Chapter 231 Year-End Bonus

Setting aside the four, including Big Beard, who were still immersed in that indescribable state of mental shock, Hao Ren was already excited by Raven 12345's words: Year-end bonus! Rewards! Perks!

Hao Ren felt like he had boarded a pirate ship since signing his contract, experiencing a bunch of near-death or laughable messes, but there was one thing he was quite satisfied with: the new company's benefits were actually not bad—although that unreliable Raven often messed up things that should have been given to him for various reasons, but had you ever seen any company on Earth that would give you a car and a ship within six months of starting work? And a spaceship at that!

Hao Ren immediately looked forward to this year-end bonus.

Raven 12345 didn't make him wait too long, and readily opened a spatial rift next to her, taking out the items one by one: "According to what's written on our company's contract, the year-end benefits are all here..."

The expression on Hao Ren's face quickly changed from anticipation to dullness, and the way he looked at Raven was full of "are you kidding me?"

"Fifty pounds of rice, fifty pounds of flour, ten pounds of oil... What's wrong?" Raven 12345 noticed that Hao Ren didn't move, and raised her head to ask curiously. The expression on the latter's face was a mix of crying and laughing, and he didn't know what to say at this moment: "...This...this is our year-end bonus?"

"Yeah," Raven 12345 nodded as a matter of course, "You knew it when you signed the contract, didn't you? The God Realm's year-end benefits are rice, flour, grains, and oil. Of course, this is only limited to standard carbon-based ecosystems. Some places give sulfuric acid gasoline and silicon crystal panels..."

Hao Ren looked down at the pile of things, feeling that these things were more suitable to appear in a street office than in heaven. But it seemed that the contract did say so, so he could only sigh, thinking that gods were indeed a bunch of lunatics, usually giving away cars and spaceships as small prizes, and giving two bags of rice and flour as year-end prizes...

But soon he realized that he had underestimated the spreading ability of these lunatics. Raven 12345 was still taking things out: "...And these are two boxes of peach酥 (táo sū - shortbread) pastries for you, half a bag of oily tea, and a box of golden apples..."

Hao Ren saw a small box containing a dozen golden fruits, with some mysterious brilliance surrounding the fruits, and immediately became alert: "What did you say this is?!"

"Golden apples," Raven 12345 said disapprovingly, "A classic variety cultivated by the Goddess of Life, quite similar to a legendary fruit on Earth, so it's called golden apples. Of course, it's not real gold, you can eat it."

Hao Ren's voice began to tremble: "Eat...what are the effects of eating it?"

Raven 12345 thought for a while: "I don't feel anything when I eat it, but it is said that if ordinary people eat it...it seems to have the effect of limb regeneration and curing all diseases. Oh, right, it can also prolong life by hundreds of years..."

Hao Ren's heart trembled twice, confirming that the other party was not joking, and his eyes were green when he looked at the box of divine fruits: "You're giving this to me?!"

Raven nodded, and Hao Ren couldn't help but feel full of confusion: "But the problem is...mixing such a box of natural treasures into rice, flour, grains, and oil, don't you think this package is very strange?"

"It's not strange, the year-end benefits are rice, flour, grains, oil, pastries, and fruits. Among them, rice, flour, grains, and oil are not easy to spoil, but fruits cannot be stored for a long time, so we uniformly replaced them with golden apples that can be stored for a long time. We've been doing this for thousands of years."

Hao Ren was about to cry: "Just for this reason? Just because this thing has a long shelf life?"

"That's right."

Gods are really a bunch of lunatics!

"There's one last thing," Raven 12345 said, taking out some red paper from her personal space, "The New Year is coming soon, I'll give you a couplet—this is written by me personally, and pasting it on the door will turn the area around your house into half a sanctuary without any problem."

Hao Ren took the couplet with a strange expression, and when he unfolded it, he saw God's oracle written on it in a dragon-flying-phoenix-dancing style that scratched his heart and liver. The first line was: I don't know what to write after holding it back for two months. The second line was: I thought about it for three days and put together two lines of nonsense. The horizontal scroll was: As long as there are words...

The whole couplet was crooked and slanted, and Hao Ren even suspected that Raven had used a paint brush to brush on the words, but these pieces of paper had a warm breath in his hand, and a dim glow flowed around the handwriting, making the surroundings surrounded by a faint sacred atmosphere.

"This...can I not paste it?" Hao Ren looked at Raven 12345 with particular entanglement. He felt that every time he met the other party, he could not avoid falling into this entanglement. "I can keep it as a treasure."

Raven 12345 waved her hand very generously: "Don't be polite, I'm very optimistic about you, this is an extra reward for you, maybe there will be more next year."

Hao Ren was about to cry, and was really embarrassed to admit that he was worried that this thing would affect the appearance of the city...

After Hao Ren put away these "year-end benefits" with a painful expression, Raven 12345 discussed with him the matter in the Dream Plane. Hao Ren frankly admitted that he had used orbital bombing to kill the eldest son in the end (he didn't talk about it in too much detail in the report): strictly speaking, even if there were extenuating circumstances, this was a violation of the regulations, and the only thing worth celebrating was that the final result seemed to be good.

But unexpectedly, after Raven 12345 heard this, she put on a smiling expression: "Well, it seems that you are already quite familiar with the business..."

Hao Ren: "Huh?"

"Sometimes you have to use some simple and rude methods to solve troublesome situations," Raven 12345 said with a smile, "One cannon solves a thousand sorrows, and if it can't solve a thousand sorrows, it means your equivalent is not big enough—as long as you can solve the problem smoothly, being a bomber is actually quite good."

The corners of Hao Ren's mouth twitched: "These words are not suitable to be said from the mouth of a goddess."

Raven 12345 didn't care and smiled: "Anyway, the matter was resolved well. But you remember, this matter is still risky after all. 'Explosion' as a hobby is beyond reproach, but this thing must be used only when there is no better way to choose."

Then she waved her hand: "Let's not talk about the explosion for now, you should have realized that the Dream Plane is wider than you imagined, right?"

Hao Ren nodded and said four words: "The stars and the sea."

"Yes, the stars and the sea. I told you a long time ago that the Dream Plane is a real world like the surface world. You should have thought at that time that the universe and stars of the Dream Plane are not a background map. Are you going to investigate the situation of other planets in the Dream Plane next?"

"That's right," Hao Ren smiled and talked about his next plan, "I decided to start with the origin of the sirens first. The news of the 'Day of Return' was spread by them first. I suspect that the real purpose of those sirens is not to let other aliens return to the planet Holletta, but they themselves want to use this power to return to their homeland—this is what I just figured out. If we can find the old home of the sirens, we can probably figure out what caused the great crossing ten thousand years ago."

Raven 12345 looked at Hao Ren with great pleasure: "Very good, in short, this matter has been fully entrusted to you, and it depends on what results you can find. I am also investigating some things. Although I roughly know the reason why something happened in this universe ten thousand years ago, the specific process has not been found out. Perhaps your information is a key..."

Hao Ren was about to be polite to her and say a few polite words to see if he could trick her into giving him some more funds when he suddenly heard a heroic roar from outside: "Lunatic! Get out here! Where's my knife?!"

Raven 12345's face changed when she heard this, and she turned her face and was about to run. Hao Ren didn't react for a moment and shouted from behind: "Hey, hey, what's..."

Raven 12345 didn't look back: "It's too late to say, my enemy is coming! See you next time..."

Before she finished speaking, a blue light flashed, and this neurotic goddess had disappeared in front of everyone. Hao Ren and Big Beard and the others stared at each other, not knowing what had happened.

After a while, the door of the round hall was suddenly kicked open rudely, and a woman with long brown hair and an unusually tall figure rushed in aggressively. This woman was a little surprised to see Hao Ren and the others, but then she sensed the Raven 12345's aura remaining in the surrounding air, frowned and asked, "Where did that lunatic go?"

Hao Ren didn't know why, but knew that someone who dared to break in and say such a thing was probably Raven 12345's acquaintance, so he didn't dare to offend her: "I don't know, she just said that her enemy was coming and then ran away."

"Damn it, another trip for nothing..." The tall woman...or goddess punched her fist rudely. At this time, another voice suddenly came from the corridor outside: "Officer! There is a teleportation gate reaction in the Arcane Long Hall!"

The tall woman was immediately overjoyed and ran away in the blink of an eye. After a while, there was a burst of explosions and fighting sounds in the distance. Big Beard and the other four looked at Hao Ren in a daze: "This is..."

Hao Ren quickly lowered his head and pulled them away from here: "Don't ask, maybe it's the war of the gods..."