"Aunt Su! You..."

Seeing Li Renshu, Su Xiuqin smiled somewhat helplessly, "The company's cash flow is about to collapse, right?"

Li Renshu hurriedly stepped forward to stop her, "Whether or not the company's cash flow can hold out, you can't use this method, it's too risky!"

"At minus 40 degrees, even just for 1 minute, it might cause irreversible damage to the body!

"Right now, the community's medical facilities can only handle simple injuries; it's very hard to deal with frostbite and respiratory freezing injuries.

"Moreover, you're older and a woman, which makes it even more dangerous!"

Su Xiuqin patted her hand, "Whether it's risky or not, although I've never done business, I know one thing: When you're desperate for money, do you expect others to give you a loan with normal interest rates?

"I can't help you much in this game, but since I'm the boss, isn't this what I'm supposed to do?

"Let me go in. I can't always be your burden; I have to do something to help you.

"Twenty thousand isn't much, but if there's no major harm, I can rest for a while and go inside a few more times, isn't that more?

"I'll go try; what if it's not that cold?

"Alright, I've made up my mind, don't worry about me."

Li Renshu was silent for a moment, and then stopped her again.

"Alright, Aunt Su, wait here for a moment."

Li Renshu quickly left the CEO's office, calling after Fu Chen and Xu Tong, who were just about to leave for market research.

"Give me your clothes, hurry!"

Fu Chen paused for a moment, "Take off our clothes? Aunt Su she..."

Li Renshu frowned, "Quickly, there's no time!"

Without another word, Fu Chen took off his coat, shirt, and vest, and after thinking for a moment, also took off his trousers.

He hugged himself, left with nothing but boxer shorts.

"Ah, if only I'd bought more clothes from the vending machine before entering the game..."

The community's vending machines sell all kinds of clothes, but as the temperature in the community is always comfortable, most people just wear simple light jackets or shirts.

Xu Tong also took off her coat and handed it to Li Renshu, but the long dress underneath couldn't be taken off, and the fabric wasn't thick enough to offer much warmth.

Li Renshu took the coat and quickly returned to the CEO's office.

Fu Chen opened his mouth but said nothing in the end, heading off to the market research site with Xu Tong.

"Achoo!"

Fu Chen shivered and sneezed.

...

Li Renshu also took off her own coat, wrapping the layers of clothing snugly around Su Xiuqin.

Then after thinking it over, she used Fu Chen's trousers as a scarf to cover Su Xiuqin's mouth and nose.

"Aunt Su, the minus forty-degree air might freeze your respiratory tract, be sure to cover your mouth and nose well, and breathe slowly.

"Also... after 1 minute, you must come out immediately, don't think you can endure longer.

"Remember, you must come out after 1 minute!"

Su Xiuqin patted her hand, "I know, I've been through a lot in my life, it's not like I haven't been cold before.

"I have a good sense of it."

She adjusted the oversized coat from Fu Chen, making herself more hunched over, then pulled open the cold storage door and walked inside.

"Clang!"

The cold storage door closed automatically, and Li Renshu, unable to help, could only anxiously watch the time pass.

...

As the cold storage door shut, the bone-chilling cold engulfed Su Xiuqin from all sides, seeping into the cracks of her clothing.

It felt like steel needles piercing through every bone in her body.

With a thick enough down jacket, standing in such cold for 1 minute might not be harmful, but with what Su Xiuqin wore, it was hardly effective against the cold.

The cold storage was small, with a conspicuous button directly opposite and a red timer constantly ticking.

Only after at least 1 minute would this button activate, pressing which would reopen the cold storage door.

Su Xiuqin kept exhaling white breath, stamping her feet slightly, but still felt no warmth.

...

"Click."

The cold storage door opened a crack, then slowly opened wide.

Only then did Li Renshu realize that the long 1 minute had finally passed; she rushed forward to catch Su Xiuqin as she staggered out of the cold storage.

"Aunt Su, are you alright?"

Su Xiuqin's lips had turned blue, her eyebrows frosted over, but she smiled and shook her head, "I'm fine, see, I'm alright."

Li Renshu felt like she was holding an ice block, but she still pulled her closer, "Alright, Aunt Su, just once is enough, once is enough...

"At worst, we'll lose, even if we exhaust our visa time, it's okay, our community still has interest-free loans.

"In the next game, let Lawyer Lin and Officer Cao join you, they'll surely earn it back for you...

"Aunt Su, I'm going to submit the proposal now, can you... let that employee with lung cancer go?"

Su Xiuqin was silent for a long time without agreeing directly, "Can you let Xiaoxu come in?

"There are things I want to say to her personally."

Li Renshu said nothing more, only hugged Su Xiuqin tightly, then got up and left the CEO's office.

...

As per the schedule, it was now the turn of the 17th Limited Company to complete the market research, bringing back 50,000 minutes of visa time.

Fu Chen sneezed and asked, "How's Aunt Su?"

Li Renshu had a grave expression, "Aunt Su's alright.

"Xu Tong, Aunt Su said she has something to tell you. Go and take care of Aunt Su in the CEO's office and don't let her go back into the cold storage."

Xu Tong hurried to the CEO's office.

Li Renshu glanced again at the company's panel.

[17th Limited Company]

[August Company Account Balance: 133,000 minutes of visa time]

[September Estimated Income: -20,000 minutes of visa time]

[September Estimated Expenditure: 87,200 minutes of visa time]

...

Inside the CEO's office, Xu Tong tightly wrapped Su Xiuqin in the clothes.

"Aunt Su, about the injured employee..."

Xu Tong wanted to say more, but Su Xiuqin interrupted her first.

"Alright, Xiaoxu, I know what you want to say.

"But can you listen to me first? During the time I've known you, it feels like you've all been taking care of me, and I haven't gotten to tell you what's truly in my heart."

Xu Tong, a bit anxious, said, "Aunt Su, we can talk about all this when we get back to the community, but right now the urgent matter is..."

Su Xiuqin shook her head, "No, you have to listen to me, this is important."

Xu Tong could only nod, "Okay, Aunt Su, go ahead, I'm listening..."

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