The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

"Those who know, Jiang Shu, are naturally loud and have a large lung capacity. Those who don't know might think that another ancient false god projection has appeared outside the command headquarters, challenging me to a duel by name!"

As Gu Xu spoke, he increased the pressure in his hands slightly, as if he were sculpting a clay figure.

"oops……"

Jiang Shu winced as she was being pinched, pleading indistinctly, "It hurts! It hurts! Commander, spare me! Spare me!"

Gu Xu then reluctantly let go of her hand.

He casually wiped his drool-covered fingers on the hospital bed sheet, rolled his eyes, and said, "You don't come here unless you need something. Spit it out!"

"What on earth could be making you so worried? Did the military mess hall run out of sausages today?"

"It's way worse than not having any sausages at all!"

Jiang Shu rubbed her flushed cheeks, sitting on the edge of the bed with a look of utter despair, and let out a long sigh: "It's still about the construction of our Calamity Army!"

"Chief of the General Staff Zhang Zhen just sent someone to see me specifically, insisting on getting my opinion!"

At this point, Jiang Shu exaggeratedly gestured a large circle: "What about the specific configuration of the six Saint-level deputy legion commanders, the quota for the total number of legion members, the selection of future bases, and so on and so forth!"

"The most outrageous thing is that they even sent me a mountain of personnel information and made me look at each one!"

"Commander, you know me well!"

"I'm the kind of person who'd rather use my hands than my brain. If you asked me to go to the front lines and unleash my skills, I wouldn't even blink!"

"You've made me sit in an office calculating all that dense data, looking at those files that can hypnotize you... This is giving me a complete headache!"

"I'm terrible at planning and calculations!"

After he finished speaking, a brief silence fell over the ward.

Gu Xu's teasing expression gradually faded. He stared at Jiang Shu for a full ten seconds, then his lips twitched unnaturally.

"Why……"

Then, he looked up at the ceiling and let out a sigh full of vicissitudes.

Jiang Shu felt uneasy at his sigh and cautiously leaned closer to ask, "Commander... why are you sighing too? Do you also think those people in the General Staff are inhumane and are simply exploiting my labor?"

"no……"

Gu Xu turned his head and looked at her with the eyes of someone looking at a rich man's foolish son: "I'm having a deep self-reflection. I just suddenly realized a very profound truth."

"What's the reasoning behind that?"

"That is, when selecting core positions like the chief of staff, nepotism is absolutely unacceptable."

Gu Xu pounded his chest in anguish, "As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. That's absolutely true!"

"How could I have been so blind to think you were capable of this position?"

"Listen to what you just said! Is that something a chief of staff should say? Aren't all these tasks—overall planning, personnel selection, and site selection—your job as chief of staff?"

"And then you turn around and pass the buck to me, the legion commander who's currently recovering from injury!"

"So, I'm paying you the salary of a chief of staff, and in the end, I'm the one doing your work?"

Gu Xu felt increasingly cheated as he spoke, and finally put on a stern face, coldly pointing his finger at the door: "So, Xiao Jiang, I am now seriously considering whether we should take advantage of the fact that the Calamity Army has not yet been officially established, and quickly submit a report to our superiors to replace him with a smarter chief of staff."

"If you don't want to do it, there are plenty of people lining up to do it."

"No!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shu immediately became agitated, lunging forward to grab Gu Xu's arm and resorting to her most effective, shameless tactic: "Commander! You're a god! We finally got promoted, and we haven't even had a chance to warm the stars on our shoulders yet, you can't be so heartless to me!"

"I'll go back and look at the documents right away, okay? I'll study them even if it means hanging myself by my hair or pricking my thigh with an awl! Please don't fire me!"

Just as the two were arguing and struggling on the hospital bed, creating a very touching scene, the door to the ward was pushed open from the outside.

Holding a thick stack of documents, Su Qiong glared at Jiang Shu, who was lazing around on the bed, then walked to the bedside and slammed the documents onto the bedside table with a bang.

"Alright, stop scaring her."

"This can't really be blamed entirely on Xiao Jiang's lack of ability; anyone in his position would be in a real bind."

Su Qiong pulled up a chair and sat down, her tone tinged with helplessness.

Jiang Shu, as if seeing a savior, quickly hid behind Su Qiong, nodding repeatedly, "Yes, yes, Sister Qiong is right!"

Gu Xu raised an eyebrow: "What do you mean? Our great nation of Shenxia, ​​building a legion is going to stump the dignified command headquarters?"

What do you think?

Su Qiong sighed and casually flipped to the top document: "You've been lying in your hospital room like a mascot, oblivious to everything around you. Do you even know what a mess things have become outside in order to join the Calamity Army?"

At this point, Su Qiong's expression turned serious: "There are just too many people signing up!"

"As of last night, the total number of applicants recruited through the General Staff's open recruitment channels and those from within the military has exceeded 15 million!"

Gu Xu gasped, "Fifteen million people? Good heavens, are these people treating registering like they're grabbing discounted eggs at the supermarket?"

"This is just the beginning..."

Su Qiong shook her head, saying with a hint of helplessness, "The command headquarters used all its computing power, and Zhang Zhen personally led the team working around the clock. They conducted an extremely rigorous initial screening, even raising the recruitment standards several times over!"

"In the end, a full 300,000 people remained!"

At this point, Su Qiong rubbed her temples, looking somewhat troubled: "Three hundred thousand men! Each and every one of them is an elite with an impressive resume and outstanding military achievements."

"It's really difficult to choose the final candidates from this pool. It's understandable that Xiao Jiang is sick of looking at all those documents."

"The most crucial point is... it's not just rank-and-file soldiers and mid-level officers who want to come."

"Among the list selected this time, there are many other current commanders of elite legions who have privately submitted applications, indicating their willingness to lower their status."

Hearing this, Gu Xu was truly stunned.

He blinked, and it took him a while to come to his senses. He looked at him with disbelief: "No, this can't be, can it?"

"Those legion commanders all have their own defense zones, right? If they really abandon their posts and come all over here, what will happen to their respective defense zones?"

"They're not guarding those alien dimensional rifts anymore? Will the command approve that?"