Seeing the phone on the ground, the assistant hurried over to pick it up, put the soft keypad back in place, snapped on the front cover, installed the battery and back panel, powered it on, and after confirming it could still make calls, carefully handed it to Guo Siming.
Guo Siming stood there in a daze, watching the assistant's smooth, practiced movements. The phone he had just been using and thrown away was a Nokia?
"Where the hell did you get a Nokia?"
The assistant hurriedly said, "I bought it downstairs earlier as a temporary replacement. The previous phones were all broken..."
"Call President Guo," Guo Siming said.
The assistant quickly dialed the number, then handed the Nokia to Guo Siming.
After night fell, Chen Mengchuan finally stopped typing at the computer he had been sitting in front of for a long time. Stretching his arms, he walked out of the room. Zhao Wanyu was sitting in a chair in the yard outside, gazing up at the night sky.
Chen Mengchuan walked over and cleared his throat to announce his presence.
"Good evening, Brother Chuan."
"What are you looking at?"
"The stars in the sky. You can't see a sky like this, stars like these, in Shanghai City." Zhao Wanyu smiled.
Chen Mengchuan also looked up. There were almost no clouds in the sky tonight, and the stars were scattered cleanly across the darkness, breathtakingly beautiful.
"Have you been to Balagetu Village before, Brother Chuan?" Zhao Wanyu asked with a smile.
Chen Mengchuan shook his head. Not knowing how to explain it, he simply answered, "This is my first time here."
"Then have you been to Qinghai before?" Zhao Wanyu asked again.
"Also my first time." Chen Mengchuan smiled. As he spoke, he spotted several constellations in the sky.
Zhao Wanyu turned around and studied him seriously, pondering his familiarity with everything here: the airport, the vocational school, the guesthouse, those poplar forests, Wutumeiren Township, Balagetu Village, and Ayase Sonoko. He was so familiar with it all, so natural.
Was he lying? Zhao Wanyu frowned slightly, but she quickly thought of Ayase Sonoko and what Chen Mengchuan had told her at the airport before: "Someone very important to me."
What... was going on? Zhao Wanyu said nothing more and merely watched the countless dazzling stars in the night sky.
"Miss Zhao, is there any way you could arrange for me to meet Manager Xu and Manager Toni?" Chen Mengchuan withdrew his gaze and looked at Zhao Wanyu. Those two great figures from KeDa Intelligence were among the very best in the global Artificial Intelligence field. If he could meet them, Chen Mengchuan believed he might have a chance of persuading them to join his team.
Zhao Wanyu also looked away and smiled. "If I arrange for you to meet the two of them privately, how will you repay me?"
"How do you want me to repay you? As long as you don't ask me to marry you, everything else is negotiable." Chen Mengchuan joked with a smile.
"Pah, aren't you full of yourself?" Zhao Wanyu's face reddened slightly, though it was impossible to tell in the darkness.
Chen Mengchuan smiled. "Then what do you want?"
Zhao Wanyu shook her head. She did not know what she wanted. She had never lacked anything growing up, yet somehow she seemed to lack everything. If there was something she wanted now, it was probably to understand how Chen Mengchuan had never been to Qinghai, Wutumeiren Township, or Balagetu Village, and had never met Ayase Sonoko, yet was so incredibly familiar with everything here. That was likely what she wanted to figure out, what she was curious about.
She sighed softly, smiled at Chen Mengchuan, and did not answer.
In Su City Industrial Park.
At night, only Sun Zhongyong and Gu Xiaoxiao remained in the Zangsu Mutton Noodle Restaurant, eating noodles and chatting.
"He really said that?" Gu Xiaoxiao asked with a smile, taking a sip of soup.
"Listen to you. Would your big brother... ever lie to you?" Sun Zhongyong said as he ate.
"Then should I send out some resumes in Shanghai City? Maybe I'll really land a job willing to pay an annual salary of a million." Gu Xiaoxiao picked up a small bundle of thin mutton noodles with her chopsticks, blew on them, and put them into her mouth.
"With that temper of yours, you probably wouldn't last half a month on a million-a-year salary before getting fired."
Gu Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes, swept her hair aside with one hand, and lowered her head to eat.
"What, still not convinced? Hmph. Thirty thousand is already quite a lot. Help Mengchuan get that supercomputer up and running properly. Put your heart into it and see if you can get yourself half a point or a point of equity." Sun Zhongyong spoke seriously.
"You really think that highly of Chen Mengchuan?" Gu Xiaoxiao truly could not understand her cousin's decision to gamble a hundred million on one person.
"What's American Fruit Company's market value now?" Sun Zhongyong asked.
Gu Xiaoxiao froze. "Nine hundred billion US Dollars. Do you think Chen Mengchuan can build his company into something on American Fruit Company's level?"
"I don't know, but I'm willing to believe he can do it."
"Bro, have you gone crazy? What kind of spell did Chen Mengchuan put on you? Or do you two have some shady deal going on?" Gu Xiaoxiao mocked.
Sun Zhongyong rolled his eyes and said nothing, only lowering his head to eat his noodles.
"My dear brother, that's fifteen million US Dollars, gambled on such a slim chance. I honestly don't even know what to say to you. Anyway, things have come to this, so all we can do is work hard and build the company up. Has he sent any news? Where the hell did he go?" Gu Xiaoxiao asked as she ate.
"I don't know where he went, but I know for sure he didn't go to Xia Science Academy," Sun Zhongyong replied.
"How do you know?"
"Because he told me to extort Xia Science Academy." Sun Zhongyong smiled with particular satisfaction.
"Huh? Extort Xia Science Academy? You two have some nerve. You're extorting Xia Science Academy and aren't even afraid of getting censored. Tell me, how did you extort Xia Science Academy?" The moment Gu Xiaoxiao heard this exciting topic, she immediately perked up.
Sun Zhongyong briefly went over the whole story with Gu Xiaoxiao.
"You're planning to extort six million from that Guo guy?" Gu Xiaoxiao's eyes widened as though she were meeting her cousin for the first time.
"Consider it venting some anger for Mengchuan. According to Mengchuan, that Guo guy is loaded. Six million is pocket change to them. Consider it renovation money paid in tribute by that Guo guy." Sun Zhongyong said with a smile.
"Um, bro, why don't you call Guo Siming again and ask him to add another ten thousand US Dollars and get me a computer too?"
"Wouldn't that be inappropriate? Add more?"
"You already added more once. Adding more again doesn't matter. We've already offended them beyond repair anyway." Gu Xiaoxiao egged him on.
"Fine, I'll call him." Sun Zhongyong pulled out his phone and dialed a number.
In Xi'an City, after Guo Siming hung up on Sun Zhongyong, he viciously smashed his phone against the wall. The Nokia shattered into pieces again. "Chen Mengchuan, you're going too far!"
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