Chapter 66 – Job Aptitude Test (4)
I stood up while watching the progress of the job examination.
[Where are you going?]
Artemis asked.
She can tell if I’m going to the bathroom just by looking at her.
I don’t smoke, so if I wake up like this, I’m leaving for a purpose.
“I want to go to the test site.”
[Why can’t I just watch it here?]
“I’m the type of person who rolls around on the field. I want to feel the atmosphere there for myself.”
I wanted to observe residents taking the test on site rather than through a monitor.
Besides, there is something I want to hear.
‘Roaring, roaring.’
Noise that was just loud in the past.
However, I missed the buzz that was nothing more than noise, knowing that it was precious when it disappeared, and the unique atmosphere of a space crowded with people.
[Go with that outfit?]
At her point, I looked down at my clothes.
This is the maintenance uniform I usually wear. The mark ‘Safety First’ is also clearly visible on the left shoulder.
Even though it is a maintenance uniform, the company spent a lot of money on it, so it is comfortable to wear, and the design is not bad.
And before I was a manager, I was also an engineer.
Even now that I have become the highest authority, I often carry tools and move between facilities, so maintenance uniforms are like everyday clothes to me.
“Why is this?”
She sighed at my words.
[You are not alone anymore. A leader who manages numerous residents. How you appear in the eyes of others is the basis of authority.]
In the central control room locker room she guided me to, there were clothes hanging that seemed to have been prepared in advance.
Dark-colored suit pants and shirt made as a set. It is even ironed perfectly.
Beige vest.
Check tie.
Brown crocodile leather shoes she made herself using materials extracted from a cultured meat facility.
Lastly, the researcher gown I wore during graduate school. This replaces Suit Mai.
To briefly talk about Artemis’s fashion tastes, she doesn’t really like my maintenance uniform or comfortable sweats.
On the other hand, I really, really, really like the researcher’s gown.
It is probably the most powerful among her few positive signs.
She once asked the reason, and, uncharacteristically, she gave a long and rambling explanation as if she was embarrassed.
I was so intrigued by this rare sight that I tried to inquire and got scolded.
Still, if I were to interpret it roughly, it would seem that an intelligent look is my preference.
Artemis requires me to do even the smallest detail when maintaining her body, and she must wear that gown when she enters her room.
If you break this, you will still get angry.
Even though she wants to leave simple tasks to robots, her answer is always the same.
‘Absolutely not!’
I am giving 100% reasons why I need to fix her body myself, and they are all based on perfect logic, so there is no room for refutation.
I think she must have been really great when she worked as a lawyer in the United States.
As she took care of the clothes she had prepared, camera angles from all directions moved noisily and observed me.
After arranging her clothes as she requested several times.
[This is enough.]
I was finally able to go outside while listening to her satisfying voice.
* * *
At the same time, the physical fitness test is in full swing at the testing center.
Generally, occupational physical fitness tests include running, sit-ups, push-ups, and grip strength, but in Shelter, the items have changed due to its special nature.
A general physical fitness test is conducted for those wishing to work in ordinary jobs.
On the other hand, personnel wishing to work in fields such as public security, firefighting, first aid, and disaster prevention must undergo a special physical fitness test.
Let’s take the police force’s physical fitness test as an example.
The first is to measure striking force, which involves hitting a humanoid model with a punch, kick, or baton to measure its destructive power.
Since lethal weapons are not provided, the ability to subdue residents using non-lethal weapons or hand-to-hand combat is necessary.
It may seem harsh to demand that a numerically incomparable group be controlled only with primitive weapons, but it is not.
Behind the police force stands a Hornet drone equipped with a Taser gun, a security robot armed with a riot suppressor shotgun, and a sentry gun loaded with 5.56mm live ammunition. Above them, there is a camera that watches the entire underground city without blinking an eye, and the air to be inhaled and exhaled. There was Artemis who even controlled it.
Authority is granted to the security forces based on the power of the background.
‘If you mess up, you’ll get hit. Even if you counterattack, you cannot win. If you fight back as a group, bullets will fly.’
All you have to do is teach this 3-step logic, so you only need the ability to subdue one person in a 1:1 match.
Puck! Puck! Puck!
Prospective police officers attacked the model with batons in their hands.
There are more applicants than expected, so even though several test centers are operated simultaneously, many people waiting are sitting on the ground and watching.
The reason for the large number of applicants is not only because women of modest means among the prisoners sought the lucrative position, but also because the majority of former prison guards applied.
Naturally, with two groups with bad relations entering the exam room, trouble is bound to arise.
“Wooooo!”
“Are you swinging that too?”
“You guys really have thick faces. Even after going through that situation, do you still want to be a jailer? Are you embarrassed?”
Prisoners in the queue booed every time the former prison guard swung his baton.
To prepare for any possible disadvantage, there was no swearing, and everyone stayed calm and stayed in their seats.
I ignored the person being criticized and focused on the test, thinking, ‘I avoid poop because I’m afraid, but I avoid it because it’s dirty.’
There are two places to aim.
It is a sudden strike assuming the suppression of unrest and a non-sudden strike to suppress trade.
Although the former prison guards swung hard, there were many who received low scores.
This is not because of a problem with power or accuracy, but because the score for ‘belligerence’, a hidden test item, was deducted.
In particular, women who received failing grades leaned back and struck forward with their arms holding batons.
If you do this, it becomes a posture that is like popping a blackboard eraser, and it was a posture that emerged from an instinctive movement to avoid an enemy.
Artemis judged this attitude to be a tendency to avoid battle and gave it a deduction.
On the other hand, candidates who hit with their weight without leaning back received high scores.
Just like Nina.
Paang! Paang!
There was no hesitation in Nina’s hands as she excitedly beat the model like a fish in water.
One blow after another, the baton was swung with a spin on her entire arm, from her legs to her waist, causing a tremendous wave.
In terms of fighting, he ranked 3rd in fists and 1st in kicks among the candidates, achieving the highest score in the suppression category.
“Profit!”
There was also Seyoung, who was swinging the baton in the posture learned from the textbook.
Even though his power was poor, his posture was perfect.
However, when she punched and kicked… It was almost sad to see.
“So cute!”
The prisoners cheered Seyoung with a mix of half ridicule and half goodwill.
After the batting test of the former guards was over, female prisoners participated one after another, and most of them performed better than the former guards.
This is because they were strong, and above all, many women had no aversion to violence, so they took a much more aggressive stance.
In the case of running, only the 100-meter sprint was conducted and the 1,000-meter long-distance sprint was omitted.
Since it is a closed underground city anyway, there is no place for arrestees to escape in case of emergency.
The AI can immediately block the entrance and exit of each escape route, turning you into a rat in a poison, and there is even help from drones and sentry guns.
In fact, there is no need to chase.
All that was needed was the ability to sprint at a moment’s notice to reach the destination in the shortest possible time when trouble occurred.
Likewise, delete all sit-ups and push-ups that have little to do with actual practice.
Instead, a back strength test was conducted by turning the body sideways while lying down.
This is to check the ability to escape when the mount position is taken away in a fighting situation with a suppression target.
In addition, strength and endurance tests necessary for handling hand-to-hand combat were conducted.
“Hey, hey, over there.”
Among those waiting, a woman pointed to a corner on the second floor.
When she arrived, she saw a man observing her with his arms crossed.
And everyone here knows who the author is.
This is because there is no way that he would not have learned city information while hoping to be assigned to the security forces. You should also prepare for questions that may come up in your handwriting.
Everyone looked up the city’s history, organizational structure, and current leadership members, and naturally became familiar with the information about the only survivor and highest-ranking administrator.
When one or two people looked, all the surrounding women also looked, and it spread like a wave, and soon everyone in the test room was looking up.
Perhaps because it was an unexpected reaction, he looked somewhat stiff and slowly waved his hand with a smile.
Reactions were divided in two.
All prison guards bowed politely and behaved as if they were their superiors.
Although it has not yet been assigned to the security unit.
Most of the prisoners responded well, cheering.
The authority of being a top manager.
Biography of a former soldier, especially an officer.
The incredible combat power of the shelter retrieval operation seen through video footage.
This is because these three things acted as very powerful charisma at this time.
Seeing that, Seyoung smiled bitterly.
It is not enough to thank Jinsu and other leaders ten times for their salvation, and there is no need to say more about the consideration given to her.
Since the response was this good at the police force test site, where everyone who said they would use a bit of force came together, there would be no need to worry about control issues later.
However, this marked the end of the history maintained under the name of the Republic of Korea and the beginning of a full-fledged era of survivor warlords.
Seyoung is a realistic woman.
She has no intention of being dissatisfied or ungrateful, but she intends to be grateful to him and cooperate with his rule to the best of her ability.
Still, she couldn’t help but feel faint.
