Void Jigsaw Puzzle

In the past 25 years of his life, Zhang Shuo, like the vast majority of people in Wuming City, lived a routine life: birth, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, university, and work.

His experience was very ordinary, and his appearance was also ordinary. He was of medium build, with somewhat messy black hair and nondescript facial features. It would be difficult to find him in a crowd in a short time unless he was called out and asked to step out of the crowd.

What’s worse is that his qualifications and abilities are mediocre.

After graduating from university, he joined a large IT company in Wuming City as a programmer. In his third year, he was still standing still, with no improvement in code quality or efficiency. However, a new wave of university graduates came in.

There is definitely no hope of promotion, and even your job may be replaced.

Zhang Shuo, who was becoming increasingly anxious, chose to slack off and fill in the gaps.

After all, the company is quite large, and the work he does is not related to the core business, so if he relaxes a little, it will not be so easy to see his poor performance. Anyway, even when he is diligent and dedicated, his performance may not be that good.

But as time went on, he began to feel empty. The company's performance seemed to be declining, and he kept hearing the saying that "Wuming City was going to collapse." He wanted to grasp at straws.

At this time, the Prophet Society appeared.

Once, Pierce took Guoyue on a roadshow near his company. He took advantage of the lunch break to go to the scene to listen.

He immediately felt his blood boiling, and the spirit that should have been lively and energetic in his young body had long since died down, but now it became excited again.

"Get rid of the broken civilization and find a new world."

Isn't this what he wants?

In Wuming City, in the company, in this suffocating place, he felt very depressed and had no chance of making a breakthrough. So he decided to join the Prophet Society and try his luck out there!

What's more, the tall beauty next to the old man on the stage is quite attractive.

Although people don't like flat mountains, at least she looks good...

So, Zhang Shuo joined the Guoyue team.

In the days that followed, he felt that his life had a purpose again, until not long ago, when he learned from the company's human resources that he was laid off.

The person who replaced him was a 22-year-old young man named Song Cheng, a recent graduate from a future university.

"The quality of Xiao Song's code on the first day was higher than all the code you've written in the past three years. What's more, he worked much harder than you."

When he went to his leader for justice, he received this reply.

Of course, what the boss didn’t tell him was that Xiao Song’s hiring cost was also 30% lower than his.

When he was leaving the company, he happened to see Song Cheng who had just joined the company.

Looking at the young man's clear and innocent eyes, Zhang Shuo felt an inexplicable feeling of disgust welling up in his heart.

He glared at Song Cheng fiercely and clenched his fists, as if he was grabbing some vital part of the young man's body in his palms.

If there weren't so many people at the company, he would definitely beat this kid up - of course, he might not be able to win, but he definitely couldn't be timid in terms of momentum.

Zhang Shuo thought that was the first and last time he would see Song Cheng in his life.

Unexpectedly, he saw it again on this cold winter morning.

Song Cheng followed a delicate woman of medium build to the Riverside Plaza office where their Guoyue team was located.

The woman had an extraordinary temperament and seemed to be quite familiar with Captain Guoyue. When the two of them started chatting, their words were soft and gentle, and their glances were radiant, lighting up the whole room.

"She's probably the 'Hot Moon' that Captain Guoyue mentioned..."

Zhang Shuo couldn't help but be a little dazed.

Guoyue had already revealed the overall strategy after the launch of the "Reunification" game to all members in advance.

"We will surrender to Thermidor's team, leaving only one member behind. After Captain Zhong Chenmu's replication ability, this member will surrender, and then we can destroy the replica. Zhong Chenmu is the captain of our Prophet's Society's advance team and possesses incredible abilities. Of course, none of this is forced and requires your vote, but I believe our goals are the same."

This was Guoyue’s original introduction.

Like many of his teammates, Zhang Shuo felt somewhat uneasy.

"Why should we surrender to them? And not the other way around?"

However, after Guoyue explained the reason, the team members calmed down temporarily.

However, when Zhang Shuo discovered that Song Cheng was among the people brought by Reyue, he felt a surge of blood.

Before he even realized it, his fist had already been thrown.

"Puff!" A muffled sound was heard in the room.

Song Cheng subconsciously stepped back. Zhang Shuo's fist did not hit his face as originally planned, but hit his chest solidly.

Song Cheng only felt a pain spreading from his chest to his whole body, and his throat felt a little salty.

He found it incredible. After standing still, he looked at Zhang Shuo angrily: "What's wrong with you?!"

When he joined the company, Zhang Shuo had just left and the two had only met once.

Zhang Shuo recognized him, but he did not recognize Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo was trembling all over. "I will never surrender to you! I'm going to beat you!"

Guoyue and Reyue only realized what was happening at this time. They both shouted, "Stop!"

But Zhang Shuo was angry, how could he possibly obey?

He took a step forward and continued to swing his fist towards Song Chengxi.

Seeing Zhang Shuo acting like a madman, Song Cheng quickly ran away, shouting, "Let's go to the square below. It's open there. Let's see what you can do!"

"Go ahead! Don't regret it!" Zhang Shuo showed no weakness and kept chasing after him.

Seeing this, the other two people who accompanied Reyue also ran out after Zhang Shuo.

"Don't bully our people!"

The people around Guo Yue also followed him out: "You still want to outnumber us?!"

In the blink of an eye, Guoyue and Reyue were the only ones left in the room.

They were unable to stop it and could only stamp their feet in frustration.

If we follow him out now, it might be too late.

The two looked at each other.

Reyue asked, "What's wrong with the people around you? Why don't you find someone more reliable for such an important matter?"

In a flash, she felt a little lucky that she didn't bring Zhong Chenmu here that morning, and she couldn't help but sigh at Old Man Liu's foresight.

At that time, Old Man Liu suggested that she bring a few people to talk to Guo Yue first: "After all, the first place in the group will be decided soon. Although we have agreed before, we can't know a person's heart through appearance. We can't be sure whether Guo Yue will have any other intentions. Even if she doesn't have any other intentions, will everyone in her team be on the same page with her..."

"...From what I know, the reason why Team Huoyue is doing so well is because they are basically composed of true 'incomplete people'. That is, people like us, whose loved ones are missing or have lost contact, and they hope to leave Wuming City to find them. Therefore, everyone has similar values. The composition of Team Guoyue is much more complicated. Many of them are not truly 'incomplete people', but people who are dissatisfied with the current situation. For these people, being able to leave Wuming City is of course good, but if they can't leave, as long as they can make some progress, they can accept it..."

"...So, why don't you go and test the waters first? If Team Guoyue's progress is as smooth as Team Huoyue's, you can have Captain Zhong go over there. After all, it's not far from the City God Temple to the Riverside Square. And if something unexpected happens, we won't all be caught up in it, so we still have room to take follow-up measures."

Unexpectedly, what Old Man Liu said came true.

"Ginger is still spicy with age..."

Guo Yue looked innocent: "I don't know what's going on. This guy is called Zhang Shuo. He's usually quite reliable, doesn't talk much, and works hard. I think he probably has a personal grudge against that person of yours..."

"No matter what, we must not allow the situation to escalate. These guys are all young and easily get carried away. I'll talk to Captain Zhong first, and we'll go down together to check the situation and try to persuade them to stop."

"Okay..." Guoyue nodded.

The sudden change left her a little at a loss.