A Top Scholar in Everything

The work at the Veterans Mutual Aid Association isn't as busy as imagined, though it's not very leisurely either.

How to put it.

For Baiyu, who was accustomed to living as a corporate drone in his previous life, this job is still within a completely acceptable range.

Basically, the daily routine involves checking documents, processing reports, helping retired soldiers handle procedures, and the like.

Besides these leisurely tasks.

There's also the need for combat situations.

Which means resolving troubles encountered by veterans in various places, most of these troubles are related to pollution, distortion, and Extraordinary events.

The Veterans Mutual Aid Association has branches in other major cities as well.

Baiyu is only responsible for the entire Villiduo.

Although the strength of each branch is not strong, combined together, they can't be underestimated.

Overall,

The Veterans Mutual Aid Association is considered a large organization that spans the entire country.

After he became the president, the positions of the Inspection Department minister and vice minister were vacant.

Oral let him make the arrangements himself.

After thinking for a while, Baiyu appointed Qiong Xue and Hu Yue as the minister and vice minister respectively.

He wasn't very familiar with the members of the Inspection Department, so the relationships were not so close.

In such important positions.

Naturally, he couldn't casually promote others.

Hu Yue counts as the person he knows best in the Inspection Department, while Qiong Xue basically sleeps all day and doesn't handle affairs.

This arrangement works just fine.

Although Hu Yue is the vice minister, he actually has the rights of the main department.

As for Qiong Xue,

If someday she becomes interested in the Veterans Mutual Aid Association, she can take over anytime.

"The Veterans Mutual Aid Association receives a lot of donations every year."

In the office.

Baiyu holds a report list.

On it, items of donations received by the Veterans Mutual Aid Association are listed in detail.

No detail was missed; as long as you have donated, you're listed here.

Most of these donations come from retired veterans, as well as those Pioneer Nobility who have risen through military ranks, and some people who have been helped by the Veterans Mutual Aid Association before.

Of course,

Even if the donation sum is not small,

The expenditures are numerous.

Baiyu took a look.

The Veterans Mutual Aid Association's expenditure on casualty medical care alone takes up a significant portion.

Last year,

Thirty-seven people died within the association.

Yet the Villiduo Veterans Mutual Aid Association barely amounts to three hundred people in total.

Such a high rate of mortality.

Is shocking.

"Most died while handling Extraordinary events.

Thus, the Veterans Mutual Aid Association now recruits new members who must at least be Martial Artists and Extraordinary.

Ordinary people and Quasi-Martial Artists,

With such work intensity, survival rates are basically low."

Baiyu keeps looking at the report, learning about the situation within the association.

As he reads,

He realizes that the entire Veterans Mutual Aid Association isn't as good as he had thought.

There's a long-standing, very serious problem that urgently needs addressing.

Money!

The association is lacking funds.

Recruiting new members, purchasing equipment and pharmaceuticals, compensating work injuries, daily wages for members, regular expenditures, etc., one after another...

On the surface, the Veterans Mutual Aid Association seems financially strong.

But in reality, it has already fallen into fiscal deficit, with revenues not supporting expenses.

Relying on government annual allocations and various donations.

It's simply unsustainable.

He finally understands the carefree attitude of the president when he left.

It's completely a mess; no matter how poorly he manages it himself, it couldn't get much worse.

"The president went to excavate relics — also for money?"

Baiyu feels a bit distressed.

According to what's shown on the data report, the situation of the Veterans Mutual Aid Association has never been good annually.

Moreover, it gets worse year by year.

At its peak, the association even had several thousand members.

With dedicated expedition teams, etc.

Now.

At the Villiduo Headquarters, plus the association at Villiduo Shelter, the combined staff is barely over three hundred people.

With that,

There's still twenty percent wanting to resign.

After all, these people are Martial Artists and Extraordinary, not lacking work; joining the association, first, is for connections, second, to gain some experience.

"It's hard."

Baiyu rubs his forehead.

He wants to revive the Veterans Mutual Aid Association, so he can have a stronghold.

However,

It seems difficult for now.

"Qiong Xue, Qiong Xue!"

Shouting twice in the office.

Holding a cup of coffee, Qiong Xue walks in sleepily, with a bit of a daze on her face: "What's the matter?"

"Accompany me to take a tour at the Villiduo Shelter."

Baiyu says decisively.

He needs to understand the recent situation of the entire Veterans Mutual Aid Association, not just the headquarters here at Villiduo.

The Villiduo Shelter, he also needs to understand.

Moreover,

That side is even more important.

Because the shelter often faces dangerous Extraordinary events.

So the members staying at the shelter are relatively more elite.

Among the three major departments,

The minister of the Action Department is also over there.

However,

This group of elites reportedly suffered heavy casualties in the recent action, not sure how many viable forces remain.

...

Coming out from the teleportation light gate, Baiyu's view brightens.

The sky is a fiery orange, resembling burning flames.

Surrounded by towering mountains, and giant ancient trees hard to encircle.

Amidst such perilous primeval forest sits the Villiduo Shelter.

In the shelters controlled by the East Prosperity Imperial, no matter whether in terms of defense power, permanent troops, or development scale, it ranks in the top three.

The development of a city,

Its geographical position is the lower limit, while the shelter is the upper limit.

Like Linjiang City, such a small city, regardless of how good its geographical position is, if its shelter cannot expand, it's very difficult to develop.

Except for Kyoto and the Great City.

Villiduo Shelter within the East Prosperity Imperial territory definitely has no other shelter comparable to it.

But Kyoto is the center of East Prosperity, where powerful figures gather.

And the Great City,

This is a unique city located at the junction of East Prosperity Imperial, Free Federation, Barbaric Land, and Great Yan Dynasty.

It is not under the jurisdiction of any country.

The City Lord's orders are ironclad.

The City Lord of the Great City is among humanity's absolute top-tier strong.

The four bordering countries dare not easily provoke such a terrifying presence.

So over the years.

The Great City has grown increasingly robust, attracting people from four cities to go there.

Combined with the relatively lenient rules of the Great City, it makes many people flock eagerly.

Also, many offending Martial Artists.

Would escape into the Great City.

The power of Villiduo's shelter should be just weaker than these two places.

Therefore,

When Baiyu arrived at this city within the Spirit Realm Forest, he was still slightly shocked.

Villiduo Shelter.

is an entire large mountain.

The shelter is built against the mountain, and the spirit of the shelter is said to be inside the mountain.

And this vast primeval forest.

is Villiduo Shelter's natural barrier.

"According to the information displayed, Villiduo Shelter relies on the entire Black Stone Mountain to establish, permanent troops of three hundred thousand.

Possessing two Legendary Ships.

And several Titans, over a hundred Magic Kinetic Crystal Cannons.

Annually, there are more than ten Grandmaster Level strong people stationed.

Even,

Even Tier Two Martial Artists and Sequence Two Extraordinary, have a permanent presence in the shelter.

This is the apparent strength; secretly, the strength is likely only more, not less."

As she walks out of the teleportation light gate,

Qiong Xue reports to Baiyu the series of information she had previously collected.

Of course,

Most of this information is directly gathered from the Qiong Family.