It's been a week since he established the company. In addition to recruiting staff and setting up the framework, he also moved the stuff from the warehouse he had rented to the office building.
After 'Shield' was on the right track he handed over its management to the newly established IT department.
In addition to the IT department, he has also set up a basic frame for the Legal department and Trading department for future investments.
IT department which is handling the work of 'The Shield' right now is led by a skilled manager John.
John is a middle-aged person, and although he looked a little sloppy, he has experience working on a large number of projects, and he was talent hand-picked by Ray among several talents.
Ronny, the person in charge of the legal department is a young man in his 20s, he has a pair of smart eyes, and although he looks gentle and sunny, his reputation speaks otherwise, Ray took great pains inviting this great Buddha over.
The trading department was handed over to Smith, this person had nothing special, but his executive ability was strong, Ray didn't need some special talent for this department, only an efficient and obedient person.
At this time in a conference room, these 3 HODs were sitting in front of Ray, looking at him.
"I believe you are familiar with the company structure, John's department is already working on the 'Shield'. As for the trading department, Smith you can come and get the list of stocks from me in an hour." Ray spoke
"Ok, Boss" Smith replied.
At this time John spoke, "Sir, there are several companies who want to sign a long-term subscription contract about 'Shield'. Do you have any arrangements?
As soon as Ray claimed 'Shield' under his company, there was quite a stir in the market, there were many companies who wanted to buy the source code of the product, but they were sent away by Ray, just kidding, how could he smash his money printing machine.
Some used underhanded means like hacking or stealing, but since Ray was already prepared these problems were neatly resolved by him.
The means he showed quickly calmed down restless wolves.
Ray thought for a while and said, "You can cooperate with them, but specifics need to be discussed, we don't have our negotiating team yet, make a next week's appointment with these companies."
Turning to Ronny, Ray said, "You should also recruit some personnel, you will be busy next."
Finished, he looked at the three "Anything else?"
"No"×3
Seeing them shaking their heads, he let them go.
...
At this time, he opened his Time Panel and focused on the option he had never used before
[Future: (input amount of time to fast forward or specific date)]
Before he wasn't prepared, so he always delayed the fast-forwarding or reversing time.
Now, having enjoyed the perks of time rule and with proper preparations, he was ready to jump a week into the future.
In addition to observing how the time jump feels, another reason is that he wants to copy next week's stock trends.
No more nonsense, in the 'Future' option of the time panel he input 7 days time durations.
As soon as he added the amount of time, he wanted to travel into the future, without any warning he saw a huge amount of pictures flash in front of his eyes.
If you want to describe it, it's like, you drag a video progress bar instead of letting the video play naturally, the screen will display a sequence of frames that update rapidly as you move the slider.
The images may appear choppy, skipping several frames, giving it a stuttering or jerky effect. It looks like a time-lapse.
Except for that nothing happened, yes nothing. He didn't appear in some different place nor he had any adverse reaction.
After thinking about it he figured it was due to the trait 'Unique' that the Time rule had granted him, he is the only one on the timeline. He has no past and no future, so whichever time he travels to will become his present.
Figuring this out he let the matter go, instead, he tried to recall the pictures that flashed through his eyes when he time-traveled.
His memory right now can be described as photographic, so even if something flashes before his eyes, as long as he sees it, he can remember it.
But this time he was astonished, although these pictures were in his mind, as soon as he tried to focus on them, his 'Will' sent him warnings, it was like his 'Will' was telling him not to do it or it would collapse.
He didn't know what was in these pictures so his 'Will' had such an intense reaction, but anyway whatever it was he wasn't qualified to view it yet.
Restraining his curiosity, he looked around his office, except for some documents and decorations, everything was the same as it had been a week ago.
Checking the date on his phone, it showed that a week had passed, but for Ray, it was only a flash.
At this time there was a knock on the door.
"Come in"
"Great boss you are finally here, you didn't appear for a whole week, we thought someone had kidnapped you for Shield's source code" came John's half-joking voice.
Hearing these words, Ray was stunned, it turns out that when he jumps into the future or past, he will disappear in the present.
The door opened and John appeared in the same dress he had worn a week ago, for a moment Ray thought John had traveled through time with him.
Throwing away these messy thoughts, he spoke to John.
"John, I wasn't kidnapped, I was just sorting some private matter, well, what is it?"
"Boss, have you forgotten we had an appointment with some companies regarding subscription to Shield?"
"Um, no I remember it, when will they come?"
"Well, we have 3 hours" Looking at his watch John replied.
"Ok, when they arrive, notify me"
"Boss then you are busy, I will be back in 3 hours," John said.
Looking at John's back, Ray shook his head, he would not be here in 3 hours, this time he came to check up on Stock Trends he would travel back when he was done.