Hechuan District, Chongqing, is a small city where three rivers meet. Although the city is small, it has left a strong mark in history because of the thousand-year-old monument "Diaoyu Cheng".
At dusk, a middle-aged man is sitting under a bridge. The middle-aged man's figure is bleak and his face is full of vicissitudes.
The middle-aged man is called Tian Cheng. He looks ordinary and even a little ugly. He was born in 1986 and He is 34 years old this year. He has achieved nothing since he was a child. His grades were mediocre in elementary school and he went to a mediocre junior high school.
When he was in junior high school, he came into contact with online games, and his grades plummeted. He failed to enter high school and studied in a rubbish vocational high school in the local area. He went to game halls and Internet cafes every day.
He didn't graduate from vocational high school, and went out to work under the arrangement of the school. He was unwilling to do small things and couldn't do big things, so he ended up wandering around in the low-level industries and changed 6 jobs in 10 years.
When he was 25, he bought a house with the down payment from his parents, and his parents still help him pay the mortgage every month.
When he was 29, he went on a blind date arranged by his family. Within two months, he got the girl pregnant. He got married and had children in a daze. Two years later, his little daughter was born. His parents had grown old, and the burden of the entire family fell on Tian Cheng.
At this point, Tian Cheng finally realized that he could no longer muddle through. After two years of careful consideration, Tian Cheng made a decision that would make him regret his entire life starting a company.
Tian Cheng took all his savings of the past 10 years and resolutely opened a human resources company despite his parent's opposition. He recruited people to work in factories in Chongqing and Sichuan, and each person he recruited received a commission of at least 2,000 yuan.
The business was originally good, but just one year after the company opened, an epidemic caused all factories to shut down, and no one could go out to work.
As a result, Tian Cheng did not make a penny and still owed hundreds of thousands of yuan. Hundreds of thousands of yuan may not be much, but for a family like Tian Cheng, it is a mountain that can never be overcome.
His parents took out their retirement money and the money they had saved for their two daughters to pay off their debts. They borrowed from relatives and friends, but they still had more than 200,000 yuan left on credit cards and online loans. They could only borrow from one person to pay another person every month, and this dragged on for another two years.
But this is not a long-term solution after all. There is also a clothing store at home run by his parents, but unfortunately the store is rented and not owned by them. Now the business of the store is getting worse and worse, and the monthly income is only 4,000-5,000 yuan, which is barely enough to support the family.
After the company went bankrupt, Tian Cheng found a job as a property security guard with a monthly salary of 3,500 yuan, and the property paid for five insurances.
This was a job that his parents helped him find through their relatives, just to make him feel at ease and not to mess around again. If it happened again, this family would really be over.
Unfortunately, this year Tian Cheng's wife couldn't stand the huge pressure at home anymore, and secretly gave Tian Cheng a big cuckold.
After the truth was revealed, the two agreed to divorce, and the two daughters were given to Tian Cheng to raise. His ex-wife left the house with nothing and she ran away with someone else.
After the divorce, she blocked him on her phone. She didn't care when her two daughters were sick, and only sent them two cakes on their birthdays.
Now, Tian Cheng is speechless as he looks at the repayment notice sent by the bank on his mobile phone. He can no longer keep borrowing from one person to pay another person.
Now he has to pay more than 2,000 yuan in interest on the outstanding balance every month. His parents won't let him go out to work to earn money, and his two daughters, aged only 5 and 3 respectively, also need his care.
But the money owed had to be repaid eventually. All of his monthly salary was given to the bank without a single cent left. However, he still couldn't see the day when the debt was paid off. Tian Cheng never felt at ease.
Tian Cheng wanted to get drunk, but he couldn't bear to spend money on alcohol. You know, he had given up smoking for 10 years in order to save money.
"Huff..."
Tian Cheng took a deep breath, not knowing what to do.
'Maybe I should try "medical experiments".' Tian Cheng thought to himself.
A few days ago, Tian Cheng joined a QQ group called "Work Hard to Get Money". The group was full of people who were in debt like him, and the most talked about thing was how to make money to pay off the debt.
Then he saw someone introducing the way of doing "medical experiments", to put it bluntly, being a guinea pig.
According to others, this "medical experiment" can earn at least 4,000 to 5,000 yuan each time, and the time can be long or short, and the longer the time, the more money you can make.
But Tian Cheng himself knew that he had been under too much psychological pressure in the past few years, which caused his health to deteriorate.
He had been suffering from back pain and prostate problems. He had to get up at night to go to the bathroom. Two months ago, he fell and sprained his foot. In order to save money, he bought medicine and treated it at home. As a result, his right foot is still weak and aching.
With this physical condition, it is basically impossible to pass the screening physical examination. If you fail, the round-trip fare and food will be a loss.
Tian Cheng was struggling with his emotions, and suddenly he felt dizzy and his brain was buzzing.
"No..." Tian Cheng was afraid that he would have health problems and collapse, otherwise what would happen to his two daughters and parents.
Fortunately, the dizziness came and went quickly. When Tian Cheng came to his senses, he suddenly felt like there was an extra system in his brain.
[Loading completed]
[Hello, welcome to the 'Free-to-Do System']
[Please publish the first task as soon as possible to complete the identity binding. If it is not bound after 30 minutes, the system will automatically disconnect]
An emotionless voice sounded in Tian Cheng's mind, making Tian Cheng stunned.
In the past few years, Tian Cheng's only entertainment activity was reading novels, which were pirated of course. He also imagined what it would be like if he had a system, but when the system came to him, he was really shocked.
[There are 29 minutes and 25 seconds left for binding. Please publish the first task as soon as possible to complete the binding]
The system's voice sounded again, reminding Tian Cheng that now was not the time to be dazed.
'You, you, you...are you really the system?' Tian Cheng asked excitedly in his heart.
[Yes, the Free-to-Do System is here to serve you, reminding you that there are 29 minutes and 5 seconds left for the binding time]
'What should I do!' This time Tian Cheng calmed down.
[Say in your heart, Check the task panel.]
'Sure enough'
Having read so many novels, Tian Cheng was very familiar with the basic system operations. Hearing that the system's words were the same as what he thought, Tian Cheng quickly said in his mind
"check the task panel".
Suddenly, a small blue box appeared in front of Tian Cheng that only he could see. But why did he know that only he could see it? That's nonsense, isn't the system like this?
Tian Cheng saw a few lines of text displayed on the small blue box.
[Bound task: (unset)]
[Reward 1: 10 million RMB]
[Reward 2: Super Soldier Enhancement Fluid (optional)]