The Team

"SA AND SA!"

Blue Arcane radiance bloomed in Wang Yi's eyes. In his hand, a bizarre colorless sphere constantly twisted and changed, as if it were continuously spitting out distorted bubbles, before slowly dissipating.

Once everything was over, Wang Yi closed his eyes. When he opened them again a moment later, traces of color still lingered over his pupils.

"Interesting—the physical meaning of imaginary numbers."

Though he had not fully figured it out yet, Wang Yi had already sensed a unique difference on a spatial level.

A sense of transcending constraints.

Sure enough, some strange suggestions and ideas could produce unexpected results.

After giving it some thought, Wang Yi began drafting a new paper. He presented the solution to this imaginary-number-related problem mathematically, then appended the new line of thought he had encountered afterward.

Only when he finished did Wang Yi come back to himself and realize several days had already passed.

He had originally planned to go to the Science Institute and run an experiment first, but now that the rented office was ready and the staff had all been hired, he decided to head back first.

It had fermented long enough. They could put the game on the platform now.

After all, he had no money to work on anything medical at the moment. It was better to make some money from the game first.

Who knew when he would have a laboratory of his own? Poverty really was a pain...

After returning to Shudian, Wang Yi immediately went to the office building Lin Shiqin had rented for his company.

Besides the Film Studio, Shudian itself also had industrial parks and quite a few electronics factories.

Aside from factories, there were also plenty of office buildings.

There were many small advertising companies, film companies, and internet companies.

Although Wang Yi's World Culture Entertainment Game Company had a grand-sounding name, it seemed perfectly ordinary in Shudian.

There were quite a lot of small companies here in the culture and entertainment industry.

Even when Lin Shiqin recruited staff, she had mostly sourced them locally.

Wang Yi got out of the taxi he had taken directly from the airport and looked up at the office building.

It was located in the old district, quite close to Wang Yi's current residence. It was only a five-minute walk away.

The building itself had some age to it, but it was fairly clean overall.

"I picked it out specifically. I rented half of the seventh floor. We have more than enough space for now, there's room for a server room, and most importantly, it'll be convenient for you to expand later.

"The seventh, eighth, and ninth floors only have a few barely surviving companies. Many areas are still vacant."

Lin Shiqin introduced her achievements to Wang Yi, and he was quite satisfied with them.

A game company relied on content, not appearances.

One could tell from where Wang Yi lived that he did not care much about such things.

"Should we move my servers over too?"

Lin Shiqin asked. If he needed it, she would contact a moving company right away.

"Not for now. They're fine where they are, right above me."

After pondering for a moment, Wang Yi still rejected the suggestion.

The company was the company, and Artificial Intelligence was Artificial Intelligence. It was better to keep them separate.

Still, the company's servers could be remotely controlled and used by Lin Shiqin. Once his Mage Tower was built, he could simply move everything into the Mage Tower in one go.

"Alright. We've recruited thirteen people so far. Finance, legal, and secretarial staff are all in place, along with electricians to maintain the servers, programmers..."

The batch of new servers bought for the game company was essentially Lin Shiqin using public resources for private purposes. Once operations truly began, they would definitely need to rely mainly on leased servers.

"That's enough. Notify them and call a short meeting."

After confirming the situation again, Wang Yi entered the building and began waiting for the elevator.

The elevators in office buildings were truly slow. Even though this building looked barely alive, he still had to watch it come down floor by floor.

Wang Yi also noticed that quite a few fashionable beauties were waiting for the elevator with him, while the two men were both rather handsome.

They were probably models or minor actors from the companies here.

"Huh? Are you from the game company across the hall?"

When the elevator reached the seventh floor, Wang Yi got off with one man and two women. The handsome young man with a somewhat pretty-boy air to him looked at Wang Yi in surprise.

"Yeah. We'll be neighbors from now on. Please look after us."

"Haha, let's look after each other. But your company's Boss is quite interesting. You recruited entirely online, even the interviews were online. You must have been hired that way too, right? My name is Wen Yu, Boss of Yuzhong Advertising. We mainly handle print advertising, model runway shows, car exhibitions, and we also host some celebration events. Come to me if you need anything—I'll give you a discount."

The two tall beauties beside him merely looked Wang Yi up and down before losing interest and chatting with each other. Wen Yu, however, seemed to be the overly sociable sort and casually began pitching his services.

"Wang Yi. I suppose I'm the rather interesting Boss you mentioned. Haha."

Wang Yi reached out and shook his hand, making a trace of embarrassment appear on Wen Yu's face.

Wang Yi was simply too young. Wen Yu had genuinely never considered that possibility!

"President Wang, you're truly young and accomplished. Please don't take my earlier offense to heart."

Wen Yu was also glad that he had only described him as "rather interesting" and had not said anything excessive. Still, for someone so young to rent half a floor and hire more than ten people, even if he was supported by his family, it was enough to show how substantial his background was.

Those servers, computers, and employees alone must have cost quite a bit.

As someone who had started his own business, Wen Yu naturally understood the hardships involved.

The two tall models, who had been chatting with each other, now turned their attention back to Wang Yi as well.

"Huh? He's actually the Boss? So low-key."

"Yeah, yeah. We misjudged him. Hehe."

It had to be said that women, especially beautiful women, possessed a natural advantage in social interactions. A joking tone like this could easily dispel some awkwardness.

By then, Wang Yi had already reached his company's entrance. He nodded to the three of them and said, "My employees don't even know who I am yet, so I'll go say hello. See you later."

"Mm, goodbye."

"Bye~" *2

The offices in this kind of building only had glass doors, and some employees near the entrance had heard Wang Yi's earlier conversation with them.

Combined with the meeting notice, they naturally knew that the Boss had arrived.

As Wang Yi entered, they all stood up somewhat nervously.

"Don't be nervous, everyone. Since we hired you, it means we recognize your abilities. Come on, let's go to the conference room and briefly discuss our future priorities, then assign everyone's work."

The work arrangements were actually very simple. The company itself was merely a shell, and their primary duties were maintenance and handling the various real-world procedures that required someone to run around.

Lin Shiqin would mainly command things remotely for Wang Yi, and they only needed someone to sign off whenever a decision had to be finalized.

There were only three somewhat important people. One was Lin Na, a middle-aged woman around forty with an assistant accountant certificate. Lin Shiqin would handle the main aspects herself, so Lin Na was basically just a certified placeholder who only needed to understand some basic financial operations.

Another was Zhang Xiang, a lawyer in his fifties who had not made much of a name for himself. He served as the company's legal counsel, handling contracts and legal matters. Likewise, he was merely the second certified placeholder, able to carry out certain procedures with his credentials.

Lastly, there was Chen Qian, a manager's assistant who helped pass along information and also handled some human resources work. She was a married woman of twenty-seven or twenty-eight, with a three-year-old son already in kindergarten. She had somewhat more stamina and energy, wore light makeup, and had regular features with a mature charm.

After being hired, the employees had learned that the company had a separate development team, while their side was only responsible for operations and maintenance. They were all quite satisfied with this easy work.

Most of the people Lin Shiqin had chosen were slackers lacking ambition, which happened to make them perfectly suited for it...

That's two updates done~

This book has learned a lesson or two from the previous one. The last book updated very quickly, but because it was too fast, it was hard to turn back whenever problems came up. This one has slowed down a little. I can just delete parts I'm dissatisfied with, and it feels much more comfortable to write...