Chapter 773

"You can't record me as absent! When I arrived downstairs, I was clearly ten minutes early, but the elevator was too jammed..." Little Wei Yuan was explaining in a low, submissive voice to a middle-aged woman with a stern appearance in front of him.

The woman gently adjusted her thin gold-rimmed glasses, her eyes narrowed slightly, her speech extremely fast, her words clear yet devoid of a shred of emotion: "The elevator being jammed hasn't been a one-day or two-day occurrence; did you only find out today? Since you knew the elevator was jammed, wouldn't it have been fine to arrive twenty minutes early? Also, I will say this one last time regarding company culture: no excuses, only results!"

"Understood, I will definitely pay attention next time."

"There is no next time! Company policy states that three instances of absenteeism result in dismissal. And since you haven't passed your internship period, this rule is two instances. Get out; your work arrangements are already in your email."

Little Wei Yuan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, left the office, and his body automatically moved forward based on memory, walking toward his workstation.

His workstation was not large, and the entire vast office area was very quiet. People spoke in whispers when on the phone, and at times, only the dense sound of keyboard typing could be heard.

Little Wei Yuan skillfully turned on his computer, verified his fingerprints, pupils, and other biological information, and successfully entered the company system. After a dazzling array of startup screens, the work system interface popped up.

Little Wei Yuan immediately opened his schedule, began reading the work emails matched by the system, and then skillfully applied tags to them one by one, distributing them to different time slots, preparing to process them on time.

This work system could automatically detect work processes, specific details, and real-time progress. It could even determine whether an employee was thinking or daydreaming based on keyboard typing intervals, eye movement tracking, and other methods, and it could automatically complete the vast majority of performance recording, analysis, and evaluation content.

It is said that the company spent a sky-high price to purchase this system, higher than the total annual salary of all employees. Of course, the CEO's compensation plan was not included in that.

Little Wei Yuan browsed rapidly; the content of each email was both strange and familiar.

"Brown Bear Laboratory Leak Accident Report Revision," hmm, this needs polishing and refinement to make the entire text look serious and professional, while ensuring nothing of substance is actually said. This is simple.

"April Department Performance Summary," this is the most important work; if it's not written well, I'll be scolded by the old woman again.

"Bay Shore City Super Lifeform Sighting Incident Report," another polishing and refinement job; there's definitely no classified content in it.

"Employee Comprehensive Quality Improvement Plan," this is the Director's work, but it has to be written by Little Wei Yuan.

Suddenly, a new email popped up in front of Little Wei Yuan, titled "Advanced Adaptive Super Virus Project Proposal."

Little Wei Yuan was greatly astonished. Viruses are the company's most core secret; just looking at the title, this project is the core of the core. How could such a major project be sent to the inbox of an intern like him?

Little Wei Yuan clicked on the email and saw that it had already been forwarded many times. The initial source was the Company Strategy Committee, then it was issued layer by layer from the Vice President, Business Cluster President, Business Division President... and finally, it reached Little Wei Yuan.

Since the work had been arranged, Little Wei Yuan had to push forward regardless of whether he could do it or not. The company does not listen to excuses, only looks at results; failing to complete the work is incompetence, and saying anything else is useless.

Little Wei Yuan looked at the work flowchart again and discovered that the entire process reached him as the final link; there were no more nodes below him to forward it to. This was no wonder; what subordinates does an intern have to take the blame?

Helplessly, Little Wei Yuan had to click on that project proposal to check the specific work requirements.

The project proposal was very, very long, totaling over a hundred pages. Little Wei Yuan glanced at the table of contents and page numbers and knew he definitely couldn't finish reading it in the morning. However, he had a way; he directly opened the office assistant and fed the document into it. A moment later, an outline and an extremely complex gene structure diagram came out.

After reading the outline, Little Wei Yuan knew the specific content and background of the project. Simply put, someone sighted a super-powered individual, the Umbrella Company immediately dispatched a secret unit to capture them, and in the end, because the super-powered individual resisted fiercely, they had to be killed. Then, after testing, they discovered that an unprecedented mysterious segment had actually appeared in this person's genes, with a complexity far exceeding human genes.

The Umbrella Company treated it like a treasure. Within the entire mysterious gene, they extracted a gene segment suitable for making a virus, preparing to use this as a foundation to research an unprecedented super virus.

It would be a nightmare for enemies and also the best service tool in human history.

As long as its aggregate reaches a certain quantity, it can possess intelligence and understand human instructions; it can replace any human cell and realize all the functions of human cells, thus being the nemesis of various terminal illnesses. It can also allow humans to possess unprecedented abilities; as long as they are willing, the company can create countless superheroes.

This functional introduction left Little Wei Yuan stunned; it was powerful to the point of not conforming to common sense. If it were truly realized, this world wouldn't need a government; having a company would suffice.

And a bunch of viruses gathered together can think? If that were also possible, the world would have been ruled by the flu long ago.

Little Wei Yuan complained while carefully comparing the context, then called up the original document to read for a while, only then understanding that the big pile of content just now was not a functional introduction. This thing was called a vision. Visions can be stated casually, but realization depends entirely on heaven.

Little Wei Yuan rolled his eyes, then began to open that gene structure diagram, looking at it carefully. The more he looked, the more solemn his expression became.

This was not an ordinary gene structure schematic, but a real structure diagram taken with an electron microscope! The content of this image was extremely vast; what the screen could display was not even one-thousandth of it.

A thought floated into Little Wei Yuan's mind: when I advance another rank, I should be able to see these without the aid of an electron microscope. Immediately, he felt somewhat strange. Advance rank? Advance what rank? Is it a promotion and salary increase? But that was still far off; the long five-year internship period was only halfway over, and he still had to endure more than two years of living in fear.

Little Wei Yuan stared at the gene structure diagram for a long time, attempting to memorize all the details. Just this gene map alone was of immeasurable value. If he took it out to sell, Little Wei Yuan estimated he could sell it for at least several million taels of immortal silver...

At this moment, Little Wei Yuan's consciousness paused again, seemingly stuttering, and then continued to think:... at least it could be sold for several million Umbrella coins.

Of course, Little Wei Yuan was just thinking about it. The Umbrella Company could issue currency globally and also had its own security company, which was a disguised army. If he dared to leak company secrets, Little Wei Yuan wouldn't even know how he died.

But Little Wei Yuan stared at the gene map for a long time, and relying on his near-zero knowledge of genetics and biological science, he naturally saw nothing.

At this moment, a beautiful woman suddenly appeared on the screen, reminding him in a sweet voice: "It's not right to be distracted at work!"

Little Wei Yuan was startled and hurriedly switched screens. He no longer stared at one spot, but instead looked at other areas of the screen from time to time, while also constantly frowning, sighing, resting his chin on his hand in a thoughtful pose, and so on. As expected, no more slacking warnings popped up.

After staring at the gene map for a while longer, the office system prompted that work time was running out.

Little Wei Yuan could only save the gene map first, then begin to focus all his attention on processing the dozens of emails he had previously ordered. His efficiency this morning was super high; he successfully completed over twenty tasks, wrote over a hundred pages of PPT, and finally squeezed out half an hour for the Advanced Virus Project.

At this time, someone appeared beside Little Wei Yuan, patted his shoulder, and said, "Time's up, let's go eat first."

Little Wei Yuan looked up, recognized the person's face, and subconsciously said, "Kong Que? Why are you everywhere!"

Kong Que said, "What kind of talk is that?! Without me, how could you have gotten into the company?"

In Little Wei Yuan's memory, countless pieces of information about Xiao Kong Que immediately surfaced. He and Little Wei Yuan graduated from the same school, just a few years ahead of Little Wei Yuan, and was now a person in charge of a technical project team, with dozens of team members under him. With his recommendation, Little Wei Yuan was able to successfully enter the company, and his annual evaluations were always quite good.

Little Wei Yuan said, "I just received a new job, it's gene design; I've never done this before! There's a meeting this afternoon, so I'll hurry up and read it a few more times at noon; I won't go to the cafeteria, I'll just gnaw on a few slices of bread."

"Oh, that super virus project, our project team also received a part of the work. Don't worry, the project has just started. The theme of the afternoon meeting is the Empowerment Mobilization Meeting, hosted by Mike, the Vice President of the Business Cluster; all relevant personnel will attend. You know what Mike is like, right? He can talk for two and a half hours in a two-hour meeting, and then leave five minutes for you all to express your determination. Let's go, let's go eat, my treat."

Little Wei Yuan could only follow him to the cafeteria. The company's cafeteria was extremely luxurious; one could eat delicacies from all over the world here, which was also the place Little Wei Yuan was most satisfied with. Moreover, the cafeteria was open twenty-four hours a day, and oxygen was added to the space, so even if one worked overtime all night, there was food, and one would be full of energy after eating.

While eating, Little Wei Yuan's mind was still on that complex map that didn't belong to humans at all, yet could perfectly embed into human genes.

"What's wrong, still thinking about your project?"

Little Wei Yuan swallowed his food without even chewing, saying, "I'm wondering if Mike will talk about the overall design concept of the virus this afternoon; right now I don't have a clue."

"He will talk... as if! Mike comes from a management background, not a technical one; where would he understand gene design?"

"That works too?" Little Wei Yuan was very surprised. Not understanding genes but having to host a virus design project seemed somewhat like a fantasy.

"Whether the leader understands or not is not important; as long as the people under him understand. Look at me, I don't understand genetic engineering either, but haven't I managed several teams all the same? You eat first, I'll go get some fruit."

Kong Que stood up and was about to leave the table when he suddenly glanced at Little Wei Yuan's tray and was somewhat surprised, asking, "Why are you only eating steamed buns?"

(End of chapter)