Hello, My Name Is Si Ying

The train slowly came to a stop, and Brain promptly delivered a new email.

[Company email received. New work address and work assignment obtained.]

The email was from the company. It contained details about Lin Qi's work in Greenland City.

Liu Heavy Industries' Greenland City branch, Thirteenth-Floor Pharmaceutical Division, A-level Unnamed Drug Research.

Temporary residence: Room 1313, Thirteenth Floor, Liu Heavy Industries' Senior Employee Dormitory, Greenland City.

"Drug research?"

The research had nothing to do with Lin Qi's original field, but considering he had most likely come to Greenland City because of Liu Xuan, he accepted it.

Given the company's research achievements in cybernetics, there was no need to send a team to Greenland City to conduct research.

Greenland City, controlled by the Si Clan, was famous for its pharmaceutical industry, and its pharmaceutical ecosystem was fully developed.

By setting up its pharmaceutical division in Greenland City, Liu Heavy Industries could effectively reduce costs.

That was the purpose of the Large Enterprise Alliance: to coordinate the advantages and resources controlled by the major corporations.

With the major corporations competing and cooperating like this, no new corporate power would ever rise. The major corporations would grow ever stronger, while the weak would be swallowed up.

This system was like raising venomous insects in a jar. Perhaps in the end, the entire alliance would be left with just one giant corporation, while the rest could only cling to life.

For now, that had nothing to do with Lin Qi. He kept Psychic Vision active and monitored the train.

The doors of Car One, Car Three, and Car Four slowly opened.

Now that they had entered Greenland City, which was protected by the Iron Curtain System, they were quite safe.

A bodyguard came over to Lin Qi and said, "You can leave now. Go to your assigned workplace and residence as the company instructed. The company has emailed your Greenland City pass to your Brain."

The bodyguard was telling him to leave.

Although Lin Qi had been sitting in Car One, he wasn't a core member of Liu Heavy Industries.

The sisters Liu Xuan and Liu Li would probably be escorted by the Train Conductor to a real safe house.

Lin Qi rose from his seat, glanced in Liu Xuan's direction, then turned and left the train.

Through Psychic Vision, Lin Qi saw that not long after he left the train, the Train Conductor entered Car One and instructed a bodyguard, "Your assignment has changed. The company has sent you the details."

The bodyguard froze for a moment, then checked the email, looking utterly incredulous.

The bodyguard, a fully converted A-level implant user, then left Car One and got off the train.

At a distance of a hundred meters, almost the limit of Psychic Vision, the bodyguard followed Lin Qi from afar.

"My assignment was changed to protecting me?"

Lin Qi couldn't help but laugh. Still, it was a good thing.

With a fully converted A-level implant user following him, Lin Qi would be safer in increasingly chaotic Greenland City.

As for the secrets Lin Qi was hiding?

With only A-level strength and the limited knowledge of an ordinary implant user, the bodyguard didn't have what it took to see through him.

After checking the information sent to his Brain, Lin Qi went to the urban rail platform and took public transit to the residence the company had arranged for him.

He didn't have to work today. The company had shown an unusual touch of humanity for once.

The A-level bodyguard boarded the public transit as well, keeping a short distance from Lin Qi.

Room 1313, Thirteenth Floor, Liu Heavy Industries' Senior Employee Dormitory, Greenland City.

Lin Qi sat down on a chair in his new residence.

"The bodyguard's in the next room. Good. But this floor seems pretty empty."

His Psychic Vision spread across the entire thirteenth floor. There were almost no residents.

Lin Qi could guess why.

This was where the company had housed the research team brought over from Red Fruit City.

They were all dead, so naturally nobody lived here.

Relaxing, Lin Qi went to the bathroom and washed his face.

He frowned at the exoskeletons fitted snugly over his arms and legs.

He'd better wait until he reached the Doomsday World to take them off. Who knew whether the company had installed any... unusual equipment in the employee dorms?

Greenland City didn't have a surveillance network as twisted as Hongguo City's, but Lin Qi would never let his guard down.

As he studied his reflection and considered his plans for the Highest Level Security Meeting that evening and for the Doomsday World, the doorbell rang at an inopportune moment.

Who was it?

Lin Qi didn't have any friends in Greenland City. Who would come to visit?

His Psychic Vision immediately spread out, locking onto the visitor outside the door.

It was a young man who looked only sixteen or seventeen.

No cybernetics!

No Extraordinary Items, either.

The sight made Lin Qi extremely wary.

Lin Qi thought he had figured it out.

In this Cyber World, anyone without cybernetics was bound to have something to do with the word "trouble."

"Someone from the Si Clan?"

Frowning slightly, Lin Qi noticed the embroidery on the visitor's fine clothes.

The Si Clan Pharmaceuticals insignia was stitched onto the left breast of the expensive garment.

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Qi left the bathroom, went to the door, and opened the apartment entrance.

As soon as they met, the young man held out his hand.

A handshake—a very unfashionable greeting.

The young man's clear voice rang out. "Hello, my name is Si Ying."

Someone from the Si Clan?

Lin Qi didn't take his hand. He simply introduced himself. "Lin Qi, A-level researcher at Liu Heavy Industries."

Si Ying withdrew his right hand and asked politely, "May I come in?"

Lin Qi frowned. He couldn't figure out what this Si Clan member was after, so he refused outright. "No."

Si Ying looked surprised, then smiled. "I'm here to save you. I think you'd rather not die without knowing why, right?"

His smile was mysterious, and his words were cryptic.

Lin Qi found that sort of person extremely off-putting.

"I'm just a researcher. Who would come to kill me?" Lin Qi asked.

Si Ying kept smiling. "But every researcher from Liu Heavy Industries who came to Greenland City is dead. You're the only one left, aren't you?"

"They're all dead?"

Lin Qi looked confused.

Through Psychic Vision, Lin Qi had seen what was happening in Car Two, but the matter should still be confidential.

The doors of Car Two hadn't opened after the train arrived.

Given Lin Qi's position, he shouldn't have known that the other researchers traveling with him were dead, so he put on an act.

Si Ying seemed puzzled. "You didn't know?"

A test. This was definitely a test!

Who was Si Ying, exactly? Why would he come to test an "ordinary" Liu Heavy Industries employee like him?

Lin Qi nodded. "I didn't know."

Whatever Si Ying's goal was, Lin Qi wouldn't reveal the slightest crack.

And Lin Qi had already labeled Si Ying as no good!

As soon as he left, Lin Qi would send a message to Liu Xuan and report him!

With Greenland City in such a state, a Si Clan member who dared wander around like this probably wasn't anyone important.

Si Ying continued smiling. "All right. Now you know. They're all dead. I don't think you'd want to die."

"No one wants to die. I expect you're the same. I don't want to die, either."

"Let me introduce myself again. My name is Si Ying, the Si Clan's heir to this generation...'s scapegoat."