Chapter 109: Unfinished Chapter
Chu Yan's consciousness had just stabilized from the feeling of being pulled away from the mission world, and before he even had time to see the surrounding scenery clearly, an irresistible teleportation force enveloped him.
The next moment, he found himself sitting in a solemn, pure white circular conference room. The chair beneath him felt cold, and there were already quite a few people sitting around him.
He looked around calmly, slightly surprised. Most of the people present were familiar faces who were at the top of the Mission Bureau's points rankings.
"Where's Wangchuan?" He turned his head and whispered to the young man sitting next to him. The young man had a dead air, a look of despair, and his eyes were a dark blue, as if he hadn't slept well in hundreds of years.
Yuan Liaoxing's eyes moved slowly, he glanced at Chu Yan weakly, and uttered two dry words: "Mission." Then he continued to stare blankly at the table in front of him, as if there was some ultimate secret of the universe there.
"You might as well ask me instead of asking Yuan Liaoxing," a smiling voice came from the other side, lazy and with a hint of cynicism.
Chu Yan turned around. It was Ying Bu Ran. The man was wearing a flashy dark red sweater with a slightly open collar. He rested his chin on one hand, looking at him with a half-smile, his eyes full of interest.
"Wangchuan heard that you accepted an 'unlucky' mission, so he went to compete for the top spot in high spirits." Ying Bu Ran dragged out the tone, emphasizing the word "unlucky".
"?" Chu Yan raised his eyebrows, a bad feeling rising in his heart, "What unlucky mission?"
Seeing Chu Yan's confused expression, who was obviously still in the dark, Ying Bu Ran's smile became even more cunning, like a fox that had successfully stolen some fish: "You haven't completed the task settlement yet, right? How about taking a look now?"
Chu Yan narrowed his eyes and silently recited the instructions, calling up the task settlement interface. A translucent screen unfolded before his eyes, the top clearly displaying the rating of the recently completed task and the points reward. His eyes swept downwards, stopping at the last line of information:
[The previous quest (number: S-7798 "Gu Ye's Obsession") has been completed. The subsequent quest (number: S-7799 "Unfinished Chapter") has been automatically accepted.] [Note: This quest is a chain of quests and is mandatory. The next link will automatically open after completing the previous quest.]
Chu Yan rarely suspected that he was dazzled or that there was a bug in the task settlement system.
Ying Buyan, standing beside him, was already ecstatically amused. He lowered his voice and said, "Hahaha, this quest chain S-7798 has been on the bulletin board for nearly a hundred years, and no one has touched it. Everyone knows it's a huge pitfall. Not only is it time-consuming, but the reward rate is also incredibly low compared to other quests of similar difficulty. It was almost about to be removed from the main system due to lack of interest, but somehow, by some strange coincidence, it was assigned to you in this random draw."
Chu Yan basically only takes on random tasks that are high-score and high-difficulty, and this time he was indeed unlucky.
"So," Ying Bu Ran added with a gloating tone, "When Wang Chuan heard about this, he didn't even attend the meeting. He rushed to take on the new task and rush to get on the list. I didn't even have time to forward the meeting notice to him."
Hearing him mention the meeting, Chu Yan temporarily suppressed his speechlessness about the serial tasks and frowned as he surveyed the scene: "Do you know what the agenda of this meeting is?"
"What else could it be?" Ying Bu Ran stretched lazily, revealing a fair and slender waist. "Our mission bureau used to rank people based solely on total points, which resulted in those high-scoring, quick-reward hunting and war missions being fiercely sought after, while many low-scoring but equally important strategy and protection missions were simply not accepted. The world's stability maintenance rate has been alarming year after year. This meeting probably means that the main system has been unable to cope and needs to solve this problem."
As he was speaking, the light source in the center of the conference room suddenly became brighter, and the emotionless electronic synthesized sound of the main system rang out throughout the space. At the same time, a large amount of information was directly sent to the consciousness of every participant.
【The Mission Bureau's organizational restructuring plan takes effect immediately.】
A huge new architecture diagram unfolded in everyone's mind:
The Mission Directorate reorganized into three major sections:
1. Mission Execution Department: It consists of five major departments: Strategy Department, Hunting Department, Counterattack Department, Protection Department, and Correction Department.
2. Technical Logistics Department: It consists of the System R&D Center, Space-Time Navigation Center, Equipment Department, Medical Rehabilitation Center, and Energy Management Center.
3. Intelligence and Supervision Department: It consists of the Intelligence Department, World Line Observation Center, Supervision Office, and Archives.
Chu Yan quickly browsed through the department list and personnel appointments. When he saw his name clearly listed behind "Mission Execution Department-Strategy Department" and his position was [Director], he fell silent.
Did the main system have some profound misunderstanding of him? How did he look like someone who could develop a "strategy"?
The air pressure around Yuan Liaoxing, who was standing beside him, dropped even lower, practically condensing into solid black water. Someone who found life meaningless and constantly contemplated world destruction was assigned to the Guardian Division... This wasn't just a misunderstanding; it was pure black humor.
Ying Bu Ran adapted well. He was appointed Minister of Intelligence, a position that was tailor-made for him and allowed him to witness all the excitement.
Chu Yan was silent for a moment, then poked Ying Bu Ran, who was laughing with tears in his eyes, and said, "What do you think? When Wang Chuan comes back from completing his mission and finds that the leaderboard is gone, and that all his efforts to get on the leaderboard were in vain, will he be so angry that he will directly dismantle the core of the main system?"
Ying Bu Ran's eyes flickered as he asked with a smile, "What's the matter? Minister Chu is worried about the main system and plans to go and protect the emperor?"
Chu Yan had a blank expression on his face: "Oh, that's not the case. I was just thinking that I would go and give him a wrench when the time comes."
After the meeting, Chu Yan sat in his newly assigned "minister's office." The room was spacious and bright, with a minimalist style. Apart from a large desk, a bookshelf, and a set of sofas for guests, there was nothing else, exuding a cold and businesslike atmosphere.
He rubbed his brows, the hot potato still floating on the light screen in front of him - [Follow-up mission: S-7799 "Unfinished Chapter"].
He stared at the line for a few seconds, finally minimizing it for the moment.
The Strategy Department was newly established, and there was still much to deal with. Personnel selection, rule-making, resource allocation, coordination with other departments... countless complex tasks piled up. Chu Yan, despite his top-notch management skills, still spent a full five days to put the Strategy Department's initial framework in place and process the most urgent documents.
On the evening of the fifth day, he was finally able to relax a little and lean back in his chair.
The office was silent, with only the energy lamp emitting a soft light.
He exhaled and called up the task interface again.
[System,] he instructed in his mind, [Start the subsequent tasks.]
[Do you want to connect to the space-time navigation center to reset the position?] [No]
On the screen, the words [S-7799 "Unfinished Chapter"] flickered, then transformed into a swirling vortex. World coordinates and information began loading.
Chu Yan's gaze was as calm as water. He wanted to see where this "unfinished chapter" that forcibly bound him would lead him.
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