Chapter 71 Performance Review Meeting
Zhou Tianqi and I were both beaten up.
Now we are lying on the bed together without looking at each other.
For Zhou Tianqi, a second-year player, getting beaten is shameful as an adult.
For me, a fake child who is actually an adult at heart, getting beaten is also very humiliating.
Although Uncle San obviously showed some mercy when he beat me.
——It’s obvious to the naked eye that Zhou Tianqi’s butt is more swollen than mine.
I started looking at the reward for the previous task.
"Protective gloves": can be customized into any shape, and will not be damaged when worn on the hands. It is a must-have item for home travel, murder and robbery.
...Wait a minute, murder and robbery? ?
[…Ah, because this thing won't leave fingerprints or show any skin tissue, it's a very popular item in a certain world. It costs 100,000 points in the points mall.]
Very good, our company sounds less and less like a serious company.
And these gloves are actually so expensive...? !
[The host can try using it now. It can simulate the shape of the host's hand, and there is no difference from real skin! ]
Then I equipped it, and sure enough, it was completely invisible.
After that, I can finally light a fire without getting burned.
Then I tried to analyze the Sun Gem that Zhou Tianqi gave me.
"Sun worship": The core of a certain existence has the power of the sun. Wearing it can possess the power of the sun to a certain extent, but it may backfire on the things inside.
…
"Brother, what's the use of this?" I asked Zhou Tianqi who was sulking next to me while holding the sun gem.
"Wear it as an ornament," he said without looking up, "and your anger will only grow stronger."
Got it, he used it in his previous life.
But he probably doesn't know what kind of backlash there is - maybe his suicide in his previous life was related to this.
After all, the essence of "hanging upside down" is living sacrifice.
Or the sun and moon worship, which has the concept of "God" in it, who knows what kind of subtle influence it will mutate into over the years.
So, is there any way to solve the problem?
[Ding ding ding—the tenth item on the fifteenth page of the Points Mall~]
I opened the points mall, fifteen pages, ten...
50w points.
Special Eliminator:
Produced by SH World, now banned from circulation.
It can eliminate everything you want to eliminate, including things, states, emotions, and memories...
Even if it is given by God. 】
Hiss—this is too expensive.
I use one, Zhou Tianqi uses one, and that’s 1 million points.
I only have 1.53 million points now! I spent a lot of time and effort to accumulate them in my previous world.
[There's nothing I can do, host. After all, this thing can theoretically eliminate anything, and the main system doesn't have much in stock!]
Grit your teeth and exchange.
Two discs the size of fingernails appeared in my hands.
"Brother, look at the moon--" I shook him, and he weakly threw the blue moon gem to me.
"Don't put them together, otherwise it will be troublesome to separate them." He also reminded me, but didn't look at me.
Good, good, it seems that the beating was quite a blow to him.
I nodded, then took it and stuck the small disc on it while looking at it, and an option appeared in front of me in an instant.
Please select what you want to eliminate:
color
shape
itself
…
Lunar debris (pollution)
……】
Um?
Taiyin...pollution?
I stuck another piece on the sun gem, and sure enough, there was a sun fragment (pollution) inside.
It seems that these are the two things.
I clicked the "OK" button with a painful feeling.
A strange wave flashed from the two gems.
Zhou Tianqi flashed and stood in front of me, and then the wave disappeared.
"Hiss--" Zhou Tianqi sucked in a breath of cold air. He had moved too much just now and sat down on the edge of the bed.
"What happened just now?" he asked through gritted teeth.
"...I don't know, but these two stones look brighter." I handed him the cleaned moonstone, and the system identified it again. There was no description of backlash anymore.
The 1 million yuan was well spent.
"It seems so... Ah Ying is indeed my lucky star." He took it and looked at it, then looked at me with a look of satisfaction, "A Ying's look made it purer."
No, this is just bragging.
"...Okay, lie down quickly. Doesn't your butt hurt anymore?!"
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Then came the day to set off for the headquarters.
The headquarters is in City A, which is about 4 hours away from here by high-speed rail. Zhou Chengjin and Zhou Chengyu took us there.
Probably because it was a weekday, I was surrounded by people who were doing business for the company.
It's been a long time since I felt this kind of office worker atmosphere.
I miss it a little.
[Host, how can being a workaholic in the Administration, completing missions everywhere, not be considered a social animal? And a social animal career that started when I was 10 years old~]
...Shut up!
"What's wrong?" Zhou Tianqi sat next to me and handed me my favorite meat jerky from the snacks.
"No, I was just wondering why we have to start working when we are only ten years old." I tore open the meat jerky and took a tragic bite. "It's a bit tragic."
Zhou Tianqi: “…”
He sighed, "The money for the Daoxuanguan mission came in yesterday, but I haven't transferred it to you yet. We'll split it in half, so it's about this amount."
He turned on his phone and entered a number.
I gasped.
"Brother, are you so rich?"
"...Humph, is it still miserable?"
I shook my head. This young lady truly lives up to the title.
"Then why do we still take the high-speed rail?" I looked at him, then at my third and fourth uncles across the aisle.
"Uncle San said this is a business trip and can be reimbursed by the General Administration." He said calmly.
Okay, the social animal taste is coming out again.
Four hours was neither long nor short. When we arrived, it was just dinner time. The administration sent a car to pick us up. The driver was a young man who didn't look very old. Zhou Chengjin waved to him and saw him running towards us.
"Hello, Director Zhou, this is your niece, right?" The cheerful young man handed me a lollipop as soon as he saw me. Then Zhou Tianqi snatched it away. "Tianqi, I'm giving this candy to your sister. Why are you taking it?"
Then he took out another one and said, "Hello, my name is Xu Jiaxin, and I am half a disciple of Zhou Chu." He said with a smile.
Just as I was about to take it, Zhou Tianqi snatched it away again.
I looked at him and he took out a lollipop from his bag and handed it to me as if nothing had happened.
——Tell me who you are competing with!
Look, they are all speechless.
"...Jiaxin, this brat of mine is just like this, please bear with him." Zhou Chengyu glared at Zhou Tianqi and covered his face.
Xu Jiaxin shook his head and said, "After all, this is not the first day I have known Tianqi." His expression did not change, and he still had that smiling look.
Very good, it seems that the protagonist has already harmed him.
Then we got in the car and enjoyed the feeling of rushing around on the inner ring road of City A.
This squinting eye is not simple——
He can drive at high speeds in the city!
"...Jia Xin, who asked you to pick us up?" Zhou Chengjin asked with a pale face, "Old Four and I are not young men like you."
"Hey, Director Zhou, I just got my driver's license, so I'm a little excited. I tried a little harder to get everyone to the bureau quickly."
Then he glanced at Zhou Tianqi and me through the rearview mirror, smiling without showing any emotion.
There is reason to suspect that he did it on purpose.
Unfortunately, Zhou Tianqi was fine.
Yes, for someone who can spin, jump and skate in the air, this is nothing.
"He lost to me last year." After we got out of the car, Zhou Tianqi took my hand and whispered to me, "Don't pay attention to him."
I nodded, not intending to remind him that the volume was so high that the people in front of him could definitely hear it.
It doesn’t matter. Zhou Tianqi’s reputation is long gone anyway.
"There should be a bunch of annoying people coming back soon, Aying, you have to be careful."
I don't know why, but I could sense Zhou Tianqi becoming particularly nervous towards me the moment he got out of the car. Then I thought about my earlier speculation about what had happened during the performance review meeting in Act 1...
So I leaned over to his ear and asked, "Brother, are you so nervous? Did you have a dream...?"
He was stunned and looked at me with a strange expression, "...I did dream about it, but it wasn't a big deal."
"I'm not nervous."
He touched his nose as if trying to hide something.
It seemed to have nothing to do with what happened. Suddenly, a thought occurred to me, "Could there be someone I particularly like there?"
He stopped talking.
Then his expression became tangled, and he started to pull my face with his hands, "I am your favorite brother, do you hear me?"
I understand.
You will probably meet an imaginary enemy of Zhou Tianqi in a while.
Or maybe he thinks I'd like him particularly.
Then when I got to the hotel, I saw a sparkling boy who was... hard to describe.
Literally sparkling.
He had neatly combed blond hair, a dark gold suit, and gold-rimmed glasses. He had a handsome face and seemed to be of mixed race. Many women around him blushed when they looked at him.
I seemed to see rose petals flying behind him. I wonder if his shampoo has glitter in it, as it looked pikapika in the sunlight.
Isn’t there a bit too much gold?!
"Ah...what you just said was..." I looked at Zhou Tianqi uncertainly.
He had a sour face.
"Beautiful lady, I'm Richard Jian, my Chinese name is Jian Xuyang, and I'm the youngest son of the Jian family in City A. You must be Yingying from the Zhou family, right?"
In just a moment of distraction, the boy was already standing in front of me and introducing himself.
…
So, putting my true gender aside, why on earth would Zhou Tianqi think I would like this kind of frivolous guy... Is it because he likes him?!
"Stay away from my sister." Zhou Tianqi stood in front of us.
"Tianqi, you can't be so critical of me just because my father proposed a marriage alliance with your family last year." Jian Xuyang said to Zhou Tianqi bluntly, "Besides, Miss Yingying didn't reject me either."
…
Holy shit, I almost got arranged into marriage?!
I can imagine how embarrassed my third and fourth uncles were at that time.
Who can say that their baby girl is actually a boy?
"No, Mr. Jian, I will listen to my brother. I am my brother's girl." I firmly held Zhou Tianqi's arm. Zhou Tianqi is just a sister-con, and I won't lose anything.
If this really causes other people to have bad associations, I will never wear women's clothes again and this will become my black history!
"What..." Jian Xuyang was struck by lightning. It was probably the first time he was rejected by a "woman". He froze in place, as if petrified.
The roses behind me are no longer floating.
Zhou Tianqi sneered, "Did you hear that? My sister said to listen to me. Jian Xuyang, you should go find your group of little fans."
It can be seen that Zhou Tianqi is very happy now.
The headquarters is in a large alley. Now most of the people from various branches have arrived, and their accommodation and meals have been arranged in the hotel next door. Now everyone is waiting to eat, and basically every table is occupied by acquaintances.
My third and fourth uncles sat at the main table in the front, and Zhou Tianqi and I were placed at the children's table - which wasn't really a children's table, as from my observation, they were probably all gifted children.
Zhou Tianqi, me, Jian Xuyang, Xu Jiaxin, and four other people I don’t know, but they look no older than fifteen.
Xu Jiaxin became the biggest one at the table.
After Jian Xuyang sat down, he was still doubting his life, so Xu Jiaxin became the person to introduce him.
"This is Ning Ruoyu and Ning Ruolan, they are sisters from the Ning family in Xiangcheng. This is Wang Ziqin from the Wang family in Lingnan, and Meng Dehui from the Meng family in Gangcheng."
"This is Zhou Tianying from the Zhou family, Tianqi's twin sister."
That’s the introduction.
I understand. This table is full of children from aristocratic families. Zhou Tianqi snorted coldly, "They are all defeated by me."
"...Zhou Tianqi, just wait for me this year." Ning Ruolan spoke first. She looked about the same age as us. If Ning Ruoyu hadn't been holding her back, she would probably have jumped up and pointed at Zhou Tianqi and cursed him.
But Zhou Tianqi deserved it.
Zhou Tianqi is quite handsome and strong, but it’s a pity that he has a mouth.
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