Daydreams

The Flight Engineering Research Institute—this was the new name Lin Qi had given it. In fact, it had never had an official name before.

Now that it had gained some renown, it naturally needed an official name to reflect its importance.

The institute's Chief Engineer sat in his chair, holding a cup of coffee as he pondered.

Recently, many people had been calling and contacting him.

There were high school classmates he had nearly forgotten, teachers from elementary school, former colleagues and superiors, and even old neighbors.

For a time, these people called and contacted him as if they were... sick, offering their best wishes for his success while also trying to chat with him about his work and his future.

He knew perfectly well that these people had ulterior motives. Behind each of them might stand some colossal entity he could only look up to, never see clearly, waiting for him.

Their goal was to lure him away.

Some of the things they vaguely revealed over the phone did make his heart stir from time to time, such as what his elementary school teacher had said.

Besides congratulating him on his success, she had even expressed some sympathy for him. According to this elementary school teacher, someone she knew who did roughly the same work as the Chief Engineer earned several times his salary.

That person's abilities and research standards were both inferior to the Chief Engineer's, yet they earned such a high salary. It was genuinely enviable, and somewhat...

He knew that the other side was making him an offer through his elementary school teacher, multiplying his benefits and income several times over. As long as he nodded, none of his problems would remain problems.

He had never enjoyed treatment like this before. It was as if the