I am a demonic cultivator, not a capitalist with a conscience.

Chapter 54 Working People, You've Worked Hard (13)

Just as Chen Yu was considering whether to run or call the police, the white dwarf who was leading the group spotted Jin Cheng and Chen Yu and started walking towards them.

To Chen Yu's surprise, these people swayed as they walked, leaving a path of white stone dust behind them, while they themselves slowly unfolded like a giant seaweed.

When they stood in front of Chen Yu and Jin Cheng, they were already little boys, each about 1.4 meters tall, wearing nothing but their underwear.

The boy in the lead was picking at his ears, and the stone powder inside kept falling out like white salt, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get it all out.

After finally managing to pry open a hole, he patted it a couple more times, then said with a smile, "Brother Jincheng, what brings you here?"

“My friend wants to work in the factory, so I brought him here to take a look around.”

Pulling Chen Yu over, Jin Cheng continued, "This is Chen Yu. Chen Yu, this is my brother, Jin Tun."

"Why this name?" Chen Yu asked in a low voice.

“The village is smaller than the city. And you can speak louder, my brother just went down the mine and his hearing isn’t working well.”

"You are indeed quite handsome," Jin Tun said earnestly.

At that moment, Chen Yu really wanted to run out and call the police.

If it weren't for the severe punishment from the cultivation technique, he would already be outside the door.

Chen Yu silently counted prime numbers in his mind, and only after counting to 3299 did he calm himself down.

Looking at Jin Tun in front of him, he asked, "Little Jin, what happened just now? Why did you grow from so small to so big?"

"We were very small when we were little, and very big when we grew up."

"...Please clean your ears again."

Jin Tun scratched his ears for a long time, then borrowed a chisel and tapped inside his ears more than a dozen times until he dug out a pile of thumb-sized stones, at which point he regained some of his hearing.

He breathed a sigh of relief and stretched his arms, saying, "We worked underground for a month, and my cochlea was full of stones. Luckily, I have a level three hard qigong skill, otherwise I would have had to see a doctor."

"...Isn't this Tianyuan Agricultural Machinery Factory? What kind of work needs to be done underground?"

“We’re mining spirit stones. There used to be a spirit stone mine beneath our factory. Although the spirit stones are all gone, there are still many small spirit stone fragments in the groundwater. If we dig them out and filter them, we can make them into inferior spirit stone blocks, which can be used as fuel for our machine tools.”

"Then why do you want to shrink?"

"This is the benefit of the Bone Shrinking Technique. You can practice it in the future. There are many benefits after you master it. Many places in the underground cave are very narrow, only allowing children to pass through. They used to use seven-year-old children, but the probability of injury was too high, and children couldn't extract many spirit stone fragments. Later, they switched to spirit monkeys, but the animal protection authorities were not happy."

"Wait a minute, let me catch my breath."

Covering his head, Chen Yu felt like he was hearing a hellish joke.

The animal rights activists are not happy about this!
Why didn't you show up when you were harming children? Why do you only show up when it's a different animal?

Are you all on the same side as humans or livestock?

Letting out a long breath, Chen Yu counted the prime numbers again, and this time he got a little better after counting to 3391.

Jin Tun was very similar to his brother in personality. After noticing Chen Yu taking deep breaths, he didn't say anything, but told his companion to go take a shower first. He continued after Chen Yu had recovered, "Children who are too small won't do, animals won't do, so it's only us little adults who will do. Fortunately, there is a skill called Bone Shrinking Technique that can compress bones. If we practice it, we can fit in, but we have to be a bit thin."

Chen Yu then noticed that Jin Tun in front of him was unusually thin; the number of ribs on his chest could be counted on his fingers, which was a bit heartbreaking to see.

Noticing the emotion in Chen Yu's gaze, Jin Tun smiled and said, "Brother Chen Yu, you're a good person." "...How can you slander me like this! I have a moral compass of 32, don't I know whether I'm good or not?"

"Okay, okay, you're right. But don't worry, the Bone Shrinking Technique has no side effects. And the hourly wage can reach five dollars. Working underground for sixteen hours a day is eighty dollars a day, and you can earn two thousand four hundred a month."

"This is money earned by risking one's life, and it's being sold for far too cheaply!"

"That's why animal rights activists are against it. They say that monkeys are paid at least eight dollars an hour, and that we are abusing animals."

"So that's what they were protesting! And how come monkeys are paid more than humans?!"

"There's nothing we can do, Tianyuan Industry isn't very developed, but we'll try our best. Okay, that's all for now, my break is almost over, I need to go eat. Brother Jincheng, please take good care of Brother Chen Yu, don't let him cough up blood."

"Do not worry!"

After seeing his younger brother off, Jin Cheng said apologetically, "Don't listen to my brother's nonsense. He usually doesn't vomit blood; at most, he'll vomit occasionally."

"The fact that someone is vomiting blood is already terrifying! This is a factory, right? Not a slaughterhouse?"

"Well... this place has its advantages, and the slaughterhouse has its disadvantages."

"I've already said, these two can't be compared!"

Exhausted by the constant complaining, Chen Yu could only follow the other person through the door and into the registration room.

Contrary to expectations, the registration room was surprisingly clean and tidy.

The foreman sitting in the registration room looked quite kind. When he saw Jin Cheng and Chen Yu, he smiled warmly and said, "Little Jin, here to do odd jobs again? Didn't you only work for half a month last time?"

"Yeah, I'm here to accompany a friend for a while."

"Friends... friends, please remember to follow factory rules. This is the factory guide, and this is the contract. The contract fee will be deducted from your wages. You won't get paid if you don't work 100 hours. Don't get it wrong."

Upon receiving the factory guide sent by the other party, Chen Yu once again felt the shock of the dark factory.

The factory guide has a total of 791 pages, of which 120 pages are precautions, 60 pages are instructions for the use of various instruments, 600 pages are disciplinary measures, 5 pages are employee benefits, and the rest are either on the cover or left blank.

Pointing at the thick brick, Chen Yu couldn't help but ask, "What is this? Employee benefits are only five pages long? And most of it is about drinking water? You can drink water in your bedroom, you can drink water when you're thirsty, you can drink water if you cough, you can drink water if you're tired... This thing can be written in five pages!"

Turning to the first 600 pages, he said in bewilderment, "The punishments are all different. Playing on your phone costs money, spending more than five minutes in the toilet costs money, not reporting before going to the toilet costs money, going to the toilet more than five times a day costs money, flushing before you've urinated five times costs money, and not aiming your poop at the drain pipe costs money! There are thousands of ways to lose money just for the toilet. Am I here to work or to lose money?"

"What, you're not satisfied?" the foreman in the registration room sneered. "If you don't want to do it, there are plenty of others who will! If you keep arguing, I'll blacklist you and make sure you can never work in the factory again!"

Silently reciting prime numbers, Chen Yu counted to 3889 before he managed to restrain himself from throwing the guide in his hand at the other person's face.

Fine!

For the sake of my dream, I endured it!

But you better remember this: the day I get out of here, you'll be sorry.

Chen Yu glared at the supervisor and followed Jin Cheng into the dormitory. He was speechless when he saw that the five-square-meter room was crammed with thirty-seven people.

Working people...

You've worked hard.

(End of this chapter)