At first, Carmen truly wanted to me Xu Feng for the cause of her missing the appointment.


    Yet when she saw how Xu Feng didn''t attempt to make any excuse or push the me away, she was hit with a pang of guilt instead.


    Although it remained true that she missed her important day to show up at thepany where she worked, the fault could not be med entirely on Xu Feng either.


    Had she decided to reject Xu Feng to join him in the Divine World and went to sleep instead, then there wouldn''t have been any problem.


    However, she still made the decision to assist him over her valuable sleep time, going as far as determining how much time she could y.


    ''With a Guild Leader that is willing to take the me and responsibility, how can I still fault him?'' She thought to herself, feeling quite ashamed of her initial thought process.


    Meanwhile, Xu Feng mistook her silence as disappointment.


    ''It seems like the arrangement she made is really important.'' Xu Feng knitted his brows, not knowing how he couldpensate her.


    "Carmen, since this is my fault and what we did can be considered a guild''s expedition. I am willing topensate you with some funds." Xu Feng softly said.


    To be honest, he felt that using money topensate her for the loss of time was useless, but he still wanted to offer up something. Other than money, he really can''t think of another perfect solution to make up for her.


    A few secondster, Carmen regained herposure and shook her head.


    "There''s no need topensate me, Guild Leader. It was my choice to follow you, and it''s not like you did it on purpose either." She responded lightly.


    "Even so, I insist on paying for your trouble. Not to mention, you''re part of my elite reserve member. Remunerating you for your effort is a must." Xu Feng insisted on paying her one way or another.


    After some back and forth, Carmen finally relented from the persistent Xu Feng and told him her bank ount number for transfer.


    Once she got a notification and checked the amount he sent, she received a shock.


    "10,000 dors? What''s the meaning of this, Guild Leader?" She asked in a bewildered tone, clearly not expecting such a high transfer of money.


    She merely thought thepensation was somewhere between 50-100 dors.


    Yet reality hit differently. It was a whopping 10,000 dors, equivalent to almost 3 months of her sry.


    This was not adding in the factor of the work required for her to earn that much in herpany in contrast to merely apanying Xu Feng for a small expedition.


    Meanwhile, Xu Feng once again misunderstood her bewilderment.


    With a pondering expression, he asked, "Is 10,000 dors a little too low?"


    His current fund wasn''t much, to be honest, so 10,000 was the only cash flow he could afford topensate temporarily. After all, he spent most of his other wealth on stocks— stocks that he knew thepany would seed.


    By investing in them and slowly building up his stock percentage, he would integrate himself as a critical figure within thosepanies.


    That way, even if he made enemies in the Divine World, the corporations backing them up would have to think twice before trying to get him.


    Trying to mess with a lone individual was easy, but trying to mess with an individual that held many stocks in numerous corporations was akin to poking the tiger''s tail. Only a diabolical fool would want to provoke the slumbering tiger.


    "Anyway, should I add some more?" Xu Feng questioned once he noticed her silence.


    Carmen promptly snapped out of her daze upon hearing him wanting to give her more.


    "N-No, that''s more than enough already." She raised her hands up and shook them back and forth, indicating that she didn''t need anymore.


    "It''s just a marketingpany I''ve been working remotely in that wanted us to show up in the office. But it''s alright, I don''t really want to reveal myself much."


    "A marketingpany eh," Surprise colored Xu Feng''s eyes as he never knew about this information. "What marketingpany is it?"


    "It''s LTG Digital Marketing," Carmen exined. LTG which stands for Long-Term Growth, refers to strategies and initiatives aimed at sustaining and increasing apany''s market presence, revenue, and customer base over an extended period.


    "LTG Digital Marketing?" Astonished, Xu Feng heard about this marketingpany before. It was around the time when the Divine World was finally making big waves thatpanies, especially marketing, went full-throttle in promoting numerous guilds, attracting yers with tempting sries.


    However, that wasn''t everything. It was the fact that to get a job in thepany required extensive university degrees and skills.


    He who can''t even get a college degree and was actually close to being a dropout, having skipped many of his sses already, found it hard to believe Carmen was so multi-talented.


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    "Anyway, if you''re tired, you can log off and rest." Xu Feng coughed and suggested, clearly unwilling to talk about his inferiority.


    College?


    Honestly, that crap was the most useless and scam type ever to exist. Unless one had a background or was full of money to enter a prestigious college, one could forget about getting a good job after graduating.


    "No, I''m actually not tired, Guild Leader." Seemingly ignorant of Xu Feng''s inferiority, Carmen decided to continue ying. Since she was most likely fired for not showing up, she might as well continue gaming.


    After all, following Xu Feng always tended to bring her new experience as opposed to trying to y alone or team up with others. It was always the same old, grinding simple missions and fighting normal monsters.


    "In that case, let''s teleport back to the Vanguard Hotel. As a guild member of Vanguard, you are permitted to teleport straight to the lobby." Xu Feng said, opening up his panel to return to the Vanguard Hotel.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om