48 Hours a Day - Chapter 335

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Chapter 335 Meeting At Sillicon Valley

At San Jose Airport, the old man was no longer wearing the strange-looking Tang suit .

He was dressed like a tourist and appeared to have just disembarked the plane . He was also carrying a small suitcase with him; its gilded handle was engraved with a magical creature . It had a snake-like body and the heads of a lion, bull, and human . He walked out of the airport gate, reached his hands out and hailed a cab .

“Excuse me, please take me to The Westin Palo Alto . ”

After shutting the car door, he took out a travel brochure from his pocket and read it .

“Okay, sir . ”

The black driver glanced at the old man through the rearview mirror .

“Oh, by the way, I want to listen to hip hop . Don’t you like hip hop too?” The old man put his suitcase aside .

“I’m afraid I do anything about it . You know, it all depends on what’s on the radio . ”

“Hey, is that how your boss teaches you to entertain your customer? Can’t even fulfill such a small request?” the old man leisurely replied . The driver got annoyed when he heard that . “What do you mean?”

“Don’t waste your time . Believe me, boy . No one in this world can spend more time than me . You don’t want to waste your time on

me . ”

The old man then opened a box of gum and poured ten pieces into his mouth in one go . After a short moment of silence, the driver finally started the car . “Good lad, now you can play me some hip hop . ”

The driver pulled an iPod from his pocket and handed it with a pair of headphones to the old man behind him . “It’s got Nicki Minaj, Post Malone, and Jay-Z…” “Oh, Nicki Minaj? Just my favorite . Great! You’ve got to admit that technology has indeed made life more comfortable,” said the old man as he placed the headphones across his ears .

Half an hour later, the car arrived at Silicon Valley . This wasn’t an administrative division . Initially, the term only referred to the areas surrounding Santa Clara Valley . It gradually expanded to areas that included Santa Clara County and San Mateo County in the southwest, and San Francisco Bay and parts of Alameda County to its east .

Silicon Valley was the melting pot of all American tech industries, also famous worldwide for its forefront in electronic technological innovation . A series of internationally renowned tech conglomerates such as Apple, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Oracle made it their home . It is also a tech geek paradise .

The cab finally stopped at the gate of a startup corporation . Compared to big companies like Intel and Tesla, this company was negligibly small . Its main business was developing online photo albums, and there were less than ten employees in the entire company .

The old man carried the box and came to the door of the office of the CTO, who was also the CEO and the boss of the company . Seconds later, the door opened automatically .

“Cool,” the old man exclaimed and walked in .

The door closed automatically behind him, and the lights in the room were dimmed to sufficient brightness . The old man saw that the entire floor he was standing on happened to be a massive display screen, but it felt like a carpet, and there were even electronic water ripples displayed beneath his feet . When a mechanical dog saw a stranger coming in, it got up from its and started to bark at the old man . A circuit board was thrown to it, to which it laid down obediently and started to lick it .

The man named Einstein that Zhang Heng saw in the quest was sitting behind his desk . At its corner was a model of a Saturn V rocket . He then stretched out his hand and made a welcome gesture . With his eyebrows raised, the old man walked to where he pointed . Immediately, the wall in front of him folded and turned into a couch .

“Impressive . ” The old man sat down, deliberately plopping down with force . He could feel his butt touching the surface of an unknown material . Somehow, it felt unexpectedly soft and plush .

“Your arrival today made me realize that I have wasted my life . ”

The man named Einstein was watching a technology conference . He swiped the screen with his finger and silenced the video, his face expressionless as he spoke to the old man .

“So, what brings you here?” “You know the reason, don’t you? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have sent your people to the airport’s gate to block me . Right?”

The old man spat out a piece of now tasteless chewing gum to the ground . Immediately, the mechanical dog, still licking the circuit board, suddenly alerted its ears . Its eyes scanned the gum on the ground . It let go of the circuit board and rushed toward its discovery . In less than five seconds, the floor was cleaned without a trace of messy gum .

After that, it returned to its kennel obediently .

The old man then poured out another ten pieces of colorful gum onto his hand . “Why did you modify the number of players allowed to complete the quest? It made it a lot more difficult for my people to complete it . Whatever you did violated the rules of the game, right?”

“Aren’t you ashamed of yourself, talking to me about these things? You really thought I wouldn’t notice his abnormal rate of development? No ordinary person could achieve what he achieved in such a short period of time . This is clearly your doing . You and your tricks that allow you to mess with time . You really thought you could hide it?”

“Well… fortunately, I’ve always had good connections . Now, I’ll just have to pray harder that everyone turns a blind eye to what I did . ”

The old man continued on his road to diabetes by eating an entire lot of gum in his hands .

Einstein frowned . “What are you planning to do with your disciple? I don’t believe you’ll spend more than 80% of your power on him . Such a price is too hefty for you . You’re different from some frail idiots who are about to be buried into the ground . Although your strength has been weakening over the years, you’re still a long way from leaving this world, right? Why choose to make such a desperate move at such times? From what I know about you, you expect a greater return after investing so much in him . ”

The old man shrugged . “I told you the truth a long time ago, but why can’t you believe that I just want to win this game and take a share of the new market . I want to revive my past glory and make myself famous again . ”

“Do you really think those ridiculous clothes will allow you to integrate into a completely different society?”

“Why not give it a try? After all, KFC introduced Beijing chicken rolls in China . ” The old man blinked, “survival of the fittest, that’s what you’ve always been talking about, right? Although I prefer you as Jordan Bruno and being tied at the stake, we can never go back to those good times, right?”

“Be careful, Cronus, don’t set yourself on fire . ”

“I will try to keep this advice in mind, Sainz . ”

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