Witch Special

On the second day of her return, Lin Zhenxi struggled to resume her morning jogging. Of course, her accustomed body protested strongly and held her back.

The result was that Lin Zhenxi could only last half the distance she usually did. In order not to be late, she had to find a shared electric bike on the side of the road and ride it back when she turned back.

This simple form of transportation complements the hovercar, specifically addressing the last 500 meters. After all, the hovercar can only operate on the main road; it loses power if it leaves the magnetic tracks buried beneath the official roads. While New Blue City is reportedly developing a hovercar that doesn't require pre-buried magnetic tracks, it doesn't appear to be in production yet. Therefore, those substandard roads still require other means of transportation.

Bicycles, mopeds, flatbed carts, handcarts, etc. And of course, motorcycles!

However, what makes it different from other cities is that the shared transportation in Xinlan City does not require people to dispatch it every day. They have built-in balancing devices and intelligent navigation, and can go to the waiting area by themselves under the control of the central computer. Therefore, on the auxiliary roads next to Xinlan City Avenue, you can often see unmanned shared transportation vehicles lined up in neat rows and traveling in a mighty manner.

Cycling along the Xinlan River and taking photos on the bridges over the river is also a very popular tourist activity in Xinlan City.

After taking care of breakfast and her personal hygiene, Lin Zhenxi took the black cat to work.

A year had passed, at least from Lin Zhenxi's perspective, but walking along the tree-lined path through the park again, Lin Zhenxi felt a strong sense of emotion. After all, even if the time scale was different, a few months was enough time for the plants to transform. Now the greenery in the park was a scene of autumn.

Even though the temperature in Xinlan City has been very stable, neither cold nor hot, these plants still follow the laws of nature and enter the autumn season. The leaves begin to turn yellow and fallen leaves begin to appear on the ground.

By the way, is Jingjing in high school now? Lin Zhenxi looked at the autumn leaves swaying above her head and suddenly realized that it seemed like a new semester had arrived. The last time she saw her sister, she was still in junior high school, but now she must have become a standard JK.

Well, I'll make a video call home later, at least to let them know that I'm safe and that I'm back.

By the way, tell them that he has successfully returned from the dangerous and unpredictable other world again, and completed the task very well, received rewards at the "company" level, and became a seed player that the leaders pay attention to. The future is promising.

Lin Zhenxi suddenly felt a little proud that he had done a good job.

Lin Zhenxi walked into the "company" on time, put the personal terminal after swiping the card back into his pocket, and then looked up and glanced around the "company" reception hall, which seemed to have remained unchanged. There were still as many people as ever, many foreigners here conducting business.

Lin Zhenxi walked around the benches filled with aliens of various appearances and headed to the side of the internal passage for the employees of the "company." At the end of this passage was an elevator, but inside were portals leading to various areas. Cards were required to open them, preventing wandering aliens from accidentally entering.

After swiping her card, Lin Zhenxi arrived at the row of offices reserved for special envoys. The corridor was as deserted as ever, and all the office doors were tightly shut. Lin Zhenxi wasn't even sure if any other special envoys would come to work on time besides herself. After all, special envoys only needed to complete the commissions issued by the "company," and these offices were strictly speaking just a place for them to wait.

But being on call is a given. Special correspondents have so many vacation days they can't take them all. Even if they don't work a single day, the "company" will still pay them.

Of course, now that the time scale has changed, this situation may also change. After all, one year in the other world is equivalent to three months in the main world. If no new commissions are received for three consecutive months, the vacation will not be enough.

Wait, will the company use this as an opportunity to crack down on the bad habits of the special correspondents who don't work properly? After all, those special correspondents who cause trouble are actually just too much time off. If they were to work on time every day like Lin Zhenxi, they wouldn't have the time to cause so much trouble.

Lin Zhenxi opened the door to her office and saw that everything inside was exactly as it was before she left. She couldn't help but feel at ease. Everyone likes to live in a familiar environment, and Lin Zhenxi is no exception. And this office in the "company" and her long-term rental apartment are Lin Zhenxi's own territory.

Having said that, since he was now financially independent, shouldn't he end his rental life? As soon as Lin Zhenxi sat down on the stool behind his desk, this thought suddenly popped up in his mind, and it was surprisingly strong.

The excitement was so intense that she immediately pulled out her personal computer, found the app she normally used to pay rent, and modified the long-term lease agreement into a property purchase and sale agreement. After signing her name, the transaction automatically entered the property valuation phase. The system automatically calculated the market value of the property through algorithms and big data analysis, and then made an offer. If both parties were happy with the price, the transaction would automatically proceed to the next stage.

Basically, it was a completely automated, one-stop process. Lin Zhenxi only had to sign and pay, and she didn't have to worry about any other steps like transferring ownership. She didn't even need to be present. As long as the money was in place, everything was settled. If it were a new house, she would have needed to go to a designated renovation market for a VR experience, but since Lin Zhenxi was buying a house she had rented for a long time, she could skip the renovation step.

The system quickly redirected to a page and gave a figure that wasn't too low. This was understandable, considering Lin Zhenxi had been renting that apartment for nearly ten years (she initially lived in a dormitory, later moving out when she had some extra money). Back then, New Blue City was just getting started. After a decade of rapid development, Lin Zhenxi's current location was practically the center of the city, and housing prices had naturally skyrocketed.

Fortunately, Lin Zhenxi is rich now, super rich. This huge amount of money that would empty the wallets of six other families and require them to take out loans for decades is just a fraction of the string of numbers in her account, so she agreed to the price without blinking.

The landlord's response was incredibly quick, even agreeing faster than Lin Zhenxi's, which once again made Lin Zhenxi doubt the landlord's true identity. Ten years, ten years! She hadn't even seen the landlord once in those ten years, not even contacted him. Aside from the monthly rent deductions, the landlord was as if he didn't exist. Or perhaps the landlord was actually a computer, the super AI that managed the city, or perhaps even the "company," the White Princess herself.

Lin Zhenxi had suspected this a long time ago. Ten years ago, New Blue City, though a new city, was a time when the conflict between the aliens and the natives of the Main World was intense. The entire New Blue City could even be considered a massive free-range prison for the aliens. Who would invest heavily in such a large-scale construction project, gambling on the future of such a city?

But what if that person already has a huge amount of money and advanced technology, and can ensure that no matter where he takes root, he can drive the development of the local economy, or even make it soar directly?

The "company" perfectly meets the above two points. It has money and technology, and it masters core technology and a large amount of black technology that no one can compete with.

Therefore, Lin Zhenxi has sufficient reason to suspect that the "company" is actually the super landlord of Xinlan City. These new-style apartments with almost identical styles were actually all built by the "company" after buying up the land in Xinlan City at a low price.

Now that Xinlan City has developed and become the brightest pearl on the banks of the Xinlan River, even if the "company" does not consider the issue of profit (Lin Zhenxi actually has no doubt that the "company" has the ability to create resources directly out of thin air. After all, even she can do it now, there is no reason why the "company" cannot do it.), it is necessary to prepare housing in advance for the influx of population, and those apartment buildings that are rising from the ground are obviously there to solve this problem.

Well, there's no point in thinking about these things. Anyway, Lin Zhenxi has bought the house he had rented for ten years. The electronic property certificate has been generated, and the physical property certificate is being produced. It will probably arrive by the time he gets off work tonight. From a practical point of view, Lin Zhenxi is now a homeowner without a mortgage.

Ten years into her job, she'd bought a house outright, and instantly felt like a successful person. Lin Zhenxi pulled out her personal device, wanting to show off in her class group chat, but then she thought better of it. After all, she hadn't been in touch with her classmates since high school graduation, as if she had never appeared in their lives. They weren't from the same world as Lin Zhenxi, after all, so being completely separated was actually quite good.

But he still had to tell his family, so Lin Zhenxi immediately sent a screenshot of his house purchase to his "loving family" group.

Well, it wasn't actually called that, but it was close. The group that originally had only three people had now grown to six. The expansion in members made this family group even more lively than Lin Zhenxi had imagined...

Wait, why is it six? Shouldn't it be four?

Lin Zhenxi took a closer look and found that the names of her and Jingjing's pets, "Yanyan" and "Amor", were listed in the group member list.

Good man, you guys just stopped acting after the last showdown, right?