Ashen God
Chapter 381 - 380: Sense of Dissonance

Chapter 381: Chapter 380: Sense of Dissonance

"I’m lucky I have time today, otherwise, normally when I finish school at five, the relevant department would already be off work, making it impossible to handle related matters."

Indeed, it’s worth mentioning that although most of the staff in the relevant department are Awakeners, they are considered Imperial Civil Servants and enjoy the same benefits as regular civil servants, which means working from nine in the morning to five in the evening, opening doors, and getting to work at nine, and clocking out on time at five.

Of course, since the relevant department is a special department, closing here mainly means no longer taking on various clerical duties. Specific tasks like capturing Awakeners are of the type that operate twenty-four hours non-stop; there will always be someone on duty.

Moreover, apart from the nine to five schedule, these folks get Saturdays and Sundays outright off, so clerical tasks like Zhang Yanhang collecting Cultivation Techniques need to wait until Monday to Friday in the mornings and afternoons.

As for lunch, they rest from twelve o’clock and don’t resume work until two in the afternoon. You could really say it’s a civil servant schedule, having to rest after working a maximum of three hours each stint.

But if you were to ask Zhang Yanhang if he wants to work in such an environment, he would surely refuse because it feels like prematurely entering old age. As an Awakener and a college student yet to graduate, he should strive hard, carve out a beautiful future for himself, and then comfortably retire.

Moreover, the kind of retirement life earned through his efforts doesn’t require working. Although being a civil servant ostensibly offers a life of retirement, the job is still quite bothersome. More importantly, he believes that only resting without doing anything constitutes a real retirement life.

Although Zhang Yanhang’s idea of an ideal retirement life sounds utterly indolent, once one begins to retire, what could be indulgent or not indulgent? After all, isn’t hard work throughout life for the sake of enjoying some relaxation after retirement?

Therefore, joining the relevant department to become an Imperial Civil Servant is definitely out of the question. If Zhang Yanhang were considering it, he would have chosen the option to become an Imperial Civil Servant this morning instead of opting to ignore the strange woman in the graveyard.

"It’s only ten thirty now, and the relevant department closes at noon, still an hour and a half left. If it’s just about picking up a Cultivation Technique, that should be plenty of time."

After saying this, Zhang Yanhang immediately sat up from bed, briefly searched on his phone for the route from the university to the Qin Island City headquarters of the relevant department, and then directly jumped off the dormitory balcony.

However, unlike previous window exits, Zhang Yanhang smartly used an Energy Shield to cushion his landing, so although he jumped straight down from the sixth floor, he didn’t cause any damage to the ground as he had in the Xingfuli District before.

Upon landing, Zhang Yanhang used Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil to scan the ground quickly, and finding no damage, he couldn’t help nodding in satisfaction.

Although destroying the ground upon landing seemed more shocking, doing such things in the Main World was truly troublesome to repair afterward. Hence, such acts are indeed more suited for the Ashen World, where there’s no need to mend the grounds.

Perhaps because it was during class times, there were not many people around, so Zhang Yanhang’s act of jumping from the building didn’t attract anyone’s attention.

After briefly finding his way, Zhang Yanhang immediately started moving rapidly towards the Qin Island City headquarters of the relevant department.

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October 20th, the twelfth day after the end of the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays, also Zhang Yanhang’s first day back in the Main World, at ten thirty-two in the morning, in Southern City District, Qin Island City, at the relevant department’s location.

Since the Qin Island City department is located within the Southern City District, close to the government building, Zhang Yanhang got there in just about one or two minutes.

Looking at the building, which seemed like a twin to the nearby government building, Zhang Yanhang thought during his last visit that the city government had spent money on a separate courtyard, giving a strong sense of incongruity, purely reminiscent of civil servants rather than Awakeners; well, they indeed are Imperial Civil Servants.

Perhaps because it’s only busy on weekdays, there were quite a few Awakeners in the lobby needing to queue up. Knowing the routine, Zhang Yanhang went to pick up a ticket and then started waiting in the chair in the hall.

The last time he visited the relevant department, it was during this queuing interval that he met the group leader, who had also come to handle paperwork with her cousin, and they discussed Awakener matters. Eventually, he joined the Awakener’s group chat she had created under her recommendation.

But this time, unexpectedly meeting the group leader again was impossible, as she wouldn’t be bringing her cousin here every day.

Zhang Yanhang looked at the number in his hand, one hundred thirty-two, while they had just called up to the nineties. Even though there were several windows processing transactions, he estimated that he would have to wait at least half an hour before it would be his turn.

"Half an hour, huh? So boring. Should I take a nap?"

Zhang Yanhang’s seat was in the last row, and there was a large space behind him, maybe too tight for a double bed, but fitting a single bed for a nap should be no problem.

But after some thought, he felt this approach was a bit inappropriate. Lying down on the seat for a nap was also feasible. As Zhang Yanhang was pondering which sleeping method was more suitable, his peripheral vision suddenly caught a slightly familiar figure.

She wore a black women’s suit and a white shirt on top, with a black professional skirt and nude pantyhose below, and on her feet, a pair of black high heels that made her original height of one hundred seventy centimeters appear close to one seventy-five.

As for her hairstyle, it was a common shoulder-length cut, but the tips showed slight signs of perm and dye, creating a small wavy effect. Not being well-versed in such things, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t pinpoint the exact style, but it did look rather nice.

From her outfit, Zhang Yanhang thought it was indeed a style suitable for a civil servant interview, as besides the hairstyle, her attire matched quite consistently with those worn by clerical staff at the service windows.

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