Chapter 484 Don’t Bark

Using the melodious hymns sung by the nuns as background music, the prefrontal cortex softly explained to Russell the whole story of the "werewolf" incident:

"At the very beginning, the marketing director of Tianen Group's Sogo Island branch received a blackmail letter..."

Mr. Director, codenamed "Bubark", is a middle-aged man with a gray wolf as his spiritual relative.

As a branch executive, he was also sent from Happy Island. Unlike the fiercely competitive headquarters, the competition in the branch is much looser... After all, there is only one elf director at the top of the branch who has absolute control. Although there are so-called "executive directors", they are essentially the same as employed store managers and do not have any real power.

In other words, after he reaches this level, there is no room for promotion. And as long as he doesn't make any big mistakes, he will definitely not be dismissed - after all, it is still quite troublesome to transfer people from the headquarters to take over the work.

——Can't go up, can't come down, can't go back.

It's stuck here.

So he gave up and completely stayed on Chongguang Island, where he settled down to start a family and start a business.

Mr. No Bark was very young when he was sent here, only twenty-eight years old. And now he is forty-two years old. He usually takes care of his wife and daughter with peace of mind, no longer cares about the company's affairs, and has become very kind. His neighbors all think that Mr. "No Bark" is a very polite, educated, and gentle man.

Just three months ago, Bu Ya received a threatening letter.

——The content of the letter requires him to terminate payment for various entertainment products.

According to the definition of "branch" governance, the branches of each island have the right to manage the affairs monopolized by the headquarters and give priority to business in each island. Just like Ampoule Biomedical can acquire other hospitals and poach other medical scientists and pharmacologists on Happy Island without being stopped by Tianen Group.

The unique technology of Tianen Group is memory review and editing technology, which also includes the editing and production of various transcendent reality chips. But their main business is news media and cultural entertainment...including news, newspapers, TV stations, advertising, TV series, variety shows, movies, animations, games, novels, and VR transcendence. Basically, it can be said that all types of entertainment that can be experienced on the Internet fall under the jurisdiction of Tianen Group and its branches.

On the social level of Sogo Island, there is a tendency to resist this kind of entertainment. But because of this, fewer means of entertainment will lead to more loyal users... which means that their business competition pressure will be reduced.

Because the residents of Sogo Island have no choice. You have to buy the things released by the branch of Tianen Group, no matter how expensive they are.

The most iconic one is the "program fee". Except for the six "free programs" designated by Tianen Group, all remaining programs will be charged based on the viewing time. Moreover, this kind of deduction is just like the electricity bill. There is no reminder at all when using it. It will be automatically settled and deducted at the end of the month.

Because the mainstream view on Sogo Island is that these entertainments will corrupt people. Therefore, even if the Tianen Group branch uses an obviously unreasonable charging system, there is no large-scale opposition - it can even be said that opposing this charging system itself means that oneself is a "lazy person" who enjoys this kind of entertainment. ”, or a “jealous person” who wishes others to fall. And such people will be alienated by others on social media and in real life... because just by being close to them, agreeing with them, and supporting them, they may be considered by others as "the same kind of self-destruction."

Therefore, although there are always objections, these voices have never been able to gather together.

It can be said that these true entertainment lovers have a hard time.

However, the loneliness of being alienated from society and the anguish of having to pay a lot of money to enjoy the things you like are accumulating over time... they never disappear.

"Buyao" believes that this incident is likely to come from the revenge of such people. So he reported the matter to the branch office and the three sages of Sogo Island, and then let it go in his mind.

But two months ago, a gangster wearing a jackal hood bypassed the dense protective equipment and broke into his home when he was not at home. He also kidnapped and tied up his wife and daughters. After inserting blocking chips into their interfaces, they were tied up, locked up in the bathroom, and the shower heads were turned on.

When Bu Ba returned home, he subconsciously thought that his wife and daughter were taking a bath. So even if he heard some sounds, he didn't pay attention.

And when he felt that the bathing time was too long and went to the bathroom to check... he was attacked and knocked unconscious the moment he opened the door. Afterwards, his wife and daughter saw the "masked wolf-headed man" taking Bu Ya away.

When he was doing this, he didn't have time to insert a chip that could block the signal immediately. Therefore, the moment Buye suffered a heavy blow to his head, Ampoule Biomedical's "Special Member Emergency Treatment Team" was dispatched immediately. They took a helicopter and arrived at Bubai's home within three minutes. Unfortunately, they did not find Mr. Bubai and the gangsters. Instead, they saw Bubai's wife and daughter tied up in the bathroom.

There are no cameras at all in Bubai's home, which is what these middle- and high-level people have in common. They place too much trust in the city and crime warnings that are completely monitored by the Three Sages, and they will more or less do some less than legal things. Therefore, no monitoring equipment capable of being controlled by the Three Sages will be placed in any location where these actions may be carried out.

The surveillance camera outside the house found nothing. During the whole process, no criminals were seen entering, nor were they seen leaving.

Soon, Sogo Group’s execution department arrived at the scene. But after they conducted an extremely thorough search for evidence, they found nothing.

Except for the footprints, the criminal's hands were clearly exposed, but he left no fingerprints and not even any skin flakes. Therefore, the enforcement department once suspected that the gangster might be a "servant". At least there should be a synthetic skin on the outside of his skin.

But even if their own marketing director was kidnapped, there was still no movement from the Tianen Group branch.

They easily suppressed the "threatening letter" and did not broadcast news related to this time at all. But soon, rumors about this matter suddenly began to spread among the crowd... When the three sages examined the source of the rumors, they found that it was an ordinary high school student. And he himself has no memory of this incident at all.

Afterwards, the gangster placed a ransom-demanding letter next to his wife's bedside in the middle of the night. The female bodyguard who was in the same room had no memory of this at all - she swore that she had never seen anyone in the room. But Sogo Island did not allow memory review, so she had to be removed.

The gangsters demanded ransom in the form of "gold bars" and asked them to deposit them at a designated location. Bu Bi's wife immediately notified Sogo Group's executive department.

Executives mounted a tight surveillance campaign—this time with a large number of personnel, not just cameras, monitoring the ransom and the surrounding area. But in the end, the letter said that the time for paying the ransom had passed, but no one came to collect it.

At that time, the executive department of Sogo Group believed that there was an insider among them who leaked the information.

So they took the opportunity to conduct an internal cleaning...

With a large number of people unemployed and imprisoned in the executive department, the news could no longer be suppressed.

Sogo Group conveniently passed the blame and asked the branch of Tianen Group to report the incident. They also accused the incident of being entirely caused by their overpriced entertainment programs.

Sogo Island is ruled by the Sogo Group. Among the twelve elf directors and twelve human directors, six elf directors and twelve human directors are from the Sogo Group - the remaining six elf directors are from other countries. The Big Six, and the chaos caused by this incident made everyone feel troubled.

So it was a rare, overwhelming vote of one to twenty-three.

In the end, the branch of Tianen Group had no choice but to announce the news and actually lowered the prices of most of the entertainment programs.

And the day after they lowered their pricing…

——Not barking, but suddenly returning to his home safely with the interference chip removed.