I handed over to another world

"of course it's true."

Chen Lin smiled and asked his former colleague: "Is the child a boy or a girl?"

"It's a boy..."

"Boys and girls are both good. My boy is over two years old, but my girl is not born yet."

Chen Lin's words instantly brought his colleague closer to himself, and the two began to chat about some things about children. Chen Lin also learned about some changes in the Red Dragon Association through his former colleague.

Since the portal was opened, resources from the Origin Star have been continuously flowing into the Earth, and the Red Dragon Association has also made a radical change on this basis.

Whether in terms of eating habits, life, technology, etc., the influence of the Origin Star is very profound. Many things in the other world quickly became part of the daily life of the Red Dragon Association after the initial novelty. In addition, the Red Dragon Association itself is updated very quickly, and many things have entered daily life without making people feel abrupt.

"Last year I bought a maglev train with an interest-free loan."

At this moment, the colleague suddenly spoke to Chen Lin with an irrepressible smile on his face: "That car is so cool. I took my wife to see it when it first came out. The price of the whole car was very expensive at the beginning. At that time, I heard that it cost about 20 yuan, and the lowest configuration... Later I heard that the association gave a subsidy of yuan for each car, and the overall manufacturing process has also been improved, so the price has dropped by another %..."

"In the end, I paid 100,000 yuan and borrowed 200,000 yuan from the bank, which was enough to get it."

"How much is it per month?"

"Well... I pay 3000 a month, and I've been on this loan for less than six years."

Seeing his colleague's smile, Chen Lin couldn't bear to disappoint him, so he just smiled and said, "Not bad, your salary should be at least 2W now, right?"

"Shame on me, it's only 1.6 now."

My colleague smiled helplessly: "Our company is still okay, but my personal ability is still lacking. The boss held a competition before, and I couldn't compete with those young people. In the end, my salary was raised to 16,000 and I couldn't go any higher..."

"That's fine."

Chen Lin smiled and nodded: "I have some knowledge of magnetic levitation cars before. The development of this car is very rapid. According to the current scientific research progress of our association, this car will be eliminated in less than two years..."

"what!"

My colleague immediately looked confused. He hadn't even paid off the loan for his newly bought car yet, and Chen Lin actually said that he was going to scrap it. How could he not be scared?

"But you don't have to worry so much. When I say elimination, I don't mean that this car will no longer be used. I just mean that a new product will be released."

Chen Lin said to his colleagues with a smile: "New products will definitely crush old ones. This is the trend of technological development. Old products are not necessarily unusable. After the maglev car is manufactured, it can be driven for at least ten years. At that time, you can even upgrade it for free through some channels - I remember that this policy was approved by the association at the beginning."

“There is still such a policy!?”

The colleague immediately perked up and asked Chen Lin: "No one told me when I bought the car!"

"I remember there was."

Chen Lin laughed and said, "Just drive it without worry. When the maglev car is almost used up, you can definitely replace it with a new one."

"That's okay, that's okay!"

My former colleague showed a relieved look: "I hope my old car will be eliminated before I can pay off the loan. That car is really better than old cars now. No matter it is a fuel car or a regular electric car, it can't compare. I drive this car to work every day. After work, it can automatically navigate to take me to work, and then it can automatically take my wife to work!"

"This thing charges wirelessly automatically, and doesn't consume any power when in magnetic levitation mode. The money I spend on it in a month is less than what I spend on two packs of cigarettes!"

"By the way, Brother Chen, do you smoke?"

When he said this, he reached out to take out a cigarette. Chen Lin waved his hand and said, "Quit it, quit it. You have to pay more attention to your wife and children at home."

“This is the charm of technological progress.”

Chen Lin smiled and said to his colleague: "Which generation of the maglev car you bought is it?"

"Well... I remember the salesperson told me that the car was a sixth-generation product."

"Sixth generation?"

Chen Lin hesitated for a moment, then said, "I don't know much about this, but by August at the latest, the association will release a new generation of magnetic levitation vehicles. I don't know exactly which generation the new model is, but I can be sure that the effects are all brand new, and more importantly, the material used is... Valar alloy, which is more secure than Muling metal."

The colleague obviously didn't know much about this. He listened for a long time before he asked, "What about the price?"

“I didn’t even ask about the price…”

Chen Lin shook his left hand, and the watch-like thing on his left hand immediately popped out a projection screen. Chen Lin simply clicked on it a few times and soon saw the answer he wanted.

"Well, it says here that the estimated selling price at that time is 60 yuan."

“It’s too expensive…”

My colleague sighed immediately, "I can't even make up one-third of my salary this year without spending a penny!"

"Remember what I just said? Free replacements and upgrades."

Chen Lin said with a smile: "I just checked the relevant policies on the way, and it is still being implemented now."

"That's great!"

The colleague waved his hands excitedly and said, "I haven't even heard of such a good policy. If this is possible, I can drive this car for a few years and then replace it with a new one. Wouldn't it be a new car every year then?!" Chen Lin smiled and didn't say anything more. He just let his colleague chat with him about many trivial things in daily life.

Chen Lin asked very detailed questions, and most of the time he let his colleague speak on his own while he listened patiently. There were many things that Chen Lin actually didn't understand at all in the office, Beidu, or even Shanhai City. This was a good opportunity.

"The cost of living is indeed much lower now than before... Let's not talk about daily necessities, the food alone is very different from before. In the past, if we bought groceries and cooked, each person would have to spend at least a few hundred yuan a month, and a couple would have to spend at least a thousand or even a lot of money. If you were too busy at work to cook, it was normal to spend more than two thousand yuan a month."

"After I started a family, the monthly food expenses for a family of three would be at least 3,000 yuan."

"Now it's better. A family of three spends less than 500 yuan on food a month. The monthly food expenses for the child in kindergarten are only 1500 yuan. It used to be at least yuan, but now it has dropped..."

"Why is it so low?"

Chen Lin suddenly became curious. It was unbelievable that the price dropped so much.

“Subsidies, lower prices.”

This former colleague said to Chen Lin: "It's very interesting. After we had a child, the association gave us a birth subsidy of 2000 yuan a month. There are also tax exemptions on our wages. The money is limited to certain things to be spent on each month. We usually choose to spend it on food, so our monthly expenses are directly reduced..."

"The price drop is also a factor. Meat that used to cost more than 10 yuan a pound now costs only a few yuan a pound. The cheapest beef used to cost 20 to 30 yuan a pound, but now similar meat costs only 4 to 5 yuan a pound."

Chen Lin was also very interested and asked, "Have you studied what kind of meat that is?"

"It's said to be meat from a special kind of cattle from the Origin Star. I don't care what kind of cattle it is. The price is here, and the taste is even better than beef. Do you think I should buy it?"

"Besides, I'm not the only one buying this. Most of the things circulating on the market now are these things. How could the association allow problematic things to circulate directly on the market? Don't you think so?"

Chen Lin immediately laughed: "You are right."

He remembered that there were special breeding and slaughterhouses arranged at the outpost base. He had not visited the animals raised there for a long time. There was also breeding at Dalade Zhong Qingshu's place. If he remembered correctly, there was actually breeding industry arranged at Taka Continent as well, and he had even approved the area.

Chen Lin came back to his senses and said to his colleague in front of him, "There must be no problem. The things are all transported from the Origin Star. Even what I eat is these things. They are cheap only because of the high production. After they are sold, the price of these things is not cheap."

The two looked at each other and then burst into laughter.

The colleague didn't smoke because Chen Lin had quit smoking, and he didn't light a cigarette himself. The two of them talked about the current international situation. In fact, the colleague used to love talking about these things, but now he was a little restrained in front of Chen Lin. He suddenly stopped talking after a few words and smiled awkwardly at Chen Lin: "I'm just showing off my skills in front of Guan Gong. You should know much more than me now. After all, we are standing in different positions now..."

Chen Lin immediately laughed: "This doesn't seem like your style."

"I don't actually know much about these things. I am currently only responsible for the entertainment-related content within the association."

The two chatted for several hours until Chen Lin was drawn back to his senses by a knock on the door. He then realized that it was already noon.

"Vice President Chen, is it time for us to eat?"

Secretary Zhao walked in and whispered to Chen Lin. Chen Lin then stood up and said with a smile, "I forgot the time while reminiscing with my old friend."

The colleague beside him was also confused for several seconds after hearing the secretary address Chen Lin, and then he stammered: "You are now... Vice... Vice President?!"

"what?"

Chen Lin smiled at his former colleague and said, "What do you think I do now?"

"I thought you were just the head of a department in Shanhai City..."

The colleague murmured, and then he heard Chen Lin say, "It's all the same. Come on, Lao Wang, let's go downstairs and have a meal together. I haven't eaten in the restaurant here for many years."

"well!"

The colleague called Lao Wang nodded quickly, and he followed Chen Lin and the crowd downstairs in a daze. At this moment, an incomprehensible thought emerged in his mind - what earth-shattering things had Chen Lin, who was his colleague in the past, done in these years to become the vice president of the Red Dragon Association! ?

……

Chen Lin didn't leave the building until the afternoon. This time he came back to see what the old company was like, and also to do some research.

His current work schedule is basically very free. What he has to do every day is actually to conduct field visits to various cultural venues, hold routine meetings, and supervise and operate certain work according to the arrangements of the association... It is indeed much more leisurely than when he was at Anyun Base.

Li Tianyun did not lie to himself. The content of the work after that was more than that of Anyun Base, but what he did not say was that he did not need to be involved in many tasks.

What Chen Lin is most interested in is actually the special review and approval of various promotional and entertainment contents that the lower-level departments are unable to decide whether to approve. These contents are available on both Earth and the Origin Star. Chen Lin has now become the vice president who is mainly responsible for this kind of work, so he will inevitably run around the two places to participate in various tasks.

It was only then that he realized that the cultural communication and film and television works on the Origin Star were already quite different from those on Earth - at this time, nearly 100 million people had already immigrated to the Origin Star, and the method of entering the Origin Star was also very simple, you only needed to apply to enter directly.

However, after entering, the association's requirements are also very unique, basically cutting off some commercial activities on Earth. This makes the main reason that prevents people from entering the Origin Star the portal issue that some people are worried about.

Some people have a unique feeling for the earth and the original land of the association. They believe that once they enter another world through the portal, if the portal is closed or an accident occurs, they will be left in another world forever.

This primitive fear of being far away from their homeland still makes many people have doubts, and even prevents them from making the final choice to settle on the origin planet.

However, for many young people, a different world where they have no worries about food and drink and have favorable conditions is a paradise for many of them. They directly pass through the portal to the origin star or other types of planets, take root on these planets, and are unwilling to return to Earth.

The Koman Empire on the Origin Star had completed comprehensive technological and modernization long ago. The Koman Empire is now actually just a name, and everyone in it also has official membership certificates of the Red Dragon Association.

Of course, as a price, those territories belonging to the Comin Empire were officially transferred to the association.

The Origin Star truly belongs to the Red Dragon Association. (End of this chapter)