Chapter 2: Xiaomi Heavy Industry, First Entrepreneurship

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Protagonist:

Lin Yi

Pain!

So painful!

My head hurts so much!

The intense pain made Lin Yi cry out involuntarily, and he rolled on the ground in agony.

After a long time, the pain subsided, and he opened his eyes and instinctively shouted: "Ji Shuangshuang, bring me my stomach medicine!"

After shouting, Lin Yi froze.

Before his eyes was a mottled yellow-painted desk, an old computer, behind the computer host were wires spread like spiderwebs, yellowed walls, on the left wall was the company's oldest employee, a "Grand Opening" electronic plaque.

The electronic plaque clearly displayed a time.

【November 11, 2009, 15:32】

Below the plaque was the God of Wealth statue his old father had spent 5,000 yuan to invite back from a Taoist temple.

In front of the God of Wealth statue was a small bridge and flowing water tea table; the small bridge remained, but the flowing water was gone.

Leaning against the wall on the right was a cypress bookshelf, full of all kinds of English books, brand-new English books.

Those were books his old father bought to put up a facade!

Below the bookshelf was a folded camp bed.

Looking at this familiar yet strange scene, Lin Yi fell into deep thought.

Familiar, because this office was the one he used more than twenty years ago, right after graduating from East China University of Technology and Vocational College for Men, when he had just returned home to inherit the family business.

Affected by the 2008 Financial Crisis, the electrical appliance factory his family ran was on the verge of collapse; his father and mother anxiously went on business trips, and a month ago they had a car accident on the road.

By the time Lin Yi received the news and rushed back from school, the old couple had only one breath left.

After instructing the Lin Family to keep things clean and aboveboard, the old couple breathed their last and passed away.

After handling his parents' funeral affairs, this office became Lin Yi's workplace and also his residence.

Eating and drinking were all done here.

Whenever there was business he would run out; he lived such days for five or six years, catching the wave of the big construction boom, accumulating technology, and the company grew bigger and stronger, creating new glory.

Strange, because after he made his fortune, the first thing he did was tear down the old factory and set up a new one.

This office had not been seen for at least ten-plus years.

Moreover, he should not be here; he should be vacationing in the Maldives right now!

How could he be here?

This is a dream!

Yes, this is a dream.

Eldest Master would never want to walk the path of starting a business all over again; he wants to go back and enjoy the Maldives sunshine holiday properly.

Stunned for a moment, Lin Yi clenched his fist and struck his own head with it.

He used full force with this punch; just one punch made him completely pass out.

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Yi opened his eyes again, and before him was still that familiar yet strange office; he was completely lost.

A few minutes later, feeling hungry in his stomach, he slowly stood up, pulled open the desk drawer by memory, looked at the stack of banknotes in the drawer, and was dazed again.

Outside the window, dim yellow light spilled into the room, and also brought noise.

Standing by the window, seeing that familiar street outside, looking at those familiar snack stalls, Lin Yi resignedly sighed and accepted the fact of his rebirth.

For others, rebirth might perhaps be a surprise, but for him, there was only shock, no joy.

Because rebirth meant his Maybach, his large apartment, his sea-view villa.

Including his wife, all were gone.

Everything was gone.

To have all that again, he had to start over.

Although he carried memories from his previous life and could avoid the pits he had stepped in in his last life.

But banknotes and connections had not come back with him; what he still accepted was an OEM electrical appliance factory on the verge of collapse due to the financial crisis.

The goods payments had not been collected back, the bank loan had not been repaid, the workers' salaries had not been paid, the property management water and electricity fees had not been paid.

The money owed to upstream material suppliers also had no trace.

In his last life, he sold off part of the 300 muche of land, carried drinks to beg grandfathers and grandmothers everywhere, addressed uncles and aunts all over, before paying off the debts.

Then he restarted the factory.

Now let him start over again!

With memories of two lives, starting over might be a bit easier, but it was still very troublesome!

Damn it!

Looking at the scenery outside the window, Lin Yi began calculating the height from the window to the ground; if he were to jump off the building, what method would let him pass away directly.

Having made up his mind, Lin Yi no longer hesitated; he reached out to open the window, used a stool to climb onto the windowsill, took a deep breath, and just as he was about to jump down, a voice suddenly sounded in his head.

Immediately after, some text also appeared on his retina.

【Ding! Congratulations Host has regained consciousness, and has also arrived at the target era; Yaoyao Lingxian System binding...】

【Ding! Yaoyao Lingxian System binding successful.】

【Yaoyao Lingxian System: Yaoyao Lingxian! We are Yaoyao Lingxian! Leading peers! Leading peers by fifty percent! We are forever leading!

Given the Host's dishonest and unfair online reviews, the system decided to give the Host one chance at a re-evaluation.

Hope the Host can be an upright and honest Gentleman.】

Red text emerged on the retina, in a standard imitation Song GB2312 font, and on the four characters "upright" and "honest," it thoughtfully widened and bolded them.

Lingering on these words for a moment, Lin Yi once again focused his attention on the edge of the drainage ditch below.

Calculating the angle, head down, he dove headfirst.

Only an idiot would play with you!

Thud!

That was the sound of his head hitting the edge of the drainage ditch; Lin Yi lay flat on his back on the ground, his head feeling fine, he reached out and touched it—no fracture, not even a wound.

A shallow circular depression had appeared on the edge of the drainage ditch.

He had jumped off a building headfirst.

Still not dead.

The setting sun sank in the west, dark red sunlight fell on his face, with little warmth.

After a moment, the sunset disappeared, leaving only faint light sweeping across the rooftops in the distance and falling on his face.

Lin Yi finally resigned himself and focused his attention on what was before his eyes.

On the retina, it was still those same words from before.

Just after briefly highlighting, they began to flicker slightly.

After flickering a few times, these words disappeared and turned into a pale blue screen.

【After system activation, automatically obtain one time of 300 muche modern factory renovation (can plan the factory production line oneself; after selection, automatically obtain corresponding basic production equipment).】

【Far Ahead Feature 1: Ahead of peers! As long as the Host enters that industry and invests funds in research, he will surely obtain technology ahead of peers!】

【Far Ahead Feature 2: Ahead by five hundred percent! Products produced by factories under the Host's name will have performance improved by fifty percent compared to similar products from peers!】

【Far Ahead Feature 3: Can't leave the factory! Workers under the Host's name work wholeheartedly; factory product quality is number one in the entire industry, fearless of black fans!】

【Far Ahead Feature 4: Empowerment! As long as a cooperation contract is signed, all factories can be counted as under the Host's name.】

After reading these words, Lin Yi's heart, which had just been completely dead, came alive again.

Just based on the second feature, this broken system was already worth the price of admission.

Plus the third feature, his little broken electrical appliance factory could return from the dead in an instant.

He could even take it step by step, grow big and strong, and create new glory.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi slid the screen before him and turned to the next page.

In the middle of the new page were only two large characters.

【Activation】

Gray, unable to be clicked.

Studying carefully for a moment, Lin Yi found a string of rice-grain-sized text beneath these two large characters.

【The Gentleman's nobility comes from sufficient funds; this system will activate after verification of funds! Verification amount 500,000,000.00 yuan.

Prompt: Once funds reach the account holder's account, verification is successful.

Source of funds is unlimited!】

Beneath this string of text, there was another line of even smaller characters!