Chapter 64: Selection Categories
Lu Xiao stared straight into Su Huan’s eyes, as if verifying authenticity, before lowering his head after a moment to look at the note in his hand.
His pupils contracted slightly upon reading the description on it.
The paper did not contain the vegetables, grain, or seeds he had expected, but rather segments of eerie descriptive phrases.
“Dark red tuber covered in dark red swollen lumps, buried depth nearly half a meter, lumps pulse like a heart, ground surface has vines and leaves over two meters tall, vines have low wrapping strength but leaves are highly toxic, take care not to damage the tuber and tie off any breaks with rope, low danger level.”
“Single-stem grass about one meter twenty tall, ends bear white fruit the size of an onion, each layer shows different colors when cut, emits faint nebula-like glow at night, usually grows in patches, harvest whole plant, surrounding area may contain mutated beasts or other mutated plants, danger random.”
“Three-meter tall green grass cluster, leafless, pale golden, each stem about 2mm diameter, no moisture when broken, dry and astringent taste, take only top two meters of root portion, extremely low danger level.”
“…”
Descriptions of a total of more than ten special plants, with all possible dangers marked on them.
What difference did this have from reporting points in a game?
Although the effects of these mutated plants were not specified, they were probably related to food.
Narrowed down to this extent, as long as one was not too stupid, slowly experimenting could figure out the effects of these more than ten plants.
Just based on this information alone, it was absolutely worth the ticket price.
No, he was a newcomer, did not need to buy ticket for the first time boarding.
Moreover, not only had he not gotten off the train yet, he had also gotten two days of free meals.
Lu Xiao looked deeply at this man; for him to casually give out such important information, the evolver information he mentioned was most likely real too.
Carefully hiding the note on his body, Lu Xiao said seriously, “Who can I choose?”
Su Huan pondered, “I’m just about to select people, you can watch from the side, you pick freely from whoever I don’t choose.”
“No problem.”
…
Carriage eleven was cleared out, all passengers moved back one carriage.
Old Da and Old Er held guns and stood watchfully on either side, Old San walked back to the queued passengers and shouted, “Each person gets only one chance, directly say what you can do, don’t waste time, evolvers get priority admission!”
“Selected people don’t need to get off for supplies, the armored train will provide shelter and food and lodging!”
Newcomers were still hesitating, old passengers had already rushed forward in a swarm.
But no one dared to act out under the muzzle, they lined up properly to enter carriage eleven.
Su Huan held the roster and stood in the middle, looking toward the first person.
A man around thirty, hair greasy and stubble overgrown, but still showed some scholarly air.
Su Huan showed a smile, “Begin.”
The man quickly said, “I’m a translator, proficient in seven national languages and more than thirty local dialects, have visited many countries in person.”
Hearing this, Su Huan immediately took interest.
Checking against the roster, sure enough it was one of the educated people recorded by Yu Yue.
If it was just one language like English, it would indeed have little meaning, but multilingual translation had much more value, and this person had field experience too.
With almost no consideration, Su Huan directly said, “You’re hired, position is armored train attendant, will live in private room one of carriage eleven from now on, two meals a day provided by the train, meal standard TBD, as long as you’re on the train, you will receive my shelter.”
“Work details later, now you can take your things in to clean up.”
The man immediately showed joy, slightly bowed to Su Huan, shouldered his bag and headed to the private room behind.
Hitting a rare talent right away, Su Huan was in a good mood too, “Next.”
“Photographer.”
“Pass, next.”
“Cook.”
“Pass, next.”
“…I’m also a cook.”
“Pass.”
The potbellied man in front was stunned, “Why can he pass just because he’s a cook, but I can’t?”
Su Huan calmly looked at him, “How old?”
The man’s eyes flickered, “Forty…two!”
Su Huan’s mouth tugged into a mocking smile, asked the other flat-top short sleeve young man, “How old are you?”
The young man reacted, shouted loudly, “Nineteen!”
The man panicked, eyes bulging, “But his cooking isn’t as good as mine!”
Su Huan said indifferently, “Where would vegetables come from for you to cook? Good or bad taste isn’t for me anyway, what I value is his muscled body, can be cook and fighter, if you can knock him down today, the spot is yours.”
The man glanced at the sturdy young fellow, said nothing, turned and walked away.
“Continue…”
Lu Xiao stood at the rear side of the carriage, silently observing the queued passengers, suddenly said to the woman beside him.
“I thought you would go line up.”
The woman crossed her arms leaning against the wall, coldly watching Su Huan, upon hearing this giggled, “I’m your person now, do you hope I go?”
“Do you think I’d believe that?”
The woman restrained the charm in her eyes, said seriously, “My mom taught me from childhood to remain faithful to one person.”
Lu Xiao glanced at her, unable to discern how much sincerity was in the woman’s eyes, said noncommittally, “Mm.”
The woman wrapped around his sturdy arm, mouthed silently, “If it’s real, would you kill him for me?”
Lu Xiao looked at her in surprise, then glanced at Su Huan, gave a cold smile, “Of course… no!”
He laughed, the woman laughed along.
“No man is any good.”
…
The two laughed like an adulterous couple, Su Huan naturally saw it too.
One dodder flower, one wolf out of its cage, pairing them was quite interesting.
He hoped for more talents like Lu Xiao.
They had professional training, more decisive and straightforward facing things, bluntly put more feral, more ruthless, less inhibited in doing things.
Especially fresh retirees, the rules in their brains were different from ordinary people in society, if battlefield veterans, even closer to Su Huan’s thinking.
Unfortunately the military’s large-scale disappearance made such talents extremely rare.
And they all had ability to survive alone, few boarded the train.
Besides the first two, Su Huan recruited four more: one resident doctor for auxiliary department, one drone pilot who knew some electronics knowledge, one auto mechanic, the only woman, university major in materials, graduated many years ago and switched to architectural engineer.
Really all kinds of strange talents existed.
Among them the one he valued most was actually that drone pilot, the guy ran onto the train without bringing any food, just his set of equipment, now both man and equipment belonged to Su Huan.
As for hosts, novelists, fashion curators, all rejected by him.
Not that they were useless, just temporarily not needed by him.
Lu Xiao took two sports majors, four workers, and some ordinary people with good physical fitness.
