The new campus is relatively far from the old campus. To be precise, the new campus is relatively remote from the main urban area. It takes about an hour to drive there. In order not to make the school's already insufficient funds worse, these transportation trips are basically only
When the truck comes, people sit in the truck compartment along with the furniture being moved.
Fortunately, they moved some office chairs this time and fixed them so that you could sit on them without getting dizzy.
There were many professors and students on the bus with them. Schiller, Victor, and Anna were huddled in a corner.
"It's hard to imagine that one day we will ride in a car with this attitude." Victor sat on a cushion and said with a smile: "Especially you, Professor Schiller, I reminded you that it is best to wear sportswear today."
Among the three, only Schiller was still wearing his suit, but Schiller retorted confidently: "I didn't even wear a vest or suspenders from my suit today. I feel like my shirt is wrinkled like the surface of the earth.
"
Both of them laughed, and then they started to talk about the financial situation of the people around them. Unsurprisingly, everyone's situation was not very good, and this group of people even included the rich people they knew in the past.
"There is a problem with the Wayne Group's capital chain." Anna sighed and said: "When I worked as a data consultant for them before, I found that their capital chain itself was in jeopardy, and their ability to resist risks was very poor.
Too much investment was made in the renovation project, and as a result, it has not fully recovered yet.”
"Has their financial chain been broken?"
"If we don't inject new blood, I'm afraid." Anna shook her head and said, "But it's not surprising. Although he is still richer than us, such a large group will definitely be hit harder by the economic crisis than
The average person is much bigger."
"I guess he has a method, Batman always has a method." Victor thought for a while and said: "But I can't think of any method that is both legal and effective. Isn't it going to be a gray industry again?
"
"Of course he is no longer satisfied with gray industries." Schiller said: "Not even black industries. No matter what industry he engages in, it is all serious business. It will be too slow to make money."
"Then what is he going to do? He won't just rob him, right?"
"It's almost like a robbery." Schiller shook his head and said nothing. After seeing the curious looks of the two people, he couldn't help but said, "You will know in a few days."
The car drove for a long time and finally arrived at the destination. Although there were many things in the new campus that were not perfect, and there were even a lot of building materials that had not been collected, and everyone in sight was in a hurry to pack their things, but
It is still a prosperous scene.
Victor got out of the car first, stood at the gate, put his hand on the railing and looked inside the new campus. He clicked his tongue with great satisfaction and said: "It is worthy of being invested by Wayne Group, designed by Gotham University School of Architecture, and Farr
The new campus contracted and built by the Cone family looks really impressive.”
Schiller also got out of the car. In fact, this was the first time he had seen the completed version of the new campus. Although it was not far from his home, almost every time he passed by it, there was a construction site that was still under construction.
He was a little curious before as to why the building in the middle was always surrounded. Now he can see that it is not a building in the traditional sense. It looks more like a horizontal honeycomb, with beautiful streamlined curves and an unusual appearance.
It looks too much like a university, more like some kind of alien building.
The buildings scattered outside are all hexagonal, connected to the building in the middle by thin corridors, and there are several hexagonal buildings at the rear, which are also connected to other buildings.
"It looks like the style over there in the East End." Schiller said as he walked inside, "It's just not as dense and the decoration style is more sci-fi."
"I like this style very much." Victor said excitedly: "Where is my cryogenic laboratory? They said that there is the most advanced cryogenic laboratory in the United States, and they spent one-third of the laboratory construction funds.
!That will be my home court from now on!”
"It seems to be over there. Do you see it over there? There is a huge snowflake pattern there." Anna pointed towards a hexagonal building in the distance and said, "I guess that represents the cryogenic laboratory."
Victor immediately wanted to go there, but Schiller stopped him and said, "Have you forgotten? Only the academic building and classrooms are open now. That will be your future home court. You can't enter now."
Victor sighed, then lowered his arms and said, "Okay, let's go see the office first. Now we have a separate office, right?"
Because the previous Gotham University was too old and too small, most of the professors worked in one office. No matter how famous they were in academia, they did not have their own independent offices.
Schiller was able to have his own independent office mainly because his shredder was so subjective. If the shredder was not kept alone in a room, the academic achievements of other professors and the professor himself would be in danger.
But in fact, Schiller's so-called independent office was not very big. Due to the poor construction quality, mold began to grow in the corners not long after moving there.
Now they all have independent offices in the new academic building, and for communication purposes, they chose three adjacent ones.
The tall buildings at the back were the Academic Affairs Building. Their office was on the 16th floor. After going upstairs via the elevator, they discovered that such a big building only had three rooms on one floor, and each office was ridiculously big.
Moreover, the office is not an ordinary flat floor, but a duplex loft. The office area is downstairs and the rest area is upstairs. It is not an ordinary loft loft that can only accommodate one bed, but a real two-story building.
Floors.
Anna and Victor's offices were on both sides of the elevator shaft, and Schiller was opposite them. After he opened the door and walked in, he saw a huge floor-to-ceiling window that could almost overlook the entire New District of Gotham.
The sunshine today is not bad. It seems to be testing the cloud filtering system. It is very bright but not too bright. The modern furniture in the room is sparkling, including the black leather sofa, modern electronic fireplace, built-in TV and gray cabinets.
Then walking to the left is the office area. It still has three walls of bookshelves, a huge desk, and various cabinets. But this time, each desk is equipped with two computers. Obviously they are going to enter the information age.
It’s office time.
There is a small door next to it. When you open the door, you will find a stairwell. Go up the stairwell and the corridor leads to the reception area on the second floor. The entire second floor is covered with carpets. There is also a floor-to-ceiling window in the reception area, and there are
A coffee table and two chairs, behind which is a small kitchen for making tea and coffee.
After opening the door, there is a luxurious bedroom with a comfortable large bed, a custom-made wardrobe, the bay window has been converted into a bookshelf, and gray-brown curtains are hung.
When Schiller walked downstairs again, Victor and Anna had already come in, and they did not hesitate to praise them. Schiller could clearly see that the two of them were a little too excited.
This office has definitely improved a lot compared to before, but to be honest, it's not even one-tenth as luxurious as Greed's office in Marvel's Arkham Sanatorium.
Arrogance seemed to hear Greed whispering in his ear again: "So as long as you let me go up, you can have an office that is much more luxurious than mine. I will make all the money and even take the entire brother."
Tan bought it..."
"It's because you will definitely do this that I won't let you out." Arrogance replied: "I am an adult with normal self-care ability and I can make money by myself."
Maybe he was thinking too loudly, or maybe he accidentally expressed his thoughts. Victor and Anna looked at him as if they were alien creatures, and the two of them ran out of Schiller's office.
Schiller chased them to the door and shouted: "Don't just chat. We have to finish cleaning up today. We will be working here tomorrow. The students' classes cannot be stopped for too long. I will not be able to catch up."
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There were perfunctory answers from the two people outside the door, and Schiller returned to his office. Although it was fully furnished, there was still a lot of dust outside because there was still some decoration outside, so it needed to be cleaned up.
Schiller picked up the phone and called his housekeeper and asked him to come with cleaning tools. Although there were some simple brooms and the like, they were definitely not as efficient as a vacuum cleaner.
Merkel came over quickly and brought a vacuum cleaner and various suction heads, brooms, rags, buckets and other things. Schiller picked up the vacuum cleaner and prepared to work by himself, but was stopped by Merkel.
Already.
"Oh my god, sir, you can't work in this," Merkel said. "Your suit jacket won't last more than a minute before it gets dirty."
"What about wearing a shirt?"
"What I mean is that this place is not big, I can just clean it myself, or you can go back to the manor to rest first and come over tomorrow to make sure it is clean and tidy."
Normally, Schiller would go back directly, but today he looked at Merkel for a long time and then said, "Do you have anything to say?"
Merkel touched her face hesitantly and said: "I can't hide anything from you, sir, that... is..."
"If you have anything to do, just tell me quickly, we still have to work."
"The people in Moscow said I was doing a good job and they wanted to transfer me back to the headquarters."
Schiller was a little stunned. Merkel said: "But I am still a field agent. Maybe I will be transferred back one day. I..."
"I want to say that they actually think you do a good job. What kind of work did you do?"
"Well, as a housekeeper, I'm pretty good, right?"
"But you are not just a butler. Have you provided them with any useful information? Or have you dealt with some difficult target?"
Merkel's lips moved, and Schiller could clearly feel that he wanted to say that the most difficult person to deal with is you, isn't it?
"But you obviously didn't get me."
"Because you don't need me to do it." Merkel spread her hands and said confidently: "With all due respect, sir, you have held back Bruce Wayne and the Wayne Group, the two big killers, for ten years.
You are too busy to care about the Soviet Union. I think Moscow must award you a medal..."
"Okay." Schiller interrupted him helplessly: "When are you leaving? Have you packed everything?"
"I don't need to take anything with me, so I can leave now, but I have to clean this place first, and then..."
"I'll clean it myself, and you can book a flight." Schiller said, then he took his wallet over, gave Merkel this month's salary and said: "After you leave, the manor will be even more helpless."