium-explosion shirt version, as obscene as ever.
"What's the matter with your final BOSS-like appearance and speech? Don't tell me that there is still a mission to save the princess..."
Li Mengnan stood below and raised his face, trying his best to focus on the looming small breasts in the chest pattern of Euonymus. From this perspective, no one would be willing to look at the hairy Hawaiian pants of a bearded uncle.
"Princess, there is one here, but she definitely doesn't need you to save her."
Euonymus ran down the stairs in a hurry while holding on to the handrail, his out-of-season flip-flops clattering on the steel stairs.
Li Mengnan couldn't help but conjure up a picture in his mind of "flying slippers and people rolling down, and the shoes falling and people dying without knowing it", but this nonsensical scene like a Stephen Chow movie didn't happen.
"Your office location is quite unique."
The warehouse, which is more than ten meters high, is divided into upper and lower floors by a steel frame, with tempered glass as the wall. A small basketball court is reserved in the front, and a swimming pool is actually excavated in the back. Rather than being an office location, this place is more like being built in a building.
A small villa in a warehouse.
"Anyway, the place is big. If you don't put anything on it, it will always feel empty." Wei Mao opened the refrigerator and took out two cans of bottled coffee. He put them in glass cups and put them in the microwave to heat them. He handed Li Mengnan a cup and said with a smile: "I only have a cup here.
Various convenience foods, do you mind?"
"If you really dare to prepare a full banquet for me, I have to consider whether it will be dark cuisine."
Li Mengnan doesn't think that a otaku can have any good skills, even an old otaku.
"I like how straightforward you speak." Wei Mao raised his glass and smiled.
Although it is an office location, it feels more like a holiday villa to Li Mengnan. There are not many office equipments, but there are many entertainment facilities. There is even a specially opened audio-visual game room with almost a hundred
On the 3-inch projection screen, a certain animation that seemed to be a cartoon was playing at the moment.
"It's too quiet here, isn't it? Where are the others?" Li Mengnan saw Wei Mao busy alone since he called in. The huge warehouse was surprisingly deserted.
Wei Mao smiled, as if he expected that Li Mengnan would ask this question sooner or later.
"How many people do you think there should be here?"
"There should be about ten or twenty of them anyway, right?" Li Mengnan visually inspected the size of the entire office area, looked at Wei Mao sideways and said, "You don't want to tell me that the so-called distribution of HX Research Institute in Sanshan City is actually only you.
Are you two with me?"
"No, not that few." Wei Mao raised three fingers, "There are three, and there is also a little princess who is not very gregarious. She usually only appears when mandatory tasks are issued."
"Believe me, you won't like her." Wei Mao patted Li Mengnan on the shoulder, interrupting the question that was already on his lips.
"Why do I suddenly feel like I'm on a pirate ship?" Li Mengnan shook the coffee in his cup and said with a wry smile.
"I think you should think from a different angle. At least this kind of free-wheeling work atmosphere is very relaxing, isn't it?" Wei Mao raised his head and glanced at the clock on the wall and said, "It's time to eat, do you want to eat something together?"
"Do you consider this a breakfast invitation or a lunch invitation?"
The time now is only ten o'clock in the morning.
"Is this important? Since ancient times, the purpose of food has been to fill the stomach, not to count time, right?"
Li Mengnan rolled his eyes and just said it when he was hungry. Is it necessary to be so tactful?
But at least it does prove that the working atmosphere here is indeed very casual.
"Okay, what should I do now?"
Li Mengnan decided to accept his fate. Although this secret organization with only three people seemed very unreliable, once he forced himself to accept this setting, he suddenly found that this place was actually a good place.
Wei Mao came over with a bowl of steaming hot instant noodles - yes, instant noodles. This is what he calls delicacy, and it seems to be an imported product that came across the ocean.
Li Mengnan was once again glad that he had not agreed to his dinner invitation just now, otherwise he would definitely be eating this thing now.
"Go out and turn right. Your office is next to mine. There is a computer there. I have entered the HX Research Institute's employee rules into it. You can see it when you turn on the computer."
Wei Mao pushed open two ham sausages, broke them into pieces with his hands and threw them into the instant noodle bowl. He closed the lid again and placed his chopsticks horizontally on top of it.
Li Mengnan went out and turned into his office. It was an area of nearly 40 square meters. Except for a computer and supporting desks and chairs, the room was empty enough for a mouse to run around.
"I don't know what style of office you like, so I'll just leave it open for you. You can work on it yourself later. We have fewer people here, don't pay so much attention to it, and don't pursue a unified style... Anyway, no matter how good it is,
No one came to check."
Wei Mao leaned against the door holding instant noodles and explained that he didn't want Li Mengnan to think that he was a leader who didn't care about his subordinates.
The computer is brand new and has top-notch configurations on the market.
Li Mengnan took a special look and found that except for the system disk which contained a few commonly used software, there was not even a single byte suspicious file in the other drive letters. Wei Mao did not take the opportunity of transferring files to stuff him with some messy private goods.
There is a text document titled "Employee Instructions" hanging in the most conspicuous place on the desktop.
There are a lot of words in it, but it can be summarized in a few sentences.
First, complete optional tasks at least once a month.
Second, temporarily assigned mandatory tasks may not be rejected for any reason.
Third, all final interpretation rights belong to HX Research Institute.
The contents of a treaty with Chinese characteristics.
"Brother Wei, is there any difference between optional tasks and mandatory tasks?" After reading the entire text, Li Mengnan turned around and asked.
"The difference between the two lies in the level of hazard." Wei Mao squatted at the door and snored while eating noodles, without raising his head. "The specific classification is a bit complicated, and this is also a matter of the headquarters. It has nothing to do with us... You can
Understood in this way, tasks that must be solved immediately otherwise they will continue to cause harm to people are mandatory tasks; tasks that are already under control and can be solved later when free are available are optional tasks."
Wu Mao recommended that Li Mengnan open a special task release software within the HX Research Institute on his desktop, and refer to the task information released by the headquarters above to better understand his explanation just now.
The user interface of this task publishing software that does not even have a name is very friendly. Even though it is the first time to use it, Li Mengnan can still roughly guess the corresponding meaning through the differences in icons, font sizes, and colors.
HX Research Institute implements a regional leader system. Each branch is responsible for all supernatural events in the corresponding area. Only when they are left unsolved for a long time will they be displayed on the task panels of other regional leaders and become any
Public tasks that anyone can take on.
However, Li Mengnan did not see the legendary mandatory tasks on the task panel. According to Wei Mao, this is a normal situation. After all, such tasks appear quickly and are solved quickly, and rarely hang on the task panel for a long time.
Once a mandatory task appears on the homepage for more than a week, it will definitely be an unimaginable big event.
All tasks displayed on the task panel at this moment are self-selected tasks, arranged one by one according to color.
The top task is in blue font, followed by four green fonts, followed by clear white fonts.
Judging from the mission records over the years, blue is only a medium-difficulty mission, and there are three levels above it: purple, red and gold.
It's very similar to the equipment level settings of a certain online game. It's cliché, but it's clear at a glance.
"You don't need to look at the blue-letter level tasks now. Young people should not aim too high. It is best to accumulate some experience from the most basic white-letter tasks... Believe me, the headquarters does this kind of color-level layout, not just for good looks."
Euonymus snored and drank all the noodle soup, burping with satisfaction, and kindly suggested to Li Mengnan.
There are about twenty white-lettered tasks accumulated on the task panel, and the contents are basically the same - a supernatural event occurred in a certain place, a number of witnesses, the area has been sealed off, and is waiting to be solved.
"Brother Wei, what is the number behind this mission?"
Li Mengnan noticed that almost every task was followed by a group of small tails with varying values, ranging from tens of thousands to thousands.
"Have you seen "Dragon Ball"?" Wei Mao lowered his voice and pretended to be mysterious.
"You mean, this set of numbers represents combat effectiveness?" Li Mengnan said in surprise.
"No, this is a mission bounty."
"..."
Li Mengnan didn't think this joke was very funny, but he couldn't stand it. The point of laughter of this guy was below the altitude.
Solving supernatural incidents is a high-risk job, and it is obviously unrealistic to expect people to work hard for a minimum salary of several thousand yuan per month. As a non-governmental organization, the HX Research Institute cannot enjoy financial allocations within the system, so it is a paid solution
Supernatural events have become the most feasible and cyclic development direction.
Due to the particularity of supernatural events, there is no fixed price list for task bounties. The numbers given on the task panel are only reference prices quoted by the victims, and the final transaction price often requires further negotiation.
Therefore, tasks of the same difficulty level actually have differences in fatness and thinness.
This may be one of the original intentions of formulating the regional responsible person system. Otherwise, if everyone focuses on tasks that are less difficult and more profitable, extremely serious internal strife will inevitably occur.
"You are very lucky. The princess of our Sanshan branch almost never takes on these low-level tasks without challenges. If it were another branch, a newcomer like you wouldn't be able to take on so many lucrative tasks."
Wei Mao patted Li Mengnan on the shoulder, with an expression on his face that said, "You've taken advantage of me."
"That 'princess' you always mention, what kind of person is she?" Li Mengnan couldn't help but feel a little curious after hearing Wei Mao mention this person several times.
From the subtle changes in Wei Mao's expression when he spoke, Li Mengnan could tell that Wei Mao admired this "princess" very much.