Cheng Cheng and the Cicada
Chapter 3 Blue Moon
The efficient and decisive Zhao Yingjun found the legal counsel of MX Company and drafted a contract to transfer the name and trademark of Rhine to Lin Xian.
Then, she held a meeting with middle-level cadres, allowing Lin Xian to appoint people on the spot. She even recommended Wang Ge, the leader of the marketing team, to Lin Xian to serve as the first vice president of Rhine Company to assist Lin Xian.
Brother Wang was one of the oldest members of MX Company. He had been with Zhao Yingjun since the beginning of the business. He had made great contributions, and everyone trusted his character. Originally, he was planning to be promoted to vice president in MX Company this year, and he had always been a person Zhao Yingjun trusted very much.
Otherwise...
Brother Wang would not have been the first to know that Zhao Yingjun was going to promote the secretary, and he secretly revealed this news to Lin Xian, which was enough to show how much Zhao Yingjun trusted this veteran.
That's why she recommended this capable general to Lin Xian as vice president.
After the meeting.
The agency entrusted by Zhao Yingjun had already rented the building next door and negotiated the contract.
Cleaning companies and decoration companies have also begun to enter the site.
This...
Huh?
Lin Xian was stunned. He felt that something was not quite right!
This is clearly his company...
Why is Zhao Yingjun more concerned than him?
She's like a nanny, taking care of everything for him.
It really feels like a split personality.
But...
Never mind.
If he were to handle these trivial matters himself, it would probably take months to sort them out. Zhao Yingjun using her own connections and resources to handle these things for him did solve a lot of trouble.
Anyway, Lin Xian originally planned to be a hands-off manager.
Of course, he wouldn't put too much energy into the operation of Rhine Company...
Because.
Rhine Company is just a front to conceal his true purpose, providing him with funds and cover.
Lin Xian doesn't care how this company is run on the surface, as long as it can make money.
With what he copies from the future world 600 years later, it's hard for the company not to make money.
And secretly...
Lin Xian wants to use Rhine Company to implement his series of plans.
This is the most important thing of all.
...
After handling various procedures in the afternoon, Lin Xian dragged his tired body home.
As expected.
Not everyone can be an overbearing CEO.
Once you become the head of the company, countless trivial matters need to be personally checked, decided, and taken charge of.
It's really worrying and laborious.
"I hope the company gets on the right track soon..."
Lin Xian sighed while taking a shower.
Once on the right track, he can become a hands-off manager as he wishes.
Looking at it now, Zhao Yingjun lending Brother Wang to him as vice president was really too wise.
You don't know how hard it is to be the boss until you are one.
If it weren't for the experienced Brother Wang supporting him, it would be really difficult for him to clean up such a big mess in a short time.
In fact, Lin Xian called Gao Yang at noon to ask.
Because in his opinion, Gao Yang is still very trustworthy. Although his mind is sometimes too flexible to the point of being a bit off... he is still a very good person.
Anyway, working is working wherever you go.
Instead of selling cars in a 4S store, it is better to come to your own company to manage a business.
But Lin Xian never expected that Gao Yang directly refused:
"I saw in the movie *Chinese Partners* that there are three things you should never do in your life—"
"1. Don't play mahjong with your mother-in-law."
"2. Don't date a woman with more ideas than you."
"3. Don't start a company with your best friend."
Gao Yang said:
"So, Lin Xian, I'd better not go to work at your company. It doesn't matter how much money I earn. Anyway, you can never earn enough in this lifetime. It doesn't matter if it's a little more or a little less. I don't want to lose you as a friend. To me, the friendship between us is more important."
"It won't have much of an impact, will it?" Lin Xian persuaded:
"My company is not for making a lot of money or looking at benefits. It's very Buddhist. It doesn't matter if it goes bankrupt in the end."
"Ah, you don't understand."
Gao Yang still insisted:
"Working and being the boss are different. Many companies are ruined after relatives and friends enter. Even if I'm a little Buddhist and can't ruin your company, I don't have any skills and can't do anything big. Wouldn't it be embarrassing for you if I went?
"I haven't been good at anything since I was a kid. Maybe the best thing I'm good at is playing video games. Don't tell me, from *Contra* to *League of Legends*, have I ever lost to anyone around me? But being good at playing games is useless at work... so forget it. Just buy a few more cars from me for your company later."
Seeing Gao Yang's persistence, Lin Xian didn't persuade him any further.
Perhaps for Gao Yang...
Compared to a stable job and a high salary, he really cherishes the friendship between himself and Lin Xian more and doesn't want the relationship between the two to be affected by work matters.
Looking around, this kind of worry can't be said to be superfluous.
Many classmates and friends who have very good relationships.
It is because they partner to do business, borrow money, and start companies that they end up in lifelong estrangement.
This is not a rare thing.
So if Gao Yang doesn't want to come, then don't come. He'll just buy more public cars from him for the company in the future.
After taking a shower.
Lin Xian yawned and prepared to go to bed.
He looked at the time, it was not even nine o'clock yet.
Falling asleep at this time...
He won't see the three-knife-style thief, won't be able to join the Face Gang, and won't be able to freeload at Big Face Cat's house. He can only wander around in his dream.
Soon.
Sleepiness came over him.
Lin Xian turned off his phone, turned over, and closed his eyes.
...
...
Whoosh!?
Before Lin Xian could open his eyes, he felt a gust of wind rushing towards his face!
Summer wind?
Could it be that the familiar summer wind is back?
That shouldn't be...
In the old Donghai urban village of the second dream, there are all messy low buildings, and the wind can't blow in at all.
So now that there is wind again, has the dream returned to the first dream?
However.
Just as Lin Xian was about to open his eyes, he realized that this could not be the original first dream either.
Because this summer wind that hits his face—
"It stinks!"
Lin Xian pinched his nose and opened his eyes!
Bright moonlight.
There is nothing around.
The desolate ground is either muddy or dry, but there is no vitality, not even a weed.
Looking around, it is all a scene of desolation.
Where is this?
It's neither old Donghai, nor can you see new Donghai in the distance. There's no sign of human habitation here!
Has the city been abandoned?
Or did he really travel to another place this time?
Boom!!!!
In the front right, a lump of black, muddy filth suddenly crashed down, exploding!
All kinds of garbage and feces-like things splattered everywhere!
The stench spread.
Lin Xian hurriedly took a few steps back, not knowing if the filth had splattered on him.
What the hell is going on?
If this is another butterfly effect in time and space, triggering a strong
Violent space-time changes, so that the dream world, that is, the future world 600 years later, has changed again.
Then what is the trigger?
What is the anchor point?
Lin Xian originally thought that the deaths of Ji Xinshui and Ji Lin's group should have some impact on this world and the future, right?
But...
When he entered the dream yesterday, the second dream was still the same.
Whether it was old Donghai City, new Donghai City, Big Face Cat, Er Zhu Zi, or the moon in the sky, they were all exactly the same as before.
In this way, even Ji Xinshui, a world-class figure who considers himself a reserve member of the Genius Club... his death still cannot cause any waves in the time 600 years later.
What a death as light as a feather.
"No, the moon!"
Lin Xian suddenly reacted.
Since the current third dream, the future world has undergone such a big change, is the Genius Club still there?
Are their coat of arms logos still on the moon?
Lin Xian suddenly looked up—
One...
Two...
Ten...
Hundreds!
He was stunned and immediately turned around to look at the sky behind him!
The same.
The sky is still full of countless bright jade disks!
There are actually hundreds or thousands of round moons in the entire sky!
"This is impossible..."
If there really are so many moons outside the earth, then unless this is really an imaginary dream!
Lin Xian looked up again and carefully looked at those "moons."
He found something wrong...
Even though countless "moons" hang high in the sky.
But in fact, they are not real moons.
First of all, they are too round, the kind of extremely standard circle, more like a man-made device. And all the "moons" are laid out on the same height in the sky... like cookies lined up on a table, the height is obviously lower than a normal moon.
Secondly, these "moons" are blue.
Very bright blue.
Although in daily life, blue moons often appear due to air quality and weather.
But the blue light emitted by those "moons" in the sky is obviously not moonlight, but more like an engine, an ion beam ejected from a machine!
"What is this?"
As Lin Xian's observations became more detailed, he discovered that not only were these "moons" different from real moons, but even the "sky" behind them was not quite the same as the real sky.
Too low, too depressing.
And there is a clear dividing line from the distant sky!
This world...
What happened?
Lin Xian couldn't understand it more and more.
Whirr whirr whirr!
Another burst of violent sewage fell from the sky... Lin Xian jumped to the side, trying to dodge it.
But helplessly, the height of the sewage was too high and the range was too wide. Lin Xian's clothes were full of fishy black spots.
"Damn it."
Lin Xian cursed secretly, this place is really not a place to stay.
He looked up to the upper right.
There, is the edge of the matrix formed by the moons in the sky.
As long as he runs to the right... he can soon run out of the range under these "moons" and see what these "moons" are from the side.
Without saying a word, Lin Xian immediately ran to his right.
Even though he runs very fast...
But the "moon" in the sky moves very slowly backwards.
During the running process, strange things often fall down, and he often steps on some strange, soft and hard things, making Lin Xian feel disgusting.
What kind of garbage world is this?
Can humans really live in such a harsh environment?
Finally.
Lin Xian ran at full speed for half an hour, and finally barely ran out of the edge of the outermost moon, and then looked back at the sky—
That is...
A spectacular scene that cannot be described in words.
Above the blue, hundreds or thousands of fake "moons"... there is actually a city!
A city suspended in the sky!
Even if Lin Xian's perspective is limited, he can only glimpse one foot of the city.
But that magnificent towering building, the lights of thousands of homes, it is indeed a city!
A...
Sky City!
"So... those blue moons are not celestial bodies at all, but engines? Engines like rockets, lifting this huge city into the sky?"
Lin Xian was shocked by these blue-glowing engines. How much thrust would it take to lift a city!
What's more.
What exactly is this Sky City?
Lin Xian continued to look forward and found a place where lights gathered and were bright. There seemed to be a lot of bustling crowds gathered there.
He ran towards that side.
On the way, he happened to meet a little boy who was running towards the crowd like him.
"Little friend."
Lin Xian stopped him:
"Excuse me, what exactly is the city in the sky?"
"That's Rhine!"
The little boy blinked his eyes and replied.
"What?"
Lin Xian stood there for a moment, recalling the document he had just signed in the afternoon and the name he had just decided on in Zhao Yingjun's office in the morning...
"Yes, don't you know?"
The little boy looked at Lin Xian suspiciously, pointing to the city pushed up by hundreds or even thousands of blue moons:
"That is..."
"Rhine Sky City!"