As soon as Ning Qi walked out of the shop, he heaved a sigh and started walking thoughtfully toward his house.
As he barely walked a bit, he received a call and thought it was from Dong Xu, who may want to convince him.
But he was a bit surprised to see it was from Su Xiao, he expected a call from her, but not this early, as that woman may still be conducting the "inspection."
He didn't know that Lian Hua had already left the shop in a depressed mood.
"Hello! Su xiao... I'm on my way to my room. Don't worry about this, and I think that girl won't make things difficult for you. So! Wisely keep working hard."
Ning Qi properly said, as he already guessed why this girl was calling him.
"Ning Qi! I'm extremely sorry... I didn't do a good job, which leads to this. Please come back here immediately. Miss Hua said you can come back and work as usual..."
"She probably just got furious because of your rebuttal, but she isn't that bad inside and told Brother Dong to talk with you. Please don't resign and come back to work with us,"
Su Xiao said with a muffled voice, as she felt she seemed to be the reason for all of this.
Ning Qi got surprised that little Missy asked Dong Xu to talk to him, as he thought she was just a rich brat, who doesn't care about people.
"Hm! Little Su... Don't worry about that! I didn't decide this on impulse or something. I wanted to take a break from work and had been thinking about it for some time. But I didn't grasp a proper reason to inform my parents about that, and I merely exploited this situation to deal with that..."
"Therefore, you don't have to worry about this, and equally, don't take any foolish decisions and work hard. I will catch up with you some other day, okay? "
Ning Qi explained that he didn't resign out of anger or shame. After he got the system this morning, he knew he may not get that much time to deal with the job, which needs him to work for 10 hours a day.
As such, he felt the situation was perfect to deal with the problem without having to worry about the nagging from Dong Xu and others.
"Oh! Then... let's meet this Saturday for dinner, and it's going to be my treat, OK?"
Su Xiao blushed a bit as Ning Qi called her 'Little Su', but she felt a bit better as she found the reason from Ning Qi to be legitimate.
She knows he has been working for the shop without taking many leaves and only visiting home once every 4 or 5 months. And, with all of his accomplishments, it's not like he can't enter another job market.
"Okay! Then it's a done deal. Alright, I'm on my way home, will talk to you later. Also, please explain this to brother Xu, as I don't want to face him as of now. Bye."
Ning Qi asked Su Xiao to plead 'innocence' for Dong Xu on his behalf, as he genuinely doesn't want to confront him now.
He aided him a lot on this job, but now he left just like that, and Ning Qi is feeling a bit guilty about this.
He took a look at his mobile and saw three missed calls from Dong Xu, Zhang Wen, and Wang Li, while he was talking with Su Xiao.
He hesitated a bit but still texted them, telling them to talk with Su Xiao.
After dealing with all of that, Ning Qi leisurely walked towards his room but saw Wang Jie on his way with the breakfast.
"Little Jie! Thanks for the breakfast."
Ning Qi said, as he took the breakfast from Wang Jie and stroked his hair.
"Ah! Can you stop messing up my hair, brother Ning? I'm not a child anymore, what if any of my classmates identify me here? Hmph!"
Wang Jie humphed a bit as he complained. Wang Jie was only 12 when Ning Qi came to the city, now he has already turned 16 a month ago and is quite fond of Ning Qi.
"Alright! Let's go back, I'm going to my room too!" Ning Qi said
"Oh! You don't have to work today?"
Wang Jie asked as he looked at Ning Qi in confusion. He equally saw Ning Qi, who had been running to the office an hour ago.
"Ha! I completely took leave for the next three months, as I want to take rest."
Ning Qi merely lied through his teeth, as he felt explaining the reason was complex for everyone and he didn't want his friends to worry about him. He decided to inform others in the company to also do the same.
But! He must inform his family about this, as he doesn't want to lie to his parents unless it's necessary.
Ning Qi parted ways with Wang Jie at their shop and felt glad that Aunty Wang was inside. He undoubtedly felt this situation was more significant to explain than just resigning right on the spot.
[Ding! The first mission is issued... Please check, host.]
As he neared his house, Ning Qi heard the system talking about a mission issue.
"As expected, the bet I took to resign is worth it."
Ning Qi finally felt better, as he felt complex emotions about abandoning the well-paying job. But now he saw its value... because he needed all that time to work on the missions assigned to him by the system.
He knows from the name of the system itself that he requires time to complete missions and can't complete them just by sitting around, at least at the start.
He didn't open the system to check the mission, as he didn't want people to look at him stupidly blanking out in the middle of the road and give him weird stares, so he hurried back home.
By the time he reached his house, he saw Old Li locking the house but stopped after seeing Ning Qi.
"Ha? Why are you back already? Are you not feeling well? Do you want to go to the hospital?"
Old Li asked with a bit of confusion.
"No! I'm feeling well... It's alright, you go first... I will explain to you later."
Ning Qi responded vaguely and entered the house, as he was in a hurry to check on the mission. He doesn't want to waste time explaining the ordeal again.
'Did this guy get hit on the head somewhere? Why is he in such a hurry? Old Li thought in his head, '
"Alright! I'm going then...Let's not make any food today. Let us go out and enjoy some quality food."
After saying that, Old Li didn't wait for a response and went on his way without looking back.
Ning Qi equally didn't respond, as his opinion mostly doesn't matter to Old Li most of the time. Unless he provides a proper reason, he will be dragged along with him.
"System! Explain the mission to me."
Ning asked in his mind.
[Mission: A sect without a sect headquarters is not a sect.
Description: The host needs to secure a place for the sect headquarters and register that place in the system.
Mission Time Limit: 3 days (2d 23h 50m Left)
Rewards: The host will get two free bodily stats and a random technique.
Failure: The host will lose 6 bodily stats randomly, and the mission will be issued again with unlimited time on the next one.]
"Whoop! I thought this system was going to obliterate me or something if there was a failure in the mission. So! I will merely lose six bodily stats at best and get unlimited missions next time. All those novels are misleading me with the obliteration missions, sigh! My system is the best Hehe."
Ning Qi shivered a little before opening it, having read too many novels in which missions must be completed or else the host will be obliterated. But he is happy now as his system is extremely good for him.
But what he doesn't perceive is that this system is bound to his soul and can't choose any more hosts. All it can do is punish him a bit so that he can put more effort into missions.