Did the world end today?

Chapter 102 Why Aren't You the Protagonist?

As Lin Xu walked towards the door, his steps were incredibly unsteady.

My legs really went weak.

Fortunately, Jiang Xingye knew he had been extremely busy lately, so he didn't make any more jokes about him "working hard all night".

The two randomly found a noodle shop, sat down, and ordered two bowls of ramen. Seeing that Lin Xu didn't seem to have much of an appetite, Jiang Xingye ordered him a plum juice, then asked:
"What's going on? Have you been this busy lately?"

Lin Xu nodded slightly and replied:

"There are so many things to do, I'm incredibly busy."

"so."

Jiang Xingye swallowed the noodles in his mouth and said thoughtfully:

"You guys must be really busy."

"I went to the company to work overtime yesterday afternoon and found that a lot of new equipment had arrived at the company."

“I saw a big truck, and when I opened the back, it was full of workstation components.”

"Then the office building next door has also been vacated. That building was originally used for e-commerce. The people are gone."

"Tsk, the government's involvement is terrifying."

After he said that, Lin Xu was stunned for a moment.

"You knew it was the authorities getting involved?"

Jiang Xingye rolled his eyes.

"Please, can't you see that from this scene? Do you think I'm some kind of naive and innocent girl?"

"I've been working like a beast of burden for years. If I don't even know when my owner has changed, how can I be a proper beast of burden?"

"Besides, this isn't exactly a secret at the company. You don't know why I messaged you yesterday, do you?"

"I really don't know."

Lin Xu answered honestly, then asked:
"--So why is that?"

"Layoffs".

Jiang Xingye lowered his voice and said:
"Those who don't meet the technical standards will be screened out."

“Last night I heard from HR that they have already started taking action, and the compensation is the maximum amount.”

"No, it's not just at the top, the average is N+12."

".Awesome."

Lin Xu sighed sincerely.

He spent the entire night and most of the day scheming against Zhou Yue in the bracelet world, and really didn't have time to pay attention to the official actions in the real world.

But now it seems.
Their progress was much faster than they had anticipated.

What technologies are not up to standard?

It's highly likely that the background check was not up to standard.

Has this process already begun?
That was yesterday!
What happened yesterday?
I'm still in a meeting with Wang Yifan!
Then, right after the meeting ended, they started clearing the space and optimizing the personnel structure.

At the launch site
He looked at Jiang Xingye and asked:
"Won't the launch site be demolished and rebuilt?"

"Guessed it right!"

Jiang Xingye gave a thumbs up and then said:
"China Construction Eighth Engineering Bureau entered the site yesterday afternoon, and the surrounding area has been leveled."

"Let me tell you, I've never seen a project proceed so smoothly."

"It was utterly devastating, unstoppable."

"You wait a moment."

Lin Xu interrupted Jiang Xingye.

"Are these two words appropriate to describe engineering?"

"And what did you do yesterday? You went to the company and the launch site, didn't you?"

"Get ready for the handover."

Jiang Xingye replied:

"I originally planned to gather and organize the work at hand so that I could move faster if a handover was needed later."

"But now it seems unnecessary?"

"There's really no need."

Lin Xu replied.

Handover?

He found it somewhat amusing.

Jiang Xingye is still unaware of how important she is, and even thinks that either she will be laid off or she will leave.

But in reality, no matter how you look at it, Lin Xu cannot let her out of his sight.

She will most likely remain working under the new "Sky Dome Technology" framework.

However, there is no definite plan yet regarding what specific position to take or whether, like Bai Mo, he will be involved in technical development while also taking care of the work in the "working group".

Let's take a step by step.

Lin Xu was still thinking about how to confront Jiang Xingye and how to make her, an "ordinary person," accept everything about the "apocalypse" as smoothly as possible.

Just then, Jiang Xingye, who was eating noodles and scrolling through his phone, suddenly clicked his tongue and exclaimed:

"TikTok is getting more and more outrageous these days."

"All the stories about cultivating immortality, meeting aliens, and haunted houses are this kind of thing."

"It's like I've disturbed a den of idiots; they can make eight hundred videos out of a dilapidated house."

"Ghost stories and all that talk about Lu Ban's skills? Don't you even use your brains? If you're so capable, why don't you go and kill Trump?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Xu chuckled to himself.

He leaned closer to Jiang Xingye and glanced at the video on his phone. He still held onto a sliver of hope, wondering if it might be an anomaly caused by some higher-dimensional channel.

But after seeing it, he gave up.

There is no such thing as higher dimensions. It's pure superstition.

He opened his mouth and said:
"Many people are like this; they have an inflated sense of self and think they are the center of the world."

"But, since I don't really have any ability or achievements, I tend to attribute things to myself."

"Essentially, this is also a kind of kitsch—otherwise, how can one appear special?"

"really."

Jiang Xingye shook his head, put down his phone, peeled the eggs that were placed aside, and threw them into Lin Xu's bowl.

Lin Xu fiddled with the eggs, then suddenly asked:
"By the way, haven't you ever fantasized that you might be the protagonist of this world?"

His words were a kind of test.

He wanted to know if Jiang Xingye was related to "pollen" and whether she had any corresponding perceptions.

"I?"

Jiang Xingye paused for a moment, then shook his head and said:
"Forget about it, I simply don't have the talent to be the protagonist."

"There's none?"

Lin Xu continued to ask:

"Don't you ever have those weird dreams? Like, like going on an adventure in another world or something?"

"No."

Jiang Xingye shook his head and continued:
"The strangest dream I've ever had is that I'm getting a divorce from you."

"It's funny, the whole dream was so inexplicable."

“I don’t even know why I dreamed about this—you might think it’s because I’m in love, but I’ve never even dreamed about getting married.”

"I've forgotten many of the details, but I do remember that I divorced you for some inexplicable reason."

"I think it's a long-distance relationship or something?"

"Tsk, she's a painless ex-wife now."

divorce.

Lin Xu frowned slightly.

This is not some "strange dream".

If we don't intervene, this will be the reality someday in the future.

So, the connection between Jiang Xingye and "pollen" is... the ability to predict the future?

No, impossible.

The idea of ​​predicting the future through dreams is quite plausible in supernatural tales.

However, in a purely rational physical world, that would be completely impossible.

What makes her dream is not the ability to "predict the future," but most likely her subconscious.

The higher-dimensional influences she received were hidden and unknowable.

But because it did exist, it ultimately manifested itself in Jiang Xingye's mind as a "dream".

reasonable.

Lin Xu breathed a long sigh of relief.

Jiang Xingye, sitting opposite him, noticed his expression and his eyes flickered slightly.

She opened her mouth, blinked twice, and raised her face to ask tentatively:

"You don't find this offensive, do you?"

If it offends you.

"will not."

Lin Xu swallowed the remaining half of the egg in one gulp, and then said:

"It's good that you only dreamed of divorce, not of losing your husband."

"whee."

Jiang Xingye immediately laughed.

"How about I try to dream about my wedding next time?"

Lin Xu asked jokingly:

"So urgent? Aren't you even going through the proper procedures?"

"That's for sure."

Jiang Xingye nodded.

"It's a pity I'm not the sweet and soft type, otherwise I would have been locked up and given a big result long ago."

"How could I have fallen to such a state, not only refusing to be imprisoned myself but also scheming to imprison others?"

The atmosphere became somewhat ambiguous for a moment. Lin Xu coughed and said:

"You should eat less of those chicken blood buns."

As he spoke, he took out his phone to pay the bill.

But what he casually pulled out was the secure device that Qin Feng had given him.

At that moment, a text message also came through the secure machine.

There are only a few simple words on it.

"I've found a lead on Zhou Yue. Contact me when you have time."

Lin Xu was stunned for a moment.

So fast? ?

After a slight hesitation, Lin Xu typed a reply:

"I have a new lead as well."

"We can compare them and see if the clues match!"

(End of this chapter)