Manhattan Reborn 1978

noon.

In the hotel where Forrest Gump stayed.

Elena walked out of the hotel door.

She took out her glasses from her small bag, put them on, and walked to a car not far away.

Jacksonville.

Elena Mesa hasn't been to this place yet.

It seems that we need to prepare some necessary equipment.

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David woke up to the sound of a horn coming from downstairs.

He sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, squinting his eyes to adjust to the sunlight coming in from the window, and looked at his watch.

11:53

Ok.

This sleep, except for being a little thirsty in the middle and getting up to look for water, I slept very well.

David squeaked at his dry mouth, and a sour and bitter taste caused the saliva in his mouth to secrete rapidly.

After swallowing, he straightened his clothes, walked to the bathroom, and started washing up.

10 minute later.

David arranged his hair in front of the mirror and said, "Well... I've never seen a more handsome guy than you! Haha~"

After finishing everything, he walked out of the bathroom, opened the door to the apartment, and checked what he needed to bring when going out.

Just when he was about to close the door, he suddenly felt that something was wrong today. . .

Not right!

What's wrong?

David closed the door and stood at the door and thought seriously.

Then he came to the mirror and looked at himself in the mirror.

I don't know if there is a reason for the system's charm bonus. When David looked at the handsome face in the mirror, he couldn't help but want to give his face a thumbs up. .

fxxx!

really!

The inexplicable narcissism just now was not without reason.

It really seemed like he should be. . .Become handsome! ? ?

David's attention has not been on appearance during this period of time, and he did not expect such a change to happen to him.

David hurriedly rummaged through the room and found several photos of him and Ruby taken more than half a year ago.

He held the photo and stood in front of the mirror, looking at his face and comparing it with the photo.

The outline of the lake blue eyes is slightly larger, the corners of the eyes are slightly higher, and the bridge of the nose between the eyes is slightly higher.

These small changes in his face may not be easily noticed by those who often see him.

But. .

It is undeniable that he has indeed become more handsome because of these changes!

Overall, his face became more three-dimensional and more defined. .Looks like a little fresh meat. .

this. . .

He looked at the gold ring and watch he was wearing.

Could it be said that this is a qualitative change caused by quantitative changes after the charm increases?

Guessing and hesitating in his mind, he opened the system panel that he didn't pay much attention to.

System user: David Coleman (David Jiang)

Age: 21 years old

Physical condition: good

skill:

Bartending: LV.2 (entry level)

Skilled cleaner: LV.3 (faster when doing cleaning work)

Proficient languages: Chinese, English, Italian

Points: 213 points

Achievement points: 0 points

Points Lottery (Available)

Charisma: 4 (try to communicate with people more, the more friends you have, the stronger your charm will be)

Branch skills:

Persuader (passive): When communicating with others, if you have already gained initial recognition from others.When you are sincere and try to persuade others to agree with you, your views, opinions, and suggestions are more likely to be accepted and adopted. (This skill is affected by the charm attribute, and each point increases the success rate by 10%)

skill:

Exploration (active): The host can consume points to activate skills to understand a target's favorability towards the host.Each exploration costs 10 points.

Note: In some special circumstances, probing may not detect favorability.

thing:

Charlie's watch (Charisma +1)

Jerry's Ring: (Charm +2)

David looked at the above data carefully and found that nothing else had changed.

Only the points have reached 213 points, and the points lottery also shows that they are available.

So. .

give it a try?

He has his sights set on the points draw.

The system panel began to become blurry and became the background.

Only a clear line of small text reminder appeared in front of David's eyes.

Do you want to spend 200 points to start the lottery? (Random rewards available)

He gritted his teeth and made a choice on the panel.

Yes!

A burst of psychedelic colors flashed across the panel.

About two seconds later, a line of text appeared in front of David.

You have received the reward: Center (Charm branch passive skill)

Center (passive): When you actively stand up, attract others' attention, and lead the topic, you will become the center of everyone's attention.Your views, suggestions, and opinions will make everyone who follows you listen and think carefully. (This skill is a charm branch skill and can be superimposed with other skills to produce unexpected effects.)

David looked at another charm branch skill obtained by consuming 200 points.

The dog system is still the same.

He scanned the panel again speechlessly, and the points became 13 points.

Well, back to the pauper days.

Points lottery?

This is a deceptive thing! ?

Okay, David turned off the damn system and pointed in the mirror: "You fucking guy, you're so handsome!"

In any case, David was very satisfied with the changes visible to the naked eye.

Women want to be beautiful, and men want to be rich and attractive.

money.

It can make you more confident and confident in front of girls.

As for, he has a handsome face. .

money?What the hell is that?

Some narcissistic people looked at themselves in the mirror for a while.

David walked out of his apartment, went downstairs to Black Mike's apartment, and opened the door.

"Black Mike, are you there? I have to go... What are you doing?... Where are you maintaining your firearms?"

In the room, Black Mike was playing with various weapons.

Black Mike reassembled a pistol in his hand, saw him coming in, and smiled at him: "Of course, man, we depend on these for a living."

"You were really drunk last night. Do you remember how you came back?"

David scratched his head. He was so fragmented that he could still remember the events that followed.

However, he still didn't want to recall the scene when he faced the little beauty Milan. . .

So embarrassing. . .

Black Mike smiled and took out a check from under the table in front of him.

"This is what Ludy asked me to pass on to you."

David took it and saw it was a check for ten thousand dollars.

He whistled and said with a smile: "Brother, remember it for me. When I have money in my account, I will return the money to Ludy."

Black Mike looked at him with some disdain and tightened the bullet in the magazine in his hand.

"You didn't even remember to pay him back, and you asked me to remember it for you? Tsk~"

"that.."

David touched his nose. He now had more debts than he needed to worry about. .

"Okay, have you done it? Let's go around the company first, and then go to Harvey's place to have a look."

"ok~!"

Black Mike quickly started cleaning up.

Two 10 minutes later.

David and Black Mike each held a box of pizza in their hands and walked into the small company building.

Several security guards downstairs saw the two of them and greeted them with a smile.

They were all comrades recruited by Black Mike, and they chose to work as security guards in the company. This was a leisurely job and the pay was good. They, who wanted to settle down in New York, were very satisfied with this job.

When the two of them passed by the third and fourth floors, they saw many people busy packing boxes and documents, as if they were about to move.

David glanced at Black Mike.

Black Mike took a bite of pizza and said he didn't know any of this.

Fifth floor.

David saw that there was no one in Polly's office and the door was closed, so he turned to Andy's office.

Here in Andy's office, Ben Likert was chatting with him about angel investment companies when he saw David pushing open the door and walking in.

"Wow~ You brat, you still know how to come to the company? I heard that you were confessed to by a little beauty last night?"

David rolled his eyes and sat next to Likert: "Let's talk about things in the company. I don't want to see that little girl again... fxxx!"

"Haha~"

Andy and Likert both heard about David's embarrassing things last night, and they were very happy to laugh at him.

Likert took a stack of documents from the desk, handed it to David and said, "You're here just in time. Sign them all. Our angel company is almost ready."

"Oh? So soon?"

David took the pen from Likert, scanned several documents briefly, turned directly to the last page, and signed his name under Likert's guidance.

Andy looked at David's cheerfulness and raised his eyebrows.

"Why don't you read the document in detail and then sign it?"

David smiled and put down his pen: "Will you still sell me?"

"Sell it... It's not like that, but I think you should take a look at some of the details in this document."

David waved his hand: "Since we have already discussed this in a meeting, I won't read it. Is Ben Whitcott here today? Has he come to see you, Andy?"

"He is much more reliable than you!"

"He came to the company this morning to contact the two universities. Princeton University has promised to send people to our company in the next few days to discuss cooperation and sign an agreement."

"Likert, is there any news from the Nash couple? Has Ben contacted them?"

"We have been contacted. They are preparing to move to New York. I have found a place for them in Queens and sent someone to deliver the keys to them."

"When Alicia and I talked on the phone, she said that students from MIT will come to New York at the end of the month. By then, she should be able to settle things at home and be responsible for accepting these students who come to New York."

"What about the office location of the project research center? Is there any arrangement?"

Likert nodded with a smile and took out a lease contract from his pocket: "Look, our angel investment company's office is in Stanley's building, and the research center has chosen a small building over there in Queens. , it’s very close to Alicia’s home, just a few minutes’ drive away.”

"This also makes it easier for her to take care of Professor Nash and the children."

David looked at the contract in his hand and nodded.

Likert's arrangement of these things is very beautiful. Now it seems that it was a wise choice to find him as a plot character to join the company.

"Is there any news from Columbia University? Have they agreed to our intention to cooperate?"

"As for Columbia... they seem to have some other ideas about cooperating with us to establish a biological and medical research center."

David frowned, thinking that he had a good chat with Vice Principal Ferry Cripps that day, but wondered how he would communicate with the school board after he returned.

"Well, if they put forward any conditions, Andy, you can call me then, or ask Vice Principal Cripps to come and talk to me directly."

Likert picked up another document from his desk: "I came here today to talk to Andy about our angel investment company's receiving investment funds. Take a look at this list. There are already more than a dozen investors. Investors with investment intentions have signed an investment letter of intent with us.”

"That is to say, we are ready now. As long as you nod here, we can tell these people to transfer money to the account of our angel investment company."

David looked at the list in his hand and said with some surprise: "They really have confidence in us! This Philip, is he planning to invest in both the lighter project and the car alarm project? Also, who are these people? You The investors you brought in?"

Likert looked at the names on David's finger and nodded with a smile: "After they received the project news from our angel investment company, they contacted me and wanted to invest in them."

"Have you already prepared the investment contract? Is it okay?"

"Of course, because of this contract, George found his boss at the original law firm and helped him read it carefully. Everything is fine."

"Okay, then you will be in charge of these things. Don't forget to inform Alicia. She will be very happy when she knows the news."

Likert smiled and nodded, of course Alicia would be happy!

To be more precise, this money is invested in the project research and development center to make their final products.

The difficulty of their research and development and production is probably not as complicated as dismantling a TV in the eyes of those MIT college students.

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at this time.

Stanley Building, inside Pine's office.

What Pine didn't expect was that Lewis didn't call him at all today, but directly brought a box of project documents brought out from Salomon Company as a gift for the two of them meeting today.

Now, he was looking through the documents brought by Lewis. Some of them contained detailed settings and reference data for home loan securitization, which would be of great help to Pine in his future work. .

In this pile of documents, Pine found the review materials submitted to the rating agency.

He frowned and looked at Lewis, who was sitting across the desk and drinking coffee: "It... may cause you some trouble. In fact, after we have the documents you brought, we don't need this The information has been submitted for review, please take it back and pretend I didn’t see it.”

Lewis put down the coffee cup and did not accept the review document: "Don't get me wrong, I brought them out in front of John Gutfreund."

"We all know there are no secrets on Wall Street."

"After this document was submitted for review, it may have been copied by some thoughtful people and placed on the desks of many important people."

"So, you don't have to worry about this."

Pine looked at Lewis seriously, nodded, and no longer dwelled on this matter.

Of course he understood what Lewis said.

However, on Wall Street, Lewis's move at Salomon today may bring some unknown hidden dangers to his continued work and development at Stanley in the future.

"Okay, then I will find someone to give this document to Gufran in my name."

Lewis crossed his arms, stroked his glasses, and looked at Pine: "Are you firing the starting gun at Gufran?"

"Starting gun?"

"Haha!~"

"It started when you came out of Salomon Company, didn't it?"

Lewis was silent for a moment.

"That's right! From now on, it depends on who can lead the others on this street and eat a big piece of cake!"

Pine smiled, adjusted his suit, stood up, and extended his right hand to Lewis: "Lewis, welcome to join us! Believe me, I made the right choice!"

Lewis also stood up, and I took Pine's hand: "It's us joining in! I believe we must be the fastest ones!"

The two clasped hands opened a new page in history.

Maybe, in 30 years, someone will trace everything that happened on Wall Street today.

I wonder how they will judge Lewis Ranieri’s decision?