Many lucrative positions, especially in logistics, human resources, and finance, are subject to major changes. It is estimated that all three departments will be packing their bags soon because their public image has become notoriously bad.
Longtan Group, the earliest technology company in the country, is likely to implement a system of elimination in its technical department. Many who were eliminated by Longtan Group then came to St. Roman, and they will inevitably face further layoffs.
The entire St. Roman is shrouded in a dark cloud. It is estimated that the only one happy at the moment is Mu Jiahe herself, who sold her shares at a good price and her official relationship was blessed.
However, the biggest surprise was not mentioned by Mu Jiahe, nor by Xiao Xun, which is that the new president of Longtan Group is Xiao Xun himself. But once Xiao Xun takes office, everyone will know.
Mu Jiahe introduced Xiao Xun to the uses of each floor of the building since its construction, describing them one by one from top to bottom.
Although St. Roman was only established in China for eight years, Mu Jiahe felt as though she had worked there her entire life.
When they reached the entrance turnstile, the company's logistics department had ordered an eight-tier cake for Mu Jiahe's eighth anniversary, which looked very grand.
Mu Jiahe had sold her shares, but her position had not yet been handed over. It wasn't until Longtan Group appointed a new president that Mu Jiahe would officially resign.
However, this time she did not retain any shares, converting all of them into cash with Longtan Group.
Xiao Xun asked Mu Jiahe why she didn't keep some. Mu Jiahe smiled and told him it was for his own good.
This left Xiao Xun pondering for a long time, but he remained utterly confused.
Shaking off the matters of this world, Mu Jiahe could then focus wholeheartedly on the affairs of the other world.
Xiao Xun returned to the other world and handed the blueprints for making artillery shells to the chief engineer of the goblin tribe.
Every time he received the blueprints, the old man would exclaim in surprise. He desperately wanted to ask Xiao Xun where he got such wild and imaginative designs, but he never dared to voice it, given the vast difference in their status.
Casting the artillery shells was simple, but the required materials still needed to be figured out by Lorgerd.
He was also thrilled to face the blueprints, and to speed up the work.
Xiao Xun asked him to collect all suspected objects, which Xiao Xun himself would identify one by one using the sunglasses.
It had to be said that these sunglasses were truly divine. With them, many tasks proceeded with astonishing smoothness.
Bai Yang handed De’ervana’s letter to Xiao Xun. The letter stated: The Scourge Legion had begun probing attacks, but they were repelled by the army she organized. As for the matter of plastic, they still hadn’t managed to develop it, so they sent a small sample, only the size of a fingernail, which almost got lost from the envelope.
"I remember there were many water bottles made of this material, why only send such a small piece?"
Bai Yang explained, "Because they had too many experiments over there, so they used it up quickly."
Xiao Xun directly said angrily, "After so many experiments, they haven't produced anything decent. It's so disappointing. What's the point of establishing that arsenal? Besides traditional ranged weapons, what else have they created!"
In reality, it wasn't the fault of the front-line arsenal. The most crucial raw material for making plastic, petroleum, had not been discovered in this world at all. The Scourge Legion's plastic was obtained from an unknown source.
Another piece of news arrived from the front line: Duke Sancho's army, the Spear of Vengeance, had assembled three hundred thousand troops and was stationed at a pass thirty li away from the Phoenix army.
Previously, it was a key defensive fortification specifically to prevent Orc invasions. But since the arrival of the Scourge Legion, the Orcs had lost three consecutive battles and began to consolidate their forces, defending important areas, and vacated those places. The Scourge Legion quickly set up camp there.
Xiao Xun stayed in the Temple of Time for a full three days. With the help of the intelligent sunglasses, he had basically grasped the entire system.
The underlying logic of this system was the same as the computational logic of his original world, with some additions at the upper layers.
But this was normal. No matter how varied the houses on top, the foundation below was the same, and one plus one always equaled two (except in quantum mechanics and pedantic arguments).
For fear of unnecessary danger, Xiao Xun only performed simple operations and browsed some secure websites.
He discovered that the direction of research in the time he was in was the human brain-computer interface, and they had already broken through the bottleneck. According to their research, humans themselves are computer components: the brain is the processor, knowledge is the system, skills are applications, internal organs are the motherboard, blood is electricity, meridians are wires, and eating food is charging.
If this research achieved formal results, humans could become digitized, virtualized, and freed from the constraints of their bodies.
Xiao Xun muttered to himself, "Freed from the constraints of the body? That would make them ghosts! At least robots have a shell."
However, Xiao Xun understood the central idea behind these words.
If a computer can be controlled by its user, then the human brain can also be controlled by its user. If one wants to avoid being controlled, or to explore deeper layers, one can change the system using the underlying logic, just like with a computer.
Seeing this, Xiao Xun thought of two words: brainwashing.
Computers can be modified directly, whereas the human brain needs to receive information through the ears and then process it.
What they were researching now was bypassing verbal reception to directly modify the human brain.
Xiao Xun looked at the comments below in astonishment, "This is too terrifying. Did the files Cui Zhihao showed me contain the source code for this research direction? But why don't future humans object?"
Immediately after, he saw a piece of information in the comments, and instantly understood the biggest reason for not objecting: immortality.
In the future, technology would be highly advanced, and all diseases could be cured, but the body had a usage limit. No matter how well it was maintained or how robust it was, it could not stop decaying.
The path to death was the only way. But if this technology were to break through, humans would no longer be bound to a fragile body. Their thoughts and memories would be preserved permanently, any damaged body parts could be replaced, and they could even be freed from the need for oxygen and other substances required by carbon-based life.
Many volunteers had already joined the experiments, and if successful, they would be legends inscribed in history.
Xiao Xun's young mind could no longer keep up with the future's perspective. The more he read, the more his heart sank, feeling as though he had opened Pandora's Box.
However, this also confirmed one point: the time period of the Temple of Time was even more advanced than the technology of the Scourge Legion.
He specifically looked for forums related to the military field, but without identity information, he could not register an account and could only browse as a guest.
He read several posts written by enthusiasts of weapons and strategies, and based on the forum content, he looked for what substances could effectively eradicate insects and bacteria.
The answer was invariably ultra-high temperature physical extermination: nuclear fission.
Xiao Xun was speechless for a long time upon seeing this result, "Isn't this just plain crazy! Nuclear fission, isn't that nuclear bombs! If they charge at me, and I detonate a nuclear bomb, wouldn't that be harming myself as much as the enemy!"
After browsing forums for several hours, his eyes grew sore, but he couldn't find anything useful. It would be more convenient to ask someone directly.
At this moment, he remembered the method of account hacking.
He wrote a very primitive 'Trojan horse' program, to see if anyone would fall for it.
Unexpectedly, even people in the future world fell victim to his virus. Within just ten minutes, many account passwords were sent to him.
Xiao Xun was stunned. It had never been this easy. "Could it be that people in the future don't install antivirus software on their home computers?"
He checked the time. It was afternoon outside, but already evening where he was.
Logging in at this time should not attract attention, but just in case, Xiao Xun painstakingly used a virtual address.
After logging in, he found the most active military fan account, added them as a friend, and waited for them to accept.
During this time, he looked at the account's browsing history and discussion topics, all of which were about cutting-edge technology equipment, with a particular focus on the research and development of renewable energy and perpetual motion machines.
It seemed that the future world had not made breakthroughs in these two technologies either.