A Glance Back

Little Doudou was gone, and Shen Bing wasn't worried.

After spending so many days with him, Shen Bing knew how much ferocious strength lay beneath the little fellow's frail appearance.

He could clear a wall three or four meters high with ease, leap more than ten meters in a single bound, and split metal and stone with his claws.

His speed was even more absurd. A sports car at full throttle couldn't catch him. On top of that, his nose was sharper than a dog's, and he was as intelligent as a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old boy.

He was no ordinary cat... Well, that was obviously true. He was a Cat Demon from the Immortal Realm.

With time on his hands, Shen Bing decided to visit the university.

Staring at his phone screen in his rented room was getting unbearable, and too much time on the computer wasn't good for his eyes either. He planned to go to campus and recharge his brain.

He stopped by the dorm first. Sun Li was there playing games, but the other two were nowhere to be found.

"Oh? Our big boss has time to come back today?" Sun Li cried when he saw Shen Bing.

Shen Bing rolled his eyes. "Just checking in so you animals don't forget me. Speaking of which, where are the other two?"

"One's busy chasing someone to mate with. The other's boosting his market value so he can sell himself for a better price."

After trading a few more jokes, Shen Bing headed straight for the library.

As he passed the university gymnasium, Shen Ice spotted a girl with a graceful figure walking toward him.

All right, she wasn't alone. Two other people were with her, but beside her exquisite beauty, Shen Bing barely noticed them.

Her eyes were clear and bright, her brows delicately arched. Long lashes trembled above flawless fair skin touched with pink, and her slender lips were as soft and fresh as rose petals.

In her pale green dress, she looked almost otherworldly...

Beautiful things naturally drew the eye, didn't they?

That girl really is gorgeous, Shen Bing thought. Then he shook his head with regret—and more than a little resentment.

He knew her. She was Wang Yanxi, the campus beauty who had clung to his arm a few days earlier and insisted on being his girlfriend.

She probably didn't remember him anymore, though.

Shen Bing looked away and continued toward the library, his mind at ease.

With the Gate to the Immortal Realm in his hands, what couldn't he have? Money? Beautiful women?

Yet as they passed each other, Shen Bing couldn't help glancing back.

At that very moment, Wang Yanxi looked back too. Their eyes met.

Ah! She actually smiled at him.

Shen Bing finally understood what it meant to say that all other beauties paled beside one woman, and that a single smile could captivate a thousand hearts. Those lines might as well have been written for her.

Then again, calling Wang Yanxi "that girl" wasn't particularly polite.

No, there was something wrong with that thought. If not for her, would he have failed that job interview?

She was trouble. The kind of beauty who could bring a kingdom to ruin, who could... All right, that wasn't quite the right phrase.

Putting his stray thoughts aside, Shen Bing smiled back.

Her expression told him she definitely remembered that night. The brief flush on her pretty face gave her away.

But remembering was all it meant. A blush didn't mean she had feelings for him.

Any respectable young woman would blush after clinging to someone's arm and calling him her boyfriend.

They simply walked on without saying a word.

Shen Bing's thoughts were a little muddled, but his formidable powers of logical analysis soon led him to conclude that she had merely been greeting him.

Pathetic. Look how worked up you got. Your heart even skipped a few beats. Shen Bing delivered his verdict on himself, then put the matter out of his mind.

The day at the Library was tedious yet fascinating.

Fetching books and turning pages was tedious. The knowledge he absorbed was fascinating.

For now, Shen Bing had made image processing his main focus.

Image processing was the core of the Over-the-Horizon Telescope Manufacturing Technology. Glass lenses alone could never produce images from a thousand miles away.

Image Processing Technology also had a wide range of applications, from navigation and security to computers and mobile devices.

The image processing technology Shen Bing had obtained was extraordinary—Black technology, without a doubt.

Imagine reconstructing an image from faint, blurred light that had traveled a thousand miles. No one could deny that was impressive.

At present, though, Shen Bing still couldn't understand those techniques. He needed to master existing image processing technology before tackling anything more advanced.

As for what product Phantom Immortal Technology would release next, Shen Bing... well, he hadn't thought about it.

The first batch of Illusion Immortal Glass hadn't even sold yet. Planning the next product already would be too aggressive.

Only Shen Bing could flip through a thousand books in a day. He had become a spectacle at the University of Electronic Science and Technology library. Even students who rarely visited came to see this... lunatic for themselves.

One day of frantic page-turning could pass for research. After more than ten days, people figured there had to be something wrong with his head.

At dusk, Shen Bing left the university at an unhurried pace.

When he returned to his rented apartment, a burly man was in the living room: his roommate.

They had lived under the same roof for more than ten days, yet Shen Bing knew nothing about him except that his name was Li Xiao.

The total number of words they'd exchanged didn't exceed... Forget it. They hadn't exchanged a single sentence.

The guy was a weirdo.

He was fiddling with a backpack half as tall as a person, apparently getting ready to go out.

Who knew what was inside it?

Ignoring the weirdo, Shen Bing opened his bedroom door. The moment he did, he heard a keyboard clattering inside.

Little Doudou was back.

Apart from Shen Bing, who had a key, only Little Doudou could get into the room—and he didn't need one.

"Little Doudou, how did it go?"

"When Little Doudou's on the job, what could possibly go wrong?"

"Come on, tell me."

"See for yourself. I typed it all up for you. Little Doudou's going to eat fish now... Master, remember to get me an Immortal Fish."

The look on his face said he didn't trust Shen Bing to remember.

What kind of cat was this?

"Off you go!"

Shen Bing scooped up Little Doudou with one hand and tossed him aside, then sat down to examine what the little fellow had produced.

It was an ordinary Word document, and its contents looked unremarkable. But if anyone knew a kitten had typed it, they'd think it belonged in a myth.

Shen Bing read the entire document carefully, and anger flared inside him.

Lin Zijian's father owned Tianxiang Special Glass Manufacturing Company, known for short as Heavenly Auspice Special Glass. It was a publicly listed company valued at nearly thirty billion yuan. The Lin family held twenty percent of its shares, making them its largest shareholder.

Heavenly Auspice Special Glass owned more than a dozen large factories, with LCD substrates as its main business. One factory, the Good Fortune Glass Factory, produced glass curtain walls.

With Lin Zijian nearing graduation, his father, Lin Tianxiang, had put him in charge of the glass curtain wall business.

Lin Zijian was not Lin Tianxiang's only son. If he wanted to secure his future, he had to prove himself.

After learning about the Nancy Building Project, he had approached Young Master Yu.

Young Master Yu was the son of a Nancy Group director. His family was worth over a billion yuan, but his monthly allowance was only around a hundred thousand.

That was nowhere near enough for someone who spent money as freely as Young Master Yu. So when Lin Zijian promised him a three-million-yuan fee, he agreed.

The Nancy Building was a multibillion-yuan project. Given Young Master Yu's position, recommending a contract worth a few tens of millions was no problem, especially since the Good Fortune Glass Factory's products were reasonably priced and of decent quality for the industry.

Neither of them had expected a freak like Shen Bing to step in and change everything.

When Lin Zijian heard what had happened from Young Master Yu, he wasn't angry in the slightest. He was thrilled. After seeing the glass sample, he practically wanted to put Young Master Yu on an altar.

Young Master Yu might not have understood the glass's value, but Lin Zijian had grown up in a family whose fortune came from glass. He saw the business opportunity at once.

He immediately sent the sample to the Good Fortune Glass Factory to analyze its composition and work backward to its manufacturing process.

He assumed that a product made by a small workshop couldn't involve any sophisticated techniques. At most, there might be something unusual about its formula.

But the Good Fortune Glass Factory proved unable to work backward from the glass's composition to its production process. So Lin Zijian had a trusted subordinate hire someone to steal technical documents from the Illusion Immortal Glass Factory.

The attempt had failed, of course.

Lin Zijian had no intention of giving up. He had arranged for someone to visit the head of the Illusion Immortal Glass Factory tomorrow and try to buy its manufacturing technology—or even acquire the entire glass factory.

If Lin Zijian had been able to leave the hospital, he probably would have gone himself.

"Heh. Then I'll meet them tomorrow," Shen Bing said with a cold laugh.

The next day, before Shen Bing heard anything from Lin Zijian's side, Wang Sheng called.

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