The Last 299 Days of Humanity

Chapter 102 The Ultimate Office

Yu Qing wasn't so easily fooled. He knew it was possible that the big woman in front of him really did own a car, but only an idiot would believe she was giving him one.

But then he thought, if he bought a new car now, he might not be able to hide it from everyone. The ideal solution was to borrow one from this woman. He could then drive the borrowed car to headquarters without anyone noticing, and the round trip would only take a day or two.

But to achieve his goal, the key was figuring out how to fool the woman in front of him. It seemed the men of Mingshan were all pushovers, while the women here were all arrogant and self-important. He needed to make good use of that.

So Yu Qing started spouting nonsense with a straight face.

He said to the woman with great humility, "Actually, I was just so angry with the other two sisters that I started cursing at everyone I saw. I think you... are definitely much better than them!"

The woman asked, "Make you angry? How can I make you angry? Do you think any man in Mingshan would dare to be bullied?"

Yu Qing said, "But I'm not a man from Mingshan, I was just passing through. Those two sisters clearly agreed to give me a car, but when we got home, it turned out to be a beat-up car that nobody wanted. We only drove fifty meters before it broke down. What a piece of junk!"

"My sister's car is almost new, and she rarely drives it. How can she show off something that's broken! It's a disgrace to the women of Mingshan."

"Forget it, actually a lot of women are just bragging, they're actually dirt poor in private!"

"Come home with me and try it out, you'll see. My car is in great condition!"

"Judging from my sister's demeanor, she's different from those two women; she seems much more elegant. Actually, I don't want anyone's car; I just want to drive to Jian Gong for some fun."

"Come on, let's go to my place. I'll let you use my car."

"But...you said you rarely drive your car, what if it breaks down on the way...?"

"How could that be? It's brand new! You'll see once you try it."

Yu Qing followed the woman to her house; the car was indeed quite new. He suggested they go test drive it together, but the woman complained that it wasn't big enough and was uncomfortable inside, telling him to go by himself. This was exactly what he wanted.

He drove around by himself for about ten minutes and came back saying, "This car is really good. I'll try putting two people in it and see if it can still go this fast."

After Yao Dan got into the car, Yu Qing drove a few hundred meters, turned a corner, and took off, heading straight for Jin, the general manager of Yunshan Group.

"My dear husband, you went to test drive the car by yourself just now and I was so worried. I thought you had left me behind. Why did you have to go for a drive all by yourself?"

"I need to test whether she has any backup plans. What if she didn't give me full authority and sent the car back halfway through? Wouldn't we have worked for nothing?"

The rest of the journey went relatively smoothly. The car flew about 45 degrees west of Qiongshan for about two hours before arriving at Changjin. Yu Qing knew very little about Changjin; he had only heard a brief introduction from Tianzu.

Changjin is the place where his ancestors made their fortune. Back then, it was just a small town in the mountains with a population of less than 10,000.

Since Tianzu Yu Yunshan invented synthetic food, the cost of food has been reduced by more than 90%, and it can also be made to taste even better than various original foods, thus becoming popular all over the world.

With the rise of synthetic foods, thousands of families engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry have been plunged into ruin, while Yu Yunshan has amassed countless riches.

Relying on the immense wealth brought by synthetic foods, Yu Yunshan quickly invested his accumulated funds into almost every profitable industry, leaving no place untouched by him. At the time, a saying circulated: "You can escape death, but you can't escape the Yunshan Group."

At its peak, the Yunshan Group headquarters building was the third tallest building in the world, costing 67 billion RM. The group's total employees and key staff at one time numbered as many as 12 million. This demonstrates the extent of Yu Yunshan's influence at the time.

Changjin's prosperity can be attributed to one person, and at its peak, it had a population of eight million.

However, Yao Dan also helped Yu Qing find information about Changjin that his ancestor hadn't told him. In his later years, Yu Yunshan almost went astray, and the Yunshan Group declined at an alarming rate. Fearing he wouldn't be able to enjoy his wealth, he once hired 580 female secretaries.

He also has a medical team that stays with him every step of the way, consisting of nine doctors, twelve nurses, and six massage therapists.

He tried every means to achieve immortality, and therefore was terrified of death, always suspecting his sons of plotting against him so they could inherit the family fortune sooner. As a result, father and son eventually became estranged and never spoke to each other again. But in reality, both his sons died before him.

Yu Qing arrived in Changjin full of anticipation, but was immediately stunned by its dilapidation and desolation. The long-neglected streets and buildings, like incurable wounds in the city, were bleeding crimson blood in the evening glow.

If it weren't for the two young people staggering and striking strange poses on the street ahead, Yu Qing would have thought the quiet city was deserted.

The observant Yu Qing also noticed that while all the city streets were named "Yunshan Road," some were actually called Yunshan Jingyi Road, Jing'er Road, or Weiyi Road, Wei'er Road, etc.

Of course, the headquarters building of Yunshan Group is also called Yunshan, and it can be seen at a glance. However, from a distance, it looks more like "Yunchuan," and the horizontal line at the bottom of the mountain is nowhere to be seen.

As Yu Qing approached the Yunshan Building, he noticed an increasing number of humanoid figures. They simply moved back and forth mechanically, making them easy to identify.

Yu Qing wrapped himself up tightly and even put on glasses to prevent the identification system here from detecting his biometrics in advance. He dared not gamble that the actual controller here would not take any adverse measures against him.

He didn't intend to swagger into the Yunshan Building through the main entrance. He was just walking around the area to see if the building was still functioning properly. Over a hundred years of weathering would have completely changed everything.

Tianzu Yu Yunshan was meticulous and had contingency plans for all possible risks. Although he always entered the building through the main entrance under normal circumstances, he also had two other secret passages. One of them was currently known only to Yu Qing.

The Celestial Ancestor once dreamed of living to be ten thousand years old, so the sturdiness of the Yunshan Building is unimaginable. Don't be fooled by the seemingly fragile appearance of the two characters "Yunshan"; the fact that the Celestial Ancestor would replace them every three to five years during his lifetime was merely a deliberate illusion.

Yu Qing found a place to eat about 700-800 meters away from the Yunshan Building. It was a large pavilion with a hidden synthetic food production line inside. Changjin still had a free food supply system, so the people here never had to worry about eating.

Changjin's decline can be attributed to the absence of anything new or young blood for over a century. The entire city, like Yu Yunshan, is obsessed with living as long as heaven and earth, shining as brightly as the sun and moon. They have partially achieved their goal; the average lifespan here is a staggering 142 years. People are so averse to death that anything risky is forbidden, including vehicles that cannot travel at speeds exceeding 15 kilometers per hour. A single sneeze can lead to a month-long hospital stay, resulting in a staggering 1.8 million hospital beds.

What place is everyone afraid of? It's the morgue, of course, where the dead are kept. People have to take a detour if they're two or three hundred meters away from the morgue. The cunning Tianzu set up the most secret entrance to the Yunshan Building right inside the morgue of Yunshan Hospital.

However, he didn't know where the morgue was, and it was too late to ask anyone for directions, let alone wander around aimlessly. He could only wait until dawn the next day to take action.

They finally made it to dawn and pretended to take a walk, eventually finding the place by chance.

However, going to the morgue in broad daylight would attract too much attention, so Yu Qing decided to wait until someone was being taken to the morgue before they would disguise themselves as people seeing them off and sneak in.

It wasn't until noon that they saw two humanoid figures pushing a corpse towards the morgue. Yu Qing followed behind them, and as they approached the morgue entrance, the humanoid figures spotted them. One of the humanoid figures asked, "Where are you going?"

Yu Qing calmly said, "Did you push the wrong person? We just pushed a patient to see a doctor, and then you disappeared as soon as you passed by!"

The humanoid girl laughed and said, "That's impossible. Our corpse is a bit special; it can't be mistaken for anyone else!"

Yu Qing asked, puzzled, "Special? How so?"

The humanoid beauty lifted the white cloth and laughed, "Look!"

Yu Qing was startled; under the white cloth was only a person's buttocks. He asked tremblingly, "What about the other... organizations?"

"This patient had a heart transplanted after his heart failed, then a liver transplant after his liver failed, and a few years ago he had a brain transplant... After all those transplants, all that's left is his buttocks. And now, his buttocks have also become necrotic, so we have to send him to the morgue."

"Alright, hand him over to us. We'll take him inside for you. We also need to go in and look for someone. He's just unconscious and looks like he's dead."

Even the humanoid beauties were happy to avoid that unlucky place, so they handed the cart over to Yu Qing and the others without hesitation.

No one would have guessed that the secret passage entrance was hidden in a wall within the morgue. It's truly ingenious. If the entrance had been located underground or above ground, it might have been discovered unintentionally during future maintenance of the sewers or ventilation system. Now, without demolishing the building, it's very difficult to find.

The method of opening the entrance was even more ingenious. The first step was to turn off the main power supply here. After ten minutes, strike the outside of the wall three times, then tap it five times lightly, then strike it once more, then tap it four times lightly, and then light the lighter left by Yu Yunshan.

The special spectrum emitted by this lighter will reveal a special keypad on the wall. Once the correct password is entered, the wall will automatically slide open, revealing an entrance.

After Yu Qing and Yao Dan entered, the partition wall automatically reverted to its original state, the main external power supply was automatically shut off, and even the fire protection system was activated. However, instead of spraying water, it sprayed out some kind of liquid with a mixed odor to cover up the entrants' presence and prevent them from being detected by dogs or other creatures.

At this point, the carbon-14 power source in the secret passage, which could last for a thousand years, was fully activated, and the automatic circulation system, which did not require air exchange with the outside, began to operate.

In the brightly lit atmosphere, the four humanoid beauties exchanged glances with Yu Qing, confirmed his identity, and led him to a single-person four-wheeled vehicle that was already parked there. As the vehicle moved, the humanoid beauties ran alongside.

The car arrived at the foot of the Yunshan Building in less than fifteen minutes. A green light flashed intermittently ahead. Contrary to expectations, this was not a sign indicating safe passage, but a danger warning. It indicated that the building was being monitored by unauthorized electronic equipment, or that the core office area had been illegally modified.

Before figuring out the situation, Yu Qing couldn't go up rashly. So his car quickly entered an elevator hidden under the road, going straight to the granite floor at the bottom of the building.

There is Yu Yunshan's ultimate office there, about 400 square meters. It is also a temporary shelter, which surprisingly has the capacity for self-sufficiency in life support for 200 years.

None of the humanoid beauties, including Yao Dan, were allowed to enter the elevator and go in with him. The two humanoid secretary beauties immediately awoke the moment he entered the ultimate office.

The office was filled with a dense array of monitors and numerous devices whose purpose Yu Qing didn't know. Of course, he didn't know how to use them either. But he didn't need to worry about any of this; all his commands were executed by the humanoid secretary.

"Can I take control of the entire Yunshan Group now?" Yu Qing asked.

The humanoid maiden replied, "Yes, Master. But you have only taken over all financial power and administrative approval authority. Since there is a 130-year gap between the opening of this office and its construction, the personnel are no longer in line with the current situation, so it is impossible to issue orders for personnel appointments and dismissals."

"What if I were to issue an order now to dismiss all current managers?"

“It can take effect, but the entire group will be immediately paralyzed as a result. You must first draft a list of people to replace them. I have just updated the roster of all managers, but I cannot obtain their background information. Would you like me to show it to you?”

"Let's not rush. What if I first acquire supreme power, but don't make any decisions for the time being? Would that be feasible?"

“No. If you don’t make any decisions and approve any documents, the group will be paralyzed.”

“But I still have some things to take care of right now and can’t manage things here, so I need to leave for a while. But I’m worried that if I return here in the future, I will be hindered and will never be able to control the situation again if I lose this opportunity.”

"You can initiate a temporary emergency authorization immediately after assuming supreme power, setting a start and end date, but it cannot exceed one year."

"Can't it be longer? Like two years?"

"No. You can only come back and start it again. I can't operate it."

"Okay, let's do it that way. What should I do?"

The secretary led him to a device and said, “Please look over there; it will recognize your biometrics. Then, silently read the ultimate code; it only accepts lip reading. After five minutes, you will have supreme authority. At that point, you can announce the temporary emergency authorization to it.”

(End of this chapter)