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Chapter 676 - 676 676 It's Impossible to Work a Job!

676: Chapter 676: It’s Impossible to Work a Job!

676: Chapter 676: It’s Impossible to Work a Job!

It’s terrifying to contemplate!

Deng Hua thought it over carefully, and began to feel that Chen Yong was right.

After all, Wu Jie’s behavior was too abnormal today.

The fact that he didn’t show up for the company’s equity change and massive layoffs,

was there anything more urgent that could have kept him away?

And what was most heart-racing was this “last opportunity”.

He wanted Deng Hua and Chen Yong to become restaurant waiters.

What kind of last opportunity was that?

In Tianyuan, no matter how impressive a waiter is, could they earn a monthly salary of over ten thousand?

Both Deng Hua and Chen Yong had families to feed and mortgages to pay.

With their income decreased by twenty to thirty thousand a month, they simply couldn’t survive.

Moreover, Deng Hua owed Wu Jie over a million…

In short.

With Chen Yong stirring the pot like this, Deng Hua also took it as the truth.

He looked at Chen Yong with eager eyes, quietly listening to his ideas.

“We’ve been caught off guard and are totally in a passive position!”,

“The company is his, we neither have investment control nor hold any core technology, to him we’re completely dispensable!”

“By firing us and recruiting a small number of people to keep the company running, he can save at least tens of millions in labor costs every year!”

“Put yourself in his shoes, between dispensable brothers and tens of millions in profit, which would you choose?”

Deng Hua sighed heavily and said, “I understand all that!

But…

it just came so suddenly.

I thought I was about to reach the peak of my life soon, but I never expected this to happen!”

Chen Yong laughed at himself and said, “It’s also our own fault!

Not only are our abilities insufficient, but we also dug our own graves, giving him all the reasons he needed to fire us, without any room to struggle or resist.”

Deng Hua clenched his teeth and asked in a low voice,

“What’s the use of talking about this now?

What I want to know is, what do we do next?”

“Finding a job is impossible for the time being, no organization or company would be willing to hire us!”

“And we can’t possibly pack up and leave Tianyuan overnight, right?

We have to find a way to survive, don’t we?”

Chen Yong glanced around and whispered,

“Wanting to survive is easy, right?

We both have some savings, right?”

“Indeed!

If I don’t pay back Wu Jie, I have hundreds of thousands left!”

In the course of speaking, Deng Hua changed his way of addressing without even realizing it.

From Jie, it became Wu Jie.

“This incident has taught us a lesson, working for others is hopeless, we should never be employees again in this life!”

Chen Yong clenched his fist and said with a resolute expression,

“Wu Jie was just like us before, an ordinary person.

What makes him capable of starting a successful business and us not?”

“The Big God App software was a huge hit because of our collective effort, we already have the secret formula for success!”

“So…

let’s start a business too!

Gather the more than two hundred people who were fired, see who is willing to join, and raise funds together!”

“Even if only fifty people join in, each contributing several tens of thousands, that’s still millions, enough to start a business!”

“And…”

At this point, Chen Yong pointed to the television outside broadcasting sports news.

“Don’t forget, the World Cup is happening soon.

If you think we don’t have enough capital for the business, we can totally bet some money on it!”

“Tonight’s game, can Yincheng team pull off an upset and win against Colombia?

How could Senegal possibly beat Poland?”

“And the host team from the Seni Continent, with their overwhelming offensive, are sure to defeat Egypt, right?”

…

Chen Yong’s instigation was tempting Deng Hua.

They were both veteran soccer fans, both priding themselves on having special insight into the world of soccer.

Since they were so certain about the outcomes of these three games, why not take a gamble?

Take a shot, and a bike might turn into a motorcycle!

Seeing Deng Hua’s eyes light up, Chen Yong continued to lecture,

“Let’s go find Wu Jie in a bit and tell him our families don’t know about our dismissal yet, and we need to get off work to break the news to them properly!”

“With his pretentious behavior, he will surely agree to let us go, but we won’t really be going back.

Instead, we’ll rush to Beilong County overnight!”

“I have a friend who bets on soccer there.

The bookie is trustworthy; he’s won a lot already.

He can introduce us and get us into the game!”

Deng Hua was a bit taken aback.

“Isn’t it dangerous?

I’ve heard that the crackdown on gambling has been severe lately!”

Chen Yong chuckled and said, “You’ve never been to Beilong County, have you?

The place is mountainous and dense with forests, with only one road in and out!”

“The bookie has long placed informants along the route.

If there’s a crackdown on gambling, they’d disperse with prior notice, so there’s nothing to catch!”

Realization dawned on Deng Hua, and he was greatly tempted.

The more they talked, the more excited they became.

They promptly removed their aprons and tossed them aside, striding confidently to find Mr.

Wu.

When they inquired, they discovered that Wu Jie, to avoid excessive interaction with fans, had already hidden away in the upstairs manager’s office for his meal.

Fan interaction?

Hearing the cashier say this, the two exchanged a knowing smile.

“This guy really sees himself as a star!”

“If you really plan to debut, we might as well come up with a stage name for you—’Gigolo King’!”

Muttering to each other, they quickly went upstairs to find Mr.

Wu.

After knocking and entering the room, they told the excuse they had prepared in advance, and Mr.

Wu indeed agreed.

“Go on then!

If you truly feel embarrassed, just say there has been a temporary job adjustment, and that I have other plans for you!”,

Hearing this, Chen Yong and the other nodded perfunctorily.

But once they were out of the room, their expressions changed.

“Damn!

They say men turn bad when they have money, and it’s true!”

“Inflated ego, huh!

Sitting there alone, eating so many dishes, and spouting such nonsense!”

“Right!

Dressing up dismissals and layoffs as job adjustments, and calling servitude as waiters an ‘alternative plan’!”

“Heh!

You truly deserve the title ‘King of Tricksters’!”

As the two of them whispered, they made their way downstairs to leave.

But they happened to run into Chu Yunxuan.

She had rushed home in a hurry, picked up Mr.

Wu’s phone, and came to return it as quickly as possible.

The non-stop running left her gasping for breath.

“You’ve come at just the right time; we are about to discuss an important matter with you!”

“Sure!

But let me go upstairs to give Jie his phone first.

He left it at my place!”

Before the two could say a word, Chu Yunxuan dashed upstairs.

Looking at the fading figure in the distance, Chen Yong and his companion were somewhat dumbfounded.

“What’s going on?

How could Wu Jie’s phone end up at Chu Yunxuan’s place?”

“Did he send us away just to go downstairs and have a private chat with Chu Yunxuan?”

“Damn it!

And to think I treated him like a brother, only to find out he’s this kind of person, chasing money and forgetting his morals, chasing skirts and forgetting his friends!”

“Let’s go!

Even though Chu Yunxuan is beautiful, sexy, and enchanting, Tang Xiao is also a tigress.

She wants to climb up the ranks?

Too difficult!”

…

And so.

Not knowing how long Chu Yunxuan would wait, the two of them, anxious to bet on soccer and make money, simply left the house and took a taxi.

They no longer bid farewell to Wu Jie’s parents as sweetly as before, treating them like their own.

Upstairs.

Wu Jie, having retrieved the phone delivered by Chu Yunxuan, didn’t dare let her linger at all!

His parents were downstairs, and goddamn it, if she stayed any longer and went crazy, he would definitely die a gruesome death.

Of course, Chu Yunxuan wouldn’t go that crazy either.

In fact, she had found a way to make money.

The ‘samples’ previously provided by the merchants were all quite expensive.

Those that hadn’t been unsealed could be returned for a refund.

A rough calculation revealed that returning or reselling the ‘samples’ piled up in the walk-in closet at a discount could actually make her millions.

Tsk tsk!

Although she was delighted to stumble upon this windfall, it also made Chu Yunxuan deeply ashamed.

What others had given her weren’t ‘samples’; they were clearly sugar-coated bullets, outright bribes.

Eager to turn these assets into cash, Chu Yunxuan didn’t dare disturb Wu Jie at the restaurant; she said her farewells and quickly went downstairs.

As a result…

Chen Yong and Deng Hua had long since vanished.

She took out her phone and called Deng Hua.

“Hello, where are you guys?”

“We left already!

We thought you’d be talking with Mr.

Wu for a long time, so we didn’t wait.

How did it go?

Did he give you one last chance too?” Deng Hua asked with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

Chu Yunxuan laughed and said, “Of course he did!

He arranged for me to go to the Xigan Highway Corporation in Bing City for learning and training.”

Learning and training??

Deng Hua almost burst out laughing right then and there.

“That’s a great job!

Freaking awesome!” Chen Yong chimed in, egging on.

Suppressing his amusement, Deng Hua said, “Putting me and Old Chen through labor reform in the restaurant, and sending you to fix highways for training, this last chance of his is certainly quite ingenious!”

Chu Yunxuan asked, somewhat surprised, “Why do I get the feeling, from your tone, that you’re not happy with Jie?”

“Not at all!

Absolutely not!

He’s now the son-in-law of the Tang Family from Tianyuan and a billion-dollar boss.

How could we not be impressed?”

Deng Hua laughed, “But people have to live for themselves, right?

Old Chen wants to discuss something with you!”

Chen Yong took over the conversation and shared with Chu Yunxuan their plans to raise capital for a startup.

Of course, he didn’t mention that the two of them were going to Beilong County to gamble on soccer.

Needless to say, the implication was that they wanted Chu Yunxuan to join in.

After all, she had a fair amount of savings, had dealt with many merchants, and possessed client resources—all valuable for a startup.

But the clever Chu Yunxuan sensed something different in their proposition.

Betrayal!

Absolutely utter betrayal!

Deng Hua and Chen Yong were gathering laid-off colleagues to raise funds for a new venture.

Put nicely, it’s called entrepreneurship!

Put bluntly, it’s damn plagiarism!

Anyway, because of their laziness, they never took the initiative to photograph the APP software for Wu Jie, or to apply for software copyrights, invention patents, and the like.

And with the original team, there was no need for independent development.

They could just take Wu Jie’s software, make minor changes, and use it.

Thus.

If they managed to quickly produce a highly similar ‘Great God Snap 2.0’, it wouldn’t even count as illegal infringement.

If they really conspired together and succeeded, the odds weren’t bad, as Chen Yong was taking the ‘capital’ route.

The goal was not to succeed in the business, but to ride on Wu Jie’s popularity, and then raise funds and cash out.

To attract investors to pour in money, through angel rounds, Series A, Series B, and so on, financing round after round.

Continually diluting their shareholdings while the cash-out funds just kept on growing.

This model was all too common in today’s internet industry.

Come up with some bullshit idea, rope in a bunch of people to start a company, then falsify data and create illusions.

Follow that with tall tales to catch the attention of venture capitalists.

After securing financing worth tens or hundreds of millions, they then boast about their company’s billions of Gold Coin valuation.

Keep on exaggerating their intentions to list on NASDAQ and become a Unicorn Company, drawing in more investors.

This kind of ‘hot potato’ speculation was ultimately about making money.

Even many investment firms, knowing it was all a facade, were willing to invest because it provided a legitimate way to launder money.

This is why the internet industry bubble kept expanding.

Some obscure company, after a few ads and some traffic manipulation, would claim a valuation of billions of Gold Coin.

…

Chu Yunxuan was all too familiar with this model and understood it immediately upon hearing it.

But she also knew that going along with it would mean completely opposing Wu Jie.

After thinking it over, Chu Yunxuan used a stalling tactic, saying she needed time to consider.

But once the call ended, she quickly rushed back.

To ensure clear communication with her clients, Chu Yunxuan’s phone had software that automatically recorded all calls placed and received.

With the recording as evidence, she wasn’t afraid Wu Jie wouldn’t believe her.

“…Okay, take the night to think about it and reply to us by tomorrow morning at the latest!”

Once the recording ended, Chu Yunxuan looked at Wu Jie with a tense expression, her eyes filled with indignation and sympathy.

Wu Jie offered loyalty and generosity to his brothers, not expecting them to go through fire and water for him, but now he was about to be backstabbed.

“I cast my heart to the moon, but alas, the moon illuminates the gutter!

Damn it!”

With a snap,

The chopsticks in Wu Jie’s hand suddenly broke.

Chu Yunxuan’s heart skipped a beat, feeling as if Wu Jie had transformed into someone else.

It was not with rage and murderous intent,

But with a look of dejection, as if he had just lost something…