“Another 30,000!” Although Long Aihong was already used to her brother receiving large bonuses every time he returned, she couldn’t hide her joy.
Long Dayong was gratified, but he sighed.
The smile on Gu Hong’s face widened as she suppressed her voice and asked, “Any promotions?”
Long Aihong immediately pricked up her ears.
“D8.” Long Yuehong was becoming more and more able to reveal his promotion frankly. He no longer needed Shang Jianyao’s help in publicizing his promotions.
“Ah, it’s really a blessing from the heavens.” Gu Hong clasped her hands and casually shook them.
Long Aihong said in anticipation, “Bro, you definitely won’t have a problem reaching D9. If you can enter management one day, I can be assigned a good job in the future! My classmates are so envious of me. Many of them want to be my sister-in-law!”
“What are you thinking about? You want to implicate your brother? It’s a taboo to interfere with job allocations!” Gu Hong reprimanded her daughter. “What I know is that they don’t do a thing during the job assignment, but they’ll find an excuse to transfer them after a year or two.”
“It’s still not confirmed,” Long Dayong muttered softly before saying to Long Yuehong, “Look at them. Sigh…”
Long Yuehong smiled and didn’t say a word.
As long as they were happy.
In any case, he had never thought of reaching management.
…
The next morning, Room 14 on the 647th floor.
Shang Jianyao recounted his encounter in the Fourth Research Institute’s Residential Zone with great detail about ‘heart-breaking’ and ‘gut-wrenching.’
He then said in confusion, “What’s the problem? Why was I unable to clear it despite making everyone treat me with their original attitude? Even I believed that it was real!”
Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen fell silent as they searched for a possible reason.
One guess after another was raised before they were denied.
Jiang Baimian suddenly had an idea and recalled something Shang Jianyao had mentioned: “You previously said that when those people looked at you after the explosion, their expressions were cold. The muscles on their faces were stiff like emotionless corpses.”
“Yes.” Shang Jianyao nodded.
Jiang Baimian fell into thought. “Maybe those people did become corpses. After the accident in the Fourth Research Institute’s residential area, those people might’ve died. What the room owner can’t shake off is their attitude toward him before they died; he also knows that this will never change. Therefore, this became a psychological trauma for him. No matter how you change those people’s attitudes, he subconsciously knows that it’s fake.”
“That’s possible.” Shang Jianyao stroked his chin. “Then, how did the room owner defeat the corresponding island and reconcile with himself?”
Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and said, “This might have to depend on why those people changed their attitude toward the room owner. Only by figuring this out can there be a basis for reconciliation.”
Jiang Baimian then talked about her guess last night: The room owner had made a mistake or discovered a secret that resulted in the Fourth Research Institute being wiped out. The people there had unanimously changed their attitude toward her.
Long Yuehong’s heart palpitated. “I really can’t imagine anyone betraying the place they were born and raised in.”
This was the same as how he couldn’t imagine leaving Pangu Biology. He felt that he might commit suicide if such a thing happened to him.
Shang Jianyao suddenly sang, “We lived like this for 30 years until the building collapsed1…”
Jiang Baimian rolled her eyes at him. She was just about to say something when the phone in the office rang.
Su Yu had received Shang Jianyao’s report and agreed to his request to meet him.