Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 53 MYS-273
But in fact, apart from the weird safe and the sleeping tiger cub, there is nothing unusual around.

He focused his gaze on the phone screen again.

"Is this my phone..."

He looked at the yellowed phone screen, opened the address book, and saw that the first name in the address book was [Owner: Chen Yan].

Well, it's my phone. That's right.

Chen Yan was a little surprised that the address book actually contained Asian characters.

Does this phone support multiple languages?
Chen Yan only knows that mobile phones are very rare gadgets, and only big companies and big chaebols can use them. He has seen people play them before, but he has never touched them himself.

After clicking on the physical button, it is a phone number.

【MYS-273】

This is my phone number.

Below the phone number is a row of text similar to identity notes.

[Asian, male, 23 years old, new immigrant, employee of Byron Weiss Zoo (internship period). 】

Continue to look down with the physical keys.

【Position: Breeder in Tiger Area (internship period). 】

[Daily salary during the internship period: 20 pence. 】

When Chen Yan saw his daily salary, he was taken aback for a moment, and then did a simple calculation.

According to the current exchange method of the empire: 1 pound = 50 shillings, 1 shilling = 120 pence.

His daily wages were 20pence, which was 140pence a week—that is, 1 shilling 20p a week.

The monthly salary, then, is 4 shillings 80p.

Calculated from this, the annual salary is 48 shillings and 960 pence, which is...

If the wages remained the same, he would earn £1s a year.

At least he can take care of himself to eat and drink?

With 20 pence a day, it is no problem to take care of myself for three meals in the morning, lunch and evening.

But if you add personal income tax, real estate tax, consumption tax, electricity bill, gas bill, water bill...

Chen Yan wiped his sweat.

It seems that it is not enough...

You won't go bankrupt because you can't pay the fees...

After Chen Yan came to the empire, he met the middle class who were forced to go bankrupt because they couldn't pay their taxes on time.

The reason why such people go bankrupt is often just because the funds are not running smoothly.

But the price these middle-class people paid for this was that their wives and children were separated after bankruptcy and lived on the streets.

They may collapse and commit suicide by jumping into rivers or buildings.

Or become a worker in an industrial area, live in a shared house with seven or eight people, eat cold food that sticks to your teeth, and pay your wife alimony with a pitiful salary...

Chen Yan sometimes felt that the empire's taxation system was stupid. Those who should be in charge couldn't be in charge, and those who shouldn't be in charge would ruin their families.

Chen Yan has only been here for a month, and he doesn't know much about the taxation system of the empire. He thinks that maybe he understands it wrong, or maybe it is.

Back to his own salary, Chen Yan felt that he was not much better.

For that little money, that is to say, it will take 10 years to afford an apartment building like 33 Walker Street.

In fact, inflation in the empire is getting worse. The current £1 shillings will certainly not have the purchasing power of the current £6 shillings ten years from now.

Fortunately, this is only the salary of the internship period.

If you successfully pass the internship period and become a full-time employee of the Byron Weiss Group, your salary will be improved——

According to the wage system of the empire, the salary during the internship period is 60% of the official salary.

In other words, if he successfully passed the internship period, Chen Yan's daily salary would rise to 33 pence.

33 pence... At least you don't have to drink it every morning!

Thinking of this, Chen Yan is full of expectations for his future.

He lowered his head and looked at Wish who didn't know whether it was sleeping or unconscious.

But first, this guy can't be raised to death...

He touched Wish's heartbeat, and felt that its heartbeat was steady and powerful—this meant that it was in a deep sleep, not comatose due to pain.

According to textbooks, the immune system of tigers is quite powerful. They have been at the top of the food chain for countless years and have evolved a unique immune system that enables them to have special "race antigens" that can fight most diseases and viruses.

Tigers living in the wild normally carry more microorganisms and even various viruses because they often prey on various herbivores.

In such a living environment, without a strong immune system, it is difficult to resist the invasion of diseases.

Even a newborn milk tiger has immunity higher than that of ordinary adult males.

Chen Yan touched Wish's claw - its claws were not even that hard, they were closer to ordinary cartilage.

If the wish is bigger... even if it is two months longer, even if the injury on its leg touches the bones, it will not have any impact on its life-at most it will be a little limping when walking.

Chen Yan turned his gaze back to the phone.

Press the physical button to exit and continue to look down.

The second name is William Master.

It's the name of the principal.

When I clicked on the name, I couldn't see the phone number.

The column of the director's phone number is a row of shadows.

Chen Yan tapped the call button subconsciously.

The phone call went out.

"Fuck!"

He hung up the phone hastily, breaking out in a cold sweat.

You hung up the phone so quickly, you probably haven't connected yet! ?
Chen Yan was a little guilty, because in the director's address book, the next column of the phone number clearly marked a line of notes:
[If it is not necessary, please do not disturb. 】

He could only hope the phone didn't pick up.

The third name in the address book is the first attorney, Lawrence Argent.

The word "agent" means that Lawrence can manage all the affairs in the zoo on his behalf.

Sometimes Chen Yan felt that Lawrence was amazing, knowing everything even though he was not there.

Does he have extraordinary powers like "can see far"?
Maybe it's because there are surveillance cameras in the zoo?
Chen Yan had seen such things as surveillance cameras in textbooks.

It is one of the most high-end technological products of this era.

If Byron Weiss Zoo can really afford this thing...seems like a normal situation?

Byron Weiss Group, after all, is a multinational high-tech company...

The fourth name in the address book is more puzzling.

That name is [Ling].

Ling... Who is it?
The word "spirit" is a separate word in the imperial script, and generally represents the meanings of "soul", "dead spirit", and "ghost" in Asian languages.

It means, with this mobile phone, can I talk to the spirit body?

It's almost like a joke!
Chen Yan stared at the word "Ling" for a while, but couldn't take his eyes off it.

Or... click and try?
The thought startled him.

How could I have such an idea... It's so fucking weird...

Chen Yan looked at the word [Spirit] on the phone screen, and couldn't take his eyes off no matter what!
Try it... just try it... just tap it...

Chen Yan was dazed, and pressed the physical button for confirmation.

Suddenly, the phone screen went black.

What the hell!

Won't be spoiled by me...

(End of this chapter)