One person: plays Wendy, the most carefree director of Nadu.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Su Mu smiled slightly.

"Of course, I'm sure—"

"I'm not going!"

Just kidding. Although I have to go to Biyou Village for both work and personal reasons, it's not the same as me agreeing to go on my own initiative versus the company begging me to go.

Putting everything else aside, at least if the company asks me to go, then I can naturally make my own demands.

What he wanted was the Divine Craftsmanship and the Eight Extraordinary Skills.

From the outside world's perspective, he already possesses two of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques: the Tongtian Lu and the Feng Hou Qi Men. If he were to ask for another one, without a doubt, everyone would assume that he must have ulterior motives.

So now there's one more thing I need to clarify, and that is, what exactly is the company's attitude towards my collecting of the Eight Extraordinary Skills.

Hearing Su Mu say that, Xu San adjusted his glasses.

"Su Mu, besides the murder of the head of the South China region, there's another matter we're here for today: the result of reporting to the board that you possess two of the Eight Extraordinary Skills."

"I won't hide it from you, after we reported the situation, the board of directors had a very big disagreement."

"Several directors believe that the Eight Extraordinary Skills are techniques for causing chaos. If an extraordinary person possesses even one of them, he or she is already a potential threat to social unrest and needs to be closely monitored, let alone two."

"They advocate taking you to headquarters, interrogating you on a wide bench about your purpose in collecting the Eight Extraordinary Techniques, and placing you under strict surveillance."

He paused for a moment, seemingly wanting to observe Su Mu's reaction.

Su Mu shrugged, looking indifferent, and said, "What about the other directors? What are their positions?"

"You seem completely unconcerned, advocating that these directors you've captured should gain the upper hand."

"Of course, if they gain the upper hand, I won't be greeted by you and Xu Si, but by the company's arrest team."

Xu San pushed up his glasses and sighed.

"Alright, you're smart, kid."

"The other faction in the company, led by Chairman Zhao Fangxu, believes that no matter what your purpose is, you are ultimately an employee of the company, and a formal employee with an editorial position."

"So, you're one of us."

"No excessive measures should be taken against our own people without clear evidence."

"But necessary inquiries are still required, so..."

As he spoke, he pulled out a plane ticket.

"Before we discuss whether you should go to Biyou Village, let's go to headquarters first."

Looking at the plane ticket in front of him, Su Mu raised an eyebrow.

Does it connect to headquarters from anywhere...? That's not a big problem.

Judging from the plot of the original novel, although Na Du Tong is nominally decided by the board of directors through voting, in reality, Chairman Zhao Fangxu has a lot of say.

Basically, all the directors, except for a very few, such as Qu Tong's mole—Bi Youlong, listened to him.

Therefore, as long as Zhao Fangxu's attitude is mild, there shouldn't be a big problem regarding his mastery of multiple extraordinary skills.

In fact, he had already expected Zhao Fangxu to have such an attitude.

Firstly, his resume is clean and can withstand scrutiny, and he has always worked for the company.

Forget about whether you're slacking off or not, just tell me whether you've done it or not.

Putting everything else aside, at least Gao Ning was arrested by himself.

Secondly, Zhao Fangxu has a broad perspective.

In the original story, even though he knew the secret of Feng Baobao's immortality, he did not choose to reveal it to the public or try to obtain it by any means.

Why would someone like that care whether they possess one or two of the Eight Extraordinary Skills?

Therefore, this trip to headquarters will not be dangerous at all.

Unless... Qu Tong is going to make a move against me.

Come to think of it, I should have come into Qu Tong's sights since I displayed my power at the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony.

Now that Bi Youlong knows that she possesses two of the Eight Extraordinary Skills, he will surely tell Qu Tong.

Although he didn't know what Qu Tong's ultimate goal was.

But Qu Tong himself is a formidable opponent possessing four unique skills.

She possesses four unique skills: the Six Treasures Immortal Thief, which can devour life force; the Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements, which manipulates yang matter; the Spirit Binding and Commanding, which manipulates yin life; and the Dual-Handed Technique, which can arbitrarily modify and adjust the yin and yang life states.

The eight extraordinary skills she lacks are the Tongtian Lu and Feng Hou Qi Men that she possesses, as well as the Qi Body Source Flow on Zhang Chulan's body and the Da Luo Dong Guan of Gu Qiting.

So there's no guarantee that Qu Tong won't take action against me.

However, with his own strength, even if she really wanted to attack him, he should be able to resist.

Thinking of this, Su Mu reached out and took the plane ticket.

"Alright, then I'll head to headquarters first to report to the board of directors."

"Brother Su, I'll go with you."

Jia Zhengliang slammed his hand on the table and stood up.

"If those so-called board members insist on detaining you, I'll let them taste the power of my flying needles!"

"That won't be necessary." Su Mu waved his hand. "I'm going to the company, not to fight."

"You should go with Zhang Chulan and the others on their mission first. Maybe I'll come back and join you later."

"Oh well."

……

The next day, downstairs at the headquarters of NaDuTong.

Su Mu looked up at the towering building and couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.

"Looks like this delivery business is still profitable."

"NaDuTong only does delivery work on the side, yet they can build such a tall building..."

"It's not as profitable as you might imagine."

Su Mu turned around at the sound and saw a fat man wearing round glasses walking towards him with a cup of coffee in his hand.

He is the chairman of NaDuTong—

Zhao Fangxu.

He walked up to Su Mu and took a sip of coffee.

"If it weren't for government subsidies, we wouldn't have been able to build such a tall building."

"You must be Su Mu?"

"Come, come with me."

Su Mu followed Zhao Fangxu inside the company as instructed.

As Zhao Fangxu showed Su Mu around the company, he asked, "Su, what are your thoughts on the company?"

"A company?" Su Mu shrugged. "It's just a stable job, a secure livelihood."

"Huh?" Zhao Fangxu was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! I see..."

"You're much more honest than those slippery guys who just say the company belongs to my family."

As he spoke, he looked at Su Mu.

"Won't you one day become powerful enough to give up this job?"

Su Mu shook his head.

"Of course not."

"Chairman Zhao, you know how hard it is to find a job these days, and it's even harder to get a government job."

"I finally managed to get a permanent position, how could I just let it go like that?"

Zhao Fangxu hummed in agreement and nodded.

"Then I won't beat around the bush."

"Su Mu, I know you're collecting the Eight Extraordinary Skills."

"Can you tell me, what exactly is your purpose in collecting the Eight Extraordinary Techniques?"

"Answer carefully; your answer will determine the company's attitude towards you."

Zhao Fangxu's attitude was very serious, but Su Mu just shrugged.

"My purpose is very simple, it's all about two words—"

"Get stronger!"