Chapter 990

You... how did this end up involving a raise?

Feeling somewhat speechless at the bait offered by the red-haired director, Li Ang couldn't help but retort:

"Director, this isn't a matter of a raise or not; it's just that in my situation, it's really not very appropriate to go participate in this kind of assessment..."

"As long as you take first place, I'll give you a raise of 6 Gold Wheels!"

"It's not about how much the raise is either."

Li Ang said helplessly:

"After the assessment ends, the results will definitely be reported to the General Bureau, right? If the Golden Bull directors and the others see my name in the results, that would be too awkward..."

"A raise of 12 Gold Wheels!"

"I already said it has nothing to do with how much the raise is, and if it's a raise of 12 Gold Wheels... um... is that weekly or monthly?"

"Weekly!"

"..."

If it's a weekly salary...

Thinking of the smile that would unconsciously appear on Anna's face when she received the salary he brought home, as well as that sense of peace that radiated from her inside and out, Li Ang's expression couldn't help but visibly waver.

Although with his current "identity," as long as he went to ask Princess Veronika, he wouldn't lack money, but every time he went to see her, he would be teased, and doing that somewhat felt like living off a woman, so the raise was still quite tempting.

Mainly because he and Anna had lived poor lives for too long, and they had only been "wealthy" for three months; they hadn't fully gotten used to their current life yet. Even knowing they wouldn't lack money in the future, they habitually saved it and were unwilling to spend it, and even William and Melanie were kept on a tight budget.

The problem was that they were attending a "noble" elementary school, where their classmates' families were either rich or powerful, and their conditions were all very good. Although the two little demons didn't care about this, looking at their thrifty... calculating appearance, as their big brother, he still felt somewhat guilty.

And his original weekly salary was 12 Gold Wheels; after this raise, he would have 24 Gold Wheels coming in every week. In that case, Anna would surely be more at ease, and maybe he could leak a bit more pocket money to the two little rascals...

This job is on!

Facing the generous condition of a 12 Gold Wheel weekly raise and the happy smiles of his younger brother and sister, Prince Li Ang, who had just completed a coup, destroyed the entire Kroke Kingdom, and captured 1.3 million citizens a week ago, finally chose to yield.

"If it's a raise of 12 Gold Wheels, then it's not impossible for me to go run this errand..."

After cursing himself for having no backbone, Li Ang nodded and agreed to the conditions set by the red-haired director, then took the initiative to ask:

"Director, when does this assessment start? What is the specific content of the assessment?"

Looking at Li Ang, whose initiative had greatly increased and who was even asking for intelligence, the red-haired director, having succeeded with her bait, immediately gave a mischievous smile in her heart before answering:

"The assessment will be held in these few days, at the latest within a week. The specific content hasn't been decided yet, but even if it were, they wouldn't tell me. After all, besides you, there are others from our branch participating this time; telling me would be equivalent to helping them cheat."

There are others?

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

"Who? Is Senior Jerry preparing to take the Level 1 test again?"

"It's not Jerry, it's Amien."

The red-haired director shook her head and said:

"Although Jerry really wanted to go, before he signed up with me, he asked Tang Mu to help him roll the dice, and it turned out he had a full 66% probability of encountering exam questions he was very bad at.

You know, under normal circumstances, the highest probability Tang Mu's dice can 'display' is 66%; in reality, the probability is only higher. Jerry felt the possibility of passing the assessment wasn't high, so he just didn't go."

"..."

Good heavens, they even do fortune-telling before the exam; choosing to use magic instead of studying and cheating...

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

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

"He should have rolled them, right?"

The red-haired director hesitated upon hearing this, then said somewhat uncertainly:

"He didn't throw them directly, but wrapped his hands around the dice, muttered a few words, and then told me that your probability of encountering good questions is 99%. If even you can't complete the assessment this time, then no one will be able to complete it."

Hmm... that's not bad then...

After nodding with relief, Li Ang continued to ask:

"What about Senior Amien? What was the situation after she rolled? Is she guaranteed to pass?"

"Amien didn't roll; her goal wasn't to pass the assessment in the first place."

The red-haired director sighed and said quite helplessly:

"She applied to participate in this assessment not to be promoted to a Level 1 cleanup agent, but because she recently developed a few new medicines and wanted to test their efficacy. And for her, there are no better experimental samples than these four hundred cleanup agents participating in the assessment."

"..."

Participating in the assessment just to test medicine? This... it feels like our Virgo branch having such a bad reputation isn't entirely the fault of others spreading rumors...

"Don't worry, Amien has a sense of proportion."

The red-haired director comforted him:

"Her anomalous object ability is very precious; it can allow the person taking the medicine to immediately get rid of negative states, quickly recover from old injuries, and even heal the mind to a great extent, calming the state of mind of cleanup agents twisted by the contamination of anomalous objects.

In short, for most cleanup agents who have various old injuries and very unstable mental states, besides the diarrhea that is unavoidable, being tested by her medicine is actually a good thing."

Meaning... a savage and arrogant battle maniac, after taking her medicine, will start having diarrhea in public with a peaceful smile? This damn old injury might be healed, but the person will probably die of social embarrassment!

"Fine then..."

After nodding with a toothache, Li Ang asked the last question with a dark face.

"Who are the targets I need to slap? I'll see how it goes; if the other party is indeed not a good person, then I'll introduce Senior Amien to them."

Hmm... you are so bad~ I like it~

After looking at Li Ang with extreme appreciation, the red-haired director nodded with a smile:

"Not bad, not bad~ Amien will definitely be very happy when she hears this.

As for the specific targets to slap, prioritize those carrying the Scorpio branch mark; the most people jumped ship from us to there, and there are also quite a few from the Libra and Aries branches. Take care of whoever you can.

However, you don't need to target those who just jumped ship too much, but those ungrateful wolves who jumped ship and then turned back to kick us, cooperating with others to spread rumors and slander our Virgo branch... feed them all to Amien!

It just so happens that there are too many big and small things recently, it's not convenient for me to drink, and the salary issued by the bureau has been saved. For every ungrateful wolf you feed to Amien, I'll give you a 5 Gold Wheel subsidy!"

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