How come I was born a deity?

Chapter 23: What is this kid up to?

"A newcomer evaluation?" Shen Nianxu chuckled dryly. "What kind of evaluation grade do you plan to give him? A grade? An A grade?"

"Getting a rank is meaningless," the old woman said calmly. "Every time a new recruit is evaluated, someone gets a rank, but how many of them actually stand out after getting a rank? Even if the evaluation result is A, in the end they just blend into the crowd. So the rank is not important; the final ranking is what matters most."

As she spoke, the old woman's gaze fell on Chen Qi.

"I want you to get a top ten ranking."

"it is good."

"..."

This time, the old woman fell silent. "Do you know what being in the top ten of a new recruit evaluation means?"

Chen Qi shook his head blankly. "I don't know."

"I didn't know you agreed so quickly?"

"How could I possibly refuse?"

Hmm... This kid's words actually make some sense?

The old woman hesitated for a moment, "Why don't you try negotiating? Like lowering the ranking a little or something?"

Chen Qi countered with, "Would you be willing to lower your ranking a little?"

The old woman said, "I don't want to."

Chen Qi: "Isn't that right?"

Everyone: "..."

What a negotiation genius.

Even the old woman's expression darkened; she had never expected this kid to be even more difficult to deal with than his father.

Shen Nianxu didn't know what to say. This kid clearly didn't know what the newcomer evaluation meant, nor did he understand how difficult it was to get into the top ten.

That old hag, she clearly doesn't want to vote!

Even if Master Xuanqing didn't want to vote, he would at least say something vague like asking Chen Qi to demonstrate his achievements and strength.

And this old hag keeps talking about primitive people developing nuclear bombs. How can you be so unreasonable?

"Since you've already agreed, that's for the best, phew—" The old woman exhaled another puff of white smoke. "I'm really looking forward to the results of the new recruit evaluation, especially since our Qin's firm will also be sending someone to participate."

Shen Nianxu felt a chill run down her spine as she looked at Boss Qin kneeling on the ground. "You still want to participate in this year's newcomer evaluation? Are you bullying me?"

"Of course it wasn't me," Boss Qin, kneeling on the ground, denied. "I participated once a couple of years ago, why would I need to participate again?"

You participated once two years ago?

Chen Qi asked curiously, "So what was your final ranking?"

Just as Boss Qin was about to speak, a chilling aura filled with murderous intent swept over him.

Dengdengdeng-

The old woman tapped the ashtray with her pipe. "What? Trying to brag about your second-place ranking again? You didn't even get first place, and you still have the nerve to talk about it?"

Boss Qin gave an awkward laugh, "Haha, but the problem is, the champion of my year was really amazing..."

"You, a comedian, can get second place?" Chen Qi muttered to himself. "Then I don't think getting into the top ten is that hard."

Boss Qin: "...Could you please not say things like that to my face?"

"There's nothing I can do..." Shen Nianxu thought to herself. "I can only assume that I won't get the votes from the Qin family's firm for now. In any case, being able to walk out of here unscathed today is more important than anything else."

Thinking of this, Shen Nianxu smiled and said, "We understand. In short, as long as Chen Qi can get a top ten ranking in the newcomer evaluation, you're willing to vote for him, right? Then let's take this as our strategic goal and go back to discuss our strategy. We won't bother you any longer..."

Just as Shen Nianxu was about to turn around.

Dengdengdeng-

The old woman tapped the ashtray gently with her pipe.

"Just leaving like this? Miss Shen, I don't think that's appropriate?"

Shen Nianxu turned around, covered in sweat. "Wh...what's wrong?"

The old woman replied, "Perhaps you've gotten used to the arrogance and domineering attitude of your previous boss. In a normal person's mind, causing harm to others' interests requires paying a price."

"Although we don't know exactly what you did, such strange behavior must have caused financial losses to our Qin's firm."

"Even if Chen Qi has Chen Fuzhou backing him, it will be difficult for me to let you leave without compensating for this part of the loss."

Sure enough... that old hag is a real old hag, so shrewd...

Shen Nianxu could clearly sense that this old hag was even more difficult to deal with than Boss Qin. She couldn't possibly hand over all 200,000 yuan, could she?

What am I going to do about next month's rent?

Chen Qi then stepped forward and said, "Then tell me, what do you want?"

The old woman smiled contemptuously, "To be honest, apart from the Earth Escape Scroll of the 'Book of Escape Techniques' and the voting rights in the year-end election for the person in charge, there is no benefit for me to gain from your bookstore, but it is unrealistic to ask you to hand it over."

"We don't need you to pay a fine. To be honest, the Qin family firm already has enough money. We've even considered buying new property to store our surplus goods."

"It's a pity, though, that we just couldn't find a suitable building. What can we do when we're too rich?"

Shen Nianxu could tell that the old woman was showing off her wealth, seemingly mocking their bookstore for not making much money despite having been in business for so many years and even having a manager as the owner. Instead, they had now fallen to the point where they had to sell "photos with the current owner" to get a partial refund of the deposit.

But Chen Qi understood another layer of meaning.

"Oh? You don't have enough space? In that case, I can help you figure something out."

Upon hearing this, the entire room fell silent.

The next second, Boss Qin and the old woman burst out laughing at the same time.

"Hahaha, your bookstore is barely surviving, where would you find extra space to store our goods? Besides, given Shen Nianxu's personality, how could we possibly entrust our goods to you for storage?"

Shen Nianxu: "Tsk..."

Chen Qi shook his head. "No need. I can just create a space of about the same size for you. Although my current spiritual energy may not be enough to create a large space, it should be sufficient to temporarily store some of the goods."

The old woman: "..."

Boss Qin: "..."

At first, the grandmother and grandson thought that this guy was joking with them, but the more they stared at Chen Qi's face and eyes, the more they felt that this guy seemed to be serious.

Open up space?

How could that be?

Even experts with sufficient strength cannot create a space. The only technique the old woman can think of that can truly create a space is the Taoist cave-heaven technique.

But that's a secret of Taoism, the most secret of secrets, how could Chen Qi possibly know it?

What exactly is this kid up to?