Chapter 199 Recruitment

"Tianqiong Company?" Gu Lan looked in the direction of the voice and found that the person speaking was a girl who looked even younger than them. She was wearing a shirt, trousers and sneakers, and had a student-like look on her face.

Shi Nian'an swallowed nervously, handed the booklet over, and said with a smile, "Hello, I'm Shi Nian'an from Tianqiong Company."

"Were you talking about physics just now? What a coincidence! Our company is planning to develop a very cutting-edge material reorganization technology, and we're particularly in need of physics talents like you. If you're interested, I can give you a detailed introduction."

Before Gu Lan could say anything, Lin An's eyes widened. "Did I hear you wrong? What technology did you just say? Material reorganization?"

Shi Nian'an nodded seriously. "Yes, if this technology succeeds, it will completely overturn people's understanding of matter. It will also be enough to inflict a devastating dimensionality reduction blow on the two monopolistic capitalist empires, Huangtian and Baiye."

She said it calmly, as if she really believed it.

But the fact is, before coming here, she had received special training in speech skills, and she can now say anything, no matter how outrageous it is.

If we don't brag a lot, how can we convince those talented people to come to our shabby company? Hey, don't tell this to Mr. Zhou - these are the exact words Huang Yan said when she was training her.

Lin An just felt that she was talking nonsense, and talking about defeating the emperor's hegemony was not reliable. Was she involved in some pyramid scheme?

But she was too lazy to expose him, so she smiled and shook her head, "Sorry, we--" She stopped talking before she could finish, because Gu Lan actually took the booklet handed to him and looked through it carefully.

At this moment, a burst of laughter came from behind. "Hahahaha, dimensionality reduction attack, you've watched too many movies and really think physics doesn't exist, right? This is a scam company. Gu Lan, even if you didn't enter the Imperial Heaven, you wouldn't be so hungry and indiscriminate!"

Looking back, Song Xiaojun was standing behind them, looking at them with a ridiculous expression on his face.

Lin An's face darkened. This rubbish really is haunting him!

She couldn't bear it any longer and was about to scold him, but Shi Nian'an beat her to it.

Shi Nian'an's face was serious, and he spoke fluently, "I know this sounds sci-fi, but just like AI, if those scientists had been like you when the first paper on deep learning was published 58 years ago and thought that the idea of computers mimicking human neural networks to learn was a fantasy, there would be no AI technology today."

As he spoke, his voice paused and turned into an apologetic smile.

"Oh, I forgot. God can't produce true scientists. They'll always be able to poorly imitate others without any ability to innovate. No wonder they hired a short-sighted mediocre person like you. After all, creating a breakthrough from nothing is not something a habitual offender who prides himself on plagiarism can achieve."

Song Xiaojun was so angry that his face turned blue. He strode forward and wanted to give Shi Nian'an a lecture, but with a bang, he bumped into the automatic cruising cleaning robot, stumbled, and fell backwards to the ground.

The robot immediately issued a warning, "Please back up! Cleaning in progress, please do not disturb!"

Lin An chuckled, "You've come just in time, hurry up and pack up the trash and take it away!"

Song Xiaojun got up from the ground with his face flushed. He was about to argue with them when a graduate student from the same group came over.

He then remembered that he still had important things to do. He glared at Lin and Gu and sneered, "You are a bunch of sour grapes, and you look down on Huangtian. How ridiculous! When I make more money in Huangtian and achieve a higher social status, don't come crying and begging me."

After saying those harsh words, he turned around and walked away, covering his injured butt as if he was afraid of being scolded again.

Shi Nian'an looked at his fleeing back and slowly exhaled.

She used to be afraid of confronting others head-on, but during this period, the huge changes in her family and the endless harassment from debt collectors had unknowingly toughened her character.

Gu Lan's depressed mood was swept away. She closed the booklet and looked at Shi Nian'an, "Thank you for speaking for us."

Lin An patted the cleaning robot and said, "I have to thank it!"

The cleaning robot was spinning in place, "Please be careful when reversing! Cleaning, please do not disturb!" It just kept repeating these few words over and over again.

Lin An frowned in confusion. "Hasn't AI already become very advanced? Why is this crappy machine still so stupid?"

Gu Lan smiled. "It's just a cleaning robot. It doesn't need to be too smart. As long as it can replace the cleaning lady to clean, it's enough. After all, the input and output of AI is a huge black box. If the permissions are released, no one knows what shocking opinions a trash can will output."

Lin An shrugged helplessly, "It seems that even a trash can cannot enjoy freedom of speech."

Shi Nian'an interrupted at the right moment, "So, how about coming to our company and participating in a research project that could change the world?"

Gu Lan saw that the light shining in her clear eyes was the light that belonged only to idealists.

At this moment, she heard the sound of her heart beating wildly.

Idealists living in this world are either crazy or fools.

She wanted to be crazy, just this once.

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S City, Huangtian Technology Building.

It was already eleven o'clock in the evening, and the building was still brightly lit.

Engineer Jin Feifan walked into the office and looked at his boss sitting behind the desk. He said with suppressed anger, "Boss, I can't accept the idea of transferring me to another position and taking a pay cut."

Department manager Qian Yong has a shiny forehead and sparse hair. He looks fifty years old, but he is actually only in his thirties.

Hearing this, he raised his head and saw that Jin Feifan's face was still swollen, his body was fatter than before he took leave, and his face looked very haggard.

He spoke gently, "The company has taken all factors into consideration. You took six months of maternity leave, but projects don't wait, and your original position is no longer suitable for you. Besides, the operations and maintenance position is easy, so wouldn't that make it easier for you to take care of your child?"

Jin Feifan was so angry that she almost laughed when she heard him lying with his eyes open. A 30% pay cut and no chance of promotion in the future, how could this be considered good for her?

But she didn't dare get angry because she really needed this job.

Originally, Jin Feifan was not very ambitious and didn't worry much about her income because she had a high-income husband who could fully cover her living expenses. It was not until she had a child that she found out that he was having an affair.

She spent the entire second half of her maternity leave busy with the divorce lawsuit. After finally getting the divorce, the child should have been hers, which should have been a happy ending for everyone. However, seeing the money being spent like water without any income coming in, she became so anxious that she could no longer sit still.

But when she ended her maternity leave early and returned to the company, she was given a notice of transfer. How could she accept this?

"If I can't keep up with the technology, I can learn. My abilities before maternity leave were obvious to everyone—"

"Alright, the company can't give the green light just for you. This is the company's final decision. Get out."

Jin Feifan was stunned.

Qian Yong's face showed a hint of mockery. "Do you really want me to explain myself? If you can do it, do it. If you can't, get out!"

Jin Feifan's face turned red instantly, his chest heaved violently, and his breasts ached.

She glared at Qian Yong, but he remained calm.

After a moment, she left the office and slammed the door.

When Jin Feifan sat down at her workstation again, the other colleagues cast meaningful glances at her.

In the private chat group, the message was flooded.

"Don't you have any idea how much work I did for her when she was on vacation?"

"Since you've chosen family, why would you even want a promotion or a raise? This company isn't a charity."

"Exactly. Is it fair to let her return to her original position for those of us who work overtime every day? She even went to argue with her supervisor. She's lucky she didn't get fired."

"When I was pregnant, I took a month off and then came back to work. When will women stop taking advantage of their pregnancy to take advantage of the company? It's really shameful for women. Not letting work affect their work is the minimum responsibility."

"Maybe he really doesn't want to do this anymore, that's why he's being so stubborn."

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Ding Dong, a message box popped up on the screen in front of Jin Feifan.

It was a colleague who sent her a screenshot of the chat group message and asked her what she had said to her supervisor. It seemed well-intentioned, but in fact it was full of malice.

Everyone was waiting to see her make a fool of herself.

Jin Feifan's fingers touched the keyboard several times, but in the end he didn't type a single word.

What's the point of arguing with these scabs? I might as well find a way out for myself.

He then opened the recruitment website, scrolled down the mouse, and the title "Annual salary 300,000-500,000" suddenly caught his eye.

She frowned in confusion. The company was... Tianqiong?

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"A bunch of good-for-nothings, do you know that I lost 100 million because of you?"

Zhao Daliu clenched his fingers, and the leather armrests of his office chair made a dying groan.

The thugs, with wounds all on their faces, lowered their heads, cold sweat running down their temples. The debt collector in the lead gritted his teeth and defended himself.

"Brother Zhao, it's not that we brothers are lazy and afraid of death...it's really, really that Zhou Fanyi is too powerful."

"What's the point of the company supporting you? Do you want to hear my excuses?" Zhao Daliu was furious. He stood up suddenly, picked up an ashtray from the table, and smashed it hard at the debt collector.

Bang! The ashtray exploded at the debt collector's feet, scattering fragments everywhere.

The office was dead silent and no one dared to speak.

Zhao Daliu came out from behind the table, his face twitching with rage. He cursed, still not satisfied, "You can't even handle a woman, you piece of shit! A piece of shit among pieces of shit!"

He walked up to the thugs and was about to kick each of them when his cell phone suddenly rang.

Zhao Daliu was extremely annoyed. He picked up the phone and was about to hang up, but when he saw the caller ID, he was startled.

It’s Qiao Yanzhi’s assistant, Zhang Siwen.

He quickly suppressed his anger and carefully answered the phone, "Manager Zhang, it's President Xiao Qiao. What are your instructions?"

"Sky Dome Company, why hasn't it gone bankrupt yet?"

Zhao Daliu immediately broke out in a cold sweat on his back. If Qiao Yanzhi knew that he failed to collect the debt and instead sent 50 million yuan, he would definitely kill him.

"It's almost time. The Sky will definitely not last more than three days!"

"No need. Go and tie up Shi Nianzhi. The prince will see him tomorrow night."

Zhao Daliu raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, "Isn't this illegal?"

The voice on the other end of the phone was gloomy. "Illegal? Don't you know that the prince is the law? If you do this well, you will benefit. If you don't do it well, you know the consequences."

Zhao Daliu said hurriedly: "Yes, yes."

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Daliu threw the phone back on the table and his face instantly darkened.

He gritted his teeth. These powerful capitalists really didn't treat people as human beings. They made him do all the dirty work. Did they really treat him as a dog?

Prince Qiao was innocent, so of course he was fine. But what about him? Kidnapping, extortion, loan sharking, he had done all sorts of bad things. If it got out accidentally, the only one who would be pushed out to take the blame would be Zhao Daliu.

Zhou Fanyi knew this, so she dared to threaten him. She deserves to die!

Even a desperate dog will do anything. Now that things have come to this, don't blame him for being cruel and ruthless.

Zhao Daliu's eyes were sinister as he slowly scanned the men in front of him, "Go call Lao Ying over. This time, I want Zhou Fanyi dead!"

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At the same time, Chi Lan was sitting in the building of Tianqiong Company, and the computer screen in front of her showed the surveillance footage of Zhao Daliu's office.

Want her to die?

Chi Qi raised a sneer at the corner of her lips, with indifference in her eyes. What a fantasy.

However, this would put Shi Nian'an in trouble. The less she cared about money and power, the more Qiao Yanzhi would keep an eye on her. It seemed that she really needed to hire a powerful bodyguard for her daughter.

Just as I was thinking about it, there was a knock on the door.

"Enter."

Huang Yan, dressed in a white casual suit, walked in quickly and handed over a stack of documents. "Mr. Zhou, Director Duan has interviewed all of these new hires. Here are their resumes and agreed salaries. Please take a look."

Chi Li looked at the documents, pulled out a resume at random, and threw it into the trash can without even glancing at it.

Huang Yan's pupils shrank slightly. The resume seemed to belong to a male materials science student. After all, those guys were the best at weighing the pros and cons. They were all so ambitious, jumping into any industry that made money. They wouldn't even look at a small, unpromising company like theirs.

Therefore, this group of newcomers were almost all girls. Huang Yan just subconsciously thought it would be better to recruit a boy, so she worked hard to receive this boy's resume.

But Chi Lu's behavior suddenly made her a little confused.

Chi Li didn't explain, but chuckled and said, "Hasn't Director Huang figured out those treacherous male executives in the company?"

Huang Yan's breathing stagnated. She had not forgotten how those people packed up and left. It was difficult to find a job now, and she did not want to be unemployed like them.

I quickly explained, "Boss Zhou, I understand. It's better to have nothing than to have someone of poor quality. When I recruit new people in the future, I will strictly check their personal qualities!"

Chi Li didn't comment and asked, "Then, according to Director Huang, what percentage of senior management should be women to be considered ideal?"

Huang Yan thought carefully and answered cautiously, "Fifty percent."

Chi Li put down the document, crossed her arms, and looked directly at Huang Yan. "No, my point is, all of them."

Huang Yan widened her eyes, unable to believe that these words came from the mouth of a woman who only knew how to live in dependence.

But she was well versed in the ways of survival in the workplace, and quickly put away her surprised expression and smiled, "Okay, I understand."

"It's not enough for you to understand. All employees in the company should understand. I want you to write anti-sex discrimination into the company's regulations."

"Okay." Huang Yan smiled even more. Compared to Shi Song, the boss, she certainly hoped that her boss would be as open-minded and righteous as Chi Lan.

"Mr. Zhou is so concerned about the career development of our female employees and has taken the initiative to break the glass ceiling that hinders their advancement. This will surely attract more outstanding female talents to join our company!"

Chi Yan nodded. "Well, you've been working hard these past few days. Also, let's hire a bodyguard for Nian An. He must be skilled, preferably with a military background."