novelraw Chapter 15 - I'll Take This Cat-Eared Girl!
Chapter 15 - I'll Take This Cat-Eared Girl!
Time flowed like water, and the years passed like a shuttle.
Five days passed by in a rush.
After Ye Mo applied for a Dungeon Qualification Certificate at the Adventurer's Association, he rented a small office in the Dungeon Street area.
It was a place specifically used to solicit and gather players.
This was a mandatory regulation.
Wild God Agents must have their own legal office space.
Just like in his previous life, opening a company required having an office space.
Although the location was relatively remote, it was very close to the dungeon teleportation array.
A rental fee of only 100,000 per year was considered quite a bargain.
The only pitfall was that the lease started at three years and had to be paid in full at once.
Fortunately, Ye Mo had donated some body materials to other factions of the Six Saint Sanctuaries over these past few days.
Only then did he avoid being financially strapped.
Including the expenses over these past few days, he still had over two hundred thousand in reserve funds on hand.
"Damn it, I didn't expect recruiting a player would be this difficult?"
In the cramped office, Ye Mo lay on the black leather sofa while tossing a ping-pong ball out of boredom.
Open for business for three days, Ye Mo had opened a Doule account online and had spent money on promotion to recruit people.
During this period, it indeed attracted a small number of people to come and inquire about employment.
But as soon as they heard that he was a newly minted Wild God Agent with no fame or dungeon conquest records, they all chose to leave one after another.
Even when Ye Mo threw out the benefit of "free Class Card upon employment," no one paid him any attention.
The most infuriating thing was that some people actually gave him bad reviews!
He was even reported for suspected fraudulent methods of an Evil God believer.
In this day and age, trying to do business was too hard!
No, it should be said that trying to enter a dungeon was too hard.
Without fame, no players dared to join. Without players joining, there was no way to build fame...
This was a vicious cycle!
"Sigh! If this really doesn't work out, I can only wait for that girl Ye Xiaoxiao to be discharged from the hospital. With her looks, doing a livestream to help promote him should have a pretty good effect.
The only drawback is that...
That girl still has to go to school. At most, it could only count as a part-time job. And what I lack right now is a full-time employee capable of working 996, ideally the kind who can accept unpaid overtime..."
Where could he find such a beast of burden?
...
On the other side.
Dungeon Commercial Street, No. 206.
"Hello, Mr. A... Agent. May I ask if you’re still recruiting players here? I awakened the Warrior Path. I can endure hardship and can also accept unpaid overtime. I beg you... give me a chance to work."
It was a soft voice mixed with a trace of nervousness.
A petite cat-eared young girl bowed at a ninety-degree angle while holding her resume high.
With a sincere attitude, she sought a job from a certain office Agent.
"You... are a Demi-human?"
The Agent stroked his mustache while looking the young girl up and down carefully, and shook his head helplessly.
The status of Demi-humans in this world was even lower than that of blacklisted households.
It was a race that suffered long-term discrimination and exclusion.
As they were regarded as an inferior race that hadn't fully evolved.
Of course, there was another layer to it: the Demi-human race consumed way too much experience points!
The experience required for them to level up was twice that of ordinary humans.
"Y... Yes! But I can endure hardship very well. Even entering dungeons for 24 hours is acceptable. I beg you to give me a chance."
Meng Li recommended herself humbly.
The reason she was so anxious to enter a dungeon was mainly that her mother had fallen seriously ill.
She urgently needed two hundred thousand for surgery fees.
And as a Demi-human, due to her lowly status, she didn't even have the qualification to take out a loan.
So, making quick money by entering dungeons became her only path to survival.
"This... isn't impossible."
The mustached Agent sized up Meng Li and spoke with feigned difficulty.
"Really!"
Meng Li's eyes lit up, and the ahoge on her head shot up with a ‘whoosh’.
Her two soft, white, fluffy cat ears perked up high.
She lifted her pretty oval face in excitement, her expression extremely agitated.
"It’s possible, but... how much are you prepared to spend to buy a Class Card?"
The mustached Agent's eyes narrowed slightly, and a treacherous smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"I... My budget is only 20,000, but you can give me the lowest-level Class Card. Even if it’s D-Rank, it doesn't matter to me."
All over her body, only 20,000 yuan remained.
It was also her family's entire fortune and hope...
According to the market price, it was enough to buy a C-Rank Class Card.
"Only 20,000... It seems like you aren't sincere enough."
Mustache sighed helplessly and shook his head with regret.
The smile on Meng Li's face froze, and her soft, cute cat ears drooped instantly.
Of course, she understood Mustache's meaning...
She had to add money!
With a bitter face, she asked tentatively.
"Roughly... how much do you need?"
"How much? That depends on your sincerity. After all, you’re a Demi-human. Joining our team will cause a not-insignificant impact on our company's reputation. At the very least, we'd need... a hundred and fifty thousand, right?"
"A hundred and fifty thousand?!"
Meng Li sucked in a large breath of cold air.
This price was far from what she could accept.
"What? You don't have any money, do you…"
"Can I... give you an IOU?"
She settled for the next best thing and pleaded.
"Heh!"
Mustache's face darkened instantly.
"Do you think I'm running a charity here? A Demi-human wants to enter the firm without spending money? Where in the world is there such a good thing?! Scram—"
'Bang!'
The office door was ruthlessly shut, and Meng Li was directly kicked out.
She sighed helplessly and walked onto the dimly lit street.
Through the reflection on the roadside glass window, she looked at her wretched and dejected little face.
She wanted to reach out and put a smile on her face, but she just couldn't do it, no matter what.
Her head drooped, and her white, fluffy cat ears hung listlessly.
Her tired, petite body slowly squatted down. She wrapped her arms around her knees, buried her head inside, and curled up in a dark corner.
Her lonely figure formed a sharp contrast with the noise of the surrounding street.
"Meng Li, oh Meng Li, you really are useless..."
She blamed herself dejectedly, the grievance in her heart pouring out at this moment, her eyes turning slightly red.
These past few days, she had run to no less than a hundred offices.
Due to her identity as a Demi-human, almost no one was willing to accept her.
The most unbearable part was that those people clearly mocked and suppressed her with strongly tinted glasses.
Yet she could only greet them with a smile, enduring the nausea to face those ugly faces one by one.
"So tired, really so tired..."
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt.
But she didn't dare to go back.
She was afraid to face reality, afraid to face her sister's expectant smile after going back.
Afraid...
To disappoint them.
"Little girl, here for an interview? I give away free Class Cards here."
Just as she was depressed.
A gentle, strange male voice suddenly sounded from behind her.
Meng Li turned her head subconsciously.
Just in time to see a man standing behind her with a beaming smile.
That look in his eyes...
Was filled with the aura of a profiteer.
The kind who ate people without spitting out the bones!
"S... Sorry, I didn't mean to linger at the entrance."
Meng Li patted the dust off her butt and hurriedly got up to apologize.
Previously, she had also noticed this office.
But she never had the courage to go in.
After all...
This place looked too shady.
The "Newly Stationed Wild God" sign on the cramped doorplate on the right was particularly conspicuous.
Especially that sentence on the billboard: Free SSS-Rank Class Card upon employment.
Such advertising slogans made people even more convinced that this was definitely an office opened by an Evil God believer!
Specializing in scams.
A few days ago, people from the Sanctuary even went in to investigate.
"Don't be like that! The visitor is a guest. How can you not come in and sit?"
Saying that, Ye Mo didn't care about anything else, nor did he care if Meng Li was willing or not.
He grabbed her hand and dragged her directly inside.
Then, with a ‘bang’, he closed the door and locked it!
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T/N - First victi— ahem, I mean employee, get! As for Demi-humans needing more exp, there has to be a trade-off for that. Maybe better stats? Well, I’m sure the MC can do something about it. I mean, his magic crest alone provides exp boost.