28: Chapter 28 Urgently Recruiting Ambassadors Abroad, No Restrictions on Education or Nationality!

In the early morning in Cairo, sunlight pierced through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the five-star hotel.

Lin Zhou stood before the mirror, adjusting his shirt, which wasn't particularly expensive.

In his hand, he held an admission ticket to the future, but right now, this ticket looked more like a pass for a one-day desert tour.

"Qin Yue, is the equipment ready?"

Lin Zhou asked without turning his head.

Qin Yue pushed up her black-rimmed glasses, her fingers tapping rapidly on the keyboard.

"Head of State, the global livestream room is ready. The current pre-heated audience has already exceeded five million."

"Servers of major social platforms are groaning; those programmers in Silicon Valley are probably cursing our ancestors."

Lin Zhou smiled, a smile carrying a hint of a successful prank.

He sat in front of the camera, took a deep breath, and pressed the button that would change history.

The screen lit up, and countless bullet comments instantly flooded the image like a tsunami.

"First!"

"Long live the Head of State! A citizen of the Cyber Freedom Republic reporting for duty!"

"Your Majesty, do you still need a Duke to warm your bed?"

Lin Zhou looked at the frantically scrolling text and tapped the microphone.

"Hello? Can you hear me?"

"Citizens of the Cyber Freedom Republic, your Head of State is now online."

Inside the livestream room, the number of people online exploded exponentially: ten million, twenty million...

Within five minutes, the number froze at a staggering forty million.

This was a spectacle never before seen in human history: a country's head of state delivering a speech to his citizens from a hotel room using a laptop.

Lin Zhou stopped smiling, his gaze becoming sharp.

"I know everyone is very excited right now."

"We won. We drew a circle on the map and turned that no-man's land into our territory."

"But now, I'm going to pour a bucket of cold water on you all."

He turned the camera toward the distant south outside the window.

"What we have now is only a 'birth permit' and over two thousand square kilometers of sand."

"There is no water, no electricity, no signal, not even a single tree for shade."

"Our national anthem hasn't been composed, our laws are still a blank slate, and our treasury is so empty that mice could run through it—except for the few coins in my pocket."

The bullet comments in the livestream room thinned out slightly, and a hint of sobriety entered the fanatical atmosphere.

"Founding a country is not a dinner party, nor is it playing an online game."

"We are facing the meat grinder of international politics, the scarcity of survival resources, and the gaze of those great powers looking at us like ants."

"Therefore, I need help."

Lin Zhou paused, his tone suddenly becoming impassioned.

"I, Lin Zhou, Head of State of the Cyber Freedom Republic, hereby issue our nation's Presidential Decree No. 1."

"We are recruiting our first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Egypt!"

These words were like a nuclear bomb, detonating directly at the heart of the internet.

"Holy crap, recruiting an ambassador directly? I thought he was going to recruit construction workers!"

"This is a diplomat we're talking about, the kind with bodyguards and red carpets wherever they go?"

"Head of State, look at me! I have Level 6 English, and I can even say a couple of Japanese words like 'Yamete'!"

Lin Zhou looked at the screen and held up one finger.

"There is only one hard requirement for this recruitment."

"You must be a registered citizen of the Cyber Freedom Republic—that is, someone who has clicked 'Join' on our official website."

"Other than that, there are no limits on education, age, nationality, or work experience!"

"Even if you are a dishwasher who was just fired, or a vagrant who only knows how to write poetry, as long as you feel you can represent this country, you can submit your resume."

"The ambassador's office will temporarily be in a cafe in Cairo, or your living room."

"As long as you can handle the handover with the Egyptian authorities and protect the interests of our citizens in that desert, you will be a founding hero of this country."

"Send your resumes to the official website's email. I will conduct the interviews personally."

The livestream room went completely crazy.

This rule-breaking recruitment method gave hope to countless people who felt their talents were unrecognized.

In the traditional political world, an ambassador is the elite of the elite, synonymous with prestigious university degrees and prominent families.

But with Lin Zhou, it was just a position, a stage prepared for those with courage.

"Crazy, the world has truly gone crazy."

Qin Yue looked at the wildly jumping email counter in the backend, her face pale.

"Lin Zhou, do you know what you're doing? What if we recruit a scammer or a lunatic?"

Lin Zhou turned off the livestream, leaned back in his chair, and let out a long breath.

"What we want are lunatics."

"What proper diplomat would come to serve our country, which doesn't even have a toilet?"

"What we need are outliers who dare to plant flowers in the desert and dare to slam the table at United Nations officials."

The next forty-eight hours were a nightmare for the Human Resources Department.

Over 150,000 resumes flooded into that simple official website email.

Qin Yue and Zhang Zhe's eyes were nearly bloodshot as they used AI to filter out a large number of prank applications.

"This one, a former professional e-sports player, says he's good at multi-tasking and can handle diplomacy and internal affairs simultaneously."

Zhang Zhe pointed at the screen with a helpless expression.

"And this one, a retired circus manager, says he's good at dealing with all kinds of 'beasts' and is suited for handling complex international relations."

Lin Zhou flipped through the shortlisted names and stopped his finger on a photo.

It was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, and the experiences listed on his resume were unremarkable.

But one sentence caught Lin Zhou's attention.

"I don't care what this country has now; I only care about what it won't lack in the future."

Lin Zhou narrowed his eyes, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.

"He's the one. Notify him to come for an interview."

Qin Yue leaned over to take a look and was stunned.

"Are you sure? He's a..."

"Yes, it's him."

Lin Zhou stood up and walked to the window.

"After appointing the ambassador, I need to return to China."

"The matters here will be temporarily left to the Provisional Committee. Sudan's appetite hasn't been satisfied yet; we need more bargaining chips."

He looked into the distance; that was his hometown and the starting point for his next plan.

"Everyone, this is just the beginning."

"Our journey has never been about this tiny desert."

"It is the sea of stars."

The aftermath of the livestream was still fermenting globally, and Lin Zhou's choice was about to leave the world dumbfounded once again.

Because the identity of the ambassador he chose was far too special.

So special that it was enough to make all diplomatic textbooks be thrown into the trash.