Chapter 1257

You... how did you even bring up a salary raise?

Finding the red-haired director's tempting offer somewhat baffling, Li Ang couldn't help but retort:

"Director, this isn't about whether to raise the salary or not; it's my situation—participating in such an assessment really isn't very suitable..."

"As long as you get first place, I'll give you a raise of six gold wheels!"

"It's not about how much of a raise."

Li Ang sighed helplessly:

"After the assessment ends, the results will definitely be reported to the headquarters, right? If Director Jinniu and the others see my name on the results, that would be too embarrassing..."

"A raise of twelve gold wheels!"

"I already said it's not about how much of a raise, and raising twelve gold wheels... uh... Zhou Xin, is that weekly or monthly?"

"Weekly!"

"..."

If it's weekly...

Thinking back to when Anna received the salary I brought back, her face unconsciously showing a smile, and that sense of relief radiating from within her, Li Ang's expression visibly wavered.

Although with my current "identity," simply asking Princess Veronica for money would mean I'd never lack funds, but every time I see her I get teased, plus asking this much feels a bit like sponging off others, so a salary raise is still quite tempting.

Mainly because I and Anna have lived in poverty for so long, only just becoming "affluent" a few months ago, I haven't fully adjusted to this life yet; even knowing I won't lack money in the future, I habitually save and refuse to spend, even pinching William and Melani's finances tightly.

The problem is, they attend what's considered a "noble" elementary school, where classmates are either rich or noble, all with excellent conditions; although the two little demon kings don't care about this, seeing them... scrimping and saving, my older brother heart feels somewhat guilty.

And my original weekly salary was twelve gold wheels; after this raise, it'll be twenty-four gold wheels per week, so Anna should feel more at ease, maybe even able to give those two little rascals a bit more pocket money...

This move paid off!

Faced with the generous condition of a weekly salary raise of twelve gold wheels, and the happy smiles of my younger siblings at home, Li Ang, Prince of the Angry Lion, who had just completed a coup over a week ago, destroying the entire Korok Kingdom and plundering 1.3 million citizens, finally chose to yield.

"If it's a raise of twelve gold wheels, then going for a run isn't out of the question..."

After cursing himself for being useless, Li Ang nodded in agreement to the red-haired director's offer, then proactively asked:

"Director, when does this assessment start? What's the general content?"

Seeing Li Ang before her, whose initiative had greatly increased and who even proactively asked for information, the red-haired director, whose temptation had succeeded, smirked inwardly before replying:

"The assessment will be held these days, at the latest not exceeding one week; the specific content hasn't been decided yet, but even if it were, I wouldn't tell you, after all, besides you, our branch has others participating this time—telling you would be helping them cheat."

Others?

After hearing the red-haired director's words, Li Ang curiously followed up:

"Who? Is Senior Jerei preparing to take the level-one exam again?"

"Not Jerei, it's Amien."

The red-haired director shook his head:

"Although Jerei also really wants to go, before registering with me, he asked Tang Mu to roll the dice, and found he had a full 66% chance of encountering very unsuitable exam questions.

As you know, Tang Mu's dice, under normal circumstances, can 'show' a maximum probability of 66%; in reality, the probability only gets higher. Jerei felt his chances of passing the assessment were slim, so he simply decided not to go."

"..." What a buddy, even bringing pre-exam divination, choosing between doing the test and cheating is...

Hearing this, Li Ang's mouth twitched involuntarily, and he couldn't help but ask further:

"What about me? Director, you definitely planned for me to participate in the assessment—did Senior Tang Mu roll the dice for me?"

"He probably did?"

Upon hearing this, the red-haired director hesitated for a moment, then said somewhat uncertainly:

"He didn't directly throw them, but instead cupped the dice in both hands, muttering a few words, then told me that your chance of encountering good questions is 99%; if even you fail this assessment, then no one could possibly complete it."

Hmm... that's actually not bad...

After nodding reassuringly, Li Ang continued to ask:

"What about Senior Amien? What happened when she rolled the dice? Is she guaranteed to pass?"

"Amien didn't have the dice rolled; her goal isn't even to pass the assessment."

The red-haired director sighed, rather helplessly:

"She applied to participate in this assessment not to be promoted to a level-one purifier, but because she recently developed several new medicines and wants to test their efficacy; and for her, there's no better experimental sample than these four hundred purifiers taking the assessment."

"..."

Going to take the assessment just to test medicine? This... feels like our Virgin Branch's reputation is so bad, we can't entirely blame others for spreading rumors...

"Don't worry, Amien acts with discretion."

The red-haired director comforted:

"Her abnormal object ability is extremely precious—it lets those who take the medicine instantly rid themselves of negative states, quickly recover from old injuries, and even greatly heal the spirit, purifying the distorted minds of purifiers tainted by abnormal objects.

In short, for most purifiers who have various old injuries and very unstable mental states, aside from the inevitable diarrhea, taking her medicine could actually be considered a good thing."

Meaning... originally savage and arrogant battle maniacs, after touching her medicine, would start smiling peacefully while publicly having diarrhea? Although the old injuries are healed, the person might as well be socially dead!

"..." (sound of hesitation)

After nodding with some toothache, Li Ang asked his final question with a dark face:

"Who are the targets I need to slap in the face? I'll assess the situation; if the opponent really isn't a good person, then I'll introduce Senior Amien to them."

"Mmm... you're so bad~ I like it~"

After appreciatively glancing at Li Ang, the red-haired director nodded with a smile:

"Not bad not bad~ Amien will definitely be happy upon hearing this.

As for the specific slap-in-the-face targets, you should prioritize finding people marked with the Scorpio Branch insignia; those who defected from here to there are the most, followed by Libra and Aries Branch members—there are quite a few, so clean up whoever you can.

However, just those who defected and left—you don't need to target them too much; but those who defected, then turned back to kick someone, colluding with others to spread rumors and slander our Virgin Branch's white-eyed wolves... feed them all to Amien!

Recently, big and small matters have piled up, so I can't drink alcohol; the salaries distributed by the branch have all been saved—you feed Amien one white-eyed wolf, and I'll give you a 5 gold wheel subsidy!"

"..."

(End of chapter)