Reality's Advantages, Gao Linzhi's Gains

Gao Linzhi became interested in this company that offered "consulting and handling of abnormal phenomena".

This is clearly a company that has risen to prominence by taking advantage of the prevailing circumstances.

There are already many such small companies.

Of course, many of these companies are just seeking fame and fortune; they are fraudulent companies that only want to grab a subsidy and investment and then run away.

Blue Star this corporate system, the establishment of small companies is encouraged and supported.

As long as your company's total value does not exceed 1 billion yuan and its annual profit does not exceed 30 million yuan, you can live a very comfortable life.

You will enjoy strict legal protection, patent protection, and various subsidies and support.

Of course, this is on the premise that you actually generate revenue and profit.

The subsidies are issued by super-large companies, which also provide legal protection.

And they did this, of course, not for charity.

It's an investment, a harvest for the future.

By now, everyone understands a basic truth: most of the new era's creations and inventions often come from dynamic small and medium-sized companies, rather than industry giants.

Industry giants tend to use stable, older technologies and rely on market monopolies to obtain stable profits.

They tend to abhor change—for a simple reason: they have huge fixed investments, and change means waste and loss of assets.

However, if one refuses to change, one will easily be eliminated by the market.

Even if you were very powerful before, it's nothing in the face of the market.

Of course, if you are a management company, you can rely on monopolistic management to leech off others and thus avoid being eliminated.

However, if this happens, the company will become corrupt and decadent, and eventually be replaced by someone else.

Of course, if you cross the threshold, that is, if you have a monopoly and leading position in a promising field, then the local management companies, as well as large companies from other cities, will take notice of you.

Gao Linzhi realized that this "abnormal phenomenon consulting and handling" company belonged to this kind of emerging small company.

He remained invisible the entire way, following Bai Ze as they left the subway shelter and arrived at an office building.

Room 701, 18th floor of the office building.

A sign above reads, "Consultation and Handling of Abnormal Phenomena".

Upon entering, you'll find a large, open-plan office.

Gao Linzhi looked towards the large office.

There were four people in the large office.

There were four people, two of whom were lying down asleep.

Two people are scrolling through short videos on their phones, chatting as they watch.

After Bai Ze went inside, the four people ignored him.

"Something's happened outside. Strange things have descended upon this city, and many people have died."

The four looked at Bai Ze, and one of them shook his head and said, "Whatever, we're too lazy to move anyway. We can just log into the game."

"There are more strange things in the game world, but it's best to clean up the strange things in reality." Bai Ze clearly belonged to the Lawful Good camp; he wanted to help the common people.

"Hehe, cleaning up will require someone to bring out gold. The game items on Wolf Snake Island only accept gold," said Lazy Fisher Number One.

"Yeah, those big companies have monopolized the gold industry offline. If we wanted to rob it, the risk would be too great. After all, we're not the only players." Slacker No. 2 chimed in.

"Of course, I will talk to the people in those companies."

Sure enough, people arrived shortly afterward.

She was a beautiful professional woman, accompanied by two heavily armed bodyguards. Their purpose was not to deal with the strange creature, but to deal with people.

Beautiful women are dangerous in times of chaos.

"Hello, I am the senior assistant to the president of Longjing Company, the management company of this city. I would like to hire you to drive away the strange phenomenon that has appeared this time," the pretty assistant said.

"Impossible. Do you know what level this anomaly is? It starts at least at the Blue Tier, then there are white, green, blue, purple, gold, and red anomalies. It's a sixth-level anomaly. Anything above the third level is basically unsolvable; you can only wait for it to calm down on its own," said the Fishmonger No. 1, shaking his head.

"Didn't you players say you have game items to ward off monsters?" the pretty assistant pressed.

She looked quite anxious.

She knew that the company was also contacting other players, but the situation was unclear.

In fact, this city management company also has its own players.

The number of players is relatively small, but the number of managing companies is even smaller.

On average, it's not difficult for a management company to acquire several player qualifications.

After all, they can engage in various resource transactions with those large companies.

Their managerial roles are very useful.

As for how he acquired this status, it was naturally a combination of long-term alliances, competition, and industry advantages.

Even large companies can only occupy one city, and at most, they can make that city very large, turning it into a megacity.

This is supposedly due to some secret agreement.

This is clearly related to the arrival of the game.

I was unable to purchase the relevant game items for some reason.

Because they belong to the blacklisted companies of Wolf Snake Island —when the Company Union Federation voted, they sided with the side that opposed, suppressed, and controlled the free agents.

For some reason, this news was leaked to Wolf Snake Island by their competitors, resulting in sanctions against them—they were banned from selling them game items, and players who sold them game items were also banned from trading for a certain period of time.

This can be said to be the best demonstration of Gao Linzhi's current power.

Influence alone can solve many problems, without the need for direct force.

At this moment, Bai Ze looked at the pretty assistant and shook his head, saying, "You mean the Monster Story Instance Ticket? That's a strategic resource; you need to provide strategic materials to buy it from Wolf Snake Island."

"We don't have any on hand either."

"However, I can accept your employment."

At this moment, Slacker Number One was both shocked and furious. "Bai Ze, do you know what you're saying?"

The other three also said, "If you want to go, then go by yourself."

"We're not going to our deaths with you."

"You need to understand, that's Blue Tier monster, it's extremely dangerous."

"That's right," another person agreed.

"We're not going. I really don't know what you're thinking."

"Those guys outside, when we were being hunted down by the Corporate Players, nobody cared about us. The worst part is that later on public platforms, they even said we deserved it."

"Exactly, they say that we independent individuals are a threat, unstable, and should be controlled."

"Now?"

"We only managed to gain a little bit of our right to life and a little bit of freedom thanks to the deterrent effect established by the bigwigs on Wolf Snake Island."

"We're fine with this as long as we can play our games in peace. Who cares about them?"

The four slackers spoke in unison.

At this moment, the pretty female assistant suddenly said, "Gentlemen, if you don't take care of this, and if everyone outside dies, you won't have any games to play anymore."

"So what? If I can't play the game, I won't play it."

"It's not like it's absolutely necessary to play this game. At worst, I'll just sleep or play cards," the four slackers said, still shaking their heads.

The pretty female assistant was quite helpless.

She had no choice but to look at Bai Ze and say, "Sir, our company is willing to hire you."

"Just tell me what conditions you need."

"Alright, I need gold, 500 kilograms of gold," Bai Ze said without hesitation.

500 kilograms?

"Yes, we can pay for the 500 kilograms of gold now, half in advance, and the other half after the mission is completed."

"Can."

Bai Ze nodded.

He thought this payment method was acceptable.

"Very good, this is the delivery order for 250 kilograms of gold. You can pick it up at any of the managing companies." The pretty female assistant quickly took out a document, wrote down the numbers and signed it, and handed it to Bai Ze.

Bai Ze reached out and took it, then nodded.

"Then please go and deal with them now," the female assistant pleaded quickly.

Bai Ze took a deep breath and looked at the other four slackers.

The other four shook their heads repeatedly.

"Don't look at us, we're not going."

"We only deal with anomalies that are absolutely safe to handle at your company. We won't touch these large-scale anomalies of the Blue Tier."

After saying that, in order to avoid being morally blackmailed by Bai Ze, the four of them immediately went online.

They even went directly to the Safe Zone on Wolf Snake Island.

Of course, staying in this Safe Zone requires paying rent.

Even if you are a customer, you can't stay inside indefinitely.

Once you know what you want to buy, just look at the menu outside, make your selection, and someone will bring it to you.

This is also the latest regulation.

This is to prevent people from buying very few things but spending an endless amount of time browsing inside.

It directly occupies valuable Safe Zone space.

Gao Linzhi was speechless after taking a look.

Indeed, people are different.

It's difficult to judge which of these two survival strategies is right or wrong.

He wouldn't criticize these four slackers.

After all, their choice is the most humane.

To get these players out to fight the monsters, their safety must be guaranteed.

Otherwise, it would be even more difficult.

Unless they are offered sufficient benefits and guaranteed not to be killed by the monsters, they cannot be hired to fight the monsters.

This Bai Ze actually chose to deal with that strange creature, which shows that his mindset is different from ordinary people.

They belong to that very small minority of people who have a spirit of dedication and sacrifice.

He has what is known as a "savior complex".

Bai Ze's statement was not entirely unfounded.

He has just destroyed a small portion of the descending monster's incarnations.

We have gained some experience.

This is why he agreed to be hired.

Judging from the confrontation, he felt that these strange entities were not necessarily very powerful.

He was still somewhat confident in dealing with the other party.

Bai Ze then appeared in the city to deal with the Dream Eater.

After some observation, and drawing on his previous experience, he quickly figured it out.

This strange entity needs human fear to expand and sustain its existence.

You could say he's definitely a smart man.

"We need to stop everyone from being afraid, ideally by putting everyone to sleep," he said directly to his female assistant.

The female assistant immediately came up with a solution. "Okay, we can use some technological means to solve this."

"Very good, now it's time to test your company's execution capabilities." Bai Ze nodded.

The pretty female assistant nodded as well.

She immediately made a phone call, ordering the company's security personnel to be mobilized and administer sedatives to all those in the evacuation points.

To this end, all personnel from the company's affiliated hospitals were mobilized.

It can be said that modern mobilization capabilities are still quite formidable.

Despite the risk of being targeted by supernatural beings, they were still mobilized and organized.

Of course, many people are afraid of dying.

But they are still ordinary people, and they face enormous pressure to survive.

The company stated that anyone who deserts their post will be permanently dismissed.

In other words, if you issue a global notification, you will not be able to find a job at any company.

Without a job, you have nothing.

Faced with hunger, death becomes less frightening.

Many people are willing to take great risks to work for a job.

For example, going to the battlefield.

This is actually quite normal.

In just a few hours, the company mobilized tens of thousands of people to administer sedatives to people in shelters and elsewhere.

The quantity of sedatives had been prepared in advance.

Because this thing is designed to deal with panic.

The United Association had previously disclosed many of the strange characteristics to major companies.

One of its characteristics is creating panic and exploiting people's fear.

This technological marvel is truly amazing.

No matter how fearful or depressed you were before, one injection will immediately clear your mind completely.

When Gao Linzhi saw this, he couldn't help but nod.

Although this stuff has significant side effects, it's quite effective in this emergency.

It must be said that people's ability to cope is quite good.

Before long, Gao Linzhi discovered that the white monster moving through the mist was rapidly losing power.

Gao Linzhi had already noticed something amiss.

He felt that he had gained a lot from this trip and observation.

Because he identified the biggest difference between the real world and the Skyfall World.

That is the real world, which is governed by indestructible physical laws.

The real world is a vast universe with a radius of tens of billions of light-years.

It is a vast space of physical laws.

These powerful physical laws are instinctively repelling these mysterious, foreign creations.

Because these mysterious creations do not conform to the laws of physics.

Nature will inevitably suffer its relentless destruction and rejection.

This strange creature appears extremely powerful, terrifying, and formidable.

However, for its power to take effect, it still needs to be transmitted through some physical means.

For example, it can cause people to become deformed, or it can incite fear in others to absorb power.

When it loses the replenishment of fear, its size and strength shrink rapidly.

The white anomaly is visibly disintegrating.

Upon seeing this, Gao Linzhi immediately nodded.

This is the power of the real world.

In retrospect, the appearance of strange phenomena in the real world has only caused limited panic and destruction.

After all, compared to the entire universe, Blue Star is not even an atom.

This is similar to an abnormality occurring in a molecule within the human body.

The human body can resolve it quickly.

And the same is true now.

Without a constant supply of spiritual energy, the anomaly wouldn't last long and would be destroyed.