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What appeared in front of her was Chen Yan's face and the concerned expression on her face.

Looking past Chen Yan's face, Chen Yan saw the familiar ceiling. His subconscious confirmed that he had returned to the office, but his subjective consciousness was still confused by the beautiful pictures in the dream.

Chen Yan hadn't fully woken up from the dream. His pupils were dilated. In a hazy state, he only felt that Chen Yan's face overlapped with that of the woman in the dream. This feeling was so wonderful that it was hard to describe.

He woke up quickly, and everything in his dream quickly blurred in a short time.

"How long have I been in a coma?"

Chen Yan replied:

"Dr. Crow has been looking at you all night. He said that you are fine, you are just dreaming...and your brain activity is very strong, it does not appear that your brain is damaged."

dream……

Yes, a lucid dream is a dream, and a real dream is still a dream. Even Chen Yan himself can't tell the difference, let alone Crow, who doesn't know much about lucid dreams.

Chen Yan looked at Chen Yan's face and felt more and more familiar - this familiarity was not subjective, but came from "feelings" and "vague impressions".

An inexplicable feeling echoed in my heart, and it was heart-wrenching and lingering.

Chen Yan didn't know where such emotions came from.

"How have you been feeling these two days?"

When he faced her, his attitude was much better than before - Chen Yan found that he was in debt to this unknown woman, and his subjective consciousness told him that this was not a good thing.

"Fortunately, life here is much more fulfilling than when I was at White's house before."

What a wise answer.

Chen Yan felt even more embarrassed:
"There are too many things going on these days, and the company is quite busy... Maybe after a while, when the mechanical hive stabilizes, the work will be a little easier... But it depends on what you want to do in the future."

Chen Yan said curiously:
"I haven't discovered that there is a job in this world that is not tiring! Tell me?"

Chen Yan thought for a while and said:

"I need an accountant...who is also a financial controller. He must be proficient in business and need to sign a confidentiality agreement."

Chen Yan couldn't keep his face off when he said this. He clearly wanted to give the other party benefits, but his actual approach was to use "work" to tie him up. This was really unethical.

But if she wants to survive alone in the future, she must have money. If she wants to have money, she must get a relatively stable job. It is even more difficult for women in society. Work and the money brought by work must be able to make people happy. She just needs to be decent enough.

Chen Yan thought to herself that if she really accepted it, she would be given a very suitable salary and higher treatment as a Z Group employee.

The expression on her face made it difficult for Chen Yan to judge whether she was moved or not.

"It's really nerve-wracking to see a company that has no one to take care of its finances, but given that the company has only been established for a month, there seems to be no need to be too harsh on the grassroots team."

She did not use a sarcastic tone, but simply stated the objective facts.

In the face of this fact, Chen Yan didn't even feel the slightest bit embarrassed - in fact, even this grass-roots team was set up by fake people, and he had almost no effort at all.

"Maybe you need a lot of people, not just me...what else?"

Of course, Chen Yan knew that he needed a lot of people to help him, but now he was very busy and could only use a little time. How much he could do with this little time depended entirely on his luck:

"I urgently need an assistant who can help me review the normal administrative affairs of the group - almost all matters as chairman need to be reviewed by this assistant, sort out the specific situation, and ultimately make the decision by me. "

This time he ignored her thoughtful expression and continued:

"I need……"

In the steamy office, the two of them exchanged complicated and confusing work. The fatigue caused by these trivial matters disappeared at this moment, as if only the conversation itself was left - maybe they just needed to talk, And don't care about the content of the conversation.

——The two of them did not notice such a situation.

Since a considerable part of the population of the Mechanical Hive immigrated to Starlink, the window of the Z Group Chairman's office is no longer noisy as before. The white noise generated by the bustling people on the street penetrates the glass and is filtered just enough to dispel the embarrassment caused by the tranquility. the point.

The low-decibel white noise of the central air conditioner and the occasional noisy sounds from downstairs to upstairs also add a different kind of tranquility to such a scene.

In this work exchange that was almost like a chat, Chen Yan discovered that Chen Yan was not just a canary raised by aristocrats as he imagined. She knew a lot and her knowledge was astonishing. As long as Chen Yan talked about , she can almost analyze it from a professional perspective, and some of Chen Yan’s business questions were suddenly enlightened by her explanations.

It was also during this exchange that Chen Yan learned that Chen Yan not only went to a nun school, but also studied programming in the big data major at a school sponsored by the White family. In her spare time, she took self-study courses in different majors at two universities in the Imperial Capital. MBA degree.

He also learned that she was trained as an all-rounder because the White family treated her as a child bride. In her words, she was "prepared to be used by one of the three idiots who were direct descendants of the White family."

But plans can never keep up with changes. The rapid development of the empire's science and technology has made the White family's combat power unstable in the trend. Every penny of resources must be carefully calculated. Chen Yan, who was originally "prepared to be used by the White family's heirs," faced this background. The value climbed and eventually became a tool for marriage.

Chen Yan's sudden appearance was obviously another accident, but also a result of luck - he just happened to appear at that point in time, he just happened to have the identity as the boss of the first island chain's official outsourcing company, and he just happened to have the right and value. Able to fill the White family's power vacancy in the First Island Chain and Fernando D. Magellan's faction——

Chen Yan, who just happened to appear, just matched the value of the canary raised by the White family, so the marriage began, and it did not depend on the personal wishes of the parties involved - they did not even need to actually get married, only White It is enough for the family to say in front of others that Chen Yan is married to a close associate of Fernando D. Magellan.

"It seems that the status of the White family is not as high as I imagined."

Chen Yan did not consider her identity at all, and affirmed and answered Chen Yan's questions:
"The White family is actually considered a new aristocracy, because the family had a break before the advent of the steam age... He was the patriarch of the previous generation. He said something he shouldn't have said in the imperial capital, offended a lot of powerful people, and was sent to the guillotine. , deprived of his title and confiscated his family property.

The later White family was founded by the third son of the White family. At that time, he was impoverished and was just a libertine who got a degree from the Imperial State University through the help of his ancestors.

His father's death dealt a great blow to him and became the reason why he later left home to start his own business.As you can see, he succeeded. I don’t know whether it was due to the guidance of experts or other reasons. He chose big data as the company’s operation direction a long time ago, so when the era of island chains came, his company took advantage of it. Since then, we have achieved what we are today in a very short period of time. "

When faced with the wind, even pigs can take off. Chen Yan is one of the pigs blown up by the wind in this era, so he completely believes what Chen Yan described about the situation of the White family - in the face of the times, it is simply a common thing. thing.

The final result of the discussion between the two was that Chen Yan signed a contract with the company as Chen Yan's assistant. Chen Yan made this very imprudent decision, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. He felt that his decision It was strange, but in the end I followed my inner decision - no matter what, the frankness and kindness that my synaesthesia perceived from Chen Yan was always right.

After signing the contract, Chen Yan said goodbye to Chen Yan and returned to the ship.

Nuomiguo, who was brought back by Swam from Yanan City, has already woken up. She is wearing a thick blanket and sitting at the dining table. She is holding a cup of hot milk that Chen Yan just handed over in her hand. Her face is pale, as if she is at the beginning of a serious illness. Get better.

As Chen Yan told her story, her face gradually returned to a little rosy——

"Ogami went to the BIOS, probably within the company..."

He explained the BIOS situation to Nuomiguo, and told her the vague situation outside and inside the company that Wish had told him. When it was mentioned that Ogami's intelligent prosthetic hand had entered the upgrade state, Nuomiguo suggested Questioned:

"After the last separation, I have modified and supplemented the code of his omnic prosthetic hand, and also applied an upgrade patch to prevent omnic disease. The upgrade entrance and upgrade verification key are different from before. How can he Maybe after entering the BIOS, upgrade through the company's Internet?"

The two of them thought of a possibility at the same time——

"Ogami...he may have been infected with the virus!"

Apart from being invaded by a virus, the two of them could not think of any software upgrade happening!

Chen Yan's heart that had just been relieved was raised again. He calmed himself down for a while before saying:
"I can see him, but I can't talk to him. I tried to communicate with people in the BIOS before, but ended up comatose all night..."

He told Nuomiguo about Miao Shuisheng's method of using lucid dreams to communicate in the BIOS, and roughly described the creation of "a mechanical matrix that uses hormones and electrical stimulation to maintain a full mental state."

"Mechanical Matrix..."

Nuomiguo had something in mind when he heard this word.

"The intelligence we obtained before mentioned something like this."

Nuomi Guo muttered:

"Actually, this thing is a kind of stabilizer, similar to a transformer and voltage regulator, and also similar to a damping device, except that the acting object is the human brain... If our information is correct, the Byron Weiss Group should have done this before The product."

Byron Weiss Group…

Since the last omnic disease pandemic in the Imperial City, the Byron Weiss Group was exposed to actively leak the omnic disease virus to the outside world and was punished by the imperial government. This group has become very low-key. As far as the first island chain is concerned, They even gave up their original market share, allowing local companies in the island chain like Chen Yan to occupy it for nothing.

Nuomi said decisively:

"Not long ago, the branch of the Byron Weiss Group in Starlink discovered an unknown technology in the dark zone. They handed it over to Starlink. They did a good job of keeping it secret, so the outside world only knows the code name. , without knowing what that thing is.

After obtaining this thing, the Byron Weiss Group's exploration of Starlink was temporarily suspended. They opened a new department within the group to specialize in knowledge related to the unknown technology.

If the information we have received is correct, this technology should be a type of long-distance communication technology. Although it is not within the category of quantum technology, it is different from traditional long-distance radio and requires something similar to a [voltage regulator] as a medium.

[Voltage Stabilizer] has a far greater effect on the spirit than matter - this is the most accurate information we know, because one of the biggest functions of this [Voltage Stabilizer] is to fight against the people in the [Dark Zone] Mental pollution - When the [Stabilizer] stabilizes the mental state to a normal value, the mental pollution of the [Dark Zone] to the pioneer group will be greatly reduced, and the probability of madness and death of frontline soldiers will also be reduced.

In short, it is a very useful thing and is valued by the military.

Most of the components of the [Voltage Regulator] medium... are some kind of luminous substance in the [Wilderness]. "

The luminous matter in [Wilderness] - the luminous thing in the dark, what does this symbolize?hope?still?
For [Wilderness], "glowing" is a very typical feature. In such a completely dark world, the hope symbolized by light must be very strong.

Nuomiguo looked at Chen Yan and said in a steady voice:
"According to the information we received, the pioneer team commissioned by the Byron Weiss Group to go to the [Wildness] suffered heavy losses... [The Wilderness] is much more dangerous than the starry sky. I don't know what their progress is now."

Chen Yan pondered and said:
"Maybe I could ask...or maybe try going into the wilderness to search."

Glutinous Rice said:
"It's dangerous..."

She glanced at Swam next to Chen Yan, and then retracted the second half of her sentence.

Instead she said:
"I think the difficulty lies not only in the search, but also in the fact that you may not be able to communicate with the Baron Weiss Group and commission the luminous substance you find to be made into a [voltage regulator]... Their confidentiality work is very strict and rigid. "

Chen Yan thought that he might be able to ask the director about this issue - William Master himself had a certain status within the Byron Weiss Group, and he might be able to make some guarantees.

——With this thought in mind, Chen Yan called the director.

"I do know a guy who has a position within the Byron Weiss Group. He should be able to tell us something."

——After two standby beeps, the phone was hung up.

Chen Yan's face suddenly became a little confused.

He called twice more and was hung up on each time - faster each time.

Afterwards, a text message was sent to Chen Yan’s mobile phone:
"I'm busy, don't be annoying, or I'll block you." 》

Chen Yan sent a reply without hesitation:
"If I find a luminous substance in the wilderness, can you ask Baron Weiss to make a [voltage regulator] for me to use?" 》

Three seconds later, the principal called.