Volume I: Prologue

The evening had long since passed, and the scorching summer sun was now slowly sinking behind the flat ridgeline, and the deep black shadows with clear contours gradually expanded their territory. The asphalt road, which absorbs a lot of heat during the day, now releases the heat back into the air. Tonight must be another tropical night that makes it difficult to sleep.

This is the city of S in X County, a town with the usual urban scenery mentioned above.

The high-rise buildings near the town station are lined up with mixed residential and commercial buildings, and K Software is a medium-sized software manufacturer on the fourth floor.

In the cool air-conditioned room office, there were several men who silently faced the monitor screen on the table, exuding a strange aura all over their bodies. They are employees of this K-software company. For a medium-sized company, they would be busy with all kinds of business on a normal day, but today's workload is even more extraordinary.

"Delivery in four days......

A man sitting at one end of the office whispered as if in a dream, with a hint of desperation in his tone. He's currently battling the time bomb that explodes minute by minute, known as the delivery deadline. As the whole country is shrouded in a gloom of recession, the anxious business department knows that the conditions of this case are unreasonable, but still reluctantly accept the order, so as early as the planning stage, this project he is responsible for has already contained a hidden crisis, and the successive failures are even worse, the current situation can only be described as miserable. To make matters worse, there is more to the problem than that.

"Mr. Noda (team leader), Kishiyuki is no longer good!

"Mr. Noda, it's too late to write the program today. 」

「...... Mr. Noda, there is a resignation letter in an envelope on the Kam Tin table......

"Ahh——!h

The man who was already cornered, Tian Ye, who was the team leader, was like being thrown into a well, and received one bad news after another, and then he finally collapsed. I saw him holding his head and lying on the table.

He knew there was no time to waste, but the work was not done and there were not enough people...... The imminent delivery deadline and the inability to find any solution gradually drove his spirit to a boiling point.

"Mr. Noda. 」

"What's going on now!?"

Nakai, who was lying on the table, heard the sound of someone talking to him above him, and he looked up, and his bloodshot eyes reflected the figure of a man with a gentle smile.

"My case is over, I can help here. 」

"Oh...... Amakura ...... Would you like to join?"

The grief on Noda's face was swept away, like a desperate man seeing the light of hope.

"I've just checked the specification, and now that you know the general situation, can you let me do the progress management part?"

"Good...... Okay.,I'll just give you the password.,You can go and see the management folder yourself.,By the way, help me read the rest.,Please.。 」

"Oh, Mr. Noda, even I can't take care of it all...... Well, it's the program part that's pulling back, so I'll deal with this first......

The man who accosted Noda, Liu Cangtian, sat down in the seat that others had prepared for him, and began to work with a broken momentum. He first typed the code into the text editor, then read the work progress, and gave instructions to his colleagues while flipping through the specification sheets.

"Make sure the tester is working properly first, and then the tester can take a break. Well, after twelve o'clock, the test will be intensified. There is also coding...... Mr. Yuande, do you have a way to make two mods? Yes, I'll finish the remaining ten. Kiba, the specifications here and here are a bit strange, please change it, and then please go back and test it after the change. 」

He is twenty-seven years old, a young man in the workplace, but no one disobeys his instructions. This is all thanks to the actual results he has accumulated since joining this company. After he joined, the half-dead employees immediately picked themselves together and acted quickly as instructed. Kurata has a special title in the company, and since he is out of the job, it means that the work can finally see the end. Human beings are really realistic creatures, as long as they can see the end, no matter how hard they suffer, they can grit their teeth and die.

"Okay, that's it. I'll join the coding work too. 」

"Hey, Cangtian, are you okay? Ten mods...... That's no joke. 」

"I hate it, Mr. Yuande, have you forgotten? I'm a programmer. 」

Cang Tian narrowed his drooping eyes, a fearless smile appeared on his kind face, and at the same time put his hand on the keyboard, and then the ten fingers immediately danced on the keyboard at lightning speed. The code he entered into several text editors displayed on the screen rushed through like a turbid current. As for the elderly man sitting across from him, Yuan De, listened to the amazing and majestic sound of keystrokes, and at the same time devoted himself to his work.

"He is the last line of defense for the company, and he has handled difficult cases in the past...... I can't lose. 」

Then everyone buried themselves in their work, and this bitter battle finally entered the best situation.

The out-of-tune chimes from old radio came to my ears. The clock on the wall shows five and fifteen – the so-called end time. In principle, according to the company's regulations, the working time ends here, but Cangtian just stretched his waist and turned his tired and stiff shoulders.

Four days have passed since he turned the tide of the case. Today is fateful delivery day, but the atmosphere is not as lifeless as it was three days ago. The case was once considered by desperate people to be unable to meet the delivery deadline, but it was finally remedied by his miraculous means.

Thanks to his astonishing speed in writing the program on the same day, and the team members repeated the tests and corrections day and night, the case finally met the deadline. Although Kurata has done so much work in a short period of time, he has been able to position them one by one, and that ability can be said to be extraordinary. Sadly, this is also because he always takes on difficult cases.

After a fierce battle, the finished coffee cans and nutritious drinks were piled up on his desk like tombstones. Looking further to the left and right, you can see that the soldiers (testers) who had just finished a tough battle showed a peaceful smile without regrets, and fell on the chairs that had been temporarily lined up as beds. Cang Tian has also compressed his sleep time to the limit in the past three days, so he feels that it is almost time to make up for sleep.

"Okay, confirm the delivery with the customer! Done! Everyone has worked hard, so let's take a break!"

Cangtian was half-asleep and half-awake, and in the corner of his consciousness, he saw Nakai jumping so excited that he was almost about to assume a victory pose. Although I thought that I would go to bed when I got home, I still took a nap and let myself fall into a light sleep. By the time he was ready to go home, it was close to the time of the last train.

After that deathmatch, the end of the month came. When it comes to the end of the month, people think of it – yes, it's a gospel day for all the employees of companies in the world, which is payday.

Cangtian turned off the computer and quickly prepared to leave work. He was not the only one who did this, and his colleagues around him also got up and left. Recently, trade unions have followed the trend of the times and called for a reduction in the working hours of office workers. Especially on payday, the company is obligated to leave the employee on time. Although it is an obligation, it often becomes a nominal rule when they get busy, but for them who just survived the difficulties a few days ago, it is indeed much easier now.

Today happens to be a happy Friday. Some people rush back to their families, some people invite friends and spend time drinking with their newly received salaries, and some people just want to go home and rest. Although their purposes are different, the most exciting days of the month that coincide with weekends for these salaried people are exciting.

As for Cangtian, they were no exception, and several colleagues who had fought with him before came to him.

"Cangtian, how about a drink before going back? I was taken care of by you a while ago, I would like to have the first cup?"

Kishi Yuki made a gesture of drinking, and there were Yuan De and Mu Zi and other people involved in the case standing behind him. Cangtian almost joined them, but the planned itinerary that flashed through his mind made him hesitate.

"Ahh I have something to do today, next time. 」

"Mr. Kishiyuki, that's the one that Mr. Kurata likes......

"Ahhh......hh That's it. It's really okay to take you, and you won't be absent next time. 」

"Okay. 」

After Cang Tianmu sent Nakai and his party to leave one after another, he also set off towards his destination. With the title of the last line of defense in the company, he is young and promising, and his colleagues rely on him regardless of seniority, and his special hobbies are also widely known in the company.

On weekends, the streets are filled with the sweltering humidity that is characteristic of summer, and they are crowded with office workers who have left work. The main road in front of the station is bustling with people, but after walking a certain distance, there are many fewer pedestrians.

"I'll take it!"

There was a man, in fact, Cangtian yelling in front of the ATM. If it weren't for the ATM, someone might have called the police as a suspicious person.

He was moved by the cold numbers displayed on the ATM screen. Most of the work he took over was a dangerous emergency on red alert, so that every day of his busy work turned into a tangible overtime allowance, so his savings amount would continue to rise.

Cang Tian smiled from ear to ear, quickly took out the deposit, and then rushed to the destination. He didn't hesitate to step on his feet, proving that this was the route he had taken several times. Soon a building was seen in front of me. It was the building near the station where a large appliance store was located, and on the third floor there was the largest model store in the area—that was his destination.

Oh, this is the X-B759 that has been out of stock for a long time, and this is also the B-CB659 here, and the coveted X-V999 is finally in stock.

A few hours later, a man left the model store to the background music that was closing.

"It's a month-end rush. It's amazing, it's amazing. 」

The man carried a swollen paper bag in both hands, and put on an extra layer for fear of breaking it. The backpack was also stuffed to the limit and bulged into strange shapes. The main thing in the paper bag is the "plastic model", in other words, he is a complete "model control".

"Water refills, paints, pens, and filter effect paints are also sufficient...... The model festival is about to begin......

For him, the payday shopping spree and the model building festival afterwards are the only and greatest pleasures. Perhaps the boredom of his usual life has been caused by a rebound for too long, and the number of purchases he has increased year by year, and finally he has developed the habit of buying all once a month, which can be said to be a symptom of poisoning.

With a silly smile on his face, he was high-spirited and swaggering on his way home with a large bag and a small bag. The building where he lives is some distance from the company, and the station is between the company and his residence. It's a little bit of a detour to the big home appliance store, but since you can return with a full load, these are nothing. Kurata walked through the sparsely populated residential area at night, and his mood was so high that he almost hummed a song. At this time, there were not many cars passing on the road, and there was silence all around.

At that moment, he heard the sound of truck engines piercing the silence from afar, followed by flashing headlights in front of him, obscuring his vision. The high beams squinted his eyes, and he quickly leaned to the side of the road. The road is not so narrow, but it would be bad if you hurt the paper bag in your hand. The high beams were still on in the residential area, and the annoyance of others made him frown, but Kurata continued to walk forward without paying much attention.

The dazzling headlights made his reaction lethal enough. The car was coming straight at him from the front, not slowing down at all, and it didn't look like it was trying to avoid him. When he noticed, the distance between the two was so close that it was impossible to avoid it.

"Hey, slow down......

The roar of the engine echoed in the eardrums, the vision gradually drowned out in the glow of the high beams, and a creepy feeling ran through the back.

He didn't have time to dodge, so he just hugged the paper bag and collided head-on with the car. The moment the two sides collided, he heard a nasty sound in his body. When his body flew in the air, he couldn't help the sharp pain and gradually lost consciousness, all kinds of emotions rushed through his mind. It's just that it's not a retrospective of life, nor is it a complaint about this accident.

(Ahh......h

What flashed through his mind was a burning passion for the many models that could no longer be assembled.

"—Next news.

After 10 o'clock this evening, a man was hit by a minibus in the residential area of S District of X City. The victim was an office worker living in the area, Cangtian (27). Although nearby residents reported that an ambulance was rushed to the hospital, he was finally declared dead. According to the police investigation, the driver involved in the accident had drunk a large amount of alcohol before driving—"