Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” - Chapter 655: Xie Tingfeng's Attention
Tens of thousands of years passed in the blink of an eye.
“What a headache, this job has fallen right into my lap!”
The Third Speaker, Xie Tingfeng, was utterly speechless.
Thinking it over carefully, there had been signs all along.
Previously, he had received instructions from the First Speaker and obtained some procurement authority. Back then, he didn’t think much of it. He just delegated it down, assuming the First Speaker wanted him to expand the military camp’s material procurement channels.
He never, ever expected that now, he had completely taken over the Seventh Speaker’s former responsibilities regarding logistics and procurement.
Among these, items like elixirs, talismans, arrays, Chaos Jade, Chaos Origin crystals, and so on were still relatively abundant. However, the shortage of Dominator Artifacts was simply too massive.
Xie Tingfeng opened the military camp’s material management backend.
Seeing that the procurement target for Dominator Artifacts was still ninety-four percent incomplete, he let out a deep, weary sigh.
Just as he was about to close the backend, he suddenly noticed a strange phenomenon. He saw someone was submitting Dominator Artifacts in massive quantities, which made him take a second, closer look.
At the same time.
Su Yuan had finished refining all his orders.
From the materials for a total of 3,500 orders, he had refined a full 800 million Dominator Artifacts!
One hundred million of them were needed to fulfill the order deliveries, but that only accounted for a small fraction. The vast majority of Dominator Artifacts had piled up in inventory, urgently needing to find a channel to liquidate them.
Therefore, he diverted a sliver of his attention to check the military camp’s procurement task list.
Looking at these easily attainable task rewards, he clicked “Select All.”
To his surprise, however, the permissions of a Junior Procurement Officer only allowed him to accept ten tasks simultaneously.
Su Yuan was also speechless about this. He could only check ten of the tasks and choose to accept them.
After accepting them, he proceeded to submit them.
But upon submission, he was required to fill in the source of the items.
Su Yuan thought for a moment and filled in: “Stockpiled treasures refined by myself.”
As an artificer, having some inventory was a perfectly normal thing.
Next, Su Yuan uploaded one thousand Dominator Artifacts that met the requirements.
Then, Su Yuan had to wait for the tasks to be reviewed.
This wait lasted a full month.
A prompt appeared: review successful, task completed. One million Kalpa units worth of Chaos Jade was first deposited into his account, followed by one thousand Kalpa units worth of Merit Points being deposited.
The former was the payment from the military camp. If he had procured them from someone else, he would have needed to advance the funds first. Since these were his own goods now, there was no extra hassle.
The latter was his procurement reward as the procurement officer.
The quantity really wasn’t much, but being able to earn Merit Points just by flipping these goods explained why Qi Bai had come to his door.
Su Yuan complained, “What’s up with this military camp system? The review speed is so slow!”
This speed actually wasn’t slow at all. If the Seventh Speaker had still been in position, the review time could have been delayed for decades or even millennia.
Now, with the restrictions on Dominator Artifact reviews relaxed, the speed could be compressed to a year, but it still shouldn’t be as fast as one month. There was clearly a reason for this.
Of course, Su Yuan was unaware of this. He continued by checking ten more tasks and choosing to submit them.
The tasks entered the review status once again.
Just as Su Yuan thought the review would take another month, he saw the review progress flash, and it now displayed: [Review Approved]!
[Funds Received]
[Merit Points Received]
The two prompts appeared instantly.
Su Yuan showed a look of surprise. “Huh? Did the system get optimized? Or did my trust rating go up?”
At this moment, Xie Tingfeng was staring at Su Yuan’s submission records. When he saw Su Yuan submit one thousand Dominator Artifacts in one go, he also revealed an expression of astonishment.
“This artificer has quite some stock!”
Xie Tingfeng had some impression of this person. This should be a City Lord, who was also an artificer, and had also exchanged for procurement officer permissions through a special reward. This identity did have quite a few facets.
He checked the Dominator Artifacts Su Yuan had submitted and once again showed surprise.
“The quality is quite a bit better than required. Interesting. Could it be that this person is willing to take a slight loss himself to support the frontline’s work?”
He casually helped Su Yuan speed up the review progress, completing the task.
Xie Tingfeng’s impression of Su Yuan improved considerably. This person had the bigger picture in mind. The task requirement was Medium-Quality or above, but this person had actually submitted quite a few High-Quality Dominator Artifacts. There was a price difference between these two grades, yet the reward given by the procurement task was fixed.
The loss from this difference was naturally borne by Su Yuan himself.
“This reward model is really not user-friendly enough. How many pitfalls did the Seventh Speaker bury?”
The Third Speaker, Xie Tingfeng, immediately modified the reward method. Once a procurement officer submits items of a value higher than the quality required by the task, the task remuneration would be increased accordingly.
This required a dynamic review mechanism. Xie Tingfeng originally wanted to go set it up immediately.
But he unexpectedly discovered that Su Yuan, who had just completed the tasks, had accepted tasks again and chosen to submit them.
“Huh?”
Xie Tingfeng was surprised. He split off a strand of his consciousness to continue paying attention to Su Yuan, while his other consciousness strands continued handling the matter he had just thought of.
“Just how much inventory does this Seven Stars Artificer have?”
He glanced at the quality of the items Su Yuan uploaded, manually settled the tasks for Su Yuan, and this time, he increased the task rewards according to the quality.
Before he could even check the specific quality of the Dominator Artifacts, Su Yuan’s third batch of review applications had already been submitted.
“Why doesn’t this ‘Seven Stars’ submit everything in one go?” Xie Tingfeng was also taken aback.
Then he remembered that Su Yuan’s permissions were only that of a Junior Procurement Officer, who could only complete ten tasks at a time.
Seeing this, Xie Tingfeng waved his hand grandly, directly promoting Su Yuan’s permissions to Intermediate Procurement Officer. Simultaneously, he granted Su Yuan a temporary special permission for automatic task completion and review.
Su Yuan was currently submitting the third batch of Dominator Artifacts.
Suddenly, a prompt came from his City Lord Seal.
[Ding, congratulations on your permission upgrade. You have become an Intermediate Procurement Officer of the Second Frontline!]
“Huh? Permission upgrade after just two task batches?”
Su Yuan was somewhat surprised. This was good news. After the permission upgrade, he could submit tasks in larger batches, right?
Su Yuan saw the tasks already displayed as review completed.
He scanned the rewards and suddenly noticed the reward amount had reached 1.7 million Kalpa units, an inexplicable increase of 700,000 Kalpa units.
“Hey, not bad. As expected, being an Intermediate Procurement Officer is different. Even the task rewards can increase.”
Su Yuan muttered to himself casually, then began selecting all tasks.
This time, a total of one hundred primary tasks (30th to 39th tier) and ten intermediate tasks (40th to 49th tier) were successfully accepted by him.
With a grand wave of his hand, Su Yuan submitted eleven thousand Dominator Artifacts that met the requirements.
In the blink of an eye.
The tasks already displayed as submitted successfully!
