Working Prophet

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Li Yu also asked Shi Yitong some questions, most of which were related to the company.

"As you can see, Third Age employees are spread all over the world, and there are all kinds of guys."

Shi Yitong said, "Actually, how the company selects new employees has always been a mystery, but a guy like Kulu can actually pass the assessment."

"What's wrong with Kuru?"

"He is a complete hedonist. He doesn't care about the past or the future. He just seizes every moment of the present to enjoy himself. Morality and law are like waste paper to him."

"I thought the company required every employee to abide by laws and regulations." Li Yu frowned.

"It's a suggestion, not a requirement. When you join the company, HR will advise you to abide by the law, but in fact, even if you break the law, no one will pursue you as long as you are not caught."

Shi Yitong paused, "Look around you, I dare say that more than half of the people here have done some shameful things at one time or another.

“When you suddenly have unprecedented power and become accustomed to being surrounded and worshiped by others, the previous rules will naturally lose their restraint.

"For example, if you snap your fingers and you can transfer gold bars from a bank vault to your residence without anyone noticing, how many people can resist such a temptation?"

"Besides, if you really want to cause some trouble, you can use an employee's wish and ask the public relations department to help solve the problem. They are all very efficient professionals. There is no problem that they cannot solve."

As Shi Yitong spoke, he pointed to the southwest corner of the living room, where a group of men in black wearing sunglasses and serious faces, who looked like they were attending a funeral, were gathering there to play Texas Hold'em poker.

They automatically exuded an aura of keeping strangers away from them, and employees from other departments in the living room also consciously kept their distance from them.

"I haven't used employee wishes before." Li Yu said.

"Why, I used one when I first got it." Shi Yitong finished eating the apple and accurately threw the core into the trash can two steps away.

"What did you use it for?"

"I said I wanted to see the great auk."

"Auk?"

"It was a flightless water bird that lived in the Arctic. It looked like a penguin. It became extinct in 1844."

"Why do you want to see that water bird? Does it have any special meaning to you?" Hephaestus interjected.

"No, it's just that the guys in the public relations department looked very pushy, which made me very unhappy, so I deliberately created a problem for them."

"Then did you finally see the great auk?" Li Yu asked.

Shi Yitong nodded, "I don't know how they did it. They found a great auk that had been frozen for hundreds of years in a large ice cap.

“That day I was woken up from bed by a phone call at four o’clock in the morning, and then I found two guys standing in front of my bed, telling me that the plane was ready and asking me to go to the airport with them now.

“I got up in a daze, put on some clothes, and then they took me to the airport in their car.

"We flew to Moscow first, then transferred to Oslo, and then flew to Svalbard Islands, where we found a small sailboat and sailed on the sea for more than ten days... I wanted to go home for a while, but in the end, I did Saw a great auk."

"Those guys are quite capable." Hephaestus also said, "They helped me enroll my nephew in Zhongguancun No. 3 Primary School."

After the handsome mixed-race guy finished speaking, he found that Li Yu and Shi Yitong were staring at him.

"What, what's the problem?" Hephaestus was a little confused.

"It's nothing, I just didn't expect you to follow the Romans so quickly." Li Yu said.

"What does it mean to do as the Romans do? I was born in City B and grew up in City B, okay?"

Hephaestus rolled his eyes, "I'm not one of those stupid foreigners who can't speak Mandarin well. If I have this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, of course I have to invest in education. Not everyone in this city does this. Is it?"

"Forsighted!" Shi Yitong gave a thumbs up.

Li Yu returned to the topic, "There is something that has always concerned me. Have you noticed the electronic clock at the front desk of the company?"

"Are you talking about the one that has been counting down? Of course, in such a conspicuous position, it is difficult not to notice it. There are still less than three years until zero..."

Li Yu continued, "I asked Xu Mengyuan, and she told me that it was just a strange little hobby of some directors on the board of directors, who thought it was cool to use countdowns as decorations."

"The woman tells everyone that, but there's definitely something she's hiding from us."

"Do you know something?"

"It's just my guess." Shi Yitong leaned on the sofa and crossed his legs. "Did you know that many civilizations have similar legends about the end of the world?"

“The great flood of Christianity, the doomsday prophecy of the Mayans, the Twilight of the Gods in Nordic mythology, our Nuwa mending the sky... So I think that the countdown is probably also a precursor to some kind of catastrophe.

"Of course it's not from the plane of the universe we're in. 2012 has already passed a long time ago, but it's probably related to where we work."

"But aren't we collecting faith in different planes?" Li Yu frowned, "Does the company have the ability to cause disasters in all planes at a specific time?"

"As far as I know, there is none." Hephaestus said without hesitation, "Our research on faith is just in its infancy, and what we can do is very limited.

"A disaster that destroys a civilization is too exaggerated. It takes a lot of faith to create it. Shi Yitong, you are a layman in the business department, so don't make blind guesses."

The handsome mixed-race guy didn't forget to mock him at the end.

Shi Yitong snorted coldly, "You have only been in the third era for a long time, and you have no idea about the capabilities of the directors on the board of directors."

"No matter how capable you are, you should still talk about the basic laws. In the final analysis, faith is just a special kind of science, and as long as it is science, there are always traces to follow. There is no such thing as destroying the world with one punch in fantasy novels. .”

When talking about his professional field, Hephaestus showed no sign of weakness and looked directly at Shi Yitong, "You are just a civil science student!"

Shi Yitong sneered, "Pay back the money."

Hephaestus immediately became visibly depressed when he heard these two words, "Give me some more time, and I will pay you back 20,000 yuan after I pay my salary."

"If you pay back 20,000 yuan a month, how long will it take for you to pay it back?"

"You're not short of money."

"But I need to make my motorcycle faster."

“I’ll study it some more…” the handsome mixed-race guy said listlessly, “We agreed, if I can find a way to speed up your motorcycle by 40%, the money I owe you will be written off.”

"It's a deal."