Chapter 003 Why is the style of painting suddenly wrong?
Chen She finished his tea in the reception room, and Zhao Zhen had already seen Fujido Yuki off and returned.
"Mr. Chen, I almost thought something was going to happen just now. I didn't expect you to be so calm. You are playing Fujido Yuki in the palm of your hand!"
"Judging from Fujido Yuki's expression, he was completely confused and had dropped his guard against our company."
"Zhang Sirui just sent a message saying that the 'negotiation' was very successful and he will be back soon."
Chen She was stunned for a moment.
It's strange. At Zhao Zhen's age, why is he still flattering his leader in such an awkward way?
I didn’t do anything just now, how come I was “so calm” and “played Fujido Yuki in the palm of my hand”?
It’s over, it’s over, this flattery is too stiff.
But he didn't say anything because his attention was all drawn to the following sentence.
"The negotiation was successful?" Chen She was a little surprised.
Logically speaking, the Fujido Group would be eager to defeat the Chen Group in one fell swoop. Even if they want to negotiate, they should ask for a high price. It doesn't make sense that it would be so smooth.
Could it be that there are indeed serious disagreements among the top management of the Fujido Group’s branch in Liming City?
Or maybe Zhang Sirui is a good speaker, or he got help from other financial groups to mediate?
All of this is possible.
It seems that the people in charge are all very capable and reliable!
Regardless, a successful negotiation is always a good thing.
Zhao Zhen continued, "In addition, I just received news from the Mewtwo R&D Department that the preliminary trend estimate of Mewtwo's data has been released."
"The trend is quite optimistic. If we can maintain this trend, our consortium's financial crisis can be easily resolved!"
A few hours is not enough for Mewtwo to generate a lot of income, but by comparing the data changes with the same period, the trend of change can be derived through intelligent analysis.
Based on the changing trend, we can roughly estimate Chaomeng's revenue in the future.
Both of its two pillar industries have recovered successfully, and the Chen Group should be able to overcome this crisis smoothly.
Chen She was very happy, but he was a relatively cautious person by nature, and he did not want to get carried away at this time, so he reminded : "Let everyone continue to be vigilant and do not take it lightly before the crisis is completely over."
Zhao Zhen nodded: "Okay, Mr. Chen, I understand."
"By the way, there will be a special high-level meeting at 7 o'clock tonight in the conference room on the second floor underground. I was afraid you forgot to remind me."
Chen She was a little surprised because he had just looked through some internal documents and didn't seem to see any relevant records about the special meeting.
But on second thought, since it was a special meeting, some confidential company information would definitely be discussed, so it was normal not to take notes.
After all, the bottom line of business warfare in this world is very low. If you keep electronic information and it is stolen by hackers from your competitors, it will be a big problem.
Although every company has a cybersecurity team, it is better to be safe than sorry.
Thinking of this, Chen She nodded: "I understand."
After returning to his suite, Chen She took a short rest.
After crossing over, he still had slight headaches from time to time. Although the symptom was easing rapidly, he still felt a little tired when he got a little busy.
Fortunately, after a lot of hard work, the company's crisis was temporarily resolved and I can finally relax.
Chen She came to his office and continued to look through the company's internal documents while turning on the huge TV on the wall to watch the news.
So far, his understanding of this world is not very sufficient.
His calm nature seemed to suggest at all times that he had overlooked something very important.
This made Chen She feel somewhat uneasy.
Although my memory is still slowly returning, there is no harm in reading more news.
"According to the latest report from Times Media, the armed caravan of the Fujitang Group was attacked by unidentified armed thugs in the wilderness about 70 kilometers away from the outer settlement of Liming City. All of them were destroyed and all their supplies were looted."
"The thugs were well prepared and skilled. They blocked all signals from the Fujido Group's caravan before the attack, so no video footage was left behind."
"The Fujido Group has launched an investigation. The spokesperson declared that this was a premeditated attack and that the real culprit will be found at all costs and retaliated by all necessary means."
"It is currently highly suspected that the attack was carried out by a rebel group operating outside Dawn City, but no organization or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack yet."
The tragic situation of the Fujido Group's caravan appeared in the news. Those futuristic transport vehicles had all been destroyed. There were traces of fierce fighting at the scene. The scene was horrific.
Chen She was stunned for a moment: "Huh, Fujitang Group? Isn't that our mortal enemy?"
"Good fellow, evil will be punished!"
"I wonder which hero came to enforce justice? He is truly a great benefactor to our Chen Group!"
After seeing this news, Chen She felt more stable.
This can truly be described as a time when heaven and earth are on the same side!
Since the Fujido Group's caravan was robbed and its supplies were lost, there will definitely be a period of vacuum, and the Chen Group can take this opportunity to recover.
But while gloating, Chen She suddenly felt a sense of crisis.
"Wait a minute, the Resistance... I seem to have seen it online before. It's a very dangerous organization, and it seems to attack any consortium indiscriminately. Our company is just a small shrimp, so please don't target us..."
"The world is indeed full of dangers. There are large-scale terrorist attacks on the outskirts of the city. And listening to the tone and wording of the news anchor, this kind of military conflict seems to be very common and not worth making a fuss about."
"Hurry up and check the relevant information. It would be terrible if the Chen Group's caravan was attacked by the rebels one day..."
Driven by the desire to survive, Chen She hurriedly searched for relevant information about the resistance army on the Internet, hoping to prepare for the future as much as possible.
There is a lot of information on the Internet, but it is also very messy.
After searching through the information, Chen She briefly summarized some basic information about the rebels.
The resistance has existed for at least a few decades, with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the big chaebols in the old land, and reached its peak during the Sixth Corporate War.
However, after the Sixth Corporate War, the big financial groups formed a corporate coalition to strangle the rebels. The rebel activities were quickly put down, and the rebels on various continents were divided and forced to flee into the wilderness.
In other words, the rebels roamed around the edges of big cities, often attacking the convoys of the major chaebols transporting supplies. Their armed forces were not enough to shake the real big chaebols, but they could still be very threatening by attacking small chaebols and launching sneak attacks without any moral principles.
While searching for information about the resistance, Chen She also began to wonder about some concepts, such as why this world is called "Old Land", what is "Corporate War", why the population of Old Land is highly concentrated in big cities, and the wilderness outside the big cities seems to contain huge dangers, so that basically no one is willing to go there...
But time was limited and he didn't have time to check it.
Ever since he came here, Chen She has always been pushed around by various things and has never been able to calm down and analyze his current situation, which makes him very uncomfortable.
But no matter what, the company has turned the corner, and Chen She at least has a relatively safe living environment. This is good news.
After dinner, Chen She prepared to attend the special regular meeting of leaders in the evening.
"Holding a meeting after get off work hours is so inhumane!"
"Then we have to find a way to get them to change this bad habit."
Chen She was quite dissatisfied with the meeting time, but he still left the office and took the elevator to the meeting room on the 2nd floor underground of the headquarters.
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The president's office has a dedicated elevator that goes directly to the basement of the headquarters building.
Before this, Chen She had been busy adapting to his new identity after traveling through time, so he had not had time to take a good look around the headquarters building of Lishan Technology.
The door of the conference room was closed. Chen She raised his bracelet to check the time. It was exactly 7 o'clock.
The door of this conference room is a bit special. It is not the automatic door that can be seen everywhere in the company, but two very heavy security doors. You need to scan your palm print and iris before you can enter.
“That’s a good safety awareness.”
In this world of advanced technology, it is difficult to prevent hackers from eavesdropping, so it is normal for the security level to be higher for special meetings like this.
For Chen She, this level of security measures can be summed up in four words: It really pleases me!
The heavy security door opened and Chen She stepped in.
The same persons in charge who had held the meeting in the president's office in the morning were still there, and their seats were the same, with Chen She's seat still reserved.
However, the atmosphere in the conference room became completely different.
Zhang Sirui, wearing a close-fitting combat suit, sat on a chair with his arms and legs spread out. He was not wearing a suit or gloves, so the entire mechanical prosthesis below his right elbow was exposed, flashing a light golden metallic light. He was playing with a pistol.
The mature and steady Zhao Zhen was still sitting steadily, but his mechanical prostheses were even more exaggerated than Zhang Sirui's, with both of his arms being turned into mechanical arms.
Before, Zhao Zhen always wore formal clothes. Although Chen She thought he seemed to be quite big, he thought it was just the normal weight gain of a middle-aged man with a little bit of fitness training effect.
As a result, after changing into a slightly slimmer combat uniform, Zhao Zhen immediately transformed into a muscular man with incredible strength.
Zhang Sirui is excitedly sharing today's "negotiation action" with Fujido Group with everyone.
"We made a killing by destroying the Fujido Group's convoy this time! We got 10 units of space-time particles and several hundred smart guns."
"It's the same as usual. We'll pretend to leave Dawn City in the Chen Group's caravan, and then go to the secret base to exchange it for the rebels' multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicles. This time we were well prepared, and basically left no clues."
"Mr. Chen also used his superb acting skills to confuse the visiting Fujido Yuki. It was a perfect cooperation! In this way, it is basically impossible for the Fujido Group to find out about us."
"I haven't been out in the wilderness for a few months. It feels good to stretch my muscles!"
As soon as he finished speaking , he saw Chen She walk into the meeting room.
Everyone immediately stood up and said respectfully, "Captain!"
The name has also changed.
Chen She sat down silently in his seat, controlling his expression calmly. At the same time, he was wondering if his posture of opening the door was wrong.
What’s going on? Why does this style of painting seem a little off?
The persons in charge in front of him were all muscular and strong. They took off their gloves and revealed their robotic arms. It was obvious that they were not good people.
Moreover, after this group of people stopped pretending, the murderous aura that had been honed in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood was revealed, and it even made Chen She feel that the temperature in the whole room had dropped by several degrees.
They are definitely professional soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles!
Add to that what Zhang Sirui said earlier and the news this afternoon...
Chen She's brain worked rapidly, and he came up with a rather terrifying guess.
Could it be that the Chen Group is a legitimate company on the surface, but in fact often disguises itself as a rebel group to hijack other groups' convoys and supplies, and is very good at this kind of "real business war"?
Judging from what Zhang Sirui said, this isn’t the first time he’s done this, and it’s never been discovered?
In other words, the rebels mentioned in the news are actually the ones taking the blame?
However, just as Chen She thought of this hypothesis, the discussion among several responsible persons overturned his guess.
"Now that I think about it, it has been almost three years since the great defeat after the Sixth Corporate War."
"Yes, although the results of this battle are gratifying, we only robbed a batch of supplies from the Fujido Group. If this continues, when will we be able to complete our mission of overthrowing all the chaebols?"
"I am afraid that in a few years, we will be ."
Everyone was quite saddened.
Chen She's heart sank again.
Oh wow.
It turns out that it wasn't the Chen Group that was disguised as the rebels, but the rebels that were disguised as the Chen Group...
Wouldn’t that be even more ruined?
If it is the former, although it is also very dangerous, it at least shows that this group of people only robbed some supplies in secret and blamed the rebels, so there is still hope of being saved.
But if it is the latter, it means that these people are genuine rebels, and they will eventually fall out and fight to the death with the big capitalists!
There's no hope, absolutely no hope!
When Chen She first traveled to this world, he discovered that he had only inherited part of the original owner's memory and it was not complete.
But he didn't think much about it, because he had inherited many of the original owner's memories as the president of the company, and Chen She thought the others were some less important memories.
Now it seems that it is obviously the most important part of the memory that was not inherited!
This is such a rip off!
Chen She remembered that during the morning meeting, Zhang Sirui said that he was ready to take some special measures against the Fujido Group.
At that time, Chen She did not think much about it. He thought that at most they would hire hackers to steal some business secrets, or hire some Internet trolls or use some shady means, so he did not stop him. He just reminded him to be careful to be on the safe side.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Sirui's so-called "special method" was to directly lead people to rob the Fujido Group's convoy!
This is the rebels' old job.
The reason why Fujido Yuki came to test the waters was probably because he vaguely realized the threat posed by the Chen Group. However, he did not expect that Chen She knew nothing about it and led him astray, which in turn cleared the suspicion of the Chen Group.
And if we follow this line of thought, it would be reasonable to explain why employees took the initiative to ask for a pay cut.
Originally Chen She thought that this was because he, as the president, was deeply loved by his employees and the company was united in overcoming the difficulties.
Now it seems clear that this is not the only reason.
Even though there is a shortage of job opportunities in this world, it is still impossible for employees and senior management to jointly make such an outrageous request as voluntarily reducing their salaries unless they have a very clear common goal and do not have 100% trust in their bosses.
So, the truth is very clear. On the surface, this is a company, but in fact it is an army disguised as a company!
The goal of this rebel army is very consistent, which is to make money, obtain weapons and equipment, and fight against the chaebols!
In other words, the money in the company's account is actually the rebels' military expenses.
Once the company goes bankrupt, it means the rebels’ plan has failed and their ideals have been shattered.
Can these resistance fighters not share the joys and sorrows?
For them, salary and the like don’t matter at all. What matters is whether the company can earn enough to cover military expenses and when they can make a big move!
Eating, sleeping, and fighting the chaebols, these are what the rebels care about.
Other than that, they just don't care.
There is also a reasonable explanation for why Mewtwo's "Battle of the End" is so realistic .
The rebels are all battle-hardened warriors. How could it not be real if they created a super dream based on the battlefield in their memories!
Chen She once complained that this game might be only able to be completed by special forces, as the numbers and balance were simply made by hand.
Now it seems that this difficulty should be just right for these employees...
Chen She was completely frozen.
He felt that he had to seriously reassess his situation.
The whole company is full of traitors, so what is he?
The rebel leader!
So the question is, if the activities of the resistance army are exposed and they are wiped out by the corporate coalition, will anyone believe Chen She if he explains that he was completely unaware and was forced to do so?
Chen She's feeling at this moment was just like that old joke: A time traveler travels back in time and finds himself a great general with unparalleled military tactics. He is chasing the enemy in a chariot with elite troops. Victory is in sight, but he does not expect that the trees are blocking the way ahead. He goes forward to check and finds that only one tree has not fallen. He is puzzled and orders a fire to check, and sees a few words on the tree...
It makes me despair just thinking about it!
If the rebels were strong, that would be fine.
But according to the information Chen She had just checked, it had only been three or two years since the resistance army in the old land was easily extinguished by the corporate coalition army of the big chaebols. Under the current situation, the so-called resistance was completely in vain! There was no chance of winning at all!
To make matters worse, his own name was the cause of the problem.
Chen She was not very satisfied with this name in the first place. In this context, he inexplicably became the leader of the resistance army, which was even more unlucky!
It's obvious that he's going to die.
The historical uprising leader with the same name as himself did not end up in a very good way.
Who knows, one day he might be defeated and killed by his own coachman, oh no, driver.
Learning from history can help us understand the rise and fall of nations!
The leaders were all excited and enthusiastically discussing the resistance army's grand plan, while Chen She was trying to control his expression while thinking about countermeasures.
If this continues, won’t we be doomed?
We can't just sit there and wait for death, we have to find a way to save ourselves!
