My Post-Apocalyptic Shelter Levels Up Infinitely!

“Why did I leave?”

“I killed someone over there, and I’m afraid they’ll come after me, so I had no choice but to buy an identity and run!”

“As for why I chose to be an electrician, to be honest I’m not very good at this stuff either. I just learned a bit of it back on Earth and wanted to see if I could find a job.”

Thud.

Given an utterly unexpected answer, both of them shuddered involuntarily. Su Mo licked the corner of his mouth and put on a somewhat “perverted” smile.

On top of that, the seat he was sitting in leaned toward the dark side of the wall, making him look even more like a wanted criminal with a trail of sins behind him.

In a normal interview, things should probably have been declared over long before reaching this point.

But he had the measure of Zizai Liang Lane’s needs. Instead of retreating, Su Mo advanced, and went on describing his days in Qingguo Territory in vivid detail.

From eating and sleeping to daily living and getting around.

From being framed, to realizing it only when it was already too late, to having no choice but to fight for his life and flee to the Tian Yuan Territory.

Su Mo had clearly indicated, intentionally or not, that his skills were terrible and that what he developed might be useless, or might even do harm.

But Zhang Min, sitting across from him, paid it no mind at all, and her eyes grew brighter and brighter.

“No need to say more. You, we’re hiring you!”

“A prodigal who turns back is worth more than gold. As long as you’re willing to start over, we’re willing to give you this chance!”

She slapped the table, stood up excitedly, picked up the badge from the desk, and strode forward.

Normally, almost no shop, no matter how short-handed, would take on someone from the Liberty Market.

There were three reasons:

First, workers from the Liberty Market had to sign formal identity contracts, which meant the shop had to help pay a fairly steep identity tax.

For example, back when an electrician’s identity sold for as much as two hundred thousand, the tax came to nearly a thousand points a month. Unless it was one of the top few companies, for the rest of the shops that was always a considerable expense.

Second, Liberty Market workers could not be dismissed at will. A reasonable cause had to be found that could pass the labor union’s review.

On the surface this rule seemed to bind no one, but judging from past experience, it was in fact quite rigidly enforced.

Even when most of the time it really was these people’s fault, the finding was that it did not reach the level of grounds for dismissal.

Third, the joint liability system.

Take an electrician as an example. If, during his term, Su Mo developed a product but chose to leave before the product went online,

then if problems appeared after the product went online, he would also bear the corresponding responsibility.

This period lasted a full three months, and it existed to guard, in one direction only, against Liberty Market workers abusing the convenience to make trouble.

And right now, what Zhang Min had her eye on was naturally this third point.

And so, even though the atmosphere of the interview had been strange enough,

after the inner door was opened, Su Mo, under the envious gazes of the remaining two, successfully landed his first formal job in the Tian Yuan Territory, hired for the developer electrician position at Zizai Liang Lane.

“Ah, Brother Su, I told you that you could pass!”

Outside the door of the interview room, Sun Quan was indeed waiting.

Seeing the badge hanging on Su Mo’s chest, he came over warmly, showing not a trace of any other emotion.

“Just lucky, just lucky.”

Su Mo waved a hand and looked at the other four, who had already huddled together nearby.

Touching his forehead, he could not help feeling a headache coming on.

Sure enough, where there are people there are cliques. He did not know whether the problem was Sun Quan himself or whether those four had already been friends.

In any case, even though everyone had now become colleagues, the atmosphere among them was still like that of strangers, with clear lines drawn.

And because Sun Quan kept talking to him,

Su Mo was startled to discover that, without his noticing, he had been shut out by those four as well.

Fortunately, the awkwardness did not last long. After Zhang Min finished interviewing the last two people and kept one of them, today’s interviews were finally over.

She gathered everyone in the rear hall and had them sit down.

Zhang Bowen, who had been silent all along, began handing out white paper and pens one by one. After everyone had received theirs, Zhang Min cleared her throat and said loudly:

“Thank you all for waiting. I’m sure you all know Zizai Liang Lane’s present situation.”

“Now we have reached the point of fighting with our backs to the wall. Before your independent workrooms are built, you may first report the equipment you need.”

“As soon as the workrooms and equipment are in place, we’ll start work right away!”

Waving the white paper in her hand, Zhang Min sat down with a smile.

If you are going to put on a show, you must do the whole thing.

Before bringing people in to interview, she had already prepared to bleed several hundred thousand points on equipment this time.

But after the interviews, facing this group of “amateurs” much like herself, Zhang Min felt completely at ease, and did not even bother to mention the budget.

They were all entry-level electricians. What, buy you a high-end machine tool, set you up with a miniature development platform?

Could you even use it?