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Thanks to Professor Xiang’s “meeting gift”, Jiang Chen’s project approval was much faster than he planned. There were advantages and disadvantages to the plan being advanced, but in general it was more beneficial.
After the simulated military battle and the meeting, it was already past eleven o’clock in the evening when they left the military base, and drove back to Yan City from the border of the neighboring province overnight. During this period, the several elderly people who traveled along the way were all in high spirits, chatting about the meeting that would be held in a few months, and did not shy away from speaking in front of Jiang Chen who was also present.
However, Jiang Chen didn’t pay much attention to these political issues. It would take some time for the project to go from approval to real launch. During this period, the candidates for the scientific research team must be determined. However, until now, he had no suitable choice except Yu Yi, and Yu Yi would not sign a contract with the company.
In addition, the company’s office location should be selected as soon as possible. Although he didn’t have much experience in business operations, when he started a business with Shen Xu and Huo Bo back in the first life, it was not like he didn’t pay attention to the outside world and just focused on research. At least in the early days of the business, including recruiting employees and other miscellaneous matters he was also involved.
Having a certain amount of experience could indeed improve efficiency, but the college entrance examination was coming soon. It was quite difficult to establish a company, choose a location, complete renovations, and procure all equipment and materials all before the summer vacation as it was such a tight time frame.
Jiang Chen looked out the window, thinking about how to compress the time for establishing the company.
Probably seeing that he was lost in his thoughts, the hale and hearty old gentleman asked him, “What are you thinking?”
Jiang Chen blurted out: “About starting my company.”
The three present here were aware of the contract proposed by Jiang Chen, and there was no need for even a pause: “Is there any trouble?”
Jiang Chen sat up slightly, paused for a moment, and briefly explained his concerns.
The old gentleman smiled: “Actually, you don’t need to worry. The people in the research institute will try their best to match your time to recruit the scientific research team, and it will take a while from the notification to the selection of applications. By the time you are actually asked to oversee interviews, you will probably have finished taking the exam.”
“These things are not something you have to worry about at all.” Professor Xiang looked at him sideways, and said calmly: “If you don’t have time, leave it to your dad. He doesn’t deal in real estate, and he has a lot of office buildings in good locations. Just tell him, and he will naturally take care of it for you.”
Jiang Chen was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously wanted to refute this approach.
Professor Xiang didn’t give him a chance to refute, and continued: “Your time is used for scientific research, don’t waste your energy on these things that don’t need your attention at all.”
The old gentleman looked at Jiang Chen with a smile, and said in a kind tone, “Grandpa Xiang is right. Since you are running out of time, why not leave this matter to someone you trust and have the ability to take care of it.”
The middle-aged man who had been by the old gentleman’s side glanced at Jiang Chen, and suddenly said, “I was thinking you look familiar. I seem to have seen you before but I don’t have much impression. Which family are you from?”
As an insider, Professor Xiang naturally answered this question for Jiang Chen: “He is the eldest child of the third son of the He family.”
The middle-aged man nodded, a hint of curiosity flashing across his eyes, but he didn’t ask any more questions.
The car drove smoothly to Yan City. Since Jiang Chen had to attend class tomorrow, he was sent home first.
When the car gradually left the neighborhood where the Jiang’s lived, the middle-aged man asked, “Why is the eldest child of He Yanfeng surnamed Jiang?”
Professor Xiang sighed. It wouldn’t be long before the whole circle knew about it, and if the middle-aged man in front of him really wanted to know he had many channels to find out, so he didn’t need to hide it.
“Back then the He Yanfeng couple and Jiang Chen’s adoptive parents
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Back home, Jiang Chen immediately turned on the computer.
Sure enough, countless messages popped up on Wingnet. Among them, H and C sent the most messages, and two came from A.
Jiang Chen was slightly surprised, and clicked on A’s message first:
[A: Today’s information battle was very exciting.]
[A: I am very interested in your Changjiang system, can we have a chat?]
Jiang Chen’s fingers on the keyboard paused for a moment, and he turned off the chat interface. It seemed that A was also one of the people who participated in the information war today. He was indeed very interested in this great god who had retired for a long time, but it was too late now, and it was not suitable for talking about business.
He first opened the dialog box of C, he really wanted to know what would be the news that made him lose his sockpuppet in front of everyone in the Cyber Security Bureau.
[C: I, I, I saw you.]
[C: You, you, why are you so young!]
[C: Great God! God D! Take me flying ahhhhhh! I want to join your team! Even if it’s just to sweep the floor!]
[C: Great God, where are you? How come you don’t reply?]
[C: Hey, are you really not going to reply? Don’t you want to know who I am? We passed by today, you are so scummy, you passed by my shoulder, turning your face and not recognizing me.]
The corners of Jiang Chen’s mouth twitched. He couldn’t imagine that among the people he met at the Cyber Security Bureau today, anyone would post these messages with a straight face. Besides, he passed by many people, and he really couldn’t guess at all
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No, Jiang Chen paused suddenly. He wanted to establish a scientific research team. Apart from the few people who he saw at the meeting in the research institute before, there were only a few big figures who had a meeting at the military base today who knew about him wanting to establish a research team. All the insiders did not exceed fifteen people.
The information warfare and military exercise were all carried out under other pretexts. Even the participants didn’t know the true meaning behind it. How could C know?
[D: How do you know that I am going to form a scientific research team?]
C seemed to have been waiting by the computer, and replied almost the second after Jiang Chen’s message was sent.
[C: On the day you held a meeting at the 17th Research Institute of the Military Department, I was also in the meeting room.]
Jiang Chen looked at the text on the screen, and the faces he had seen in the conference room of the research institute came to mind one by one. Comparing with C’s tone, those who were over sixty like Major General Wu were definitely crossed out. In addition, there was only a woman with long curly hair who he couldn’t tell the age of and the young man sitting next to her who kept his head down and who he couldn’t see the face or age clearly.
Recalling that C once said that he was socially phobic, Jiang Chen had the answer:
[D: Were you sitting at the end opposite me?]
[C: Right, right, right! And when you left this afternoon, I was even standing at the door on the second floor, and just as I was about to call you, you left without looking back.]
[D: So you sent me a message on purpose?]
[C: I just wanted to confirm your identity! I always thought you were about the same age as me, but I didn’t expect you to be so young. My mood at that time was so complicated that you couldn’t understand. I had to confirm it right away.]
Jiang Chen wasn’t angry at all, he just thought it was amazing. This was the first time he encountered such a situation of meeting netizens in reality, and it was really just a meeting without any communication.
[D: Why didn’t you call out to me then.]
[C: I have social phobia, and I can’t speak when I see a real person.]
Jiang Chen’s understanding of social phobia had gained another level. Putting aside other things, if C could join his team, at least in terms of mutual familiarity, he was better than everyone in Wingnet including H and A.
It was just that his understanding of C was limited to his love of browsing other people’s surveillance videos and his ability to track other people’s IPs. These two things have no real effect on the Changjiang project.
[D: You want to join my team, but what advantages do you think you have?]
[C: Actually, I used to be a beta in XX, but because I really didn’t like contact with people, I resigned and changed to accepting orders online to become a hacker. Does your team lack betas?]
He really was lacking.
Jiang Chen thought about finding a beta at the research institute before, but the hugeness of the whole project of Changjiang was far from the amount of work that could be completed by a single beta, and Changjiang would continue to develop and upgrade, and one beta was simply not enough.
Moreover, XX was the most famous software company in the world. If C had worked there, it proved that he had certain abilities. However, being able to work for one of the world’s top ten companies and entering a scientific research team for a difficult scientific research project was not the same concept. Whether it could be successful or not depended on C’s strength.
[D: After a while, I
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Jiang Chen suddenly thought of something, deleted all the words he just typed, and re-typed.
[D: I will send you a program. It is a new programming language, but it can run. You can test it and give me the result in three days.]
[C: Sure!]
After chatting with C, it was getting late. Jiang Chen casually looked at H’s messages, most of which were asking him about the Changjiang system. He randomly picked a few questions that could be answered, and fell asleep on the bed without even washing his face.
*
The results of the third mock exam were released as scheduled, and it was as usual posted on the bulletin board in the Cultural Corridor, but this time the place was much more lively than the previous few times. Not only the third year students, but even the first and second year students crowded in front of the bulletin board.
“Do you see it? Do you see it? Is it Jiang Chen senior?!”
“Is God Jiang number one?”
“Don’t push! There are heads in front, I can’t see at all.”
“Hurry up! I’m so anxious!”
“I see it, I see it! God Jiang is number one! 748! Hot damn~”
“748? Did you read that correctly?”
“It’s 748. Oh my God.”
“Then the top scorer in science is guaranteed?”
“It’s absolutely guaranteed.”
There was a crowd under the bulletin board, and there were also crowds in discussions. The central figure of the topic was highly unified. No matter the years of the students, they all had smiles and pride on their faces.
Just as they said, the other schools taking the first place in the city before was only because God Jiang/Senior Jiang was not there. Once he took part in the exam, everyone had to give way.
Jiang Chen went to bed too late yesterday, and came late today, which was rare for him. He practically stepped into the classroom the same time as the bell rang and didn’t have time to look at his grade. However, he didn’t need to look at the results. The teacher who oversaw the early morning study period had already smiled and congratulated him. And by the way, the whole class also performed a 30-second long drumming on their desks and applause.
“Thanks.”
Jiang Chen put down his schoolbag, thanked them with a smile, but what was in his mind was the phone call he made before going out in the morning.
In the He family house before, after hearing the conversation between He Qianjian and the System, he had been very curious about the unknown functions of the System and the substance He Qianjian mentioned, so that night, he asked the former detective he was in contact with to keep an eye on He Qianjian, wondering what exactly he was looking for.
Jiang Chen’s intuition told him that the thing shouldn’t be anything simple for the System to specially tell He Qianjian to find it.
However, until this morning, there was no progress on the detective’s side. All of He Qianjian’s actions were normal, and he didn’t deliberately buy or look for anything. Even if he did buy something during this period, there was nothing similar to the pronunciation of the substance PO.
What would it be?
Jiang Chen took out the English practice paper, put on his earphones, and thought about it while doing the questions.
Passing the third mock exam meant that there were only a dozen days left before the college entrance examination. At this time, most teachers would relax the atmosphere in the classroom, and the early self-study was not as strict as before. Everyone could read their textbooks and do practice problems. As long as it did not affect other students, even if they discussed problems with others, it was fine.
Taking advantage of this, Shen Xu moved his chair to Jiang Chen’s desk, bumped his elbow, and waited for him to take off his earphones, before saying in a lowered voice, “I met Sun Zhi this morning, and he told me that He Qianjian had contacted him again recently.”
Jiang Chen tilted his head: “He came to you?”
Shen Xu shrugged: “Maybe he was grateful that you didn’t completely cut off his path back then, allowing him to stay in school, so this time when He Qianjian made a move, and he couldn’t find you, so he told me directly.”
“What did He Qianjian ask him to do?”
“Buy batteries, he asked him to buy a lot of batteries.”
“Batteries?”
“Who knows what’s up with He Qianjian, and Sun Zhi can’t figure it out either. He just asked me to tell you about it.”
Jiang Chen nodded slightly, indicating that he understood. After Shen Xu returned to his seat, he couldn’t help pondering over it.
Could the batteries that He Qianjian asked Sun Zhi to buy have any connection with the substance PO that the System asked him to find?