Chapter VI The Debate on Choice
Before going to that company, we actually had the answer in our hearts. Shi Hao has helped us confirm that there are indeed other branches of this company in the buildings around other similar bombing sites. It seemed that my hunch was confirmed at this point, and I glanced at Li Jing, who nodded at me.
"This company is headquartered in City C?" I asked Li Jing.
Li Jing shook his head: "No, this is the head office of the southwest branch of this company, and he also has other large companies in North China, South China, Northeast China, and Hainan. Now the evidence shows that it is the same as what you said, if the suspect is targeting this company, it should be noted that this company has set up companies in various cities, although it is good to take preventive measures, but we have not speculated the time, just strengthening the guard is not a long-term solution, after all, we are now suddenly adding hydrogen defense, which is undoubtedly startling the snake, and it is likely to make the suspect flee when he hears the news, and he is not committing the crime in the near future, which is not of much help to solve the case. β
"So?"
Li Jing glanced at me: "We need to know the reason why the bomber caused the explosion, and the police also said yesterday that this company is shockingly stingy, and the employees who died were not compensated after the bombing, I think something must have happened before that angered the bomber." And yesterday we also saw that one of the people involved in the bombing was an employee who left the company, and it is safe to speculate that it is likely that other bombings were also involved in the departing employee. β
I thought for a moment before answering, "It can't be just an employee fired by this company, right?" β
Li Jing shook his head: "I don't have an answer yet, it may be all the employees, we have to ask if there was any accident in this company before the first explosion." β
"Like a massive dismissal?" I guessed a little.
"No, it won't." Li Jing disagreed with my speculation, "The retaliation against this company that broke out in such a hungry place is definitely not caused by dismissal." Explosions are the main means of terrorist activities. This kind of retaliation with the nature of terrorist activities is by no means simply a matter of dismissal, because of the reprisals carried out by the dismissal of the person in retaliation, such as threats of reprisals, demonstrations, and at most kidnappings, personal injuries against individuals, and other retaliatory incidents. It doesn't hurt the rest of the company, after all, their purpose is only to pay compensation, or just to vent their anger. But the bombing is different, it is indistinguishable, that is, hatred for the company as a whole, and what can arouse the anger of most people, in addition to being fired, there is also a possibility that it is related to some kind of accident. β
"Is there any headquarters for this company in the place where they bombed?" I suddenly realized the problem.
Li Jing glanced at the list sent to him by Shi Hao and pouted, but said as if he had guessed what I was thinking: "If they guess what we have discovered, they will not directly attack the headquarters, the headquarters has the strictest security measures and is the easiest to find." And this gang of bombing suspects will not blow up the company directly, but blow him up = the public facilities around this company, causing even more panic. In order to continue to spread this panic, they may choose to create multiple explosions around those small companies, and then wait for us to find out the cause, and then through our investigation, we will transfer the cause of the panic to the company, so as to 'kill people with a knife'. β
"It's insidious." I subconsciously had a bad impression of that company, "But it must have been that this company must have done something bad to cause public anger." β
Li Jing's expression looked a little helpless: "It's not tender to spoof it, most people will think that if it's just one person expressing dissatisfaction, then try one person's mistake, if many people express dissatisfaction, the public will be sympathetic and think that it is excusable." This is the prejudice of the masses - the sympathy for the weak with the crowd. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with sympathizing with the weak, but when we go with the flow, we choose to ignore the truth of the matter. It is true that there is a reason for the revenge of these victims, and this is by no means to attribute their actions solely to the harm they have suffered, and when you forgive him for his actions because he is the so-called 'weakling', you are actually acquiescing to his extreme interests as right, then you are acquiescing to the fact that the sins they have committed are correct, and this thinking is a violation of justice. Mistakes can be corrected, but the damage cannot be repaired, when you feel that the sins they have committed are excusable, have you ever thought about who the innocent victims should turn to to help their injuries, let alone those innocent people who were killed because of the justice that these so-called 'weakling' are serving, and who is responsible for their lives. β
After a pause, Li Jing said again: "Xiaozhi, being hurt is not a reason to harm others. When the masses sympathize with their actions once, they have a reason to retaliate against the society a second and more times. Whether it is a person or a group of people, what they do has caused harm to the world, then this behavior is wrong, do not make any excuses, their behavior is no different from those who have caused harm to them. They're sinning. β
"But what about that company? So what they did was right? "I know I'm competing, but I don't know why I'm so obsessed with it.
Li Jing rubbed his temples: "These are two separate things, I don't deny that these people have been hurt, but they can choose a better way to solve their difficulties than revenge." β
"What if they don't have a choice? Do you mean to silently endure the humiliation you have suffered and die in agony? If that's the case, I think even if you only have one chance, you should try to get what is rightfully yours. I looked into Li Jing's eyes.
"Is harming others their only option? Does this only make things worse? Have you ever thought that they hurt innocent people who didn't hurt them at all, what's wrong with innocent people? Sacrificing others for their own benefit? It's not like there's no choice, it's called selfishness. "This kind of extreme behavior will only expand the contradiction between the two to a more complex social contradiction, so that more innocent people who have nothing to do with the incident will feel threatened or unjustly existed, thus arousing widespread hatred and a more terrifying desire for revenge." Hurting each other will not disappear because of hatred, but will evolve more and more. The choice made on the premise of harming people's lives is simply the most selfish choice, right? β
Li Jing's words were like a slap in the face, which made me feel mixed feelings, and I closed my mouth and didn't speak.
Li Jing took out a tissue to help me wipe my cheeks, and I realized that I was crying, and I hated to let others see such a loss of two, so I grabbed the tissue and wiped my face indiscriminately.
"People always work hard to get what they want, but they deviate from their original purpose and become annoying behavior, causing irreparable consequences. Even if his original purpose was good, when he used despicability to achieve his goal, he had deviated from his original desire, and things became complicated and evil. The Yan sΓΉ in Li Jing's eyes had receded, and he just looked at me gently, as if he was reasoning.
I nodded, silently wiping away my tears.
After tidying up, we went straight into the office building. There is only one company in this office building, called Mulan Machinery Manufacturing Company, which mainly provides parts manufacturing services for various industrial finished products, such as this company in City C, which is mainly engaged in manufacturing motors in household appliances. We walked into the reception office of the office building, and because we were greeted in advance by the police station of City C, we were greeted by the PR director here, with a kind of slippery feel from the beginning. He is also somewhat evasive about our problems, always diverting the topic, but always talking about cooperating with our work on the surface.
Li Jing asked him if this company had any accidents before, and the man opposite rolled his eyes quietly, as if he suddenly realized that someone was indeed killed in the explosion a few months ago, but it had nothing to do with their company at all, it was the employee who went out to eat without permission and led it, which is a force majeure factor and a natural disaster**, even if they want to take responsibility, they can't bear it, after all, it was an explosion that occurred in the company's unexpected place. Although he felt very sad about the employees who were suffering, there was really nothing he could do, after all, it was not what happened in the company, and no one could do anything. And because of this, the company has now set up a staff canteen for employees to avoid this kind of thing.
I sneered, Li Jing tapped my arm lightly, and he said expressionlessly: "In addition to this incident, there should have been other things happening in a manufacturing company like your company, and I mean the accident that should be the responsibility of your company." You should take the officialdom of zero accidents, and think about it, since the police are involved in the investigation, it should be more than just that accident. Have you forgotten something about us? β
The man on the other side gave us an uncertain look, still a little resistant, saying that these things are impossible not to happen in any company, but if you hold on to this matter, it must not be beneficial to anyone.
Hearing the threat in his words, Li Jing wanted to lean back on the sofa as if he was relaxed, closed his eyes and said with a smile: "It's really happening in any company, but why only plant bombs near your company?" β
The expression of the director on the other side was stunned for a moment, probably the first time he encountered this kind of problem, and he was a little speechless for a while, and he hesitated for a long time before he said: "You are really joking, how can I know the thoughts of the person who planted the bomb?" β
Li Jing leaned on the back of the sofa, opened his eyes, and asked him with a leisurely smile: "City C is so big, if he wants to make bigger news, he can completely plant the bomb in the city center, instead of planting it on a bus and detonating it when he is about to get here." And that bomb was timed, and it had to be carefully calculated to detonate where he wanted it to explode the most. You should know why it went to great lengths to detonate in such an uninhabited place, right? β
may have recovered from the shock just now, and the face of the director opposite suddenly sank: "What do you mean?" β
Li Jing didn't seem to want to tell the truth to the old fox, and looked at him with a smile.
The old fox couldn't sit still, hesitated for a long time and asked, "You mean that the explosion was aimed at our company?" β
"So why do you think we're here?" Li Jing asked him rhetorically.
"How do I know?" The old fox deserved to be the public relations director, and immediately regained his momentum just now.
Li Jing just looked at him and didn't speak, and there was silence for about ten minutes, and the old fox finally opened his mouth in a curtive voice: "What accident happened to us really beautiful." β
"Haven't there been a single accident?" Li Jing asked.
The public relations director's eyes dodged for a moment: "I really haven't been." β
Li Jing put his hands on his knees: "You see that when you just talked to me, your eyes were erratic, and people like you who do public relations in large companies should always learn some negotiation skills and know what I am talking about now." If you don't remember, let me remind you that I have been observing your expression from the beginning, and since I said why the bomb was detonated in your company, you have not looked me in the eye, which shows that you are very nervous inside, usually when you hide something, or when you are not sincere in your words. After that, when you sued me that your company had never had an accident, the whole person's eyes were erratic, which means that you can't make up your mind, and it also shows that you are very anxious now. You're thinking about whether or not to tell me the truth, which is even more evidence that you're in a state of complete tension right now. I don't make sure that when I really find out the truth, I won't report your concealment directly to your higher-level leaders, and what happened after telling them is entirely because of your concealment, so I didn't organize more terrible things to happen in time. When the time comes, with your nervous personality, you may be even more overwhelmed. β
"You're threatening me?" The old fox on the other side raised an eyebrow.
"I'm just telling the truth." Li Jing smiled.
"I'm not going to talk to you about anything." The old fox had the intention of giving it away.
Li Jing nodded politely: "I can think that the subtext of this sentence is that you admit that there has been an accident here that you can't speak?" Then came a slightly defiant smile.
The man turned around and left the conference room directly, and the moment he pushed the door, Li Jing said to his back: "If something else really happens, are you really sure that you won't be pushed out as a scapegoat?" β
The man's hand holding the doorknob shook for a moment, but he pushed the door open and went out.
"We're almost there." Li Jing turned his head to me and said. (To be continued.) )