Offside game

The room was dimly lit.

Two arm-thick, dark green tentacles swelled into large cocoons about two meters long at their ends, still slowly wriggling. The surface of these cocoons, resembling blood vessels, also stretched and contracted on its own.

This is the scene before Su Yi. This is the room he rented.

A few minutes later, it was clear that the cocoon was moving faster. Suddenly, after a rapid contraction and expansion, one end of the cocoon bloomed like a flower petal, and the entire outer skin gradually peeled away, revealing two bodies inside, still covered with some mucus.

The two bodies, one white and one black, were strikingly different, clearly those of two adult men. One had fair skin and blond hair, while the other was entirely black with black hair. They gradually came to life, as if just waking up, opening their eyes, stretching their bodies, and curiously surveying the world before them.

Upon seeing Su Yi before them, the initial unfamiliarity in their eyes gradually melted away, and they said in unison, "Master."

Seeing two naked adult men in front of him, with rather natural expressions on their faces, Su Yi felt extremely strange. He pointed towards the bathroom and said, "You two go in and wash yourselves first."

The two nodded in agreement and went into the bathroom.

These two "people" are the products of the mother nest's evolution into a root-like state—biochemical clones. They are bio-engineered humans created using the genetic technology of the Yuga people. At Su Yi's request, their genes were created using Su Yi's own genes as the base, with some modifications, resulting in excellent compatibility with Su Yi's brainwaves. Their combined intelligence and physical abilities are 75% higher than ordinary people, making them super geniuses. However, their lifespan is correspondingly greatly shortened, less than 20 Earth years. But one thing is certain: their physical structure is completely identical to that of humans. In a sense, they can also be called humans, only they were "manufactured."

These cyborgs can maintain constant contact with the Mother Nest and share data with it. In other words, their actions are also under Su Yi's control, and Su Yi can issue various commands to them through the Mother Nest. To some extent, they can also be considered two clones of Su Yi.

By this time, both men had finished bathing and were wearing the clothes Su Yi had brought, which fit them fairly well. The tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed white man was named Julian. The other man was Black, Robert. The Mother Nest had fabricated all the available information about them from birth to the present; if someone were to investigate specifically, they would find detailed records of them.

In fact, Julian's identity was linked to an offshore company called Solomon Yus Investments, registered in the British Virgin Islands. Robert, on the other hand, had a mutual fund registered in Bermuda called Yusou Mutual Fund… The fictitious identities created by the parent company when registering these two companies became the new identities for these two individuals. Even their appearances were modeled after the passport photos of those two identities. In short, from this day forward, they were Julian and Robert themselves.

A few days ago, he discovered that the Yusu Mutual Fund, controlled by the Kesei, had leveraged several short-term fluctuations in the futures market to turn the fund's initial $3000 million into $5 million. This achievement exceeded Su Yi's expectations, so he thought that his plan could be launched ahead of schedule. Thus, the appearance of these two people came about.

Su Yi handed two bags to the two people, each containing their identification documents, some cash, and plane tickets for the next morning, with destinations in New York, USA, and London, UK, respectively.

As night fell, the two men got into Su Yi's car. In an inconspicuous alley in Yanjing, Su Yi dropped them off. After getting out, they naturally walked out of the alley in opposite directions. Rooms had already been booked for them at two different hotels in Yanjing. They then took separate taxis back to their respective hotels and used the room keys in their bags to enter their rooms.

Their first task is to lie in bed, connect to the mother nest, and learn some basic skills and knowledge necessary for human society.

Su Yi had been monitoring the two's movements through the Mother Nest, and finally felt relieved after they returned to their respective rooms. Next, the two would play the roles already designed for them, becoming Su Yi's two clones, weaving a covert network for him across the world.

After New Year's Day, Su Yi received last year's financial report. During this period, Lechang Company had a total profit of nearly 200 million yuan, including advertising revenue, internet cafe revenue, and value-added services, with advertising revenue and various value-added services being the main contributors. After discussing with Liu Jun and Chen Yi, Su Yi decided to distribute 40 million yuan of this as dividends.

He has signed a contract in which Liu Jun and Chen Yi each receive stock options for 5% of Dream International's shares, meaning they will have full rights to these 5% shares during their tenure at Dream International. Therefore, as a result of this profit distribution, Su Yi received a dividend of 24 million, Solomon Yus Investment Company received 12 million, and Liu Jun and Chen Yi each received 2 million.

Then the company allocated another 30 million yuan to its employees as year-end bonuses. Now, Dream International doesn't need to worry too much about future development funds, because its subsidiary, Dream Games, will soon receive profit sharing from the game "Mechanical Civilization".

Time passed by day after day. Su Yi leisurely listened to courses that interested him, not limited to his own computer science major, but also including business administration, biology, and electronics. It must be said that as one of the top universities in China, Jinghua University had many professors with extremely high academic standards, and Su Yi felt that he benefited greatly from listening to these courses.

But soon, the final exams arrived. Many students who were usually lazy started studying hard at this last minute, so study rooms and similar places were always packed.

Su Yi's grades in the final exams were only average. He hadn't planned on getting a scholarship anyway, and he barely passed many subjects he felt were unnecessary. However, he did well in a few subjects that he valued. In his opinion, passing these kinds of exams was enough; there was no need to cause too much trouble for students who studied diligently and never missed a class.

Final exams are over, and all that's left is to wait for winter break. Every year at this time, there's a specific term to describe it: Spring Festival travel rush. Because of traditional Chinese New Year customs, many people who have left their hometowns think of returning home at this time, resulting in packed passenger traffic across the country. Train tickets are especially difficult to buy.

Anjing wanted to go home, and Jifeng wanted to go back too, so Su Yi had booked their plane tickets in advance. Then he drove them to the airport, wishing Jifeng good luck in taking care of Anjing, because there were no direct flights from Yanjing to Dongdu, and they would need to fly to Quancheng and then take a car home.

Now, only Su Yi remained in sight. Since he was all alone at home, it didn't matter where he spent the holiday. He had a lot of work to do at the company, and he had also promised Mo Jin'er that he would take her to Ocean Park in Hong Kong, so he decided to stay in Yanjing.

Just after seeing An Jing off, Su Yi was driving home when his phone suddenly rang. He saw it was an unfamiliar landline number…