840 Long River City's Core Attraction

A talent like Jiang Jiuxiao, someone capable of single-handedly raising the upper limit of an entire faction, had actually taken the initiative to join them...

Zhang Guangmu almost wanted to say, I've never had such a wonderful start.

He immediately praised Jiang Jiuxiao a couple of times, then exchanged some pleasantries centered around the theme of "With your assistance, we'll be like a tiger that has grown wings." He thus made his stance clear for the time being, but only to that extent. He was neither overly enthusiastic nor did he directly promise him a high position.

In fact, that was already enough.

After hearing Zhang Guangmu's words, Jiang Jiuxiao felt slightly reassured and no longer worried that his talents would go unrecognized.

Although this was now the apocalypse, with all the factions still in their infancy and the Abnormal Controllers being unruly, most of them following the principle that "A ruler chooses his subjects, and subjects choose their ruler as well," Jiang Jiuxiao was not the sort of person who thought, "I kindly came to join you, and if you don't give me a high-ranking post, then you're looking down on me."

He genuinely had high hopes for Zhang Guangmu's potential.

To be fair, Jiang Jiuxiao had stepped outside his personal perspective and analyzed this meeting as an onlooker. The more he thought about it, the more he felt Zhang Guangmu had done the right thing!

One should not accept rewards without merit. That was the universal truth.

If someone encountered a talented person and immediately granted them high office, generous rewards, and promises despite their having accomplished nothing, then either they were bragging and trying to catch a wolf with empty hands, tricking others into working for them; or they were running an amateur operation and were completely