Chapter 469

"..."

You choose a fart! So I've been persuading a dog for so long?

Looking at the Red-haired woman, whose eyebrows were slowly rising and who had subconsciously started glaring at him, Li Ang hurriedly said:

"Director, don't be in a hurry. I definitely have a reason for choosing this way."

You'd better have one!

Unable to help but glare at Li Ang again, the Red-haired woman said irritably:

"Speak! If it's unreasonable, then choose according to what I said, and today will count as you being absent from work!"

"Uh..."

Looking at the director, who was clearly a bit angry and had already started retaliating, Li Ang didn't speak immediately, but after organizing his language, he asked:

"Can I ask first, if I choose the first one, about how long will it take to reach the level you mentioned?"

"That's hard to say."

The Red-haired woman frowned: "The more and stronger anomalous objects a person possesses, the greater the influence on themselves, and the faster the speed of transforming into 'non-human.' Every cleanup agent's situation in this regard is different."

"Then let me change the way I ask."

Li Ang thought for a moment, then lifted the broom in his hand and said:

"If I don't consider the practical situation and only consider the influence and transformation speed, about how many anomalous objects of this level do I need to obtain to reach that level?"

Measuring with the Witch's Broom, huh...

After listening to Li Ang's words, the Red-haired woman subconsciously pondered this question she had never thought of before.

Although flight ability is extremely precious and very useful for both saving one's life and reconnaissance, the strength of the Witch's Broom itself is actually not particularly high.

And although that toad's power was severely lost, it was a Holy Spirit impregnated with divinity, and it even initially mastered concepts and rules with the help of belief. Calculating this way...

"About...? If you want to exert the limit level, it might be close to ninety."

After stating the number of anomalous objects needed, the Red-haired woman seemed to feel it was a bit too much herself, and added with a frown:

"But you can't just calculate with the Witch's Broom. Its advantage is that it is stable, controllable, and has low consumption, and it can provide flight ability. Transformation speed is not its strength. Most anomalous objects have a much faster transformation speed than it, basically more than double."

"Mm-hmm, I know."

Almost double? I remember the contamination value of the Witch's Broom seems to be exactly 0.5?

After listening to the Red-haired woman, Li Ang quickly estimated the strength of the new anomalous object in his heart, then tentatively said:

"Then let's assume a non-existent value to describe the transformation speed of anomalous objects and the power needed to exert the ability to the limit, then set the value of 'most' anomalous objects at 1, and the value of the Witch's Broom at 0.5.

According to what you just said, if I need to obtain ninety Witch's Brooms to exert the effect to the upper limit, then the limit strength of the first choice is about 45. Can I calculate it this way?"

Huh?

Upon hearing the measurement method proposed by Li Ang, the Red-haired woman couldn't help but glance at him in surprise.

Because the effects of anomalous objects are varied and are also influenced by the user's own strength, the strength basically cannot be quantified, leading to the inability to give a suitable standard, and one can only rely on the feeling after use to estimate the approximate strength.

But if one gives up calculating the effect of use and only calculates the transformation speed to the user and the level needed to exert the upper limit of strength... it seems it might barely work?

... "Calculating this way should be fine."

After pondering along this line of thought and not finding any obvious loopholes, the Red-haired woman couldn't help but smile and said to Li Ang with praise in her eyes:

"This calculation method of yours is very valuable. Remember to organize it and hand it to me. I'll help you report it. If it's finally adopted by the bureau, you might be promoted directly, and in the worst case, you can at least get a large bonus."

"Ah? Okay! Then I'll go..."

"Stop!"

Seeing that Li Ang actually wanted to take the opportunity to slip away, the Red-haired woman, who had just shown a smile, sank her face, hooked her finger slightly toward his back, and controlled the hair on Li Ang's neck to drag him back.

"A reward is a reward, but you haven't finished explaining your blind choice yet! These two things are separate matters!"

"..."

"What are you looking at?"

After glaring at Li Ang, the Red-haired woman said unhappily:

"Using your method to calculate, the Li Ang value of the first one is forty-five, the Li Ang value of the second one can also be forty-three or forty-four, and the third one is the weakest, probably topping out at forty-one or forty-two! It's even more annoying that you don't choose the high one but choose the low one, okay? Hurry up and tell me your reasons!"

Shouldn't this be called contamination value? Li Ang value sounds too awkward...

Looking at the director, whose emotional conversion speed was astonishingly fast and who had started glaring at him again after smiling for only two seconds, Li Ang had to explain helplessly:

"I just feel that although the first choice has the highest upper limit, it is really too 'late-game.' According to Senior Auntie Ai Ma, the bureau only harvests one anomalous object on average every three missions, and each mission time varies from one to three months.

So if I want to gather 45 points... Li Ang value, if my luck is relatively bad, twenty or thirty years is hard to say, and I have to pray that I can pass these twenty or thirty years safely and never encounter a sudden event like that toad... Do you think this is possible?"

"..."

"Also, the premise of being able to buy things is that others are willing, so even if I can survive these twenty or thirty years and have gone on nearly two hundred missions without dying, many things simply cannot be bought at all.

Even if I can buy weapons or hire an army from the Kingdom's military through the Cleanup Bureau, let alone encountering something like a Holy Spirit, as long as I encounter another Red Brick Road Hospital, no matter how many troops go, they are all just sending food.

Even if I can set up twenty cannons in the Wang Gong and blow up the whole building directly, if I do that, how are you going to explain it to the Kingdom?"

"..."

"Besides, given the relationship between the Cleanup Bureau and the Kingdom, when you really need artillery support, can't you call people over? Do I need to spend money to buy it?"

"..."

"And besides direct strength, the first choice has some other problems."

After glancing at the Red-haired woman, who had fallen into deep thought, Li Ang reminded her:

"Do you have any knowledge of economics? A large amount of 'excessive issuance' of such unplanned currency will inevitably cause devaluation. Will it affect the lives of ordinary people?"

And if a powerful person occupies the authority, it's fine if the Golden Scale Sect can't take it back, but if a newcomer like me occupies the authority, will that True God of the Golden Scale Sect not target me?

In addition, after the number of trades increases and the ability is leaked and targeted, do I have the strength to protect myself? Do I need to pay to hire Senior Auntie Ai Ma to protect me twenty-four hours a day?

Also..."

"Alright, alright, I know! I'll count it as you having a point!"

The Red-haired woman, whose head was aching from listening, waved her hands repeatedly, rubbing her temples and muttering with a headache:

"At the end of the day, you're just too weak! If you were a branch director, how could there be so many things?"

(End of chapter)