The Fifteen Missing at the Lamp Mansion Festival (Bonus Chapter)

Ji Wu looked at Deng Xiaorui with a look of frustration, as if disappointed in her for not seeing through someone.

This was yet another person fooled by Bai Zuo's appearance!

"You go back to your workstation first. I have something to discuss with him."

Ji Wu grabbed Bai Zuo by the back of his collar and hauled him into the office.

Bai Zuo was dragged across the floor, but he didn't struggle at all. Instead, he cheerfully waved goodbye to Deng Xiaorui.

Deng Xiaorui happily waved back at Bai Zuo.

When she saw the office door close, she returned to her workstation, where Yang Su sat beside her.

"Yang Su, Mr. Bai is really fun, isn't he? He has a great personality, no airs at all. Talking with him always feels so pleasant!"

Yang Su finished organizing a company report. "Don't you think those people are strange?"

"Strange?" Deng Xiaorui thought for a moment. "They don't seem to need to clock in for work, and they're always out on field assignments, even though the company has no business right now."

Yang Su handed a company bill to Deng Xiaorui. "The company currently has no products for sale. The account balance is just under a million. After deducting employee salaries, rent, utilities, and such, it'll only keep the company running for about two months."

"And that's assuming the two Execution Department members don't submit any reimbursements for benefits."

Yang Su had been helping Ji Wu organize the company's finances lately.

This was also what Yang Su found strange—starting a company without doing any business, only spending money. It would go bankrupt soon at this rate!

Especially those two Execution Department members. They seemed to do nothing, yet their benefits were astonishingly good. She had seen some of those benefits.

The Execution Department members were also ranked, from E-level all the way to S-level. The higher the rank, the better the benefits. The perks were so tempting she wanted to ask what it took to join the Execution Department.

No matter how she looked at it, it was strange.

Deng Xiaorui's mouth fell open. "No way! So you're saying I'll be unemployed in two months?"

Deng Xiaorui's face showed deep distress. This company had great benefits and a relaxed work environment. If she lost this job, it would be hard to find another with such good perks and so little pressure.

The colleagues working nearby all looked up at the same time.

"What? The company's going bankrupt?"

"What do we do? Maybe we should sell software again! I'll go out and market products!"

"It'd be such a shame if this great company went under!"

"I'll go ask Manager Ji!"

Not a single employee wanted the company to go bankrupt—they could always find another job.

Instead, everyone was thinking about how to save it.

Yang Su didn't want the company to shut down either, but she didn't let them rush off to question Manager Ji. "I'll go ask Manager Ji for clarification."

Yang Su picked up the reports she had organized and headed toward Manager Ji's office.

She reached the door and raised her hand to knock.

From inside came an enraged roar: "So it was you causing trouble all along!"

"Where are the fifteen people who went missing during the Lamp Mansion Festival on Anyang Island?"

"You'd better not pull that old trick again. Wasn't this mission completed well enough? If you just submit the report, a lot of your disciplinary marks will be wiped clean. Why do you have to stir things up again?"

Then came Bai Zuo's careless voice: "How terrifying. So many people missing. Those officers should hurry up and deploy more personnel to find them!"

"Don't you dare pin this on the Weird. You know exactly where those people went. I want to see them whole and safe, back with their families!"

"Then go burn some incense! What's the use of telling me? Am I some kind of bodhisattva who can guarantee people's safety?"

"Supervisor Ji, calm down, calm down. Could there be a misunderstanding? Brother Bai wouldn't do something like this." Xu Zhou's voice chimed in, trying to mediate.

Ji Wu took a deep breath. "Anyway, you deal with it yourself!"

"Headquarters will send people over soon. The Chairman might even come in person. If you don't want to face his interrogation, then rein it in!"

Bai Zuo's voice turned noticeably more serious: "The Chairman's coming too? That's great!"

Yang Su heard footsteps approaching. Before she could dodge, the door in front of her swung open from the inside.

Bai Zuo didn't bother with why she was standing still at the door. He cheerfully ran past her side. "I need to go prepare properly."

Ji Wu walked out, still seething with anger. When he saw Yang Su, he paused, and the anger on his face subsided a little. "Ah, it's Xiao Yang. What do you need?"

Yang Su handed over the reports. "These are the reports I've organized."

Ji Wu nodded, took them, and glanced at them without checking the data for errors. "Good work. You can go rest for a bit."

"Manager Ji, I wanted to ask—what product does the company plan to sell? Based on the account balance, if there's no extra income, the money will run out in two months."

Hearing this, Ji Wu coughed twice, a little sheepish. "Well..."

He wasn't part of the Sales Department, the Energy Department, or the Research Department. He usually didn't meddle in such matters and didn't know the specifics.

"Headquarters will send people soon. They should bring the products to sell by then!"

As a Supervisor, how was he supposed to know how those people ran a company?

Still, since the Aberration Association had managed to establish itself and even gave Contract Anomalists such generous reimbursement limits, they probably weren't short on cash.

You see, quite a few Contract Anomalists only chose this path because of the high salary and benefits.

"Specifically, what products are they selling?"

"Energy, transportation." Ji Wu remembered that the logistics personnel of the Aberration Containment Association had mentioned that the Association's main revenue came from energy and transportation.

In fact, many companies partnered with the Aberration Association precisely because of the energy and transportation it provided.

"Anyway, don't worry about these things."

Ji Wu waved his hand for her to go back; if she asked any more, he wouldn't know how to answer.

Yang Su returned to her workstation with a heavy heart.

"How was it?"

Deng Xiaorui leaned in curiously to ask.

The others also pricked up their ears.

"Manager Ji said the company will sell products related to energy and transportation in the future. He didn't specify what exactly, but he told us not to worry—people from Headquarters will come to the company in a while."

"Headquarters?"

"So our company actually has a Headquarters?"

"Great, looks like our company isn't going under."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Only Yang Su managed a strained smile; her mind was still on the conversations she had accidentally overheard.

Fifteen people missing on Anyang Island during the Lamp Mansion Festival?

Such a big piece of news—why didn't she know anything about it?

Yang Su searched for recent news reports.

She only found that an old residential building on Anyang Island had collapsed due to disrepair, injuring many residents and tourists. The injured had been sent to the hospital, and no one had died.

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