Work Prophet
Chapter 642 - 15 Board of Directors

Chapter 642: Chapter 15 Board of Directors

Li Yu also saw Xu Mengyuan, but before he could greet her, she hastily went upstairs with a servant.

Li Yu asked Shi Yitong, who was nearby, "What’s upstairs?"

Shi Yitong, having just ordered a Gemini cocktail at the bar, came back and sat down, "Oh, there’s a small bar, a gym, a spa area, a Western restaurant, and further down a corridor you can go to the guest rooms."

"Guest rooms?"

"Yes, there are four luxury guest rooms there for the visiting directors to rest in. It’s said that each director has a fixed room, and the decorations and furnishings in each are arranged entirely according to the directors’ personal tastes."

"Did you see the two people who went up before Xu Mengyuan?"

"The Caucasian little girl and the Indian man."

"Right, that’s Miss Windsor and her servant. It is said she once had many servants, but later many of them left her. Only a few loyal ones remain by her side through thick and thin."

"Ash is one of them. Miss Windsor once had a lot of power in the board of directors, and everyone had to listen to her, but unfortunately, she doesn’t look as prestigious as she used to."

"But she’s only in her teens now, right?" Li Yu said. "How old could she have been during her heyday, six or eight?"

"First lesson—never view the directors of the board with common sense," Shi Yitong said, taking another sip of his cocktail.

"They are all old demons. The Equipment Department will provide us with some services, helping us unlock divine sequences and offering various gadgets that make our jobs easier."

"But that’s just the most trivial part of their jobs. Mainly, they serve the board of directors, right, Hephaestus?"

The mixed-race handsome man nodded, "You’re right, most of the time our R&D has clear targets, provided by the company’s upper management, like the Rebirth Bell that was sold to you guys."

"This project already existed when I joined the company. I can’t disclose too much, but I can tell you that the company has made a terrifying investment in it, sparing no expense. The amount of faith consumed over the years is astronomical."

Hephaestus himself had recently been to the bar but had only ordered a Diet Coke.

"The Rebirth Bell is quite useful, but it has many limitations. Why is the company so interested in this project?" asked Shi Yitong.

"I don’t know that, I’m just a working guy," Hephaestus said, drinking his Coke. "The company pays me to do whatever they tell me to do."

"Aside from Miss Windsor, how many other directors does the company have?" Li Yu asked.

"There are five directors in the Third Era, besides that, there’s a mysterious independent director whose duty is to oversee the other directors, so his power is the greatest," Shi Yitong said.

"But no one has ever seen him, no one even knows if he is male or female. At the annual company meetings, the other five directors always show up, but he never appears, which has led many to wonder if this independent director really exists."

"I bet he doesn’t," said the handsome mixed-race man. "Although managing a company like the Third Era with five people seems crazy to me, using one person to supervise the other five is even crazier.

"If there’s something wrong with his head, it could be disastrous, and it’s too hard to stay lucid all the time."

"Right, everyone makes mistakes sometimes," Shi Yitong agreed.

"You mentioned there are five directors and one independent director, but there are only four guest rooms upstairs." Li Yu said.

"Oh, because the independent director never shows himself in public, he doesn’t need a room. One of the directors owns this manor and lives in the master bedroom; you can call him Mr. Qin."

"Mr. Qin?"

"Yes, Mr. Qin, like you and me, is Chinese, and you will meet him soon. He isn’t much of a talker, but when he does speak, you’d better listen carefully."

"What about the other three directors?"

Before Shi Yitong could answer, eight servants wheeled in a huge color TV to the north side of the guest room, assembled from four hundred-inch televisions.

The servants plugged it in and began adjusting it.

Upon seeing this, Hephaestus’s eyes lit up, and he quickly pulled out his cell phone.

He then hurriedly urged Li Yu, "Hurry, hurry, the first round of the lottery is about to start."

Li Yu remembered the handsome mixed-race man mentioning that there was also a traditional lottery at the Third Era’s annual meeting, and that according to him, the prize pool contained items that even the directors coveted.

So Li Yu didn’t hesitate, pulled out his own phone, waited for the TV to light up and display a QR code, then scanned it.

The next moment, a page popped up on Li Yu’s phone showing a symbol resembling a cat’s head with four simple lines sketching its limbs.

Glancing at Hephaestus, the symbol on his phone appeared even more abstract, consisting of two horizontally placed mountains with a slash below them.

Only Shi Yitong’s was a bit better, vaguely recognizable as a lopsided Chinese character "Si."

Li Yu looked around at others, noting that their faces also registered confusion, especially the foreigners, who were turning their phones upside down and back again.

They were struggling to decipher it, but no one seemed to figure it out.

Furthermore, as Red Leaf Manor had no internet access for phones, it meant they couldn’t seek help from outside.

It was Shi Yitong who first thought of something, saying, "Do you think this could be Old Chinese?"

"It does look like it," Li Yu agreed. "We can’t figure it out here, but your ’Si’ character is pretty obvious."

"Chinese itself is a pictographic language, and when talking about the most ancient and famous pictographic script of Chinese civilization, it must be oracle bone script."

"It doesn’t matter, as long as we can enter the lottery," Hephaestus seemed unconcerned, "This must be our respective numbers."

Five minutes later, after everyone in the living room had successfully scanned the code, a series of pictographic characters appeared on the TV, beginning to scroll.

At that moment, four more servants, pushing a cabinet, arrived next to the TV, which carried many bizarre and exotic items.

Li Yu glanced quickly, but did not see the suit mentioned earlier by the handsome mixed-race man, which could curse the perpetrator.