Chapter 15: The Alarm Bell Is Already Too Late
That evening, after finishing another day of part-time job at the milk tea shop, Wang Heng returned home. Sitting on the sofa, he let out a long sigh.
In summary, lying down as a salted fish is still the most comfortable.
But after lounging for a bit, Wang Heng felt a little bored, so he put the laptop computer on his lap and turned it on.
He logged into his Q account, and immediately a small friend request icon flashed in the bottom right of the screen. Clicking it open, Wang Heng was slightly stunned.
【You’re the lifelong full-time grand magician, right?】
Slapping his forehead, Wang Heng remembered. “Lifelong full-time grand magician” was the nickname he had on a certain programmer outsourcing platform. Besides the nickname, he had also posted a small script he had rushed to code a few days ago, basic information like age and education, and his Q number. He didn’t expect someone to notice him so quickly.
Wang Heng approved the friend request and checked the other party’s Q profile.
Gender female, nickname “Genius Young Girl Christina”, avatar is a red-haired anime beautiful girl character.
“Hmm, most likely a dead otaku boy.” Based on his rich network experience, Wang Heng made a preliminary judgment.
At this moment, the other party sent a document, followed closely by a sentence:
【This is a demand we’re currently working on. Write a script according to the requirements. Let me see your level. If it’s good, I’ll give you some private outsourcing jobs. Rest assured, the remuneration is absolutely much higher than average.】
Wang Heng replied: 【Can you first say who you are…?】
【Forgot to introduce myself, I’m an employee at E-company. As long as you meet our requirements, this outsourcing task will be posted on the platform, specifying you to take it.】
Below this sentence, the other party sent a photo, which was an E-company employee ID, with photo, name, and employee number, though all blurred out, but it looked genuine.
Wang Heng rubbed his hands, unable to help feeling a bit excited.
As everyone knows, the highest-paying internet enterprises in the country are those few top big companies, especially E-company, Alibaba, Qian Du; employees’ salary and treatment are simply mouth-watering. Doing outsourcing for them, though long-term income definitely falls far short of formal employees, but short-term might not be. If done well, the chips invested in Bitcoin might multiply several times, and the profits then would be…
Thinking about it is truly intoxicating.
Wang Heng quickly focused his attention and seriously read that demand document. He understood that to seize this opportunity, it all depended on his own performance next.
The document was written very concisely, and as he read, he quickly had ideas.
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Lu Qi originally thought it would take two or three days to see the code from that “lifelong full-time grand magician”. However, less than a day later in the morning, she received the code he wrote.
“No way…”
Staring at the lines of code on the screen, Lu Qi even forgot to blink.
Suddenly, Xiao Liu came over: “Sister Lu, is this the code that person submitted?”
Lu Qi nodded woodenly.
Xiao Liu glanced at it twice and probed: “It looks… pretty good?”
But Lu Qi shook her head: “Can’t say it’s pretty good.”
“Ah?”
“To be precise, he writes better than you.”
“Ah?”
“You don’t need to do overtime anymore. By the way, didn’t you say you never had time to take your annual vacation? Apply for holiday.”
“Ah?” Xiao Liu immediately panicked a bit, “Sister Lu, vacation is vacation, but my position won’t be gone when I come back, right?”
“That won’t happen, rest assured, the company still needs you. This outsourcer is only eighteen years old, right? If he didn’t lie about personal info, it’s impossible for him to formally onboard in the next few years; it’d be hard for us to recruit him even if we wanted to.”
Xiao Liu was even more flustered—if that meant if that guy wasn’t an eighteen-year-old student, but a twenty-something graduated programmer who could onboard immediately, then he could directly replace his own position?
Lu Qi opened the Q chat window and said: “Speaking of which, it’s still safer to video chat with this person. His code really doesn’t look like something a teenager could write. Video chat to avoid accidentally stepping into a pit.”
Xiao Liu quickly agreed: “Yeah, yeah, should be careful…”
Lu Qi sent to the other side: 【Got time? Can we video chat?】
Not long after, the other side replied: 【No problem.】
So Lu Qi clicked video chat, and two or three seconds later, the other party connected.
A video window appeared on the screen, showing a quite handsome young boy, making Lu Qi’s eyes light up slightly. This appearance was quite to her taste.
The boy in the video had a calm smile on his face, but within one second, his expression stiffened.
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Seeing that young older sister type in the video window, in an instant, Wang Heng’s hairs stood on end.
Before rebirth, he was a programmer in the Imperial Capital, and his boss was Lu Qi who resigned from E-company to start her own business independently. Of course, if it was just a female boss that wouldn’t be a big deal, the problem was in that Asura Field, Lu Qi also played a quite unique role. After inexplicably falling for Wang Heng, she controlled his economic sources, forcing him unable to leave…
That feeling of being deeply trapped in the vortex, sinking deeper and deeper, instantly replayed in Wang Heng’s mind, making him shudder.
No, don’t panic, no big problem. Wang Heng immediately remembered a key point: in these two years, Lu Qi should have been at E-company headquarters in Shencheng, and her entrepreneurship later should also be in the Imperial Capital, not coming to Rongdu, so the threat level isn’t big… right?
But considering the nature of the worldline correction mechanism, Wang Heng really couldn’t rest assured.
“What’s wrong with you?” Lu Qi noticed his anomaly and asked.
Wang Heng swallowed, shook his head: “No, nothing.”
Lu Qi smiled and said: “Then let’s discuss your code. I don’t know others’ standards, but in my view, your code writing habit is really good. Very smooth, very clear, extremely concise, not much redundancy. And your comments are very standard, easy for others to understand. So I’m a bit curious, are you really a third year of senior high school student?”
Wang Heng knew very well why Lu Qi was so satisfied with his code. After all, in the first playthrough, after graduation he joined Lu Qi’s company, and his code writing habits were corrected hand-in-hand by Lu Qi, naturally matching her intention.
He pretended to be calm and answered: “Yeah, first year university student this new semester.”
“Which school?”
“Telecommunications Science and Technology University.”
“In Rongdu?” Lu Qi had a face full of surprise, “What a coincidence, I’m transferring to Rongdu next month too!”
Wang Heng’s vision went black.
No no no, Lu Qi now is just Party A for outsourcing, apart from Q number there’s no other contact info, no big problem, even if both in Rongdu no big problem—he could only comfort himself like this now.
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