Lin Mo's right eyelid started twitching at four o'clock in the morning, and the holographic screen at his workstation was still flashing the securities data that had not been processed yesterday. He took off his black-rimmed glasses and rubbed his eyebrows. What he touched on his fingertips was not sweat, but the acid rain mist seeping in from outside the glass curtain wall. On the 37th floor of the financial district, the air tax had been withheld from this month's salary. "E-level employees are prohibited from using goggles." The administrative department's AI suddenly popped up a prompt, superimposing a red warning box on his retinas. When Lin Mo put his glasses back on, he noticed a crack on the edge of the lens, which looked like the piggy bank that his sister Lin Xiaoyu broke last week. The elevator is packed with middle-level managers wearing liquid metal protective suits. They tap on the virtual keyboard with their chip-implanted fingertips, and the real-time exchange rates of seventeen currencies float in the air. Lin Mo huddled in the corner, feeling a sudden pain in the back of his neck - a certain supervisor's Glass Bird drone was parked on his shoulder, the compound eye lens glowing with a faint blue light. "I heard that the Asia-Pacific division will lay off 17% of its employees." The drone suddenly spoke, and the electronic sound was mixed with the rustle of a bond default. Lin Mo counted the elevator floors without answering, but the cracked glasses suddenly reflected a scene: Xiaoyu was tied to the operating table, with a blood-red countdown displaying "￥1,000,000,000" hanging above his head. Bite. The thirty-seventh floor has arrived. "You are already 2 minutes and 17 seconds late." The front desk robot handed over a cup of black liquid, "Today's punishment coffee." When Lin Mo took the cup, he caught a glimpse of the credit rating left by his fingerprints on the cup wall: D. It's down again from last week. The sound of conversation at the water cooler suddenly pierced my ears. "The quantum bond project that Mr. Chu personally participated in...
