"Even if you have a residence permit, where would you get the money to buy a house? If you don't have a house and car, will your mother-in-law look favorably upon you?"
"Of course, if you don't have any academic qualifications, the Paranormal Bureau can not pay you any wages."
Mu Sheng: "......"
"If you want to earn money, you have to find a job, and if you want to find a job, you have to look at your education. What can you do if you only know the Pythagorean theorem?"
"You have to make up for it, starting from elementary school, right? Even if you are amazing and have a high learning efficiency, you'll still have to study for around three to five years and then take an adult college entrance examination in the future......"
Xiao Qin put his lips together and smiled: "0306's appearance seems young, he could enter a high school and take this year's exam."
Director Xu: "Tsk, look, let's take high school for example. The young lady will graduate college soon. However, you'll still be studying at the primary school level, tsk, tsk. Perhaps, she'll get married after graduation. You'll still be preparing for the college entrance exam, tsk, tsk. So forget about it, continue staying here and working."
Mu Sheng：！！！
Xiao Qin was monitoring the overall situation and saw that it was not good. He quickly strode forward and grabbed his shoulder to stop a riot from occuring: "Ahh! How about you fill out the application form first......"
Mu Sheng lowered his head; Director Xu's desk was full of blank forms.
The identity of the Paranormal Bureau was special, concerning state secrets, and in order to prevent system hacking, the most primitive paper files and procedures were still used until today.
The young man's lips were slightly pursed.
......All his life, he hated these snowflakes, but now there were endless application forms to fill out.
Running around aside, but for the sake of a large red seal, he had to constantly take on extra missions to increase job benefits.
But.... here was better than before.
At least, there is hope if you work hard, there is a way to ask for help.
No need to fight bloody battles, no need to part forever.
And, here, he was neither rejected by demons, nor shunned by humans. Even if there was only a 0306 codename, he finally had an identity. There was a position that really needed him.
Mu Sheng's anger was doused at a speed visible to the naked eye. The appearance of him lying on the table to fill out the form, seemed to look a little cute.
The director of Xu smiled at his figure: "Xiao Mu, this look of yours isn't too good, your mother-in-law definitely won't like it."
Mu Sheng: ！！！！
Xiao Qin gave looks until his eyelids cramped up and was vigorously rubbing his eyes.
Director Xu smiled and held his shoulders: "Your height isn't likely to be 1.8 meters, at most it's 1.7 meters. To top it off, you're so skinny. However, your figure is pretty good. But why is your hair so long, it's so irksome. Your dressing style must also be changed, it's black. Why do you have the same problem as the god of death next door?"
"......"
Xiao Qin's mouth dropped open and he felt like crying.
In the late afternoon, the Paranormal Bureau building shook heavily, and then returned to silence.
The interns in the lounge area, including the gum-chewing curly-haired one, lay down orderly on the sofa and looked out: "Wow, it's snowing documents!"
5.
Ling Miaomiao was in the library, and once again, she was nodding off after failing to stay awake due to staying up too late.
After spending nearly twenty years in that parallel world, studying books was so strange that it felt like a lifetime ago.
In the mathematics department, where girls were at a disadvantage, Ling Miaomiao was a mid-ranking student, but in the recent midterm exams, three of her major course exam results were found lacking.
So sleepy......
I'm really worried.
How about submitting a time travel explanation?
While her thoughts drifted around in her dazed mind, a gentle cool breeze blew across the room, very comfortable on her face.
Ay, I can't...... can't be so bad.
She shook her head and tenaciously raised her head. The desk on the opposite side had the trigonometric function spread out. She looked at it with sleepy eyes for a while before wondering if she had entered the wrong library.
After looking up again, there was a short-haired teenager in a white T-shirt and a denim jacket, looking at her with unblinking black eyes.
His soft hair was limply stuck to his forehead, with a slight curl to it. He looked so well behaved that she didn't recognize him for a while.
She looked at him blankly for a while, then felt her hairs stand up on end
"...... you, youyouyou ......"
"Shh......" his face was a little red. After a short while, he stood up and took off his jacket, draping it over her shoulders, and in a soft voice, he told her, "Don't sleep here."
6.
What does a diploma mean to you?
For 0306, a diploma determined how soon he could get married.
Director Xu calculated that it would take a total of seven years if he went through the usual process and it would be too late by then.
But it would be different at the Paranormal Bureau. At the time, the director promised: "I won't ask for much, as long as you score well enough to get into a top-tier university, I can solve your degree and residence permit problems. You'll be able to go out and shine. At the same time, I guarantee your mother-in-law will be satisfied."
"I will hire you directly in the name of the office director of the Paranormal Bureau, and give you the position of an official Paranormal Bureau staff, which is equivalent to saving seven years of your time and getting a beautiful woman early."
"After seven years—— I reckon the application for human evolution should be finalized by then—— Is it a good deal?"
After their discussion, Director Xu and Xiao Qin even gave each other a delighted high five, happy for some unknown reason.
In short, in this year, 0306 swept through with a startlingly high work efficiency, his reputation rising a great deal.
Later, the mission agents he assisted discovered that the handsome looking NPC who came out of nowhere was a bit odd.
He would throw out the demon restraining circlet, then stare off into space while muttering. At first, everyone mistook it for him reciting spells, but only when they got closer did they hear him reciting: "......The clouds tinged with sunset hues take wing with the lone bird, and the autumn river water converged with the limitless sky, amalgamating into one color......."
Sometimes, he would also solve a problem after settling an issue, quietly sitting with the mission agent by the campfire, a stick in his hand, quietly dipping it in blood before scratching something on the ground.
Once, a female mission agent looked at his scribbles and shouted out in disbelief, "Oh my God! Isn't this the acid-base neutralization equation?"
She grabbed the NPC's collar and cried out: "Brother, you...... you are from our world, right? When can I go home?"
0306 broke away from her hold and coldly withdrew to the side: "I am not."
"......Then," she rubbed her eyes, "Then what were you doing?"
"Sorry." The young man perfunctorily performed a bowing salute of a staff member of the Paranormal Bureau, "I'm working part-time while studying."
7.
Ling Miaomiao's sleepiness was all gone.
She couldn't bear to see this person mess around and took out the barrier order, urging him to return.
"I'm not going back" The other party retorted righteously. "I asked for a day off, just......".
Just to be with you.
He hesitated: "Just to learn."
"......" Ling Miaomiao went silent for a few seconds, then looked askance at the high school elective textbook. "Are you going to take the college entrance exam??"
"Yes."
The black lotus was going to take the college entrance exam, was there anything else that was impossible?
The world had become too ridiculous.
"Then...... what do you want to do after that?"
"I'm...... going to settle down in the capital first."
"Settle down in the capital?"
"And then...... look for a job."
"Look for a job?"
"And then...... procure a house."
The word "procure" was new to him, and he was a little unsure of the pronunciation.
"Buying a house?! And then what?!" Ling Miaomiao was shocked, "Heavens, who told you about this?! What else do you plan to do after buying the house?!"
Mu Sheng answered with a question, "......Can you not get married as soon as you graduate?"
"Am I sick, why should I get married as soon as I graduate?" She was both angry and amused, and patted a thick reference book on the table, "I'm going to take the graduate program exam."
After thinking about it, she was still in disbelief. "You haven't finished telling me yet, what are you going to do after you buy a house?"
"Then......" he paused.
"Marry you."
"......"
Ling Miaomiao's heart stopped for a moment then pounded nervously: "......I'm really scared that you' re not the type my mother likes.
"I...... wait for me a few years, I will have a house and a car in the future."
"That's not what I meant......"
"Isn't it just because I'm not 1.8 meters?" The young man was a little annoyed, "I'll...... reach that height when I put on my shoes.
"...... Not that....."
"Then, from now on,...... I won't wear black."
"Not that......"
"The hair was also cut with the permission of Director Xu, who said it was a mother-in-law's favorite hairstyle."
"What ......" Ling Miaomiao laughed, so hard that she was hitting the table.
Her voice was a little loud and the students nearby all looked at her strangely.
"Being a married couple, have you not had enough of it yet?" She looked up, palms sweating, heart pounding, and both amused yet saddened.
She constantly felt like a trafficker who had abducted a young girl into the mountains, changing the trajectory of the person's life, "A man and a woman together for a lifetime, isn't that all there is to it?"
"I haven't had enough." His face sank, a storm swirling in his dark eyes, "And you can't be bored of it either."
"Or I'll......"
"I'll blow up the library right now."
END OF EXTRAS
Note: I can't believe this is how the story ended. I was so excited when I found that Mu Sheng came with her to the real world but that damn Director literally just tricked Mu Sheng into working free for 7 years x
I really hoped there would be more to the story, but this was really the end :(
Overall, even though the ending was disappointing, this book literally kept me on a chokehold for a whole 2 days.
I just wanted to read it offline, but I hope that to those who read this, I hope you enjoyed this book as well.