Doctor, I'm really strong!

Even Wei Yanwu didn't want to see Future Technology dominate, especially given that it had absorbed so much of the workforce.

Imagine if one day Future Technology suddenly disappeared, and then Lungmen's employment rate plummeted like a suicide. Just thinking about that scene is enough to give anyone nightmares.

Other forces also don't want Future Technology to interfere with their own interests, so they have formed a covert and overt resistance against it. However, this resistance is achieved through methods that are not obvious, such as spreading rumors that are detrimental to Future Technology, like claiming that infected people are expendable there or that Future Technology is a cannibalistic factory. At the same time, they use various means to block information from Future Technology or mix this information with various rumors. Given the current alarmingly low literacy rate in Lungmen, this method can indeed produce good results. Just like how intellectuals in feudal times could modify or even distort information by monopolizing the right to interpret knowledge, this is how the saying "where there's a will, there's a way" comes about.

Direct confrontation is impossible. After all, Future Technology has cooperated with many Lungmen companies, and everyone is happily counting their profits. If things really turn sour, all the money in their hands will be gone. Others won't compensate them; they'll just happily take away their market share. No way, absolutely not!

To put it bluntly, this so-called opposition is based on not harming their own interests. After all, they have no way to convert all labor into surplus value. Thus, a dramatic scene of obstruction without complete obstruction appears, seemingly obstructing but actually not obstructing. Regardless of whether you actually obstruct or not, you believe that you have obstructed.

However, it has indeed had some impact on the recruitment of employees at Future Technology. Otherwise, given the compensation and benefits offered by Future Technology, the recruitment office should be packed with people every day.

Zilan flipped through the register in her hand listlessly. She had finished her task for the day in just one morning. She tried her best to recruit more people, but the actual situation did not allow it.

"Hey little sister, this is the job posting place for Future Technology, right?"

Zilan was stunned. Someone was calling her little sister. She looked up and saw a woman with purple hair, silver eyes, and dragon horns. She looked no older than herself.

However, in the world of Terra, there are beings who live forever, and one cannot judge a person's true age by their appearance alone. Therefore, Zilan did not refute this, but instead said in a businesslike manner, "Yes, are you looking for someone or applying for a job?"

Do you offer a service to find people?

"It wasn't originally there, but it was added later."

There are many migrant workers from Longmen in Future Technology City. They all came alone at first, but after finding it to be a good place, they contacted their families outside to come together. Some families came to find them, but they couldn't enter Future Technology City, so they could only come to the recruitment office. Over time, the recruitment office added a job-finding service.

This service may sound troublesome, but it's actually all benefits. The person being contacted will definitely tell the person who contacted them how great Future Technology is. If it's a case of a family with scumbags or gangsters collecting debts, then Future Technology will step in and mediate the situation, or make the party that shouldn't exist disappear.

The gangsters are practically begging to be killed; it would be a disservice to the common people not to take them down.

Over time, Future Technology gained a notorious reputation, and those who knew their place dared not approach them, greatly ensuring the quality of life for Future Technology employees.

"Then I need to find someone named Ling, she's my older sister."

"Minister Ling's sister? What's your name? I'll report it."

Zilan was surprised. The first person she met was a relative at the ministerial level. Why would a relative at the ministerial level come here to look for someone?

However, Zilan didn't think much of it, since she was just a mouthpiece.

"Year"

Yan Kingdom, a great nation with a long history on the continent of Terra, possesses ancient wisdom that gives it a vitality and unity unlike any other country.

But even powerful empires have their own deep-seated problems.

Grand Tutor, the head of the Ministry of Rites, one of the six ministries of the Yan Kingdom. This ministry can be understood as a combination of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Culture. It is a powerful department in the Three Provinces and Six Ministries system. As the chief steward of the Yan Kingdom, the Grand Tutor has accumulated wisdom and experience that are unimaginable to ordinary people over the past two hundred years. As the chess player of the Yan Kingdom, he works hard for the country every day.

Previously it was physical; now it's dispatching officials from various departments, all in order to secure the greatest possible benefit for the Yan Kingdom during this unprecedented upheaval.

Not long ago, the Imperial Observatory's statement, "A true dragon descends to earth, and the Great Yan will last for ten thousand years," invigorated the entire court and the public. Everyone regarded it as a sign of the great prosperity of the Yan Kingdom, except for the Grand Tutor, who felt a sense of unease.

After all, there is an old saying that "adversity builds a nation." Looking back at the history of the Great Yan, every rise was a phoenix rising from the ashes after a period of hardship, a dragon soaring to the heavens. The Yan Kingdom is currently in a golden age. The appearance of such a prosperous prophecy at this time makes people worry that the new era will have to use the old era as nourishment to be reborn from the ashes.

Thinking like this when everyone is happy is obviously a mood killer, but as a chess player, the Grand Tutor's life experience tells him that the moon wanes after it is full, and water overflows when it is full. When you are at your peak, you must be prepared for decline. No empire lasts forever. A true strongman must learn to grasp the pulse of the times and find opportunities for breakthrough in every historical cycle.

The Twenty-Eight Strategies for Stabilizing the Nation have been established at the Grand Court Assembly, and the future development of the Yan Kingdom has been determined. However, undercurrents still surge. The powerful Yan Kingdom is not without enemies, and there are various hidden dangers both internally and externally. They just haven't erupted yet. No one knows which seemingly insignificant problem will become the culprit for the decline of the entire country.

Just then, the butler delivered a letter with a coded cipher. This was a top-secret communication that was specially encrypted. There was no way to decode it, and even if you took it out, you wouldn't be able to understand what was inside.

The Grand Tutor used special Originium Arts to decipher the code, then compared it with the code disk to obtain this intelligence.

"The year's phase splits into two, and the year and the order appear at the Dragon Gate."

When two of the Year Phase clones suddenly gathered at the Dragon Gate, the Grand Tutor's eyes instantly sharpened.

Section 118: The workload has increased again.

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The Colossus, the land deities of the primordial era, possessed power sufficient to change the very fabric of the world. They, along with other colossi, once roamed the continent of Terra. At that time, the people of Terra could only tremble under the gaze of these colossi and worship them as gods, seeking only a semblance of peace.

Of course, not all giant beasts are savage and evil. Just like the diverse nature of humans, giant beasts also have their own personalities. Among them are kind-hearted ones who choose to take care of humans, but this is a gift from the strong. What they can give you, they can also take away at any time.

Thus, in the east of Terra, a group of "overconfident" mortals turned their swords against the gods and successfully banished them. From then on, divine authority was granted to the gods, and in the land of Yan, even the gods had to submit to the will of man.

This is what is known as "becoming an immortal".

The translation is: Even if you become a god, you still have to go to work and serve mortals.

The giant beasts were certainly unwilling, but under the gentle persuasion of Yan Guo, who threatened that "if you don't obey, your whole family will die," and after he said many heartfelt words, the giant beasts that remained all came to terms with it and became members of the Yan Guo family.

The vast majority of them have disappeared into the long river of history, their bloodlines merging into the people of Yan Kingdom. The only exception is Sui Xiang, mainly because this behemoth itself is special. Like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be used individually, but when pieced together, it reverts to the terrifying Sui Xiang behemoth. As for destroying Sui Xiang...

The cost is simply too high. Given the threat posed by those fragments of the Sui, the Yan Kingdom is primarily focused on appeasement. After all, many of them have rendered meritorious service to the Yan Kingdom, and killing meritorious officials is a morally reprehensible act anywhere. Moreover, these meritorious officials might launch a counterattack, making the Yan Kingdom's losses outweigh its gains. Therefore, unless it is confirmed that Sui is truly about to awaken, the Yan Kingdom will not take extreme measures, at most increasing the level of surveillance.

But now, the two clones of the year have gone to the Dragon Gate without even saying goodbye.

Okay, that's also Yan Kingdom's territory. According to the agreement, this doesn't count as crossing the border. But Longmen is a special place. In a sense, they took advantage of a loophole, a loophole that isn't really a loophole. It's Yan Kingdom's own national governance issue. You can't just say that Linghe Nian is wrong. We should be reasonable.

The mere reunion of the two phases of the year is only part of the trouble. The bigger trouble is that the person in the prophecy may be in Longmen and has already begun to take action. Judging from the actions of the Reiwa era, could it be that the other party is related to the year?

If this is true, then it's even more of a headache.

Imagine that the achievement of that language would require the awakening of the Emperor of Yan, leading the people of Yan into a new era.

That's absolutely insane! It's bound to be a bloodbath.

Regardless of the situation, it is an undeniable fact that the prophesied object and the fragments of the year phase are both in Lungmen. We must take immediate action to at least find out what is going on. If we have manpower in Lungmen, we can deal with any major problems in a timely manner.

However, the Grand Tutor's actions were merely adding an extra layer of insurance. There was still the possibility that his own people might break the insurance. After all, the Ministry of Rites was only responsible for assessing matters related to the year's celestial phenomena. The one who was truly in charge and took action was the Directorate of the Year. Although it used to be an agency under the Ministry of Rites, it was now independent, with its own staff and coercive apparatus, and was directly responsible to the Emperor. It could completely disregard the Ministry of Rites' decisions. Nominally, the Ministry of Rites had more power and a higher rank than the Directorate of the Year, but due to the special nature of the department, the Ministry of Rites did not have the authority to order the Directorate of the Year to do anything.

There are quite a few hardliners among the officials in charge of the year's phases of life who advocate for the complete elimination of the threat posed by the year's phases of life. As for the methods...

People are the root of the problem; solving people is equivalent to completely solving the problem.

Yes, that's the logic of the hardliners at the Si Sui Terrace.

It's like loyalty that's not absolute is absolute disloyalty; it's somewhat like the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a unique version of the Embroidered Uniform Guard of the Great Yan Dynasty.

Moreover, Si Suitai has indeed successfully carried out the mission of hunting down the clones of the year signs, and succeeded. If they were to actually face those clones of the year signs, it's hard to guarantee that no accidents would happen.

After all, to the clones of the year phase, they are all like brothers and sisters. If you kill someone's brothers and sisters and then try to supervise them, how do you think they will treat you?

Once a conflict breaks out, regardless of which side suffers a loss of life, Yan will find it difficult to handle the situation.

In the Grand Tutor's view, this was internal strife and truly not worth it.

You can't use future prevention to judge innocent people today. If you do that, everyone is a potential criminal, and I suggest implementing a human extinction plan.

All the elaborate schemes are ultimately aimed at winning by a single move against fate.

Just as the Grand Tutor was worried about the Year Beast, Nian had already met the order.

Like Liu Jiuli, Ling is also running between the two places, but she doesn't run around as frequently as Liu Jiuli. Wherever she goes, she has to take charge of the corresponding work first. Just when she arrived in Longmen, news came from the recruitment office that someone named Nian claimed to be her sister and wanted to meet her.

Then the two met.

"Hey~ big sister, are you having fun?"

"Play? Do I look like I'm playing now?"

She was wearing blue work clothes, and her hair was tied up, making her look like she had just crawled out of a construction site.

It was indeed a construction site. Whether it was the Future Science City or the Steel Geler, both were undergoing large-scale engineering construction. Liu Jiuli had an indescribable passion for infrastructure, and seemed determined to turn both places into benchmarks of modern cities.

Even the sewer system underwent a complete renovation and reconstruction. Anyone with a basic understanding of civil engineering knows just how massive the project was. In addition, most of the recruits from the Red Guards and Future Technology were illiterate people who needed to be given literacy education and re-education. There was never enough manpower for complex tasks, and for simple tasks, we could only pile on manpower. So, although it looked like everyone was working hard every day, in reality, 80 or 90 percent of the time was spent on-site teaching and practical exercises.

Fortunately, the most difficult initial stage has passed, and the entire system is now operational. Liu Jiuli no longer needs to worry about the operation of the entire system; he only needs to focus on supervision and grasping the general direction.

As Liu Jiuli's de facto right-hand woman, Linghe Talulah is a typical person who is always on the go, so dressing like this is normal for her.

Suppressing a laugh, Nian asked, "Big sister, why did you give up being a general to become a worker here? What kind of hobby is this?"

Ling shook his head: "Let's not talk about that. But you, did you report to the Si Sui Tai after coming all the way from Yan Kingdom?"

Nian paused for a moment, then turned her head and said, "I remember it should be, probably, maybe, perhaps, no doubt..."

Ling sighed: "Alright, I already know that you came here directly."

The Yan Kingdom's court was most worried about the Year Beast clones getting together. If that happened, they would need to report it in advance and control its numbers. As a result, this happened, and the Year God's Terrace is probably in complete chaos.

Nian quickly adjusted her mindset and nudged Ling with her elbow: "Big sister, compared to this, did you find something here? Share it with your little sister."

Chapter 119: Hoshiguma Arrives at Future Science City

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Longmen Guard Bureau Future Science City Branch

Today, Chen Huijie welcomed an old friend – Hoshiguma.

"Old Chen, looks like you're doing quite well here."

Hoshiguma smiled as she looked around Chen Huijie's room. It was a standard one-bedroom, one-living room, one-bathroom layout, nothing special, but the cozy and private living environment was enough to satisfy most people.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that there is water and electricity available 24 hours a day is enough to make Future Technology Company a coveted job for ambitious young people in Longmen. You know, outside of Longmen's wealthy area, water and electricity are frequently cut off.

Chen Huijie poured Hoshiguma a glass of sake, which was specially prepared to entertain her. She placed the glass in front of Hoshiguma and said with a smile, "That's why I invited you here too. I'm sure you'll like it here."

"That's really something to look forward to." Hoshiguma picked up her glass, took a sip, and then asked in surprise, "Where did you buy this?"

Chen Huijie: "In the commercial street inside the Future Science City, there is a sake shop. It seems to be run by someone from the Eastern Kingdom, a member of the Oni clan like you. I heard that he used to brew sake for the nobles of the Eastern Kingdom."

Looking at the slightly cloudy liquid in his glass, Hoshiguma said nostalgically, "It really tastes like home."

Chen Huijie: "Missing home? Don't you plan to go back and visit?"

Hoshiguma smiled and shook her head: "It's very boring back in my hometown."

As they chatted, it became evening, and Chen Huijie suggested that they go out to eat.

Hoshiguma looked surprised: "It's rare for you to suggest going out to eat."

Chen Huijie put on her coat and said, "There's nothing we can do, there are just too many food stalls here. Come on, I'll take you to a sushi restaurant that just opened recently, you'll like their food."

Walking on the streets of the Future Science City, Xingxiong asked the same question that Chen Huijie had asked when she first came here.

"The security here is so good."

As a former yakuza boss who had lived in the slums, Hoshiguma has unique insights into assessing the security of a region. For example, she observes locals walking around in a very relaxed manner, casually carrying their purchases without any sense of caution or apprehension.

why?

Because no one will rob you on the street, no motorcyclists will suddenly appear and make you lose what you have, and no other random things will bother you.