Chapter 199: Returning To The Old Place
Crisis countdown, 1 year.
Blue Star, Great Xia, Linhai City Science Park, Xinghai Technology Building.
Sixty years ago, this was the headquarters building of Xinghai Technology.
And now, it still hasn’t been reclaimed.
Fan Ren and Zeng Yingying stepped down one after another from a silver-white sedan completely made of tri-titanium alloy and equipped with flight capabilities.
He looked up at the building in front of him and couldn’t help but sigh: “It’s really different now.”
Zeng Yingying looked around with her eyes, her face full of surprise, then turned back to look at the Xinghai Technology Building in front of her and couldn’t help but smile.
“So tacky.”
At this moment, in this science park, around this building, skyscrapers built from tri-titanium alloy stood like they were in a future city.
In the sky, beautifully designed high-altitude tracks crisscrossed the city, like the blood vessels of this steel city, complex yet orderly.
Turning to look at the building in front of them again, although the old wall bricks hadn’t fallen off, the yellowed color from long-term oxidation was enough to show its age was very distant.
In the entire city, this was one of the few cement concrete buildings that had never been demolished.
“See, back then I met General Manager Jin right here on the open space in front of the building, and later you knew what happened, she joined Xinghai. Don’t overthink it, there’s nothing between us.”
Fan Ren pointed to the open space in front of the building and began explaining with a helpless expression on his face.
“I’m not misunderstanding anything.”
Zeng Yingying’s signature charming eyes held a smile as she looked at Fan Ren like this and found it very amusing.
This figure who was now pivotal in Great Xia had changed a lot since she woke up from the hibernation pod.
The former Fan Ren, when busy, could stay in the laboratory until the end of time, and even many times when she went in to deliver food and clean, he ignored her.
At that time, the couple’s life, how to put it?
Zeng Yingying thought about it, and it seemed there wasn’t much change from before they got married.
But this time after she was “tricked” into the hibernation pod for a few decades and woke up, Fan Ren’s change was enormous.
Decades of hibernation was just like taking a nap for Zeng Yingying, but Fan Ren had truly spent nearly 15000 days and nights alone.
The endless loneliness in that time, if not for this countdown constantly reminding him, he wouldn’t have persisted.
This was also why Fan Ren seemed so greatly changed to Zeng Yingying now.
He had become even more attentive to Zeng Yingying.
Over the past two-plus years, Fan Ren and she weren’t inseparable, but the time they spent apart was very rare.
Seeing her still reacting with this smiling face, Fan Ren suddenly felt a headache. He subconsciously stepped forward to hold Zeng Yingying’s slender hand to continue explaining, but she pointed to the side.
“Look!”
Next to the gate where Zeng Yingying was pointing, a square stone tablet was neatly placed there.
Fan Ren looked in that direction and couldn’t help but smile and shake his head.
The stone tablet was exactly the cultural heritage explanatory tablet issued by the Great Xia Cultural Heritage Department.
Who would have thought the Xinghai Building from back then had become a cultural relic.
Zeng Yingying took out the mobile phone she used to use and handed it to Fan Ren, then happily walked to the side of the stone tablet and struck a pose.
‘Click’
Fan Ren helplessly held the old mobile phone and pressed the shutter button.
“I can directly digitally simulate this photo, why doesn’t Yingying sis want to use my method? Why come all the way here to take a photo?”
A’dai’s extremely puzzled voice sounded in the built-in earphone in Fan Ren’s ear, and at this moment he couldn’t help but doubt his own abilities.
Digital intelligent imaging technology had already been a mature technology on Blue Star before the crisis even happened.
But now it had been verbally rejected by Zeng Yingying.
“You don’t get it? That’s right if you don’t.”
Fan Ren secretly replied, because he didn’t get it either.
“Eh”
A’dai responded with a sigh and then fell silent; he really had no face to pay attention to this couple’s daily life that seemed extremely boring to him.
“Husband, come, let’s take a photo together!”
From over there, Zeng Yingying’s voice like silver bells came, and Fan Ren’s expression instantly turned happy as he jogged over.
Click click, after a flurry of shots, Zeng Yingying reluctantly looked down at her mobile phone, then was held by the waist by Fan Ren as they walked into the building.
“Boss, you’ve fallen.”
Fan Ren nodded without answering; he was already used to A’dai being everywhere.
Inside the building, it was still Xinghai’s original simple decoration style.
Nowadays, Xinghai had no receptionists at all; after facial verification at the entrance, one could directly enter the company building interior.
Since all business had been transferred to space, there were no office workers here anymore.
Fan Ren was afraid Zeng Yingying would bump into a wall while looking down at her mobile phone, so he hurriedly held her tight and walked all the way to the elevator entrance.
“A’dai, who is in charge of daily maintenance and management here now?”
He and his wife had come to check in and take photos without greeting the person in charge here in advance; he didn’t even know what daily operations needed to be handled now.
A’dai understood his meaning and directly pulled up the information to reply: “Since Xinghai’s main affairs are now handled at Space Hub Headquarters, for scheduling, the Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Economy and Trade, and other departments have all opened permissions to me. Now our company on the ground no longer needs personnel for maintenance and management at all.
However, since this is the first building where Xinghai developed, during the previous asset cleanup, Chief Jin specially kept it and arranged a Logistics Department staff member named Xu Min here to be responsible for daily maintenance work.
Oh right, Boss, Xu Min was your classmate from the same school, and what happened with Sis Zeng, Boss?”
Fan Ren’s mouth opened into an O shape, and his eyes bulged round.
And Zeng Yingying next to him also heard this, her face showing the same incredulous expression.
‘Ding’
The elevator speed was very fast; by the time A’dai finished speaking, it had already reached the designated floor.
This was where Fan Ren’s office used to be.
The door slowly opened to both sides, and a woman with a beautiful face, graceful figure, and jet-black long hair appeared at the elevator door.
The woman looked at the two in the elevator, her expression first puzzled, then quickly flashing surprise, and finally forcing a happy look.
“Yingying, how come you have time to come.”
“Ah, Boss, it’s her, now in charge of daily maintenance work here.”
Fan Ren didn’t respond to A’dai; he hurriedly put away the shocked expression on his face, nodded slightly to Xu Min, and gave no other greeting.
“Ah, came to take photos and check in, what a coincidence, you’re here too!”
Zeng Yingying pretended to be amazed on her face, her tone carrying joy, and hurriedly went up, speaking words that were very embarrassing in Fan Ren’s ears.
