It was getting dark, and the setting sun was dyeing the whole city red.

The old suspended fast rail, creaking from time to time, the sunlight relentlessly chased through the carriage from all angles, and was fixed to the floor.

Xia Bei held his bag and sat by the window, his eyes falling on a certain place outside the window without focus, moving between the tall buildings in the distance and the receding electric poles and trees as the train speeded.

Occasionally, when the train pulls into a curve and is exposed to the harsh direct sunlight, it squints slightly and concentrates.

But soon, as the train entered the tunnel, the sunlight and the scenery outside the window disappeared, and the window suddenly became a mirror reflecting the light of the carriage and his own face, and his thoughts drifted away again.

Time flies, but it flies.

So much has happened in just one week. And his life is like the track of this train, although on the surface, it seems that he is still moving along the track step by step, but every minute and every second, the scenery around him is changing.

The stone dragon is dead.

The small courtyard with this hearty big man as the core, and the days when a group of motorcycle youths got together to drink and chat, and it represented, were gradually thrown in the past like trees flying away outside the window. It becomes a memory that I occasionally think of in the days to come.

Covered in dust, it was also shrouded in a warm golden afterglow.

And in the small courtyard, the girl who always likes to sit on the swing no longer paints the thick smoky makeup, no longer wears the wide and heavy red motorcycle suit, but has become a girl who lives under the same roof with herself and gets along day and night. Wearing a ponytail, a short skirt, and barefoot flip-flops, he was lightly busy in the kitchen, watering the flowers and plants on the balcony......

Such a change, a few weeks ago, no one would have imagined.

That's how fate goes. When everything happens, you feel as if it's all taken for granted and running along that trajectory. But it's only when the sun jumps in front of you from the other side of the carriage and stings your eyes, that you look back and find that you have made a big turn.

There's also a big bend that's about the Courage Matrix Club.

Xia Bei loves this club and loves the people here. From the day of application to the present, Xu Mu, Zhang Li, Wen Xinhe, Meng Pan, Ma Rui...... As a new group, the atmosphere was very congenial.

Moreover, it was at the most difficult time for myself. With a salary of more than 100 star yuan a month, plus a bonus of dozens of star yuan, I will not be too flustered when I face the dilemma I have fallen into due to the sudden change in my body. It wasn't until Zhang Ming's strategy copy went smoothly that he got the reward of the Hall of Glory for the development of the secret realm, and his hands were a little looser.

And after taking the bonus of the underground boxing match last night, and after negotiating a cooperation agreement with Hall of Glory today, Xia Bei knew very well that he no longer needed this job, and in the face of Guo Liangde's unprovoked targeting, he just threw away his hand and walked away.

But after all, it's hard to settle.

In Xia Bei's heart, this was not only because he was targeted and suppressed for no reason, but also because this brand-new and thriving group he liked was suddenly slapped into the dirty muddy water.

It's heart-wrenching!

However, what makes Xia Bei happy is that the cooperation he reached with the Tianxing Development Bureau has given him the confidence to compete head-on with his opponents. As long as it is based on the Dragon and Tiger Brotherhood and with the resources in its own hands, it may not be able to compete with a professional club, but it is still quite certain to fight a good battle in the internal challenge.

Thinking of the Dragon and Tiger Brotherhood, Xia Bei couldn't help but think of Rouge.

What is she doing at home at the moment? When we enter the Heavenly Journey together in the evening, how will she react when she sees the guild change drastically?

I don't know why, Xia Bei suddenly had an unprecedented expectation for this.

And just as he was thinking about it, suddenly, there was a commotion in the carriage. The passengers were talking about something, flocked to the screen of the carriage, let out exclamations from time to time, and even a middle-aged woman dressed in the workplace cried out at once.

What's wrong? Xia Bei looked left and right, got up and followed the crowd to the screen of the carriage, and looked up. On the screen, the news presenter has a serious face. On the news feed flowing at the bottom of the screen, there is a row of large letters.

"Hongkun Group announced bankruptcy and bankruptcy!"

As soon as he saw the news, Xia Bei, like everyone present, only felt that his brain was buzzing, and it was blank.

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Wearing a comfortable and soft home skirt, rouge lay on the balcony, carefully trimming the flowers and plants, and from time to time the white little feet rowed back and pulled the slippers that I didn't know where to run.

The smell of braised rabbit came from the kitchen, and another stir-fried bacon with white rape and a stir-fried phoenix tail were also washed and placed there. When he came home and opened the door, the first dish had just been cooked. And when he washed his hands and sat down at the dining table, he drank mung bean soup, and the phoenix tail was also fried.

Thinking to himself, the corners of Rouge's mouth couldn't help but smile.

However, the flowers and plants in front of her were really uncultivated, and she was bored, so she tiptoed and propped up her upper body to look down.

This community is an old community, the surrounding houses are very crowded, there is only one road from the front street, if Xia Bei goes home, he must pass through here. Seeing that the time was almost six o'clock, according to her understanding of Xia Bei's work and rest time on weekdays, it was almost time for this time.

And at this moment, there was a commotion downstairs.

Many people ran out, like an earthquake, gathered together and didn't know what to shout.

Upstairs there was the sound of pots and pans falling to the ground, and I was terrified, and then I heard someone crying, as if the whole world had suddenly come to an end at this moment.

"What's wrong?"

It's not just rouge who doesn't know why, someone downstairs asks, and someone shouts at the top of their voices: "Hongkun Group has announced its bankruptcy and bankruptcy!"

Rouge was startled, hurriedly ran into the house, and turned on the TV.

I saw that on the three-dimensional light curtain projected in the void, the news programs of all channels were broadcasting the same news.

Hongkun Group collapsed!

At this moment, everyone in this Galactic Republic is extremely familiar with the Big Mac, this super enterprise that is closely related to countless people and does not seem to fail, no longer has the light of the past.

In the news, it is like a giant whale on the beach, dismembered and bloodied by the camera. There is a sense of strangeness and detachment when I see the space city, supermarkets, factories, and ports hanging with the Hongkun emblem countless times, and use the locomotive parts made by its subsidiaries countless times, and the rouge that I envy when I see the employees of the group who live a worry-free life countless times.

It seems that the Hongkun Group that I am familiar with is not the same as the Hongkun Group in front of me.

In the news picture, those high-level officials of the group whose power and status are comparable to those of the star governors of the Star Palace, who are the focus of attention wherever they go, are bowing and apologizing at the moment.

One news channel after another was playing the same picture over and over again, and then they bowed again and again, like an absurd drama, making people stunned, dazed and in a trance.

Rouge was a little difficult to accept for a while.

Hongkun Group is one of the three super enterprises of the Republic. For a long time, this behemoth spanning dozens of industries has penetrated into everyone's life.

Taking District 11 as an example, the supermarket where Xiaodao distributes leaflets part-time is owned by the Hongkun Group; the Hongxi Bank in Jiekou is owned by the Hongkun Group; Daan City, the largest single commercial building in the 11th District, is owned by the Hongkun Group; the buses operated by the community are made by the enterprises of the Hongkun Group; and one-fifth of the cargo ships and interstellar cruise ships at the airport are from the shipyard of the Hongkun Group......

Finance, Real Estate, Food, Transportation, Machinery Manufacturing, Mining, Education...... And the profession of Tianxing!

Breaking his fingers, one or two of the few that Rouge can count are not how many industries and how many industries Hongkun Group has involved, but which ones they have not been involved in.

But now, it's out of business.

Although his life is still a little far from that of Hongkun Group, and he does not work in Hongkun Group or have anything to do with business, at this moment, Rouge still shuddered.

The noise downstairs is like an overwhelming tide, with a high waterline across the sky.

That's a sign of danger and despair.

She seemed to be able to see how cold the streets would be in the days that followed, how many people would be unemployed, how many people would line up for a job with only a minimum wage, how many people would wait at the back door of the supermarket for food that was no longer fresh, how many people would move from the big and bright houses into the small dilapidated houses in the slums, and how many people would jump from the upper floors.

Suddenly, the sound of the door opening was heard. Rouge turned his head and saw Xia Bei open the door and walk in.

Rouge couldn't come back to her senses for a while, her eyes were stunned, and it wasn't until Xia Bei walked to her side, stood side by side with her, and watched TV together, that she woke up like a dream, and said, "You're back...... Hongkun Group went out of business. ”

"I saw the news on the fast rail. Xia Bei nodded, and while watching the TV news, he turned his head sideways and asked, "Car repair shop...... Did you buy it?"

Rouge nodded and said, "I bought it, it only took one morning to go through the procedures, and now they have taken over the knife." ”

"That's good. Xia Bei turned his head and smiled at her, and then turned his gaze back to the TV.

Rouge quietly looked at his side face, I don't know why, the panicked mood gradually calmed down, it seemed that as long as he stood by his side, as long as he was there, there was no need to worry about anything.

"I'm going to stir-fry...... Is there any chaos outside now?, are we going to the guild hall at night?" Rouge flashed into the kitchen, and the voice came.

"Go. Xia Bei replied without hesitation.

"Hmm. The reply was accented with excitement.

Xia Bei watched TV alone, his brows furrowed unconsciously, and after a moment of silence, he quickly turned around and entered his bedroom, pulled out a box from the cabinet, opened it, and turned out an electronic photo frame from the bottom.

The switch is activated, and the two metal edges of the frame unfold in a subtle sound. A projection photograph that appears in the middle of the frame.

There are a lot of people in the photo, and it was taken on a sunny grassy field.

Directly in front, one left and one right, occupying the main picture, are two people, old and young. The little one was a little boy, grimacing vigorously, and his eyes were pulled out of shape by his fingers. The old lady was an old lady, with gray hair at the roots, about sixty years of age, smiling happily, although two fingers were placed under the eyes, and it seemed to be grimacing, but it was dignified and kind.

In the back of the photo, a polite middle-aged man is holding a little girl, next to his wife with a big belly, and the two are looking at the old lady and the little boy who are taking pictures and laughing. Further back was an elderly man, dignified and well-dressed. At the moment, he was frowning at the picnic mats and food spread out on the ground, and his body was slightly down, as if he was considering whether to sit down.

The little boy who made a grimace was Xia Bei when he was five years old. And these people in the photo are his grandmother, grandfather, uncle, aunt, cousin and cousin who was not yet born.

Xia Jiaben is a scholarly family, and his grandfather Xia Yubai is a scholar and excellent businessman, with several technologies he has researched, he founded Dongbang Company, and has grown into a well-known biological nail manufacturing enterprise in the industry.

Uncle Xia Ziyangzi inherited his father's business, and when this photo was taken, he had already taken over the management of Dongbang.

But fate has come. Xia Bei knows very well what the Xia family has suffered over the years because of his father and mother. And what worries him even more at the moment is that he knows that the main customer of Dongbang Company is Hongkun Group.

If the collapse of Hongkun Group is a storm, then suppliers like Toho, whose business is relatively single and concentrated, are the first to bear the brunt!

Quietly staring at the photo, Xia Bei turned on his mobile phone and dialed the phone: "Yan Mouse, help me check the situation of Dongbang Company." Well, that's it...... Xiao Yue also continued to investigate, okay...... Thanks......"

Putting down the phone, Xia Bei turned on the light brain, opened a communication software, looked at an eternally lit avatar on it, pondered for a long time, and entered a message: "Grandma, don't worry......"

After struggling for a while, he finally deleted this sentence word by word.

Standing up, Xia Bei's face was a little more resolute!