Thanks to Mr. Xiang's "meeting gift", Jiang Chen's project was approved much faster than he planned. There are advantages and disadvantages to planning ahead of time, but overall there are more advantages.
After the exercise and the meeting, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening when we left the military base. We took a car overnight from the border of the neighboring province back to Yan City. During the trip, the elderly people who traveled with us were all in high spirits and talked about the conference that would be held in a few months. They did not avoid Jiang Chen who was also present.
However, Jiang Chen did not pay too much attention to these political issues. It would take some time for the project to be approved and actually launched. During this period, the candidates for the scientific research team must be determined. However, until now, he did not have a suitable choice except Yu Yi, and Yu Yi would not sign a contract with the company.
In addition, the company's office location must be selected as soon as possible. Although he does not have much business experience, when he started a business with Shen Xu and Huo Bo, he was not oblivious to other things and focused on research in the early stages of the business. At least he has personally experienced the necessary steps of finding an office location and recruiting in the early stages of the business.
Having a certain amount of experience can indeed improve efficiency, but the college entrance examination is coming soon, and it is basically difficult to set up a company, choose an office location, and install and purchase office equipment before the summer vacation within such a tight time.
Jiang Chen looked out the window, wondering how he could shorten the time required to start a company.
Perhaps noticing that he was distracted, the energetic old man asked him, "What are you thinking about?"
Jiang Chen blurted out: "About starting a company."
The three people present knew the contract Jiang Chen proposed, so they didn't even need to pause to continue his conversation: "Is there any trouble?"
Jiang Chen sat up slightly, paused for a moment, and briefly explained his concerns.
The old man smiled and said, "You don't need to worry. The people in the institute will try their best to recruit the scientific research team according to your schedule. It will take some time from the notification to the screening of applications. By the time you are actually selected for the interview, you will probably have finished the exam."
"These are not things you should worry about at all." Mr. Xiang looked sideways at him and said calmly, "If you don't have time, just leave it to your father. He doesn't deal in real estate, but he has a lot of office buildings in good locations. Just tell him and he will take care of them for you."
Jiang Chen was slightly stunned and subconsciously wanted to refute this approach.
Mr. Xiang did not give him a chance to refute, and continued: "Your time is for scientific research. Don't waste your energy on things that don't need your attention at all."
The old man smiled at Jiang Chen and said kindly, "Grandpa Xiang is right. Since you can't spare the time now, why not hand it over to someone you trust and who is capable of doing it."
The middle-aged man who had been following the old man looked at Jiang Chen and suddenly said, "You look familiar to me. I seem to have seen you before but I don't remember much. Whose family are you from?"
As an insider, Mr. Xiang naturally answered this question for Jiang Chen: "He is the eldest of the three families of the He family."
The middle-aged man nodded, a hint of doubt flashed across his eyes, but he didn't ask any more questions.
The car drove smoothly to Yan City. Since Jiang Chen had to go to school tomorrow, he was sent home first.
As the car slowly drove away from the neighborhood where the Jiang family lived, the middle-aged man asked, "Why is the eldest son of the He family surnamed Jiang?"
Old Xiang sighed. It wouldn't be long before the whole circle would know about this matter. Besides, if the middle-aged man in front of him really wanted to know, he had plenty of channels to do so. There was no need for him to hide it.
"Back then, He Lao San and his wife and Jiang Chen's adoptive parents..."
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When he got home, Jiang Chen turned on his computer immediately.
Sure enough, countless messages popped up on the Wing Network, the most numerous of which came from H and C, and two were from A.
Jiang Chen was slightly surprised and clicked on A's message first:
【A: Today’s information war is very exciting. 】
[A: I am very interested in your Yangtze River system. Can we talk about it? ]
Jiang Chen's fingers on the keyboard paused for a moment and he closed the chat interface. It seemed that A was also one of the people participating in the information war today. He was indeed very interested in this great man who had retired for a long time, but it was too late now and it was not suitable to talk about business.
He opened C's dialog box first. He really wanted to know what the news would be that would expose him in front of everyone in the Cyber Security Bureau.
【C: I I I I saw you. 】
【C: You, you, how come you are so small! 】
【C: Great God! D God! Take me with you, ahhhhh! I want to join your team! I can even sweep the floor!】
【C: Master, where have you been? Why did you never come back? 】
【C: Oh, oh, you're really not coming back? Don't you want to know who I am? We just passed each other today, you're such a jerk, you brushed past someone and then turned your back on me. 】
Jiang Chen's mouth twitched. He really couldn't imagine who among the people he met at the Cyber Security Bureau today would be able to send out these messages with a calm face. Moreover, if he said they just passed by, there were many people he passed by, so he couldn't find them at all...
No, Jiang Chen paused suddenly. Regarding the establishment of his scientific research team, apart from the people who had attended the meeting at the research institute before, there were only a few bigwigs who had attended the meeting at the military base today. All the people who knew about it did not exceed fifteen people in total.
Information warfare and military exercises are all carried out under other pretexts. Even the participants do not know the true meaning of the game. How could C know?
[D: How did you know I was going to form a scientific research team? ]
C seemed to have been waiting by the computer, and replied almost the next second after Jiang Chen sent the message.
[C: I was also in the meeting room when you held a meeting at the 17th Research Institute of the Military.]
Jiang Chen looked at the words on the screen, and the faces he had seen in the institute's conference room at that time appeared in his mind one by one. Compared with C's tone, those elderly men and Major General Wu were definitely not him. The only other people were a woman with long curly hair whose age could not be determined, and a man sitting next to her who kept his head down and whose appearance and age could not be determined clearly.
Remembering that C once said he had social phobia, Jiang Chen had an answer:
【D: Were you sitting at the very end seat opposite to me before? 】
[C: Yes, yes, yes! And when you left this afternoon, I was still standing at the door of the second floor. Just when I was about to call you, you left without even turning back.]
【D: So you sent me a message on purpose? 】
[C: I just want to confirm your identity! I always thought you were about the same age as me, but I didn't expect you to be so young. My feelings at that time were complicated and you couldn't understand. I had to confirm it right away.]
Jiang Chen was not angry, he just felt it was very magical. It was the first time for him to meet an online friend in real life, and it was just a meeting without any communication.
【D: Why didn’t you call me at that time? 】
【C: I have social phobia and I am speechless when I see a real person. 】
Jiang Chen has a deeper understanding of social phobia. Putting aside other things, if C can join his team, at least in terms of mutual familiarity, he is better than everyone else in the Wing Network, including H and A.
However, his understanding of C was limited to the fact that he loved to browse other people's surveillance videos and was good at tracking other people's IP addresses. These two items had no substantial effect on the Yangtze River project.
[D: You want to join my team. What advantages do you think you have? ]
[C: Actually, I was a tester at XX before, but I just didn’t like interacting with people, so I quit and started taking orders online to become a hacker. Does your team need testers? ]
There is really a shortage of it.
Jiang Chen had previously thought about finding a tester at the research institute, but the sheer size of the entire Changjiang project was far beyond the capacity of just one tester to complete. Furthermore, Changjiang would continue to develop and upgrade, so one tester would not be enough.
Moreover, XX is the world's most famous software company. If C has worked there, it can prove that he has certain abilities. However, working for a top ten company in the world and joining a research team of a difficult scientific research project are completely different concepts. Whether it can be successful depends on C's ability.
【D: After a while, I...】
Jiang Chen suddenly thought of something, deleted what he had just typed, and retyped it.
[D: I will send you a program. It is a new programming language, but it works. Please test it and give me the results in three days.]
【C: Okay! 】
After chatting with C, it was already late. Jiang Chen casually glanced at H's messages. Most of them were asking him about the Yangtze River system. He picked a few that he could answer, without even washing his face, and fell asleep on the bed.
The third mock exam results were released as scheduled, and the announcement was still posted on the big list in the Cultural Corridor. However, this time the list was much more lively than the previous ones. Not only the senior high school students, but even the first and second year students were crowded in front of the bulletin board.
"Did you see it? Did you see it? Is it Senior Jiang Chen?"
"Is Jiang Shen the first?"
"Don't rush me! There are heads all in front of me, I can't see."
"Hurry up! I'm in a hurry!"
"I see it, I see it! Jiang Shen is number one! 748 oh shit!"
"748? Am I seeing that?"
"It's 748. Oh my god."
"Then the science champion is also guaranteed to be here, right?"
"It's definitely stable."
Students huddled together under the bulletin board and discussed the topic in a group. The topic was largely focused on one person, and no matter what grade they were in, they all had smiles and pride on their faces.
They said that the reason other schools took the first place in the city was because Jiang Shen/Senior Jiang was not there. As soon as he took the exam, everyone had to give way to him.
Jiang Chen slept too late yesterday and came to class late today, which was unusual for him. He entered the classroom almost on time and did not have time to check his grades. However, he did not need to check because the morning self-study teacher had already congratulated him with a smile. By the way, the whole class had a 30-second table-clapping and high-fiving party.
"Thanks."
Jiang Chen put down his schoolbag, smiled and said thank you, but what he was thinking about was the phone call he made before leaving the house in the morning.
Previously at the He family, after hearing the conversation between He Qianjian and the system, he had been very curious about the unknown functions of the system and the meaningless "PO" from He Qianjian's mouth, so that night, he asked the detective he had worked with before to keep a close eye on He Qianjian, wanting to know what exactly he was looking for.
Jiang Chen's intuition told him that the thing that the system told He Qianjian to find should not be simple.
However, until this morning, the detectives had made no progress. All of He Qianjian's actions were normal, and he did not deliberately buy or look for anything. Even if he really bought something during this period, nothing was similar to the pronunciation of PO.
What will it be?
Jiang Chen took out the English test paper, put on headphones, and started thinking while doing the test.
After the third mock exam, it means there are only a dozen days left before the college entrance examination. At this time, most teachers will relax the classroom atmosphere, and morning self-study will not be as strict as before. Everyone can read books, do exercises, and read as long as it does not affect other students. You can even discuss problems with others.
Shen Xu took advantage of this to move his stool to Jiang Chen's desk, bumped his elbow, waited for him to take off his headphones, and lowered his voice, "I ran into Zhang Zhi this morning, and he told me that He Qianjian had contacted him again recently."
Jiang Chen tilted his head: "He's looking for you?"
Chen Xu shrugged: "Maybe he was grateful that you didn't block his way back then, so that he could still stay in school. So this time when He Qianjian made a move and he couldn't find you, he told me directly."
"What does He Qianjian want him to do?"
"Buy batteries. Let him buy a lot of batteries."
"Battery?"
"I don't know why He Qianjian is crazy, and Sun Zhi doesn't understand it either. He just asked me to tell you this."
Jiang Chen nodded slightly, indicating that he understood, and after Shen Xu returned to his seat, he couldn't help but think about it.
Could the battery that He Qianjian asked Sun Zhi to buy have any connection with the PO that the system asked him to find?
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