Longzang

Chapter 784 Advanced Adaptive Virus Project (Part 1)

“Don’t record this as me being absent! I was downstairs ten minutes early, but the elevator was too congested…” Wei Yuan explained in a humble voice to the dignified-looking middle-aged woman in front of him.

The woman gently adjusted her thin-rimmed gold glasses, her eyes slightly narrowed. She spoke rapidly, clearly, yet without a trace of emotion: "The elevator has been blocked for a long time now. Did you only find out today? If you knew the elevator was blocked, couldn't you have just arrived twenty minutes earlier? And let me reiterate our company culture one last time: no excuses, only results!"

"Okay, I'll definitely pay attention next time."

"There won't be a next time! Company policy is that three absences without leave will result in termination. And you haven't finished your probation period yet, so the rule applies to two absences. Get out of here, your work assignment has already been sent to you via email."

Wei Yuan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, left the office, and walked automatically towards his workstation, guided by his memory.

His workstation wasn't large, and the entire office area was very quiet. People spoke softly when they made phone calls, and sometimes all you could hear was the rapid clatter of keyboards.

Wei Yuan skillfully turned on the computer, verified his fingerprint and iris scans, and successfully logged into the company system. After a dazzling series of startup screens, the work system interface popped up.

Wei Yuan immediately opened his calendar, began reading the work emails that the system had automatically matched, then skillfully tagged them one by one and distributed them to different time slots, ready to process them on time.

This work system can automatically detect the workflow, specific details, and real-time progress of a task. It can also determine whether an employee is thinking or daydreaming based on keystroke intervals and eye movements. Furthermore, it can automatically complete most of the performance recording, analysis, and evaluation.

It is said that the company spent an astronomical amount of money to purchase this system, which was more than the total annual salary of all employees. Of course, the president's compensation plan was not included.

Wei Yuan quickly browsed through the emails, each containing content that was both unfamiliar and familiar.

"Revision of the Brown Bear Laboratory Leakage Incident Report"—well, this requires some polishing and refining to make the whole document look serious and professional, but without getting to the heart of the matter. That's easy.

The "April Department Performance Summary" is the most important task; if I don't write it well, I'll get scolded by the old woman.

The "Wangan City Super Life Form Sighting Report" is just embellished and polished; it definitely doesn't contain any classified information.

The "Employee Comprehensive Quality Improvement Plan" is the director's job, but it has to be written by Wei Yuan.

……

Suddenly, a new email popped up in front of Wei Yuan, titled "Advanced Adaptive Super Virus Project Proposal".

Wei Yuan was shocked. The virus was the company's most closely guarded secret; just by looking at the title, this project was the most crucial of all. How could such an important project be sent to the inbox of an intern like himself?

Wei Yuan opened the email and saw that it had been forwarded many times. The original source was the company's strategy committee, and then it was passed down layer by layer from the vice president, the business cluster president, the business unit president, and so on, finally reaching Wei Yuan.

Now that the work has been assigned, Wei Yuan has to push forward regardless of whether he can handle it or not. The company doesn't listen to excuses; they only care about results. If you can't complete the work, it's considered incompetence, and nothing you say will make a difference.

Wei Yuan looked at the workflow diagram again and realized that the entire process was at its final stage with him; there were no more nodes below him to forward the work. This was understandable; what subordinate could an intern possibly have to take the blame for?
Left with no other choice, Wei Yuan had to open the project plan and check the specific requirements of the job.

The project proposal was extremely long, over a hundred pages. Wei Yuan glanced at the table of contents and page numbers and knew he definitely wouldn't finish it by morning. However, he had a solution: he simply opened his office assistant, fed the document into it, and a few moments later, an outline and an extremely complex gene structure diagram appeared.

After reviewing the outline, Wei Yuan understood the project's details and background. In short, someone witnessed the activities of a superpowered individual, and the Umbrella Corporation immediately dispatched a secret force to apprehend them. Ultimately, due to the superpowered individual's fierce resistance, they had to kill them. Further examination revealed unprecedented and mysterious fragments in this person's genes, far exceeding the complexity of human genes.

The Umbrella Corporation was overjoyed. They extracted a suitable gene fragment from the entire mysterious gene and prepared to use it as a basis to develop an unprecedented super virus.

It will be the enemy's nightmare and the best service tool in human history.

Once its aggregates reach a certain number, they can acquire intelligence and understand human commands; they can replace any human cell and perform all the functions of a human cell, thus becoming a nemesis of many terminal illnesses. It can also grant humans unprecedented abilities; if the company so desires, it can create countless superheroes.

Wei Yuan was stunned by this feature description. It was so powerful that it defied common sense. If it were to be realized, the world would not need a government; companies would suffice.

And a bunch of viruses together can think? If that were true, the world would have been ruled by the flu long ago.

While complaining, Wei Yuan carefully compared the context, then pulled up the original file and looked at it for a while before realizing that the long string of content wasn't a feature introduction. This thing was called a vision. A vision can be stated casually; its realization is entirely up to fate.

Wei Yuan rolled his eyes, then opened the gene structure diagram and looked at it carefully, his expression becoming more and more serious as he looked.

This is not an ordinary diagram of gene structure, but a real structural diagram taken with an electron microscope! This image contains a vast amount of information, and only one-thousandth of it can be displayed on the screen.

A thought crossed Wei Yuan's mind: once I advance another level, I should be able to see these things without the aid of an electron microscope. Then he became a little puzzled: advance another level? What level? Is it a promotion and a raise? But that's a long way off. Only half of the long five-year internship has passed, and he still has more than two years of anxious days ahead.

Wei Yuan stared at the gene structure diagram for a long time, trying to memorize every detail. This gene map alone was of immeasurable value; if he were to sell it, Wei Yuan estimated it could fetch at least several million taels of silver…

At this moment, Wei Yuan's consciousness paused again, as if he was stuck for a moment, and then continued to think: ...It can be sold for at least several million umbrella coins.

Of course, Wei Yuan was just thinking about it. Umbrella Corporation could issue currency globally and had its own security company, which was essentially a disguised army. If anyone dared to leak company secrets, Wei Yuan wouldn't even know how he died.

But Wei Yuan stared at the gene map for a long time, and with almost zero knowledge of genes and biological sciences, he naturally couldn't figure it out.

Suddenly, a beautiful woman appeared on the screen, reminding everyone in a sweet voice, "It's not right to daydream at work!"

Wei Yuan was startled and quickly switched screens. He stopped staring at one spot and started looking at other areas of the screen from time to time. He also kept frowning and sighing, and pretending to be thinking. Sure enough, the lazy warning did not pop up again.

After staring at the gene map for a while, the office system prompted me that I was running out of time.

Wei Yuan could only save the gene map first, and then he began to concentrate on processing the dozens of emails that had been sorted in order. He was extremely efficient that morning, successfully completing more than twenty tasks and writing more than one hundred pages of PPT, finally squeezing out an extra half hour for the advanced virus project.

Just then, someone appeared beside Wei Yuan, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "It's time, let's go eat first."

Wei Yuan looked up, saw the person's face clearly, and subconsciously said, "Peacock? Why are you everywhere!"

Peacock said, "What are you talking about?! How would you have gotten into the company without me?"

Wei Yuan's memory was immediately flooded with countless pieces of information about Xiao Kongque. He and Wei Yuan graduated from the same school, but he was a few years ahead of Wei Yuan and was already the head of a technical project team with dozens of members under him. It was with his recommendation that Wei Yuan was able to successfully enter the company, and his performance evaluations were excellent every year.

Wei Yuan said, "I just took on a new job, which is gene design. I've never done this before! The meeting is this afternoon, so I'll quickly review it a few more times at noon. I won't go to the cafeteria; I'll just have a few slices of bread."

"Oh, that supervirus project? Our project team also took on some work. Don't worry, the project has just started. This afternoon's meeting is an empowerment mobilization conference, chaired by Mike, the vice president of the business cluster, and all relevant personnel will attend. Don't you know Mike? He can talk for two and a half hours in a two-hour meeting, and then leave five minutes for you to express your determination. Come on, let's go eat, it's on me."

Wei Yuan had no choice but to follow him to the restaurant. The company restaurant was extremely luxurious, offering cuisines from all over the world, which was what Wei Yuan liked most. Moreover, the restaurant was open 24 hours a day, and the entire space was oxygenated, so even if you worked overtime all night, there would be food available, and you would feel refreshed afterward.

Even while eating, Wei Yuan's mind was still filled with that complex map that didn't belong to humans at all, yet could be perfectly embedded in human genes.

"What, still thinking about your project?"

While swallowing his food without even chewing, Wei Yuan said, "I'm wondering if Mike will talk about the overall design of the virus this afternoon. I have absolutely no clue about it right now."

"He can talk about it... yeah right! Mike comes from a management background, not a technical one. How would he know anything about gene design?"

"This is possible?" Wei Yuan was quite surprised. To lead a virus design project without understanding genetics seemed like a pipe dream.

"Whether the leader understands it or not is not important, as long as the people under him do. Look at me, I don't understand genetic engineering either, but I still manage several groups. You eat first, I'll go get some more fruit."

Peacock stood up, about to leave the table, when she suddenly glanced at Wei Yuan's plate and asked with some surprise, "Why are you only eating steamed buns?"

(End of this chapter)