Chapter 511: Heaven Strikes (First Update 3000)
After leaving Lei Jun's office, Lin Bin frowned, obviously in a bad mood.
Firstly, because Lei Jun did not agree with his proposal, and secondly, because of Lei Jun’s final arrangement.
Let Li Wanqiang talk to Google?
He and Gong Rui both came from Google. In his prediction, even if Lei Jun disagreed, he or Gong Rui would eventually go and talk to Google.
But now, why should Li Wanqiang be allowed to talk?
Any large company has factions, and the same is true for rice, but they often do not become apparent when nothing happens.
It is true that Lei Jun is the boss, but Lin Bin also has a lot of shares and a strong say in Da Mi. More than half of the business and functional department heads of Da Mi were recruited by Lin Bin.
Most of these people have backgrounds in Pseudo-Software, Google, and overseas, and can be considered Lin Bin's direct subordinates.
Li Wanqiang is Lei Jun's old subordinate in Yinshan. Until now, he is still nominally the third person after Lei Jun and Lin Bin.
In the past two years, due to the outstanding marketing of rice, Li Wanqiang, who was in charge of marketing, gained a huge amount of glory and halo from rice, and in some occasions his influence surpassed that of Lei Jun.
Many employees worship him like a god, regard his marketing ideas as the guiding principle, and talk about "sense of participation" all the time, but almost no one mentions the marketing concept of "making friends with users" proposed by Lei Jun.
Lei Jun was very sensitive to the signs of the second mountain, and he quickly cut the Gordian knot and put Li Wanqiang on the shelf until the supply chain crisis at the end of last year, which allowed Li Wanqiang to come out again.
At this time, Li Wanqiang had faded out of the rice management sequence for almost a year and a half. Over such a long period of time, most of his influence had been eliminated.
And the employees of Dami also clearly know who is the real boss of the company.
If we rank the important qualities that constitute leadership, "sensitivity to power" must be the first.
Any qualified leader may lack professional ability, be indecisive, or even lack strategic ability, but he or she must have "sensitivity to power."
This is true for both Lei Jun and Zhou Wei's boss Ren.
Lin Bin sighed.
As expected of Mr. Lei, he really doesn't give any chance for power to fall into other people's hands. It seems that he wants to support Li Wanqiang again to balance his own power.
Well, if Shuzi were still alive, Lei Jun would not support Li Wanqiang again, but would support Zhou Shuzi.
Thinking of this, Lin Bin felt less uncomfortable.
Only people like this can make a company run more steadily.
However, Lin Bin still has reservations about Lei Jun's disagreement with using source code as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Google.
And he has no good feelings towards Yuzu Technology.
The management is a mess, the boss is also a mess, business negotiations are a joke, and the penalty for breach of the confidentiality agreement signed by employees who have access to Youmi OS is so severe that it's worthy of being struck by lightning.
Are you stupid?
How did this weird company develop AI?
I guess it's just walking in dog poop.
Back in his office on the third floor, he called his assistant, "Zoe, book me a flight to Yuzhou tonight and tell Faye to go with me."
The assistant's eyes flickered slightly. "Okay, Mr. Lin, do you need Yuzhou to send us the store information we need to review this time?"
Lin Bin smiled and said, "Yes, thank you for your hard work."
After a while, the assistant printed out a thick stack of location information for the six or seven stores that he wanted to look at this time and handed it to Lin Bin.
"Mr. Lin, is the 20:35 flight available? Air China arrives at 22:45. Later flights are only Sichuan Airlines and Chongqing Airlines."
"But if you're taking this flight, your schedule might be a bit tight. It's the evening rush hour, so you might have to leave the company early."
Lin Bin took the information, glanced at his watch, and nodded with satisfaction: "No, there are still more than three hours left, enough time, this class will be enough."
The assistant nodded and said casually, "Before, you asked me to check the flights to Miami. I thought you were going to fly to Miami. From what you said, has President Lei agreed to negotiate with Google?"
This assistant has been with Lin Bin for seven or eight years and is deeply trusted by Lin Bin. She even knows Lin Bin's computer password.
Lin Bin flipped through the documents and said casually, "Someone else has already taken charge. We don't need to worry about this matter."
The assistant said "oh" and his eyes flashed.
It was the evening rush hour, and Lin Bin was afraid of missing the plane, so he didn't waste any more time. He held two more phone conferences of more than ten minutes each, then quickly took the luggage packed by his assistant and went to the airport.
It was rush hour at 5:30 and the North Fifth Ring Road was jammed with traffic all the way. It took almost two hours to drive a 40-minute journey to reach the Xin Gao International Airport.
As soon as he arrived at the airport, Lin Bin saw a flash of lightning across the sky, followed by a rumbling thunder.
Is it going to rain? It's a little cloudy, but it doesn't look like it's going to rain.
If there is a thunderstorm, the flight may be delayed.
Fortunately, although there was a thunderstorm, the plane did not notify of delay and we were almost boarding.
Lin Bin looked at the time and saw that there were still ten minutes before boarding, so he took the time to buy a hamburger. As he was scanning the code to pay, the phone rang.
Yuan Yuan from HR? What was she calling for?
"Mr. Lin, no, something bad has happened to Zoe...Zoe!"
Lin Bin was stunned.
Zoe? His assistant? Something happened?
Isn't she at the company? What could have happened?
"Just now...just now there was a loud thunder, and then we heard the glass in your office seem to shatter. We went in and saw...we saw...it seemed like Zoe was struck by lightning!"
Struck by lightning?
Lin Bin opened his mouth wide, speechless with surprise, and suddenly remembered the lightning he saw when he got off the car just now.
Could it be that time?
How is that possible? Even if the building's lightning rods were useless, glass is an insulator, so how could it possibly shatter?
Besides, I'm on the third floor!
There are more than ten floors above!
Yuan Yuan added tremblingly, "Someone saw a flash of lightning and the office glass shattered. When they went inside, they saw her lying on the ground, her body charred black... We're still not sure if it was a lightning strike, but it looks exactly like it!"
"Call 120! Call the police! I'll be back immediately! Secure the scene!"
The HR on the other end of the phone sounded terrified: "We've called the police and 120. We're not sure if it was a power outage or a lightning strike, so we don't dare go over there."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Bin was about to call his assistant to ask her to inform Yuzhou that he had an emergency and couldn't go. He had already made the call when he slapped his forehead.
People were struck by lightning. Who was it hitting?
In a hurry, Lin Bin did not ask his driver to come back to pick him up. Eight o'clock in Xinhao was still the evening rush hour, so he simply took the subway and asked the driver to wait for him at Xitucheng subway station, which was actually faster than taking a taxi.
Along the way, Lin Bin kept answering and making phone calls, all of which were about Zoe being struck by lightning.
More than an hour later, when Lin Bin arrived at the third floor where his office was located, he found that the third floor had been surrounded by three layers of police and firefighters.
There were also a few people wearing other uniforms, they seemed to be security inspectors.
Most of the employees on the third floor have been evacuated, leaving only a few HR personnel from the company cooperating with the police in taking statements and conducting investigations.
"Mr. Lin, Zoe has been carried away." Yuan Yuan, the HR who had called him earlier, looked pale. Although her expression had returned to normal, there was still a hint of panic in her eyes.
Lin Bin nodded. He had known this on the way here. He walked calmly to his office, where two or three policemen were taking photos and collecting evidence.
"Mr. Lin, right? Is this your office? Excuse me, I need to talk to you later."
The leading policeman was very polite and shook hands with Lin Bin.
First of all, Lin Bin is a senior executive of the rice company, so the police have to give him some face.
Secondly, Lin Bin had sufficient alibi, and it was obviously an accident, so the police did not consider Lin Bin as a suspect at all.
"It should be." Lin Bin looked inside the room and was surprised to find that except for the broken glass and a burn mark on the ground, nothing else was damaged.
"We're also puzzled and have just consulted several experts. They said it's possible. Ten years ago, there was a similar lightning strike in Yuezhou where lightning also shattered the glass and then conducted it into the room."
The patrolman was a native of Xinhao. He was very talkative and pointed at the broken glass windows and the scorch marks on the ground and talked a lot.
"We also tested it and there was indeed no sign of leakage indoors."
"But this is still too evil. Look, the computer is still on."
"Judging from the deceased's position, she was right next to the computer at the time. Logically, the computer should have been damaged by such strong lightning. Even if it hadn't been struck, the circuit would have been burned out by the lightning strike. But now, nothing seems to have happened."
"By the way, could you please turn on your computer so we can take a look? The screensaver is locked and I didn't open it just now."
The police officer said politely.
Lin Bin nodded: "Of course."
As he spoke, Lin Bin skillfully entered a password.
The screen flashed, and Lin Bin was stunned when he saw what was on the screen.
External mailbox?
When Lin Bin saw the unsent email attachment, his face changed drastically!
His fingers hovered over the touchpad, and he froze.
YoumiOS large model core source code! ?
Looking at the recipient again, it was a completely unfamiliar Gmail mailbox!
Zoe is using her own computer to steal source code!?
And then he was struck by lightning! ?
Lin Bin instantly remembered the confidentiality agreement he had signed before, and his scalp went numb.
"Boss Lin, what's the problem?"
The patrolman was a criminal arrester with sharp eyes, and he immediately noticed the strangeness in Lin Bin's expression.
"No problem, it's company business."
Lin Bin took a deep breath and adjusted his expression. Just as he was about to move his finger to close the browser, his hand was held down by the policeman next to him.
The police officer remained calm and said, "Boss Lin, I'm sorry, but your computer is considered evidence. We need to take it away for inspection."
Lin Bin's eyes flashed. "You just said it was an accident, didn't you? My computer is very important. It contains Da Mi's core secrets. There's no need to take it away, right?"
The police officer smiled, but his eyes were no longer careless. "Did I say that? No, right? Before the case is closed, no one can determine whether this was an accident or not. What do you think?"
A thousand horses were roaring through Lin Bin's mind.
Do you think I'm a suspect?
(End of this chapter)
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