My game, Orange Flavor, is great!

Unable to resist yawning, she put down her book, tiptoed out of the room, and turned around to see the living room, which had been tidied up, and Captain Li sitting on the carpet playing with building blocks.

"Asleep?" As soon as she saw her come out, Li Manqiu subconsciously straightened her back and asked softly.

Lu Zhao nodded, then looked at the Lego bricks in her hand: "What are you building?"

“Xiaoyue likes Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,” Li Manqiu explained, then lowered her head again to continue fiddling with the building blocks in her hands.

Hmm... Although she still had the same expression, she inexplicably felt that Li Manqiu seemed much gentler at this moment than during the day.

Lu Zhao thought for a moment, then relaxed his brows slightly and sat down next to her, saying, "I'll join you too."

Chapter Seventy-Seven: Lu Zhao's Decision

There's Harry Potter in the game world, something Lu Zhao really didn't expect. For game enthusiasts, the more realistic the world-building is and the more Easter eggs there are worth discovering, the easier it is to get into the story.

But for her, who had transmigrated into the game world alone, the more similar this world was to the other world, the more disoriented she felt.

Sometimes when she wakes up, she mistakenly thinks she's still in the same little room, but she's always disappointed.

“Xiaoyue likes you very much.” Li Manqiu asked her casually in a declarative tone as she finished assembling the spire of Hogwarts.

Lu Zhao hummed in agreement, then, feeling it was too cold, added, "It's probably because we both have fire-based abilities. She's quite dependent on me, and I like her a lot too."

“I didn’t tell you the truth when you told me you wanted to adopt her, and I’m sorry about that.” Li Manqiu put down the building blocks in her hand, looked up at her quietly and said.

Eh?

She was a little surprised and stopped what she was doing.

Then Li Manqiu continued, "After I brought Xiaoyue back, I took her blood sample and sent it for testing again. Now that the results are out, it can be said that I personally separated you two. So I've always been very curious, Lu Zhao, given your personality, why can you still sit and talk to me so calmly?"

Have you finally gotten to the point about this?

Lu Zhao had actually anticipated this. She gently curled her lips and placed a building block at one end of the castle. "There's no reason why, I just feel... it's unnecessary."

If it had been before yesterday, and she had suddenly found out that Li Manqiu was responsible for these things, she definitely wouldn't have been able to control her anger and would have gone straight to settle scores with her.

But after she calmed down completely yesterday, she remembered something: no matter how much she cared about Xiaoyue, she would only ever be a passerby.

The best she could do was to settle Xiaoyue in this part of the world she was in and ensure she was safe from any danger.

"Is it unnecessary?" Li Manqiu frowned almost imperceptibly, then turned to look at the block that Lu Zhao had just placed. "This one is in the wrong place."

“Yes,” Lu Zhao smiled thoughtfully, his gaze fixed on the misplaced block. He reached out, took it down, and put it back in its correct position. “You see, things that are misplaced should always be put back in their rightful place.”

Having inexplicably traveled to a strange world, she always finds herself returning to her original world.

The clock hands kept ticking, and finally it was three in the morning.

Xin Xia, who had stayed upstairs to wait for orders, was about to see off tonight's guests and could finally go back to her own bed for a good night's sleep.

"In that case, it's settled. I will submit my proposal during the four-department meeting, and I would appreciate your support. This way, the ministers of the four departments will give my proposal priority consideration."

She turned around and repeated the agreement reached that evening.

"Don't worry, I mean what I say." Li Manqiu stood at the basement door again to see her off.

Lu Zhao smiled and then put his hand on Xin Xia's shoulder. "Could you please take me back to the hospital? Xiao Fei will be worried if he wakes up and can't see me."

Xin Xia clicked her tongue in displeasure, but due to the authority of her captain, she said nothing and led Lu Zhao through the wall.

As the two black figures on the wall disappeared, Li Manqiu's expression, which had initially been somewhat warm, gradually turned cold.

She turned around and looked up at the woman who had appeared in her living room at some point. "You heard everything that just now, didn't you?"

“Of course,” the woman casually fiddled with the small objects on the coffee table, her slender fingers appearing smooth and jade-like under the light. “Lu Zhao is someone we are closely monitoring. You must have noticed a lot about her unusual behavior lately. Why don’t you tell me about your new feelings after tonight’s encounter?”

Li Manqiu was silent for a moment, then spoke coldly and hard: "I don't feel anything. She's still as cold and selfish as before. She's willing to push others out to suffer in order to protect her own interests."

"That's good," the woman chuckled softly, covering her mouth. "Isn't someone like her exactly what we need?"

As he spoke, the other person stood up, walked up to her, and traced Li Manqiu's chin with a playful touch. "I can sense that you seem to be starting to waver?"

"Nonsense!" Li Manqiu narrowed her eyes unhappily, grabbed the other person's slender wrist with one hand, and threatened in a low voice, "But you, coming to my house so casually, aren't you afraid that my team members will find out?"

"What can those useless people find out? For us, the only important person is Lu Zhao... oh, now we can barely add Duan Yue as well."

The other party smiled dismissively, and his figure suddenly faded away, disappearing from her sight as if into thin air.

Sensing that the other person's presence had faded, Li Manqiu walked into the kitchen with disgust and washed the hand that had just touched the woman.

Turning around, all I saw was a desolate scene. The shadow of the gray-white curtains rose across the floor, swaying in the wind and casting a chilly glow on the room.

She stood there silently for a while before quietly walking into the bedroom.

……

Back at the hospital, the caregiver was already sitting in the ward. To avoid causing trouble, Lu Zhao asked Xin Xia to take him to a blind spot in the emergency exit's surveillance system.

"Thank you." She turned around and smiled at the thin man, expressing her gratitude.

The other person was taken aback, turned their head away with obvious disgust, muttered "Did they take the wrong medicine?", and then plunged back into the wall.

Why are Captain Li and her team members so awkward?

Lu Zhao couldn't help but chuckle, thinking of a certain captain who claimed to have no feelings for Xiaoyue, yet quickly arranged a small room suitable for the child to live in.

Sure enough, the romanceable character and the people around her are definitely not bad people.

At most... it's just that the supporting cast around her is a bit useless.

She walked through the emergency exit to Xia Zhifei's ward. She didn't go in, but just looked through the glass in the door. Seeing that the caregiver was still watching over the young lady, she immediately felt relieved.

Is it really appropriate to wake someone up in the middle of the night to keep watch for a while, and then send them back now?

She thought about it for a moment, but in the end she didn't knock on the door. She just sat on a nearby bench, staring at the ceiling, silently waiting for dawn.

Hmm... When was the last time I waited like this at the ward door?

It seems like... it was the time her roommate fainted due to anemia.

Anemia would be a major undertaking over there, but here, going in and out of the hospital is commonplace.

Living in this world is really tough.

Chapter 78 Do the Spirit Race Also Have KPIs?

The next morning, she went to buy breakfast for the young lady. After the caregiver nagged that "food from outside is unhealthy," the two of them ate breakfast together in a good mood.

"Auntie really looks like my mom. She used to nag me all the time." Xia Zhifei chuckled quietly beside the caregiver as she took the water bottle out.

Lu Zhao smiled and said, "You're one to talk. Didn't you make your aunt angry every day when you were little?"

"I was just a kid back then!" The young lady said defiantly, putting her hands on her hips, but accidentally touched her wound, and her expression immediately became quite interesting.

Startled, Lu Zhao was about to call for help when Xia Zhifei, who was suppressing a laugh, stopped him. "Hahaha, don't call the doctor! I was just kidding! Do you think I'm stupid enough to accidentally poke my own wound?"

Ha, in her heart, you're just a little kid, even more immature than Duan Yue!

Lu Zhao rolled his eyes at her, then carefully rearranged the blankets for her.

Perhaps Xia Zhifei's apology to her yesterday had an effect; at least from the young lady's perspective, Lu Zhao's attitude towards her had indeed improved considerably, and she must have calmed down.

The two chatted pleasantly for a while, and Lu Zhao, without getting annoyed, went on to nag the caregiver again before returning to work with peace of mind—the spirit race's stronger physique was enough to support her through a sleepless night and still have enough energy to carry out the day's activities.

Upon arriving at the Bureau of Spirits, she inquired around and learned that the four-department meeting was scheduled for 3 PM the next day. This meant she had at most a day and a half to write her proposal and submit it before the meeting.

If she didn't have a mission, this amount of time would definitely be enough, but don't forget, she's currently under pressure from a disbanded team.

Completing more tasks within a limited time is their only way to win back their superiors' favor.

Previously, she, Messiah, and Xia Zhifei were all absent from the team, leaving only Song Lingge. She had to complete the recruitment task assigned by Lu Zhao while maintaining the task completion rate, which was already quite difficult.

The reason she had acted so leisurely before, either slacking off or sneaking off from work, was because she had only recently transmigrated and had been hospitalized for half a month, so she was completely unaware of the team's current situation.

Let's not even talk about Messiah, that grown-up child. She's always the one running around with Lu Zhao. If you want someone to take care of the household affairs, it's like a red rain falling from the sky.

Xia Zhifei lived an even more pampered life. Under the special care of the original owner, this part-time employee was lucky to work five days a month.

So only Song Lingge was left in charge of the team's internal affairs. However, because Lu Zhao had been hospitalized for so long, she didn't talk to him about it.

As a result, Lu Zhao arrived early today, hoping to finish the proposal as soon as possible so that he could submit it. As soon as he opened the door, he saw the task completion sheet on the newly replaced table in the conference room.

Curious, Lu Zhao picked up the form and glanced at it. When he noticed that less than a third of the tasks had been completed, he felt like he was about to be utterly dumbfounded.

Well, a while ago, three people in the team were slacking off, and Song Lingge didn't say much because she was concerned about their health. The fact that she could do this much by herself is already her limit.

Now that I know about task completion rates, I have to take them seriously.

"Completion rate 27%... We must ensure that the mission completion rate reaches 50% or more twice in the next fifty days so that the team can hold out until the heroine appears."

Frustrated as he flipped through the bleak spreadsheet in front of him, Lu Zhao's already anxious mood became even more pronounced.

Completing a sudden mission can increase the completion rate by 5% or more, but it requires two or more people to accept it. The mission about Duan Yue that she and Messiah accepted before was rated as excellent, so it increased the completion rate by about 6%.

Routine tasks such as patrols, searches, and stakeouts can only be completed with a success rate of around 2%, which is considered good, but this can be done by just one person.

Previously, the fact that the three of them or the group from Team Two were together was already considered a luxury.

But they have the means to indulge in luxury, while their team doesn't!

Inside the Sky Dome, mission completion rates are assessed every two weeks. A completion rate of 30% or higher is considered passing, and 40% or higher is considered good. To change the mind of the General Strategy Office, one needs to achieve a completion rate of 50% or higher twice in a row.

After each assessment, the team's overall completion rate will be reduced by 15%. In other words, in the last assessment, Team One's completion rate should have been 42%, just above the good mark, but still some distance from the target.

As for the second team... although the original owner looked down on those people, their completion rate was always maintained above 50%, which must be attributed to Li Manqiu going on missions everywhere.

But when she thought about how Song Lingge was the only one doing the missions in the team for the previous month, she had no complaints at all. She even wanted to thank the living bodhisattva for preventing her from being forced to step down during her hospitalization because the mission completion rate had dropped below 30%.

In general, it takes three daily tasks to achieve the same completion rate as one unexpected task, but it requires less time and manpower.

The team's mission is now clear: to complete five unexpected tasks or twelve routine tasks before the next assessment.

Being a member of the Eldar race also comes with KPIs; just thinking about it is a sad thing.

She felt even sadder when she flipped through the calendar and realized that three days had passed since the last assessment.

This is a daily routine with no days off!

However, the fish that have been missed always need to be caught up with overtime work, and she couldn't let Song Lingge carry the load alone forever, so the remaining 23% had to be made up by her as the team leader!

Looking at the task completion list in front of him and then at the proposal in his hand, Lu Zhao sighed heavily and put the proposal away in the drawer.

She had already caused the team to be delayed for so long because of her, so she had to catch up quickly. She could finish the proposal later that night.