If you don't want treatment, get out! This doctor has a terrible temper.

Chapter 227 The Warranty Period of Screws

For these algorithm engineers, the time clock notification sound from big companies is a hundred times more effective than adrenaline.

That's Pavlovian conditioning etched into our DNA.

Chen Ye's eyelids trembled violently, and a hissing sound came from his throat.

Wang Minyu picked up a seven-inch-long acupuncture needle, aimed it at Chen Ye's Baihui acupoint on the top of his head, and inserted it inch by inch.

The needle pierced the scalp, stimulating the dormant nerve center.

"Open your eyes when you wake up. Your annual leave has already been used up. If you lie down any longer, your performance evaluation this afternoon will be downgraded to C." Wang Minyu said calmly, but his hand did not stop, and he inserted another needle into the philtrum.

Chen Ye suddenly opened his eyes.

His eyes were bloodshot, and due to wearing the exoskeleton for a long time, there was an abnormal purple halo around the edge of his pupils.

He tried to sit up, but was held firmly in place by the bone-setting plaster, and could only stare blankly like a turtle turned upside down.

"Where...where am I? Where are my peripherals? Has the server finished processing the data?" Chen Ye asked hoarsely, his mind still stuck in the loop before he jumped off the building.

"I don't care whether the server finishes running or not, but the warranty period for your body has expired anyway." Wang Minyu wiped his hands with a towel and slapped a printed A4 sheet onto Chen Ye's chest.

That was an optimization notice.

Su Qing had just hacked into their company's OA system and downloaded it ten minutes ago.

Chen Ye's gaze was fixed on the paper, the bold characters on it stinging his retina.

[Due to my personal abilities not meeting the company's current development needs, the employment contract has been terminated after consultation. Any unvested portion of the stock options pool will be cancelled.]

The ward was so quiet that the only sound was the hum of the exhaust fan.

"I've been doing this for eight years," Chen Ye muttered to himself. "Eight years. I typed out the initial underlying code line by line. To meet the project deadline, my wife ran off with someone else. I had the exoskeleton's control chip inserted into my cervical spine, and I was even calculating floating-point numbers while going to the toilet. They said they'd deliver on their promise if it went public by the end of the year..."

"You dare to eat the pie in the sky painted by capitalists?" Wang Minyu pulled over a folding iron chair and sat down. "This kind of biological exoskeleton will drain your bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells. Even if you don't jump off a building, you'll become a dried-up corpse in six months at most."

Chen Ye did not respond.

He stared at the ceiling, his eyes terrifyingly empty.

There was no hysteria, no weeping.

This is a kind of numbness that comes after being completely drained.

He no longer had the strength to be angry. Like a rusty screw, he was pulled out and thrown into a junkyard, and could only calmly accept his rusty fate.

Wang Minyu looked at the starry sky panel, which showed no emotional fluctuations.

This is not what he wants. What he needs is "ultimate rage." A cold piece of scrap iron cannot be refined into a primordial crystal.

"Su Qing, go outside and check the situation. What's the status of that school district property under his name?" Wang Minyu tapped the table.

A few minutes later, Su Qing walked in with a tablet.

"The house was listed for sale three days ago. The person handling the transaction was his ex-wife. And..." Su Qing pushed up his glasses, "His company's legal department just issued a circular regarding his medical expenses for jumping off the building, classifying it as a 'non-work-related accident caused by personal mental illness,' refusing to pay any compensation, and reserving the right to pursue legal action for any impact on the company's stock price."

Chen Ye's breathing became rapid.

The ointment on his chest cracked open with the rise and fall of his chest, creating several tiny fissures.

"Did you hear that?" Wang Minyu stood up, looking down at him. "You think jumping off a building will be the end of it all? If you die, not only will they not have to pay severance pay, but they can also use you as a negative example to give a psychological lecture to the remaining employees. Your ex-wife will take the house you risked your life for and live a life of luxury. Your code name will just be a string of random characters taking up space in the database, and it will be wiped out with a single click tomorrow."

Chen Ye's hands clenched tightly, his fingernails digging into the gaps of the stainless steel operating table, blood seeping from his knuckles.

"Are you angry? Do you feel it's unfair?" Wang Minyu pulled the silver needles out of his head. "Then hold it in. Anyway, your body is already ruined. Just lie on this table until it stinks, and it'll be good fertilizer for the cucumbers in my backyard."

These few words became the final straw that broke the camel's back.

Eight years of working like a slave, physical damage, the cold-bloodedness of capital, and the pain of betrayal all reacted violently at this moment.

A roar that sounded inhuman came from Chen Ye's chest.

That wasn't a roar; it was a curse squeezed from the depths of the soul.

Large patches of eerie redness appeared on his body surface, and his previously fixed bones crackled and popped.

An extremely violent spiritual energy erupted from the top of his head.

The starry sky panel is brightly lit.

A ball of fiery red light detached from Chen Ye's head.

The ball of light was blindingly red, and there was even a subtle spatial distortion around it.

This is a person driven to the brink of despair, where all survival instincts transform into a destructive desire.

The ball of light flew straight towards Wang Minyu and disappeared into the panel.

[Successfully collected the primal emotion: extreme anger.]

[Emotional materialization progress increased. Second Origin Crystal slot unlocked. The hexagram slot is half full.]

After Chen Ye finished shouting, he collapsed onto the stage like a deflated balloon, panting heavily.

But that lifeless numbness was gone, replaced by the breathing of living people.

Wang Minyu glanced at the panel with satisfaction, then turned to Guan Shan and gave him instructions.

"Take him to the backyard and put him in a group with Shen Wanshan. Tell Boss Shen to train the new recruit well. His pigsty model is in dire need of an algorithm engineer to do data backtesting."

Just then, the roller shutter door of the first-floor storefront was smashed loudly from the outside.

Several men dressed in custom-made suits and ties stood outside the store.

The leader, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and carrying a black briefcase, looked impatient.

Mr. Liu was doing his accounts when he was startled by the commotion.

Who are you looking for?

"We are from the legal department of Qiming Technology." The man with the gold-rimmed glasses pushed past Boss Liu and walked straight inside. "We received a report that our former employee, Chen Ye, illegally stole the company's core data and fled here. We now suspect that he has hidden biological storage media here. Please hand him over immediately, or you will face the consequences."

Wang Minyu came down the stairs, carrying a teacup that had just been refilled with water.

"This is a clinic, not a lost and found."

The man with the gold-rimmed glasses sneered and pulled a document from his bag: "Don't play dumb. The exoskeleton interface in Chen Ye's brain is connected to our company's database. That equipment is company property. You're protecting a suspect; we have the right to apply for enforcement."

After saying that, he winked at the two bodyguards behind him, preparing to conduct a forced search.