radicalducati Chapter 31 My salary is really high... right?
Chapter 31 My salary is really high... right?
"Oh, so your onboarding expenses have arrived?"
Seeing Lin Chen's expression, Li Zhanyi roughly knew what had happened and immediately came over.
"Job entry fee?" Lin Chen looked up.
"I forgot to tell you, it's something every member of Section One receives upon officially joining the company," Li Zhanyi nodded. "After all, we're often out on the go, and we often have to pay out of our own pockets. We can't just slack off for the first month and then start showing up for work in the second month after we get paid, can we?"
"Such a good thing..."
Lin Chen unlocked the screen and opened the payment app.
...18000 yuan has been received...
Lin Chen: ......?
He stared in disbelief at the numbers before him: How could so many be issued all at once!
"Look at you," Li Zhanyi laughed. "Three months' salary is nothing. If you're really out there running around, it'll all be gone in no time."
"My savings haven't even broken five figures yet..." Lin Chen sighed softly.
During his university years, he lived off his family's allowance and didn't have much of a concept of saving money.
After graduation, he couldn't save any money at all. Even if he had a good landlord, he was lucky if his monthly income could just break even.
To save some money, he had to lower his quality of life, but then he became too weak to do physical labor, creating a vicious cycle.
Now, looking at the 18000 yuan that had been deposited into his account in one lump sum, Lin Chen suddenly felt a little unreal.
He himself felt that he was useless: with so little money, he couldn't do anything if you really thought about it, so why was he so sentimental?
Perhaps he was just reminiscing about those days when he was struggling to make ends meet.
"..."
A hand gently patted Lin Chen's shoulder. He looked up and saw Li Zhanyi smiling at him.
"Everything will be alright," the girl whispered.
Lin Chen smiled and nodded:
"In that case, I'll treat you to dinner tonight. We'll order some takeout to eat at home."
"Oh, you're already acting all high and mighty after just getting this little bit of money?" Li Zhanyi chuckled. "Well, of course I'll gladly accept it~"
"....."
A dozen minutes later, Lin Chen had tidied up his workstation and changed his clothes in the restroom.
He looked at himself in the mirror: white shirt, vest, and tie, looking sharp and capable.
In an instant, he went from being a food delivery worker to a highly skilled employee.
"Clothes make the man, Lin Chen," Lin Chen turned his head and found Li Zhanyi looking at him. "You seem to have suddenly become successful."
"It definitely feels different..." Lin Chen nodded slightly.
"Come on, it's time to explain the situation to you."
Li Zhanyi clapped his hands, grabbed Lin Chen's sleeve, and pulled him to the front of the clue board.
Lin Chen looked up at the photo on the blackboard and murmured:
"Does this mean we've started working?"
"certainly."
Li Zhanyi took out a stick from somewhere and tapped it on the blackboard:
Let me start from the beginning: the Tekkaku Bridge incident.
Lin Chen looked at the photo, his gaze darkening slightly: the devastation of the bridge was captured in the picture, and the howling wind seemed to sweep past his ears once again.
He composed himself and gradually calmed down.
It's time to get down to business.
"I've had one question from the very beginning," Lin Chen said softly, "If the Sky-Piercing Rescue Operation was a marketing ploy by the Foundation, then was the Iron Horn Bridge collapse also an act of the Foundation?"
"You're very perceptive," Li Zhanyi nodded. "To explain this to you, we need to go back five years."
Li Zhanyi pointed to another photo, and Lin Chen looked over and saw that it showed a building:
"United Concrete Group, the largest infrastructure contractor in the entire Yudu, has undertaken a large number of highway and skyscraper construction projects. They built almost all of the hundred-story buildings in Xiwang District."
Five years ago, United Concrete completed its largest project in Chongqing – the Tiejiao Cross-Sea Bridge.
"This bridge directly connects Utah with the Space Islands, and also directly brings the Space Islands into the process of commercialization."
"The Space Islands are an industry under the umbrella of 'Ink Bamboo Technology'. Since the establishment of Yudu, they have cooperated with the Foundation to carry out a large number of manned spaceflight experiments in those islands."
"With the completion of the Iron Cape Bridge, United Concrete and Mozhu Technology reached a cooperation agreement to develop tourism in the Aerospace Islands, which quickly became a tourist destination."
When Li Zhanyi got to this point, Lin Chen realized something was wrong:
"The Space Islands are a joint venture between Mozhu Technology and the Foundation, but Mozhu Technology's subsequent collaboration with United Concrete in development means they've essentially taken a share of the profits?"
“That’s right,” Li Zhanyi nodded approvingly. “The Foundation has been secretly controlling the top executives of major companies in Yudu, but United Concrete is an exception. According to our intelligence, United Concrete’s business has basically bypassed the Foundation’s extended tentacles, which is why their group has been able to grow to its current size in Yudu.”
"These infrastructure maniacs didn't even bother with the foundation; they just quietly built their scale in Yudu brick by brick."
"As the space islands are developed, United Concrete's footprint continues to expand, a situation the Foundation is not happy to see."
"The foundation is not happy..."
Lin Chen recalled the broken bridge.
"You'd do something like this?"
"In fact, this was not the beginning," Li Zhanyi shook his head. "Initially, some roads contracted by United Concrete appeared with cracks, and some sections of the road collapsed frequently due to extreme weather, resulting in many accidents."
"Then came the war of public opinion. The credibility of United Concrete began to crumble, and the Yudu Municipal Government was forced to launch an investigation."
"We began our investigation at this stage."
Li Zhanyi tapped the blackboard with a stick.
"At the scene of the accident, we observed numerous traces of erosion by anomalous entities, and many of the characteristics of these anomalous entities overlapped with those of the anomalous entities contained and utilized by the Foundation."
"Whenever we are about to capture an anomalous entity, the Foundation's demigods defeat the anomaly and block our investigation."
"They're raising bandits to enhance their own power..." Lin Chen murmured. "The anomalous entities are theirs, and so are the demigods."
"Yes, it was during this process that Qingtian was elevated to a divine status."
Li Zhanyi tapped a picture of a towering figure on the blackboard.
"That time, a cruise ship bound for the Space Islands was pulled into subspace by an anomalous entity. Optimus Prime rescued the yacht and was promoted to a gamma-level demigod in the battle."
"Then came the Iron Cape Bridge incident."
Li Zhanyi pointed the stick back at the photo of the Iron Horn Bridge.
"On the day of the incident, a large number of subspace buoyancy reactions occurred in the Iron Cape area. When we arrived at the scene, we witnessed the moment the bridge was destroyed."
"What kind of scene is that?" Lin Chen asked softly.
"An invisible storm swept across the bridge, tearing it apart in two."
Li Zhanyi stared directly at Lin Chen, his expression turning serious.
"To destroy a colossal structure of this size with a single strike would require at least an Alpha anomaly entity."
"Could it be the work of a demigod?" Lin Chen asked.
"That's also possible," Li Zhanyi nodded slightly, "that would be even worse, as it would mean that the F Council has intervened directly."
"But is it really necessary for the F Council to create such a huge public opinion storm over such a trivial matter as the division of the space islands?" Lin Chen said.
"Your line of thinking is correct," Li Zhanyi nodded, "There are two possibilities."
"The first possibility is that the F Council did not get involved, and the Iron Cape Bridge was really just an accident, but the Foundation seized the opportunity to make a fuss about it."
"The second possibility..."
Li Zhanyi tapped the photo of the Space Islands with a stick:
"On the space islands, there are secrets they will protect at all costs."
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