Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Chapter 316 - 305: Don’t You Have Debts to Repay?

The speaker was a Four-star Beastmaster from the Blue Flame Task Force named Luo Cheng.

He was a recent graduate from a top university in the Capital, having been out of school for less than half a month.

Before this, he had also been an intern at the Ruan Family Company, working on Array research. He interned for a year and became a full-time employee this year.

He couldn’t compare to a genius Champion Scholar like Gu Ming, who had started as an intern before university had even begun.

However, he had his own strengths—namely, he was exceptionally steady when drawing Arrays.

His replication ability was considered top-tier within the company.

Of course, this was only when compared to other Four-star Array Beastmasters.

At the Five-star Level, it didn’t count for much.

Luo Cheng had just released a detection-type Pet Beast to observe, watching Gu Ming’s process for inscribing the Mother Array and committing it to the Pet Beast’s memory.

He was confident he could replicate Gu Ming’s Mother Array with ease.

After all, he had various Pet Beasts to assist in drawing Arrays. Gu Ming’s techniques weren’t particularly sophisticated; most of them were on par with a first-year university student’s designs.

Occasionally, there were some incomprehensible Array connections that seemed to defy the principles of Array Dao.

But upon closer inspection, they still managed to complete the Array’s circuit.

This was a flash of genius.

That was the only step where Gu Ming displayed something that amazed him. The rest of the Array-drawing process seemed childish in his eyes. If it were him, he would have been far steadier than Gu Ming.

"That works."

Gu Ming glanced at Luo Cheng. ’My skills still need training; I can’t compare to the professionals at the company.’

’Since I haven’t established my authority yet, I’ll just slowly practice my techniques in the Dream Cultivation Space for now.’

’Besides, it’s not like I have to handle all the Array drawing myself.’

’The company has so much manpower and resources, and I’m the Cultivation Method Designer. It seems I can just lie back, design the Cultivation Technique, and let others do the work. I’ll just monitor the situation daily and push the progress along at the minimum required pace.’

While thinking this, Gu Ming began to guide the other man in drawing the Array lines.

Since the other man was highly skilled, and the Pet Beasts he summoned were each more powerful than the last, they were able to almost perfectly replicate the Array Dao Thought Gu Ming had condensed.

Once the Mother Array on the Red Carp King’s throat took shape, Gu Ming knew that today’s Cultivation Technique quota was definitely going to be met.

Gu Ming hesitated.

"The aftereffects are still present, so it would be unstable to draw the Brain Domain Array right now. Luo Cheng, are you confident you can draw the Array in the Sea of Consciousness?"

"Me? No, no, I wouldn’t dare. You should do it." Luo Cheng shook his head repeatedly.

Luo Cheng was confident when it came to experimenting with Arrays on a Pet Beast’s physical body.

But he would never dare to attempt a Brain Domain Array. The probability of it being fatal to the Pet Beast was massive—as high as ninety-nine percent.

"I have another job this afternoon. When I’m in better condition tonight, I can do it as overtime after work."

Gu Ming said shamelessly to the team members.

He worked three jobs a day: the day shift at the Cultivation Technique design company, tutoring a high school senior in the afternoon, and in the evening, Gu Ming did data collection work back at the company.

This job could also be handed over to his two Pet Beasts to handle.

They had a Memorization Array, and having done the job once last night, they had already remembered the general process. They could now work in Gu Ming’s place.

As for the five jobs Ruan Jing had arranged for him, he was currently only doing three. Once he got the hang of the fourth job, he would let one Pet Beast work it for him. Then, he’d take on two more evening jobs—one for his second Pet Beast, and one for himself.

In this way, he’d be working five jobs a day, transforming into a time management master, the emperor of part-time work.

Lan Ze was stunned.

This was unexpected. He only knew Gu Ming was the Champion Scholar who designed Cultivation Techniques; he never thought he would be this "busy."

’Fine, be busy,’ Lan Ze thought, ’but at least be busy with something meaningful!’

’A perfectly good National Competition Champion Scholar working several jobs a day—what is this nonsense? Is it really necessary?’

’Didn’t the company sign you to a genius contract?’

’Or did the university not sign you?’

’Don’t you have a mountain of debt to pay off?’

’Doesn’t the company have KPI requirements for you?’

’Can the wages from a few temp jobs even compare to a single day’s salary at a Cultivation Technique enterprise?’

Lan Ze had a bellyful of criticisms he wanted to level at Gu Ming.

But he held his tongue.

This was the professional world of Cultivation Technique development.

Although Lan Ze was the leader of the Cultivation Technique Study group and technically outranked Gu Ming, Gu Ming was the Cultivation Method Designer. He held the real power, and Team Leader Da Fei had high hopes for him.

At most, Lan Ze could only whisper Gu Ming’s various shortcomings in Team Leader Ruan Fei’s ear; he couldn’t just kick him out and replace him with another designer.

Whether to replace him or not was Team Leader Ruan Fei’s decision.

"Teacher Gu, how about this? I have a spare slot on hand. I can get you into the group and make you an official member."

"Also, I can apply to Team Leader Da Fei to have you sign a full-time employee contract and receive full-time benefits."

"That way, you won’t have to work multiple jobs a day. We can focus all our time on developing the Cultivation Technique together, how does that sound?"

Fearing Gu Ming didn’t understand the salary of a full-time employee in the Cultivation Technique group, he specifically emphasized how much the base salary and commission would increase after officially joining.

After joining the group, Gu Ming would still be a designer, but with the added status of being part of a fixed team, which would allow him to receive an additional internal bonus distributed within the group.

This bonus wasn’t cash, but high-end cultivation materials needed for Pet Beasts.

A Beastmaster just had to report and submit an application to the company for what they needed before the materials were distributed.

As long as it wasn’t a particularly restricted item, it would generally be approved.

"A Two-star Pet Beast might not need these High-Level cultivation materials, but when a Pet Beast reaches the Three-star Level and is pushing for the Four-star Level, these materials become crucial."

"Look at our team member, Teacher Luo Cheng. He’s also a student from a top university. He was short on Evolution materials, too. He was just an intern before, but after joining our group..."

Lan Ze chattered endlessly beside Gu Ming, one moment talking about benefits and perks, the next earnestly analyzing the future Evolution paths and limitations of his two Pet Beasts.

Lan Ze knew that during his university years, Gu Ming had a chance to obtain a bloodline mutation injection for a Six-star Pet Beast.

But that had to be earned through strength. Before he could take first place in his year, he first needed the resources to lavishly raise his Pet Beasts.

And weren’t the company’s generous benefits the perfect backup power source for Gu Ming?

Lan Ze’s words, both spoken and unspoken, were filled with the same message: ’I’m thinking of you. Stop working temp jobs and come work here properly.’

If he didn’t join the company, many core materials related to Evolution would be nearly impossible to buy.

From his perspective, if the Little Cyan Snake and Grouper Fish didn’t evolve to the Three-star Level, it would be difficult for them to compete with their peers for the top spot in their year.

Furthermore, both of these were Basic Type Pet Beasts. Ordinary Evolution was a dead end; they could only follow a specialized route, which required very specific, scarce mutation and evolution resources.

Evolution resources with such extreme scarcity were usually claimed and sealed away the moment they were found or produced.

Even if you had money, you couldn’t buy them online.

After all, the resources circulating online were finite; they weren’t like an industrial assembly line that could produce them endlessly.

Any Spirit Medicine involving the fundamental transformation of life—Evolution—required a certain amount of time to grow.

With so many eager Beastmasters in the country all clamoring for them, these special materials couldn’t be bought with money alone.

Gu Ming remained silent. In truth, he was waiting for the system, to see if it would raise his Spirit Stone salary or consolidate his multiple jobs into one. He would be happy with that.

Working multiple jobs was definitely not as enjoyable as slacking off at a single one.

After Elder Tang’s departure, the attention you receive from the sect’s core disciples and Inner Sect Disciples has increased by 100%!

As a newly promoted Official Disciple who has been in the main sect for less than two days, you have attracted the attention of powerful figures and are now at the center of a social storm.

A classmate with severe social anxiety has been caught in the terrible storm of social opinion. They are trembling, afraid to speak, and desperately trying to escape, but are still captured by your Gravity Field.

"..."

’What is all this?’

Gu Ming looked at Lu You. She, in turn, was staring intently at the Red Carp King, showing no desire to join the "group chat."

Noticing Gu Ming’s gaze, she seemed to press a ’start talking’ button. Her adorably dopey-looking head tilted slightly as she said in a low voice:

"I can help. I can have Mouse Treasure simulate the Sub-array Formation. We can use the Relay Cultivation concept from the national competition to split the Cultivation Technique..."

"GASP—"

Hearing this creative idea, Luo Cheng, the Array Beastmaster on the team, gasped and his face filled with reverence.

The university student volunteer waiting next door, Yuan Ge, also showed a look of surprise when he heard this.

The concept of Relay Cultivation had been trending online recently.

The two of them were probably unaware, but many people in the company had ideas about it, and a research craze had also swept through the universities. It was slated to be a hot research topic for the new era of Cultivation Techniques.

Yuan Ge’s breathing quickened. ’I might get a chance too! Even just learning the general process would be immensely beneficial!’