Starting Work

Time continued to pass, and in the blink of an eye, another six years had gone by.

That day, Lu Qingshan was cultivating in the spacecraft's control room when the voice of the auxiliary intelligence, Deep Blue, suddenly sounded in his mind.

"Master, the spacecraft is about to arrive at the company headquarters!"

"Am I finally starting work?"

Lu Qingshan slowly opened his eyes, then could not help sighing. "Time really flies! For the next hundred thousand years, I'll be working nonstop!"

Fortunately, his upcoming work was fairly relaxed. He could still cultivate diligently while traveling aboard a spacecraft, so it would not be a waste of time.

Just as Lu Qingshan was sighing, Blood Red Three quickly warped back into the Primal Universe.

Within a dreamlike starry sky, the vast and boundless Headquarters Continent of the Virtual Universe Company floated in the void.

The Blood Red Three that Lu Qingshan was riding was a registered spacecraft of the Virtual Universe Company's Transportation Department, so after approaching Headquarters Continent, it did not receive a spacecraft guidance signal like it had during his first visit.

Thus, Lu Qingshan soon took Blood Red Three through one of the entrances and parked it on the Transportation Department's dedicated landing pad.

Whoosh!

The hatch opened, and Lu Qingshan, clad in dark golden armor, flew out of the spacecraft.

At this moment, a World Master-level Transportation Department staff member had already been waiting outside. "Lord Lu Qingshan, please come with me!"

Lu Qingshan nodded slightly, then followed the other party down a dreamlike corridor and soon arrived outside a spacious hall.

Lu Qingshan entered the hall and found more than a dozen figures already inside. They were the other Undying beings who had joined the Virtual Universe Company's Transportation Department alongside him.

"Hahaha!"

Seeing Lu Qingshan appear, Kremor, the wolfman expert who had arrived ahead of time, quickly came forward with a laugh. "Brother Qingshan, you finally made it. I've been waiting for you here for over ten days!"

"Kremor!"

Lu Qingshan looked at this friend whom he had known even before entering the Initial Universe and returned the greeting with a smile. "I'm not late. You just arrived too early!"

"Our Noah Universe Country is a little farther from here. I was afraid of arriving late, so I set out a few days early!"

Kremor said with a smile, "Speaking of which, the F-class spacecraft the company gave us is really useful. This trip took me more than twice as little time as last time, and the energy crystal consumption did not increase much either!"

"Same here," Lu Qingshan said with a smile.

"Have you heard?" After chatting for a while, Kremor suddenly lowered his voice.

"Heard what?" Lu Qingshan asked doubtfully.

"Of course, it's about Tori, who joined the Transportation Department with us!" Kremor said quietly.

"What happened to him?" Lu Qingshan asked calmly.

A total of seventeen Undying beings had joined the Virtual Universe Company's Transportation Department alongside Lu Qingshan, and Tori was one of them.

However, Lu Qingshan had been quietly cultivating for the past thousand years. Other than chatting with the other group members in the chat group, he had paid almost no attention to Tori and the others.

"He has already fallen," Kremor said in a low voice.

"How is that possible?" Lu Qingshan was startled, and then could not help asking, "Did he encounter an attack from an alien expert in the heart of our human territory?"

After all, as core members of the Virtual Universe Company, even the experts within human territory would show them some respect. Only alien experts would directly attack them!

Yet before they had even started working, one of them had already fallen?

"No, that wasn't it!"

Kremor shook his head and said, "I heard that Tori thought the Transportation Department's vacations were too short and the rewards too meager, so he directly applied to go to the Extraterritorial Battlefield!"

"But I heard that Tori only stayed on the Extraterritorial Battlefield for a little over three hundred years. Before he could even complete the most basic military merit quota, he fell at the hands of an expert squad from the demon race camp!"

After hearing Kremor's words, Lu Qingshan suddenly understood.

As core members of the Virtual Universe Company, they normally had to obey the company's arrangements. There was only one exception: going to the Extraterritorial Battlefield!

Going to the Extraterritorial Battlefield in this context did not mean going there as staff. They had to enter the battlefield and fight alien experts!

Only then could they violate company regulations to a certain extent, as long as they completed a certain military merit quota within a specified period.

That was likely what Tori had intended. Unfortunately, he had vastly underestimated the dangers of the Extraterritorial Battlefield and had ultimately fallen there.

Three days later, all the Undying beings who had joined the Transportation Department had gathered in this hall. Then, a burly man in ancient green armor appeared before Lu Qingshan and the others.

His face was covered in thick green fur, and a sturdy tail extended from behind him. He was clearly a super expert of the ape-human race.

"Everyone, welcome to the Transportation Department of my Virtual Universe Company!"

The burly man in green armor swept his gaze across Lu Qingshan and the others, then said solemnly, "I am Qingcang Marquis. From now on, all of you will serve under me!"

"Greetings, Qingcang Marquis!" Lu Qingshan and the others hurriedly bowed.

"Hahaha..."

Qingcang Marquis laughed heartily, then said, "I have just activated your relevant permissions within the Transportation Department. Later, you can directly view the tasks assigned to you in the Virtual Universe!"

"What I need to remind you of here is that the most important thing in the Transportation Department is that you must never harbor greed!"

"You must understand that the supplies you Undying beings are tasked with transporting are often extremely valuable. They represent wealth that you could never accumulate even over endless ages!"

"But I need to remind you that although those supplies are entrusted to you for transport, they do not belong to you!"

"Long ago, an Undying being once absconded with an important shipment while transporting it. He was clever and even fled directly into alien territory! Yet in the end, experts from within our Virtual Universe Company still found him and killed him completely. Even all of his clansmen were reduced to slaves!"

"Therefore, I hope you will take this as a warning!"

Qingcang Marquis said seriously, "No matter when or where, no matter the circumstances, you must never betray the company or betray the race!"

"We understand!" Lu Qingshan and the others nodded.

"Of course, as long as you work hard, the company will also give you ample rewards!"

Qingcang Marquis continued, "Over a million years ago, Kelin, an Undying being from our Transportation Department, was escorting a genius from the Primal Secret Realm. Even when he was besieged by alien spies, he remained calm in the face of danger. He even directly burned his Undying divine body to stop the aliens' assassination attempt!"

"In the end, that Primal Secret Realm member held out under Kelin's protection until reinforcements arrived. Kelin also received a reward from the company. Not only did they use a large number of precious treasures to help him quickly restore his divine body, they even directly awarded him a hundred thousand years of comprehension time in the Initial Universe!"

Upon hearing this, Kremor and the others were all deeply moved.

One had to know that Initial Universe comprehension slots for the Undying realm were far more precious than those for World Masters.

Back when Lu Qingshan and the others had merely been World Masters, their three hundred years of comprehension in the Initial Universe had cost more than thirty thousand mixed-element units.

As for Undying-level comprehension slots, even core members of the Virtual Universe Company needed a full fifty thousand points for every hundred years!

In other words, even if Lu Qingshan and the others worked hard for a million years, they would not be able to save enough points for a hundred years of comprehension in Chaos City!

Yet that Undying being named Kelin had merely risked his life fighting alien spies once and directly received a hundred thousand years of comprehension time!

At this thought, Kremor and the others almost wished that they themselves were the ones encountering an alien assassination attempt!

Next, Qingcang Marquis gave Lu Qingshan and the others another round of warnings and reminders before finally dismissing them.

The next chapter will be a little later.