Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 557 Are you happy?

This matter can be considered closed at this point.

Bai Shi reported the captured group of Pure White Society members and the shuttle aircraft. He wasn't worried about being hacked, as he had already made many connections to protect him.

It's not that we expect it to be particularly effective, but simply giving the Pure White Society, which is currently struggling to survive, a good kick to the head is definitely not a problem. Moreover, the Pure White Society, which is already so short of money that it had to contact people to rob a bank, has now suffered a huge loss by trying to steal a chicken but losing its own rice instead.

It's impossible for the Pure White Society to die out completely; their status is still too special, and they have a Pure White Beacon directly attached to them as a guarantee.

The most likely scenario is that a minor internal purge will take place to quell the current turmoil as soon as possible.

Lin Yilin achieved tremendous success, but she still felt no particular joy. Zero One Studio had been showered with awards throughout the year.

While Zero One Agency is not as large as those two large agencies, its influence over the local bureau is now almost as significant.

Inside Zero One Office.

Mo Mang looked at the toast that Lin Yilin had put in a bag of flour, with its head sticking out and it was resting and recovering.

"Awoo..." Toast cried out pitifully.

"So you still couldn't get your revenge?" Mo Mang said with a helpless smile.

"Awoo!" Toast declared: It doesn't care, it has already won, the head has been cut off, forcibly prolonging its life is too fake!
"I see. You did take his life, so you're really quite capable," Mo Mang nodded and said.

Toast nodded, though it looked more like it was wriggling in a flour sack: "Aww!" A promising student indeed.

Mo Mang speaks very nicely; Toast likes her. She's much better than the wicked Lin Yilin.

"Tch." Lin Yilin, standing beside her, succinctly expressed her disdain, "If you were even slightly more capable, we wouldn't have been forced into that situation."

"Awooo!" Toast started cursing at Lin Yilin again.

Mo Mang could only appease the toast inside the flour sack with an honest smile. Watching a sack of flour, a common brand, wriggle and groan under the weight of the toast inside, it was quite an achievement that he didn't laugh out loud.

Lin Yilin ignored the toast and looked at Mo Mang, saying, "Public commendations and such are fine as you wish, I won't cause any more trouble. The payment should be transferred to your account before the end of next week."

"Thank you very much." Mo Mang quickly bowed his head.

"No need. Your actions this time were impeccable. It's hard to imagine that you're an ordinary person with no special abilities other than a half-baked system," Lin Yilin praised.

Mo Mang shook his head: "I just have a good mindset. I think there are many excellent people who can reach my level."

"Ouch?"

"There probably aren't many."

Lin Yilin and Toast reached an agreement.

Mo Mang could only scratch his head.

"Would you like to join the firm?" Lin Yilin asked Mo Mang, extending an olive branch.

"Me?" Mo Mang pointed to himself in surprise.

Lin Yilin nodded: "You take good care of Toast, and it likes you a lot too. Giving it to me will save me a lot of trouble. It just so happens that the person in charge of taking care of Toast in the institute is away on fieldwork and won't be back for a while. You're also smart and have excellent qualities. With a little training, you should be able to handle things on your own. How about it? The basic salary I can offer should be higher than your salary in the first few years after you entered the workforce, plus the future commission sharing. The compensation is pretty good, isn't it?"

A very tempting proposal.

Mo Mang was slightly taken aback, but didn't think for long before smiling and saying, "Thank you very much for your appreciation, Miss Lin Yilin, but please allow me to decline."

"Huh?" Lin Yilin felt that her firm's offer to poach a salaryman should be absolutely irresistible.

"This experience, while certainly dangerous to some extent, also unexpectedly revealed a side of me that yearns for excitement and adventure. I'm glad to see that, but I still don't plan to abandon my current life to go down that path," Mo Mang said.

"Even if the pay is much better, I won't have to be a corporate slave anymore?" "I wouldn't really call myself a corporate slave, I'm just a bit more serious about things. But, at least while the people who care about me are still here, I don't want them to worry too much. As for the possibility of suffering undeserved misfortune while living in a gray neighborhood, to be honest, after seeing Ms. Lin Yilin, I'm not so anxious anymore."

Lin Yilin said helplessly, "Please don't treat us in this line of work like superheroes. I often resort to any means necessary to solve cases and get commissions."

"Haha, that's how it's said. But I'm still very grateful to Ms. Lin Yilin for protecting everyone, including myself, who were living peaceful lives." Mo Mang's sincerity was genuine.

Lin Yilin shook her head: "I'm sorry, I can't understand your thinking."

"However, I wouldn't mind if I could earn some extra money."

"He's quite like an ordinary person when it comes to greed."

In the end, Mo Mang did not officially join the agency, but he said he could take care of the "child" in his spare time, and that he could also handle any paperwork that could be done by sitting in front of a computer.

Simply put, it's like doing some logistical work.

Lin Yilin then simply asked him to write a report on the incident in front of her, treating it as an interview. After understanding the elements and format of the firm's case reports, Mo Mang wrote one without much effort, and Lin Yilin made a few minor revisions before submitting it.

Although he doesn't consider himself a corporate slave, this guy's "skill tree" is definitely more suited to being one.

While not as versatile as Lu Chongming, who could be deployed to any situation, Mo Mang had his own areas of expertise. Lu Chongming's writing skills were honed through experience within the bureau, while Mo Mang was quite adept at handling documents, having mastered the basics.

That's definitely enough to be an unpaid employee.

Most importantly, he gets along very well with Toast, and Lin Yilin really needed help with taking care of the children. The biggest impact of Lu Chongming leaving on Lin Yilin was that there was no one to take care of Toast and the others.

Since Mo Mang's house is so empty, he can just throw them all over there.

After explaining the general situation to Mo Mang, Mo Mang should go back to rest. Today was supposed to be his day off, and he had planned to go home and get a good night's sleep, but he got caught up in this incident.

It was a thrilling and exciting day. Fortunately, he has a day off tomorrow, so he won't have to drag his tired body to work the early shift tomorrow.

After Mo Mang left, Zheng Fan said, "He was rejected again."

Lin Yilin sighed speechlessly upon hearing this.

She had thought her firm might not hire anyone anymore, but she managed to recruit Lu Chongming and Mo Mang twice, and they both declined, only wanting to be temporary staff members to help with trivial matters.

This made even the binary girl start to doubt herself.

"It just goes to show that some people do have different aspirations."

"Ouch!"

"Tsk, he should have just taken you away first."

Zheng Fan said, "Even if you live apart from your parents, family members still miss each other despite the distance. For some people, life is not just about themselves. His choice is a sign of respect for his parents, and also a sign of respect for himself."

Lin Yilin thought for a moment and said, "That's not hard to understand. Although I'm only living for myself now, I don't want my adoptive father to regret it."

“I don’t need to think about that much. After all, my parents always told me when I was little – you don’t need to think about anything, just be happy.” Zheng Fan slowly closed his eyes and said with a smile.

Lin Yilin stood up, walked to Zheng Fan, and bent down to hug his head when Zheng Fan was confused.

"Mr. Illusion, are you happy now?"

"...Yeah, I'm pretty happy."

"That's good."

(End of this chapter)