Wang Zhifan casually played with the Fine Layer handgun with a silver-white casing for a while, then tossed it into his personal space.
Next, he carefully wrapped the rare black Iron Mountain Belt around his waist, realizing it looked quite fitting, almost like a finer belt, not noticeable at all. He quickly decided to wear this physical damage immunity gear during daily life.
Finally, he picked up the yellow gemstone ring, the Fine Layer Unyielding Ring, and tried it on his finger, quickly discovering it had an adaptive feature and could fit comfortably on any finger.
"This ring looks a bit conspicuous, I'd better not wear it daily; I'll just save it for the times when I'm injured."
After some thought, Wang Zhifan decided to keep a low profile and not wear the yellow gemstone ring in daily life, so he tossed it into his personal space too.
After handling the newly acquired rewards, he started pondering a question that puzzled him: Why he had been forcibly thrown into the penalty stage during the dungeon earlier. Judging by the opponent's strength in the penalty stage, it seemed the unknown mighty entity creating these dungeons considered his violation severe.
"Firstly, my penalty definitely had nothing to do with the short, chubby glasses teammate who died first. He got charged to death by a wild boar due to the dungeon mechanics triggered by his sudden escape."
"Also, it shouldn't be related to me chopping the hand of that trench-coat youth. He was ready to threaten me with a gun, so I surely acted in self-defense."
"Considering all these points, the most likely reason for my penalty is I deliberately stood beside the handless trench-coat youth to lure the wild boar to trample him to death? Did I break the rule against intentionally sabotaging teammates? But at that time, we were already enemies. Is it so serious to trip him? This dungeon demands too strict behavior from players… Seems like if I ever fall out with any teammate again, I'll have to kill him outright when he makes a move to avoid unwittingly ending up in the penalty stage later."
Regarding the various mechanisms in player dungeons, some are spoken clearly in the dungeon, while others require players to explore and summarize on their own. Even with all the memories of the original forum diving player's forum, Wang Zhifan still made mistakes, but learning from experience, he won't easily break rules again resulting in penalty stage suffering.
Roughly summarizing the previous dungeon experience, Wang Zhifan then decided to play around with his laptop for some relaxation and wait until noon to go out for lunch.
But shortly after he opened the laptop and browsed the player forum, he suddenly realized it was already past 10 AM, reminding him of the interview he had scheduled yesterday.
"Oh no, I nearly forgot I have an interview at eleven, and that place isn't close. I need to hurry up."
Thus, being quite focused on securing a stable job to address his financial issues, Wang Zhifan quickly rushed out of his modest rented room and took the bus outside.
About an hour later, a few minutes past eleven, he finally reached an inconspicuous location in the western suburb of Dongjiang City. In a small industrial park here, he found his destination on the seventh floor of an old building, at a certain game company.
This game company, as Wang Zhifan expected, was small in scale, revealing an aura of a small studio, with rather low offerings, probably only attracting people urgently looking for a job like him.
Unexpectedly, however, Wang Zhifan found that he lowered his expectations for coming to this company, but they did not think likewise. They made him wait for nearly half an hour citing the boss was in a meeting, and then sent an HR to briefly entertain him, asking some random questions, and finally told him to wait for further notice.
"Ridiculous, this small company isn't in a hurry to hire people at all, it feels like they called me over just for a joke, probably the HR doing it to boost their business record."
As Wang Zhifan stepped out of the industrial park, he couldn't help but grumble inwardly. Before crossing over, he was an experienced social worker, so he knew for sure his application would be rejected, wasting several hours of time and effort.
A bit speechless, he then walked along the street outside the industrial park towards the nearby bus stop while pondering if he really needed to apply for jobs everywhere. Perhaps selling equipment on Tianhua Street as he did before would suffice for living.
"The normal-grade handgun in my personal space should have buyers, but such items surely sell at low prices... the rest of the equipment currently cannot be sold."
Contemplating how to earn some Qian while walking to the bus stop, he found himself at an inconspicuous small station in Dongjiang City's western suburb. Besides him, there were only one or two people waiting for the bus.
Since the bus hasn't arrived yet, feeling a bit bored, he started playing on his phone. However, soon after, he sensed someone pulling a suitcase approaching him. Seeing the person drawing nearer, he lifted his head and took a look in that direction.
"Turns out it's you; I was just wondering if I recognized you wrongly."
Next to Wang Zhifan, there stood a girl wearing a white cap, sporting neat, short light brown ear-length hair. Her face was quite exquisite and pretty, combined with the white short shirt on her upper body and blue-green jeans on her lower body, she appeared fashionable and lively. As she pulled her suitcase, she looked a bit surprised while speaking to Wang Zhifan.
"Chu Wei?"
Wang Zhifan, feeling slightly unexpected, couldn't help but call out her name, as he only fought against the Gray Realm monster with this girl on the bus yesterday and ended up in the bureau together, unexpectedly meeting again now.
"Yes, I remember you are Wang Zhifan?"
The girl, seeing the young man before her recognized her, immediately lifted her head slightly and stared at him, her bright eyes under the white cap brim blinking.
"Uh... where are you headed with this suitcase?"
Wang Zhifan proceeded to ask her why she was carrying a suitcase.
"Moving, I'm moving into a dormitory today."
The girl named Chu Wei promptly explained to him.
"You've already joined the administration bureau?"
Wang Zhifan instantly reacted by asking, remembering that someone seemed to be interviewing while leaving the bureau yesterday.
"Yes."
Chu Wei nodded promptly,
"The administration bureau is currently understaffed, so many entry procedures have been simplified."
"Congratulations then, you've landed a lucrative job."
Confirming that she indeed joined the Special Administration Bureau, Wang Zhifan couldn't honestly say he wasn't envious. But being someone not too keen on excessive restrictions, he genuinely congratulated her.