Jade City was flying steadily in the stratosphere.

5 hours later.

A piece of land emerged amidst the fog-enshrouded Dead Sea.

The flying Alien began to descend.

Through the landing window, Zhou Yi looked towards the city on the ground.

Red Kestrel introduced: "Recursive City is a young, small city, established 114 years ago. Its pillar industry is the service provided to the outside, and there are also some goods from other cities being sold here."

"The main mechanical capabilities here include equipment installation, maintenance and repair, and partaking in the testing and debugging of some new facilities. Recursive City also offers a variety of professional services to Human Cities, including sewer construction and maintenance, safety collaboration, rescue teams, building engineering design, asset management, various information services, and so on."

Zhou Yi said, "To put it simply, it's service outsourcing."

"Yes."

"Then we've come to the right place for our promotional recruitment."

"That's also true."

However, Red Kestrel reminded, "But Zhou, this is after all just a small Mechanical City with not many people, and there are few high-level Professionals. Recruiting here, we are likely to only find those with basic skills."

"That's enough."

Zhou Yi said.

Jade City slowly landed on the ground, stirring up a small shock wave.

Zhou Yi descended from the elevator, and outside, a mechanical being was already waiting.

"Welcome to Recursive City."

"I am Sigma from the Program Department of this city, responsible for liaising with your company, and I will be hosting your visit throughout."

Sigma was a small go-kart, black and yellow in color, with the English lettering "SODI" on its body, and two spherical electronic eyes on its hood.

Zhou Yi also waved in greeting: "Hello, Sigma, take me straight to the labor market, please."

"Of course. Mr. Zhou, please get on."

Zhou Yi climbed onto the go-kart.

So it made a nimble turn and headed into the city.

Red Kestrel followed by flying.

Recursive City was built on the ruins of an Old Human City.

The shattered steel and concrete had been repaired and rebuilt, covered by numerous pipes, valves, cables, and metal plates, making it look both new and old.

If Coral Port was about hefty and ostentatious planning, then Recursive City was more about patching things up based on the original environment.

Riding the go-kart on the streets, Zhou Yi saw many mechanical lives working along the way. They were mostly smaller in size, with many metal patches on their bodies, indicating that the economic situation was not very good.

The road itself was quite narrow, with many cracks, some parts repaired, but more areas maintained their fissured and worn state.

The labor market was transformed from a farmers market, with individual stalls.

The job-seeking mechanical beings sat atop their stalls, each with a reinforced glass panel in front, displaying their professions and basic personal information.

Zhou Yi was shocked by this blunt vegetable-market style display.

He couldn't help but ask: "Sigma, doesn't this design of the labor market make the Professionals feel uncomfortable or hurt their self-esteem?"

"Mr. Zhou, we do not possess those superfluous emotions, so this is not a problem."

The go-kart answered, "Although the display here seems simple, it is enough to achieve the purpose, and there is no need for wasteful additional construction costs."

"Even so, these 50 positions need to be scheduled to obtain."

"Besides being displayed face-to-face here, we also post daily information on the 50 job seekers on the city page and make recommendations through Mechanic Tower services."

Zhou Yi immediately understood.

This was actually a traffic-swayed recommendation.

He began the talent search accompanied by Sigma.

There were many Agricultural Machinery in the labor market stalls.

Just as Tie Ma said, the agricultural machinery sector was in decline these days, especially small and medium-sized machinery, with many being unemployed or on the verge of unemployment.

Zhou Yi's gaze stopped at one of the stalls.

Three agricultural machines were parked here.

The electronic screen showed they were a team, belonging to a brand called Leiwo, uniform in blue.

The three members were "Ou Bao M3004-7N" four-wheel-drive tractor, "Grain Spirit GE80S-H" wheat machine, and "RG80 Jin Gang II" tracked soybean machine.

The introduction stated they specialized in plowing, planting, and harvesting, applicable to crops such as wheat, soybeans, rapeseed, and sugar beets, all with over 15 years of work experience, but only accepting team-based employment.

What Zhou Yi found hard to understand was that the team was quoting a long-term contract of 100 Light Seeds for 3 years.

Calculated, the average annual salary was just over 11 Light Seeds, which was even lower than the Agricultural Machinery Brothers.

Zhou Yi asked Sigma in a low voice, "Is the agricultural machinery market really that bad now?"

"Yes, Mr. Zhou."

Sigma did not avoid the topic: "The agricultural market conditions are worsening further, and more cities are opting for cheap labor to replace agricultural machinery to reduce expenses. After calculations and assistance from the Program Department, the agricultural machines also had to lower their wages to fight for jobs."

Agricultural machinery salaries were very low, but they had requirements for support, and the costs of fertilizers and seeds could not be reduced. They also had strict standards for soil quality. In addition to preventing being cheated, they avoided cities with low credit ratings, so their employment prospects were narrowing.

Zhou Yi checked, and these three did have clean records; they just had short yearly contracts in the past, mostly with Human Cities.

They were ditched for contract renewal, so they grouped together seeking a long-term contract to avoid laying the groundwork laboriously, only to be kicked out later.

Zhou Yi approached the Leiwo Team's stall.

He looked at the leading tractor: "Hello. Ou Bao, you're the captain of this team, right?"

The blue tractor was nearly 6 meters long, 4 meters wide, and just over 3 meters tall, sturdy in build, with plenty of wear and scrapes on its shell. Not just it, the other two machines also showed signs of wear.

"Yes."

Ou Bao spoke in a surprisingly loud voice: "Are you Mr. Zhou from Wasteland Development Company?"

Zhou Yi was curious, "Do you know me?"

"Of course, you are now a big shot."

Ou Bao was better at communication than the Agricultural Machinery Brothers.

"I saw the deeds of the Wasteland Development Company on the city's page, and you are also an important partner for our city. The alien flight last winter and the bombing deterrence over the Shuanghe Region, I think the citizens of Recursive City have all paid attention to it."

Zhou Yi smiled, "I want to hire your team. Are you interested in working in our company's agricultural department?"

"It would be an honor."

After a brief exchange, they immediately signed an electronic agreement.

Then Zhou Yi let the Red Kestrel transfer some information, introducing the current state of agriculture in the company.

Ou Bao said, "Two agricultural machines have already created suitable farming environments before, we will cooperate well with them, take care of the new farmland cultivation, as well as planting and harvesting work, please rest assured."

Zhou Yi nodded, "You seem to be in a not-so-great condition physically?"

The agricultural machinery team leader said, "Our basic functions have no problems, it's just some minor flaws. For example, my engine oil is sticky, Valley God's taillight is damaged and cannot be used, and Jin Gang's tracks also have a little problem."

Zhou Yi immediately told them, "All of you go get repaired first, whatever needs changing or fixing, the company will reimburse you for these maintenance and medical expenses."

"After everything is done, bring the list to Jade City outside of the city, and I will reimburse you."

Ou Bao was stunned for a moment, "Really?"

"Of course."

The other side hesitated.

Zhou Yi knew that they were still uncertain because this was just a verbal promise by him.

He directly took out the Guangna Box, asked Red Kestrel, and then gave them 50 Light Seeds.

"Return any excess, make up for any shortfall, go ahead."

"…Thank you very much!"

The eyes of the agricultural machinery team leader lit up immediately, "We will not misuse this fund, we will only use it for repairing our essential parts, the list is verifiable, please be assured."

Zhou Yi had no doubts.

Mechanical life forms, because of their mechanisms, are all very rule-abiding.

Besides, this also served as a small promotion for other job seekers.

The agricultural machinery team immediately left the booth and headed outside.

...

The Agricultural Department's manpower needs were fulfilled.

Zhou Yi continued to look at other mechanical life forms.

Because of his previous actions, many mechanical life forms began to actively promote themselves.

"Mr. Zhou, I am an agricultural machine with 12 years of experience…"

"Mr. Zhou, I specialize in pipe repairs, especially sewage systems…"

"Mr. Zhou, I can repair roads…"

...

After some observation and communication, Zhou Yi realized that there were reasons why they couldn't find work.

Besides the agricultural machines, the rest were jobs like city housekeepers, asset management, sewage maintenance, building engineers... none of which fit the current needs of the Wasteland era.

Most were niche industries of this era with very small demand and very specialized.

Just as Zhou Yi was about to leave, he suddenly noticed a silent job seeker in the corner.

This one looked like an old-fashioned bookshelf speaker.

Was it specialized in music?

Zhou Yi was instantly intrigued.

Mic Master might be able to cooperate with it or react to it, achieving an advancement in the music field.

The screen in front of the booth displayed.

This speaker named 'Diamond 9.1' was mostly made of wooden materials, with one speaker on the top and bottom, and four universal wheels at the base.

It stayed quietly in its place.

This mechanical life form wasn't in the music field. On its personal profile, the job title was 'Teacher', with an impressive 210 years of work experience, truly an old teacher.

Zhou Yi was puzzled, "Could this Diamond be unemployed?"

Sigma next to him said, "Diamond taught language and history and was formerly a C-class teacher. However, due to a virus program infection, it suffered a massive data loss and had to start from scratch... Due to various reasons, it has now fallen to E-class."

"The mechanical society develops rapidly, and much knowledge is created into information flows that can be purchased and acquired through city pages, including the advanced ones from Snow County's Wisdom Cloud... There is no longer a need for traditional teachers, only experts are unaffected."

"However, the biggest impact and damage on it was that virus program, which caused its originally unique voice to become muddled and dull. This irreversible damage also made it difficult for it to advance."

"In addition, Diamond has not installed the machine stack services and insists on old-fashioned physical connections, hence has less frequent data updates."

"Fortunately, it belongs to the old-style mechanical life, its structure isn't complex, and its consumption is also low. Occasionally, some emerging cities hire it, but its price is not cheap, with an annual salary demand of 100 Light Seeds, so there are very few who hire it."

Zhou Yi frowned, "A virus program... what is that?"

Sigma said, "All these events happened before it came to Recursive City, and our data records are also not complete."

Zhou Yi approached this quiet mechanical teacher.

"Hello, Diamond, are you interested in joining the Wasteland Development Company?"

The response was a somewhat dull mezzo-soprano voice.

"Do you need me to teach language and history?"

"Yes."

"But I only teach the real history that has not been tampered with, can you accept that?"

Zhou Yi's eyebrows raised slightly.

"Let's hear it."

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