I am your natural enemy.

Chapter 471 Dark Leap, Locksmith Recruitment (5k)

The aliens in Shenzhou did not have any special feelings about the Luotian Dajiao in Qingcheng. It was essentially just a high-level blessing ceremony.

Before the revival of spiritual energy, this was actually just a ritual that could affect a limited number of people. After the revival of spiritual energy, it truly had the ability to pray for the entire country.

The actual effect is to calm restlessness and straighten out the mood, which is equivalent to a macro-adjustment of the whole.

It does not treat any specific disease, but it can make the whole body more smooth and balanced, which can fundamentally reduce the probability of problems.

When real problems arise, it is the Lieyang Tribe, the Three Mountains and Five Peaks and other components of the immune system that do the specific work.

This is the core purpose of Luotian Dajiao, but different people see different things.

In the eyes of some outliers, even outliers outside of China, various organizations, and various countries, this is just China holding a military parade.

Moreover, he specifically pulled a powerful alien over to the military parade and killed it to show off his muscles.

Wen Yan stayed in Qingcheng Mountain and did not run around this time. The number of various problems that occurred in Shenzhou in the past few days has decreased a lot.

The people in the Lieyang Tribe can finally have a few days of peace, and some of the field staff who have been on the front line all year round can also take the opportunity to take a vacation.

The cold pile entrenched in the north has exhausted its vitality, the subtropical high pressure has begun to become strong, and the water vapor has begun to move northward, bringing snowfall to the north which has not seen precipitation for a long time.

As time goes by, macro-regulation gradually begins to produce effects that are difficult for ordinary people to see intuitively.

Wen Yan had been reading books in Qingcheng. Once he got really into the books, he felt that the content of the books was very simple. Even when he moved from simple content to difficult and complex content that required comprehension, he felt that it was just like that.

He can always quickly come to a conclusion based on his own experience, and even if there are some things he cannot understand, he can always find a way in.

That’s how it is with learning. When you can’t learn or don’t understand, it’s really fucking painful.

When you can learn and understand everything by yourself, and sometimes when you are faced with a difficult problem and you get a flash of inspiration and solve the problem by yourself, that is an indescribable joy.

Wen Yan also found his own way of learning. As long as he applied the knowledge to actual cases, he could quickly understand it.

If he couldn't understand something, he would go and look at the relevant files about ghosts in the Lieyang Department and use them as teaching materials, which was very useful.

Wen Yan calmed down and read books and practiced boxing every day. When he had nothing to do, he would push the progress forward and think about who to choose to cooperate with him in building the next stone gate.

After all, they are all family members. Once you choose one, you should not favor one over the other. Those who can go must go, and everyone should be treated equally.

Of course, Wen Yan didn't dare to believe outsiders. At most, his family members might have some simple thoughts and add some personal ideas, but they would definitely not block him from breaking through the checkpoint.

It doesn’t matter whether there are benefits or not. What’s important is to break through it. It’s not advisable to throw away the watermelon for the sesame seeds.

Time passed day by day, and the Luotian Dajiao blessing ceremony was already half over. Wen Yan finished his practice in the evening, and when he had nothing to do, he ran home to take a look.

By the way, hold a meeting with the people at home, let everyone sit in a circle, eat, and discuss who will help next.

……

At the gate of the rainy courtyard, the black spider had only one of its eight eyes left, and its body had grown from more than a foot long to more than an inch long.

This means that if the last ascension fails, it will never have another chance to complete the jump.

Every time I tried before, the result was the same. It was blown half to death by the pure air invited down during the Luotian Grand Ceremony. Those pure air had no negative effect on the aliens in Shenzhou, but they did have a suppressive effect on the evil outside Shenzhou.

As for this kind of dark thing that is not of this world and wants to ascend to the world, it is really targeted.

After seven consecutive attempts failed, the last time, Black Spider had given up his original idea and was ready for a final fight.

When it sees more possibilities, a wider world, and someone has succeeded, then there is no going back.

No matter what the cost, it will try.

After the sun sets, the black spider crawls out from the shadows and lies in front of the fog, like a hunter in the dark, grasping the spider silk, sensing the fluctuations coming from all directions, and then finding a target that can serve as a medium.

……

In a small factory in Yuzhou, a thin man with a dark complexion, his hands wrapped in gauze, stood at the gate with a dazed look on his face.

The guard at the door looked embarrassed.

"Amu, please don't make things difficult for me. The factory has said that only factory employees can go in. If I go in, I'll lose my job. The Chinese New Year is just over a month away. If I lose my job at this time, my whole family won't be able to celebrate the New Year. After the Chinese New Year, I won't even be able to raise enough money for my daughter's tuition..."

The guard didn't open the door, but walked out, took out a hundred-dollar bill, and stuffed it into the man's pocket through the gap in the fence.

"It's just a little thought, don't despise it."

The thin man was a little disappointed. He returned the money to the security guard without taking it. He turned around and left without making things difficult for his former colleague.

He walked on the suburban sidewalk with a dazed look in his eyes.

In the sky, a petal that even ordinary Taoists could not see was dancing in the wind and slowly falling towards him.

Like a petal soaked in blood, it fell on the thin man and merged into his body.

At the same time, the black spider felt the vibration of the spider silk and jumped into the fog without hesitation to make a final attempt.

Its body gradually disintegrated in the fog. It gave up on completing the leap with its body directly, and would rather pay the price to complete the ascension. As long as it ascended, it would undergo a qualitative change.

The black spider's body completely disintegrated, and finally its eye also disappeared.

The black spider turned into a dark shadow, followed the connection, and fell into the body of the thin man, hiding in the dark world inside the other person.

This time, the force that seemed to skin it alive did not appear again.

It paid a huge price, sacrificing its body and eight eyes representing power, and finally completed the leap and ascension.

It is hidden in a person's dark heart, and its power characteristics begin to change, completing a qualitative change.

It weaves a web here, and darkness spreads in the heart of the thin man. This is how it builds the most suitable and comfortable environment for its survival.

It absorbs the darkness here, which is its first nourishment after completing the leap.

The darkness inside the thin man began to spread.

He walked a short distance to a small restaurant on the side of the road where Ji Youli and his young apprentice were having a farewell dinner.

The young apprentice looked up and saw the thin man across the street.

"Luckily I ran away, Master, you should have run away earlier too, look at what happened to Amu."

Ji Youli looked out the window and saw the thin man with a confused look on his face.

"It's a pity that Amu hurt his thumb..."

“When I went to resign, I heard that the company didn’t buy insurance for the people in the factory.

Now they don’t want to consider it a work injury, don’t want to pay compensation, and want to fire Amu. If Amu is unwilling to leave, he will be asked to pay for the equipment and finished products.

Amu's situation is miserable enough. His father passed away a few days ago, so he only took one day off.

That guy is bullying people like this, isn't he afraid of being hacked to death?"

Ji Youli looked out the window, watching the thin man walk into the shadow of the path. His figure was gradually swallowed by the shadow. He sighed, took out his mobile phone, and transferred two thousand yuan to the other party, saying that he and his apprentice could not go to pay their respects, so he gave him a gift as a token of his appreciation.

The young apprentice watched his master's actions but did not stop him.

He can learn real things and many skills that can only be acquired through practice. With the skills, at least he will have a living in the future. It all depends on whether his master really teaches him and teaches him with his heart.

He also learned from other classmates how lucky he was.

After resigning, I made an appointment to have a drink with my master.

On the other side, Amu returned to the rental house with a dazed look on his face and sat on the sofa in a daze. Even with the lights on, his face seemed to be covered with a layer of shadow.

The darkness in his heart continued to grow, and his eyes gradually became colder.

He just sat there motionless, and in the second half of the night, his eyes seemed to be obscured by darkness.

He stood up, took out two tool boxes from the room, took out a bag of sugar from the kitchen, and started tinkering in the room.

When it was dawn, he picked up a toolbox and prepared to open the door and leave.

At this time, he picked up his phone, saw the message on it, and saw the money Ji Youli transferred to him. He was silent for a moment and did not accept it.

I sent Ji Youli a message in reply.

"Can you help me? Wait for me in the seventh department of orthopedics at the Chinese medicine hospital in the morning."

After sending this message, Amu left with his toolbox.

His eyes were cold, his face seemed to be covered in shadow, and his body seemed to be shrouded in a vague darkness as he came to the factory.

When he got nearby, he stopped and did not go through the main gate. Instead, he entered the factory through a small gap on the side, climbed over the iron fence, and entered.

He walked all the way to the boss's office, unlocked the door easily with one hand, and went in to set up the things.

After the arrangement was completed, he sat in the corner, his whole body eroded and shrouded by darkness, sitting there quietly waiting.

His heart had been invaded by the black spider when he was at his weakest and most empty, and darkness had grown on his own. It was then rapidly eroding and expanding, and now he had completely changed.

After dawn, the light coming in through the window did not illuminate the corner where Amu was sitting.

He just waited quietly.

On the other side, after Ji Youli woke up, he saw the message. After hesitating for a while, he still sent a message to the other party, saying that he had something to do and would go to the workshop two hours later today. The other party replied that it was okay and would not record him as leave, and said that he went to the customer's place to do after-sales service.

Ji Youli took the subway to the hospital and sent a message to Amu, but the other party did not reply, so he went directly to the specific department and sat on a chair outside the elevator waiting.

On the other side, when it was time to go to work, the boss of the factory also arrived. He pushed open the door and found that the office was a little dark. When he reached out to turn on the light, he saw a steel nail instantly pierced his palm and nailed his hand to the wall.

The darkness suddenly seemed to be stimulated and spread rapidly, covering the entire office.

Amu appeared in front of the boss silently, holding the nail gun in one hand.

When the boss saw Amu, he became furious. Just as he was about to do something, he saw Amu's expressionless face and hit him with several consecutive bangs, nailing both of his arms to the wall.

At this time, the boss finally calmed down and finally abandoned his previous arrogance and habits.

"Amu, what are you doing? Calm down and talk nicely."

"I told you last month that there was something wrong with the equipment. It would be best to find someone to fix it."

"Yes, yes, it's my fault. I didn't listen to you. Let's talk it over. I'm sure there will be compensation. It's also considered a work-related injury..."

Amu raised his left hand, which was wrapped in gauze.

"I heard the conversation between the nurse and the doctor. There was a chance that my thumb could be saved."

"This...this..." The boss' face turned pale and he was sweating anxiously. He didn't know what to say for a moment.

He didn't buy insurance and didn't want to pay for the surgery and the transportation to the other hospital.

"I can accept no insurance, no work-related injury, no medical expenses. I worked 27 days last month, why should I be paid less?"

"I'm sorry, let's talk it over. I'll replenish it for you right away. I have everything. Put down the nail gun first and let's talk it over." The boss was sweating profusely, his body trembling like a sieve, and his face full of despair. He never could have imagined this day would come.

"When I was talking to you nicely, you were too lazy to listen to me. Now you are scared. You are just afraid of death." Amu's face was calm. He nailed it in place with seven or eight bangs of the nail gun. He took out the other things in the toolbox, hung them on the other person, lit the fire, and opened the door and left.

The glow of the fire in the office was shrouded by an outer layer of darkness, and the screams and wails were also muffled.

Ten minutes after Amu left, the flames burned through the office and passed through the darkness before people discovered the fire.

The darkness was dispelled by the flames and chaos broke out in the factory.

Half an hour later, the fire was completely extinguished and the boss who had been burned to charcoal was discovered.

There were no nails found here, nor were there any traces of ignitable materials. After preliminary judgment, it was determined that the fire was caused when the boss came and turned on the light. However, it is not certain why the boss did not run away.

On the other hand, Ji Youli also received news from his colleagues that there was a fire in the factory and the boss was dead, but other losses were not serious.

Ji Youli was stunned for some reason, and thought of Amu whom he met yesterday. Amu asked him to come for help, but he hasn't come yet.

He sent a message, but the other party didn't reply. He called three times and finally got through. Amu said there was no need to come to the hospital, as he had remembered the wrong time for the follow-up check and had to go back to the countryside now.

Ji Youli hung up the phone and returned to the factory, where he could still faintly smell a burning smell.

When I arrived at the office area and looked at the blackened office building from afar, I felt particularly uncomfortable.

Moreover, there is a very strange sense of familiarity.

He moved closer, outside the cordon, and when he looked at the door, the familiar feeling forced him to remember when he had sensed it before.

It was that time when there was a fire in his house. When he pried open the door of his neighbor's house opposite, at that moment, he saw darkness and felt a dead silence in a trance.

What he felt now was part of what he had felt in that dead silence.

It's like the blackened part there, and there's a part that's not blackened.

He wanted to move forward but was stopped. Although the fire was out, the place was not completely safe.

Ji Youli felt that his young apprentice was right and it was indeed impossible for him to stay in this factory anymore.

I have to find a job again...

The factory cannot start work today. A lot of fire risks were pulled out on the spot and the fire extinguishers were all expired.

After returning home, Ji Youli started looking for a job. If he found one, he would take a two-month break and think about it after the Chinese New Year.

It was not appropriate to ask someone when you were looking for a job, so he started searching on his cell phone.

I just searched here and found a job posting for lock-related technicians.

The recruitment content should be written by young people. The general meaning is that we only want people with real abilities. Those who don't have the ability should not come and waste everyone's time. As long as you pass the interview, the basic salary without responsibility is 8,000 yuan, and bonuses are calculated separately. There are safety bonuses, semi-annual bonuses and year-end bonuses, six insurances and two funds, and the provident fund is the highest level.

The job posting was posted some time ago, and the name of the recruiting company is also strange, it is called Nanwu Lieyang Folk Culture and Archaeology Special Operations Department.

He clicked on the company name, but there was nothing there. He searched for the company in the recruitment software, but couldn't find it at all.

However, the conditions offered by the other party in the recruitment notice were really good. They dared to directly mention a no-liability base salary, and it was so high. It was the first time he had seen such a high salary.

After hesitating for a moment, he looked at the phone number written on it. It was a landline number starting with 020, so it was a local number. There was also an address. He clicked on the number and dialed it. It didn't matter if he just asked.

At the same time, in the Yuzhou Lieyang Department, the clerk who was answering the phone was looking at the prompts on the computer.

They set up a precise push notification, and people in related industries saw the recruitment and called.

"Hello, this is the Nanwu Lieyang Folk Culture and Archaeology Special Operations Department. How can I help you?"

"Hello, I want to ask about your recruitment."

"May I ask what your last name is?"

"My surname is Ji."

"Hello, Master Ji, we only have people related to locks now, and we haven't recruited enough people yet. Do you have relevant work experience?"

"Yes, eight years of experience."

"Okay, Master Ji, if it's convenient for you, just come to the address listed on the job posting. We don't look at your credentials, we only look at your practical skills. You have to pass an on-site inspection first. If you come for an interview, but you're not in Yuzhou, we can reimburse you for one day's accommodation, plus the round-trip second-class fare."

Ji Youli asked some questions about the details and treatment, then hung up the phone.

He asked and the other party told him that the other party had bought a precise push notification, and job seekers without relevant experience would not be able to see this push notification.

He searched online and actually found such a place in Yuzhou. There were photos and it had been listed for decades. It was indeed not a scam company and seemed to be a public institution.

Recruiting lock-related technicians, is it because of archaeology?

Ji Youli didn't quite understand.

However, since it was not a scam company, he felt that it would not matter to give it a try. It was in Yuzhou anyway, and the main thing was that the salary offered by the other party was a bit high.

(End of this chapter)