Chapter 525: "Account Check" with Shana
“Ding-ding-ding~”
The distant and ancient bell sound slowly fades away in my ears...
Colin opened his eyes and saw a quiet little church with a burning bonfire.
"It looks like this place needs some renovation and expansion, otherwise it's a bit too crowded."
He recruited fifty new employees for this Advent Project. It seemed like this time, regardless of whether they were D-level or F-level, all of them chose to join, instead of avoiding them like before...
From this point of view, the spontaneous publicity efforts of employees during this period have been quite effective.
"The mission for the first two days of this week should be to go out and look for someone. Well, they went out to look for someone."
For first-time visitors, you need to find it yourself and register in front of the bonfire. This is already an old process...
In the early days, finding work was somewhat dangerous.
But now the situation is stable, conditions have improved, and everyone is an extraordinary person.
Maybe you'll have some bad luck at the beginning.
But there's no need to worry too much about crises like death...
Even if they appear, they still have three chances to resurrect.
Less than a third of a second passed as his thoughts flashed through his mind. Colin was about to wave for the other employees to come, assign tasks, and then go check with Shana to check the bill...
But suddenly, I heard a beautiful, pure, and heavenly voice coming from the church door, which made me unable to help but immerse myself in it.
Looking over, I saw Shana holding Xiaohong and sitting at the door, singing with her eyes closed ...
The whole chapel seemed to be filled with a sacred atmosphere because of this voice.
"Shana?" Colin was surprised, "held down" the appearance of the employees, and listened attentively alone.
The song was nice, but what surprised him even more was that... it was written in the language of Earth?
"Ah, the most beautiful future! Please don't be cruel to me, please don't be cruel to me, don't be cruel. I will start from zero and move towards the most beautiful future~ Towards the most beautiful future, even if it is a long way, um~hmm?"
The singing paused, and Shana stopped shaking her head slightly. She seemed to notice something, looked at the person behind her, stood up, put Xiaohong down, and said with a smile, "Good day, Mr. Colin."
"Well, good morning..."
Ke Lin thought about it and thought Shana's song sounded familiar. He probably thought one of the employees was listening to it loudly while working, and someone heard it, so she learned it. It wasn't a big deal...
After nodding in response, he waved.
With a wave of the big hand, balls of ashes were spit out from the bonfire, and then condensed into people when they fell to the ground, transforming into the figures of the employees.
"Let me explain today's tasks. I mentioned it in the meeting with you yesterday. Today, fifty new employees are joining us..."
Hearing this, the employees present narrowed their eyes and smiled cruelly.
It’s time to introduce blessings to new people!
"Brother Shunzi, go and take them in. I'm the only one who won't..."
"And me and me!"
"I... forget it. I still have a few seriously ill patients to treat and some rehabilitation training to do. I won't go... what a shame."
“…”
Going out to find someone is a rare "holiday" time, so you should seize it if you can, otherwise you will end up taking drugs and energy and working non-stop for seven days and seven nights.
Colin understood their little thoughts and said:
"Keaiduo, organize a group of people to receive them and make follow-up arrangements. There's no special mission at the moment, so just handle it. I sense this group isn't too far away. I'll give you two days..."
Hearing Colin's words, "Life Coach Keaiduo" nodded and said it was okay.
The situation is not as complicated as before, so one or two days is enough. As an employee who is preparing to strive for D+ level authority, he has no intention of being lazy.
After all, although it is tiring here, the more you work, the more you earn, and the points reward is much higher than outside.
Finally, Colin walked out the door and threw out the supplies, which weighed just over ten cubic meters...
After simply assigning the tasks and waiting for everyone to disperse and start working, Xiaohong immediately rushed over, hugged him and affectionately called him "Big Brother".
"I just learned singing from Sister Shana. She sings so beautifully..."
"It does sound nice. Have you finished your homework?"
"I'm done. I checked my answers and I got 80 points in math!"
"good."
Kelin nodded and took out a new exercise book from the "storage room". He touched her head and ruffled her hair while saying:
"As a reward, I'll give you new homework this week. I've specially asked someone to find a famous teacher to give you some exercises. Go do it... I have something to do, so I'll come back to you later..."
"Oh..." Xiaohong walked away dejectedly with the new exercise book in her arms.
Then, Colin looked at Shana who was standing quietly aside, thought for two seconds, and then said:
"This time when I went back, I seemed to have discovered something about this 'company'..."
He paused at this point. In a sense, this place was still the branch's territory. If it got angry and staged a scene with strange phenomena in the sky or a fire dragon burning the warehouse, it would be quite troublesome...
Shana looked at Colin for two seconds, and seemed to realize the reason for his pause. She raised her hand and lifted a few strands of hair from her forehead and put them behind her ears.
"There's no need to worry too much about it. It's just a little information. It can't cause us any substantial trouble, nor will it retaliate..."
"That's fine."
After thinking for a moment, Colin stretched out his hand and the flames sealed the door of the chapel, and he was ready.
Then he and Shana came to a small conference table next to the campfire and sat down, while he started to talk to Shana about some distribution-related matters...
Since the "Logic Point Shielding" function was not effective, the two of them naturally talked about points earnings. Then, listening to what Shana said, Colin slowly opened his mouth.
"Ah? How much?"
Kelin was stunned: "You said that you only get a few or ten points for each mission?"
"Well, it's usually like this, a few points or so, but after meeting you guys, there are often tasks worth more than ten or even dozens of points..."
At this point, Shana, who was sitting obediently in her chair, couldn't help but recall that she had once planned to exchange the huge sum of "200+ points" for bone spurs...
Suddenly, I couldn't help but curl my toes in embarrassment.
"A dozen points..."
Colin muttered to himself, with Shana's strength, just a dozen points?
His first reaction was almost disbelief. This was much lower than he had imagined. The minimum threshold for small tasks was a few hundred points, while large tasks only had one or two thousand points...
However, no matter how unbelievable it was, Colin knew very well that Shana was a person who never liked to lie and her credibility was guaranteed.
In comparison, the "branch" with a very wild approach is more uncertain.
Then, Colin suddenly thought of something: "You... do you remember the first time you helped me drive away the enemy, and the subsequent quest rewards of applying the blessing effect?"
"The first time we met? I have some impressions. I remember it was about a dozen points and black bread. The second time, 50 points plus some scattered points, probably..."
"Fuck! You beast!"
Colin couldn't help but curse and interrupted Shana.
50 points?
Not to mention the first one, but the second one... He remembered it very clearly. That mission, under the pressure of the "Angel of Dusk", he had no choice but to pay the summoning fee of 5,000 points. Afterwards, he had to renew the buff every half a day or so, and each renewal cost several hundred points per person...
But when Shana got it, there were only about a hundred points?
At this moment, Colin urgently needed a word more offensive than beast!
And at this moment, he finally understood why there was such a huge gap between Shana herself and the "greedy" image she had when she was summoned...
In a sense, the key words such as greed, love of money and taking advantage of the situation are correct, but they are used on the wrong people.
"What the hell is this 'branch' thing? They're taking a 99% cut?! As far as I know, even the highest percentage I know of for forum rewards is only a fucking 90%..."
"What an unscrupulous blood-sucking branch!"
Colin couldn't help but think of the "consumption transparency" post on the internal employee forum.
That was the highest draw he had ever made...
But unexpectedly, there is always someone stronger than the strongest. The key is to see what Shana means. She still won’t tell anyone about the withdrawal.
At this moment, Colin felt inexplicably relieved.
I'm glad this "branch" didn't force me to be its employee...
Based on this reward, Colin estimated that he had only just come up with enough money to buy the "Widow Snow Woman"—
No, taking 99% is too much, it may not be possible to make up the amount.
"Speaking of which , I've always suspected that this branch was opened by Lawson. But I've heard that Lawson was stingy and the wages were low, but it doesn't seem to be this stingy. Is this... the branch out of control?"
If this were not the case, Colin would find it difficult to understand its unsustainable practice of exhausting the resources.
Then, he glanced sideways at Shana and saw that after she learned that he had given her tens of thousands of points but only received a hundred...
Shana suddenly fell silent, her ice-blue eyes were like the mirror-like surface of a lake, and her delicate face was unexpectedly calm, without a trace of ripples.
But Colin, who was sitting opposite , felt inexplicably frightened.
He thought about it and prepared to say something to comfort her...
It was at this moment that Shana, who had been motionless and didn't know what she was thinking, suddenly moved. She pulled out the parchment from her sleeve, grabbed it, and stared at it blankly for a while.
Suddenly he blinked, shook his head, and said as if muttering to himself:
"In fact, I may not care so much about the losses in this regard, nor do I care about some deceptions.
"It's just that if it could have taken less, then more choices would have been made, and those who survived the disaster would have wanted more...
"Why do you do this?"
Hearing her words, Colin couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Shana's heart was truly pure. He could sense that she really didn't care about her own loss, but was more concerned about the victims who couldn't be rescued...
Unfortunately, facing her questioning, Colin guessed that the "branch" would have to act like an ostrich.
This time, it earned hundreds of thousands of points on its own, and it felt like it had sucked enough blood...
Maybe he will just pretend to be dead and become the next generation of saint.
After all, the saints of the "Light" religion themselves are not passed down from generation to generation, but will only "come into being" when something special happens.
This generation has been seen through, and the next generation will be deceived.
But to Colin's surprise, after this thought came up, the parchment in Shana's hand actually gave some response!
[The situation in "World No. 13" is special. Many confidential matters and functions require a considerable amount of points. At the same time, the points earned are also used for some necessary power maintenance...]
If some related functions cannot be maintained in time, the situation here will be much worse than it is now.
[In the allocation and use of points in relevant fields, there is sufficient necessity and no waste.]
…
Looking at this response, Colin's intuition told him that it was true news, but it was hard to say whether it was the whole news.
Because the "transparency" is really too low...
The whole article is full of "related" and "concerned". Colin doesn't understand the operating mechanism of this thing, so who knows if there is any trick in it.
But he was absolutely certain that there must be a hidden reason why Parchment was so eager for points.
I just don't know what is being hidden.
"If we could find Ms. Thorn, a civilian and also a 'world administrator,' we'd probably be able to understand the situation. She should know a lot."
A thought flashed through Colin's mind, and then he glanced at Shana. Her expression remained unchanged, and it was impossible to tell whether she was happy or angry...
Through "Bonfire's" sensitivity to human emotions, we can only feel that her emotions are relatively stable.
It's just a bit too stable.
But at this moment, Shana suddenly looked up and looked at Colin: "Mr. Colin, do you have something you want to ask it?"
"I haven't figured out what to ask for the moment..."
Colin was halfway through his speech when he suddenly became curious. "Speaking of which, what are points essentially made of? Why do they seem to have other practical uses besides monetary value?"
Before this, in Colin's eyes, points seemed to be a kind of internal digital currency, but judging from the "maintaining some necessary powers" described on the parchment, it seemed that it was not only a credit currency, but also had practical value in itself, just like gold.
However, in response to Colin's question, Parchment showed no intention of responding.
There seems to be a prejudice against him.
"You're still in a bad mood, aren't you?!" Colin muttered in his heart.
At this time, seeing that the parchment did not respond, Shana pinched the parchment a little harder, and a trace of light seeped into the parchment. Then, she opened her mouth and repeated Colin's question.
Bonfire Points: A designated currency circulated within the company and usable only by "Bonfire Companies." Like energy, it activates certain company agreements, powers, and operations...
[Note: Its manufacture and related interpretation are confidential to employees below level A and cannot be known.]
…
"Secrecy below Class A?!"
Colin opened his eyes slightly. Is this thing so confidential?
The "retarded robot" remembered that "Ms. Rabbit" said that the confidentiality level seemed to be only B-. Unexpectedly, due to the nature of the points, the confidentiality level was actually higher than that?
Colin suddenly felt that the company was full of holes.
Then, after asking this, he tried to understand what the "Seed of Light" was.
When this thing came over in the middle of the night to exchange 300,000 points for something, it gave me this option:
In other words, in its view, this information is extremely valuable.
