Reincarnation NPC, but Arknights

When Baiye walked into the office, Coffee Cup was fiddling with its Rhodes Island uniform.

She found herself particularly fond of this skin, because it really looked cool!

"Well done, we're ready to conduct the first communication test."

Bai Ye nodded to the player/tool.

Besides Dr. Kal'tsit, there were many other people in the office.

Personnel officers, project managers from the business department, technical staff from the engineering department, some members of the decision-making team, and Amiya.

Previously, during a high-level meeting, some people objected to cooperating with Bai Ye's company and even appointing Bai Ye as a department head.

This time, they were all invited by Bai Ye, who wanted to show them the value he possessed.

Cooperation is a two-way street; a relationship maintained by only one-sided effort will not last.

This applies to lovers, and it also applies to organizations.

Chapter 90 The First Long-Distance Phone Call on Terra (2/5)

An extra chapter for Luo Tianyi's birthday

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Bai Ye was well aware from the beginning that the arrival of the players would bring a great change to this land.

In his previous life, he was one of the players.

Players are, in essence, a collection of contradictions: they are passionate, they are ruthless; they have excellent memories, they often forget; they are loyal to their dreams, they are always ready to compromise; they are willing to associate with saints, they always cooperate with devils; they are calm, they are insane. They are angels, they are devils.

Players need guidance.

Bai Ye naturally wants the world to develop in a positive direction.

The current experiment is an attempt.

"The first ultra-long-range real-time communication experiment is now beginning."

Bai Ye named this experiment the "Echo Test".

The coffee cup opened the terminal. On the way back, Bai Ye had personally trained them so that they could master the work of salespersons.

"Coffee Cup" opened the terminal and brought up the game system menu.

She has a separate player group on her social panel, which includes four people, including herself.

All are currently online.

It doesn't really matter if you're not online.

Anyway, they can get people online.

She found the player "Lemon Pigeon" located in Lungmen.

"Boss Baiye, what should I send?"

Feeling a little uncomfortable under so much attention, Coffee Cup was inwardly quite excited. For her, this was already the pinnacle of her gaming career.

Imagine this: so many high-level NPCs, each with prefixes and titles that scream "boss," yet their stats and skills are all question marks. And all these big shots are focused on you, an ordinary player—that feeling is incredibly satisfying.

"Hmm...hellothere?"

Bai Ye didn't really know what to say.

"it is good."

"Coffee Cup" pretended to type this sentence at the top of the terminal, and then contacted "Lemon Pigeon" in the in-game chat panel.

[Coffee Cup: Log in, log in, a mission has arrived]

After typing, the coffee cup waited, and she thought to herself, 'Hurry up and reply! If you dare stand me up, I'll make soup out of you…'

The coffee cup embodies the essence of a certain "one-punch brawler," and she has considerable experience in handling pigeons.

……

Wow, we've got work coming up so quickly?

"Lemon Pigeon" didn't coo; after seeing the information pop-up, he immediately contacted the Rhodes Island's Lungmen office.

He looked at the bewildered field operative and asked, "Do you have anything to say?"

Rhodes Island is contacting you.

Field Operator: ?

……

A moment later, the coffee cup received a message from the other side, which was naturally dictated by the operator and then forwarded by the player through the game's built-in chat system.

The coffee cup then inputs the conversation into the terminal.

"It seems it really was a success..."

Dr. Kal'tsit nodded in surprise as she watched Bai Ye's employees type out the information from the other end of the line.

Yes, even with her knowledge, it's difficult for her to figure out the underlying principle, but the two sides are indeed communicating in real time.

"What is the other end saying?" Bai Ye looked completely bewildered, staring at the string of gibberish on the terminal with some confusion.

After he finished speaking, everyone looked at Bai Ye with surprise.

The typist standing nearby couldn't stand it anymore.

She quickly pulled Bai Ye aside, handed him a booklet, and then whispered in his ear, "You're supposed to be Rhodes Island's field operations supervisor, and you don't even know what ciphers are?"

"This is the communication code set by Rhodes Island. He is verifying the authenticity of the person speaking to this ship."

"Uh..." Bai Ye was a little embarrassed. He had never looked at those messy documents and materials before.

"I knew this would happen..." Miss Typing Girl was speechless.

She clutched her forehead; it seemed Bai Ye had truly embarrassed herself in front of Rhodes Island's higher-ups this time...

"Isn't that what you're here for?" Bai Ye didn't care at all. He didn't need to worry about such a small matter. Otherwise, what would be the point of having an assistant?

"Tsk..." The typist was speechless. What she said seemed to make a lot of sense.

Why does it feel like I have even more work now?

……

Meanwhile, the high-ranking officials and managers of Rhodes Island showed great interest in White Night's "invention".

Just as Bai Ye had predicted, this kind of long-distance communication method was rare on this land, so everyone present immediately realized the value of this technology.

Have you applied for a patent?

Dr. Kal'tsit ignored her colleagues who were having a great time chatting with the Lungmen field operators and asked Bai Ye a question.

"Not yet," Bai Ye replied truthfully.

How is he supposed to explain this? Is he going to use some ridiculous excuse like "something's F2A connects us"?

Ultimately, this technology relies on the player's special abilities, making it difficult to patent.

"Are they the special ones?"

Dr. Kal'tsit quickly realized what Bai Ye was talking about. She glanced at the player's coffee cup as he sat in front of the terminal, busy dealing with various curious big shot NPCs.

Bai Ye nodded.

It's impossible to hide this from players, so it's better to explain it sooner rather than later.

“I see.” Dr. Kal’tsit nodded, then pointed out, “You can use another method to package your technology.”

"This can avoid a lot of trouble and also give your clients and investors more confidence, making it easier to enter other markets."

Bai Ye nodded, leaving these matters to Miss Swire. However, he couldn't help but sigh, as expected of Dr. Kal'tsit, who had actually seen through the true nature of his so-called "trade secrets".

"..." Because he was so engrossed in thinking, Bai Ye didn't notice that Dr. Kal'tsit was looking at him with an extremely strange and peculiar gaze.

'He should be thrilled; this is an unprecedented success...for this land now.'

However, Bai Ye did not.

His expression was the same as always, without excessive joy, and he had even become accustomed to it.

Dr. Kal'tsit felt a sense of familiarity with Bai Ye.

similar.

Dr. Kal'tsit always felt that White Night was likely the same kind of person as herself, both having some understanding of the era before the existence of current civilization.

He probably knows a lot of things.

such as:

This land is not infinite; it is merely a pile of soil on a sphere.

Our bodies are not something we are born with; we crawled before we could walk.

The stars, just like the ones beneath our feet, are like rafts drifting on the celestial orbit...

Chapter Ninety-One: Our Northern Cross Technology is Number One in the World

Bai Ye was naturally unaware that his behavior had aroused Dr. Kal'tsit's suspicion and even misunderstanding of his identity.

In reality, Bai Ye wasn't as calm as Dr. Kal'tsit perceived him to be; it was just his usual poker face. As someone who cared a lot about his image, he simply wanted to maintain his composure as a department head and company leader.

Just like in his previous life, players who had met him all thought Bai Ye was a cold and aloof guy. However, after getting to know the members of the tea party, they realized that he was just habitually concerned with saving face and being stubborn.

I secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Bai Ye knew that he had achieved initial success. In this way, Northern Cross would finally have a real business, instead of being an empty shell like before.

"Congratulations, Manager Bai Ye!"

"So it turns out that Manager Bai Ye isn't a reckless person after all. I'm sorry, I misunderstood before."

"Fortunately, we signed a contract with Northern Cross in advance... We were under a lot of pressure before."

"So, does this mean I can subscribe to Lungmen's web novels in time? I've been following a novel by a guy named Frostman, but unfortunately, I can only rely on field operatives to bring it back for me..."

"This thing isn't for you to use for this, you know!"

"I want to order!"

"Even if we order, they can't deliver it all!"

Other Rhodes Island executives and operators who witnessed this moment celebrated.

However, true to Rhodes Island's style, the celebration quickly went off-topic, with a bunch of rather unreliable guys starting to consider the incorrect ways to use this thing.

After all, it's a long-distance, real-time communication technology!

According to the White Night supervisor, communication can be maintained even from here to Colombia...

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"I didn't expect you to actually succeed, supervisor..." The typist had a complicated expression.

Yes, she wasn't actually very optimistic about Bai Ye's so-called business. After all, in her eyes, although her boss was quite capable and had some tricks up his sleeve, he was generally a rather funny, irresponsible, and incompetent person...

But it actually worked.

"Do you really have so little confidence in your boss?" Bai Ye feigned a hurt expression. "What about the most basic trust between people?"

As he spoke, he struck a strange JoJo pose and declared, "Northern Cross Technology is the best in the world."

There's no technology to speak of.

They just took advantage of the players...

……

"But you still need to do your job well." Typing Girl said, placing the file in front of Bai Ye.

Bai Ye flipped through it casually, then pushed it aside.

"Why do I still have to deal with documents even though I'm a manager?"

"Because it's your job." The typist blinked, a bad feeling creeping over her.