The First Job

Sure enough, just as Wu Shiyin had said, a customer arrived soon after. Yang Xiao did not believe it at first, but an hour later, just as he was about to fall asleep, a customer showed up.

"Hey, Gin-san, you actually cleaned this place up. Are you trying to return to your former glory?" The newcomer was a bespectacled young man around seventeen or eighteen, and he seemed quite familiar with Wu Shiyin.

Wu Shiyin smiled when he saw him, stood up, and said, "Yeah. I hired a young guy."

Then he pointed at Yang Xiao. Glasses Man immediately looked over and gave Yang Xiao a meaningful smile. Yang Xiao was baffled. What did that mean?

"Since the Problem Solver is open for business again, I won't beat around the bush. I was just passing by and decided to try my luck. I didn't expect you to actually be open, so I'd like to place an order," Glasses Man said directly.

"Sure, orders are welcome. So, Mr. Tian, what kind of task would you like to post?" Wu Shiyin rubbed his hands together. The first job had arrived. It seemed the Problem Solver still retained some of its former reputation. That would make things easier.

"It's nothing major. Yesterday, I dropped my phone into a filthy ditch. I thought it was too dirty, so I didn't want to retrieve it myself," Glasses Man said helplessly.

"Damn, so the Problem Solver really gets called in for every little crappy thing? You're actually placing an order over something like this?" Yang Xiao said bluntly. He felt like his intelligence had been insulted. Couldn't he just put on a pair of gloves and get his phone himself? Why did he have to come place an order at the Problem Solver?

Now he understood that smile Glasses Man had given him earlier. So there really was nothing good about it!

"Little Yang, you can't put it that way. The Problem Solver considers taking all kinds of jobs. Of course, we can refuse them too, but normally, we should take anything within our abilities. Otherwise, what are we supposed to live on?" Wu Shiyin did not mind Yang Xiao's outburst too much. Everyone was like this when they first started working here. Once he got used to all the strange and bizarre jobs, he would come to terms with it.

Yang Xiao pondered for a moment before asking Wu Shiyin, "How much does a job like this pay?"

Wu Shiyin immediately took out a form and handed it to Yang Xiao. Yang Xiao clearly saw that the bottom row listed jobs like this one, priced at two thousand Island Nation Currency.

Two thousand Island Nation Currency was equivalent to one hundred and twenty Huaxia yuan. What couldn't someone do with that money? Yet he had actually come to the Problem Solver to place an order.

Were people these days really so rich that they could not even be bothered to do a little work themselves?

"You can earn a commission from this job. You get a commission for every job, so your monthly pay will only increase, never decrease," Wu Shiyin whispered into Yang Xiao's ear as he stepped up beside him.

If that was the case, then he would just put up with it and work hard. As long as the jobs were not too excessive, he could take them.

"Place the order. I'll go take a look with you," Yang Xiao said after making up his mind, looking at Glasses Man.

"I'll place it now." Glasses Man began the order process. The order had to be placed first, and payment would be made after it was completed.

Once the order was placed, Yang Xiao followed Glasses Man to where the phone had fallen. Wu Shiyin also gave Yang Xiao a pair of gloves.

Yang Xiao found it a little funny. Glasses Man could have used those gloves himself. He could have gone looking for his own phone with them, so why did he need someone else?

In the end, he was just afraid of hardship and dirt. People these days really were something. If they had money, they would rather take a taxi than walk a little farther. Even if there were restaurants downstairs, they would not go down to eat. They insisted on ordering delivery instead.

Yang Xiao did not comment much on that sort of thing. He just had to do his own job properly.

The two arrived at the depths of an alley. A ditch ran through the middle of it, and people often threw trash there. The water in the ditch did not flow, meaning it only grew smellier and smellier.

People used to come regularly to clean the area and clear out the filthy ditch, but lately, the cleaners had become unwilling to do the work. The place now smelled terrible, and few people passed through. Most went around it.

For the Island Nation, this could be considered a rare and bizarre sight. The country's environmental sanitation standards were extremely high. There was rarely even trash on the streets, and everyone was very civilized.

But Baoxu City was a small fourth- or fifth-tier city. No, perhaps it was more like a fifth- or sixth-tier city now. Maybe the people in a city like this were just less civilized?

Moreover, these residential buildings seemed to have gotten entangled with a local big shot. That big shot wanted the land for development, but most of the residents refused to move. Naturally, he found ways to pressure them, and over time, things gradually turned into this mess.

Yet even though the place was filthy and foul-smelling, those residents still refused to leave. The big shot was helpless as well. In a society ruled by law, if he went too far, the Pro Heroes and the Police Department would not allow it. So recently, he had stopped getting involved.

"It was around here. Look carefully, and you should be able to find it." Glasses Man showed no embarrassment at all. In his view, if he had paid, he deserved the best service. He pointed to a spot in the filthy ditch ahead.

Yang Xiao's expression did not look too good. The ditch seemed nearly a meter deep. The gloves Wu Shiyin had given him only covered his forearms, and that was nowhere near enough.

To find the phone, he would have to plunge his entire arm into the foul water. Even then, there was no guarantee he would find it. Yang Xiao thought that making money really was not easy. There was no such thing as easy money.

Since Mr. Tian wanted his phone back, it had to be waterproof. Otherwise, there would be no point retrieving a phone that had already been ruined. Yang Xiao turned and asked, "What's your Quirk?"

"Me?" Mr. Tian adjusted his glasses. "My Quirk is pretty useless. A certain part of my brain is more developed than usual, so my calculating ability surpasses that of ordinary people. Why do you ask?"

"Oh, nothing." Yang Xiao had wanted to see what this guy's Quirk was. If it could help him, this would not have been so troublesome. But it seemed he could not count on the other man.

Fine, then he would just do it.

Yang Xiao gritted his teeth and took off all his upper clothing. He did not even wear the gloves. Covering his nose with one hand, he lay on the ground and reached directly into the foul ditch with the other.

The icy touch immediately raised goosebumps all over Yang Xiao's body, but he was not that stupid. Holy Light Energy poured into his right hand, forming a glowing protective layer over his palm. His Holy Light level was still too low, so it could only cover an area as large as his hand.

"Little brother, you've got some nice muscles. How did you train them? Huh... why is your hand glowing?" Glasses Man had initially been drawn to Yang Xiao's muscles, but the next moment, he noticed that Yang Xiao's hand in the filthy water was glowing. The light was not very strong, but it illuminated some of the objects in the ditch, making him extremely curious.

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