I am a demonic cultivator, not a capitalist with a conscience.

Chapter 65 This dream was really wonderful (33)

I don't know if it's because the more straightforward a person is, the less they can understand things. Chen Yu thought that the beginner's storyline could be completed in half an hour, but it took Jin Cheng half a day.

Fortunately, the initial part of the dream wasn't too difficult. Although Jin Cheng stumbled along the way, he eventually made it through.

But once the game officially started, he played quite well.

He just hadn't shifted his focus, but he's not stupid; otherwise, he wouldn't have gotten 85 in his academic subjects.

After a few rounds, he learned how to manage time allocation in his dreams, achieving a perfect balance between work, study, and entertainment.

A quarter in a dream is considered a day, and the cycle repeats according to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Players have 24 hours to allocate throughout the day and receive rewards or penalties based on the allocation results.

In some areas, different events can be triggered, allowing you to meet different characters and interact with other non-player characters, thus unfolding their own side stories.

While frequent work can increase income and related skills, the cost is a continuous decline in physical health, leading to illness and hospitalization, with all the money earned going towards medical expenses.

Although participating in group activities doesn't earn you money, you can get different information and even buy things at a low price.

If you have high organizational skills, you can also organize your friends to build structures together, creating buildings on the site of a factory from 52 years ago that are different from what you see today, giving Jin Cheng a unique sense of participation and pride.

We workers have real power!

Lost in his dream, Jin Cheng actively participated in the labor, building the entire factory according to his own ideas, and before he knew it, he had arrived in 2030.

When the snow-covered fields turned gray, polluted wastewater flowed in front of the factory, and the once-mountainous mountains became pits, Jin Cheng suddenly realized a fact he had previously overlooked:

The mountain is gone.

The mines containing spirit stones were being dug up one after another, and surveying engineers carrying magical artifacts appeared more and more frequently in other places to search for spirit stones on the ground, but to no avail.

The hundred-meter-tall puppets began to withdraw, the frenzy brought by the spirit stones began to subside, and the capitalists who had made enough money left without a second thought to find their next project.

The atmosphere in the factory became heavy. Gong Jin and other veteran workers started smoking one cigarette after another, and the meeting room was filled with smoke every day, but no one had any good solutions.

The unfinished work from before now needs to be assigned, and the once subservient foreman is now smug. The hourly wage is now only half of what it used to be, but you still have to maintain a good relationship with the foreman to get a job in the factory.

The food in the cafeteria is getting worse. Before, one meal could fully restore my energy, but now it only provides half of what it used to.

Jin Cheng also discussed the matter with others, but they were still unable to find a suitable solution.

In reality, he naturally knew that the machinery factory would take many detours before finally deciding to transform from heavy industry to agricultural tools. However, it was too late, and the opportunity to rise was missed.

In the game, his engineering skills are lacking, but his screw-driving skills are top-notch. But he can't exactly walk into the meeting room carrying his screws and loudly announce, "I'm good at screwing screws, so I think we should be making farm tools from now on!"

If he really dares to do that, then Team Leader Gong Jin will definitely give him a good slap in the face.

After another fruitless meeting, Jin Cheng temporarily said goodbye to the others and went to the library to study, hoping to have a flash of inspiration to improve his engineering skills.

Instead of instantly traveling there via his phone, he walked along the road, looked at the factory's current state, and began to reflect.

“The past five years shouldn’t have been spent just fixing screws. If I had spent some time reading books to improve myself and raising my engineering skills to level five, I would be able to be discussing things in the management meeting room now.”

"Or you can try to build a good relationship with the management team, even if you don't have the engineering skills right now."

"If all else fails, we can organize a union and speak as workers' representatives."

"There are so many ways, any one of which could have changed history. But why can't I do anything?" Driven by immense regret, Jin Cheng unconsciously walked to the room outside the management meeting room.

He desperately wanted to push the door open and go in, but the security guard at the door was watching him intently and wouldn't allow him to take another step.

With a sigh, Jin Cheng finally understood what the old team leader often told them:

“Workers need brains too. You can’t become a factory manager just by tightening screws. You always think that working can solve everything. That’s not diligence, that’s laziness. But other people’s laziness is physical laziness, your laziness is mental laziness. I can slap him for physical laziness, but you can only solve the mental laziness yourself.”

With a long sigh, Jin Cheng shook his head and walked into the library.

The factory transformation should be a key event in the game, but he regrets that he knew the history beforehand but did not make any preparations, which makes him quite frustrated.

He had just sat down in the library when he heard the sound of kitten-like footsteps, followed by a girl's smile radiating maternal warmth.

The girl placed the ginger tea she had prepared in front of Jin Cheng and said with concern, "Jin Cheng, the weather has changed today. I prepared some ginger tea for you. Drink it quickly."

Thank you. How are you feeling today?

"I'm much better. Thanks to the medicine you bought for me before, I don't cough much anymore."

The girl's name is Nuanyue. She is a fictional character in "My Factory" and a non-player character who can get married.

This character is the player's colleague. He was already suffering from a serious illness when he first joined the game, and if left untreated, he would only die.

The conditions for helping her are not difficult to meet. As long as you raise your favorability with her to 50 or above, you will discover her illness after a conversation. Then, you can pay for medicine three times to help her recover.

Although the medicine was expensive, Jin Cheng did not regret his decision.

She is neither the most beautiful non-player character in the dream, nor the most cost-effective non-player character.

Moreover, she's not very smart, and sometimes even a bit clumsy, but she's the character in the dream who cares most about the player.

When we first met, she already had a 30% favorability rating. After we became friends, she always put the player first. Part of this was because of her personal experiences, but more so because she wanted the player to be happy, which would make her happy too.

Every non-player character has their own life goal, but she is the only one whose life goal is to make the players happy.

This character, brimming with maternal love, immediately captivated Jin Cheng, making him hope to walk together with her for the rest of his life.

Unfortunately, things won't turn out that simply.

The factory's first transformation attempt failed, and massive layoffs began. Most workers were dismissed and left the factory.

Jin Cheng stayed because of his excellent work skills, but Nuan Yue had to leave.

After dropping the other person off at the station, Nuanyue used part of the remaining money to buy a train ticket, returned part to Jincheng, and used the rest to buy two bags of oranges, which she then gave to him.

"Oranges are delicious, and the white pith inside can help reduce internal heat. Orange peels can also be soaked in water. If you get chilblains on your feet in winter, you can soak them in the water, and they'll heal after a few times. You're so good at screwing screws, you're sure to make something of yourself. When that happens, you can teach me how to screw screws."

After a simple hug, all the unspoken emotions turned into the sorrow of parting, disappearing into the distance with the roar of the train.

Carrying two bags of oranges, Jin Cheng stared blankly in the direction the train had disappeared, too exhausted to even eat a single orange.

This dream was wonderful.

It's so good it makes me want to cry.

(End of this chapter)