External Trade Department.
The chubby middle-aged man was tidying up the documents on the desk while chatting with his colleagues around him with a smile, making a joke from time to time, and seemed to be in a particularly relaxed mood.
"Hey, Old Chen. I heard that someone came to you this morning to receive a high-level task. Are they those people from yesterday? You are really capable, no wonder the director admires you so much." A colleague joked to Old Chen while tidying up the desk and preparing to leave work.
"Hehehe! Old Zhou, you're not bad either. I heard you say a few days ago that not only have all the task targets for this year been completed, but an additional 30% has been exceeded. 30%! This is a considerable bonus. I guess the minister will give you at least 5 kilograms of extra meat this year, right?" They are all colleagues, and Old Chen usually has a good relationship with other colleagues, so he turned his head and joked.
The colleague called Lao Zhou immediately touched his smooth chin with a smile and spread his hands, saying, "It's all due to life's pressure. There's nothing we can do. We have seven mouths to feed in our family. If we don't work harder, we won't be able to make ends meet."
"Alright, alright, Mr. Zhou, if your family can't make ends meet, then we'll all be living next to a garbage can." The other colleagues craned their necks and jokingly said, "I think you two should stop flattering each other. If you keep this up, we'll all be turning against the rich."
The External Trade Department is undoubtedly one of the top five departments in terms of compensation throughout the Longquan Survival Base. It's a respectable, safe, and exceptionally well-paid department. It's truly a place where others struggle to get in.
Therefore, those who can come here to work either have a very strong background or have real skills. Lao Chen and Lao Zhou are the kind of people who have both a strong background and real skills. Otherwise, when Xia Runrun and his group first entered the survival base, the officer would not have led Xia Runrun and his group directly to Lao Chen's position.
You have to know that departments like the Foreign Trade Department are all about performance.
The staff of the Foreign Trade Department chatted and laughed, and quickly packed up and prepared to leave work.
“Tap tap tap…”
But at this moment, there were sudden noises coming from the ground, accompanied by muffled groans from the ground and screams from passers-by.
The sound came from far away with the breeze and instantly reached the ears of many staff members.
"What's going on?"
Someone stopped, craned their neck, and looked in the direction of the sound. "Could it be that the team that took the mission from Old Zhou has returned? But it's only been less than a week."
"But why doesn't it sound like that?" Another person craned his neck, looking surprised. "Didn't it only be five days since the group that received the high-level mission from Lao Zhou? How could they have completed it so quickly?"
"We couldn't complete the mission in five days before, but maybe we can this time?" The man grumbled at his colleague. "Recently, there have only been two groups of people in our External Trade Department taking high-level missions. The others are either mid-level or low-level... With all this commotion, it can't be that the people who completed the mid-level missions are returning, right?"
Although intermediate tasks require going out, generally speaking, the team that undertakes intermediate tasks will not have too many people, and will not cause such a big commotion. Otherwise, wouldn’t that be a waste of manpower?
"Hey! It seems we have to congratulate Lao Zhou today. The progress of this year's tasks is going to increase again." Lao Chen patted Lao Zhou's shoulder with some envy, feeling a little sad in his heart.
Tsk!
I don’t know if the guys who received the high-level tasks from him this morning can come back before the department’s year-end task settlement.
"Hehehe, no, no, it's just luck." Old Zhou smiled with curved eyebrows, and obviously he also felt that the person who came back this time must be here to hand over the high-level task in his hands.
“Tap tap tap…”
As the sound of footsteps approached, the mutant beast's tall figure loomed at the intersection. But as Lao Zhou watched, he felt something was amiss. Even Lao Chen felt something was amiss.
Lao Chen: This, this, this... why does this team look like the team that received the high-level mission from me this morning?
The mutant beast team just left this morning. Even if the staff members like Lao Chen had a poor memory, they could still remember the mutant wolfhound leading the team that was 5 meters tall. As Xia Runrun's team got closer and closer.
“This, this…”
Old Chen's eyes widened in disbelief. Didn't these guys just accept the mission this morning? Why were they back in the afternoon? This was a high-level mission! The kind that required a team of hundreds of people, and that wasn't guaranteed to be completed!
"Old Chen, it seems that it's you who should be congratulating today." Old Zhou said with a sour tone, and the smile that had originally stretched to the corners of his mouth gradually faded.
As Xia Ruanruan and her group approached, many staff members of the Foreign Trade Department also noticed something was clearly amiss.
The team that had previously taken on the high-level mission from Old Zhou had many mutant beasts under their command, but among those beasts were cats, dogs, even roosters, and white fragrant pigs. However, the team that took on the mission from Old Chen this morning was primarily composed of mutant dogs, with almost no other mutant beasts mixed in.
"Congratulations, Old Chen! Congratulations!"
#As long as I congratulate quickly enough, embarrassment won't be able to catch up with me#
The people in the Foreign Trade Department, who had already become veterans, immediately turned around and excitedly congratulated Lao Chen when they saw that it was Lao Chen who completed the high-level task.
"Congratulations!"
"Old Chen has a good eye this time! Congratulations." Everyone in the Foreign Trade Department smiled brightly, their faces full of wrinkles.
"Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice!"
After all, Old Chen was a seasoned man. He was so overwhelmed by the good news that he was dizzy. Before his brain could react, the corners of his mouth had already formed a big arc, and he smiled at his colleagues around him.
By the time Xia Runrun and his group arrived at the External Trade Department to submit their tasks, Lao Chen had already finished greeting the others around him, pushed open the door of the External Trade Department that had just been closed when he got off work, and happily led Xia Runrun and his group upstairs.
"Heroes! Great heroes! You're finally back! I knew you could complete this high-level mission!"
"Ga!" The large green-haired parrot sneezed disdainfully. Don't think it didn't hear the mutterings of the others around it. This greasy, middle-aged biped was a complete sycophant!
"Luck, luck..." Yang Fan said politely.
Xia Ruanruan blinked slowly, swung her short legs, and said with a smile, "Uncle Chen, in addition to the metals shipped here, some of the metals in the warehouse are piled up in that abandoned supermarket ten kilometers away. Do you want to take people there now to transport them back? And by the way, we can also count the specific quantity?"
The remaining metals in the supermarket were all transported by the White Wolf King and his group, but they were worried about being discovered by other people in the base, so they returned ten kilometers away from the base.
"No, no, we have complete faith in your abilities!" Old Chen forced a smile and waved his hands. "I'll go fill out the task completion form for you and give you the points."
"I just don't know... are you guys planning to take a rest tomorrow? Or are you planning to continue doing other high-level tasks? I think you must have been tired out today, how about taking a two-day break before doing other tasks?" The middle-aged man licked his face and rubbed his hands, saying, 'Everyone has worked hard, you should take a two-day break', but the expression on his face clearly urged everyone to complete the remaining two tasks tomorrow.
"Of course, we will continue to do other high-level tasks... We will return to our own shelter in two days." The little girl smiled and took the high-level task points settlement card handed to her by Lao Chen.
The white points settlement card looks a bit like the bank card used before the virus outbreak. The card is not only a square long strip, but also has a small yellow chip on it.
"This is a temporary points settlement card. Not only can you buy supplies from us when you return, but you can also use it to settle accounts in any store in the base city." Old Chen Jianxiaruanruan was a little curious and introduced it with a smile.
Although this team seemed a bit odd, as if everyone else was following the little girl's opinion, their strength should not be underestimated. Judging by the speed at which they completed high-level tasks, these people might be even more powerful than the carefully cultivated special forces in the base city.
"Speaking of which... I wonder if you all experienced any danger during this mission? I heard that the leader of that pack of mutant wolves is a giant white wolf, about five or six meters tall. It's extremely powerful. Whenever anyone or any other mutant animal dared to approach, the white wolf would attack. The survival base lost several small reconnaissance planes before."
The small reconnaissance aircraft in the survival base are the most practical remote-controlled drones. These drones use the latest technology improved by the base and are specifically used to explore the changed terrain and the distribution of mutant animals around the base, etc.
In the early stages of the virus outbreak, these drones even took on the responsibility of transporting supplies and searching for survivors.
"Speaking of which, everyone in our department admires you for being able to complete this high-level task in such a short time." Old Chen said with a smile to Xia Runrun's group.
He didn't seem to want to find out how Xia Runrun and the others had managed to complete the task in such a short time. Instead, his face was full of concern, like a family elder before the virus broke out.
The little girl blinked slowly, the corners of her mouth slightly raised. She stroked the wings of the large green parrot, tilted her head and smiled sweetly at Old Chen, saying, "Uncle Chen, our mission this time wasn't thrilling at all. Little Green had a few words with the big white wolf, and the big white wolf told us to bring back all these useless metals~"
Old Chen, who wanted to inquire about the news indirectly, said: "?"
Other staff members pricked up their ears to eavesdrop: "?"
"What do you mean...?" Old Chen was a little uncertain. He was so surprised that he changed the address from 'you' to 'you'. His eyes involuntarily looked at the green-feathered bird that had been touched by the little girl and was flattened like a pancake with its belly turned upside down.
Before the outbreak, parrots mimicking other animals was more than just an idiom. Both online platforms and television news outlets had featured anecdotes of parrots imitating other animals' sounds. Singing and talking were the most common examples, while videos of parrots mimicking the meows of cats and dogs also flooded video platforms.
But... the parrot talks to the wolf?
Old Chen was confused for a moment. Aren't parrots supposed to learn to talk because they have strong imitation skills? But no one has ever said that parrots can really understand human speech.
"Animals that can sense their owner's emotions from their owner's tone of voice are already very smart pets... How is it possible that a parrot can really understand what humans and other animals say?" Old Chen murmured subconsciously.
But this sentence was immediately caught by the big green-haired parrot. It lay on its stomach, with its ears erect and its neck tilted back. It screamed in dissatisfaction at Lao Chen in a sit-up posture, staring at Lao Da with its eyes.
"Hahaha! What's with that look in your eyes? Are you looking down on me, Parrot·Sayuri·Amazon·Parrot?"
Old Chen: “?!!!”
Other staff members: “?!!!”
It turns out that this parrot can not only speak, but also understand what they are saying?!
"Wow! So you're a pervert? You even collected cat hair and made a cat doll with it, and then you kept pricking the kitten with a needle!" The big green-haired parrot stabbed someone with a knife.
Having just been picked up from school by her fat cat, she happily passed by her father's workplace, carrying her small schoolbag. She found many uncles and aunts gathered at the entrance. After finally squeezing into the hall with her cat, she heard her father, the perverted cat-piercing Chen Xiaoxiao, say, "......?"
"Meow, meow~" (That's right, this Chen guy is a pervert. He likes to collect all my cat hair and make kittens when he's free. Making kittens is fine...but he actually uses those thick and long needles to prick the kittens non-stop...he's a complete pervert! If Xiaoxiao hadn't been raised by me, I would have run away from home 800 years ago, meow!)
The big blue cat with a dignified expression meowed in complaint.
Old Chen: “????”
Hey, hey, hey! I just made some felt cat dolls, so what?!
What are you all looking at? My daughter likes dolls, so what's wrong with me making a few?!
Why do you all look at me like a pervert?!
I'm really not a pervert!
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