Joining Tiandao Company: Starting by mending a zombie world

"The company's missions are dangerous, but the pay is really good."

Chu Sheng muttered to himself as he casually transferred a quarter's rent to the landlady.

After sending it, I clicked on the green bubble again. The first message was from Zhou Li, which basically said that she was thanking me for not making things difficult for her and wanted to arrange a time to thank me in person.

Chu Sheng replied, "No need for thanks, we're even."

The other message came from a female classmate named Jin Qi, whom I hadn't contacted in a long time.

However, the content inside was sent by Fang Qian:

"Chu Sheng, this is Fang Qian. Can we talk?"

"Talk? Talk about how you cheated on me, or about that old man urinating blood?"

Chu Sheng almost laughed in anger. Was this woman's brain circuits completely blocked?

She's clearly cheated on me, yet she's still clinging to me relentlessly? I retorted without hesitation:

"Get lost, go find your old man, don't come here to disgust me."

After posting, delete and block in one go.

Afterwards, I went to Nanjing University to attend a lecture.

"Wait... let's see how it goes."

Just as he was about to leave, Chu Sheng suddenly had a whim and took out the sword-nurturing gourd from his spatial storage compartment.

The purplish-gold gourd gleamed with a warm luster in the sunlight, and the cloud patterns on its surface seemed to shimmer with a spiritual light.

With a thought, he took the Northern Emperor Peach Wood Sword out of his spatial storage compartment.

As soon as the sword appeared, the sword-nurturing gourd trembled slightly, and the gourd mouth opened automatically, releasing a faint suction force.

"go."

Chu Sheng gave a soft shout, and the peach wood sword transformed into a streak of red light, being absorbed into the gourd. The gourd's mouth immediately closed, and the entire gourd swayed gently twice before returning to stillness.

"Hehe, good stuff!" Chu Sheng hung the gourd on his waist with satisfaction. It was the perfect size and didn't look out of place.

After leaving the house, he hailed a taxi and headed straight for Nanjing University.

On the way, he opened the company's app to check new tasks.

"Mission 1 (Continuous Mission): Return to the 'Zombie Taoist World' in 7 days and go to Renjia Town to reunite with your Martial Aunt Lin Fengjiao. Time limit: 14 days."

"Task 2 (Major Task): Go to the 'A Chinese Ghost Story World' in 7 days. The task is to investigate the reason why demons are rampant in the Ming Dynasty. Survive for 14 days."

"Lin Fengjiao? That's Ninth Martial Uncle?"

Chu Sheng immediately skipped mission 2. He was doing very well in the Taoist world and had no desire to venture into other worlds.

There's no need for working people to work so hard.

Nankai University is not far away, less than ten kilometers away.

The taxi had arrived at the entrance of Nanjing University. Chu Sheng paid the fare and got out of the car, finding the lecture hall where the lecture was being held according to the location sent by Cai Ningning.

The classroom was already quite full, and Cai Ningning waved to him from the third row.

Chu Sheng walked over and found a girl wearing glasses sitting next to her, and the two were talking in hushed tones.

"Brother Chu!" Cai Ningning said in a low voice.

"Hehe, you must be the Brother Chu that my junior sister has been talking about lately?" The woman wasn't shy at all and teased Chu Sheng a little.

Chu Sheng nodded to Cai Ningning, his gaze involuntarily falling on the unfamiliar woman.

The other person was about twenty-three or twenty-four years old, with distinct features and long, black hair neatly tied back.

She was wearing a well-tailored white shirt, with the collar indeed slightly open.

The first button was undone, revealing a delicate collarbone and glimpses of skin.

She wore a dark gray pencil skirt, the hem of which stopped just above her knees. When she sat down, it tightened up a bit, outlining the smooth lines of her thighs.

Cai Ningning blushed and quickly introduced, "Brother Chu, this is my senior sister Dai Ran."

Chu Sheng calmly extended his hand and smiled, "Hello, Miss Dai, I'm Chu Sheng."

Dai Ran hadn't expected Chu Sheng to shake her hand. A faint smile appeared on her lips as she lightly touched it and said:

"Ningning said you're quite knowledgeable about folk arts and divination? And you even want to study religious studies at our school?"

Chu Sheng withdrew his hand and looked at Cai Ningning with some surprise. "Does university even have a religious studies program?"

How come he didn't know?

And...when did I ever say I was going to take the postgraduate entrance exam?

Cai Ningning lowered her head and murmured, "Um... the Department of Religious Studies is newly opened, and I haven't told Brother Chu yet."

Dai Ran glanced at Cai Ningning with a half-smile, then at Chu Sheng, and drawled out, "Oh~".

As the three were talking, an elderly professor with gray hair and a sprightly demeanor walked onto the podium.

The classroom gradually quieted down.

"Classmates, today we're going to talk about a newly deciphered Qing Dynasty tomb, the Princess Tomb in Gantian Town."

"Legend has it that a princess named Aisin-Gioro Huiji in the late Qing Dynasty practiced evil magic and built this princess's mausoleum."

"She and her husband, Tojo Kyūi, attempted to achieve immortality here, which cost the lives of more than 100,000 Han Chinese."

"Therefore, they incurred the wrath of the masses and were jointly eliminated by our guerrillas and the masters of the Maoshan Sect."

cough cough-

Chu Sheng, who was just about to take a sip of water to moisten his throat, almost spat it out when he heard this, staring in astonishment at the content projected onto the blackboard.

Aisin-Gioro Hui Ji?

Tojo Kyui?

"Holy crap? These two people really existed in history?"

Chu Sheng muttered to himself, unable to believe that these were scenes from a movie he had just experienced.

How could it really be true?

"Brother Chu, are you alright?" Cai Ningning asked softly when she saw Chu Sheng choking on water.

"No...it's nothing." Chu Sheng shook his head, picked up his phone, thought about it for a while, and then sent his doubts to the company.

Soon, a notification sounded, and a message came back.

"There is a certain chance that what you experience will return to this world."

This world?

Chu Sheng didn't fully understand, so he thought about asking more questions.

Fortunately, the company was very humane; knowing he hadn't understood, they continued to explain:

"What you experience may be a timeline of this world, or a small world below this world."

"Once repaired, there is a very low chance that it will affect this world."

"Do timelines really exist in the world?"

Now Chu Sheng fully understood the company's meaning. He stared at the explanation on his phone screen, his eyebrows slightly raised, a hint of excitement in his eyes.

"So, what I've experienced might have an impact on this world?"

...

The lecture time passed quickly.

Chu Sheng's thoughts had already flown to another world.

He was looking forward to it, wondering if one day he would experience the same things again.

And so it became part of history.

"Brother Chu...it's still early, do you have anything else to do?"

"My senior sister and I are going to eat something in the cafeteria, do you want to come with us?" Cai Ningning asked, extending an invitation.

"canteen?"

The food in Nankai's cafeteria is pretty good, but Chu Sheng isn't a student there, so he felt a little embarrassed to eat there.

He smiled and suggested:

"I heard there's a good hot pot restaurant nearby, I'll treat you... and this beautiful lady Dai, to come along too."

Cai Ningning didn't answer directly, but looked at Dai Ran. Dai Ran didn't hesitate either, and pulled Cai Ningning along with a smile:

"Then I shall respectfully comply."

"I can eat a lot."

Chu Sheng smiled. He had just received a salary of over 2 yuan and was worried that he couldn't afford to hire a young girl. He smiled slightly and said, "Don't be shy, eat more."

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