This game is so weird!

After breakfast, the nomads who joined the base began to stroll around Hope Town or sit on the benches in the square, relieving the fatigue of their recent wanderings.

A few more determined homeless people walked along the road connecting to the commercial district, following the instructions distributed yesterday, heading to the guild hall in the commercial district to see what suitable jobs were available.

The nomads, exhausted from running around after the fall of Efila, finally had a chance to settle down and wanted to contribute their efforts to make the shelter last longer and, incidentally, improve their own lives.

This idea is especially strong for parents with families to support.

Having witnessed the cruelty and bloodthirstiness of the orcs, and abandoned by the Wei'an government alliance, their neighbors and friends were either killed by the orcs for attempting to resist, or were taken away by the orcs after surrendering and their whereabouts are unknown. Only a few who hid well were able to survive.

They finally breathed a sigh of relief when they arrived here.

Although they don't know how long this oasis will last, just like the town's name suggests, they hope this sanctuary will endure and are willing to contribute their efforts to achieve this.

The young woman Mary was also walking on the road. She had a rare good night's sleep last night. This morning, after having breakfast with her two children, she told them to stay obediently in their assigned dormitories before heading to the guild.

She planned to inquire about the base's situation. If it was relatively safe and the shelter was prepared to operate long-term, she would find a job. If anything seemed amiss, she would eat more in the next few days and be ready to run away at any time.

Because she arrived early, there weren't many people in the guild. Most players were still asleep, and only a few staff members behind the service desk were yawning and tidying up the desks.

After carefully observing the staff, Mary straightened her hair and collar and walked towards a girl in the middle.

Good morning, are you looking for a job here?

"Ah!" Miley, who was tidying up her drawer, looked up in surprise. She had just completed her training yesterday under Xiaomeng's guidance, and today was her first day on the job. This was also her first customer.

"Hello, yes, but it's a bit different from regular jobs. Our guild actually provides a two-way selection platform. We can match you with the job requirements based on your personal situation and recommend suitable jobs."

"Did you bring your ID card?"

"Hmm," Mary took a blue metal card from her handbag and handed it to the waiter. "Is this the card?"

"Yes, please wait a moment."

Miley took the card and inserted it into the terminal slot on the desktop.

This revamped guild terminal, in addition to providing services to explorers with smart devices such as headsets as before, also features card recognition functionality, allowing it to provide services to newly joined players.

Since the newly added vagrants are mostly war refugees, who are already pitiful enough, Li Ang doesn't expect to profit from them. Therefore, there's no need to issue smart terminals; an identity card is enough for them to live normally within the base.

"Miss Mary, it seems this is your first time coming to the guild to accept a quest. You need to read some instructions and fill in your personal information. You can take your time to read and fill it out."

As the card was inserted, Mary's personal information popped up on the terminal screen. Having just joined the base, her information was mostly blank except for basic details.

After projecting the document in front of Mary for easier reading, Miley continued tidying up the desk, placing the unfinished juice she had bought that morning on the side of the terminal, and adjusting the angle of the nameplate on the desk before clapping her hands in satisfaction.

"I've already filled it out. Is signing the employment contract all I need to do?"

"Yes, please sign in standard font and leave your fingerprint," Miley said, pointing to a pen projection on the side of the document.

Mary held the projection of a pen in her hand, signed the document in the air, and tentatively placed her thumb above the signature.

The document gleamed with a golden light, and after being scanned by a finger, it transformed into a fingerprint that was recorded on the document.

Seeing that everything was filled out, Miley put away the file, carefully checked that all the workflow requirements in the terminal were complete, breathed a sigh of relief, and archived the file in the terminal.

"Miss, are you also new to the job?"

Seeing the young girl across from the service desk looking shy and nervous, Mary smiled kindly and asked softly.

"Yes, I was homeless just a couple of days ago, and then I was suddenly dragged here to work."

"Bring him here?"

"Oh no, I mean I'm a little nervous about being suddenly assigned to this position, haha."

Seeing the woman's appearance, Miley was momentarily reminded of her own parents, and she relaxed a little, continuing the conversation, "I happened to be hiding nearby when they landed, and I followed them all the way from the city, so I joined them here on the first day."

"Then, after talking with their commander, I was unexpectedly assigned to a post."

Looking at the smiling little girl in front of her, and thinking of her own two children, Mary's eyes welled up with tears. How old is this child? Before the war, she would have been in high school. She has gone through so much hardship and is still so cheerful.

"Oh, Auntie, don't cry!" Miley frantically tried to hand over a tissue, but after searching two drawers, she couldn't find where she had put it. She was a little flustered.

Seeing Miley's flustered appearance, Mary suddenly laughed, took out a handkerchief she always carried and wiped the corner of her eyes, "It's okay, little girl, you're really strong."

"Hehe, not really. I was pretty desperate before," Miley scratched her cheek, laughing a little sheepishly. "Luckily, I met Leah, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to keep going!"

"Lia?"

"Yes, my little sister is a very outgoing child. She should be taking Grandpa Yue Qing out for dinner now."

At this point, Miley was a little troubled. Leah's outgoing nature meant that in just three days she had become familiar with many of the base's staff, and even some explorers liked her and often brought her small gifts.

There were so many people that Miley didn't know how to thank them enough.

"Who is Grandpa Yue Qing?"

"Oh, Grandpa Yue Qing is our guild's vice president. I heard he's only providing temporary support for a while, and he and Sister Xiao Meng will be going back in a few days."

"Oh, I see. Young lady, you seem to know the officers here quite well. I'd like to ask you about the security situation here; I'm really worried..."

Mary bit her lip, but finally asked.

"There's nothing to hide," Miley thought for a moment and realized that the base didn't seem to have any secrecy requirements. Even if it were truly confidential, she wouldn't be able to access it anyway. So she said, "The base is a rescue team dispatched by an alien civilization after receiving a distress signal from our space agency."

"Did you see the spaceship in the center of the plaza when you came over? That's the spaceship they used when they landed from space; it even killed a burrowing beast with a single shot!"

"An alien civilization!?"

"Don't worry, they are all human beings too."

Seeing that Mary was a little flustered, Miley quickly explained, "It's not much different from us. Colonel Hoffman of the Security Government Alliance also communicated with them and reached an alliance agreement before broadcasting the news of accepting refugees."

"By the way, Auntie, we've just matched you with suitable mission content. Short-term missions aren't very safe right now, and most of them have already been taken by explorers. The remaining ones are mainly long-term missions within the base."

"Relatively easy roles include vertical farm management, kitchen management, restaurant operation, and dormitory management."

"By the way, Mary, your original profession was a singer. You could consider participating in the dormitory management mission. I heard from the commander that they plan to build an apartment hotel that integrates accommodation, catering, and entertainment. There's also a karaoke room there that needs singers!"

"It seems like dormitory managers will be prioritized for promotion; Mary, you might want to consider it!"