Infrastructure starts from the game

Early morning in the inner city of Cecilia

Early spring mornings are still chilly, especially in the streets near the river.

The icy wind blew on the faces of the two newsboys who were waiting for the hot dogs, turning their little faces red from the cold.

Newsboys feel very happy.

They would pass by this stall when they were selling newspapers a year ago, but they could only smell the aroma from a distance, they couldn't even eat any meat scraps, and they would be chased away if they got too close.

This year they got winter clothes, they won’t be beaten and scolded if they don’t sell out the newspapers, and they can even save a little change to buy their favorite food, so they don’t have to look around.

However, while waiting for the hot dog, the two newsboys dutifully counted the number of newspapers.

"I still have 78 copies here, how about you?"

"One hundred and seven."

"It's a bit too much!"

"No way, there is no big news recently, and Magic Gear has no plans to release any new games. I heard that the masters of the workshop have gone to the city of Academy to open the magic power base station. It looks very boring."

"Oh, but I heard that he seems to be back... Is there someone at the bottom of the bridge?"

One of the newsboys suddenly looked in the direction of the river bank and said.

Another newsboy glanced at the embankment as he folded the newspaper and put it back in his backpack.

This river is the inland river of Selicia City. It is like a knife that separates the inner city from the outer city. However, it is not deep and the flooding time is very short. However, the bridge piers provide a good shelter to resist the winter. The cold wind, the scorching heat of summer, so there are always some homeless people who hide under the bridge piers and settle down.

But the newsboy looked over now and saw only bare bridge piers.

The newsboy said, "There should be no one under the bridge, right? Isn't that where One-eyed Hans belongs? The boss of Thorny Moon subdued him, and even built a welfare home for the immobile old man, and One-eyed followed the boss wholeheartedly." Going to open up the land."

"Ah, that's great." Another newsboy sighed, "If I were older, I would also want to follow Boss Thorny Moon."

"Are you that weak?"

"It seems that you are very strong! Why don't you let the instructor beat you like a dog?"

"So I'm very self-aware! I've signed up for this year's rune class, and in just one year, I can become an apprentice in Magic Gear!"

"That's also the lowest-level apprentice! But the instructors that Boss Thorny Moon arranged for us are orthodox mercenaries. As long as you learn it, whether you follow Boss Thorny Moon or apply for the air patrol exam, you will have an advantage—"

"Your hot dog is ready!"

The owner of the hot dog stand yelled when the two newsboys were almost arguing.

Naturally, they couldn't care less about arguing, packed up the newspapers in a hurry, and took the hot dogs from the boss.

Then the newsboys found that they had bought one more hot dog, and the boss who had a bad face before said with an embarrassed smile:

"The instructor you just mentioned... do other people also teach?"

The newsboy didn't push back, and he didn't hold a grudge.

They were only a little surprised: "Are you asking the combat instructor, not the rune class?"

The boss's smile became even more embarrassing: "My second boy's brain is not very good, and his grades in Yixue are really unimpressive. He just has two foolish strengths. Isn't it common guards who also take the exam to recruit people recently? I want him to take the exam. Give it a try; and I remember the 'Boss Thorny Moon' you just mentioned, he should be an orthodox mercenary, right? I heard about his legend when I was young!"

"Now we are also an orthodox mercenary guild!" said the newsboy who had previously said that he would follow Thorny Moon.

"Ah, of course! That's why I asked your instructors whether to teach or not. It is said that the mercenary guild has this tradition."

Another newsboy said: "Teacher, this is the tradition of the mercenary guild. You let your son go to the address of the old mercenary guild to register. Generally, with a low-level mercenary certificate, the patrol interview will be easier—"

"Ok ok—"

In front of the vendors, there was a gust of cold wind blowing.

But neither the boss nor the guests cared, letting the cold wind blow their voices and the smell of hot dogs far away.

"...Hey, it's so cold!"

Clover smelled the smell of hot dogs in the cold wind, and listened to the intermittent conversations from above, until she shivered and came back to her senses when her fingers were inserted into the icy river.

However, she still gritted her teeth and stretched her hands into the icy river water, rubbed a few towels, and washed her face carefully.

"Magic gear, I have heard about it many times when I come here, it seems to be a very powerful place... Ha, it has nothing to do with me anyway." Clover said to herself, after washing her face, she tidied up her hair. Hair, trying to look not too different from Cecilia's other girls.

Today is a very important day, and Clover doesn't want to make mistakes.

After washing up, she went back to the tent she built. On the fire there, the small tin bowl served as a pot had already boiled, and there was nothing more than some non-toxic moss inside, which was far less than a fragrant hot dog. , but it still made Alfalfa's stomach squirm again.

Clover swallowed, picked up the bowl but didn't eat, and just went into the tent.

The tent was almost empty, with everything in it, only the green moss growing against the season, lush and plump, like a soft bed, a scrawny woman was lying on it, covered with the same moss The "quilt" that was made kept moaning: "Alfalfa, alfalfa... where are you?"

"breakfast."

Clover placed the bowl next to the woman.

The woman ignored the so-called breakfast, but reached out and grabbed Clover's arm.

"Take me back, Clover!" she begged, "Your father will not find us when he comes back! If I beg you, at least let me see him one last time before I die!"

"Then go to hell!" Clover said coldly.

She ignored the woman's begging, crying and even cursing, and only concentrated on waiting for the bowl of thin porridge to get cold before pouring it down for the woman.

Then Clover shook off the woman, straightened her clothes, and walked out of the tent.

"Clover!"

The woman let out a shrill cry. She tried to grab Clover, but her diseased body prevented her from even doing such a simple movement, and she fell helplessly on the bed.

Clover never looked back.

After washing the dishes, she took a small bottle from her pocket and poured it around the tent.

Moss suddenly grew wildly, covering the entire tent.

The color of these mosses is similar to that of bridge piers, and if you don't look carefully, you won't find anything unusual.

Clover checked carefully several times, and after confirming that it would not be easily exposed, she put the vial back on her body and hurried towards the employment agency.

"How did you get here?"

Ms. Jin from the employment agency showed disgust when she saw Alfalfa coming.

"I'm sorry!" Clover said awkwardly.

She was a little nervous.

I got up early in the morning, and there was no delay on the road, so why were I late?

Clover thought strangely, and wanted to look at the clock in the corner of the agency, but before she could see clearly, Ms. Jin waved her hand repellingly: "Take this watch and wait over there."

"Yes?" Clover replied, and found that this was the existence called "resume" that he had filled out before.

Clover hesitated holding the resume: "Are you really going to help me find a job?"

"Of course." Ms. Jin stared at Clover fiercely, "Do you think we will be greedy for your five hundred per cent?"

That five hundred per cent is already the last money I have.

Clover thought worriedly.

She didn't dare to argue with Ms. Jin who weighed two hundred catties, so she just sat on the bench of the agency with her resume.

What Clover doesn't know is that Cecilia is currently short of people everywhere. Even if Clover has never gone to free school, she can find a good job just because she can write.

But the agency was supposed to make this kind of money, so naturally it wouldn't be so kind.

And Ms. Jin has been an intermediate class for 50 years, so she has her plan.

"This girl looks very pretty. It's a pity to lose it to the surrounding factories. It's better to let her fail a few more times in job hunting. Knowing that it is not easy to find a job, which one is better to introduce to be a maid?" Ms. Jin thought.

She confirmed that Clover's doomed job search failed today, and rubbed Clover's resume in a pile of resumes.

Resumes are also a recent addition.

In the past, Cecilia didn't need this stuff when applying for a job, but recently, when applying for a job at a factory store related to magic gears, they will ask for this, so the agency specially prepared these.

When it comes to magic gear, it is an eternal pain in Ms. Jin's heart.

As early as a year ago, the owner there came to the job agency to post several recruitment information, but the service chosen by the other party was the lowest one. In addition to the rumors of bankruptcy of this workshop, Ms. Jin naturally didn't take it to heart. , Occasionally there are suitable candidates on hand, and they are recommended to other recruiting units with priority.

Who would have thought?That magic gear actually made a fortune.

Only then did Ms. Jin pay attention to the magic gear, and recommended many people to go there.

But the black cat in the workshop doesn't talk about human beings at all, and doesn't give the agency any face.

However, the business situation of Magic Gear is getting better day by day. Not only has it made a big movie, but I don’t know when it set up a city hall, set up a magic base station and a broomstick, and it seems to be the upper class of Cecilia, and began to train rune masters by itself.

The only thing they urgently need is an alchemist.

It's just ridiculous.

You must know that Cecilia's alchemists are generally trained by magic gears!Almost all the alchemists who traced Celesia's origin were related to magic gears. Isn't it as strange as wearing glasses to find glasses for such magic gears to find an alchemist from an intermediary?

But Ms. Jin felt reconciled instead.

That's the big money maker.

Don't they just want to have a relationship with such a big company in this business?Even if you can't get a relationship, you still want to get some oil and water!

Ms. Jin thought hard and finally found a way for her:

Doesn't that black cat like exams?Then send them a real alchemist to go in. When the other party stops at the magic gear and gets the professional test questions of the magic gear, then we will hold a special alchemist training class for the magic gear.

It's a pity that the mercenary guild thought of this idea first, and now even street children are introduced as rune apprentices. If it wasn't for the blood elf, who is not easy to mess with, Ms. Jin really wants to get a piece of the action.

——People like Ms. Jin would not believe it. The rune class in Thorny Moon is completely a voluntary labor welfare facility.

In this way, Ms. Jin found a relationship and invited an alchemist to come over.

It is said that this person is from the royal capital of St. Yejin and has been serving the nobles. It was Ms. Jin who used her network and paid a lot of money to invite him to Cecilia with great difficulty.

But such a character, of course, has a lot of airs.

Although Ms. Jin made an appointment with the other party, he didn't show up at the door of the agency until almost noon.

At this time, the agency already had a group of job seekers like Clover.

This is a babysitter that Ms. Jin deliberately got.

Anyway, the use of foil is never out of date. Among a group of [-], [-] looks pretty good, [-] is very good, and [-] is a genius.

Even if a pearl is placed in the fish eye, it will be very conspicuous, right?

Thinking so, Ms. Jin greeted him with a smile: "Master Alchemist, I've been waiting for you for a long time!" She didn't complain at all about the one who was really late.

"Yes." The "alchemist" replied absent-mindedly.

He is a tall and thin middle-aged man, with gray temples, wearing an old robe, like a scholar who has no ambitions, and looks like a story.

"Then let's go quickly!" Ms. Jin said impatiently.

But "Alchemist" looked impatient: "Now? It's almost lunch time?"

"Hehe, when you come back, we will naturally entertain you," Ms. Jin said, "It's just that the Magic Gears place too much emphasis on time, which is unreasonable. If you miss this time, it will be difficult to handle next time."

"Alchemist" nodded arrogantly.

Ms. Jin led him to the carriage outside: "It's just that you will be wronged to sit with these mortals on the way there."

"Humph."

The "Alchemist" snorted coldly, looked carefully at the other job applicants (foil), and finally walked towards the car that Clover was riding in.

Clover and several girls were about to get in the car, when they saw the most inconspicuous girl being pushed away, and "Alchemist" sat in that girl's seat dignifiedly.

Seeing this, Clover said, "There is someone in that position."

"Who is there! Isn't this the carriage I arranged for you?" Ms. Jin said sharply.

The truth is that.

Clover pursed her lips and stopped talking, only turned her eyes away from "Alchemist".

In addition to making her uncomfortable because the other party forced her into the car, she also felt very sick because of the other party's licking eyes looking at her.

This also made Clover feel very uneasy.

Is this really a formal employment agency?

Fortunately, "Alchemist" just looked at her and didn't do anything else.

The carriage did not deviate from the downtown area, nor did it pull them to a strange place. It only stopped on an ordinary street in the outer city after passing through two streets, and it didn't take long.

Clover secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that when she was about to get off the carriage, she saw the "alchemist" standing under the carriage, reaching out to her, as if he wanted to help her get off the carriage.

Clover avoided the opponent and jumped off the carriage.

This seemed to offend the "alchemist".

"Miss, it seems that you don't know who I am!" "Alchemist" said angrily, "You obviously came here as a foil for me!"

"What do you mean—" Clover asked.

But before the other party could answer, Ms. Jin had already walked over quickly and pushed Alfalfa away.

"Don't worry about the little girl, she doesn't understand anything at all."

When Clover heard Ms. Jin say this to the other party, Clover felt baffled.

While the other job seekers didn't notice the skirmish here, someone looked around and got excited.

"It's a magic gear!"

"No, I've been to Magic Gear, and its storefront doesn't look like this."

"Stupid! This is the side door! We are not here as guests."

"But job hunting is also very strange, we simply can't meet the standard of magic gear!"

People whispered.

It's just that when the iconic magic black cat of Magic Gear appeared in front of their eyes, everyone fell silent.

Although everyone felt that they were not qualified to interview for Magic Gear, what if?

If you have a chance, you still have to try it.

The black cat didn't pay attention to the complex thoughts of human beings. It confirmed to Ms. Jin: "Is this the group of people you're talking about 'alchemists'?"

"Of course, their resumes are perfectly suitable!" Ms. Jin said.

"Then come with me!"

The black cat didn't talk too much, and led the group of job seekers towards the workshop.

However, the sources of job seekers in job agencies are complex and have always been unreliable, so unlike Yinye's interview, Angel had no intention of appearing in person at all, and only asked Mithril to send out the preliminary examination papers.

The alchemist's examination papers are indeed like a heavenly book to ordinary people.

All the people present scratched their heads and scratched their heads. Few of them were able to write. Only the "Alchemist" wrote brushes, as if nothing could trouble him.

Ms. Jin looked very satisfied at the door, and felt that her money was not wasted.

And Clover is also one who can't write.

Alfalfa used to live in a small village in the wasteland where there was only moss and moss. When he was able to read and write, he went to the free school in the town for three years. After leaving, only Alfalfa and her mother were left, so Alfalfa had almost never been exposed to writing except for a certain agricultural planting booklet bought from a passing merchant.

Such alfalfa, of course, does not have any knowledge of alchemy.

But Clover did not give up. She looked at the unprecedented vocabulary of "fifth element", "blackening" and "dead matter" in pain, trying to find a topic that she could understand, and finally turned to the last page. Time, let her find it.

[Please give an example of a hard, heavy-duty and cheap magic conductor (the more examples the better)]

In fact, Clover doesn't know what a "magic conductor" is, but she understands that it is "under pressure and cheap".

Clover happily filled in her answer:

【Moss】

is not that right?Creatures like moss are everywhere in the magical world, from the abyss to the kingdom of God, from the capital to the countryside, from the forest of the elves to the ocean of the aquarium, there is no place where they cannot grow, and ordinary carriages will never crush them. No matter what weight you can survive.

Only "hardness" is hard to say. In the eyes of the world, moss is definitely not hard.

After Clover finished writing the answer, she checked the test paper and felt that only one answer was too empty.

What's more, it also said "the more the merrier" at the end of the title.

Clover felt the need to explain why she found the moss "hard."

Alfalfa went on to write on the test paper: "... Depending on the cultivation method, the ground moss will show different characteristics. When the temperature is XX degrees, if it captures the golden substance in the air and cultivates it, it will show a hard texture. The state, the taste is similar to metal, and..."

When it comes to the cultivation technology of ground moss, alfalfa can write a lot.

After all, for so many years, in the almost deserted village, her only "job" was to cultivate all kinds of mosses, not only the very hard mosses, but also the mosses that can go to the sky!

By the time Black Cat collected the test paper, Clover had already filled the entire examination paper.

"Okay, please wait a moment meow, we will tell you the results of the preliminary test," the black cat said to everyone, "During this period, you can go to the restaurant to try our working meals."

The offer has been cheered by job seekers.

In fact, after answering the exam papers, most people have realized that they cannot pass this round of exams, so it is very happy to have a lunch at Magic Gear, not to mention that Magic Gear’s working meals are famously delicious, An Geer came back from Academy City this time and used the alchemy pot to expand a bunch of delicacies, enough for this group of job seekers to go back and brag for a while.

When Clover saw the buffet, she showed a struggling expression.

She only wanted food for one person, and after secretly packing two-thirds of it, she filled her stomach with the remaining one-third.

Compared with other delicacies, Alfalfa chooses the most filling bread.

But even so, the delicacy in her mouth made her eyes widen. She had never eaten such a delicious thing in her life.

Unfortunately, there is this time.

Even Clover knows that if you only answer one question, you will not pass the exam.

"Miss, how did you do in the exam?" At this time, the "alchemist" walked to the seat next to Clover, and sat down on his own.

The dinner plate in his hand was full of food, enough for ten adults to eat.

Clover ignored him.

"Hmph, I have answered all of them. For a genuine alchemist, that is the most basic question." But the "alchemist" said, and he began to boast.

Clover didn't take the other party's speech to heart at all, and just took bites of the bread cherishingly.

"...Anyway, you'll know when the results come out." The "alchemist" talked for a long time by himself, feeling a bit boring, he finally said this, and glared at Clover.

But Clover still didn't give him a look, but the small bag on Clover's waist caught the "Alchemist's" attention. He stared at Clover for a long time along the way to make sure that the other party didn't have this bag.

He immediately stretched out his hand to Alfalfa's waist: "What are you?"

"Don't touch!"

Clover immediately wanted to slap the opponent away, but was a step too late, and the little golden cake rolled all over the floor.

"Ah, thief!"

The "alchemist" yelled as if he had grasped the handle, and the other people also looked over.

Alfalfa almost wanted to disappear on the spot at this moment.

At this moment, the shadow in front of Alfalfa suddenly arched, and amidst people's screams, a black robe suddenly appeared there, with a small cake on its head.

The black robe didn't care so much, he held up a test paper and asked people:

"Who wrote this paper?!"

"Mr. Angel, is there any problem with that paper?"

Ms. Jin was the first to react - in order to separate herself from the "alchemist", she didn't approach him just now.

Ms. Jin recognized that this was the owner of the workshop she had been wanting to have a relationship with, combined with the examination paper in the other party's hand, her joy swelled, but she still suppressed her joy, and confirmed in a pretentious way: "This paper says Isn't that right?"

"No! It's perfect! It gave me the answer I wanted during this period of time!" Heipao said with a happy expression that the black cat Mithril had never seen before. That smile can make people who see him for the first time think that He's a nice, normal guy.

"Well, that might be mine."

"Alchemist" admitted bluntly at this time.

But no one questioned it. Everyone saw that the test paper was densely written.

Angleton looked at "The Alchemist" in surprise.

While the "alchemist" was waiting for the other party's praise, he heard the black robe ask: "You have grown mosses that can bear more than one ton? How did you do it? The paper mentioned separating golden elements from the air , Is it the earth element? How to separate it, and how is the processing process?"

"Huh?" The "Alchemist" was stunned.

Regardless of whether it is a counterfeit or not, any alchemist cannot answer the breeding technology of ground moss.

"I'm sorry, Moss...it's me!" Clover raised his hand and said.

She timidly said: "I planted it. If you need it, I can do it again. As for the golden element in the air, it's this—"

Clover stretched out her hand, stroked the air, and a little bit of gold gathered in her hand.

"So that's it, a natural elemental affinity!" Angel sighed, and he wanted to take her away, "Come here, I have some specific questions I want to discuss with you."

"and many more!"

The "alchemist" yelled in humiliation: "Would you rather be a thief than a real alchemist?"

"Thief?"

"She just stole food from your restaurant!" the "Alchemist" accused.

"But, I'm here to eat casually," Angel said. He looked at the dinner plate of "Alchemist" and then at that of Clover, "Besides, I think you are more useless than her." Where's the fuel! It's not used yet."

Someone in the crowd laughed immediately.

"It's useless?! I should have a perfect score on that test paper!" "Alchemist" shouted.

Ms. Jin couldn't help but said, "Mr. Angel, haven't you finished reading those test papers?" Although it was a bit of a surprise to her that Alfalfa could be selected-for her, who can enter the alchemy workshop? Pretty much the same—but she didn't want her investment in "The Alchemist" to go to waste either.

"Full marks?" Angel paused.

He finally took a good look at the "Alchemist": "By the way, there is a guy with a perfect score, he should be a liar from the capital, and he is also carrying the 'special product' of the large cemetery - Mithril, grab it!" Him! Interrogate where this guy came from!"

"Meow!"

The black cat that had been squatting on the shoulder of the black robe yelled, turned into a black mist, and rushed towards the 'alchemist'.