Chapter 1

In the early morning, the nearby peak of the cliff was covered, as if it was in the midst of the clouds.

Cape park was stationed in between the flat land and mountain. The rides of the Cape Park has revealed a little glimpse amidst the tree. This building has been in existence for 20 years, creating numerous parts of childhood memories for the residents of the North Sea city. At this time, there are few visitors coming in to visit.

Dragging his luggage, Duan Jiaze stood in front of the park. His sight leaving the ferris wheel above and was now gliding towards the security guard uncle who was yawning before changing his gaze to the less than 100 meters old and small zoo. His face revealed an indescribable expression.

Even though it was also called "Cape", this zoo and Cape park has no relation at all.

Duan Jiaze vaguely remembered that this zoo has not been established for more than 5 years. Belonging to the private sector, this zoo was named to bring up the popularity of Cape Park. Just like how Peking University and Beida Jade Bird have nothing to do each other.

{ Peking university = 北大, Beida Jade Bird = 北大青鸟}

The local media has advertised this place several times, however, the business was just not good and there was no next part to it. People who went into this business were like Duan Jiaze, they have no experience and they accounted for the vast majority of the people.

Looking at the surrounding, no workers were seen. The signboard was resting with dust, the big door- should be called not a big door instead- was rusting. At the door front, there were dead branches and rotten leaves and the corners were filled with spider webs. This just portrayed poor business these four words.

{poor business= 经营不善 is four words}

While Duan Jiaze was in his thoughts, the signboard screw seems to be loosened and with a “snap” it fell to the ground. The dust shooked and the scene was even bleaker.

Duan Jiaze: "……"

In fact, Duan Jiaze only recently learned that he has a great relationship with this dilapidated zoo.

And this story started from half a month ago-

It was the graduation season, Duan Jiaze, who just graduated from a second-rate university in the city studying on environmental engineering, did not do well in the postgraduate exam. As the employment environment was not good too, his career has no progression.

When Duan Jiaze went to college, he was a work and study student. He was always in a tight finanical state, and if he could not find a job any sooner, he would have to do manual labor in order to survive.

At that moment, a lawyer suddenly contacted Duan Jiaze, telling him that he has a distant relative that just passed away, leaving a zoo behind. The relative had decided to pass the zoo to the Duan Jiaze who the relative rarely saw.

As for Duan Jiaze, like heaven dropping pies down, this was good news. After ensuring that this was not a fraud and that he does not need to hand in any penny. He happily contacted the lawyer to inherit this zoo and intended to sell it away.

-After all, he does not have any experience and passion to operate a zoo. However, if the zoo is sold, he can use the money to solve his living conditions.

The day at the law firm, after Duan Jiaze confirmed the documents, he signed his name.

After the signing, he flipped the folder only to suddenly found that there was a strange contract that he has never seen before. It wrote some terms, something Party B voluntarily joins the "Ling Xiao Hope Project", Party B is responsible for resettling the employees dispatched by Party A to help, and Party A helps Party B to expand its scale.

"Lawyer Wang, what is this?" Duan Jiaze took out the contract. He does not remember how he could forget this contract when he was checking the documents earlier on.

Lawyer Wang was not too sure, so he took it and take a look and was stunned. " I have no idea too, this is not done by me….. This, this format is not correct, there is no official seal too, this is basically no recognized by law."

Out of his occupation instinct, Lawyer Wang added that last sentence.

"Weird, where did this come from?" Lawyer Wang revealed a confused expression and went to ask the assistant who printed out the contract.

The assistant was stunned and said: "Did someone else used our printer to print this and I accidentally printed a copy out and placed it here?"

He almost racked his brains before he came up with such forcibly reasonable explanation, but he couldn't understand how he himself, lawyer Wang and Duan Jiaze had not found out about this contract before. He could only admit that everyone suddenly became sloppy in the checking.

"Probably….Yes." Duan Jiaze could only say this.

…..

Duan Jiaze stepped out of the law firm, his hand holding onto a name card given by Lawyer Wang out of friendship. It is an intermediary that Mr. Wang has recommended to him. He can help with the sale of the zoo and Duan Jiaze planned to contact him after he heads back.

On the street, there were a lot of people, abruptly Duan Jiaze heard a particularly clear voice. It was so clear as if it came from his own mind.

[Hello user, do you want to download 'Ling Xiao hope project' app?]

Duan Jiaze was stunned and almost fell.

Ling Xiao hope project? Isn't this the word that appeared on the contract just now? But the contract has already been thrown into the shredder by the Lawyer Wang's colleagues.

DJZ looked left and right and the nearby passerbys does not seem to have heard this voice. In the bright daylight, he was scared until he sweated cold drips.

It can't be so spiritual right?

At noon, the downtown was bustling, people come and go, and the traffic was constantly flowing.

Duan Jiaze was standing dazedly in the crowd, not moving at all and he was a little cold.

After about a minute, Duan Jiaze's heartbeat gradually calmed down, and the voice rang again, and Duan Jiaze was once again shocked.

[No replies, has been downloaded by default -]

….unreasonable application.

DJZ almost jumped and was scolding in his heart.

What exactly is this black technology, what is this application, will this be downloaded in his mind?

Duan Jiaze waited nervously for a while, and there seemed to be nothing new in his mind. He suddenly understood and pulled out his mobile phone. There was a new application on it.

Cannot be deleted. Duan Jiaze tried.

This APP icon is a cloud with a light blue background. The name is called “Ling Xiao Hope Project.”

This technology was obviously not what a prank game can do, but Duan Jiaze could not help but looked up and looked around. He found a flower bed, sat on the edge with quivering hands, he opened the app.

If the icon still retains a little aesthetic, then the app's interface is completely “leadership.”

What is leadership aesthetics?

That was to make the words as large as possible, the color should try to clash, try to be eye-catching, it is best to be red and yellow, and then add a border for the best result.

But these were not the main points, the focus was on the content.

The content of this app is very simple, so simple that it can be said to be crude. The background user has been automatically logged in, showing the name of Duan Jiaze, with several categories such as "My Profile", "My Task" and "Animal Management".

Click on “My Profile” to display the following:

Name: Duan Jiaze (Director)

Sex: Male

Age: 23

Cape Zoo:

Area: 40 acres

Employee: 0

Popularity: 0

Duan Jiaze did not look much further, he scrolled down and saw an “About us”, and tapped at it.

"Introduction: Ling Xiao Hope Project aims to support outstanding three-level youth entrepreneurship and will provide various support free of charge. Including, not limited to, regular dispatch of employees, customized enterprise growth plans for the recipients, after the recipients complete the phased tasks After the development of a hundred years, Ling Xiao hopes that the project has been semi-automated, and the system automatically selects the contract and generates a growth plan…”

Looking at it again, there was a column that seems to be “contract service.” He pressed and opened it, there seem to be two important terms.

"Terminate the contract: Download the following application form and fill in the instructions and hand it over to the Hope Project Office. The review period is seventy years."

“Breach of contract: Thunderstruck.”

“Discipline: After the user receives the task and  he does not complete the task within the time limit, one strike of thunder. If accumulated more than three penalties, the contract is determined to be a breach.”

Thunderstruck? Is that the thunderstruck he is thinking of?!

Duan Jiaze's eyes darkened and he can't wait to catch the person who designed this, shouting:

Hello, what kind of unreasonable system is this? What gives you the rights to choose me as u wish? Who wants you to help start a business?! Why do I have to wait for seventy years to cancel the contract, and why is the penalty for breaching of contract thunderstruck!

And how does the subsequent punishment of uncompleted tasks sound so unscientific? Won't you die after being struck by thunder?

For a long while, Duan Jiaze slowly calmed down and sighed with his hands covering the sides of his head. Passersby looked at him with sympathy as if this young man lost his wallet.

Ugh.

It seems that the zoo may not be sold anytime sooner. He tried to change the owner's name but it was not allowed. The system seems to be very rigid and has been bound to Duan Jiaze.

If Duan Jiaze sells the zoo and loses internal control, he will not be able to do the task, and then he will be struck by thunder … or directly judged as defaulting the contract, and then receive thunderstruck… Anyway, the ending will all be terrible.

Just think about the bright side, Duan Jiaze comforted himself, if you don't think about your original career goals, then this can be considered a golden finger!

Looking at how this hope project bragged so much and the technology is so magical, according to the routine, if he accepts to help operate this zoo, the zoo will be grow to be a big business, life will be flushed with sucess… right?