647th floor, Room 14.

After finishing the contribution report she needed to submit today, Jiang Baimian stood up, rubbed her shoulders, and said to Long Yuehong and Bai Chen:

"Since we're idle anyway, let's go to the training room for some exercise."

"Okay!" The one who answered her wasn't Long Yuehong or Bai Chen, but Shang Jianyao, who suddenly popped up at the door.

Jiang Baimian glanced at him and scoffed:

"Didn't you say you were going to experience the board of directors' exclusive cafeteria? Why are you back so early? It's not even noon yet!"

As far as she knew, there was no such thing as a board of directors' exclusive cafeteria, only a management's exclusive cafeteria.

Of course, the directors received special treatment at any management's exclusive cafeteria, which was equivalent to having a private kitchen with a private room.

Shang Jianyao sighed in disappointment:

"It's precisely because it's too early that I could only squat in the corridor on the 5th floor to wait. Those guards嫌I'm an eyesore and破坏the environment, and kept urging me to leave."

The fifth floor of "Pangu Biology's" underground building belonged to the "Management Area."

If you weren't an Awakened from the "Mind Corridor" with sufficient status, those guards definitely wouldn't just劝和催... Jiang Baimian smiled and said:

"You just came back like that?"

"Otherwise? I've always been law-abiding and a model employee." The current Shang Jianyao did indeed believe this about himself.

Jiang Baimian chuckled:

"Then it will be difficult for you to go to the fifth floor again. Without an invitation from the executives there, and without prior permission, you can't even get in the door."

This was still the situation in relatively relaxed times. When something happened and the alert level was raised, employees who hadn't received permission to go to the fifth floor or lower couldn't even light up the corresponding elevator button.

As for the fire escape, it would definitely be closed at that time, and there were many of them. Ordinary employees and the management didn't even use the same staircase.

"It's okay, I've already made arrangements with them, and they'll open the door for me when the time comes," Shang Jianyao said with a smug smile.

"Made arrangements?" Long Yuehong asked in confusion.

Shang Jianyao nodded solemnly:

"That's right, I made a lot of friends there."

Made friends... Long Yuehong's lips twitched slightly as if from an应激reaction.

Jiang Baimian asked, both amused and annoyed:

"You've already made friends, why did you come back? Why didn't you just赖着不走on the fifth floor?"

Shang Jianyao answered frankly:

"What they said does make sense. Squatting there to wait is an eyesore and destroys the environment. I think so too."

So, you made friends in order to be persuaded by them? Jiang Baimian rolled her eyes upward and gave up on trying to follow Shang Jianyao's train of thought.

She pointed in the direction of the changing room:

"Let's go to the training room."

"The position you're pointing to seems incorrect," the honest Shang Jianyao pointed out.

Jiang Baimian flared up in anger:

"So, you don't change clothes before training?"

"Oh!" Shang Jianyao clapped his hands啪啪啪, making Jiang Baimian want to kill him.

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen didn't dare to interrupt or say a word.

After all the team members had changed clothes and entered the training room, Jiang Baimian wasn't in a hurry to find someone to spar with. Instead, she started doing aerobics to gradually wake up her muscles.

While exercising, she glanced at a spot not far away and joked:

"The two of you are even doing mutual stretching with含情脉脉eyes. My eyes!"

Long Yuehong immediately felt embarrassed, while Bai Chen was completely unaffected and retorted:

"You can also find someone to stretch with you."

Jiang Baimian opened her mouth but was rendered speechless.

Anger rose from her heart, and evil thoughts arose in her mind. She turned her head to Shang Jianyao and said:

"Come on, let's have a match first!"

Shang Jianyao exaggeratedly gasped:

"No hitting in the face!"

The two put on protective gear and gloves, walked to the middle of the training room, and began to spar.

啪啪啪, 砰砰砰! Jiang Baimian's aggression was like fire, her fists like dragons, causing Shang Jianyao to抱头鼠窜.

"Why are you using your full strength today?" Shang Jianyao asked, running and blocking.

Jiang Baimian revealed a bright smile:

"I'm happy today!"

To be honest, she was indeed in a good mood.

Because she had successfully returned home last night, and when facing Xue Nvshi's complaints about "not knowing when you'll have to go out on a mission again" and "don't let us old people see you die before us," she proactively mentioned that the only task left in the upcoming mission was to find the location of the Eighth Research Institute, and the follow-up would be handed over to the company. She and the others would only need to do a portion of the assigned tasks and wouldn't have to go out all the time.

This made her parents very happy. When Jiang Baimian saw that they were happy, her own mood also improved.

Therefore, she let Shang Jianyao experience her happiness.

...

495th floor, C district, No. 11.

After dinner, Long Yuehong, who hadn't gone home to sleep yesterday, opened the door to his house with a slight sense of trepidation.

Long Dayong, Gu Hong, and Long Aihong sat in their respective positions, watching the LCD screen placed on the TV cabinet by the wall.

This was what Long Yuehong had exchanged for contribution points before his last mission.

It was said that a certain action team had brought it out from the Ruins of Marsh No. 1, and the company returned several of them to them.

This thing didn't actually have much use within "Pangu Biology." After all, the Entertainment Department had only recently considered forming a television station. Before that, the LCD screens in the company's activity center were really just used to display some information or, on weekends with corresponding activities, to add backgrounds for people who liked to sing.

In rare cases, the Entertainment Department would send special personnel to play old-world movies to enrich the employees' spare time.

However, the Long family had a portable computer brought back by Long Yuehong, which contained a large amount of old-world entertainment materials. Compared to the small screen of the portable computer, it was obviously better to play the content through a larger LCD screen.

"I'm back." Long Yuehong glanced at the flashing screen on the LCD screen and recognized that it was a drama he found婆婆妈妈.

"Mm." Gu Hong nodded.

Long Dayong turned his head to look at the door and said casually:

"You're back."

After saying that, he turned his gaze back to the LCD screen.

Long Aihong didn't even lift her eyelids, remained silent, and was unusually focused.

Although he didn't receive the attention he deserved, Long Yuehong was relieved instead.

He randomly found a seat in the living room and started watching TV with his family.

When an episode ended, Gu Hong seemed to wake up and blamed Long Yuehong:

"Why didn't you make a sound when you came in?"

Long Yuehong didn't know what expression to use to respond.

His experience was to just skip it.

Sure enough, Gu Hong's focus quickly shifted to another aspect.

She put on a smile and took out an irregular cube folded from a light yellow piece of paper from her pocket.

"Here, a Many Sons and Grandsons Talisman!" Gu Hong glanced at the window and said in a suppressed voice.

"What kind of talisman?" Long Yuehong asked, taking it with a confused expression.

Gu Hong smiled and said:

"A Many Sons and Grandsons Talisman!

"It can bless your wife to get pregnant sooner."

Long Yuehong looked at his mother suspiciously:

"Where did you get this?"

He remembered that the trend of seeking a Many Sons and Grandsons Talisman was only common among the older generation. By the time of his parents' generation, gene modification technology had matured, and many problems of infertility were not inherited, so there was no need to seek extra blessing.

However, nothing was absolute. Gene modification could only be said to kill some problems in advance, but the effect of each person's adjustment was different, with good and bad results. Like Long Yuehong himself, he only grew to 1.75 meters tall after gene modification.

Gu Hong answered matter-of-factly:

"From your grandmother!"

"Alright." Long Yuehong accepted the Many Sons and Grandsons Talisman indifferently and casually stuffed it into his pocket.

Because Bai Chen told him to stay at his own house today, he decided to go to the activity center to hang out and chat with some old classmates and friends he hadn't seen for months since he had nothing to do.

Upon entering the activity center, Long Yuehong's mood suddenly turned a little gloomy as his eyes scanned around.

He saw the newly transferred supervisor of the activity center.

This lady didn't live on the 495th floor herself but just came here to work every day.

Alas, Chen Yeye was such a good person. How did he get infected with "Heartless Disease"... misfortune comes from the sky啊... Long Yuehong sighed inwardly and walked towards the corner of the activity center.

The "Old Tune Team" had now preliminarily confirmed that the reason why Chen Xianyu, the former supervisor of the 495th-floor activity center, was infected with "Heartless Disease" was that during the initial city riots, several "New World" powerhouses briefly returned to the company. To guard against any possible mishaps, this inevitably led to some "Heartless Disease" viruses leaking from the "New World" into "Pangu Biology."

Long Yuehong had just sat down and hadn't had time to adjust his mindset and find acquaintances when he heard Shang Jianyao's voice:

"Everyone, everyone, what song do you want to hear?

"The New Year's Singing Competition is about to begin, and I need to practice more."

Long Yuehong looked in the direction of the voice with a dazed expression and saw Shang Jianyao wearing a dark blue jacket, holding a microphone, and standing in front of the activity center's LCD screen, soliciting opinions from everyone.

At his feet, the small blue and black speaker was ready to go.

The people who were playing cards, chess, and chatting idly in the activity center responded in chorus:

"Something festive!"

"Something that makes everyone happy!"

...

Shang Jianyao listened attentively and waved his hand:

"Wait for me for a minute."

He squatted down and adjusted the playback order of the small speaker.

Before long, he stood up, and the music started.

Shang Jianyao's body began to sway with the rhythm, and his voice was transmitted through the microphone to the surroundings:

"I wish you prosperity,

"I wish you splendor,

"The best, please come over,

"The bad, please go away..." (Note 1)

Note 1: "Gong Xi Fa Cai," Andy Lau