My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 137 Scabs and Students

Chu Zhu fiddled with the transparent phone, her mind churning with thoughts.

"Currently, the phone does not appear to have any battery issues... However, it is still uncertain whether the phone contains a miniaturized nuclear fusion reactor, or whether there are facilities in the city that can support its wireless automatic charging?"

Chu Zhu preferred the latter option. After all, if nuclear fusion could be embedded in a mobile phone, and the phone could even appear transparent from the outside, that level of technology was somewhat frightening.

But then wireless charging becomes understandable! Even C Machinery Co., Ltd., founded by Chu Zhu, possesses this technology…

Even though the initial version of wireless charging could only guarantee charging within 100 meters, that doesn't mean charging technology won't develop... Maybe it will eventually develop to the point where it can automatically charge anywhere within a city?

As for where the electricity comes from... it seems that the nuclear facilities in the field have not stopped operating yet!

"Unfortunately, my divine sense is still too shallow!" Chu Zhu's face showed regret. Zhang Haineng could use his divine sense to see the electrical energy in the camera, thus confirming whether he was being monitored by ancient relics such as cameras.

However, Chu Zhu, who is currently at the first level, cannot do it.

His divine sense could barely cover the skin of his palms. As for its function… it was to act as a human printing press when using supernatural powers!
"This doesn't seem very strong!"

Chu Zhu's feelings were somewhat complicated. As it stands, a first-realm body cultivator can easily crush a first-realm immortal cultivator... Although Chu Zhu had some doubts, the reason for this situation was that the memory supernatural power had not developed any offensive skills.

Shaking her head, Chu Zhu cleared her mind of the jumbled thoughts and started fumbling for her phone again.

After a while...

"Interesting! Very interesting!"

Chu Zhu's finger slid across the virtual screen projected by her phone; the virtual screen could be stretched freely...

With the phone placed on the table, Chu Zhu could stretch the projected screen, which was three meters by four meters, into a giant screen...

"It would be so cool to use this to watch movies!" Chu Zhu exclaimed as he shrunk the virtual screen back to tablet size.

He scanned the screen, finding large swaths of blank space on the phone screen—the only function he could see was the phone call function!
Clicking on it, Chu Zhu saw a bunch of phone numbers. What was absurd was that these numbers didn't even have any indication of who they were for.

"What if I dialed the wrong number? Wouldn't that be incredibly embarrassing?" Chu Zhu was momentarily at a loss for what expression to make. It wasn't that he was worried about dialing the wrong number, since he knew all of their phone numbers. But then, his brows furrowed.

"No apps at all? Well, it would be strange if you could download apps in this day and age... In this light, although this phone is an epic upgrade compared to Li Kang's Apple phone from the previous timeline, its only use is still making calls." Chu Zhu pondered for a while, then suddenly stood up, turned around and went into the women's restroom next door, and then entered the Nuwa Base.

He asked, "Nuwa 17, can you connect to the phone in my hand? And download all sorts of apps?"

"Data retrieval initiation... Request confirmed! Initiating signal connection! Connection successful..."

The next instant, Nuwa No. 17 displayed the application download interface.

Furthermore, at this moment, the transparent phone's screen interface is exactly the same as the interface displayed by Nuwa.

"It really works!" Chu Zhu's eyes lit up as he gently swiped his fingers across the familiar yet unfamiliar apps.

"Download, download, download..."

With Chu Zhu clicking continuously, dozens of apps appeared on the phone screen in just a breath.

"This download speed is amazing!" Chu Zhu exclaimed in amazement. Then, with a hint of anticipation, he opened an app.

A moment later, he withdrew without expression.

"The download is successful, but the server connection is down! It's like the internet is down... oh no, it's exactly like the internet is down! Nuwa 17, could you simulate a server and make these apps work properly?"

"Think deeply and confirm the goals of those with authority! Simulation can be performed."

Chu Zhu's face lit up with joy, and he swiped the interface again, this time with much more ease. However, he quickly exited the app, sighed, and uninstalled it all!

The reason is simple... because the internal resources of a simulated app are very limited.

For example, if you search on a normal blog, you can find a bunch of strange and unusual things... But this one doesn't work! Large sections of the search results are blank.

Douyin (TikTok) is the same; basically, after watching a few videos, I'll find videos I've watched before. The experience with big data is terrible! It makes me wonder what's hidden in the video database?
"...Actually, I can understand! After all, this isn't Nuwa's main job." Chu Zhu turned off her phone and put it in her pocket.

Besides that, there was another reason why he uninstalled all the apps... In this era, no one else has any apps on their phones.

If someone catches a glimpse of you using your phone in the future... that would be a real disaster!
Although Chu Zhu has the ability to reset, which can suppress the risk of leakage as much as possible... he is not the kind of fool who would discover a problem but not do anything about it, and only commit suicide to make amends after it is too late.

"Next, shall we continue reading novels, watching movies, and anime at the Nuwa Base?" Chu Zhu thought for a moment and decided to go to the shantytown redevelopment area first.

Even though he had decided to let go, he was still a little worried—as he always said, he wanted to observe them for a while to make sure they didn't make any outrageous mistakes!
Chu Zhu didn't want to stay away for too long, only to have Li Kang come and tell him that a civil war had broken out in the shantytown redevelopment area...

……

The headquarters building of the trade union in the shantytown renovation area.

Chu Zhu stood outside the conference room window, watching with a fascinating expression. Inside the conference room, a group of students whose faces still showed signs of immaturity were arguing heatedly with middle-aged people in their twenties or thirties, or even older.

"Go to hell! The rules and regulations set by Mr. Zhu are still not perfectly implemented in four large factories? And only half of the medium-sized factories are barely implementing them? How dare they!" This was a student who looked only fourteen or fifteen years old.

Another student spoke up, "This is too arrogant! This is no ordinary factory owner; we must take strong action against them."

"Yes, since they are unwilling to implement it... then, for those factories that haven't implemented it, the conditions will be doubled, just as Mr. Zhu said before... the original compensation amount will now be doubled!"

"Yes, only punishment can instill a sense of awe in them..."

"I don't think they'll back down so easily. Otherwise, we could just deploy the union's self-defense force... oh wait, I mean, the security force!"

Li Xuan's face turned ashen with rage. He glared at the group of children who were becoming increasingly unreasonable, slamming his fist on the table, spitting as he spoke. "Idiots! You bunch of idiots! How can you just start a fight without any discussion? Negotiate! You need to negotiate first! Don't you realize that the big factory owners also have their difficulties? They also need to compete with factories in other major cities!"

“I’ve spoken with them privately! They’re already complaining bitterly… and have even started considering whether they should move the factory to another big city. However, because the cost of moving the factory is too high, they haven’t actually taken any action yet!”

“Indeed.” Another middle-aged man supported Li Xuan’s suggestion, speaking cautiously. “From what I can see, Mr. Zhu really understands these big factory owners! The demands he has made seem to be right on the bottom line of these factory owners… and even leave them with an acceptable profit! But if you double your demands, then you’re really doomed.”

“If the factory moves away, everyone will be out of work! What if they come looking for trouble with us? The factory owners gave us jobs! We should help everyone, but we can’t force the factory owners to their deaths.”

The young students were full of enthusiasm, but there was a clear gap between them and the veteran union members who had worked in the union for a long time and had a lot of experience.

You simply can't win an argument!

One of the leading students stared at a person across from him who was spouting nonsense, and this person had already begun to declare, "Why don't we let people be patient for a while, and wait until the factory grows bigger and the profits increase, and then we'll step in to mediate?"

At that moment, the leading student thought of many things. He thought of his father, who was covered in dust and dirt, and who died young because he was forced to work eighteen hours a day by the factory owner and eventually died from exhaustion.

He thought of his hardworking mother who worked three jobs every day to raise him, his younger brother, and his younger sister little by little.

He was only in his thirties, but his mother's back was already hunched over! Every night, when all was quiet, he could hear his mother groaning in pain...

His body trembled, and he finally picked up the file on the table and threw it at the middle-aged man across from him who was spouting nonsense, yelling, "Fuck your grandpa! Scoundrel!"

It's fighting!

It was a mess.

Chu Zhu covered his face, feeling he couldn't bear to look at himself.

But in the end, it was still not unexpected...

He knew those who spoke up for the factory owners.

Even Jinghai didn't hide much from him, let alone his subordinates in the guild... Li Xuan was never an isolated case; in fact, one could say he was the spokesperson for a certain ideology within the guild.

This group of people were basically not bribed by the factory owners... Even Li Xuan only got along well with the factory owners and had a couple of meals with them in private.

There were such cases before, but Chu Zhu directly threw the evidence in his face, and he eventually hanged himself on the street lamp at the door... Traitors are more hateful than enemies!
They spoke up for the factory owners because they genuinely believed that the factory owners were the ones supporting the shantytown redevelopment area. Chu Zhu hadn't addressed this sentiment yet because, under the current circumstances, while it was wrong, it wasn't entirely wrong either.

In the current situation, a strike is already the limit! Even a protest is dangerous...

If you want to violently kill the factory owner, especially when the factory owner isn't in the wrong... you'll really get hammered!
Furthermore, from another perspective, factory owners are indeed capable of relocating their factories to other cities. Although this comes at a very high cost... if they are truly forced into a corner and there is no profit to be made, they have no other choice but to do so.

Chu Zhu's initial plans against these guys were all based on the intelligence he had in his mind, analyzing their bottom line, and then formulating them accordingly...

In comparison, this group of students is really impulsive, overly emotional, and prone to wild fantasies!
"However, it was a bit impulsive, but the intention was good!" Chu Zhu nodded slightly, preparing to leave. He had already realized what would happen when he lured these guys in! He had brought these students in precisely to suppress these union elders whose positions weren't entirely upright!

There's no major problem with fighting in front of us, because after the fight, we'll still need to coordinate! In the end, you and I will compromise again... and then, through negotiation, we'll come up with a formal solution that both sides can barely accept!

"...Wait, the Director-General? It's the Director-General! Stop hitting him...The Director-General is right outside the door."

Suddenly, Li Xuan's surprised voice rang out, and the scene immediately fell silent.

Chu Zhu: "?"

Chu Zhu paused for a moment, then turned around and saw that all the people who were still fighting and rolling on the ground were now staring straight at her through the window.

Finally, they all surged forward...

In just a moment, the conference room door opened.

A few breaths later, five or six students were clinging to Chu Zhu. They were all crying and sniffling…

"Mr. Bamboo, it's Mr. Bamboo, it really is Mr. Bamboo!"

"Mr. Zhu, don't go!"

"I've finally met you! I've finally seen you again..."

"Mr. Zhu, do you still remember me? I... I fainted from hunger in the garbage dump... If you hadn't brought the security team to save me, I would have died!"

Chu Zhu's eyes twitched violently. Gratitude was fine, but why were they touching him inappropriately? Besides those who pounced on him, there was a bunch of others surrounding him.

Although there weren't many people in the conference room, it somehow felt like a zombie apocalypse!

……

Two hours later.

Chu Zhu walked out of the union headquarters, looking exhausted. "I wonder when I'll ever grow up!"

He was just going to take a look, but he still got caught and dragged to work... Working was bad enough, but he also had to appease the fans!

Damn it, appeasing fans is much more tiring than grading those documents.

Of course, after the matter was resolved... both sides started cursing at each other! They cursed each other mercilessly.

One is too extreme, and the other is too weak-willed! Why not criticize them instead of going home for the New Year?
"Ze, I miss you!" Chu Zhu said with some emotion. At times like this, he would think of the outstanding successor he had carefully selected and nurtured.

That man, who appears gentle and refined on the surface, but is actually shrewd and cunning. Once his bottom line is crossed, he will never back down and will fight back resolutely. Yet, he is surprisingly skillful and can smooth things over afterward.

(End of this chapter)