NOVEL WEB Chapter 47 Have They Always Been Like This?
"Are they... all like this?"
Lucy felt a bit awkward, this was completely different from the place she imagined.
What happened to the serious work atmosphere?
The high-pressure work environment?
Massive work performance?
Sitting at the glass door openly peeking at me dating your boss, don't you guys have work to do?
And as the boss, is it really okay for employees to be blatantly slacking off, even gathering to discuss who's prettier?
Who is DVA?
Who is Tifa?
Who is 2B?
They said I'm not as good as them?
Lucy didn't care much about others' opinions on her looks, but being surrounded and judged like this almost made her mouth twitch with anger.
If it weren't for Lin Miao's sake, she would definitely show these people a thing or two.
"Ahem..." Lin Miao, who was holding back a laugh nearby, coughed and said, "Our company's work environment... uh... is quite relaxed, everyone works based on self-motivation, and now it's free activity time."
If you truly force players to do any sort of work, even if it's a four-hour work system, they'll make a fuss for you to see.
People come here to have fun, not to work for you.
If logging in becomes like clocking in, what's the point of the game?
Over time, even the highest enthusiasm will be worn away.
So Lin Miao rarely orders players to do any work, he puts tasks and rewards out there to stir up players' interest to take them voluntarily.
But if they do have resistance, Lin Miao wouldn't force them either.
Lucy frowned, "Are you... really here to start a business?"
"I think you seem more like a rich kid running out to find fun."
This was one of her biggest concerns; if Lin Miao was backed by a big company or some rich person, no matter how reluctant, she would decisively distance herself from him.
"Thanks for the compliment."
Lin Miao sneered, "Have you seen any big corporation or rich kid risking their necks to clash with Night Wanderers or Tiger Claw gang just to snatch a bit of oil and chips?"
"Wouldn't it be more pleasant to wake up on a 500㎡ king-size bed, have twenty or so beautiful maids like you serve me breakfast and hygiene, fly out of a manor on the most top-notch hovercraft, go to work at a trillion-dollar company, and enjoy the worship of a million employees than staying in this hellhole?"
"Lucy, I can only say your imagination is rich, but not rich enough; you can still guess I'm an alien, a person from the future, a superpowered person, or Ah Xu..."
Lin Miao's relentless talk made Lucy feel slightly annoyed
"Enough, enough, I was just asking, is it necessary?"
She looked over to the glass window side, that group of people were still staring wide-eyed at them, as if waiting for something to happen.
How to say...
Even though she had been here for less than an hour, she could clearly feel the contrast between these people's aura and Night City's atmosphere.
Optimistic?
Lively?
Relaxed?
Not really.
Sensitive Lucy had an indescribable feeling.
These people were complete oddballs, outsiders.
In Night City, the air you breathe is murky, the water you drink is foul, the ads ringing in your ears, the despondent pedestrians in the streets, from every place you can feel a constant descent into the abyss, a decaying air and suffocating feeling.
Like a pool of stagnant water, where the dust at the bottom is about to settle, Lucy just desperately wants to escape this hell.
And this group?
They're like water rushing down from the neighboring waterfall, restless and uneasy.
Instead of a company, Lucy seems to have a better term to describe this place.
An amusement park.
Though she doesn't seem to dislike the feeling.
Players' enthusiasm comes and goes quickly; after confirming that Lucy and the boss won't be coming out anytime soon, they soon lost interest in watching, grouped up to do their own things.
Push club dungeons, push dungeons, train whatever needs training.
Ever since Lin Miao opened the mutual trade system and occupation system, players have begun trying out related businesses.
Like Brother Ni's crossbow paired with Jianxue's nameless explosives showed great results in battles a few days ago.
The two, along with Big-eared Tutu, are huddled together trying to design an impact explosive arrowhead, many players have also ordered compound crossbows from Brother Ni.
Brother Ni is constantly trying to improve the crossbow's design, he has obtained the design for a recurve compound crossbow, and is currently attempting to create one.
Jianxue and Big-eared Tutu also have their new projects, like trying to make a double-base propellant or rocket propellant...there's nothing players are afraid to do, only things they don't want to do.
And these things, as long as you have high school chemistry knowledge, plus materials and tools, making them is really not difficult, what's difficult is the authorities knocking at your door.
Like the legendary forum 'Energetic Materials Bar' producing various death-defying geniuses, trying new formulas, synthesizing new explosives, exploring new processes, was forcibly shut down, and many famous forum members invited for tea.
And many more, the pioneers who accidentally sent themselves to the hospital.
Jianxue deeply understood this, they were all artists there.
Because he's one of them.
Of course, the crafting materials are no longer freely available to players like before; they cost money.
Fortunately, the income from the last battle was substantial enough to last them a while, when they run out of money, they can still complete some tasks, right?