Hao Yun expressed disgust at Dao Lao's blatant intention to freeload on his accommodation, but as soon as he heard the word "salary," his eyes immediately lit up, "Huh? You still have a salary? So as your assistant, do I also have a salary? How much does the job pay? How will I get paid? What currency is used for payment?"
"Of course, you also have a salary, didn't you see the employment contract?" Dao Lao replied, "Our salary consists of a base salary plus performance bonuses. The organization will calculate your performance bonuses based on your performance over a period of time and then add them to your base salary to determine your total earnings. In short, the more work you do and the better your performance, the more you can earn."
"What? We have to calculate salaries based on basic salary and bonuses for working for the Divine Realm of Spirits!" Hao Yun said incredulously.
"Haha! We also need to keep up with the times and learn advanced ideas everywhere!" Dao Lao laughed.
"Learn what advanced ideas! Can't you learn something good? All you learn is the exploitation behavior of capitalists! No, we need to make it clear first, how exactly is my salary calculated?" Hao Yun asked without patience.
"As for the salary, your salary is directly deposited into your Mold Spirit Energy Tracking System by the Divine Realm of Spirits. You are now a junior assistant, with a basic salary of 15 divine shield coins per month. Bonuses are exchanged at a rate of 1 divine shield coin for every 100 grams of mold spirit energy, with a starting exchange amount of 50 grams of mold spirit energy. So, the more mold spirit energy you assist me in capturing, the more bonuses you can receive."
"Why is this system called the Mold Spirit Energy Tracking System? What exactly is mold spirit energy? It doesn't sound very auspicious?" Since the topic came up again, Hao Yun immediately asked a series of questions.
However, before Dao Lao could answer, Hao Yun couldn't help but ask a string of questions like a machine gun: "What currency is divine shield coin? Can it be exchanged for soft sister coins? By the way, does your company provide insurance? Is it the basic five insurances and one fund? Are there holidays and benefits on holidays? By the way, is this salary a 9-to-5 job? Is it a weekend off? By the way, what exactly is the Divine Realm of Spirits? Since you're a priest, do you know how to use spells? Why have you been using high-tech gadgets all along? Now that I've joined the Divine Realm of Spirits, am I also a priest now?"—
Dao Lao impatiently waved his hand to make Hao Yun shut up, "Where did you get so many questions? You should straighten out your attitude first and think about how to work hard and create more achievements!"
"Besides, this is not the occasion to talk about so many things." Dao Lao continued, gesturing to Hao Yun, they were still in the ward, and it was not convenient to talk about many things here.
After receiving Dao Lao's reminder, Hao Yun finally realized the situation. Due to his earlier excitement, he had forgotten that he was still in the hospital room, and there were other patients present as well. With a worried expression, Hao Yun glanced at the other patients sitting on the opposite side of the room, occasionally casting strange looks in his direction. Lowering his voice again, he asked Dao Lao, "Won't they have heard our conversation just now? If they did, what should we do? Are you going to kill them all?"
Dao Lao gave Hao Yun a disdainful look and replied, "Don't worry! To facilitate our conversation as mortals, I've set up a layer of invisible noise reduction around us. So, others cannot hear what we're saying and instead will mistake our conversation for some neurotic ramblings due to the interference of the noise reduction layer. That's why they're looking at us strangely now. However, you've reminded me that we don't need to communicate here anymore."
As soon as Dao Lao finished speaking, Hao Yun immediately received a prompt stating, "Dao Da Mei is inviting you to join a chat group." After Hao Yun confirmed the message by clicking on it with his consciousness, a real-time message exchange dialogue box appeared in the lower right corner of his vision. At the same time, he heard Dao Lao's voice in his mind.
"Hello? Hello? Hao Yun, can you hear my voice?" Hao Yun heard Dao Lao's inquiry while simultaneously seeing a real-time textual translation of Dao Lao's words in the dialogue box. However, the text used here was still incomprehensible to Hao Yun.
"Um... I can hear you," Hao Yun replied tentatively in his mind.
"Very good! Now, we can use this chat channel to communicate, which will help us avoid many unnecessary troubles. However, you should note that this method of communication has certain distance requirements. If we are too far apart, we can only exchange information through the real-time message exchange dialogue box," Dao Lao said.
Directly communicating with another person face-to-face through consciousness was a very strange and novel experience for Hao Yun. His curiosity surged once again, and he wanted Dao Lao to provide a more in-depth introduction to this miraculous communication method. However, Dao Lao seemed unwilling to elaborate and impatiently told Hao Yun that he would gradually understand more about it by using the feature more often.
Seeing Dao Lao's impatience, although reluctant, Hao Yun had to temporarily stop asking questions. It was understandable why Hao Yun exhibited such a strong desire for knowledge and excitement at this moment. After all, the extraordinary events he was experiencing were the kind of fantasy plotlines found only in novels. So, for an ordinary, exceedingly ordinary Earthling like Hao Yun, it was perfectly normal to be filled with intense curiosity about sudden adventures.
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("Fantasy plotlines found only in novels? Come on! You're in a novel right now! You're a character in the novel!" the author exclaimed.)
Since Dao Lao was unwilling to answer his questions for now, Hao Yun changed his tone and said, "Well, let's go to my place and rest for a while. But let me make it clear first, if you mess up my place, I'll kick you out!"
Then, the two sat on the hospital bed, waiting for the nurse to dry their clothes, chatting along the way. However, as their clothes still needed some time to dry completely, Hao Yun and Dao Lao inevitably talked about the various changes happening to Hao Yun.
To effectively pass the boring time waiting for their clothes to dry, Dao Lao began to introduce the system implanted in Hao Yun's brain. It turned out that Dao Lao had transmitted this special system into Hao Yun's brain in the form of divine energy waves using his divine power. These divine energy waves would merge with Hao Yun's brain waves, activating certain latent potentials in his brain to ensure that Hao Yun's brain had the ability to operate this system.
However, Hao Yun's latent potential was currently only activated to a limited extent, barely enough for him to control the Mold Spirit Energy Tracking System using his consciousness. Hearing this, Hao Yun couldn't help but sigh: He had thought that once his brain's potential was activated, he would become omnipotent like the female protagonist in the movie "Lucy"! As a result, apart from being able to control a special system, his brain remained unchanged. Oh, how disappointing!
(The author: "This greedy guy! He's getting such a powerful system for free! What more does he want?!")
Then, Dao Lao taught Hao Yun how to control the system's switch with his thoughts. He also advised Hao Yun not to keep the system activated continuously due to his currently very weak spiritual power. Keeping it activated continuously would consume a significant amount of his spiritual power, quickly causing him to feel mentally sluggish due to exhaustion. Moreover, it could even lead directly to him going into shock.
For Hao Yun's current situation, the best approach was to awaken the system only when needed. However, Dao Lao also assured Hao Yun not to worry about not activating the system immediately in case of emergency situations. Because the system could automatically activate when Hao Yun encountered danger, assisting him with a series of attack or defense actions.
Hao Yun learned quickly, but he was not happy about it. Because his system currently only had some basic functionalities like viewing basic personal information of others, and all other functionalities were in a non-usable state. Moreover, even for the function of viewing basic information of others, he could not use it casually.
Because, unless it was during a mission to capture specific suspects, this function could be used to verify the identity of the target. According to Dao Lao's explanation, priests were strictly prohibited from using this function on other people, especially the beings in the lower realms, at other times. The purpose of this rule in the Divine Realm was to prevent interference with the beings in the lower realms by the priests from the upper realms.
After about half an hour, the nurse finally brought the dried clothes to Hao Yun and Dao Lao, and the two could finally change out of their patient gowns and leave the hospital. However, as soon as they stepped out of the hospital room after changing their clothes, their attention was drawn to a couple sitting on a bench in the corridor with worried expressions on their faces.
The woman's shoulders trembled slightly as she buried her head in the man's chest, sobbing softly. The man, on the other hand, tightly clenched his jaws, trying to restrain his emotions, and softly comforted her, "It's okay, don't cry, honey. This hospital can't help us, so let's go to another hospital. Everything will be fine; we'll find a solution."
Hao Yun and Dao Lao exchanged glances because they immediately recognized this couple. They were the couple who had rushed to their aid and saved them when they fell into the moat after the scuffle. Especially the man in front of them, because he was the one who bravely jumped into the water and managed to drag Hao Yun back to the shore just before he sank.
At this moment, the man was still wearing wet clothes, but he seemed unaffected by it. His entire attention was focused on the woman crying in his arms. He kept gently massaging her head with his chin and patting her back with his hands, whispering comforting words in her ear.
Seeing this, Hao Yun immediately wanted to approach and talk to the couple. He intended to express his gratitude for their timely rescue and inquire about any problems they were facing, hoping to offer any help he could to repay their previous lifesaving grace. However, as soon as Hao Yun took a step forward, Dao Lao reached out and stopped him. Dao Lao gestured for Hao Yun not to speak for now and then calmly waved his hand in the air. A holographic screen the size of a 70-inch TV appeared out of thin air in front of them.
"This is a holographic projection separated from my system. With this holographic screen, I can share the information displayed in my system with you. Don't worry, except for us priests, no one else can see this screen. Of course, if you don't talk nonsense and point at this screen in front of others, they won't mistake you for a fool," Dao Lao explained briefly about this miraculous projection.
Then, he looked at the couple in front of him and frowned, "Strange—why didn't I notice this situation just now?"
"What did you notice?" Seeing Dao Lao looking at the couple with a serious expression, Hao Yun immediately realized that there might be something wrong with these two.
"Don't you want to know what the Mold Spirit Energy Tracking System implanted in your brain is for?" Dao Lao said, gesturing for Hao Yun to carefully examine the information displayed on the projection.
"Mold Luck Level is three stars? What does that mean?" Hao Yun asked, looking at the red warning text displayed on the screen.
"Mold Luck Level, as the name suggests, refers to their current misfortune index. We divide the threat posed by mold spirit energy, or combat level, into ten levels in total. The lower the level of mold spirit energy, the smaller the threat index, and the easier it is to deal with. Among them, three stars is an important judgment threshold. If the Mold Luck Level is lower than three stars, then this misfortune is considered normal and unavoidable since birth, and we can't do anything about it," Dao Lao explained to the couple, pursing his lips.
"What if we help them?" Hao Yun asked.
"No. That is absolutely prohibited by the Divine Realm," Dao Lao said sternly. "As priests of the upper realm, if we forcibly interfere with the normal development curve of the beings in the lower realm, it may disrupt the balance of the world they are in. This is a very serious matter. If any priests dare to do so, they will face severe punishment from the heavens."
As Dao Lao spoke, he raised his hand and made a gesture of being struck by lightning above Hao Yun's head.