High-rise buildings and crowds shuttle. The traffic is full of traffic and the traffic lights are flickering and dimming. The busy and orderly Hudson River, the Statue of Liberty stands tall. Gu Minghui stood in her office in the 88-story Fox Building with a cup of coffee, looking at the busy scene of the Manhattan neighborhood through the huge bay window, and a burst of emotion rose in her heart. I think of the scene when I first arrived in New York after graduating from college 10 years ago, carrying a huge gift box and looking for a small hotel aimlessly, and now I seem to be so embarrassed at that time. But fortunately, thanks to his own efforts, he broke through all kinds of obstacles and realized his self-worth and even the sublimation of life. Hoth Group, one of the world's largest integrated commercial companies, has a presence in almost anywhere in the world, including real estate, hospitality, finance, power, sports, entertainment, automobiles, electronics and many other fields. And he is the leader of this business empire, the president of the group.

Gu Minghui was thinking wildly when someone suddenly knocked on the door. Gu Minghui sat down at his desk and said, "Come i."

.” The door was pushed open, and in came a young American girl in her twenties, who was her assistant Amy. Holding the documents in his hand, he walked to Gu Minghui's desk and said, "Mr. Gu, this is a planning plan for the implementation of smart cities submitted by British and French companies. In addition, Daystar allows you to go to a meeting at 9 o'clock in the evening. ”

"Okay, you reply to him and I'll be there on time."

The assistant nodded and turned around and went out, Gu Minghui picked up the document on the table and opened it to look at it. Three companies from China, Japan and Canada participated in the bidding, as well as her own company in the United States. Among them, two companies from China and Japan have already quoted a plan and preliminary price, and they are very competitive. In particular, the Chinese company, Jianghe Group, is a world-class super Internet giant in its own right, and they have practical cases to follow in the construction of smart cities in China. And they also invited relevant leaders from the United Kingdom and France to conduct on-site inspections, and these leaders were also full of praise after reading it. And the price is also very competitive, nearly 20 percentage points cheaper than Japanese companies. Although Japanese companies are also famous, they have no actual success stories, and the prices are much higher.

Although the British and French officials were somewhat biased towards Japan, objectively speaking, they had no choice but to rank Chinese companies ahead of Japan. As for the Canadian company, to put it bluntly, it is a companion, the plan is crude and outdated, there is no new idea, not to mention the details, they are the American company invited to come and force the British and French to make up the quota, otherwise China will kill a strong competitor. This is undoubtedly a lot of pressure for them. Gu Minghui took a cursory look at the overall plan and price, and she knew the importance of the first offer. Although this project is not a class A project for the company, it is an attempt and expansion in a new field after all, and the future market prospects should not be underestimated. Now as the global president of Hoth Group, every step may affect the company's development prospects and even the prospects of the entire industry.

She turned on her computer and compared her company's plans and prices with those of Chinese companies, and she knew that the only competitor to the project was the Chinese company. So she obtained the plans and prices of Chinese companies through some abnormal means very early on. Originally, I wanted to optimize the plan of the Chinese company and then adjust the price to a similar level, and then use some political means to easily win the bid. But who knows that Chinese companies do not follow the routine, directly quote, and directly announce the price and plan before submitting the bid. In this way, Gu Minghui's side fell into passivity, and if he continued to submit the bid, it would be tantamount to admitting that it was a copy. At that time, not only will they lose face in front of Britain and France, but they will even be sued by Chinese companies. So they had no choice but to postpone the submission of tenders, and the British and French agreed to their request after discussion. But they were only given a week.

Now the British and French branches worked overtime day and night, and it took three days to reformulate a new plan to the head office. After Gu Minghui's comparison, she felt that many details were not as good as those of Chinese companies, and there was no advantage in price. But this project is the first project to exceed $10 billion since he became president. If you don't do it well, you may be questioned by the board of directors, especially Carter, who will talk about this project, because he was the main competitor when he was promoted to president, and he has been working against him. Now that she has just taken office, she has to be especially wary of this person, so she has to do her best to win this project.

In addition, this Jianghe Group has always been a knot in his heart, and this time he can PK this project with them, Gu Minghui made up her mind to win. Thinking of this, she picked up the phone: "Hey, Jack." In the evening, you organize a meeting on the B26341-Sirius project, and I ask you to compare the proposal submitted by the British and French branches with the Chinese company, and then conduct a SWORT analysis, mark all the advantages and disadvantages one by one, and report to me at 8 am tomorrow. ”

At half past seven in the evening, Gu Minghui went down from the elevator to the first floor, and the driver had already driven an extended Maybach S680 to the door of the building. After Gu Minghui got into the car, they went all the way north along Fifth Avenue, and then after several turns, they entered a man-made island. The size of the island is not large, but it is well equipped with security guards with guns. The most striking thing is a 30-meter-tall building, more of a spaceship than a building, with a towering cockpit and rotating mechanisms, almost identical to the ship, and a circular screen on which galaxies are projected.

After they turned to an underground garage on the side of the house, Gu Minghui got out of the car, entered through a passageway, and took the elevator up to the sixth floor. To the 6th floor, out of the elevator turned left into a circular living room, this meeting hall is very large, can sit hundreds of people, she through the meeting hall into a cylindrical passage, this passage is about 2.5 meters in diameter, the inner wall of the passage is covered with various constellations. And these constellations change back and forth, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, like watching a 3D science fiction movie in a movie theater, you can feel all kinds of planets rushing towards you, which is very visually impactful. Passing through the hallway, she came to the door of a room, raised her hand to ring the doorbell, and suddenly she withdrew her hand again. Gu Minghui looked at her watch, and it was 8:15 p.m. So she turned and walked out of the cylindrical hallway, out of the living room, and turned left in the direction of the dining room. There were very few people in the restaurant, and when the waiter saw Gu Huiming coming, he immediately went over to greet her and took her to a seat to sit down.

"It's still the same!" Gu Minghui said to the waiter.

The waiter nodded, and after a while, several Chinese dishes were served, one was crab roe tofu and the other was braised spring bamboo shoots in oil. There is also a lotus seed soup and a bowl of rice. Gu Minghui looked at the table below, then picked up the chopsticks and ate them.

Twenty minutes later, she got up and went back to the door of the room where she had just knocked and looked at the table below, 8:55. She rang the doorbell and the door opened automatically after 5 seconds. Gu Minghui walked in, this is a very luxuriously decorated office, and it is a suite, the outside office area alone has exceeded 200 square meters, saying that the office is actually just a desk, and the rest is two sets of sofas, and then cabinets, green plants and other things. It seemed that the room was a bit empty. I saw a person sitting behind the desk, with his back outward. The man was wearing a blue camouflage uniform, had slightly curly hair, and was tall. Gu Minghui walked over and said, "Aries Lou Su three stars report. ”

This person kicked on the wall and turned the chair around, and he was none other than Chris, an American soldier who was a participant in the operation of the Nine Dragons Immortal Clan in the Tianshan Mountains. Chris stood up abruptly and said, "Welcome to the Celestial Ship." Come, sit. I'll pour you tea. With that, he pulled Gu Minghui to the sofa. Then while making tea, he said, "How is it, my brethren are easy to manage?" You don't have to be too nervous in your first month in office. ”

"Well, everybody is very supportive of my work. I feel very honored and hope to give you and the company a good start. ”

"Yes, you're in a good state of mind. And very patient, Carter just didn't have patience to do things, so I didn't choose him to be president in the end. Alright, I have one thing for you to do now. We have a department in our company called Orion, and there's a guy named Steve in it, and you go to him and give him this thing. As he spoke, Chris handed Gu Minghui a USB flash drive. Gu Minghui was a little puzzled after taking it and looked at the USB flash drive.

"I know you're wondering, why do you have a president to do such a small thing? Okay, let me tell you, I want you to join us in this research work, although you are engaged in business, a project can earn tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions, but my project may allow us to unify..."Speaking of this, he paused, looked at Gu Minghui, and then said, "Do you know what unification is?" ”

"Are you referring to industry monopolies?"

"No, no, no, the industry monopoly is too boring, I mean to say that we can dominate the earth, how about it?"

"Ah, you are far-sighted, my realm is really ashamed."

"Oh, maybe you don't understand what I mean, my domination of the earth is not commercial, but political, military, economic and even cultural, how about it, is it crazy enough?"

"Ah, you're kidding me, aren't you?" Gu Minghui was a little nervous, not knowing how to pick up his words.

"Are you kidding? Ha, of course you think I'm joking, because you don't know how much weight I have in my grasp. Business? Ha, making money is not interesting to me. Our company was originally founded by my father, and after decades of development, we can now easily beat any competitor and make countless dollars every day, but no, I'm not interested in that. What I want to do is unify the whole planet politically and militarily, oh no, this is only part of the story, I have to do more, maybe I can enter the universe. Hahaha..."

Gu Minghui felt that the boss who was a little rampant in the past seemed to be going crazy today, and his momentum and language really scared Gu Minghui. She struggled to calm herself,

"Well, yes, that's what you said. It's just that I don't know anything about politics or military affairs, so I'm afraid it won't be able to help you. ”

"Of course, I'm a democrat." Chris said, "I don't force anyone who doesn't want to do big things with me, everyone has the right to choose!" If you don't want to get involved in this matter, I don't object to it, you can continue to be your president, and you're helping me anyway, isn't it? ”

"Yes yes yes, thank you boss!" Gu Minghui wanted to push the boat down the river, and then said: "I will do what you tell me tomorrow, and I will transfer this USB flash drive to Steve as soon as possible." After speaking, Gu Minghui stood up and walked in the direction of the door. As soon as he took two steps, he heard a "pop", Gu Minghui hurriedly looked back in fright, only to see Chris holding a pistol in his hand and facing a birdcage next to him, and the bird in the cage was directly shot through the chest by a bullet and bled a lot on the ground. Then Chris raised his pistol and slowly turned to Gu Minghui. Gu Minghui hurriedly took a few steps back in fright, and her face turned pale. At this time, Chris loosened his fingers, put away the pistol and threw it on the desk.

"Don't be afraid, this parrot is always disobedient, it doesn't say anything when it is asked to speak, and it always talks nonsense when it is not allowed to speak. It's really not worry-free. You say you want it to do something like this, don't you? ”

Gu Minghui trembled with fright. She didn't know what to say, but she knew in her heart that it was Chris warning her.

After going back at night, Gu Minghui had been scared, and during the day she was still high-spirited, but now she was trembling and frightened. She knew that if she didn't share her heart with Chris, she would probably not only lose her position as president, but even lose her life. She thought about it all night and didn't get a good night's sleep.

The next morning, Gu Minghui was already in the company at 7 o'clock. She made up her mind last night to follow Chris first, then see what he was doing, and then find a way to get out when she was sure that what he said was true, and it would be a big deal to go back to China.

At 8 o'clock, Gu Minghui went to the B26341-Sirius project meeting, during which Jack spoke in detail about the various comparisons between the Chinese companies and their solutions, and then pointed out each of the differences in the technical and political advantages between them and the Chinese companies. Gu Minghui is worthy of being a very professional professional manager, although she was greatly disturbed last night, she was still able to maintain her composure and rational analysis during the meeting today. In the end, she was quite disappointed that her company had no advantages in terms of plan and price, and the most important thing was that they did not have ready-made cases for customers.

After the meeting, she didn't have time to make too many summaries, so she drove to a small town on the outskirts of New York City. She turned on her phone and looked at the navigation, then drove through the center of town, into a dense forest, and crossed two streams to reach a villa. It is said that it is a villa, but in fact it is more like a factory, because it is a long strip, and the villa is at one end.

She parked her car in a clearing outside the door, a somewhat remote place, and there was only one building in the center of the jungle at Noda. Gu Minghui walked over and rang the doorbell, but there was no response in the house. He pressed a few more times and still didn't respond, so she went to the window and looked inside. Because the light outside was too strong, I couldn't see anything inside, and I thought that maybe the owner was not at home, so I planned to turn back.

Just as Gu Minghui turned around, a cool breeze suddenly blew, and the dark clouds quickly obscured the sunlight, and the light in the woods dimmed suddenly. Seeing that it was going to rain, Gu Minghui hurriedly went to find her car. But she searched left and right and couldn't find it, and she panicked, I was obviously parked here, how can such a big car be gone? She turned her head to look at the house again, and there was no bright sunshine, and it was deep in the dense forest, and it felt very cold at once. Gu Minghui shuddered, turned around and hurriedly ran in the direction she came from, but she ran for a long time, and when she turned back, she was still in the same place. Gu Minghui's scalp couldn't help but tingle, and she was almost about to collapse in fright.

At this time, the weather suddenly cleared again, and the sun immediately filled the place again. The house is no longer the cold and terrifying just now, and when I look back, my car is still in place. Gu Minghui hurriedly ran to the car. I saw that the door of the house opened at this time, and someone shouted: "Is it Aries Lou Su Samsung?" Gu Minghui looked back. I saw a Chinese man about 30 years old, wearing a floral casual suit, a pair of casual leather shoes on his feet, a bow tie, and black hair curled upward, obviously a permed hairstyle. Big eyes, high nose bridge, slightly slender face is white and handsome, about 1.8 meters tall, with a good body, one hand in his pocket, and the other hand leaning on the door frame of the room. was looking at Gu Minghui with a smile. He looks particularly handsome in the sun. Gu Minghui only glanced at it, and her heart moved, as if a spring breeze swept away the fear just now. And the person in front of her also reminded her of another person, she felt that the two people not only looked quite similar, but also spoke in a somewhat similar way. But because of this, it made her heart maintain a certain vigilance against this person.

She looked at the man and replied, "Yes, you're Steve?"

"I'm not Steve, I'm Lu Lingfeng, Orion Betelgeuse, you can call me Lu Feng or you can call me Lingfeng. Steve he's one star. Please come in! ”

Gu Minghui looked around and carefully followed Lu Lingfeng into the house. From the outside, it's a villa, but inside, it's actually a factory. It was huge, but it was a mess, things were thrown everywhere, and a lot of computers were placed on the table in rows. The wires are intertwined and messy, and the sofas on both sides are a little worn, and the skin is worn out in some places. I thought to myself, how could such a mysterious Orion be so shabby. Could it be that the boss does not give them R&D funds? Just as he was thinking about it, the young man spoke: "How is it, was you scared just now?" As soon as Gu Minghui heard this, she immediately replied: "Could it be that you designed it just now?" ”

"That's right, a little greeting gift. Feel free to sit down. Lu Lingfeng said proudly.

"You're so boring, that's how you treat guests." Gu Minghui looked at the room and felt that there was no place to sit, and it was messy and dirty everywhere. She was afraid of soiling her clothes.

"Objectively speaking, we are your guests!"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Your Huo Group has been established for almost fifty years, and we have always been in business, and we Orion have joined you for less than five years, but we were invited by your boss, do you think we are guests?"

"Huh!" Gu Minghui looked at this young man and smiled contemptuously, and then said, "The boss invited you over, what will you do?" Is it just that kind of trick just now, playing magic? No wonder it's so shabby, I'm afraid that the magic trick didn't play well, and the boss gave you no food, right? ”

"You, okay, count your sharp teeth, wait for my boss to come out and you will know if we can only play magic."

Before Lu Lingfeng's words were finished, he only felt a gust of wind blowing over, Gu Minghui suddenly felt that his body became lighter, his brain was extremely relaxed, and white clouds rose around him, as if he was in a fairyland. In the distance, you can also see some beautiful pavilions of the water pavilion, and you can clearly see flocks of geese flying by under your feet. At that moment, someone suddenly tapped him on the shoulder, and then there was a burst of laughter. Gu Minghui shuddered, and found that she was still standing where she was just now, but there was an old man with messy hair in front of her. This man may be over 70 years old, with a full beard, hair like Albert Einstein, shabby clothes, and a smell of unknown origin. Gu Minghui hurriedly took two steps back.

"What's the matter, now that I know that we are powerful, I was still not convinced just now!" Lu Lingfeng was still smiling proudly.

"Can you control my consciousness?" Gu Minghui said sternly.

"It's not control, it's hypnosis. Of course, you can also think of it as control. The old man was also very proud.

"You're Steve, Betelgeuse Orion?" Gu Minghui asked.

"Yes, I am, then you are an Aries Lou Su three-star?"

"Yes, my name is Gu Minghui. Daystar asked me to give you something. Saying that, Gu Minghui took out the USB flash drive and handed it to Steve, Steve took the USB flash drive and threw it into the sky, and the USB flash drive disappeared. Gu Minghui was about to get angry, but suddenly it occurred to her that these people were playing magic, don't worry about them, and see what kind of fame they can make. The boss is really, he wants to rule the earth with these two crazy people, one old and one young, and it seems that he is also a madman. Thinking of this, Gu Minghui seemed to be relieved, and felt that the boss couldn't make a name for himself, and he didn't need to be so entangled. So Gu Minghui turned around and wanted to leave, but the door suddenly closed by itself. Steve said, "Miss Gu, the boss should have said something else besides asking you to hand over my USB flash drive, right?" ”

"Something else? Nothing was said, nothing else was said. ”

"You can't lie to me, or rather, everyone is transparent to me, and no one can escape my eyes."

"Well, he said something else, he wanted me to participate in your research, but I was very disappointed when I saw your performance, so I didn't think it was necessary."

"Then you just thought that we and the boss are crazy and can't rule the world, can I tell the boss?"

Gu Minghui immediately stopped after hearing this, and then said calmly: "I didn't think about it like this, but if you want to slander me, do whatever you want." After speaking, Gu Minghui left the house and returned to the company.

After arriving at the office, Gu Minghui sat down and made herself a cup of coffee to refresh herself. While thinking back to what had just happened, I opened my computer and files, and then went to read the post-meeting summary of the B26341-Sirius project. I felt that this project was too careless at the beginning, and I just wanted to get the target simply and quickly at the minimum cost. But now because of the actions of the Chinese companies, they have completely fallen into passivity, and very passively. Coupled with the events of the past two days, she was extremely confused. However, Gu Minghui is really a master of regulating emotions. She put a candle on her desk, lit it, and looked at the flames with her eyes, not preoccupied, just staring. After 2 minutes, she extinguished the candle and closed her eyes. At this time, there was a knock on the door.

“Come i

.” Gu Minghui opened her eyes and adjusted her expression.

Her assistant Amy walked in and said, "Mr. Gu, the directors of the company would like to hold an extraordinary meeting tomorrow to discuss the B26341-Sirius project. ”

Gu Minghui thought for a while and said, "Okay, you go and arrange it, I'll go over tomorrow." ”

Gu Minghui knew in his heart that this must be Carter's idea, he had been staring at this project for a long time, and wanted to make a fuss about this project to impeach himself, and now he knew that this project was about to die, so he immediately organized the directors to deal with him. But she couldn't help but attend, and if she didn't, the directors would say that she was young and disrespectful to them. So in the end, she decided to participate anyway.

Early the next morning, Gu Minghui still sat in front of the dresser as before, silently picked up the eyebrow pencil and traced the eyebrows, and pinched the eyelashes with an eyelash curler. The beautiful big eyes are as clear as the water of Tianchi, and if you wink at any man, that man may be haunted by it, and you can't think about it. She picked up the lipstick again and applied it to her lips, the red lips were firm and elastic, revealing the healthy and sexy beauty of women. In the end, she sprayed some perfume again, smelling the fragrance and knowing the woman, a woman without fragrance is not perfect. She looked at herself in the mirror, her melon seed face, white and red, her shawl hair was black and smooth, and her mysterious figure was convex and concave. No matter how you look at it, it shows the unique and mature beauty of oriental women. It's a pity that I haven't met the right other half for myself. So far, he is single and unattained, and although he lives in a mansion, he can only keep the empty house alone. Thinking that he is also in his thirties, he is a little sentimental. So she looked at herself in the mirror and imagined that a prince charming appeared next to her, taking care of herself in every way, gentle and considerate. Slowly, the appearance of the person she imagined gradually became clear, and he became him, Lu Lingfeng. Gu Minghui's face was filled with an inexplicable sense of happiness, but suddenly Gu Minghui shuddered, because she thought of another person again.

"You are from heaven and pour out all beings. You are so charming that you enchant me. On the Sansheng Stone, I would like to engrave your beautiful face and stay with you day by day in the reincarnation of the world. 》