Supreme Emperor Entertainment, recruitment room.
At that moment, nearly three hundred applicants filled the spacious recruitment room.
Most of them were military veterans. They had long heard that Supreme Emperor Entertainment offered an excellent working environment, good pay, and generous benefits, so many had submitted their résumés as soon as they heard the company was hiring security guards.
"Hey, do you think the chief interviewer coming in later will be a man or a woman?"
"No idea, but I don't think that matters. What worries me most is getting some eccentric interviewer who deliberately asks difficult questions to trip me up."
"A buddy of mine applied at the entertainment company next door last time. You wouldn't believe how obnoxious their chief interviewer was. The questions were ridiculous, too. Apparently, they asked my buddy how he would surpass Jack Ma. He was speechless. Surpass Jack Ma just to apply for a security job? If he could surpass Jack Ma, why would he be applying at your little company?"
"That's hilarious. By that logic, physics students have to know how to surpass Newton, and musicians have to know how to surpass Beethoven? If I were your buddy, I'd have asked right back: 'Have you surpassed him yourself?'"
"Someone who knows more than me isn't necessarily better-looking than me, and someone richer than me isn't necessarily happier. Everyone has their own kind of success. Surpassing Jack Ma isn't important. Surpassing yourself is."
"Money is just a worldly possession. Time is priceless. I'm younger than Jack Ma, so I've already surpassed him in that respect."
"If I get hired, I'll be the next Jack Ma."
Conversations rose one after another throughout the recruitment room, with many applicants speculating about how the chief interviewer would assess them.
Creak!
Suddenly, the door to the recruitment