Chapter 5 Sky Track
Ji Jue had been feeling groggy and absent-minded ever since he was nearly hit head-on by a truck yesterday. After returning home from the hospital after a check-up, he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Only now, after waking up, did I feel a rare sense of relief and a little joy.

Although there are no popular plots such as reincarnation in another world, crystal ball explosion in magic test, and harem gathering with a single blow, but... at least I'm still alive, right?

It’s great to be alive, it’s very good to be alive, it’s fucking great to be alive.

Ji Jue has lived since he was nine years old, but he still hasn't lived enough. He feels as if he can live another four, five, six, seven or eighty years.

It's better to be a little bit moldy, and to be a little poorer.

It’s not like life is impossible.

Long live life!

But...is the scar a little lighter?

The old house left by the ancestors has been weathered by the weather. The wooden floor creaks when you step on it. Even though Ji Jue has maintained it carefully in the past few years, it is still dilapidated.

When Ji Jue was washing in front of the mirror, he couldn't help but look up and take a closer look...the scar that extended from the bottom of his neck to his face.

Like a snake wrapped around your back.

The burn marks were so ugly and hideous, but now they are vaguely showing signs of fading.

More importantly, I feel like I am a little different.

To be exact, everything seems to be different.

The whole world seemed vaguely different.

To put it in an analogy, it is like a patient who has undergone an amputation suddenly feels the illusion that his limbs exist again... Suddenly, he seems to have an extra eye, an extra hand, and a new sense.

But when you experience it carefully, everything becomes ambiguous.

The more I experience it, the more erratic and dizzy this feeling becomes. It's like something is stuck in the middle, neither going up nor down, and it's extremely uncomfortable.

After washing his face, he sat down on the sofa, reached out, picked up the remote control, and wanted to watch something else to divert his attention. But the TV screen just flickered and the picture was intermittent.

"Broken again?"

Ji Jue scratched his head, bent down and pressed the switch, but nothing happened.

After all, it was an old TV, and it was indeed older than Ji Jue, and even the screen was spherical. He had patched it up over the years, but this time it didn't seem to be an old problem.

Just when he was at a loss, he heard a hallucinatory voice:

[Brother, stop it, my butt hurts. ]

"What?"

Ji Jue subconsciously pressed it again and heard a groan. He froze in place, stunned. With difficulty, he raised his head and looked towards the source of the sound.

TV set.

[My butt hurts.] said the TV.

"I hold—"

Ji Jue was horrified and fell to the ground.

Corpse... No, the TV can talk?!
Then the TV went silent.

It was as if he was about to be killed by him, which made Ji Jue panic and confused again, until he finally plucked up the courage, walked around behind the TV, and finally realized.

Doesn’t it hurt your butt?

The power cord at the back is aging and cracking, causing leakage!
After rummaging around in the cupboard for quite a while, he finally found the electrical tape and pliers and fixed the power cord. It was not as complicated as he had expected. In fact, it was... surprisingly simple.

Then, a groan of relief was heard.

【much better.】

The TV said: [The voltage is unstable recently. Don’t turn it on too often. The picture tube is about to fail…]

The sound became smaller and smaller and gradually became inaudible.

Ji Jue was becoming more and more dizzy.

When he looked at the TV, it was as if his invisible eyes had opened again, allowing him to see the internal structure and operation. When he listened, it was as if there were hallucinatory words reporting the subject's condition.

When he touches the TV, invisible hands act on it, feeling the aging degree and service life of each component, and even interfering with its operation.

But all this seemed to be based on his energy.

Once he used this power, he could feel his energy draining away rapidly. In just a few minutes, it felt as if he hadn't slept for days and nights, and he was so sleepy that he was about to die.

He had no doubt that if he didn't stop, sudden death would be no joke.

But reality.

Now, in the silence, Ji Jue lowered his head and looked at his wrist.

That sound and perception were so clear even when I was exhausted, and did not require any extra energy at all, as if it had become a part of my body.

That's a weird watch.

What surprised Ji Jue was that the number on the dial had fallen back to the beginning from almost full value, and was even less than the beginning.

【01】

In addition, what is even more eye-catching is the numbers on the dial - more than half of the original 0 o'clock mark has turned golden, as if it was stuck at a certain progress.

The moment he once again mobilized his limited energy and poured it into it, it was as if information emerged before his eyes like a waterfall.

[The Ceremony of Heaven's Chosen Begins, Welcome to Join Tiangui Group]

[Error report failed to be sent for the 1789989th time] [Detected that temporary employees were in danger of life... Called the surrounding stations, no signal response, called the headquarters support center, no signal response... Error! Error! Error! ]

[Temporary Worker Emergency Survival Agreement Started - During the effective time of the agreement, the talent will be forcibly activated as an ability - the reserve spirit essence is exhausted - the agreement ends - duration: 0.4 seconds. ]

[Unknown error detected, error, error, error, lost signal response, unable to complete upload. The human resources management program reminds you to become the chosen one as soon as possible, go to the central station, and complete the regularization and employment. ]

Ji Jue’s eyes went dark.

I'm not tired, I'm confused.

There were too many new words, all at once, making him unable to understand them for a while: Ceremony of the Chosen, SkyTrack Group, temporary worker, agreement, error, Chosen One, Central Station, employment…

But by guessing, I seem to understand something.

It seemed that I was inexplicably bound to this watch through some kind of divine ceremony, and I also sent a resume to a company I had never heard of, and then, I was automatically accepted?

But this crappy company seems to be a makeshift team. It has nothing. No one has ever come to find me. I don’t know if it still exists.

When its own life was in danger, it activated something called the Temporary Worker Survival Protocol, forcibly activating its own "talent", transforming it into superpowers, and ended up burning all the oil.

Finally, it seemed to remind him to quickly become the Chosen One, and then find a place called Central Station to become the company's official slave?

"Hey?"

Ji Jue raised his wrist carefully and asked, "Are you there?"

No one responded.

In the silence, even the hands of the watch were too lazy to make a sound.

It seems like she doesn't want to pay attention to him.

"Don't be silent." Ji Jue asked curiously, "May I ask how your company's benefits are? What's its scale? What's its main business? What are the wages and benefits? Do you have annual leave and year-end bonuses?"

The watch is silent.

Ji Jue's heart gradually calmed down.

"By the way, when did I become your temporary worker? Did I agree? Was there a signature to confirm it?"

He lay on the worn-out sofa and found a relaxing posture: "I have been a temporary worker for so many years. Although I have not done any work, this is not a reason for you not to pay me! Can you make up for it? Are there any arrangements for the five social insurances and one housing fund?
You didn't evade taxes, did you? Be careful or I'll call and report you..."

The silence remained, with only Ji Jue talking to himself like a clown. But clowns are also good, at least it shows that there is no weird thing like an ancient ghost hidden in this thing.

Well, since you can’t speak, never mind.

He asked me to work as a temporary worker without paying me, and he used the meter himself, but it seems he didn't pay for it. It's a win-win situation for everyone, WINWINWIN, it's a win-win situation for everyone, and we all win together.

Then for the time being, there is no need to worry about someone suddenly dropping from the sky, slapping you to death, and then taking back the company's assets.

Besides, I have never heard of the Skyrail or the train station. There are so many big cities in the Federation, but there are only a few railways running back and forth, and they are all managed and operated by the governments of various cities. I have never heard of the Skyrail Group.

This watch has been in Ji Jue's house since his grandfather's generation and has never been moved. It has not been found for so many years. That crappy company may, possibly, seems, most likely... has disappeared long ago.

Ji Jue breathed a sigh of relief and finally felt at ease.

When you close your eyes and feel carefully, you can feel that something is gradually emerging in your body, in wisps as thin and drifting as fog, but when they gather together, they become a river.

It gradually fulfilled him and dispelled some of his sleepiness.

And among them, there was an almost negligible amount that flowed into the watch and was stored inside, causing the number on the dial to rise again - [03]

Is this spiritual essence?
I had accumulated so many years of energy before, but it only reached over ninety, but it was burned up in less than a second by the survival protocol... But after my talent was forcibly activated once, the speed at which my spiritual essence recovered seemed to be much faster, many times faster than before.

It should be just the finishing touch to officially transform your abilities.

Then... am I almost becoming a person with super powers?

Ji Jue's eyes lit up.

A long time ago, he read a comic book that was said to have been passed down from before the Cataclysm to the present day. There were several heroes in the comic, each of them was extremely awesome and heroic.

The eldest is strong, invulnerable, and can shoot lasers from his eyes; the second is rich, wearing a mask and black clothes, and takes his godchildren to fight violence and protect the good; the third is a woman, holding a sword and a rope, and is extremely lustful; the fourth wears a red dress, eats fast, runs fast, does everything fast, and dies fast every time...

Which one is the eighth or ninth one? Their superpowers are also very special!
He can talk to the fish and the fish will talk to him.

Just like myself.

When he talks to the phone, the phone will respond to him and tell him that the number is in arrears!

It’s so amazing!
Although this statement sounds a bit annoying, it doesn't stop Ji Jue from being really happy.

He seems to be really different now than before.

It seems that I don’t need to worry anymore, and I don’t need to live so hard. I can live a happy life simply, easily and easily.

How great.

You don’t have to worry if you fail the exam, or if your thesis is rejected. It’s not a big problem if you don’t get the second-level engineer qualification before graduation. You don’t have to worry about starving to death or ending up on the streets because you can’t pay back your student loans.

Anyway, I am superpower...

boom!
A loud warning sound like a divine punishment burst out from downstairs.

Ji Jue peeked out from the stairs in a daze and saw a door that was blown open by the strong wind.

A sparse amount of rain fell in from outside the door.

There is also a line of mud footprints winding deep into the living room...

Uninvited guests come suddenly!

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(End of this chapter)