I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 511: Struck by Thunder (First Update 3000)

After leaving Lei Jun's office, Lin Bin frowned, obviously in a bad mood.

Firstly, because Lei Jun did not agree with his proposal, and secondly, because of Lei Jun’s final arrangement.

Let Li Wanqiang talk to Gugou?
He and Gong Rui both came from Google. In his prediction, even if Lei Jun disagreed, he or Gong Rui would go and talk to Google in the end.

But now, how could Li Wanqiang be allowed to talk?

Any large company has factions, and so does rice, but they are often not obvious when nothing happens.

It is true that Lei Jun is the boss, but Lin Bin also has a lot of shares and a strong say in Dami. More than half of the business and functional department heads of Dami were recruited by Lin Bin.

Most of these people have backgrounds in Pseudo-Software, Google and overseas, and can be considered Lin Bin’s direct descendants.

Li Wanqiang is Lei Jun's old subordinate in Yinshan. Until now, he is still nominally the third most important person after Lei Jun and Lin Bin.

In the past two years, due to the outstanding marketing of Dami, Li Wanqiang, who was in charge of the marketing, gained a huge amount of glory and halo from Dami, and in some occasions his influence surpassed that of Lei Jun.

Many employees worship him like a god and follow his marketing ideas. They always talk about "sense of participation", but almost no one mentions the marketing concept of "making friends with users" proposed by Lei Jun.

Lei Jun was very sensitive and discovered the signs of the second mountain. He quickly cut the Gordian knot and put Li Wanqiang in hiding. It was not until the supply chain crisis at the end of last year that Li Wanqiang came out again.

At this time, Li Wanqiang had faded out of the rice management sequence for almost a year and a half. Over such a long period of time, most of his influence had been eliminated.

The employees of Dami also clearly know who the real decision-maker of the company is.

If we rank the important qualities that constitute leadership, "sensitivity to power" must be the first.

Any qualified leader may lack professional ability, be indecisive, or even lack strategic ability, but he must not lack "sensitivity to power."

This is true for both Lei Jun and Zhou Wei's boss Ren.

Lin Bin sighed.

As expected of Mr. Lei, he really doesn't give any chance for power to fall into other people's hands. It seems that he wants to support Li Wanqiang again to balance his own power.

Well, if Shuzi were still alive, Lei Jun would not support Li Wanqiang again, but would support Zhou Shuzi.

Thinking of this, Lin Bin felt less awkward.

Only people like this can make a company run more steadily.

However, Lin Bin still had reservations about Lei Jun's disagreement with using source code as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Google.

And he has no good feelings towards Yuzu Technology.

The management is a mess, the boss is also a mess, business negotiations are a child's play, and the penalty for breach of the confidentiality agreement signed by all employees who have access to Youmi OS is so severe that it's worthy of being struck by lightning.

Brainless, right?
Is this how this weird company developed AI?
I guess it means walking on dog poop.

Back in the office on the third floor, he called his assistant: "Zoe, book me a flight to Yuzhou tonight, and notify Faye to go with me."

The assistant's eyes flickered: "Okay, Mr. Lin, do you need Yuzhou to send the store information we want to see this time?"

Lin Bin smiled and said, "Yes, thank you for your hard work."

After a while, the assistant printed out a thick stack of location information for the six or seven stores that he wanted to look at this time and handed it to Lin Bin.

"Boss Lin, is the 20:35 flight ok? Air China arrives at 22:45. If it's later, there are only Sichuan Airlines and Chongqing Airlines."

"But if you take this flight, your schedule might be a bit tight. It happens to be the evening rush hour, so you might have to leave the company earlier."

Lin Bin took the information, looked at his watch, and nodded with satisfaction: "No, there are still more than three hours, enough time, this class will do."

The assistant nodded and said casually, "Before you asked me to check the flights to Maiguo, I thought you were going to fly to Maiguo. From your look, does Mr. Lei agree to negotiate with Google?"

This assistant has been with Lin Bin for seven or eight years and is deeply trusted by Lin Bin. She even knows Lin Bin's computer password.

Lin Bin flipped through the documents and said casually, "Someone else has already taken charge. We don't need to worry about this matter."

The assistant said "oh" and his eyes flickered.

It was rush hour, and Lin Bin was afraid of missing the plane, so he didn't waste any more time. He held two more phone conferences lasting more than ten minutes, then quickly picked up the luggage packed by his assistant and went to the airport.

It was rush hour at 5:30 and the North Fifth Ring Road was jammed all the way. It took almost two hours to drive a 40-minute journey to reach the Xin Gao International Airport.

As soon as he arrived at the airport, Lin Bin saw a flash of lightning in the sky, followed by a rumbling thunder.

Is it going to rain? It's a little cloudy, but it doesn't look like it's going to rain.

If there is a thunderstorm, the flight may be delayed.

Fortunately, although there was a thunderstorm, the plane did not notify of delay and we were almost boarding.

Lin Bin looked at the time and saw that there were still ten minutes before boarding, so he took the time to buy a hamburger. As he was scanning the code to pay, the phone rang.

Yuan Yuan from HR? What is she calling for?
“Mr. Lin, no, something bad has happened to Zoe…Zoe!”

Lin Bin was stunned.

Zoe? His assistant? Something happened?

Isn't she in the company? What could have happened?

“Just now…just now there was a thunder, it was really loud, and then we heard the glass in your office seemed to shatter. We went in and saw…we found…Zoe seemed to have been struck by lightning!” Struck by lightning?

Lin Bin opened his mouth wide, speechless with surprise, and suddenly remembered the lightning he saw when he got off the car just now.

Could it be that time?
How is that possible? Even if the building's lightning rods were useless, glass is an insulator, so how could it be shattered?
Besides, I'm on the third floor!
There are more than ten floors above!

Yuan Yuan added tremblingly: "Someone saw a flash of lightning and the glass in the office shattered. When they went in, they saw that she had fallen to the ground, her whole body charred... It's not certain whether it was struck by lightning, but it looks very similar!"

"Call 120 immediately! Call the police! I'll be back right away! Protect the scene!"

The HR on the other end of the phone said in a terrified tone: "We've called the police and 120. We're not sure if it was a power failure or a lightning strike, so we don't dare to go over."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Bin was about to call his assistant to ask her to inform Yuzhou that he had an emergency and couldn't go, but he slapped his forehead after he had already dialed the number.

People were struck by lightning. Who was it for?

In a hurry, Lin Bin did not ask his driver to come back to pick him up. Eight o'clock in Xin'ao was still the evening rush hour, so he simply took the subway and asked the driver to wait for him at Xitucheng subway station, which was actually faster than taking a taxi.

Along the way, Lin Bin kept answering and making phone calls, all about Zoe being struck by lightning.

More than an hour later, when Lin Bin arrived at the third floor where his office was located, he found that the third floor had been surrounded by three layers of police and firefighters.

There were also a few people wearing other uniforms, they seemed to be security inspectors.

Most of the employees on the third floor had been evacuated, leaving only a few HR personnel from the company cooperating with the police in taking statements and conducting investigations.

“Mr. Lin, Zoe has been carried away.” Yuan Yuan, the HR who had called him earlier, looked pale. Although her expression had returned to normal, there was still a hint of panic in her eyes.

Lin Bin nodded. He already knew it on the way here. He walked to his office calmly, where two or three policemen were taking photos and collecting evidence.

"Mr. Lin, right? Is this your office? Excuse me, I need to talk to you later."

The leading patrolman was very polite and shook hands with Lin Bin.

First of all, Lin Bin is a senior executive of the rice company, so the patrol officers have to give him some face.

Secondly, Lin Bin had sufficient alibi, and it was obviously an accident, so the police did not consider Lin Bin as a suspect at all.

"It should be." Lin Bin looked inside the room and was surprised to find that except for the broken glass and a burnt mark on the ground, nothing else was damaged.

"We were also wondering about this and just consulted a few experts. They said it was possible. Ten years ago, there was a similar lightning strike in Yuezhou, where lightning also shattered the glass and then conducted into the room."

The patrolman was a native of Xinhao. He was in high spirits and talked a lot, pointing at the broken glass windows and the burnt marks on the ground.

"We also tested it and there was indeed no sign of leakage indoors."

"But this is still too evil. Look, the computer is still on."

"From the position of the deceased, she was next to the computer at the time. Logically, the computer should have been broken down by such a strong lightning. Even if it was not struck, the circuit would definitely be burned out by the lightning. But now it seems that nothing has happened."

"By the way, can you turn on your computer so we can have a look? The screen saver is locked and I didn't turn it on just now."

The police officer said politely.

Lin Bin nodded: "Of course."

As he spoke, Lin Bin skillfully entered a password.

The screen flashed, and Lin Bin was stunned when he saw what was on the screen.

External mailbox?

When Lin Bin saw the unsent email attachment, his face changed drastically!
His fingers hovered over the trackpad, and he froze.

YoumiOS large model core source code! ?

Looking at the recipient again, it was a completely unfamiliar Gmail mailbox!

Zoe is using her own computer to steal source code! ?
And then he was struck by lightning! ?

Lin Bin suddenly remembered the confidentiality agreement he had signed before, and his scalp went numb.

"Boss Lin, what's the problem?"

The patrolman was a criminal arrester with sharp eyes. He immediately noticed the strangeness in Lin Bin's expression.

"No problem, it's company business."

Lin Bin took a deep breath, adjusted his expression, and just as he was about to move his finger to close the browser, his hand was held down by the patrolman next to him.

The police officer remained calm and said, "Boss Lin, I'm sorry, but your computer is considered evidence. We need to take it away for inspection."

Lin Bin's eyes flashed: "You just said that this was an accident, right? My computer is very important. It contains Da Mi's core secrets. There is no need to take it away, right?"

The police officer smiled, but his eyes no longer showed the indifference he had just shown. "Did I say that? No, right? Before the case is closed, no one can determine whether this was an accident or not. What do you think?"

A thousand horses were galloping through Lin Bin’s mind.

Do you think I'm a suspect?

(End of this chapter)