Chapter 408: The Sixth Cleanup Bureau

"Although our Cleanup Bureau is an external department of the Police Affairs Ministry, it doesn't fully belong to the Kingdom's Police Affairs Ministry. It's a relatively independent and loose transnational organization, with branches in countries all over the world, accepting assignments and leadership from each nation, responsible for handling some special situations.

Apart from the headquarters whose exact location is unknown, our Cleanup Bureau has a total of 87 branches, each assigned an astronomical constellation as its code name. The one you're joining now is the Sixth Cleanup Bureau, which uses the Virgo constellation as its code name, also called the Virgo Cleanup Bureau."

After introducing the Cleanup Bureau's situation in a slow, unhurried manner, the red-haired woman, whose mischievous streak had been satisfied, curled her lips as she looked at the visibly relieved Hearing Li Ang, then raised her hand and pointed at the Hearing Heishanyang beside her:

"As for our job content, it's to deal with these troublemaking fellows, to prevent them from affecting ordinary people's lives.

Specifically including but not limited to, interdimensional demons attempting to harvest souls, mad evil gods wanting to descend their wills, radical deities preparing to Control the World, special anomalies born from human obsessions, ocean races wanting to counterattack the land, Shi Qian civilizations frozen in polar glaciers, undying ghosts that have escaped normal time sequences, ancient creatures living deep within the earth's crust, natives multiplying on the far side of the moon, and so on..."

"..."

Holy shit... Is this world really this complicated? I thought it was just a 19th century with a crooked tech tree, I didn't expect so many dangers hidden in the shadows?

"How did you actually believe that!"

Looking at Hearing Li Ang, whose eyes were full of shock and who had been completely taken in by her bluff, the red-haired woman seemed to see something amusing. She raised a hand to cover her slightly upturned, dewy lips, her supple waist bending forward slightly, and let out an irrepressible light laugh.

And as her voluptuous figure swayed gently, the woman's already slightly tipsy face quietly flushed with a charming rosy hue, like a cluster of bright and alluring oleander flowers quietly blooming in this dim corridor, faintly exuding a sweet, cloying fragrance with a hint of poison...

So she was bluffing, you scared me...

Looking at the red-haired woman before him, whose smile was utterly captivating, although he had just been tricked, for some reason, Hearing Li Ang's heart, which had been unbearably heavy due to his sister's old illness flaring up, had strangely become a little lighter, however...

Wait, what did I just ask? Did she give me an answer?

Amid the red-haired woman's radiant smile, a faint mist suddenly drifted through Hearing Li Ang's mind, and a piece of his originally clear memory eerily blurred, as if something had been silently erased.

After standing hesitantly for a while, unable to figure out the reason no matter how hard he racked his brains, he had to temporarily bypass this strange fog and open his mouth to ask the question he cared about most.

"Um, may I ask what the benefits are at our Cleanup Bureau..."

"The benefits are pretty good."

Staring into Hearing Li Ang's eyes for a moment, and catching that familiar wisp of confusion, the red-haired woman answered with a smile:

"As long as you pass the Observation Period, you'll be an assistant-level public servant of the Kingdom, but your salary will be paid at the clerk level. Your weekly salary should be around 12 gold wheels."

12 gold wheels? That much?!

Hearing the salary level of the Cleanup Bureau, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but shudder all over, instantly forgetting that little bit of doubt.

1 gold wheel = 10 silver wheels = 100 copper wheels. 12 gold wheels is 1200 copper wheels, 52 weeks a year means 62400 copper wheels!

According to the consumption level of the capital, a fairly lavish breakfast costs only two or three copper wheels. After becoming a full member, earning over sixty thousand copper wheels a year, he had stepped in one leap from the poor into the threshold of the middle class!

Enough said, from now on, the Cleanup Bureau is my damn second home!

"And besides the salary, you can also enjoy some other benefits."

Glancing at Hearing Li Ang, whose breathing was clearly a little rapid, the red-haired woman added with a smile:

"Normal clerk-level civil servants get two ten-day long vacations a year, plus weekends off on Saturdays and Sundays. Counting holidays, they can rest about one hundred and sixty days in total.

But our Cleanup Bureau's work is special and requires being on call at all times, so there are no such vacations. Plus, you're not a wanted criminal, you're someone who voluntarily joined a dangerous department, so you can also get quite a few extra special benefits.

Apart from receiving double the usual benefits like pensions and housing purchase discounts that other public servants get, you, your spouse, and all your direct relatives can enjoy free medical services, with a total reimbursement limit of two thousand gold wheels per year for everyone.

Also, when your children reach school age, they can freely choose any public school except the Royal Internal Academy, and can be promoted internally without exams; for external schooling, they can transfer schools freely; after they turn sixteen, the Cleanup Bureau can also issue a recommendation letter for you. Apart from the top three universities which still require certain grades, they should all be able to enroll without exams, even if you die in the line of duty beforehand, it remains valid..."

Die in the line of duty! I'll die in the line of duty right now!

Ah no! What I mean is, from now on, I'm damn well a Cleanup Bureau person while alive! A Cleanup Bureau dead person when dead! After cremation, I'm Cleanup Bureau ashes! Even if someone scatters me with a backhand, I'm still our Cleanup Bureau dust storm!

After secretly taking two deep breaths, Hearing Li Ang, whose sense of belonging to the Cleanup Bureau had exploded, raised his head, clenched his fists tightly, and asked with an expression as calm as possible:

"Then... may I ask when I can come to start work?"

"Now."

Returning to her large desk behind her, the red-haired woman fished around in a drawer for a moment, then tossed over a palm-sized booklet with a smile:

"Hold onto this, it's your credentials. First write your name on it, then pin the badge tucked inside, and you've completed the procedures."

That's it? That's all there is to it?

Hearing Li Ang, who had caught the booklet, opened his newly acquired credentials dubiously. After looking at the design of the badge inside, he couldn't help but say in surprise:

"This woman pushing a ball is..."

"It's the emblem of our Sixth Bureau."

The red-haired woman explained: "The Cleanup Bureau's symbol is a sacred scarab pushing a dung ball, meaning that just like the sacred scarab, the Cleanup Bureau will clean up things that cause pollution, and gain nutrients and strength from those things.

However, because there's a need to distinguish members of different branches, each branch's badge is different. For example, our Sixth Cleanup Bureau uses Virgo as its code name, so it's been changed to a woman pushing a dung ball."

"..."

A woman pushing a dung ball... Dung beetle lady? Who the hell designed this masterpiece?

Holding the bizarre badge in his hand, which was less creatively inspired than designed to creatively kill its wearer, Hearing Li Ang's facial skin couldn't help but twitch violently, feeling like he had ten thousand old complaints stuck in his chest that he needed to spit out.

For the sake of the Cleanup Bureau's generous benefits, after forcibly swallowing all those old complaints, Hearing Li Ang silently put on this dung beetle lady badge, took the quill pen handed to him by the red-haired woman, and wrote his name on the inner page of the booklet.

"Sizzle"

【You have successfully obtained a job and activated the Black Iron-grade badge "Probationary Employee"】

【Probationary Employee: A job seeker who has been hired by an enterprise or organization because they meet the basic requirements of the position, but is still in the Observation Period. They are the lowest-level member of an enterprise or national functional department. Since they have not been formally hired by the enterprise, they are sometimes also called a temporary worker】

【Equip Effect: When performing your duties, your work efficiency will receive a slight boost】

【Advancement Route: If you wear this badge continuously for more than two months and have not been fired, this badge will automatically advance to the Bronze badge "Working Stiff", and cannot be removed before the advancement is complete】

【Hidden Trait (No need to equip): When this badge has not yet advanced to Bronze grade, and the department it belongs to encounters serious problems, the probability of you taking the blame and being fired will greatly increase】

【Please note, this badge's trait conflicts with the already obtained badge "Unemployed Youth", and cannot be equipped simultaneously. The badge "Unemployed Youth" has been automatically removed】

(End of this chapter)