Lin Mu has worked at Innovation Corporation for over ten years. What kind of storms hasn't he weathered?
Thinking back, it was an "anomalous containment breach" that more or less shoved him into the company's underground division, making him an unofficial containment specialist. Back then, he was full of questions:
What exactly are anomalies?
How could a company that claims to lead global scientific progress secretly be tasked with protecting humanity?
But perhaps the hardest thing for Lin Mu to accept was a monthly salary just five thousand above the base rate. I still have a mortgage to pay, you know.
As time passed, the years honed Lin Mu into a capable professional.
He gradually found his footing in this difficult, high-casualty job and went from temporary to full-time. Then his direct supervisors kept dying heroically on the job, one after another, and he was pushed up to fill their positions. It was like standing on an escalator: he hadn't taken a single step, yet he kept rising higher.
At last! After the last senior member of his department had died on the job, Lin Mu received a letter from the senior management committee with absolutely no surprise: after completing the three-month accelerated doctoral program at Innovation University, he would officially take over as head of the Department of Anomaly Management (DAM).
From his very first day in the role, Lin Mu struggled to get by in a job with extremely long hours and an extremely high death rate.
That is, until one day, a special operations unit with authorization from senior management entered Innovation Corporation's underground research fortress headquarters beneath Yushan...
"I will definitely finish this, but updates will come whenever they come."