Is This Guy Out of His Mind?

"After all that trouble finding a decent job, am I about to lose it?"

"Who knows? Clean energy transportation—what do you think the company plans to sell?"

"Electric cars?"

"The electric car market is pretty much saturated now. If the new boss wants to get into it at this point, it won't be easy to carve out a share."

"Then what can they sell? They can't be planning to produce batteries, can they?"

"Batteries have nothing to do with transportation!"

"The economy's so sluggish right now. Starting a business at a time like this is practically a declaration of bankruptcy. If you ask me, the new boss should sell software instead. At least that'd keep the company running."

"The new boss still hasn't shown up. Who knows if he's just some rich kid treating this like a hobby?"

"We'd better make plans now!"

For a while, panic swept through the company. Some employees quickly found new jobs and went to Human Resources to resign.

Everyone who could leave did.

The rest either were too old to quit easily or planned to stay and see how things went.

After pretending to be sick in his hospital room, Shen Yu opened the subsidiary company's page and saw that the company he'd acquired had originally had more than seventy employees. Now only twenty-three were still on the job.

Shen Yu wasn't worried in the slightest. The number of employees wouldn't affect his plans. After all, his Character Cards and subordinates would be the ones running the subsidiary in the future.

He was only keeping these employees around to help him earn Construction Points.

Shen Yu tapped his phone and told Ji Wu to have the Legal Department prepare a new contract. The remaining employees would all have to sign it.

Ji Wu quickly sent him a voice message. "Chairman, should we add a confidentiality clause for these employees?"

The Aberration Containment Association was a massive organization dedicated to containing anomalies and producing energy. By the time Ji Wu joined, he'd already heard plenty of stories about the Association.

It was a towering pillar that wielded extraordinary powers, the only organization capable of extracting energy from anomalies, and one whose technological advancement had reached an incredible level.

It possessed all kinds of unfathomable abilities, and as the man who controlled it all, the Chairman was someone Ji Wu could only look up to.

Ji Wu had once been an orphan scraping by in the slums, never knowing whether he'd live to see another sunrise.

The Chairman had taken him out of the slums and personally promoted him to his current position.

So no matter what, he would stand behind the Chairman and give him his undivided loyalty.

"Have the new contract follow the employee contract used by the Aberration Association."

Shen Yu twirled his pen. He'd added this detail to the setting earlier. As a large organization, the Aberration Association would need plenty of ordinary employees to keep things running, in addition to core containment personnel like those in the Execution Department.

And many things about the Aberration Association were unlike those at other companies.

For example, the Association possessed technology hundreds of years more advanced than Blue Star's, special techniques for containing anomalies, and a group of Contract Anomalists with extraordinary abilities.

Employees who spent a long time around all that would inevitably notice something was different. To keep the Association's secrets from leaking and prevent its products from being stolen, employees had to sign strict confidentiality agreements and a series of clauses forbidding them from revealing the Association's secrets.

And the confidentiality agreement wasn't like an ordinary contract. If you broke an ordinary contract, at worst you'd have to pay a penalty, or, in the most serious cases, go to prison.

If someone violated the Association's contract, they'd not only owe an enormous penalty. Their family, relatives, friends, and everyone they'd come into contact with would also have their memories erased.

In more serious cases, the Association could even erase their personality—and their very existence. Of course, it would only resort to such measures if an employee seriously harmed its interests or went against its principles.

Otherwise, the Association rarely used such inhumane methods.

"Understood." Ji Wu paused, then asked, "Chairman, should we explain the Association's principles to them?"

"If they're still willing to sign after reading the employee contract, then of course you can tell them about the organization's principles. They'll be part of the organization, after all."

Shen Yu meant that once they signed the Aberration Association's employee contract, they'd be members of the organization and would sooner or later need to learn about it.

After receiving Shen Yu's instructions, Ji Wu went to the Legal Department to have them draft the contract.

When the Legal Department received his request, they looked at Ji Wu as if he were clueless about the law.

"Manager Ji, a contract like this wouldn't be legally valid!"

Just look at what this contract said!

As employees of Yigui Clean Energy Transport Co., Ltd., they had the right to protect the company's interests and ensure its products and information weren't leaked.

That part was reasonable enough.

What was outrageous was the punishment for breaking the contract. If an employee's actions caused the company's products or information to leak, resulting in enormous losses, the employee would have to pay ten times the value of those losses. Depending on the scale of the losses and the level of harm, the company could also take measures including, but not limited to, erasing the memories of the employee, their family, relatives, friends, and anyone they'd come into contact with.

If the harm reached a certain level—for example, if it caused damage or loss of life on a citywide or worldwide scale—the company would take special measures such as erasing the employee's personality or wiping out their very existence.

The people in the Legal Department felt their scalps tingling as they read. They'd seen all kinds of clueless bosses make unreasonable, inhumane demands.

But this was their first time seeing a contract like this. They were completely stunned!

What did "erase their personality" even mean?

And "wipe out the employee's very existence"?

Was this guy out of his mind?!

"We can't write it like this! This isn't just an Overbearing Contract. If this contract got exposed, we could end up in jail!"

The person from the Legal Department looked close to tears. He was quitting! He'd submit his resignation today! He couldn't stay at this company any longer!

Ji Wu said, "Just draft the contract. Oh, and if you want to keep working here, you'll have to sign it too."

Left with no choice, the person in the Legal Department drafted the absurd contract according to Ji Wu's instructions.

That same day, he submitted his resignation.

Ji Wu printed out the contracts, gathered all the employees, and held a brief meeting in the lobby.

"Take a look at this contract. If you agree, sign it, and you'll become part of the company. If you don't, you can submit your resignation to Human Resources."

The more than twenty employees took the contracts with nervous expressions and began reading. When they saw that signing the employee contract would increase their salaries by fifty percent, on top of what they already earned, they were overjoyed!

They hadn't expected the new boss not only to leave their benefits untouched but to give them such a big raise right away.