After failing the exam for three consecutive times, Chen Yan received an anonymous text message: "Congratulations on passing the political review. Please report to the Municipal Cultural Relics Protection and Folklore Affairs Center at 9:00 tomorrow."
He thought he was a liar, but when he went there he discovered that this place was branded as a public institution to the outside world, and was called the Department of Antiquities to the outside world, and its job was to suppress the evil spirits and weirdness that had "awakened" from ancient times to the present. Colleagues wear mahogany swords and fight with their lives in the field. There are only three things in Chen Yan's desk drawer: an electronic attendance machine, an old book from the Tang Dynasty, and a note left by his predecessor——
"At Mao hour, Mao hour, finish work at You hour, don't work overtime."
He did so on his first day on the job. When the electronic attendance machine beeps, merit +10. When you clock in from get off work the next day, your merit will be doubled. In the third month, he treated the rules and regulations as imperial edicts - eating on time, refusing to work overtime, and never exceeding his authority - and his merits were immediately filled, and he suppressed the evil things in the entire paper shop with one voice.
Chen Yan finally understood the unspoken rules of this unit: others relied on magic to defeat demons, while he relied on obeying the rules. The sooner you get off work on time, the more merit you will have; the more you work overtime, the faster you will die.
But the disappearance of his predecessor, the misfortune of King Juan, and the old paper with his name written on it in the Tang Dynasty book... All told him something even more outrageous - he had already written his name for this position three hundred years ago.
When the "old rules" in the entire city began to loosen and all the weirdos were carnivaling, Chen Yan silently turned on the attendance machine and set up a new rule: "All members of the Town Property Department must get off work on time."
Then the name at the top of the list of merits was followed by three words: Off duty
