The two chatted as they walked into the office of Team Five, where Marcus immediately noticed the odd looks from the other three.
"What's up?"
Melincha said faintly, "Boss, didn't you check your secret account?"
Marcus, puzzled, opened the account—a Bureau of Mystic Security internal account that registered merit points instead of money.
Marcus's face fell immediately. "They only gave me 20 merit points?"
Chen Gu remembered Marcus had once told him that field agents normally received around 30 merit points per mission, while a team leader got 90. Now Marcus was earning less than his own subordinates.
"Director Mei deducted them," Silver Eagle explained. "She said you had to compensate for that expensive life support equipment..."
Marcus grumbled something under his breath, certainly nothing pleasant. He continued to read, "Silver Eagle, you got 32 this time, with 130 in the account already, making it 164 merit points total!"
Marcus looked at his own total merit points: 76...
