“Buddy, you’re clear-headed. I think you’ll definitely pass the exam!”

The study materials vendor happily took the money and handed over the booklet.

Wu Bin took it and stood there leafing through it.

Since these Tenda Spirit test questions had only been added to the last exam, there weren’t many questions—only about a dozen or so.

In the objective questions part of the Tenda recruitment exam, the full score was 100 points, with about 120 questions, so each question was worth between 0.5 and 1.5 points. Some questions’ values would even fluctuate slightly depending on how many people answered them correctly.

This booklet was indeed an official publication from an educational institute that had been regularly producing Tenda recruitment exam materials. However, seeing the glaring 5 yuan price tag on the back of the booklet, Wu Bin felt his intelligence had been heavily taxed.

Looking around for the vendor, he was already nowhere to be seen, clearly having moved on to another location after making the sale.

Wu Bin was speechless—schemes were truly everywhere.

It had to be said that this study materials vendor was quite clever. Although the booklet was an official publication from an educational institute, it was easily overlooked when purchasing materials, as many people hadn’t paid enough attention to these so-called “special questions.”

The vendor had spotted this opportunity and was reselling them at the exam site, specifically targeting those who had overlooked this point and wanted last-minute preparation.

With just a bit of sales patter, he could sell it successfully, scamming one person after another.

Although he’d been tricked out of some money, it wasn’t a big deal. Wu Bin mainly wanted to see the content of this booklet.

First, he flipped through the questions and correct answers. Wu Bin found that these questions were indeed the original ones, and the answers were about 80-90% accurate.

Among them were multiple-choice questions, where the rule was that selecting an incorrect answer meant no points, selecting one of the correct answers earned partial points, and only selecting all correct answers earned full points.

Obviously, the people who had extracted these questions couldn’t fully determine the scoring rules, so they had added some speculation, causing some deviations.

But overall, ensuring 80-90% accuracy was already quite impressive.

However, these were just last time’s real questions. This time’s questions had all been completely changed.

Using scores to reverse-engineer the standard answers wasn’t very difficult. The key was whether the analysis was correct and could maintain a relatively high accuracy rate when encountering new questions.

Wu Bin directly flipped to the analysis section at the back of the booklet.

“Regarding the special questions newly added to the Tenda recruitment exam, the author doesn’t have particularly clear clues yet. Because these questions don’t exist in any other exams, they appear to be original questions created by Tenda Group.”

“However, after summarizing the answers to these questions, the author has discovered certain patterns. Although they may seem too reasonable, everyone can absolutely answer according to the following patterns.”

“‘No overtime’ seems to be one of the correct passwords. Whenever you see the ‘no overtime’ option, as long as it’s not an especially important urgent task, you can basically select it without thinking.”

“Although it sounds strange, these questions seem to encourage employees to be lazy, slack off, goof around, and play games. So if you really have no clue, answering according to your natural inclination to be lazy and goof off is actually better than hypocritically choosing to voluntarily work overtime.”

“This statement contradicts common sense and doesn’t align with Tenda Group’s thriving state, but judging from the standard answers to the questions, it seems this is indeed how they can be understood.”

“So everyone must remember this mnemonic when encountering such questions:”

“When you can avoid overtime, avoid overtime; remember the rules of being a slacker;”

“If leaders demand forced overtime, report it up the chain and stand firm.”

“In emergencies, when overtime is necessary, be sure to ask for overtime pay;”

“When work tasks are somewhat heavy, promptly pass the buck and distribute them outward.”

“For benefits and perks, enjoy them seriously; don’t scrimp on snacks and coffee;”

“When encountering problems, consult Mr. Pei; someone will cover for you, just wait for an easy win.”

“As long as everyone remembers this mnemonic, there should be a good chance of scoring high in this section.”

Wu Bin read with his mouth agape, completely dumbfounded.

This rhyme was well-composed, and for five yuan, it wasn’t really expensive.

But what was this content?

Misinterpretation, absolute misinterpretation!

How could it be interpreted this way?

How could the sacred Tenda Spirit be interpreted as goofing off and slacking?

This was too much!

Wu Bin himself maintained a relatively open attitude toward the interpretation of the Tenda Spirit. Everyone could have their own way of interpreting it, and he didn’t claim that his interpretation was the only standard answer.

But the problem was that the analysis in this booklet was not only ridiculously wrong and completely diminished and slandered the Tenda Spirit, but crucially, when using it to select answers, they were all correct!

Just as the booklet said, if you imagined yourself as a slacker who didn’t want to do anything, and then answered the questions, you’d actually get all the correct answers!

This made the harm even greater!

If the interpretation was wrong and led to incorrect answers, candidates would naturally realize they had been duped and wouldn’t believe it.

But if the interpretation was wrong yet still produced correct answers, wouldn’t that be even more misleading?

Wu Bin couldn’t sit still. What could be done about this?

If this booklet really spread widely, and all new employees joining Tenda believed it to be true, what then?

The Tenda Spirit would be misguided from the very source.

Could he find a way to clarify and correct it?

It didn’t seem feasible, because Wu Bin’s own grasp of the Tenda Spirit was also one-sided and incomplete. The true Tenda Spirit was with Mr. Pei.

Change the test questions? Make it so that the correct understanding of the Tenda Spirit would yield correct answers, while the incorrect understanding wouldn’t?

That was too difficult.

After all, the Tenda Spirit test questions were personally created by Mr. Pei, and Wu Bin didn’t have the ability to change them, because any change would alter their essence.

But this issue was clearly important and couldn’t be ignored. It needed to be resolved quickly, or it would inevitably spread poison far and wide, causing endless harm.

Wu Bin was at a loss. After thinking it over, he decided to immediately consult Mr. Pei.

Only Mr. Pei possessed the most correct understanding of the Tenda Spirit and could surely come up with the most appropriate way to handle this.

Although Wu Bin was still an examiner, he was no longer responsible for specific exam supervision but mainly for overall exam management.

So he immediately got up, preparing to find Mr. Pei to report this matter.

…

Meanwhile, Pei Qian was in his office, sorting through the roster for the next session of Suffering Travel.

“You don’t know until you look, and when you look, it’s shocking.”

“There are so many people on the candidate list that even two or three sessions wouldn’t be enough to accommodate all these people from within Tenda.”

“Not to mention enemies from outside like Ruan Guangjian and Qiao Liang.”

This list was giving Pei Qian quite a headache.

He now understood why there had always been some people who slipped through the net—there were too many fish and the net was too small, making it difficult not to miss some.

The managers had arranged one batch, but there was another batch of substitutes. Beyond that, there were various key staff members from different departments who had caused considerable harm, none of whom could be let off.

Not to mention those “enemies” from outside who “thought Mr. Pei considered them friends when in fact Mr. Pei hated them to the core.”

People like Ruan Guangjian, Qiao Liang, Li Shi, Lin Chang, Zhou Muyan, Xue Zhebin, and so on—shouldn’t they all be arranged to participate to satisfy his grudge?

Of course, arranging for these people would be somewhat difficult. He couldn’t use force; he could only rely on trickery.

But first, they needed to be on the list, so they wouldn’t escape from the beginning.

This made the selection of participants for the second session of Suffering Travel much more difficult.

As he was pondering this, there was a knock at the office door.

Looking up, he saw Wu Bin, whom he hadn’t seen for so long that he barely had an impression of him.

Wu Bin wasn’t the head of the Human Resources Department and rarely had opportunities to report directly to Mr. Pei. Previously, he had given Tenda Spirit lectures to online writers on Pei Qian’s behalf, so Pei Qian still had some impression of him.

“Mr. Pei, there’s an urgent situation I need to report to you.”

“Please take a look at this booklet—it’s outrageous!”

Wu Bin handed the booklet to Mr. Pei and briefly explained the ins and outs of the whole matter.

Of course, he didn’t mention his own interpretation of the Tenda Spirit. After all, showing off in front of Mr. Pei would be too foolish.

He only said that the Human Resources Department, based on their understanding of the Tenda Spirit, had created several “very simple” test questions for preliminary screening. Whether someone truly conformed to the Tenda Spirit still depended on the Tenda Spirit test phase after entering the company following the interview.

But now, precisely this “preliminary screening” phase had been misinterpreted by some educational institutions, potentially causing some consequences. He was asking for Mr. Pei’s instructions on how to handle it.

Pei Qian flipped through the booklet, nearly laughing out loud.

Could such a good thing really happen?

Who was this talented person who could so precisely grasp his intentions?

Not a bit wrong—I am encouraging employees to slack off!

Unfortunately, all the employees at Tenda, from top to bottom, don’t get this point and instead think I’m encouraging them to work hard.

But this talented person in the educational institution understood correctly!

Indeed, a different environment makes all the difference.

This person hadn’t joined Tenda, hadn’t been influenced by the environment here, and still maintained the rationality and normal thought processes that a normal person should have.

Clearly, it’s your Human Resources Department that has a major problem with the interpretation of the Tenda Spirit!

But Pei Qian couldn’t say this directly—he would be warned by the system.

It was precisely because he couldn’t say it directly that Pei Qian had sneakily set up the Tenda Spirit test, but it hadn’t achieved the effect he wanted at all.

Now, fortunately, an educational institution outside had given him a divine assist. After two layers of misinterpretation, the thought processes at both ends had miraculously aligned!

This was truly absurd.

He definitely couldn’t stop it.

Not only could he not stop it, but he should deliberately tolerate it and preferably let it flourish!

It was hard enough to find a correct seedling in the understanding of the Tenda Spirit; he couldn’t simply snuff it out.

Pei Qian smiled slightly: “There’s no need for much intervention. Tenda’s interpretation methods are diverse.”

“Moreover, I think this booklet’s understanding of the Tenda Spirit is quite accurate and has merit in many places.”

Pei Qian couldn’t say it was “completely correct,” but affirming its correctness to some degree was no problem.

Wu Bin was shocked—Mr. Pei’s reaction was completely beyond his expectations.

Quite accurate?

How could it be accurate? This clearly completely distorted the essence of the Tenda Spirit!

Although the actions might be the same, the core had changed from a positive and upward-striving spirit to a lethargic spirit of slacking off!

Appearing similar but being fundamentally different was the most harmful.

But Mr. Pei didn’t seem angry at all; instead, he seemed happy?

Wu Bin was very confused.

It seemed that his understanding of the Tenda Spirit had once again regressed to where he started.

Back then, he had just joined the company, and he’d immediately failed when encountering the Tenda Spirit test.

After that, he had studied earnestly and pondered carefully, continuously elevating his understanding of the Tenda Spirit, believing he was walking on the correct path.

But now, he found that he seemed not to understand again.