Now Little Twelve was saying that after completing this task of watching over the space-time tunnel, her reward would also be a promotion and a raise... The promotion and raise for these two tasks couldn't possibly be the same one, could they?
"May I ask, aside from promising you a promotion and raise, didn't the World Consciousness give you anything else?" Chen Luo asked.
Something else? What something else?
"For example... Root Aura?"
"That's called World Source, country bumpkin. I only called it that before because of your habits. Why would the World Consciousness give me World Source? Didn't it already say it would give me a promotion and raise? I'm not greedy."
"...Very good, very good." The Abyss Channel consciousness's reasoning was sound and convincing, leaving Chen Luo temporarily speechless.
Chen Luo had thought that after the World Consciousness asked him for two strands of Root Aura yesterday, it would share some with its employee. He had not expected the World Consciousness to give absolutely nothing.
A World Consciousness like that deserved to be hung from a streetlamp!
Still, Chen Luo did not say any of that aloud. He had already paid the money, after all. He could not possibly make himself pay the Abyss Channel consciousness extra, could he? Chen Luo was not some sucker.
But for the Abyss Channel consciousness, simply monitoring the space-time tunnel for two days should not be much of a problem, right?
"Oh, right. Since you're monitoring the space-time tunnel, doesn't that mean you'll have to stay here the whole time? What about your work? Will you ask the consciousness of some other Abyss Channel to help you?" Chen Luo asked curiously.
No need. Even when I'm in the Spirit Energy Plane, I can sense everything happening in the Abyss Channels. That is