Jiang Qiao had been kicked out ten minutes ago.
She had already worked overtime for forty-eight consecutive hours. Every single hour counted as overtime, and not a second had been wasted.
Including the overtime she had put in within the Dreamscape, two days in reality had earned her what she used to make in a year—what she would have made in ten years at the Xu Clan Group. The accounts were settled and paid out the same day, and she had paid off her student loan in one go.
Although her current student loan had also been issued interest-free by President Chen, meaning she had earned money only to hand it straight back to President Chen, she was still happy.
When people were happy, they talked more. When they talked more, they got cocky. And when they got cocky, they annoyed the other work teams. Then she was banned from working and forced to rest for six hours before returning.
But after just ten minutes away from the Spirit Brain, she felt uncomfortable all over, as though ants were crawling across her bones. Nothing felt right.
When "Xu Zilong" called for her, she raised her head and stared blankly at the person before her.
Once her eyes focused and she recognized who stood in front of her, a deep, instinctive fear surged up within her.
She abruptly rose to her feet and stammered, "Xu... Xu... Mr. Xu?"
"Just call me Zilong." "Xu Zilong" smiled. "When you resigned before, I never got the chance to see you off. The company was busy at the time, and soon afterward, I learned that Zhang Yun had fired you."
"Is... is that so?"
"That's how it was." "Xu Zilong" continued smiling.
Every intern who entered the Xu Clan Group had a cybernetic implant planted