It's quiet at night.
Lin Xi didn't sleep. She sat in front of the window and looked at the night quietly. Her chip contains a complete set of plans for developing physical abilities given to her by Chu Jungui, but now she has not even completed the first step of consciously evolving her body tissues. Without this step, a certain tissue of the body cannot be allowed to evolve in a predetermined direction.
At this moment, Li Ruobai appeared on the communication channel.
"Sister Xi, if you haven't slept yet, I'll wait for you at the hotel bar and have a chat." Li Ruobai said.
"wait for me."
After a while, Lin Xi sat opposite Li Ruobai. Li Ruobai directly ordered three bottles of wine of different vintages, poured a glass each for Lin Xi and himself, clinked the glasses and drank them all in one gulp. He breathed a sigh of satisfaction and said, "Working for that brat Chu Jungui is really exhausting! He just kept talking and said he wanted to meet Su Jian. How much effort and resources did I use to find Xu Yannian? I asked him to send the news to Su Jian’s desk. But the effect was pretty good, so the work was not in vain."
Lin Xi silently poured herself another glass and drank it all in one gulp.
Li Ruobai finally lost his composure and said, "Sister Xi, what's going on between you and Jun Gui? We've been in a real dream for so long, why haven't we slept together yet?"
Lin Xi smiled bitterly, but still didn't speak.
Li Ruobai became anxious: "What's going on? Did you quarrel?"
"No, our relationship has always been good."
"What's the use of just being nice? You can't always be like this!" Li Ruobai was as anxious as if he couldn't get married.
"Okay, don't worry about us. This is good."
"How can this work? Let me think about it. Maybe Chu Jungui's piece of wood is just shy and he needs to find a way. Let's do this. You pretend to be drunk, and then I will pretend that you are sent to the wrong room and put you in his room. You What do you think?"
Lin Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and glared at Li Ruobai fiercely.
Li Ruobai tried hard to persuade, but Lin Xi refused to listen. In the end, Li Ruobai had no choice but to sigh: "Sister Xi, you cannot be humble about this kind of thing! If you are a step slow, you may be robbed by others!"
"I know!" Lin Xi took a bottle of wine and went back to the room. Li Ruobai shook his head and drank alone.
dawn.
Chu Jungui woke up from a deep sleep. This was a rare sleep that made him feel refreshed. He no longer needs to sleep. The wisdom centers distributed throughout his body can take turns to rest. But adequate sleep can still bring psychological happiness.
Chu Jungui got dressed and washed, and after breakfast, he met Lin Xi and Li Ruobai in the hotel lobby and went directly to Devere Comet Company, where he met the military delegation.
The trip went very smoothly. In this fringe star field, Devry's Comet was a huge thing, and it was hosting a military delegation, so the arrangements were naturally very thorough.
Chu Jungui and others successfully met with the military delegation. This is a huge team, with hundreds of people. It is led by a lieutenant general with gray hair on his temples. There are also many famous logos among the company representatives. The scale is much larger than that of Devere's Comet, but I don't know who is coming. What level is it.
In comparison, Chu Jungui and the others were very inconspicuous. They followed the crowd into the company with a sign that few people had seen. They participated in the name of a small starship equipment company belonging to the Li family in Tianyu.
The headquarters of Devry's Comet occupies an extremely large area, almost like a city. Everyone took a flying car to the headquarters' most famous annular theater and took their seats as arranged.
Chu Jungui's identity at the moment was really nothing noteworthy, so he was placed in the last row. The grand theater is grand in scale, but it only has 800 seats. Even the back row seats are exquisite high-back chairs, and they are located high up in the sky, so the view is unobstructed.
The only special thing was that a lieutenant colonel from the military quietly sat next to Chu Jungui and introduced himself. He is Lin Xuansheng's confidant, and Chu Jungui can talk to him if he needs anything.
In the center of the Grand Theater, a bald old man slowly walked onto the podium. Chu Jungui could tell at a glance that the old man's slow movements were due to aging rather than pretense.
When the old man stood on the podium, he was already breathing slightly. He greeted everyone and then said: "Thank you for coming! As we all know, Devry's Comet is a great company with a history of 370 years. It has built 45 capital ships, 210 heavy cruisers and more than 1,000 light cruisers for the dynasty. Tour! And it has been 110 years since I entered this great company at the age of 22. The current situation of the group is as follows..."
Devry Comet has more than 500 branches and holding companies, more than 5 million employees, and more than 10,000 suppliers. But for such a huge company, the annual revenue is only tens of billions, and the profit is less than 1 billion.
The elderly chairman on the podium was still talking non-stop. He thought he was passionate, but in fact his speech was slow, repeated from time to time, and mixed with many cold jokes from decades or even centuries ago. All the guests fell asleep after listening to it. Fortunately, information can be received and processed directly through personal chips. Therefore, most people seemed to have sharp eyes and listened attentively. In fact, their minds had no idea where they were flying. They just watched. You can tell by the flickering light and shadow on the pupils.
Chu Jun had seen the company's statements before returning. After layers of whitewashing, the statements were still ugly. Not to mention the low profit margin, at least one-third of the revenue is receivable and has not yet been recorded in the accounts. The problem is that Chu Jungui casually looked through the information and felt that there were many doubts in these receivables. Some companies are obviously related to DeVry's Comet, and they even do a sloppy job of covering it up.
The company's most profitable business comes from starship maintenance and repair. This part of the business is easy to understand. Many of the starships built by Devry's Comet back then are still in service, and their maintenance naturally belongs to Devry's Comet. It’s just that Devry’s Comet has not received an order for a large starship in 10 years. It is conceivable that this business will become smaller and smaller in the future. Moreover, this business cannot withstand careful scrutiny. Judging from the income level, the average starship company will allocate 20,000 employees for this department, but the number for Devere's Comet is 100,000!
In addition, Devry's Comet also has an extremely large headquarters. As soon as he arrived at the city-sized headquarters, Chu Jungui began to pay attention to relevant data. Sure enough, Comet Devre's headquarters has as many as 300,000 employees, including 170,000 researchers of various types, distributed in 1,200 large and small research institutes and design institutes.
Chu Jungui was a little curious. Hundreds of thousands of researchers were working day and night. How could they not research orders from the military? There are only a few hundred scientists and engineers in light years, plus two Mist tribes. Didn't they also get orders from the military? Of course, when thinking about this matter, Chu Jungui ignored Lin Xuansheng intentionally or unintentionally.
