Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 13 The Tourist Before Dawn
After waiting for 10 minutes in a slightly nervous mood, the steam bus finally arrived.

The car door opened, Chen Yan stepped towards the bus platform, and half of his legs sank into the snow immediately.

Overnight, the blizzard had almost completely buried the bus stop.

The snow hadn't stopped at this time, but it was smaller than last night, at least not like last night in the early morning, with no vision at all.

The Byron Weiss Zoo occupies a corner of the Central Forest Park in Yanan City. When you get off the bus platform, you will find the entrance of the zoo in front of you.

Chen Yan pulled his legs out of the snow nest with difficulty, raised his head, and had the opportunity to look at the gate of the zoo in the snowstorm.

The gate was not as grand as Chen Yan imagined, but just an ordinary black lacquer carved double door.

A huge, snow-bent banyan tree stands behind the gate to the right.

The branches pressed down by the snow blocked most of the vision and light, so that the entire gate looked a bit dark.

He thought of the scratched entry notice, and he was still uneasy.

[Before going to work, please enter the park within XX minutes from the working time. 】

Byron Weiss Zoo opens at 8 o'clock. This is something the public knows and can't be mistaken.

Arrive 99 minutes early, that is, after 6:21.

It is now 6:01 in the morning, and there are still 20 minutes before Chen Yan's expected work time.

He comforted himself, come so early, no matter what, he won't be late!
On the first day of work, Chen Yan was very nervous, and Chen Yan couldn't help recalling the information about this zoo.

According to what he learned these days:

Byron Weiss Zoo itself has little traffic, because the zoo is not open to the public.

It is not "paying for a ticket" to enter the zoo.

Instead, "accept a random invitation" to get a ticket to enter the gate of the zoo.

Yes, the tickets for this zoo are issued according to the mood, and the target is completely random. Everyone in the world may receive an invitation.

As for whether to come after receiving the invitation, that is another matter.

When Chen Yan submitted his resume, he knew that the business of this zoo was more scientific research than tourism.

His ability to enter the zoo belongs to another situation - he has the identity of an employee of the Byron Weiss Group.

Byron Weiss is a multinational group with a wide range of businesses, focusing on high-end technology, and has many branches under its umbrella.

But what exactly he did, Chen Yan didn't know.

Chen Yan thought that the fact that Byron Weiss Zoo did not disclose its business was mostly due to commercial secrets.

Because Chen Yan had signed the Byron Weiss Group's confidentiality agreement before joining the company.

What exactly is the commercial secret? When he enters the park, he may touch it.

He raised his head, the sky was three minutes brighter.

The winter in the empire is cold, and there are not many pedestrians on the streets in the early morning. In addition to the blizzard last night, if it is not for work, almost no one will go out in such weather.

But unexpectedly, there was already a queue in front of the park's black lacquer carved gate.

Chen Yan stepped on the snow and approached the gate.

The front of the line looked like a family of three, the two adults were well dressed, with oily mink on their shoulders, and shiny boots on their feet... It looked like a rich family.

They took a little girl with them. The little girl seemed to have gotten into an awkward situation with them. She held a doll in her arms and bowed her head silently.

Next up is a missionary...

Ok?
missionary!
The man was wearing a white monk's robe and a white tall hat,

With the scriptures in hand, what a preacher of the choir!
Extremists like missionaries can even receive invitations!
Chen Yan had a bad impression of the choir because he had seen them forcibly take children away from their parents.

Standing behind the missionary was a young man who looked like a hooligan.

There are many young people like this in the old city of Yanan. They are usually very lazy and unwilling to find a serious job.

When he looked at the young man, the young man happened to look at him as well.

Chen Yan made eye contact with him, and the latter turned his head away as if he had been electrocuted.

Chen Yan was taken aback for a moment, and a strange idea appeared in his mind.

'He seems to know me. '

Chen Yan looked at the last person in the line with doubts.

He was startled when he saw the man's profile.

"Damn it, third uncle!"

The short middle-aged Asian man was taken aback for a moment, and turned his head to see Chen Yan, with an ugly smile on his face.

"Hi! Pujie boy! You are here too!"

This person is actually Tai Shenghe, the head of the branch church in the old town of Yanan, who introduced Ougami and Nuomiguo to find Chen Yan's third uncle!
Fuck!This dog is an old ghost!It made me miserable!
Chen Yan cursed in his heart, but still had a smile on his face.

The third uncle is not easy to provoke,

Tai Shenghe is not a small gangster who only bullies ordinary citizens.

Civilians and Asian gangs face each other head-on, and there is basically only one end:
The world evaporates.

He went up to meet him, extremely vigilant in his heart.

In Taishenghe, although the third uncle is only the head of the hall and has few horsemen under his command, he still has a certain status.

Because he knows how to do business, he can pay protection fees to the higher-ups.

Tai Shenghe's business structure is very complicated. Apart from those really shameful businesses, one of their main businesses is to help stowaways enter the empire.

People who do this kind of business are called "snakeheads".

Sanshu is one of the biggest smugglers in the old town of Yanan City.

Since it is a completely unreliable and extremely risky business, whether it will succeed in the end mostly depends on the "conscience" of the snakehead.

The smuggling process sometimes failed,

Or discovered by patrolmen on the border of the empire,
Or when encountering some abnormal events, the stowaways disappeared immediately.

What happened in the specific process, only the snakehead knows.

Chen Yan went through the formal procedure of entering the empire through customs, and had no intersection with people like Uncle San.

The reason why I knew Uncle San was because when I was looking for a house later, Uncle San was the intermediary of his old apartment.

Old immigrants like Uncle San have monopolized certain rigid-demand industries that are highly related to immigration:

Intermediaries, social language schools, massage parlors, barber shops, women's branch hospitals, big fire halls...

Those wise old hooligans know best what their fellow countrymen need.

Some of the old immigrants even got acquainted with some imperial natives who had a certain status in certain industries through their own accumulation.

The noses of this part of the old immigrants are more sensitive than dogs. After the new immigrants with their own skills enter the empire, they will immediately smell their breath.

If the new immigrants with their own skills can pay some price, these old immigrants can get through the relationship with the natives of the empire and get "recommendation letters" from related companies in related industries.

The natives of the empire valued contacts very much, which made the "recommendation letter" almost equivalent to the "job notice".

But if there is no "recommendation letter", even if they have skills, due to language barriers and other reasons, new immigrants can only work in places like massage parlors, earning a salary of 1 penny an hour, and living in cheap shared basements.

Even some female immigrants, due to their own needs, will be lured into certain illegal industries.

Once in, it is difficult to get out.

A powerful snakehead like Uncle San has ten thousand ways to make a person work in a shady industry for a lifetime.

The third uncle, whose real name is Liang Ansheng, is an old bachelor who is not very good at something.

Young people are afraid of his contacts and call him third uncle.

In fact, most of the Taoist people call him an "old ghost", because the third uncle sometimes does things very darkly, and he will play tricks on others from time to time.

An old immigrant like Uncle San has a lot of social resources,

For new immigrants like Chen Yan, if they want to quickly integrate into the imperial society, they must not be able to avoid them.

So now Chen Yan can only pretend to be fat with a swollen face and pretend nothing happened.

"Third Uncle, you have received an invitation!"

Third Uncle narrowed his eyes, and a chrysanthemum smiled on his sallow face:

"Yeah, I'm lucky, and I just came out to see the world. I heard that there are many rare and exotic animals in this zoo. We haven't seen them before!"

The imperial people in front heard the conversation between the two. Except for the little hooligan, everyone else turned their heads and looked at the two of them. Their eyes looked like they were looking at two monkeys.

Chen Yan and Third Uncle had long been used to such gazes, so they didn't care at all, they should talk and smile.

The third uncle knew that Chen Yan would come to work here - this was Chen Yan's first loss after coming to the empire:

When the third uncle found Chen Yan and chatted with Chen Yan about real estate, he gained Chen Yan's trust with an extremely cordial gesture and obtained part of Chen Yan's identity information.

So the third uncle knew that Chen Yan was going to work at Byron Weiss Zoo.

While sacrificing part of his identity information as a price, Chen Yan also gained corresponding benefits:

The third uncle introduced him to integrate into the old immigrant circle in Yanan City. Although they are all old fritters, they usually help each other when they have something to do, which saves Chen Yan a lot of trouble.

Chen Yan remembered something, approached Third Uncle, and whispered:

"By the way, Third Uncle, Ogami and Nuomi Guo have already settled down."

Uncle San was taken aback.

"Who? Did you remember wrongly? I don't know these two people?"

Chen Yan's complexion gradually turned ugly.

The third uncle dug his ear with his little finger, and made a gesture of indifference.

"Pu Jiezi, don't be fooled, I am famous, and someone will use my name to deceive people."

(End of this chapter)