Onboarding Test

"Colonel Chen wants you to come because..."

Lu Xin sat down in a small, abandoned garden nearby and asked Gecko.

"It's important!"

Although Gecko was annoyed that Lu Xin was so impolite, not inviting him upstairs to sit, but instead sitting in this lonely, broken garden, he seemed to be in good spirits and quickly cheered up. He mysteriously said to Lu Xin:

"Brother, you've got some serious pull. This time, the Six Monsters of Qinggang are all coming to Satellite City No. 2 for you..."

"The Six Monsters of Qinggang?"

Lu Xin listened, sounding a little surprised.

"That's right, six monsters!"

Gecko said seriously, "Very, very strange monsters!"

"What are they coming for?"

Lu Xin's heart leaped, and he quickly asked earnestly.

"To do a test on you..."

Gecko seemed surprised. "Didn't headquarters inform you earlier?"

"A test?"

Lu Xin paused for a moment before realizing. Of course, he had been informed about this. He had been waiting for it. After all, he clearly remembered Han Bing saying before that he could only be officially recruited and become a true pollution cleaner after passing the test...

Of course, it seemed like there were no benefits to being officially recruited in this department...

But it didn't matter. The word "official" itself gave a sense of security.

His heart filled with a slight joy, he then worriedly asked, "Why would monsters be doing the test?"

Gecko looked at his confused expression, seeming a little smug, and chuckled mysteriously, "You'll know when you get there..."

"Alright."

Lu Xin could only agree. He then said, "Sister, don't gesture at his neck!"

Gecko was startled. "Who are you talking to?"

"My sister!"

Lu Xin felt there was no need to hide it like usual when he was in front of someone else who had also undergone a mutation.

He honestly replied, "She's gesturing at your neck right now, like she wants to rip it off..."

Gecko shivered slightly, his hair standing on end.

Lu Xin had to comfort him. "It's okay, she usually listens to me!"

Gecko subconsciously shifted his body to the side. "And what about when she doesn't?"

Lu Xin glanced at him and nodded silently.

"You really live up to your reputation..."

Gecko, who had been about to make another joke, stood up abruptly, subconsciously moving a little further away from Lu Xin. "I like to joke with people, and I like it when people joke with me, but when I joke with you, why do I feel a bit uneasy?"

"Maybe it's because I'm not joking?"

Lu Xin thought to himself and asked curiously, "What do others say about me?"

"Your information is highly confidential!"

Gecko chuckled. "But everyone says you're very dangerous."

It figures that rumors in any company are unreliable and full of prejudice...

Lu Xin thought to himself and stopped dwelling on the issue. He asked, "So... when is the test?"

"Awaiting notification!"

Gecko glanced at a black digital watch on his wrist. "But it should be very soon!"

Lu Xin listened, feeling a little confused. "Do you have to decide something like this last minute?"

"Heh heh..."

Gecko immediately burst out laughing. "Do you think it's a small matter for the Six Monsters of Qinggang to leave the main city?"

As he was speaking, the screen of the digital watch on his wrist suddenly lit up slightly, and Gecko's expression immediately became a bit more serious.

"Here it comes!"

Lu Xin quickly asked, "When?"

"In fifteen minutes, at Qingzhuo Building in the east of the city!"

Gecko reported a time and place, his eyes shining a little: "Brother, those monsters are all very temperamental and hate tardiness the most. But we're not close, this is the time to see your skills..."

Before he finished speaking, he had already retreated. As his back touched the wall of the apartment building behind him, he continued to retreat, actually walking backward up the wall. He took four or five steps, then straightened his body and stuck tightly to the wall.

He smiled at Lu Xin and said, "Brother, come on, let's see who gets there first..."

As he spoke, he quickly climbed up the wall like a phantom, disappearing onto the rooftop in an instant.

"This..."

Lu Xin looked at the way Gecko disappeared, his expression a little stunned.

He estimated the time, then silently got up, went to the stairs next to the garden, and entered the subway station.

Rumble!

An old subway train, its body covered in colorful graffiti, pulled into the station.

Lu Xin silently swiped his card to enter, thinking, "Doesn't he know this last train goes directly to Qingzhuo Building?"

As Lu Xin slowly emerged from the subway entrance, he saw Gecko panting as he climbed down the wall of a nearby building. Since it wasn't very late at night yet, there were quite a few pedestrians on the street, and he had to avoid their gazes. He could only hide intermittently, and when no one was paying attention, he would quickly dart through some secluded corners.

"I didn't lose..."

Meeting Lu Xin's strange look, he explained somewhat indignantly, "Mainly, when I saw you weren't following, I turned back to find you. Who would have thought you'd take the subway... If I didn't care about other people's eyes, I would have arrived much earlier!"

Although his explanation might have made sense, Lu Xin still felt a little speechless.

"Is the testing location upstairs?"

Lu Xin changed the subject, looking up at one of the top skyscrapers in this satellite city.

"Yes, they should be ready. Let's go up!"

Gecko said helplessly, gazing at the building that seemed impossibly tall from directly below. His eyes suddenly lit up.

"Should we just climb up?"

Lu Xin gave him a deep look and obediently went to take the elevator.

The entire building was very quiet, with no idle people in sight. Only in the lobby and at the stairwells could some heavily armed security personnel be seen, standing like upright nails, making the atmosphere of the building rather serious.

It was the first time Lu Xin had seen such strict security control in a satellite city.

In his memory, even the Guard Department, the Administrative Hall, or the barracks of the City Patrol Army didn't have such a large presence.

Led by Gecko, Lu Xin easily entered the building. After registering, he took the elevator to the nineteenth floor.

"Come over, the professors have arrived!"

At the nineteenth-floor stairwell, Chen Jing was already waiting. She was wearing a black suit, looking very sharp and capable.

"Okay!"

Lu Xin shook her hand, feeling a little unaccustomed to it, and then followed her towards the main office on this floor.

"This test is a routine procedure before formal onboarding!"

"After passing the test, you will receive your own codename and officially get the opportunity to be guided!"

"..."

"Formal onboarding..."

Lu Xin keenly caught the key point in Chen Jing's words, and his steps immediately became lighter.