While the Hongqi worked well and revitalized itself under Ling Qingyu's reforms and plans. The noodles company, which was under police investigation and became frozen, also resumed business.
Under the teamwork of Yang Qingyue and Ling Qingyu, the shareholders quickly sold their belongings as soon as the opportunity arose.
Given the circumstances, there weren't many buyers and Ling Qingyu's offer, despite cutting prices, met their expectations.
Soon, the entire company was under her hand. Because Ling Qingyu wasn't familiar with internal affairs other than management, public relations, and finances, she asked for Wang Xiuying's trio's help.
The three girls despite having little experience were extremely familiar from the bottom level to the top level. Although they had little ability in the executive position, Ling Qingyu still asked them to do the job.
Under Zhao Xiurong's teaching these few days, plus her personal guidance, Wang Xiuying's trio studied everything like a rolling snowball, sucking in new experiences and lessons.
Of course, Ling Qingyu remembered the company was filled with holes and filths. She had requested the three girls to solve those issues by any means necessary. She wanted to see how the girls solved the issues and already provided the guards so that violent confrontations could be tackled.
The girls didn't disappoint her expectations. Within 3 days of their entry, and with the help of law enforcement, which Ling Qingyu asked for, anyone doing illegal was arrested, especially the common perpetrators who exploited the workers, like forcing over the female staff.
The tragedy that occurred to Wang Xiuying wasn't the first time they committed crimes. There were also serious ones. If no one looked into it, it seemed normal. But once the police and Wang Xiuying looked deeper, they uncovered many missing people. Some might be trafficked while others might be beneath the ground.
The case became so serious that Yang Qingyue took over, personally establishing a special task force for a serious crime investigation.
Ling Qingyu had headaches, listening to Wang Xiuying's reports. She didn't anticipate such seriousness but luckily, the business continued as usual. Because the reputation already stunk, Ling Qingyu changed the name to Spirit Food Corporation.
Although the business was as usual, consumer's rate were still low but Ling Qingyu didn't mind as long as the company never made a loss.
Ling Qingyu's plan was to combine the current company with other agriculture products under her hands in the future. So, for now, it didn't matter even if the company suffered a loss in revenue because her daily earnings could save them.
Athena's software and gaming enterprise had a peak in demand too. More and more gamers had given positive reviews and the players' number reached 1 million and the number was still increasing. There wasn't a momentum to stop. It wouldn't be long for a month before a hundred million.
In fact, Athena, with Ling Qingyu's permission, attacked mercilessly against the unethical hackers, criminals freely roaming around in the network, helpless by the authorities, uncovering their identities and transferring them to the relevant authorities.
During these times, many hackers were arrested and judged, while others had to work for the government under certain conditions.
Although fair trials for the people who suffered didn't happen most of the time, at least, many were under control.
Athena's name and Spirit Electronics had become an untouchable dragon reverse scale for the hackers.
Luckily, even if they investigated, they couldn't find the real owner except for the name, Athena. Many parties had a keen interest in an individual.
Who was Athena? Was it a woman or a man? Where?
The mystery increased Athena's reputation. The internet world looked forward to what Athena would bring next.
First, the games which met everyone's expectations. Then, the mobile system software, with Athena's brand name, increased trust for their privacy and security.
Her attacks against many hackers without suffering losses, persuaded those who were worried about their privacy to install her product.
Without the need for advertisement, Athena did her work perfectly. Even Ling Qingyu envied her cheap daughter's ability.
To be honest, she knew most of her daughter's strength wasn't used at all. Ling Qingyu began to imagine what if Athena used her full potential.
Maybe she wasn't scared of her becoming the future Skynet. But the world still had fears over the AI losing control and taking over humanity.
The truth was this world wasn't ready for Athena's existence yet. Perhaps, only after a couple of centuries, would they learn to accept and integrate. Or, if Ling Qingyu started another industrial-like revolution, the process would be faster.
These were too far for the moment. Ling Qingyu would slowly experience her daughter's full potential by herself first before releasing to the world.
Who knew in the future, products like VR depicted in the movies would become a reality under Athena's hand.