Free Web NovelChapter 256: Chapter 191: Smoothing Things Over
The abacus fragments of the God of Wealth?
Whether it’s what Lin Hao perceived in his Divine Thought or what the Purchasing Director saw with his own eyes after opening the door, before Lin Hao is a gigantic machine, with some of the machine parts submerged in water...
One after another, electronic forms flicker on the outermost computer, documenting what seems to be the financial ledger of the City Management Team.
Lin Hao: Is this an abacus?
The data on these ledgers is constantly undergoing subtle changes, yet these data seem interconnected, a slight touch affects everything—currency cash, receivables, accounts receivable, prepayments...
Every project is in dynamic fluctuation.
Lin Hao: So this is what a deity’s abacus looks like now? It even learned some modern accounting terms?
Seeing Lin Hao and Li Chuchu attracted by the machine at the scene, the Purchasing Director generously introduced it to Lin Hao:
"This is the ’Budget Consultant NB model’ we imported from Valve City. It’s a living Receptacle whose primary ability is to help calculate budgets. We just need to feed it data.
The conclusions it derives are the most objective, fundamentally eliminating the risk of financial fraud and asset embezzlement. It can analyze our City Management Team’s project income and expenditure from a non-human perspective, coolly and objectively discovering issues that are invisible to human eyes, as long as you can persuade it...
Your projects, our City Management Team is definitely strongly supportive!"
Okay, okay, a cyber version of a consultant, huh?
Li Chuchu glanced at the machine in front of her, then at the Purchasing Director, feeling as though he was joking with her side.
As long as it’s a person, Li Chuchu can think of ways to negotiate, after all, business is all about interacting from a human perspective; mastering relationships is an art. As long as the other party has preferences, communication is always possible.
But persuading a machine?
Is this a joke?
Affections, relationships, it’s mainly about humans and emotions. This machine doesn’t have any affections; it just looks at data.
Would you send a central processor?
I don’t have one on me right now!
"Submit your report to the Budget Consultant, it will automatically recognize it, even statements about vision can be analyzed for feasibility...
Of course, you can also throw in a pack of milk tea powder, and it will analyze product positioning, future market potential and the like."
The Purchasing Director stepped aside and motioned to Li Chuchu to throw the report and products into it.
"This... Director, projects don’t just focus on products; they also focus on people. Can this machine... Budget Consultant, consider emotions, beliefs, preferences?"
"No problem at all, it’s a Receptacle, possessing Extraordinary Powers, not just an ordinary machine!" frёewebnoѵēl.com
Facing the Purchasing Director’s response, Li Chuchu clenched her teeth, trying hard to show a gentle and kind expression, showcasing her best mental state to the Budget Consultant...
Even though she didn’t know if the Budget Consultant would record such a performance in its algorithm results.
With that, Li Chuchu gracefully smiled, holding the report and products, heading to the "data inlet" the Purchasing Director pointed at...
A slot that looked like a complaint box interface.
"Wish me luck."
Just as Li Chuchu was about to deliver, Lin Hao took a step forward, standing side by side with Li Chuchu.
Lin Hao: "Together?"
Li Chuchu: "Yes, together."
Lin Hao and Li Chuchu carefully and earnestly delivered items piece by piece, hoping their project would receive approval.
Seeing this, the Purchasing Director shook his head privately...
For money-spending projects, "Budget Consultant" generally won’t approve them. Their City Management Team is essentially a big spender, with high salaries, generous welfare, and "coin sprinkling" money to be reserved...
An orderly pay without joining the City Management Team requires Extraordinary allowances, city damage from battles demands fines, member medical bills need coverage, death benefits have to be generous...
After all these calculations, the annual funds River Debris City provides fall far short of what they spend. If not for occasionally capturing some Receptacles or selling some Contained Objects, they wouldn’t make ends meet.
Though the project may fail, the City Management Team can no longer support them, but he, the Purchasing Director, has done his utmost; he’s provided the young ones an "entrepreneurial" opportunity. If they can’t persuade the Budget Consultant, it’s not his fault.
For young people, opportunities tend to be more important than results.
By the way, the bigger the "deficit" produced by the Budget Consultant, the louder its "clatter".
Purchasing Happy Milk Tea, with a budget of several million, wouldn’t that sound increase by several magnitudes?
Better wear earmuffs!
However...
Perhaps...
It seems...
The noise outside the earmuffs has reduced by quite a bit.
The Purchasing Director tweaked his earmuffs, finding it wasn’t his illusion; the sound was indeed quieter.
Moreover, as Lin Hao and Li Chuchu continued placing things into the "data inlet", the sound kept getting quieter, gradually returning to a volume acceptable to bare ears...
This noise compared to when the annual budget was granted to the City Management Team was much smaller!
This project surely has the potential for profit!
[Residual Pill Ancestor Lin Hao employs human wisdom against the North Road God of Wealth’s abacus fragments]
[The North Road God of Wealth’s abacus fragments express urgency]
[Residual Pill Ancestor Lin Hao...]
When Lin Hao and Li Chuchu finished "submitting" all content relevant to the project, the Purchasing Director warmly stepped forward, shook their hands—
"We need to attract more foreign investment to advance River Debris City’s development!
We should discuss thoroughly."
This discussion went on until nightfall.
...
Underneath Valve City, thousands of meters deep in a cavern, a dim golden light shimmered. The source of light was a floating abacus, in pure gold, exuding an extremely luxurious aura that made one glance at it and... frёeωebɳovel.com
Want to say "Congratulations on your prosperity" with hands cupped.
Yet at this moment, this abacus, full of noble aura, showed mottled traces left by time, and it wasn’t complete either, almost lacking any Counting Beads.
The abacus’s glow seemed close to extinction, resembling a human life nearing its end.
But at this moment, a faint golden halo began to flow on this abacus, gradually repairing the abacus itself...
And with this repair, up in the city above, some workers who intended to rest clenched their teeth, stamped their feet, grabbed a pepper to bite—
Damn!
Today I must complete this project/proposal/plan... and strive for monthly/quarterly/annual bonuses!
And bosses who originally made money wanting to enjoy themselves returned to their offices, deeply contemplating how to make even more money.
The project isn’t finished, far from finished.
Endless project, endless lights.
Valve City’s today and yesterday, indistinguishable, brightly lit.
And Valve City’s crematorium, its lights never dimming...
"Can’t burn it all, can’t burn it all!"
Sang Biao, ever since arriving at Valve City, dealing with supervisors, colleagues, clients made his life spin like a top, unable to stop.
All he focuses on is making clients choose more expensive hearses, farewell halls, wreaths, longevity blessings, high-end ovens.
Life?
There’s practically no life.
But Sang Biao feels this kind of life isn’t what he wants, yet as someone new to this world, he has no one reliable to confide in or converse with, thus...
"Hey, before burning, can we chat?"
The body tapped on the shoulder by Sang Biao suddenly opened its eyes:
"I’m going to be late for work!"
"Another scheduling mishap with overtime."
