Mysterious, but Naruto

Louis looked at the situation in the factory below, then at the situation on the second floor where he was, and after thinking for a moment, he walked to his desk and picked up one of the floor plans.

Louis studied it carefully, then reached for a pencil on the table and lightly drew a circle on the drawing.

knock knock knock...

A knock came at the door downstairs. Reed quickly got up to open it. The person who came was the reporter that Louis had arranged with the newspaper yesterday.

Louis, who had been bored in his office, suddenly became busy, posing for several photos with the reporter and starting a question-and-answer interview.

Before arriving at the factory, the reporter had been given special instructions by their editor, who knew that this was a major client. Therefore, the reporter asked very detailed questions and was very careful.

During the interview, Austin White also returned, intending to report to Louis on the results of his discussions with the engineers.

However, Louis kept him there and allowed the reporters to join the interview.

Just as the reporter felt he had collected enough material for the day and was preparing to leave the factory, two handcarts were pushed into the factory.

Looking at the food on the shopping cart, the reporter was a little puzzled and asked a question.

Upon learning that this was Louis's gift to the workers, the reporter's eyes lit up, and he took another photo of the cart.

"Mr. Helmet, when do you plan to distribute these foods?"

Louis pulled his gold pocket watch from his pocket: "It's arranged to give them this food together when they get paid tonight."

The reporter, holding his camera, said, "Sir, how about we move the time up a little? I can take a picture for you."

Louis thought for a moment and did not refuse. He asked Reed to go to the carriage and help Wesley move the box of money over. He also asked White to find some workers to help move the tables and supplies.

Soon, a makeshift open-air meeting place was set up, and the workers who had received the news gathered there.

Standing in front of all the workers: "Ladies and gentlemen, some of you saw me yesterday, and some of you were not here yesterday, but that's alright. I'll formally introduce myself to you all here."

Starting today, I am the new boss of this factory. Everything I said in front of the office building yesterday counts, and now is the time to deliver on my promise.

"Come on, everyone line up, one by one. In addition to your salary, I've prepared extra food for everyone as compensation for the losses the factory caused you recently."

Looking at the money and food piled on the table, the workers were all smiles, and the line quickly formed without much fighting.

"Reed, get the payslips ready and make sure everyone gets their paycheck."

The next step was for Reed to check the names of the workers and the wages payable, then Louis would personally hand over the money to them, and Reed and Wesley would distribute the food to everyone.

When it came to the children, Louis would take a handful of candy from his coat pocket and give it to them along with their wages.

Louis was also helpless about the existence of child labor in his factory. He wanted to stop using child labor in his factory, but then he thought that this was not a good solution.

After all, those kids are out working to make a living, so if they don't work for him, they'll go to work in other factories.

Since that's the case, it's better to let them stay with him; at least he can take care of them a little.

While Louis was distributing money and candy to the workers, the reporter seized the opportunity to take a photo. After exchanging a few words with Louis, the reporter quickly left.

After all, he needed to hurry back and organize the content of today's interview, develop the photos, and lay out the newspaper; time was very tight.

Louis did not try to persuade him to stay and continued to distribute wages to the workers.

After all the workers had been assigned jobs, Louis led Austin White to an open space in the factory.

It's not far from the office building, nor too far from the workers' workshop.

"Here, I also circled the location on the drawings upstairs."

I plan to build a canteen here so that all the workers can have lunch here.

When I was on the second floor earlier, I saw that some of the workers didn't have enough to eat at noon, and some just drank water. This won't do. How can they have the energy to work if they don't eat enough?

Therefore, I thought about finding a chef to cook a meal every day at noon.

However, this is on the condition that the cafeteria is improved first, and I'm leaving that task to you.

You should plan ahead and decide what kind of building you want it to be, whether to hire outside workers or use factory workers. These decisions are all up to you.

Oh, right, if the workers do it, we can give them an extra fee, but only if it doesn't interfere with the factory's original work..."

After giving all the instructions, Louis got up and left, while Austin White went to find the draftsman in the factory after seeing Louis off.

Although the other party's specialty is not producing architectural drawings, they can still draw a simple diagram without any problem.

Since there was nothing to keep secret, within half an hour all the workers in the factory knew that Louis wanted to build a canteen in the factory.

So after the wages were distributed, another round of cheers erupted in the factory.

In the following days, Louis spent half a day at the factory each day, familiarizing himself with the business, waiting for recruiters to come to him, and watching them modify the carriages.

When the workers at the factory learned that Louis intended to use the first carriage as his personal vehicle, they put in a lot of effort.

They wanted to use this carriage to show Louis their craftsmanship, so that he wouldn't think they were just a bunch of money-grubbing parasites.

It wasn't until Sunday that the factory managed to gather enough staff to recruit the sales manager, purchasing manager, human resources manager, chairman's secretary, and accountant he needed.

After everyone had gathered, Louis called them together: "Gentlemen, take a look at the documents I sent you. They describe the new system I plan to implement."

At the meeting, Louis announced his proposed employee job levels.

At first, everyone present thought that this was Louis's sudden whim, a way to highlight his status as the company boss and start messing around in various ways.

These people only changed their attitude when Louis began explaining the company benefits available to different job levels.

"Everyone here will be at the P rank under the new system. I know that none of you live in the East District and you have to take a horse-drawn carriage or the subway to get to work every day."

As you can see, I've specified in the P-level benefits that you'll receive an extra 5 Sules per week for commuting.

Regarding meals, the factory will provide lunch. Once the canteen is built, I will have the chef prepare two sets of meals: one for the workers, which will be heavy on oil and salt, and the other for you, which will be relatively healthier.

and also……

Finally, if any of you wish to obtain all the benefits of the aforementioned P-level position, you need to complete the factory's personnel review as soon as possible and assign new job levels to all workers.

Only after I review and approve it, and confirm that there are no errors, will the company uniformly switch to the new system.

Oh, and before switching to the new system, make sure all workers are fully informed and agree. Okay, that's all I have to say, meeting adjourned!

After Louis left the meeting room, everyone present turned their attention to the HR manager and Austin White, the factory manager.

After all, those two are the ones who will be doing the main work. Every day they delay in completing the personnel review and evaluation, their own benefits will be received a day later.

The 75 workers outside, and the other employees who are still being recruited, are not so easy to manage.

The end result was that, in order to get their benefits as soon as possible, the heads of the other departments also started helping out, since they didn't have much work to do at the moment.

However, this is not something Louis needs to worry about. He only needs to ensure that the overall framework is sound, and the rest can be handled by the company's senior management.

In addition to the company's senior management, Louis also hired a private lawyer during this period to review the kingdom's legal provisions and help him handle some tax issues.

Louis actually wanted to find an investment manager to invest a portion of his funds.

However, after learning of Louis's ideas, Audrey recommended an investment manager to him, and Audrey herself entrusted a considerable portion of her funds to this person for management.

Louis did not refuse Audrey's recommendation and immediately approached her.

When Louis learned that he had been recommended by Audrey, the other party was quite polite.

At first, the other party thought that Louis might be a nobleman of high status. After learning that he did not have a title, they guessed that he might be a confidant of Count Hall.

It wasn't until Louis handed over £10,000 to him to manage the investment that the investment manager extinguished all other ideas and realized that this was a very wealthy man whom Audrey had hired to take care of her business.

The manager was also very direct. After gaining control of the funds, he immediately bought many shares for Louis, earning him a weekly dividend of thirty-four or thirty-five pounds.

Louis calculated that the annual return was nearly 17%, which was quite good among managers and investors.

Although Louis's business was thriving, he remained completely unsuccessful in his research on the extraordinary properties of the gem.

On Sunday evening, Louis sat in his study in the Divine Tree Space, staring at the extraordinary properties in his hand that were as clear as diamonds, and reluctantly pushed it away.

"Sigh, I have absolutely no clue about this. I'm not just unable to figure it out, I have no idea where to even begin."

Louis leaned back in his chair, looking out the window, preparing to relax his tense mind.

"Sigh... I don't know—hmm?"

Louis suddenly noticed the enormous divine tree outside the window, looked at the extraordinary properties in his hand, and then looked at the divine tree outside.

Louis hesitated for a moment. Just now, he thought of the Divine Tree's devouring ability. Perhaps he could give the Divine Tree the extraordinary ability he had to devour. Even if he couldn't research anything else, he could still convert it into chakra to replenish himself.

The problem is that Louis had already decided that this world should be a world of the Kreece, but now he is worried that these extraordinary characteristics might pollute his divine tree.

Thinking about this, Louis suddenly had another idea.

"Hmm, when I was corrupted before, I was able to recover through the 'Karma'. So, since this Divine Tree is deeply bound to Otsutsuki Shibai and can even travel through dimensions with him, it should be able to recover even if it's corrupted, right...?"

Despite thinking this way, Louis still didn't dare to directly feed the extraordinary properties he had to the divine tree.

Instead, he went to the manor's storeroom and took out the potion ingredients that he had previously asked the butler and Audrey to buy.

Louis thought that even if there was pollution, the pollution level of the Sequence 9 potion would definitely be less than that of the extraordinary properties of this potion, which was mixed with an unknown number of potions. So why not try it out with the potion first?

Following the recipe, Louis began to prepare the potions. Although he had never made potions before, he had taken chemistry classes and done chemistry experiments. By strictly following the recipe and not improvising, he easily made three potions.

That's right, Louis made a copy of all three Sequence 9 potions that the Lightgate taught him.

Looking at the two bottles of black liquid and the one bottle of dark blue liquid in his hand, Louis walked to the roots of the Divine Tree, opened the stopper of one of the bottles, and used chakra to control a thin root deep in the roots to probe into the liquid.

As the divine tree extracted the potion, it was almost completely drained from the bottle in the blink of an eye.

The next moment, Louis placed his hands on the thick roots of the sacred tree and probed into it with his spirit to feel the changes in the sacred tree.

The moment Louis probed the sacred tree with his spirit, he felt an extremely violent and chaotic thought envelop him.

This way of thinking is as steadfast as a mountain and as vast as the sea. Compared to it, Louis is like a lone boat facing a tsunami.

However, because Louis had authorization from Ōtsutsuki Shibai, no matter how violent these thoughts were, they could not really harm him in the slightest.

Feeling secure in his own safety, Louis attempted to probe these turbulent thoughts.

The results revealed that they, or rather, they actually originated from the life-bearing planets that the divine tree had once devoured.

The divine tree devoured countless life-bearing planets, and the thoughts and memories of many beings gathered here. After countless years of wear and tear, what remains are the most resentful and painful parts.

And this thought, which even time could not erase, eventually gave the divine tree intelligence through the passage of time. However, this intelligence, influenced by those thoughts, became the violent thing it is now.

Such a sacred tree does not actually have its own emotions. If one had to say it does, it would only be hatred—hatred towards all other living beings.

Compared to the lingering resentment of countless living beings, the tiny bit of contamination from the potion was utterly insignificant and was quickly eradicated, leaving only the most basic and purest energy.