“The second test is to make the examiner sincerely want to keep me?” Meng Jingzhou read the clearance conditions in his mind again.

“What a strange test, it doesn’t sound difficult.”

“But where am I now?” Meng Jingzhou sat on a row of chairs, with four people in front of him and five people behind him, a group of ten people, and he was in the middle.

“Oh, I’m applying for the Chamber of Commerce.” The setting that Immortal Sect taught him came to his mind.

Meng Jingzhou looked at the white wall in front of him and unconsciously moved his right hand, bending his middle finger and ring finger.

Nothing came out.

“Huh? Why did I make such a strange gesture?” Meng Jingzhou was puzzled. He didn’t remember having such a habit.

“Never mind, let’s focus on the application.”

Meng Jingzhou noticed that the first person who entered the examiner’s room hurriedly ran out and then ran back and forth three or four times.

Meng Jingzhou enthusiastically shouted, “Hey, brother, why are you running? Is the examiner testing your running speed? Then I suggest you change your shoes. The quality of your shoes is very helpful for running speed, and also your starting posture. Squat on the ground, hold the ground with both hands, bow your body, and run the fastest this way. Trust me, I have experience…”

The man looked at Meng Jingzhou like an idiot and ignored him, running out to check the quality of the potatoes.

As clearly stated in the rules, candidates are not allowed to reveal the questions to each other.

The first person, the second person, the third person, and the fourth person all ran diligently, but none of them passed. Regardless of whether they passed or not, they disappeared directly after the interview, so the people behind couldn’t judge whether more round trips meant passing or fewer round trips meant passing.

“Next, Meng Jingzhou!” The fat examiner shouted from inside.

“Coming.” Meng Jingzhou walked in spiritedly.

The fat examiner smiled and asked as usual, “Meng Jingzhou, can you go to the market and see if there are any potatoes for sale?”

Meng Jingzhou didn’t move.

The fat examiner thought he didn’t make himself clear, so he repeated the question word by word.

This time, Meng Jingzhou spoke, “Why?”

“What do you mean why?” The fat examiner didn’t follow Meng Jingzhou’s thoughts.

“I mean, why do I have to go to the market and see if there are any potatoes for sale? Do you know what we are doing now?”

“Interviewing, of course.” The fat examiner said naturally.

“Yes, you said it yourself, this is an interview, not a task for you to run errands. Besides, did you ask this question to the first four people?”

“You want me to ask the same question five times? Are you not satisfied?”

“This is a test question,” the fat examiner said patiently.

Meng Jingzhou nodded and went to the market obediently, “There are potatoes for sale.”

“How many potatoes are there?”

Meng Jingzhou didn’t know the answer, so he stood up to leave. The fat examiner showed a sneer. As long as Meng Jingzhou came back again, he would declare him a failure.

Unexpectedly, when Meng Jingzhou opened the door, there was an old man standing at the door. Meng Jingzhou asked the old man, “How many potatoes do you have in your cart?”

The old man said, “Eighty catties.”

Meng Jingzhou turned around, “He said there are eighty catties of potatoes. Do you also want to ask how much they are per catty?”

The fat examiner opened his mouth but didn’t ask the question. Even if he did, the old man at the door could answer it immediately.”What’s the point of asking that!”

“How come you called the potato seller over?!” The fat examiner angrily asked, “How are we supposed to continue the exam now?”

Meng Jingzhou shrugged, “I asked him if several people had come over to ask about the potatoes. The old man complained to me that several people came over to take a look at his potatoes, then ran back asking how many jin of potatoes he had, and how much each jin cost. They kept asking without buying anything.”

“I asked him if he wanted to meet the culprit who kept asking without buying, and he said yes, so I brought him over.”

The fat examiner said, “…”

He didn’t know what to do now. No one had told him that he would encounter this kind of situation.

Thinking of Meng Jingzhou’s disrespect towards him, the fat examiner gritted his teeth and shouted, “If you can’t guess the intention behind the questions, you’ll be eliminated…”

Before the fat examiner could finish, Meng Jingzhou kicked him, “Bullshit intention! I’m giving you face, you fatty!”

After speaking, Meng Jingzhou ran out.

The fat examiner slapped the table, smashing it to pieces, “Stop right there!”

The examiner truly wanted to keep Meng Jingzhou, and he passed the interview.

…

The vice sect leader rubbed his forehead in pain. What kind of strange way of passing the exam was this?

He had decided that the examiners should genuinely want to keep the interviewee, to prevent some from taking shortcuts and bribing the examiners.

He thought he had been meticulous enough in his rules, but he never expected there to be such an unexpected way of passing.

The examiner not only genuinely wanted to keep Meng Jingzhou, but also genuinely wanted to tear him apart.

What kind of brain did this kid have? Or was it that he himself lacked a brain?

“Oh, undying and immortal immortal, please give me an answer.” The vice sect leader muttered to himself, praying to the undying immortal for a response.

The sect leader interrupted the vice sect leader’s prayer, “If only the undying immortal could hear what you were saying.”

The vice sect leader did not think the sect leader was blaspheming the immortal. He knew that the sect leader was the most devout believer in the Undying Sect. He sighed, “How many times have we tried and failed to resurrect the Undying Immortal? If we could resurrect him, what would the Great Xia Dynasty and the righteous path be compared to the Undying Immortal?”

“Only by sacrificing blood can the Undying Immortal be resurrected.”

The two did not discuss this topic further. The vice sect leader asked, “What do you think of Meng Jingzhou?”

The sect leader clicked his tongue in admiration, “He doesn’t follow the usual path, he’s a talent.”

The sect leader thought to himself that he was lucky he didn’t agree with the vice sect leader earlier when he said there couldn’t be any other way to pass the exam. Otherwise, where would he put his face as the sect leader?

“This kid is also a talent?”

“Of course, I think our Undying Sect needs talents with unconventional ways of thinking.”

“If you look at the righteous path’s Seek Tao Sect, why have they been able to survive for so long? I’ve summarized a few reasons, the most important of which is that they have wisdom that surpasses ordinary people’s understanding.”

The vice sect leader’s mouth twitched, thinking that the sect leader was truly unique in how he talked about lunatics.

The sect leader continued, “Speaking of Meng Jingzhou, he’s the kid who performed well in the first round, right? What about Lu Yang, the main character?”

…

“Let the examiners genuinely want to keep me?”Lu Yang pondered: “What’s so difficult about this? Just give the examiner a kick, and preferably spit on him too. That will surely anger him enough to not only leave me alone, but also make him consider sparing my life.”

“But this method is too barbaric. Only someone like Meng Jingzhou, a coarse person, would use such a method. I am a civilized person and cannot be like him.”

(End of chapter)