I will never give in to Miss Death

It was that roommate who took me to see a movie once during college.

That day, he was kicked out by his girlfriend whom he had been dating for more than two months. He happened to be holding two movie tickets he had bought.

"We've already bought it, it would be a shame not to see it. Let's go see it together tonight." This is what he said at the time.

It just so happened that I had nothing to do those days, so I agreed to his request.

As a result, when the agreed time came, he didn't show up, so I sat in two seats by myself and watched the whole movie.

I still remember that the movie playing at that time was an old movie - "Camel Xiangzi".

"Ding ding..."

I watched the background image of "The Age of Aquarius" for a while while eating popcorn. I noticed that the security guard not far away closed the door and then walked out.

Some small lights behind him were also turned off at this time, and the image on the big screen slowly disappeared and then slowly lit up again.

it has started.

I looked around the huge cinema and confirmed that Xiaomo and I were the only two people watching the movie tonight.

"pretty good."

Yin Xiamo, who was beside me, reached out her little hand, rubbed my belly, and then took my hand: "Let me see what's so special about the movie that Nuoer personally chose."

"It's not my choice, it just happens that there is a well-known movie today."

I turned to the big screen in front of me: "It is said that it is also yuri...transformed into yuri, and the background is the future world, love, and a little tragedy."

Under the gaze of Xiaomo and I, the large screen in front reached maximum brightness, and some LED lights and various futuristic furniture appeared on the screen.

"What year is this year in the Aquarius calendar? 86? Or 87?"

"Oh, my dear Mr. Tom, if you don't pay the fee today, the people from 'Apocalypse' will send people down to demolish your house. I promise, they will do it!"

"Jia Lan! Jia Lan Shuo! Come to life and stop thinking about your crappy storybook!"

Like many science fiction or future urban movies, the beginning of "The Age of Aquarius" is a bit bland, simply introducing the background and settings through pictures and some people's communication.

The protagonist of this story, "Jia Lanshuo", seems to be a gangster wandering on the "edge of the law" in the future world. He is an orphan and somewhat similar to David in "Cyberpunk: Edgewalker". Both are powerless and low-class people with no money at home. However, the protagonist of "The Age of Aquarius" is even more miserable. He doesn't even have parents and can't go to school. He lives on taking "commissions" from the "black market" every day.

Then the scene turns to the protagonist "Jia Lanshuo" taking on a commission. This time the commission he received was to go to a "forbidden area" and steal a "contraband" there, and the reward was very generous.

Based on the settings I have been watching, I can roughly understand the background of this world - in the future world, humans have defeated most diseases, life expectancy has been greatly extended, and any disease can be cured, except "plague."

In this world, everyone is working for "Apocalypse", and everything related to "Apocalypse" is top secret. Ordinary people will be "executed" if they are found to be peeping into the secrets of "Apocalypse".

“This setting is a bit old-fashioned.”

I was sitting in front of the screen, muttering to myself as I watched the protagonist carrying out this "secret mission" in a nervous and exciting manner.

Because for novels, this kind of setting is no longer popular now. Any setting that is too complicated will be considered a "failure" in the eyes of any editor.

Then I was dumbfounded.

Because after the protagonist arrived at the forbidden area and found a space capsule that needed to be transported, he was directly killed by the guards there.

A shot to the head, the brain exploded.

My hand, which was chewing popcorn, froze in place.

Is there any other game where the protagonist dies at the beginning? A tribute to Wings of Liberty?

He doesn't feel bad anyway, he just wants freedom, he won't care about my feelings wow?

"How to deal with this person..."

Then, the scene came to a place similar to a laboratory.

"He saw something he shouldn't have, Doc..."

"Why did it become like this? Any clue?"

"Perhaps this is the 'experimental product' that 'those people' mentioned?"

"How about letting him carry out the plan?"

After a brief black screen, when the protagonist woke up again, he found that he had turned into a girl.

She is still a beautiful girl who looks like a little princess, with a pretty face, slim figure, and delicate skin.

No wonder this movie has a lot of plot twists, it turns out this is the reason.

I thought about this while eating popcorn.

I have to say that this is an improvement for domestic films.

After all, the fact that this movie was allowed to be filmed and released is itself quite "avant-garde".

But when I saw the spoilers on the Internet, what is the so-called "pure hundred"?

"Boy...oh no, little beauty, I think you should know what you were doing before."

"If you don't want to be 'executed', just listen to us."

Through the subsequent scenes, I learned that the group of people who captured the protagonist were from "Apocalypse". The protagonist had peeped into the secrets of "Apocalypse" and should have been executed, but these people planned to give the protagonist a chance and let the protagonist become the "maid" of a chaebol lady and spy on the information that lady had.

The plot unfolds as a result, and the female protagonist learns the etiquette and integrity of a girl at the request of these people who call themselves "Apocalypse". She learns how to walk gracefully in the upper class society, how to serve others as a woman, and also learns the basic professional qualities of a maid. She is then sent to work as an "undercover" beside a young lady.

As for what the undercover mission was about, these people did not say, they just asked the protagonist to gain the trust of the young lady.

Afterwards, "The Age of Aquarius" spent nearly an hour telling the story of the two people from their first contact, to their acquaintance, to their mutual affection, which is the heartwarming "yuri" plot in the entire movie.

During the film, the film also perfected the worldview of future technology. I can see that there are many exquisite high-tech machines and artworks in the eldest lady's home, and the movie has been emphasizing "plague" - people will only die if they get "plague", otherwise, as long as you have money, you will not die even if you are shot in the head, just spend money to replace your head, and the people of "Apocalypse" also have the means to execute "plague", which is to make a person die completely. I was curious about what "plague" is throughout the whole process, why the technology in the future world will be so powerful, and I was happy about the increasingly warm relationship between the maid protagonist and the eldest lady.

In the second half of the movie, the conflict arises. The people of "Apocalypse" take advantage of the eldest lady's trust in the protagonist and capture the eldest lady back to the "Apocalypse Headquarters". The protagonist, who has turned into a girl and has lived in the eldest lady's home for several years, also knows part of the truth of the matter -

The "Earth" in the movie is closely related to a planet tens of thousands of light years away from Earth.

In 2012, a super war broke out in the world. This war lasted for hundreds of years, and finally humans were divided into two factions, the control faction and the salvation faction. At that time, the control faction almost occupied the entire earth, while the salvation faction could only hide underground. At that time, technology had advanced to a very scary level, and had mastered part of quantum mechanics. The salvation faction had been hunted by the control faction, and had to implement a plan that had been brewing for a long time - the wandering fire.

The initial plan was to send the salvationists into space, leave the earth and find a new home, but if they did that the spacecraft would be too conspicuous and would not have enough energy. In the end they chose to send the embryos of all the salvationists into space, with only three astronauts operating the spacecraft to fly to their new home.

A few years later, they found a planet - "Aquarius".

The spacecraft landed, and the astronauts on it began to develop the dormant embryos, cloned all the individuals of the salvation faction on Earth, and used quantum super-space technology to allow the consciousness of the Earth's salvation faction to control the clones on their side.

In other words, the humans on the planet Aquarius...their real bodies are on the other side of the Earth, and their bodies here are all "clones" of themselves. The clones themselves have no thoughts, and they will only move when they are located, connected and controlled by the "quantum thinking" on the other side of the Earth.

This is what the "saviors" of that year did. Their real bodies lay on Earth, relying only on nutritious meals to maintain brain activity, while their thoughts flew to the planet Aquarius, where they controlled the activities of their own clones and began to build this new home.

The construction of the clones on the planet Aquarius went smoothly. Within a few hundred years, they built a super weapon, returned to Earth, destroyed the "Control Faction", and brought back the technology of "remote quantum body control".

From now on, if people on Earth want to get married and have children, they will first send their "original bodies" to the planet Aquarius for safekeeping and maintenance by professionals there. Only "clones" will be active on Earth, and no matter what injuries or diseases they suffer, they will not be fatal because their brains are in Aquarius.

As for the so-called "plague", it was naturally a problem with the "entity" on the planet Aquarius.

The "execution" of "Apocalypse" is to order the people in Aquarius to kill the "original body".

In this setting, the protagonist's "male body" at the beginning was actually a disguise. Her real body was a girl. Because the family behind her was too mysterious and did not want the protagonist to be targeted, they modified the clone's genes and made her spend most of her childhood and youth in a male body.

The movie didn’t elaborate on the protagonist’s identity, but it gave me a “setting” or “plot arrangement” that made me nervous after watching it.

The super secret mission that the protagonist received at the beginning was to steal her own "body".

Due to some conflict on the planet Aquarius, her original body was transported from Aquarius to Earth.

After being shot in the head by "Apocalypse", the protagonist did not wake up with a new body, but lost the connection with the clone and returned to his original body.

This also means that if she is injured or dies, she will die completely on Earth.

"Apocalypse" and other "people in power" did not expect such a thing to happen. They did not even recognize the "true body" of the protagonist. They thought that it was only because of data errors that the protagonist was changed from a man to a little girl. Then they relied on the handle they had on the protagonist to ask her to get close to the eldest lady.

The eldest lady is a descendant of the "control faction" of that year, and she sent the protagonist there just to find reasons for this family's "rebellion."

Theoretically, Apocalypse represents "justice" on Earth. The protagonist has returned to her original body. It is very dangerous in this world where people rely on "immortality" to fight and kill everywhere. What she should do is to leave the eldest lady behind. After all, her cooperation with "Apocalypse" has ended, and there is no need to resist "Apocalypse" for the eldest lady.

Afterwards, the protagonist recalled every detail about the two girls "Lily" during this period and made a decision - even if it is her real body, even if there is a possibility of actual death, she must be rescued!

In the last twenty minutes, the screen shows a plot where the protagonist, in the body of a girl, wears a maid outfit and holds two guns in the "Apocalypse" headquarters as if he is in an empty space. After all, the protagonist is a gangster, and all kinds of life skills and combat skills have been maxed out. Accompanied by cyberpunk music, the whole cinema is excited.

In the end, the protagonist rescued the eldest daughter who was captured by "Apocalypse". The two kissed in the midst of fire and explosions, declared their love, and the movie ended.

"Woooo..."

Seeing the words "Aquarius Era Does Not Believe in Tears" on the screen, I took Yin Xiamo's hand and said, "This plot is really too avant-garde..."

"It's quite good. A movie that can make Nuoer cry is a good movie."

Xiaomo next to her took out a handkerchief.

"Go for a walk?"

"..."

……

No. 240 [Kirov reporting! 】

Today is the day when Shangjing Maid Cat Cafe pays salaries.

It was also a particularly exciting day for me after I became a girl - even though I was still on my period at that time.

Because according to my rough calculations, my salary this month will be around 8,000 or 9,000 yuan, maybe even higher.

Considering that Ouyang Xue paid me one month's basic salary in advance, and that neither Xiaomo nor I worked full hours this month, the salary for May is actually relatively low.

In other words, our wages were only “complete” in June.

In June, Xiaomo and I will both work a full month, and the work of the coffee shop has been fully launched. It has become well-known, and Ouyang Xue no longer needs to pay me part of the basic salary in advance, so by this time in July, I estimate that I can get around 16,000 to 17,000 yuan, and even after deducting taxes, it may be 15,000 yuan.

The salary calculation for working in the coffee shop is a bit complicated. For people like Xiaomo, Philo and I who do the work of two people, since we work from eight in the morning to twelve at night (in fact, Xiaomo, Philo and I get off work at eight or nine in the evening), Ouyang Xue calculated the basic salary for two of us. However, this "basic salary" does not apply to the "commission" when we negotiated the terms on the first day.

In other words... when Ouyang Xue and I first met, she claimed that if it were me, the basic salary could be 6000 yuan, while others would only get 4000 yuan as stated in the recruitment advertisement. However, if I choose to work a two-person shift, this bonus is not completely applicable. I work the morning and evening shifts, so my basic salary is 6000 yuan + 4000 yuan = 10000 yuan.

Similarly, Ouyang Xue also gave Xiaomo a basic salary of 4000 yuan, and Filo should get 4000+. I didn't ask about it. After all, as a dragon, Filo is free every night, and I don't think she cares much about money.

In fact, if I were ambitious enough, I could even stay in the coffee shop for 24 hours a day. Food and accommodation are provided here, the environment is beautiful, there are cats and WIFI. After a busy day, I can basically rest around eight or nine in the evening. Then at night I can sleep directly in the coffee shop like Elodie. When there are customers, I will get up and help cook. When there are no customers, I will sleep. I can also enjoy eight days of vacation every month. The basic salary alone will be over ten thousand, and the commission will be estimated to be twenty or thirty thousand.

But that’s not the life I want. If I really want to make money like crazy…there’s actually no need to work so hard.

At least so far, the maids in the coffee shop don't have such an idea.

Ouyang Xue is the acting store manager. She does stay in the coffee shop 24 hours a day, but her usual tasks are more about managing the store and doing public relations. Li Chen is responsible for transporting and delivering goods, and their time is relatively free. Lan Jiajia works the early shift and goes back to the rental house at four o'clock in the afternoon to cook or live a private life. Since she is not responsible for the evening meal peak, she is still quite leisurely. Elodie only works the night shift, and this guy is even more idle. Apart from taking care of the "homeless" who come to sleep at night, he hardly has any physically demanding work to do.

In fact, to put it bluntly, whether the pay slip is transparent or confidential, it is a test of the "trust" in the boss.

If all employees have a bad relationship with their boss, their salaries will be kept confidential and everyone will discuss with each other privately and decide if they should change jobs. However, if the boss is honest and trustworthy, even if the salary slips are made public, everyone will only choose to believe the boss when they see someone earning more than themselves, thinking that this person must have secretly done more work for the boss.

"I have almost calculated last month's salary. After this meeting, I will send the detailed salary slip to the email address you reserved."

Early in the morning, Yin Xiamo, Philo Lan Jiajia, I came to the coffee shop. Together with Elodie, who had just got off work, we found a big table on the second floor and sat down together.

"Then the salary will be deposited into the salary card you have reserved."

As we watched, Ouyang Xue in the middle of the crowd took out several documents from the backpack behind her: "I know you have a very good relationship, but we are all adults, so it's better not to mention anything involving money, okay?"

I nodded silently on the side.

Most formal companies keep salary information confidential and write it into the company's management system as a "rule". The most important rule is that companies cannot exchange each other's salaries.

This situation is common. After all, even brothers have to keep clear accounts. If salaries are disclosed to each other within the company, it will easily lead to various disputes. For example, some people will feel unbalanced when they see that their colleagues earn more than themselves - "I have the impression that I do more than her, so why do I earn less than her?"

Sometimes I am very satisfied with my salary this month - last month I just joined the company and my boss gave me 5000 yuan. This month I worked hard and my boss gave me a raise. I am so happy to have 6000 yuan and can buy the phone I want. But then I look at the salary of a person who slacks off all day in the company... Why can she only get yuan? My good mood for the day is gone in an instant.

This is similar to buying equipment in games or electronic products in the real world. After I buy something, I won’t pay attention to the price of the item. I will just enjoy it happily because I know that if I buy it and then track and observe for lower prices later, I will feel really uncomfortable if I see a big price drop one day, and think if I have lost money. So I simply don’t check it and be content with what I have.

Payday should be a happy day, but no one wants to feel so upset that they want to quit their job just because others get more money than they do.

[Seeing that guy making money is more painful than me losing money] There is actually nothing wrong with this sentence.

In addition to this, if the salary of an employee within a company is completely transparent, it means that she can be "bid".

The boss of the same industry came over and easily found out the salary of someone, and then offered a high salary to poach that person.

Of course, the specific situation needs to be analyzed specifically. At least for the current situation of the coffee shop, I think there is nothing wrong with making everyone’s salary public.

I am a relatively optimistic type. It doesn't matter if I know that Lan Jiajia and Elodie's salary is higher than mine. After all, the salary standard given by Ouyang Xue has exceeded my expectations, and I am very happy. Lan Jiajia and Elodie are also relatively "heartless" types. They come to work in the coffee shop not to "make a lot of money", but to find a "job that allows them to relax and retire, as long as the salary is decent."

As for Yin Xiamo and Filo...they would not compare their salaries with ordinary people.

"Yeah. I know."

Lan Jiajia smiled and said, "I know that Nuo'er should be the ace of the store this month without exchanging salary slips. She must have the highest salary."