Chapter 566 (1/2)
Secretary Yang’s heart suddenly tightened, and he immediately said, “recently, you have always been busy with meetings, and I was just about to report this matter to you, it is…”
Secretary Yang told him what Song Ying did from the beginning to the end, and then carefully observed his superior’s face. As a secretary, he must always try to figure out what his superior was thinking all the time, but he also could not let his superiors know that he was trying to figure it out. Only by achieving this, could he be regarded as an elite secretary.
And Secretary Yang was confident that he was one of the elite.
Song Ying’s father thought for a moment and then said quietly, “has she been hanging out with that young man all day today?”
Secretary Yang nodded, “yes, but Yingying does look better than the last few days.”
Song Ying’s father was silent for a moment, then let out a sigh, “I hope that this young man knows his place. If he did something out of the line, you can find some time to remind him, but be tactful, don’t put too much pressure. Otherwise, it might have an adverse outcome, besides, he did not do anything wrong, it is just Yingying… sigh…”
It was his superior’s family matter, secretary Yang did not dare to interrupt. He waited until he finished and then said, “I understand.”
Song Ying’s father raised his eyebrows and said gravely, “I got the message from the top, the date was finally confirmed. Older Yang, you have been following me for so many years. The reason why I did not hide something from you is that I hope you can also prepare it in advance. But I am very anxious. The date, that the people from the top gave me, is one month after the date, that young man said! Do you know what that means?”
Secretary Yang immediately lowered his voice and said in a shocked voice, “the higher-ups already give up on us? They, they want to abandon us?…”
Song Ying’s father shook his head and sighed again. Then his face quickly changed and said, “older Yang, we need to prepare for two plans. If the words that the young man said are indeed true. Then use the contingency plan!”
Secretary Yang gasped in horror and then quickly nodded heavily.
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December 1st, the rumors on the internet could no longer be suppressed anymore. The panic those rumors caused, quickly spread the entire world.
The sun, that was 150 million kilometers away from Earth and was running at the speed of 250 kilometers per second, suddenly distorted for a split of a second.
From the Milky Way galaxy, which was over 100,000 light-years in diameter, suddenly shot out a straight silver light beam. A s.p.a.ce surveillance s.h.i.+p cruising near the Norma Arm(1.) was surprised to catch the light beam by accident. Then it immediately followed it and disappeared into the dark, empty, and void s.p.a.ce…
On the planet earth, Chu Yunsheng had just received a phone call, Song Ying’s mother had just returned to China, and she wanted to see him. Originally he did not want to go, and he was sure that it would not be something good, but in order to make sure that he would get the 30 million, he still agreed to meet her.
But his state of mind has been constantly changing and it is changing rapidly. As the 28th was getting closer and closer, many seemingly important things were gradually marginalized. He did not know why, that once in a while, he would think that even if he and Song Ying’s mother did not come to an agreement, it did not really matter that much.
Instead, the strange feeling of something utmost important was waiting for him, was getting more and more intense, and it seemed like he would do anything for that thing.
If he wanted to use a familiar word to describe it, that would be “a sense of duty”, and it was as if that was his purpose of existing in this world.
The sun doesn’t have day and night cycles, but Earth has day and night cycles. When Song Ying came to pick him up, the sun was still there, but his side of Earth had already rotated to the dark side.
Most people often feel that it is the sun that is moving, rising from one side and setting from the other side, moving across the blue sky, but people seldom realize that it is them, who are really moving, not the sun.
In the same way, people often feel that others are approaching or distancing themselves because they are always changing and moving. They seldom think that what is really changing and moving may still be themselves but not others.
Only a few smart people, who know to introspect themselves, can get rid of the cognitive inertia of using Earth as the reference object, jumping out of the self-complacent mindset, and finding the problem in themselves first.