Chapter 225: Employee Interview!
After a hearty dinner, Yuan Zhu and the senior student ate to their hearts’ content, grabbing whatever looked good without any burden.
On the contrary, the weak, autistic junior student Nie Yin, who was forced to join this dinner, held her small bowl uncomfortably, carefully using her chopsticks to pick only from the nearest plate, then eating quietly like a silent squirrel, making no sound and minimizing her presence as much as possible.
Only after Yuan Zhu had eaten and drunk his fill did he notice that this pitiful girl had picked out every bit of cilantro fragments from the plate in front of her, not daring to cross the line even slightly, merely stretching her arm a tiny bit to touch the neighboring plate.
This scene of extreme caution and self-restraint, though pitiable, satisfied Boss Yuan. This was exactly the kind of obedient, compliant, timid, and easy-to-manipulate employee he needed!
He didn’t even need to threaten her actively; she had already curled up, accepting her fate submissively and proactively enjoying the fun of 007.
“Look at you, how can you get full just eating cilantro bits?”
Only after the senior student herself was full did she notice the presence-less junior student secretly using her chopsticks to dip into the soup and pick up a small piece of cilantro fragment, silently putting it into her mouth.
That pitiful sight instantly stirred her maternal instincts, and she hurriedly picked up a piece of venison chop from the plate, got up, and placed it into the other’s bowl.
The weak, autistic girl was instantly scared stiff, frozen across the table, maintaining her one-handed bowl-holding pose. Only after the senior student placed the venison chop and sat back down did the weak junior student gradually thaw, recovering slowly from her crash state, and softly said: “Thank you.”
Snake Snake, who had watched the whole time, spoke up: “She’s a bit off, reacting too sensitively. Getting her food can trigger a stress response?”
Yuan Zhu agreed: “Feels even easier to manipulate. Senior student’s eye is spot on. I just like them weak and wife… er, bullyable!”
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After eating and drinking her fill, the senior student raised her watch to check the time, then said: “It’s getting late. Since you’ve met, I’ll head out first. As for the specific employment contract and cooperation details, you two sort it out yourselves. Little Brother Yuan, that’s as far as sister can help you. Junior student, if you want to change your fate, seize the opportunity! This guy’s full of potential; he’s the best choice you can find at this stage.”
The bowl-holding junior student fell silent upon hearing this, merely slightly turning her lowered head toward the senior student, nodding lightly, and softly saying: “Thank you, senior student.”
By now, the senior student had reached the door, turned around, poked her head into the private room, gave the awkwardly silent pair an auntie smile, then slammed the room door shut and casually fled.
Leaving the two in silent solitude inside the private room.
So Yuan Zhu chose to appreciate the pointy-eared junior student eating, but after picking up the venison chop with her chopsticks, the autistic girl froze in place. Sensing the gaze, she stayed completely still, staring down Yuan Zhu in confrontation.
Yuan Zhu noticed that the little sister’s body was trembling with barely perceptible amplitude.
“Uh… don’t be scared. I said I’m a good guy; not sure if you believe me. But this is your turf, still inside the Rain Courtyard. Use your brain: even if I had bad intentions, I wouldn’t dare act rashly, right? So why are you afraid?!”
Hearing this, the autistic junior student’s pointy ears suddenly twitched, rigidly expressing a thoughtful state. Then, the trembling of her body began to subside.
Yuan Zhu slightly averted his gaze, pretending to look at the wall, using his peripheral vision to keep her in sight. Thus relieved, the autistic girl canceled the pause and began nibbling at the venison chop in small bites.
Though her head was bowed low, hiding her facial expression, the slightly upturned corners of her mouth showed she was eating both happily and heartily. As if she hadn’t tasted such delicious food in a long time?
This weak and amusing scene instantly put Yuan Zhu in a great mood.
Pretty cute! She had thoughts in her mind but pretended to be calm, yet her ears and body language betrayed her inner activities completely.
It gave him a sense of absolute control, like unilaterally activating full-screen X-ray vision, easily grasping the other’s inner thoughts and firmly holding her negotiation bottom line! He was sure to win this round of talks.
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Yuan Zhu, feeling he had the upper hand, began probing the autistic girl: “Your surname is Nie, name Nie Yin, right?”
The quiet atmosphere was suddenly broken, and the weak autistic girl’s eating motions were paused again. Fortunately, Yuan Zhu’s earlier reassurance gave her some confidence.
So Nie Yin thought for a moment, then began nodding without speaking.
Yuan Zhu wasn’t in a hurry: “Do you know my name?”
The autistic girl spoke for the first time, softly saying: “Yuan Zhu.”
The voice was highly sweet, even more moist, seeping into the ears with a refreshing, thirst-quenching sensation. Pleasant, and he wanted more!
“Huh? Did the senior student tell you everything?”
“…”
Silence, but nodding.
Though she seemed like a fun and easy target, this halting communication was too inefficient, so he couldn’t help but take the lead: “I order you to eat your food, don’t freeze there like I’m terrifying! Hear me?!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Nie Yin shuddered, buried her head in the bowl, and obediently switched to rice-eating mode.
Yuan Zhu felt he had grasped the right way to handle her? So he continued on his own: “Do you know I’m planning to farm experimental grade frogs?”
“Mm!” The autistic girl, focused on eating, perked up her ears high, softly acknowledged, then continued eating intently.
Yuan Zhu: “I lack knowledge and experience in this area, so I asked the senior student for help. She recommended you, so you’re the ‘expert’ in this domain, able to assist me, right?”
“Right!” The young lady held her empty bowl, head lowered, bangs falling, aimlessly scooping at nothing, fake-eating without going crazy.
Yuan Zhu’s eye twitched as he watched, inwardly amused: kinda cute?
“Stop, no more fake eating! So, you have experience cultivating experimental grade frogs, right?”
“Yes! I…” The girl hesitated, unsure how to speak.
Yuan Zhu decided to push her: “I order you to say it loudly! Speak your thoughts, don’t hide them.”
Nie Yin jolted, shifted her gaze to the side plate, and softly said: “In the dorm and laboratory, I handle feeding the entire class’s ‘test subjects.’ I have experience.”
Yuan Zhu: “Good, keep it up! Do you know how to create the ‘farming environment’ for this type of frog? Not small-scale feeding to keep them alive, but large-scale breeding and cultivation. I’ve secured land and contacted a construction team, but I don’t know how to build a professional farming facility. What can you contribute? Have you built a farming facility before? Answer me!”
The autistic girl’s ears twitched as she pondered: “I haven’t built a farming facility, but I often go to frog factories to pick up goods and know the layout and daily operations for staff. Blueprints, I can get relevant ones from the academy. Creation methods and steps, I can self-study.”
Yuan Zhu thought, then probed: “Let me ask you this: I plan to illegally transform a batch of ordinary illegal orc immigrants using the forbidden Force system. But I don’t understand Frog God pollution application and have no experience… what would you do? Secretly report me?”
“Won’t report.”
“Why is that?”
Nie Yin: “A large amount of the school’s experimental content involves illegal operations, so default is the norm, and no one will Report it.”
Yuan Zhu nodded in satisfaction: “I’ve finally sensed a bit of ‘professionalism’ from you. So, can you assist me in completing ‘Orc Transformation’?”
The autistic girl said with her head down: “Yes, but I have no experience.”
“You have no experience, so why dare to agree?”
Nie Yin: “I’ve witnessed it with my own eyes and participated in such experiments. I’m confident I can help you complete it.”
Yuan Zhu puzzled: “Since you’ve participated in such uses, why say you have no experience?”
“No main surgery experience. I could only stand on the periphery observing, providing the most basic services, recording experimental data, injecting potions, cleaning, recovering corpses. No experience personally transforming ‘experimental subjects’, but I’ve seen a lot, I can do it!”
Although her personality was autistic and timid, Nie Yin didn’t want her professional abilities to be belittled. Even the momentum in her response fluctuated rarely, then quickly subsided.
Yuan Zhu perceived her mental change, so he continued to increase the teasing: “Oh, so you’re a little small fry.”
“I’m not! I…”
Nie Yin wanted to argue something, but soon went silent, choosing silence. She had the appearance of being habitually suppressed and bullied daily, already numb and resigned.
Thus, Yuan Zhu’s ‘[Holy Light] helping plot’ erupted, and under the Spicy Stick’s encouragement, he decided to imitate Orochimaru and save the soft girl. At her most desperate and difficult moment, lend a hand, gain goodwill, and happily acquire a devoted cattle and horse working girl.
“I don’t like your current state. Because I don’t understand [Power System], I can only place all hope on you this ‘professional talent’. I don’t care how you were bullied in [Frog School] before? No qualification to lead experiments, or no ability to lead. After I hire you, you’re my lead horse, no one can bully you anymore, I’ll even throw money at you, invest financial and material resources in you, give you opportunities! At the same time, I want to see your confidence and awareness, your return. You’re performing too weak, how to convince others? How to make me feel secure investing money?”
Hearing these words that seemed like encouragement, the autistic girl remained silent. But a pair of ears perked up high, shaking violently, betraying her eager yet hesitant conflicted heart.
Snake Snake: “Boss, my routine works! This kind of inwardly pretentious autistic girl needs to be conquered with [Crude Overbearing CEO Offensive]! A bit more oily to moisten her dry heart.”
Yuan Zhu worried: “Is your routine reliable?”
Snake Snake: “Trust me! The oilier you are, the moister she gets. Can’t be too oily a bit, she loves it super much!”
Looking at the other party’s delighted twitching ears, yet too embarrassed to respond, Yuan Zhu pretended to sigh: “Sigh, you’re so useless! Fine, let me ask you again, I also want to develop some cultivation auxiliary magic potions around [Power System], do you have the strength for that?”
Soft girl: “I… I have confidence.”
Huh? This time she actually dared to promise? All her previous replies and guarantees were within her abilities. But [developing related magic potions] is clearly not something an ordinary student can master. She dares to agree, looks like the offensive is effective?
Yuan Zhu: “A bit of confidence now, but still not loud enough? Speak louder!”
The girl responded weakly: “Yes? I was arranged to do part-time working in several pharmaceutical companies, have some understanding. [Magic Potion Development] requires high investment, low returns, often relies on luck.”
Yuan Zhu: “Do you understand [Magic Potion Preparation]? Do you have operational ability?”
“A little, I’ve prepared basic potions in the laboratory.”
Yuan Zhu got interested: “Oh? Do you know Alchemy? Do you know Alchemy?”
“Entry-level Alchemy, can use [Four Symbols Ritual].”
“Very good, that’s exactly the talent I need! Now, give a self-introduction, tell me what Supernatural Knowledge you’ve learned and mastered? What did you learn in [Frog School]? And your own situation, what dreams do you have? Future life planning, career planning, which [Supernatural System] do you want to cultivate, what remuneration do you need me to pay you, what are your expectations for the company?”
A series of questions directly stumped the girl, causing her to freeze on the spot.
Yuan Zhu was already used to her reactions, no longer overly concerned with her personal feelings. While the girl was dazed, he activated [Soul Crystal] and cast a ‘Detect Evil’.
Faint Holy Light fluctuations spread in the Private Room, stimulating Nie Yin into a startle, instantly entering a tense vigilant state.
However, according to the detection, there was no trace of ‘pollution’ in her body, deviation at 20%, not high, on the contrary very pure.
Although no ‘supernatural traces’, [Soul Crystal] captured not weak negative emotions from her. Looks like behind the soft weak dazed dumb appearance, strong negative energy is hidden.
If this girl ventures into pollution systems involving ‘spirit, soul’, she can instantly exchange potential, fall and blacken. Indeed as senior student said, he picked a ‘potential stock’ for himself.
Besides her negative potential on the ‘mental level’, just slightly using [Soul Crystal] caused strong reaction, indicating her ‘Perception Ability’ is also strong.
Normally, when Holy Church contestants mobilize [Soul Crystal] to perceive Pollution Degree, judge evil alignment, the fluctuations are very weak, won’t cause Vigilance.
But Nie Yin’s reaction so intense can only mean she has talent. This ‘sensitivity’ in supernatural research domain is talent, more keenly capturing experimental changes, more precisely completing operations.
“Don’t be nervous, I cultivate [Holy Light], just basic detection, you should be familiar? You and I team up, perfect match. I use Holy Light to disinfect, purify the venue for you, you lead the operations, everyone cooperates tacitly.”
Nie Yin calmed down, slightly raised her head, gathered courage to meet his gaze with her emerald green right eye, then quickly looked away: “[Holy Light], I’m very familiar. I didn’t sense malice from you.”
“I have full goodwill toward you, quickly start the self-introduction.”
“You have too many questions, I can’t answer.” The autistic girl ended the battle with one sentence.
Yuan Zhu: “No rush, answer one by one. When did you join [Rain Courtyard], how long have you lived there, how many years studying in [Frog School]? Senior student called you junior student, yet introduced you to me. University courses, usually how many years?”
Nie Yin: “I can’t remember past things clearly, only know I was rescued by the academy as a child, lived in [Rain Courtyard]. I studied 4 years of on-campus basic education, audited 3 years in [Frog School]. After basic courses, met graduation employment conditions, always working on campus to save money.”
Yuan Zhu: “Then how old are you this year?”
As if guessing Yuan Zhu’s thought, Nie Yin replied: “Unclear, bone age shows 17. My lifespan same as humans, Half-elf Bloodline very thin, not long-lived species.”
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu immediately showed disappointment. Ears so long, turns out not a ‘family heirloom’!
