Working Prophet.

Chapter 2 The Night Shift Bus in the Steel Forest
Li Yu asked for leave to participate in the offline written test of the third period. After answering the questions, he took the subway back to the company and continued to write the plan.

I was busy until [-] o'clock in the evening, and sent the finished third version of the plan to the immediate superior by the group mailbox, and at the same time sent a copy to the department leader according to the regulations.

After 5 minutes, I received a reply from my boss, asking if he could rush out two more editions and hand them in before noon tomorrow to give customers more choices.

Li Yu checked his schedule and found that there would be a regular meeting of the department tomorrow morning, which would take at least an hour and a half, which meant that he would have at most two hours to continue working on the plan, and his work summary and follow-up The work plan for a cycle has not yet been written.

So he took 10 minutes to complete this part of the work, then got up, moved his body a little, went to the tea room to make a cup of coffee, rubbed his sore wrist, sat down, and continued to write a new plan.

When he finished another version of the plan, the time at the bottom right of the computer screen showed that it was now 22:59.

About half an hour ago, Li Yu's immediate superior had just left the office, took the elevator to the underground parking lot, and drove home.

So Li Yu also turned off the computer, put on his backpack, and prepared to leave work.

When he clocked in at the time attendance machine, half of the people in the department hadn't left. The blue light emitted by the ips screen was reflected on their faces, making them look a little dull.

At the same time, most floors of another office building across the road were still lit.

Li Yu's company is on the sixth and seventh floors of Block A. Li Yu glanced at the elevators, and three of the four elevators have stopped, and one is on the 26th floor right now. He didn't want to wait any longer, so he went directly to the elevator safe passage downstairs.

As a result, when I went down to the fourth floor, I heard a faint sob.

Li Yu didn't see the owner of the voice, so he could only guess that the voice came from the platforms on the first and second floors.

It sounds like a girl.I was on the phone with my family, crying while calling.

"I can't hold on any longer... I have been here for three months after graduation, and I have only worked overtime for seven days in total... I work at least twelve hours a day, and all the work is left to me. The leader gave me the score of the group The lowest, training me in front of everyone is like training a dog. Mom, I'm really tired..."

Li Yu didn't want the other party to be embarrassed, so he quietly exited the corridor and changed to another safe passage.

This time I didn't meet anyone else.

Li Yu went downstairs smoothly, walked out of the gate, crossed the small square in front of the office building diagonally, turned right onto the crosswalk, and smelled a fragrance within a few steps.

The area around here is basically full of office buildings, and the most indispensable thing is people who work the evening shift.

So the itinerant vendors who smelled the business opportunities all rode tricycles, pulled gas tanks, and swarmed over. Every night after nine o'clock in the evening, there were all kinds of food stalls on the side of the road, such as rice noodles, rolls, fried rice, etc. Chicken chops... everything.

At this moment, most of the urban management have also rested, and they don't have to hide anymore, it's a good time to do business.

Li Yu ate the leftover half bag of bread in the morning for dinner at five o'clock in the afternoon, and just now he was a little hungry again, so he bought a box of vegetarian fried noodles for eight yuan.

After scanning the QR code to pay, he continued to walk forward with the hot fried noodles.

Li Yu's place of work is on the edge of the North Fourth Ring Road, but the rented house is outside the East Fifth Ring Road.

There is still a little distance in the middle. The commute time by subway on weekdays is one hour and 10 minutes, especially in the morning rush hour, you have to go out 10 minutes earlier to avoid being late.

The reason why he lived so far away was because the rent in the east was cheap, and secondly, it was because the rent could be cheaper. Li Yu rented a house and signed a two-year contract at one go.

Originally, the place where he worked could be reached within three to 10 minutes by bicycle, but when he switched to the current company a year ago, it took even longer time on the road.

Fortunately, it's not too long to be unacceptable.

After working for a long time after graduation, Li Yu found that there were fewer and fewer things he could not accept.

When they reached the bus stop, there were already six or seven figures standing there, and like Li Yu, they all worked in nearby office buildings.There are men and women.

In all fairness, the white-collar workers who work in this CBD are generally pretty good looking.

Especially women, many of them have fitness, keep their bodies in good shape, and their makeup is better than the other. Even in a crowded subway, they can still draw their eyebrows steadily, and they can easily wear them no matter if they are forest, Japanese or Korean styles. Driving, walking on the street on weekdays, always attracts a lot of attention.

However, none of the four men on the platform looked around, they just lowered their heads and played with their mobile phones to themselves.

Some people are sending messages to their girlfriends, some are reading novels and surfing forums, and some are watching vtuber live broadcasts.On the cuboid light box behind them, advertisements for real estate and cosmetic surgery hospitals alternately scrolled.

After 10 minutes, night bus No. 6 enters the station.

Li Yu and several others swipe their cards one by one to get on the bus, find empty seats and sit down.

Many people might assume that the buses running through the city will be empty late at night, but this is not the case.

Passengers on the night bus are very complicated. In addition to migrant workers like Li Yu and others who work overtime until late, there are also surrogate drivers with small cars and scalpers who carry sleeping bags and are ready to grab shoes, bags, and houses. Young people dancing and drinking in nightclubs, or foreigners with sad faces who bring their children to big cities for medical treatment...

In winter, occasionally homeless scavengers get on the bus to keep warm. Most of them are crowded in the last row without saying a word. They get on the bus from the starting station and get off at the final station. Circle, the time is about two hours.

It was also the cheapest way they could find heating in the city.

Li Yu set the alarm, put on the earphones, carried the backpack into his arms, and then leaned his head against the window of the car beside him. After a while, he closed his eyes in the turbulence and fell into a light sleep.

Ye 6 Road is driving unhurriedly in the steel forest built of reinforced concrete.

The same trajectory is repeated day after day, just like Li Yu and most of the people who live in this city.

Li Yu didn't know when it started, he always felt trapped by something.

At first he thought it was because the previous job was too boring, but when he changed to the current company, the feeling of being trapped before did not disappear, but became more and more intense.

The most obvious manifestation is the decline of communication desire and curiosity.

Li Yu is not the kind of person who is particularly talkative, but he was definitely not as taciturn as he is now when he was in school. He even joined the debating club in college and won several competitions.

But after entering the workplace, Li Yu became less and less talkative every day.

Because you don't know what words you said in the WeChat group, or somewhere in private, they will be used by people with ulterior motives and turned into arrows shot at you in the back.

I don't know if those colleagues who seem to be righteous on the surface and complain about the company's unreasonable system with everyone are secretly the eyeliner of a certain leader.

Be cautious in words and deeds, watch more and talk less is the first workplace survival rule that Li Yu learned.

As for curiosity, it was only after Li Yu took part in the weird written test of the Third Epoch in the afternoon that he suddenly realized that he hadn't read a book for a long time.

In the past, he was very interested in history, geography, philosophy and natural science. He also found a lot of books and documentaries in private, and watched them late at night with great interest. help is limited.

In this city, everyone is always concerned about KPIs, the tables and numbers on the screen, how to let the boss see the results of their work, how to get promoted and raise salary, less and less people will care about those who cannot bring income stuff.

But you can't blame modern people for being too ignorant and boring, because most people are already struggling just to live.

Those experts and scholars are always screaming on the Internet all day long, saying that short videos, fast food literature and junk mobile games are ruining a generation.

However, they intentionally or unintentionally ignored why all this happened.

When you work overtime for several weeks, come home exhausted and dizzy, does your overwhelmed brain want to accept the baptism of poetry and art masterpieces, or is it more willing to find some black silk and enjoy the king's pleasure? up?
In fact, Li Yu hasn't even played stand-alone games for a long time. Even though it's the discount season, he will subconsciously stock up on this year's masterpieces.

But after the download and installation of those games was completed, they were put into the hard disk, quietly eating ashes.

Even when watching a movie, Li Yu began to fast-forward at double speed.

Of course he wanted to escape from such a life, but he didn't know where to escape.

If you want to settle in this city, you need to buy a house, and if you want to buy a house, you have to work hard. No matter which company you switch to, overtime is almost inevitable.

And when you work overtime until you suffer from occupational diseases, you will find that the little money you earn is just a drop in the bucket compared to the high housing prices.

Li Yu also thought about going back to his hometown, but he could hardly find a job with a professional counterpart in a small third-tier town, where the wages were lower and the bosses of private companies were even more unreasonable. The only reliable option was to take the public examination.

Unfortunately, other people also think the same way, so the difficulty of public examination is getting bigger and bigger every year.

In some cities, the street offices and police assistants all started as postgraduates.

Besides, regardless of the difficulty, small places place more emphasis on human relationships than rules, and after entering the public office system, they still have to face overwhelming official documents and endless ideological construction...

Of course, even so, Kaogong is still a very good way out for the vast majority of young people wandering on the front line, including Li Yu.

It's just that Li Yu has to face another problem - if the feeling of being trapped still hasn't disappeared after returning to his hometown, where can he retreat then?

The longer he worked, the more Li Yu felt that society is like some kind of huge and complex machine, and individuals are the screws and parts of the machine.

No one cares what a screw originally wants to be. Most people are just roughly stuffed into screw holes that are not suitable for them, and then, accompanied by a huge roar, they are thrown into the endless cycle of production and reproduction.

Until the polished and bloody flesh was completely embedded in the gap, and could no longer move.

(End of this chapter)