Chapter 586 Normal Life in the Civilized World
Chapter 586 Normal Life in the Civilized World
Zhao Mingcheng is 24 years old. He graduated from Binhai City No. 3 High School and obtained a two-year bachelor's degree in social work management from Liberty City University through correspondence courses. With this diploma, he applied for a public service position in Binhai Community and just started working last year.
As a pure human, Zhao Mingcheng had no talent for cultivation and had not even broken through to the Qi Refining Stage. This was rare even among the most basic civil servants in the administrative sequence of the Demon Alliance.
Although the Jiejiao faith respected by the Demon Alliance attaches importance to natural science and advocates that mortals can understand the mysteries of the way of heaven and control the power of gods, it does not despise the practice of Xuan, and has been developing new magic weapons and elixirs that effectively combine practice with technology.
One of the benefits for civil servants in the Demon Alliance is that they are eligible to use training acceleration equipment, and can also receive high-grade training-assisting pills every month.
Once you reach a certain level, you can even receive elixirs from heaven.
It’s a pity that Zhao Mingcheng’s aptitude for cultivation is too poor. Many of his colleagues have already established their foundation or even formed a golden elixir, but he is still in the Qi Refining stage.
Zhao Mingcheng's intelligence was not high, and he did not have the ability to be admitted to Liberty City University as a full-time student. He spent a lot of effort and tried his best, even spending precious faith points to summon the clone of Emperor Jie Tian to tutor him before the exam, and only then did he barely pass the correspondence degree certificate.
There was no hope for his cultivation, his abilities were mediocre, and his job was unimportant, but he was content.
Being a civil servant in the Demon Alliance is a golden rice bowl, which is enough to ensure that one has no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life. For a child who was originally born into a barbarian family in a vassal state, this is the life he has always dreamed of.
After all, the quality of life of the Demon Alliance civil servants is much better than that of some small nobles in the vassal states.
Leading the cat demon family to the welfare apartment arranged by the district government, Zhao Mingcheng turned on the light. The three cats meowed in unison, their eyes widened in surprise, and their three furry round heads looked up at the bright light bulb above their heads.
"The switch is a bit high. After all, the size of the monsters varies greatly, and the Construction and Planning Agency can't unify the standards."
Zhao Mingcheng said to the big cat Puna, "This house is about five square meters. It is indeed a little small for a family of three, but the colleague in charge of housing allocation said that you are cat demons, so it should be enough."
Having said that, he lowered his head to look at the Black Cat family and nodded unconsciously, agreeing with what his colleague said.
These three cats can all live in a large cardboard box...
The Demon Alliance has a very complete information transmission system. All immigrant demons are registered and the information is transmitted to the grassroots departments through the Internet. If it is an elephant demon family, they will definitely not be allocated a small room of this size.
Puna smiled in a very human way, although her smile was a little stiff, and said, "It's big enough and very clean, much better than our original cave!"
This was half true and half false. Even though Puna was a cat demon with relatively weak talent, she was still a fairy after all. She could occupy a fairly large cave in the demon village with her strength and status.
However, no matter how big the cave is, it is decorated in the Syrian style. The caves with good lighting are leaky everywhere, while the caves with poor lighting are cold and damp. They are not as comfortable and livable as the standardized model rooms built in an industrialized manner.
The three cats and two kittens, led by the big cat, walked around the small room several times, sniffing around and getting familiar with the environment.
The room was very small, with a bed and a table in front of it, and nothing else.
There is no kitchen or bathroom in the room. If you need to use either, you have to go to the public kitchen and toilet in the public area on each floor.
After getting familiar with the environment, the three cats jumped onto the bed. The big cat lay down, and the two little cats curled up into a ball of fur, huddled in the big cat's arms, searched on the big cat's belly for a while, and then began to eat. The mother and son cats were not shy at all, which made Zhao Mingcheng a little embarrassed. After all, the mother cat had already transformed into the third level and had some human female characteristics.
His work was not yet finished, and he could not just say goodbye and leave. He could only pretend that he didn't care, as if nothing had happened. He took out an envelope from his pocket, put it on the table, and continued: "According to the policy, each immigrant demon family will receive a certain amount of resettlement allowance based on the number of registered residents. This is your family's resettlement allowance, a total of 500 meat coins, 200 for adults and 150 for children."
"That's right!" Zhao Mingcheng thought of something and said, "You know what meat money is used for, right?"
"Meat coin? It's that special kind of talisman, right?"
The cat demon Puna nodded and said, "It seems that after using it, you can summon a large flying boat and make a wish to ask for something from it."
After all, she was a big demon and was well-informed. When she robbed human villages and towns on the border, she could occasionally steal the demon alliance's currency.
At first, the uncivilized monsters in Xiniu Hezhou regarded these colorful bills as waste paper and discarded a lot of them. It was not until a victim who was trying to save his life taught them how to use meat coins that the monster robbers realized the value of meat coins.
The Chamber of Commerce's transport ships are equipped with an enemy identification system, and can launch air strikes when the robbers cash in the meat coins, or simply invalidate the stolen meat coins.
But Wen Rui took into account that black money will naturally appear when currency is issued. Black money is only a small problem. What is important is the recognition of this currency by all beings in the three realms.
If the meat currency is arbitrarily invalidated and the trust is broken, even if it is broken to robbers, it will make many knowledgeable people wake up and understand that the meat currency is not an ordinary equivalent, but a credit certificate completely controlled by the Chamber of Commerce, and its value depends entirely on the Chamber of Commerce's decision.
For this reason, the meat coins that flowed to Xiniu Hezhou also have the function of summoning supply ships to jump and deliver supplies.
But if they set their sights on the supply ship and had the intention of robbing it, what would await the robbers would surely be a nuclear explosion with a yield of at least 100,000 tons.
Even if both the good and the bad are destroyed, the robbers will not succeed in robbing.
Puna had also snatched meat coins from the people she had eaten in Xiniu Hezhou. If she met someone who offered to exchange meat coins for his life, she would be more willing to let that person go and accept the meat coins.
Every time you grab a meat coin, it means you can live a good life without worries about food and drink for a long time.
The cat demon said: "I will use this talisman to summon a large flying boat."
"No, we can't summon a transport ship in the city due to air traffic control."
Zhao Mingcheng explained patiently, "Moreover, to summon a transport ship to exchange for supplies, one must pay a minimum of 20% and a maximum of 50% in handling and transportation fees. Merchants will still go to the nearest warehouse or city to spend meat coins unless they have no other choice."
"It's the bandit monsters of Xiniu Hezhou who like to summon transport ships the most..."
Having said that, Zhao Mingcheng looked at the female cat demon suspiciously. The latter, whether intentionally or by coincidence, had already turned her gaze away and looked down at the kitten eating in her arms with a loving face.
Looking at the cat demon's 1.3-meter-tall body that was delicate and easily pushed down, and the information indicating that it was at the initial stage of the Golden Core realm, Zhao Mingcheng suppressed his suspicions that had just arisen in his mind, thinking that it was unlikely and that he was just being too suspicious.
(End of this chapter)