novelraw Chapter 12 – The clown is actually me
Chapter 12 – The clown is actually me
Last night, the progress bar was still at 0, but today it had jumped to 2%. The only thing Qin Yu did overnight was cultivation.
It was pretty clear that the progress bar was linked to cultivation.
Qin Yu calculated in his mind.
"Last night was my first time cultivating, and I wasted quite a bit of time. I'm not very familiar with the technique, so my cultivation efficiency was too low."
"If I go at a normal pace, I should be able to add 5% each night, and in about twenty days, I could reach 100% and get a chance to copy a talent."
Qin Yu felt a bit of anticipation in his heart!
"I wonder what level of talent I can copy next time?"
After a quick wash, Qin Yu headed to his workplace.
He had taken a Fasting Pill last night, and even now, he didn't feel hungry at all.
With a broom in hand, Qin Yu quickly arrived at Bright Moon Plaza.
As he had expected yesterday, Bright Moon Plaza was just a small square the size of a basketball court, with a few small trees standing around its perimeter and only a few leaves scattered on the ground.
The area was quite remote, with hardly anyone passing by, making it easy to manage.
In no time, Qin Yu had cleaned Bright Moon Plaza thoroughly.
"This has to be the easiest job in the Xuantian Sect, and it's mine!" Qin Yu thought happily to himself.
With nothing else to do, Qin Yu decided to check out Maple Leaf Plaza, which was managed by Li Zhengtong.
Maple Leaf Plaza wasn't far from Bright Moon Plaza, just about a 25-minute walk.
As its name suggested, Maple Leaf Plaza was filled with maple trees.
It was early autumn, but the mountain temperatures were low, and the maple leaves had already turned crimson, making it the most beautiful season for maple leaves.
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A gust of wind blew, and a flurry of maple leaves fell like butterflies.
Anyone witnessing this scene would open their mouth and exclaim, "How beautiful!"
But!
If you wanted to stand there quietly and enjoy the view for a moment, that wouldn't be possible because you'd hear a voice constantly cursing.
The more the maple leaves fell, the faster and harsher the cursing became.
The one cursing was none other than Li Zhengtong, who was responsible for cleaning this area.
At that moment, Li Zhengtong was bent over, struggling to sweep the leaves into a pile.
A gust of wind blew, and the leaves fell again, undoing all of Li Zhengtong's hard work, forcing him to start over.
"Xiaotong, this is too miserable. You could work all day and still not finish!"
Li Zhengtong lifted his head with difficulty, his face already covered in sweat.
A fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, pampered by his parents at home, hardly ever worked.
Now, just after joining the sect, he was faced with such exhausting work.
This left Li Zhengtong feeling utterly hopeless.
He couldn't finish sweeping, not at all.
Li Zhengtong plopped down on the ground, looking at Qin Yu with a mournful face, "Brother Yu, my luck is just too bad!"
Qin Yu patted Li Zhengtong's shoulder and comforted him in the tone of an elder brother from the martial world:
"Xiaotong, you need to learn to adapt. There will be more unlucky things in the future!"
Hearing this, Li Zhengtong felt even more aggrieved.
Seeing his little brother so upset, Qin Yu felt he had to share some of his treasured wisdom.
"Li Zhengtong!" Qin Yu said seriously, "Today, I'll teach you the 'Twelve Strategies for Slacking Off at Work' to help you out of this predicament."
Li Zhengtong perked up his ears, listening intently.
Although Li Zhengtong didn't know what Brother Yu was going to say, he knew it must be important.
Qin Yu raised a finger and began slowly:
"First, we workers are human, not the donkeys of a production team. We need to learn to rest."
"When can you rest? When no one's around, when there's no inspection, when you're taking a dump..."
"Second, how to make others see at a glance that you've done a lot of work!"
"Take cleaning as an example. You need to let the inspectors see with their own eyes what you've done, put your work results out in the open."
Li Zhengtong humbly asked, "Brother Yu, how should I do that?"
"Simple, just pile up these leaves, the more the better. Don't move a little at a time to the trash heap."
"Why?" Li Zhengtong was puzzled.
"How can you be so dense! If you move the leaves to the trash heap, who can see them? When the inspectors come and see leaves all over the place, they'll think you haven't done anything."
"But if you pile the leaves right here, the inspectors will know it's not that you haven't worked, but that there are too many leaves to finish, and they keep falling, so it's not your fault!"
Li Zhengtong felt as if a new world had opened up.
"Brother Yu, you're so smart to think of this."
Qin Yu lifted his chin slightly, smiling, "This is just the tip of the iceberg of your brother Yu's wisdom. Let me teach you the third strategy, how to do nothing yet make others think you're busy!"
"......"
By the time Qin Yu had imparted all the 'Twelve Strategies for Slacking Off at Work,' an hour had passed.
Qin Yu patted Li Zhengtong, "Work hard, I'm heading back!"
"Farewell, Brother Yu!"
Li Zhengtong's tone was respectful and grateful.
If it weren't for Brother Yu's divine intervention, he might have worked himself to death here today.
On the way back, Qin Yu sighed.
"The 'Thousand Trials and Tribulations' talent seems to be taking effect. Out of so many positions, he ended up with Maple Leaf Plaza, truly unlucky."
Thinking of the constantly falling maple leaves, Qin Yu felt a headache. When would he ever finish sweeping them?
"Indeed, without comparison, I wouldn't know how lucky I am!"
Qin Yu decided on the way that he would spend his idle daytime hours on cultivation.
This way, in just ten days, he could fill the progress bar to 100%.
Copying an impressive talent would allow him to reach the Foundation Establishment Stage faster than the Inner Sect disciples, shocking all the sect elders.
Thus, Qin Yu's path to becoming the Great Emperor would begin.
Thinking of this, Qin Yu couldn't help but smile, letting out a 'hehehe' laugh.
Until Qin Yu returned to Bright Moon Plaza and saw the mess all over the ground, his smile froze on his face.
"Whoever did this is so uncivilized, leaving their waste everywhere. I curse you to have a son with no butthole," Qin Yu angrily cursed at the air.
In the center of the plaza was a pile of filth half as tall as a person, with countless other piles of varying sizes scattered around.
They varied in color and shape, but the smell was the same, indicating they weren't from the same species.
Despite his cursing, he had to clean his plaza before the inspection came.
If it didn't pass inspection, all his contribution points for the month would be deducted.
Contribution points were like currency in the sect, used to purchase miraculous pills and divine techniques, and were very important to Xuantian Sect disciples.
Qin Yu found a small cart and an iron shovel nearby, stuffed tissues up his nose, and got to work with determination.
Suddenly, Qin Yu missed Li Zhengtong's maple forest.
The joke was on him!