Chapter 43: Employment

Time continued to pass, and in the blink of an eye, another six years had gone by.

This day, Lu Qingshan was cultivating in the control room of the spaceship when the voice of the auxiliary intelligence Deep Blue suddenly rang in his mind.

"Master, the spaceship is about to arrive at the company headquarters!"

"Finally going to work?"

Lu Qingshan slowly opened his eyes, then couldn't help but sigh: "Time really flies! For the next hundred thousand years, I'll have to work continuously!"

Fortunately, his upcoming work was relatively easy; he could cultivate seriously during the spaceship's journey through the universe, so it wouldn't be a waste of time.

Just as Lu Qingshan was sighing, Crimson No. 3 quickly shuttled back into the Primordial Universe.

In a dreamlike starry sky, the vast, boundless continent of the Virtual Universe Company headquarters floated suspended in the void.

At this time, the 'Crimson No. 3' that Lu Qingshan was riding was a spaceship registered under the Virtual Universe Company's Transport Department, so after approaching the headquarters continent, it did not receive a spaceship traction signal like it had during his first visit.

Thus, Lu Qingshan quickly passed through one of the entrances aboard Crimson No. 3, then parked the spaceship on the Transport Department's exclusive landing pad.

Whoosh!

The cabin door opened, and Lu Qingshan, clad in a suit of dark golden battle armor, flew out from inside the spaceship.

At that moment, a Domain Master-level Transport Department staff member was already waiting outside: "My lord Lu Qingshan, please follow me!"

Lu Qingshan nodded slightly, then followed the other person onto a dreamlike corridor, quickly arriving outside a spacious hall.

Lu Qingshan entered the hall and found more than ten figures already present; they were the other Immortals who had joined the Virtual Universe Company's Transport Department alongside him back then.

"Hahaha!"

Seeing Lu Qingshan appear, the Werewolf clan powerhouse Kreimo, who had arrived early, quickly smiled and came forward: "Brother Qingshan, you've finally arrived; I've been waiting for you here for over ten days!"

"Kreimo!"

Lu Qingshan looked at this friend he had known before entering the Initial Universe and nodded with a smile in greeting: "I'm not late; you arrived too early!"

"Our Noah Universe Kingdom is a bit farther from here; I was afraid of being late, so I set off a few days early!"

Kreimo said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the Class F spaceships the company issued to us are truly very useful; the time I spent rushing here this time was more than half of what it took last time, and the energy crystals consumed didn't increase much!"

"Same here!" Lu Qingshan said with a smile.

"Did you hear?" After a few moments of casual chat, Kreimo's voice suddenly dropped a few tones.

"Hear what?" Lu Qingshan asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Of course, Tori, who joined the Transport Department with us back then!" Kreimo said in a low voice.

"What happened to him?" Lu Qingshan asked calmly.

Back then, a total of seventeen Immortals joined the Virtual Universe Company's Transport Department alongside Lu Qingshan, and Tori was one of them.

However, in the last thousand years, Lu Qingshan had been quietly cultivating in seclusion, and aside from that, chatting with other members in the chat group, so he had hardly paid any attention to Tori and the others.

"He has perished!" Kreimo's voice grew low.

"How is that possible?" Lu Qingshan was startled in his heart, then couldn't help but ask: "Did he encounter an attack by alien clan powerhouses deep within our human territory?"

You see, as core members of the Virtual Universe Company, the powerhouses within human territory would give them some respect, unless it was an alien clan powerhouse who would directly strike at them!

But now, they hadn't even started working, and one had already perished?

"That's not the case!"

Kreimo shook his head and said: "I heard Tori apparently felt that the holidays in our Transport Department were simply too short, and the rewards were very few, so he directly applied to go to the Outer Battlefield!"

"However, I heard Tori only stayed on the Outer Battlefield for over three hundred years, didn't even complete the most basic military merit quota, and perished in the hands of a powerhouse squad from the Meng Yao Zu camp!"

After hearing Kreimo's words, Lu Qingshan suddenly understood.

As core members of the Virtual Universe Company, they were generally required to obey the company's arrangements, with only one exception: going to the Outer Battlefield!

The 'going to the Outer Battlefield' mentioned here does not mean going as staff, but rather entering the battlefield to fight and kill alien clan powerhouses!

Only in this way could they violate company regulations to a certain extent, needing only to complete a certain military merit quota within a set time.

Tori must have thought exactly that; unfortunately, he vastly underestimated the dangers on the Outer Battlefield and ultimately perished there.

Three days later, all the Immortals who had joined the Transport Department had appeared in this hall; then a burly giant wearing ancient, simple green battle armor came before Lu Qingshan and the others.

He had thick green hair on his face and a thick tail behind him, obviously a supreme powerhouse of the Ape clan.

"Everyone, welcome to join my Virtual Universe Company Transport Department!"

This green-armored, burly giant's gaze swept over Lu Qingshan and the others, then he said in a deep voice: "I, Lord Lord Qingcang Hou, henceforth you people shall serve under my command!"

"Greetings, Lord Lord Qingcang Hou!" Lu Qingshan and the others immediately bowed respectfully.

"Hahaha..."

Lord Lord Qingcang Hou laughed heartily, then said: "I have just activated the relevant permissions for you within our Transport Department; shortly, you will be able to directly view the tasks assigned to you within the Virtual Universe!"

"What I need to remind you of here is that in our Transport Department, the most important thing is to absolutely have no greed!"

"You must know that the supplies requiring transport by you Immortals are often extremely precious; they are wealth you could never accumulate over endless ages!"

"But I need to remind you that although those supplies are entrusted to you for transport, they do not belong to you!"

"Long ages ago, an Immortal once fled while transporting a batch of important supplies, carrying the goods with him; he was very clever, even fleeing directly to alien territory! But in the end, he was still found by powerhouses within our Virtual Universe Company, completely killed, and even his entire clan was reduced to slavery!"

"Therefore, I hope you will take this as a warning!"

Lord Lord Qingcang Hou said seriously: "No matter when or where, no matter the situation, you must absolutely never betray the company or betray your clan!"

"We understand!" Lu Qingshan and the others nodded and said.

"Of course, as long as you work hard, the company will also grant sufficient rewards!"

Lord Lord Qingcang Hou continued: "Over a million years ago, our Transport Department Immortal, Ke Lin, while escorting geniuses of the Primordial Secret Realm, even when surrounded and attacked by alien spies, remained calm in the face of danger, even directly burning his Immortal body to block the alien assassins!"

"In the end, that member of the Primordial Secret Realm, under Ke Lin's protection, waited for reinforcements to arrive, and Ke Lin received the company's commendation; not only did they use a vast amount of precious treasures to help him quickly restore his body, but they also directly rewarded him with one hundred thousand years of Initial Universe contemplation time!"

Hearing this, Kreimo and the others were all greatly tempted.

You must know that the Initial Universe contemplation quota for the Immortal realm is far more precious than the Domain Master-level contemplation quota.

Back then, Lu Qingshan and the others, who were merely at the Domain Master realm, spent over thirty thousand Hunyuan units just to contemplate for three hundred years in the Initial Universe.

And the quota to comprehend at the Immortal stage—even as core members of the Virtual Universe Company—required a full fifty thousand points every hundred years!

In other words, Lu Qingshan and the others would have to work hard for a million years and still not accumulate enough points to comprehend for a hundred years within Chaos City!

And that Immortal deity named Ke Lin—merely by fighting desperately against an alien spy—gained a hundred thousand years of comprehension time in a single go!

Thinking of this, Ke Li Mo and the others even wished the one who had been assassinated by the aliens were themselves!

Next, Marquis Lord Lord Qingcang gave Lu Qingshan and the others a round of admonitions and reminders, and only then let everyone disperse.

Next chapter will be a bit late

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(End of chapter)