Work Prophet
Chapter 647 - 20: The Final Grand Prize is...

Chapter 647: Chapter 20: The Final Grand Prize is...

All eyes were focused on the giant TV set.

By now, more than half of the third round of the prize draw had passed, with only the last three prizes yet to be announced.

And the prize currently being drawn was the third-to-last—a right to unlock a divine sequence.

For newcomers like Li Yu, the value of this prize might not be so obvious, but for the senior staff in the business department, it held enormous appeal.

Because the further you go in divine sequences, the harder they are to unlock, and the more "Sequence God Stones" are required.

If someone had already unlocked six or seven sequences, this prize could save them tens of thousands of points of faith.

Many, including Shi Yitong, had their eyes blazing with desire; unfortunately, Shi Yitong had already received "Momotaro’s Dumpling" and was no longer eligible for the drawing.

In the end, a Slav salesman won the prize and was ecstatic. He immediately declared he would give everyone present a hundred thousand dollars to share in his joy.

The penultimate prize was a pair of briefs that looked quite ordinary, and were given the mundane name "Invisibility Pants," a 5-star piece of equipment that could make the wearer invisible.

According to Hephaestus, this was also one of the Equipment Department’s priority research projects in the last two years, just one notch below the "Rebirth Bell."

Although the design was a bit odd, the effect was indeed very practical.

Now not only were the employees from the business department interested, but people from other departments were also keenly watching the oracle bone script characters dancing on the screen.

When the results came out, Hephaestus was the first to jump up from the couch, shouting, "It’s me! I’ve won, I’ve finally won! Hahaha."

The handsome half-blood was visibly excited because not only had he won a prize, but he had also bagged one of the most valuable prizes of the annual event.

"Invisibility Pants" were highly versatile; even if not used on other planes, they were quite useful on Earth, a veritable life cheat code.

From here on out, one wouldn’t have to pay for movies, watching sports in stadiums or even for flights and high-speed rail, and they could eat for free at buffet restaurants.

Hephaestus rushed up to claim his prize, but just then, he noticed someone from the group of Men in Black from the PR department standing up and walking his way.

The handsome half-blood stalled, and the guests in the living room all revealed expressions of eager anticipation for the drama to unfold.

It was not common for two people to come forward to claim the same prize.

The girl in the black cheongsam, one of the twins, smiled at Hephaestus and the man in black and asked, "Could I see the pictographic text you both have?"

On hearing this, they extended their phones, and indeed, the patterns on the screens were exactly the same.

But the girl then said to the handsome half-blood, "I’m sorry, sir, but you have not won this time."

"Why not? There’s no difference between the two of us," Hephaestus protested.

"But your character is upside down."

???

Hephaestus leaned in to look and realized he had indeed been holding his phone upside down, whereas the man in black had it the right way up.

"That’s allowed?" Hephaestus felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over him, and he returned to his seat on the couch with a sullen slump.

Shi Yitong looked at him with a barely suppressed smile, "So eager for those ’Invisibility Pants,’ what are you planning to use them for?"

"Not sure, maybe go to the house of that online novel author I’m following and sneak a peek at their drafts," Hephaestus mumbled.

"Authors generally don’t have that kind of stuff," Li Yu said.

"Hard to say, you always have to look through to know," missing the grand prize, Hephaestus completely lost his spirit.

However, he glanced at Li Yu, who, like him, still had a propensity to never win anything, and felt slightly more balanced.

By then, the twins had started introducing the last prize.

Since it was the only thing left in the cabinet, most people could see what it was.

It was a router.

At the vast majority of corporate year-end parties, it usually only appeared as a consolation prize, bundled with electric toothbrushes to comfort those employees who didn’t win anything.

Moreover, this router looked rather old, and it was uncertain whether it had a gigabit network port.

But tonight, it had become the ultimate grand prize of the Third Era.

"[Signal-Weak Router]." The twin in the white cheongsam introduced.

"5-star equipment, its function allows you to connect to a designated wifi from anywhere for a limited time of one hour each day. If you exceed the time limit, it will automatically disconnect, and like other routers, it will experience network congestion or packet loss during peak times.

"Additionally, if taken to another universe, according to the basic rules of cross-universe travel, you can’t post or reply on forum websites, nor can you send back any information.

"Sending commands to servers still works, but the servers over here won’t leave any trace of the visit.

"Explaining the exact principle might be complicated, but one thing is certain—this piece of equipment is unique and irreplicable."

This time, the living room atmosphere was relatively quiet because the 5-star equipment’s function wasn’t as straightforward as the [Invisibility Pants].

Of course, this didn’t mean it wasn’t powerful. Being able to directly access the internet from another universe, even without the ability to send back information, was still an astounding effect.

It’s just that everyone was pondering how to use this equipment, which made for a somewhat subdued moment.

However, the characters on the TV screen had started scrolling again at this point.

After a moment, the speed began to slow down, getting slower and slower until it came to a stop.

It stopped on a character that looked a bit like a cat’s head with four simple little hands.

Li Yu looked down at his phone and saw an identical pattern on the screen, and because of Hephaestus’ prior example, he also made sure to check the character’s orientation this time.

After confirming there were no issues and seeing that no one else in the living room had gotten up, he then walked towards the giant TV screen.

"Congratulations, you’ve won tonight’s grand prize," the twin in the black cheongsam said after checking Li Yu’s phone.

She handed over the prize—a router that seemed to be outpaced by time—to him.

Li Yu thanked her and then checked the back of the router, which indeed only had 100-megabit network ports as expected.

But being usable in another universe made these faults trivial concerns.

When he returned to his seat, Shi Yitong proactively leaned over, pointed at the router in Li Yu’s hands, and said,

"Do you need this urgently? If not, could you lend it to me for a month first? I’ll trade you this for it."

As he spoke, Shi Yitong pulled out a glutinous rice dumpling.