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Chapter 250: Perform a Double Act? I'll Just Hit the Alarm
Chapter 250: Perform a Double Act? I’ll Just Hit the Alarm
As the capital of Shengguo, the headquarters of the Shadow Management Bureau is naturally located here.
After Qin Muye was brought in, he was quickly assigned to the archives room.
There were no combat assessments or grand entrance exams. He didn't have the protagonist's aura, so of course, he wouldn't go through those.
Besides, it would be absurd for the Shadow Management Bureau to test a clerk on combat abilities. If they did, it would be a deliberate attempt to target him.
After a simple registration of Qin Muye's information, his transfer was considered successful. Qin Muye had always been part of the Shadow Management Bureau, just stationed at a branch office.
No one tried to intimidate or suppress him from the start. In which company would salespeople come to suppress a new clerk? They belong to different departments.
"Professor Li, I've heard a lot about you, hello, hello." The original archives room manager greeted Qin Muye warmly.
He was tidying up his things, preparing to hand over his duties. His face was filled with the joy of a promotion. He was very grateful to Qin Muye. If not for him, he wouldn't have been promoted so easily.
As for Qin Muye taking over his position as archives room manager, it was a non-issue. Few people were willing to stay in the archives room. It offered no benefits, and the salary was low.
Not everyone had special income like Qin Muye. While it wasn't enough to barely make ends meet, it was far from enough to cultivate shadows.
So, he was very grateful to Qin Muye for taking over and allowing him to be promoted.
"Hello, you must be Director Wang, congratulations, congratulations." Qin Muye had heard about this when he arrived, so he naturally showed some social skills.
"This is all thanks to Professor Li. I heard from the bureau that Professor Li found Yanshan Jun." The other person's tone carried a hint of embarrassment.
"Good luck, good luck. I wonder about the handover procedures for the archives room." Qin Muye changed the subject. He had no time to continue exchanging pleasantries. He had other matters to attend to after the handover.
The other person was taken aback for a moment but quickly reacted, pulling out a series of documents, keys, and other items.
"Let me give you a quick introduction, then—"
The handover process took nearly two hours, mainly due to the time spent on inventory. After confirming everything was in order, they signed the documents, finalizing the handover.
Director Wang left with a light heart. He was naturally elated, having been promoted from an archives room manager to a director, walking with a spring in his step.
"Tsk, ungrateful and stingy." Qin Muye couldn't help but comment.
The Shadow Management Bureau was not doing well. He had surrendered Yanshan Jun, yet they still made him a mere archives room manager. It seemed they didn't want to give him any benefits but expected him to work hard.
In that case, Qin Muye would take all the benefits he found in the archives for himself.
As for building a mutual benefit community? Forget it. The headquarters was not like the branch office. It had many people and numerous factions. Most were not loyal dogs but ungrateful wolves, always hungry.
Just like this time, they didn’t want to delegate power or offer benefits, just expecting Qin Muye to work for free.
He glanced at his shadow, which was still in the solid shadow phase. It would take some time before it reached the next stage. He decided to play along with them for now.
Then he picked up the archives and began to flip through them. There were many records, but after reading, he felt disheartened.
The archives were all battle reports and miscellaneous records, with nothing related to history, mysticism, or folklore.
"Tsk, just this?"
"Looks like I’ll have to go to the library myself."
Back at the branch office, the archives room had stored documents like county annals and genealogies, perhaps stored together without much care.
But at the headquarters, things were much more rigorous, so such items naturally disappeared, and he didn’t know where they were stored.
"I’ll have to wait until after work. What a hassle." As he spoke, he began to calculate in his mind. Since he had nothing else to do, he might as well start figuring out how to advance his shadow to the third stage.
He glanced at the surveillance camera, sensing that someone was watching him, though he didn’t know who.
But they probably wanted him to disclose some benefits.
"The upper echelons seem to be thoroughly corrupt." Qin Muye shook his head.
Factions could indeed foster a sense of competition, but that was all. The various power struggles and internal conflicts probably involved countless dirty tricks.
He still remembered that there were powerful families in this world.
A single Shadow Stone was enough to make them ignore the law, let alone greater benefits. Destroying a family or clan would probably be just a minor tactic.
"Professor Li, hello, hello." A young man walked in, his expression calm but with a clear air of arrogance and disdain.
"Register to check the archives, and remember not to damage them; otherwise, I will report you for compensation. There are surveillance cameras here." Qin Muye said slowly.
"I'm not here to check the archives. I just want to ask about the ruins." The other person cut straight to the chase.
"Ruins? I don't know what ruins you're talking about. I manage the archives, not the ruins." Qin Muye replied.
With this attitude, he had the nerve to ask for benefits? He didn't even bring anything, treating him like a tool.
The other person's face darkened: "Professor Li must have found something useful in the archives just now. It's better to share it. After all, you won't use it, right?"
Qin Muye glanced at the other person, finally understanding what was going on.
This guy was probably not the one who watched the surveillance, but he had received a tip from the surveillance personnel, so he came to confront him.
"Who are you?" Qin Muye's expression remained unchanged. This kid was putting on an act, and his performance was quite good.
He was playing the bad cop, so the good cop must be nearby, likely to jump out at any moment.
"You don't need to know, I—"
Before the other person could finish, Qin Muye pressed the alarm, and a shrill sound rang out.
The young man was taken aback. He hadn't expected Qin Muye to do this.
Soon, another middle-aged man rushed in, also looking surprised. He hadn't expected this 'Professor Li' to press the alarm button so decisively, completely catching him off guard.
The Shadow Management Bureau's security personnel quickly arrived, and there were quite a few of them, at least twenty or thirty.
"That's the person. He came to the archives room not to check the archives but to threaten me. When I asked who he was, he wouldn't say." Qin Muye pointed at the young man and then at the middle-aged man: "And him, he came in when he heard the alarm. I suspect he's also involved."
The security personnel looked at the two men, all of them understanding the situation clearly.
It was a classic good cop, bad cop routine, but they hadn't expected this person to break the pattern and press the alarm button directly.
"Cough, misunderstanding, misunderstanding. Professor Li, please hear me out." The middle-aged man quickly said.
"Explain? No need. You can explain to the security department. I don't deal with these things." Qin Muye sneered, sat down, and released the alarm button, covering it with the protective cover again.
"Commander Zou, please come this way. And you too, Captain Zou." The security personnel said.
Commander Zou's eyes flashed with a cold look, but he quickly concealed it. "I'll talk to Professor Li again when I return."
"Do you mean to threaten me again?" Qin Muye frowned.
The security personnel looked at each other in confusion. Normally, one would apologize, right?
Commander Zou, hearing this, coldly snorted and left with a sour expression.
"Ts, so petty? You came to threaten me, and now you hate me. City people are really hard to understand."
Before they had even left, Qin Muye said this out loud, as if intentionally for others to hear.
This made Commander Zou and Captain Zou's expressions even darker, as if they had lost face and wanted to skin and bone Qin Muye.
Qin Muye didn't care at all.
Why should he get angry with dead people? If they became teammates, the only ones who could survive his temporary skill to wipe out the team were the spirits and himself.
'I need to find a way to take everything valuable from the Shadow Management Bureau. Otherwise, wouldn't this trip be a waste?' Qin Muye, adhering to the principle of not wasting anything, started to think of some underhanded plans.
After all, no one had shown him any kindness. He had been played by two petty people, so his goodwill toward the Shadow Management Bureau had plummeted to rock bottom.
(End of Chapter)
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