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"My name is Ichiro Ogure, and I am the head of the Power Department. The Power Department is responsible for maintaining the power system of the Endless Energy and regularly checking whether the ship's power supply is normal."

Bai Miao thought the big man was from the security department.

After taking control and upholding the captain's authority, Bai Miao did not continue to make things difficult for the ministers.

The fact that the person who knocked on the door was not chosen as the minister indicates that the information held by these departments is very important, and it would be bad to make the relationship too strained.

Who knows, these guys might have been produced along with the Endless Energy.

After carefully listening to the reports from other departments, Bai Miao understood the ship's operating mode.

First, the captain designates a course of navigation, and then the Endless Energy simply heads in that direction.

During this process, the radar will be activated, and if the missing part is within ten kilometers, its exact location can be pinpointed.

If you come across land, go ashore and search for supplies or other valuables.

The search for supplies did not include food, because none of the crew members on the Endless Energy needed to eat.

The research and development department developed a thing called a life support system, which seems to allow the crew of the Endless Energy to remain in a state where they do not need food or water.

But I still need to sleep.

Bai Miao suddenly felt that the fragments of the Heavenly Dao of Abundant Land had lost their prestige.

This is a victory for technology.

If we find metal or other materials, we'll hand them all over to the R&D department to process into weapons, bullets, and other such items.

Sometimes, if you're lucky, you might encounter other ships at sea, and then you can make some trades with those ships to exchange for information.

It might also reach inhabited land, where 99% of the world is submerged by seawater, and human settlements are scarce.

Gong Ni, the head of the R&D department, suggested proactively contacting inhabited areas, as the lost parts are more likely to be found in these areas.

Her reasoning was that people in human settlements often send out to salvage ancient artifacts in order to find lost civilizations, and that they might even find the missing parts of the Endless Energy.

The Endless Energy also does salvage work. The department in charge is operations management, and the head of that department is also a young woman. The security department will assist during the process because the sea is not safe.

Bai Miao also took this opportunity to make new demands on the security department.

Strengthen security inside the ship's cabins at night.

The head of security had a slightly unfocused look in his eyes, his head of messy blond curls: "Captain... the security department isn't there to protect what's inside the cabin, but what's outside. In other words, the security department exists only to make you feel secure, do you understand what I mean?"

I fucking...

Emma added, "Captain, you are responsible for the safety of the Endless Energy. Of course, you only need to be responsible for the period from 22:00 PM to 2:00 AM; you can sleep in your office at other times."

The training department's work isn't too complicated. If the Endless Energy were to dock at an inhabited island, some crew members would consider disembarking and integrating into human society, and some locals would also want to board the ship and go to sea.

The training department's job is to train these new crew members and conduct regular assessments of the crew.

The work of the training department and the human resources department is largely the same, and the heads of the two departments also look quite similar, making Bai Miao suspect that this was intentional in the initial design.

After exchanging views with each minister, the most important topic of the meeting was brought up.

Which way to?

Bai Miao could see with his naked eye that all the ministers' faces wore expressions of expectation and doubt.

"I'd like to ask, how did the previous captains make their decisions? Did they just decide arbitrarily? You should at least give me some reference, shouldn't you?"

Emma frowned: "Captain, the direction can only be decided by you. That's why we usually choose crew members with lower than average intelligence to be captains, because they won't have too many ideas and will only trust their first instinct."

"This first impression is exactly what we want."

"Can you show me some respect next time? I'm a captain, after all."

Emma nodded: "That's right, precisely because you're a captain."

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The other ministers seemed unsurprised by Emma's behavior.

"Alright... I'll decide on the direction. I have another question: as the captain, do I have the power of life and death over the crew members on board?"

This is very important to Bai Miao.

The dungeon instructions stated that you must obey the captain's orders.

However, it does not mean that the captain can issue orders without restraint.

It now seems that all the other ministers, including Emma, ​​have served much longer than I have on this ship.

They seemed to be looking for the captain simply to find someone to give them directions.

There are also scapegoats.

Therefore, Bai Miao was not sure if he would have too much operational authority.

Emma seemed quite surprised that Bai Miao asked such a question.

She paused for a moment and exchanged glances with the other ministers.

"Of course you can. If you want, you can throw all the crew into the sea, but I don't recommend that. As a captain, you shouldn't focus on the crew, just as I never focus on the captain. What you should be concerned about is whether our ship has veered off course and whether it is necessary to send manpower to salvage unknown relics in the deep sea."

"Is necessary."

Research and Development Director Gong Ni suddenly interrupted, saying, "Relics are the only way we know about the past, so if we encounter anything that might be a relic, we must retrieve it!"

Since it's possible... then the next question is to find out who Zhao Ling is.

The personnel department report revealed that the entire Endless Energy, including the minister, has a total of 5213 crew members.

Nine of them were knocking on the door.

Without a communication network, the only way to find them was to call them together via the captain's broadcast.

But thinking about it carefully, given Zhao Ling's personality, he probably wouldn't just sit and wait to die; he would definitely be thinking of causing some trouble.

"I have my reasons for saying this. I hope that all ministers will pay attention to any employees in their departments who are behaving abnormally, and then report to me in a timely manner."

Bai Miao's unusually serious demeanor made all the ministers quite nervous.

"Captain...is something big about to happen?" Personnel Minister Wiener asked cautiously.

“If handled properly, it’s not a big deal; if not handled promptly, it will be a big deal. So I hope you will take this matter seriously.”

“Alright! Since the captain has made this request, we will definitely pay special attention.” Ichiro Ogure, the head of the power department, supported Bai Miao’s request.

The other ministers also nodded in agreement.

The captain's status still has an effect... These ministers don't look at seniority; they choose to believe what they themselves say...

Bai Miao obtained another useful piece of information.

The only unfriendly person was his own secretary.

But the secretary didn't mean any harm; it seemed more like he simply wanted to scold the captain.

This is probably not a peculiar quirk of the first captain.

Being scolded by a tall female secretary in a sailor uniform...

Bai Miao found it hard to say; he himself did not want to be treated this way.

"Okay, then I'll decide on the direction of our advance at the end of the meeting..."

All the ministers fell silent, casting expectant glances at Bai Miao once again.

"Move forward three steps, to the northeast!"

"Roger that!"

After receiving the directions, the ministers left the meeting room as if they had been injected with adrenaline and threw themselves into their respective work.

Emma leaned close to Bai Miao's ear and whispered, "It's time to go to the office and deal with today's documents. I hope you won't dump everything on me."

Chapter Ninety-One Duty

The layout of the captain's office seemed somewhat out of place with the rest of the Endless Energy.

A long, brown wooden table sat across the center of the office, with a typewriter and an old telephone on the far left.

Bai Miao had only ever seen this thing in movies and TV shows; the layout of the letter keys on the typewriter wasn't even the same as the layout of a modern keyboard.

"This thing can't be used for the time being."

Emma told Bai Miao to ignore the typewriter.

"Can't use it? Then what should I do?"

"Approval documents".

Emma took a stack of parchment scrolls from another cabinet in the office.

"You can make annotations with a quill pen."

"Anyway, all you'll do is draw a circle on it, and then leave everything to me."

Bai Miao couldn't bear to look at it for more than a couple of seconds.

The captain has to handle all the trivial matters, even fights between employees require his approval.

It's definitely best to leave this kind of thing to the secretary.

"Hey...you can filter through them first, and annotate any unusual documents for me. Don't show me the ones that happen every day."

“In addition to approving the documents, the captain also needs to arrange the rotating ministers for the next seven days, which means that there will not only be me in your office, but other ministers will also come to assist you.”

"Does the captain have so much to do? By the way, could you provide me with a computer?"

"As expected of a captain with below-average intelligence, he doesn't even recognize a computer anymore?"

Emma lightly tapped the desktop with her finger, and the entire desktop lit up instantly, projecting three-dimensional patterns onto the desktop.

The pattern above can be easily manipulated by hand.

The sense of technology is immediately enhanced.

"Could you ask them to approve my documents electronically next time? It's such a waste to have so many parchment scrolls."

"No."

"What?"