Witch Special

After all, as a ten-year veteran, Lin Zhenxi still held a certain level of status within the company. For example, her office was a bit more spacious than that of the other newer commissioners...

The company's first floor, the public area everyone passes through, is where counter services are handled. These services are generally simple, such as requests for local specialties from their homeland or a message to their loved ones back in the other world to let them know they're safe. These services can all be handled at the first-floor service windows. Besides services related to the otherworld, the first floor also arranges various skills training for foreigners, helping them adapt more quickly and effectively to life on Earth. They even help those who have completed adaptation training and mastered the skills to survive on Earth find suitable employment. The company handles all of these services.

It sounds more like a government department than a company, right? After all, the company was the first to engage in foreigner-related work. Even for its own reasons, it was more convenient for the company to handle things the government couldn't. Over time, a trusting relationship developed between the company and the government, and the government now confidently entrusted the company with the responsibility of welcoming, training, and converting foreigners.

Relinquishing power is impossible. The government must be led by humans. This is a matter of principle, and no concession is possible. However, if humans were to directly manage the aliens, a conflict could easily ensue. Through their interactions with the aliens, humans have learned that not only are they not alone in this universe, but they themselves are not inherently superior. We are all equal, and even if aliens are outsiders, humans should not be considered superior to them. To prevent this potential disaster, the government has chosen to establish an agent to indirectly manage the aliens, who are the most difficult to manage due to their initial incorporation into society. Companies are the most suitable platform for this government.

Having discussed the company's mission, it's time to discuss its profitability. If it provided free docking services to foreigners, the company would inevitably fail due to insufficient revenue. Furthermore, the government had to remain hidden behind the company, making it difficult to directly provide financial support. Therefore, the company was forced to find its own way out.

Thus, relying on the incredibly powerful central processor perched mid-air in the company's first-floor lobby, the company gradually evolved into a consulting and processing platform connecting nearly every area related to aliens. They took in new aliens, educated them about this new world, helped them complete their training, and then recommended those skilled aliens to businesses or government agencies in need, ultimately receiving a payment from the employers... Sounds like a labor dispatch company, right? And that's exactly what it was, at least according to the company's official description.

Labor dispatch companies primarily rely on consulting services. Only by mastering sufficient information resources can they maximize their profits. In this regard, companies with advanced technology have an unparalleled advantage.

But that was only the company's facade. In the eyes of Lin Zhenxi, who knew the inside story, the company's always bustling first floor was just a bright facade. Its true nature lay hidden higher up.

The company was enormous, even one of the tallest buildings in Xinlan City. How could it possibly only have a ground-floor office? Could it be that, aside from the ground floor, the rest of the space was used as dormitories for those from other worlds who hadn't yet completed their training? How could that be possible?

Lin Zhenxi didn’t know whether the company had any deeper business, but at least from what she knew, the company would actually undertake business related to “missing”.

About ten years ago, people from other worlds began to appear in large numbers. The term "time travel" gradually became familiar to the world. The label "the era of time travel" gradually gained recognition from more and more people.

So, although we don't know why Earth has become the destination for a large number of aliens, what about the other way around? Since aliens have traveled from other worlds, does that mean that Earthlings have also traveled to other worlds?

The answer is, yes.

While the percentage isn't high, it's important to understand that the reason Earth seems to have so many aliens is because Earth is like a gateway to all the other worlds, and countless other worlds have participated in sending their natives to Earth. If we only count a single alien world, the percentage of people traveling across time is actually pitifully small, a low-probability event with countless zeros after the decimal point.

It is also a low-probability event for Earthlings to travel to other worlds.

But time travel is like a plane crash: no matter how low the statistical probability is, if you happen to experience it, the probability of death is almost 100%. For those families who are unfortunate enough to encounter a time traveler, they need to face the reality that their family has been shattered by the time travel incident.

If it were an orphan born without parents and no ties, and their transmigration into another world had no impact on others, that would be fine. However, those born with such fate are a minority after all. The vast majority of people in this world have healthy families and networks of connections they have personally woven. Transmigration incidents often occur to this much larger group of "normal" people.

Time travel is definitely not a spontaneous journey; it represents a complete break from the past, a void in the emotional bonds of family, friends, and loved ones, and a deep emotional wound that time cannot heal. Behind every time travel experience, there's often a deep well of longing and sorrow that many people struggle to find respite.

If the yearning is truly intense, reaching a certain threshold, the person feeling the company's call will be drawn to them, guided by their souls and drawn to the company. This is one of the few ways for Earthlings to enter the company. Besides being the issuer of a longing request, the only other path for humans to enter the company is to become a special agent employed by the company. Beyond these two paths, even government officials are unable to gain access to the company... Lin Zhenxi hadn't seen anyone other than the client and the special agent inside the company in the past ten years, and she didn't believe the government wouldn't want to see what was going on inside. She could only assume that entry was impossible.

Lin Zhenxi, or people like Lin Zhenxi, who are hired by the company as special correspondents, their job is to help those clients who miss their loved ones and fulfill their wish to get information about their loved ones' recent situation.

In order to complete their mission, the special envoys need to go to the other world that the travelers have traveled through, and find the travelers from the vast sea of ​​people in the other world, whether they are traveling through in the flesh or reincarnated, and convey the thoughts of their relatives from their hometown to them.

So if they can even do something as exaggerated as actively traveling to a specific world, how could the company be just a simple training and labor dispatch company?

To be honest, it has been ten years since Lin Zhenxi signed a special correspondent contract with the company when she was seventeen years old and in her third year of high school, but there are still many things she doesn't understand about her job.

In fact, she had been completely bewildered when she signed the contract. Back then, aliens had only just begun to appear in society, far from becoming the social phenomenon they are today. Governments were covering up their existence, claiming they were just cosplayers in bizarre costumes or lunatics who had escaped from a mental hospital. At the time, she was debating whether to study high-energy physics or nuclear engineering in college when she stumbled upon a flyer on the street that read, "Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly live?" While such clichés might have been trope-ridden for the older generation, Lin Zhenxi was captivated by the description of time travel on the back of the flyer. As a fan of novels, she was no stranger to the term "time travel." Thinking, "Is this some kind of prank? Let's see if this person is crazy!" she took the flyer to the special envoy recruitment event.

then……

Then it became like this. Ten years later, there were only a few of her peers left. Most of them had been lost in other worlds because they could not complete their commissions. And she, Lin Zhenxi, had become a senior member of the company, a C-rank special envoy who had successfully traveled to other worlds six times.

Formal introduction, Maki Hayashi, the company's C-level special agent, with the company's certified title "Fairy Tale Witch".

His initial weapon was the Elder Wand, and when he was promoted to C-rank, he chose a new weapon, the "Witch's Book", from the company's armory.

He ranks quite high among the company's many special correspondents and is one of the leaders on the magic side.

The ultimate goal of my current career is to become an S-class special envoy.

But even after traveling through alternate worlds countless times, she still couldn't understand why the company would accept a mission commissioned by someone with a loved one. Simply finding the traveler and conveying their loved one's thoughts to them, what benefit could the company gain from this process? And what was the true meaning of these special agents risking their lives in another world to convey their loved ones' thoughts?

After ten years of exploration, the company's secrets were still shrouded in a thick fog. She herself had already stepped deeply into it, enveloped by the fog, and could never return to the past.