"Is it raining?"
The rain outside fell without pause, followed by a torrential downpour.
Hearing the rain, Lu PingAn walked to the window and shut it. There were too many documents and papers on his desk that could not afford any accidents.
"Boom!"
But one of this world's characteristics, aside from its especially violent rainfall, was that it often brought immediate thunder and gale-force winds.
"Uh, ball lightning weather. This really is Natural Disaster Online."
Disaster weather rare on Earth was merely commonplace here. Several ball lightning spheres darting about were wreaking havoc in the city.
"Boom!"
But after several flashes, the ball lightning vanished without a trace.
Had high-level elemental Professionals collected the "materials"? Or did local superhumans not want their industries damaged? At least in this world, ball lightning that could be mass-produced conveniently was far less powerful than its Earth counterparts, though it was indeed valuable supernatural material.
"Bang!"
Lu PingAn shut the window and drew the curtains as well.
This world had no rainy season. More precisely, because the area of seawater was simply too vast and the sunlight too abundant, every month saw long stretches of rainy weather.
That was also why the local residents were mainly Long-Hand Tribe members and Fishmen. Purely terrestrial lifeforms would have a hard time in this world—assuming they were still ordinary mortals, of course.
"If I'd known there was an opportunity to become a Professional directly, I would've fought tooth and nail for it!"
Rumors and unofficial news always spread the fastest, especially when they involved people's own interests.
From what Lu PingAn had seen, among the newly arrived "State-Owned Enterprise Employees" these past few days—master tailors, master chefs, managers, and the like—at least a third had become Professionals. Their enthusiasm and motivation for work had immediately soared, especially