Chapter 13: Not barking
Using the melodious hymns sung by the nuns as background music, the forehead cortex whispered to Russell the beginning and end of the "werewolf" incident
"At the beginning, it was the marketing director of the Tianen Group branch in Sogo Island that he received a ransom letter......
Mr. Director, codenamed "Don't Bark", is a middle-aged man with a gray wolf as his spiritual relative.
As an executive of the branch, he was also sent from Happiness Island. Unlike the highly competitive headquarters, the competition in the branch is much more relaxed...... After all, there is only one Ling director at the top of the branch. Although there are so-called "executive directors", they do not have any real power, just like the hired store manager.
In other words, there is no room for promotion after he reaches this level. And as long as he doesn't make any big mistakes, he will definitely not be removed from his post - after all, it is still quite troublesome to transfer someone 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 also put it up, stayed on Sogo Island completely, and started a family here with peace of mind.
Mr. "Not Barking" was still very young when he was dispatched, 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, and he no longer cares about the company's affairs, and the whole person has become very kind. His neighbors thought Mr. "Bu Bark" was a very polite, cultured, and gentle old man.
And just three months ago, Buya received a threatening letter.
- The content of the letter, demanding that he must unpay for various entertainment products.
According to the definition of "branch" jurisdiction, the branch of each air island has the right to manage the affairs monopolized by the department and has priority to carry out business on each air island. It's as if Abe Biomedical was able to acquire other hospitals and poach other medical scientists and pharmacologists on Happiness Island, without being stopped by the Tianen Group.
Tianen Group's unique technology is memory review and editing technology, and also includes the editing and production of various transcendental reality chips. But their main business is news media and cultural entertainment...... Including news, newspapers, TV stations, advertisements, TV dramas, variety shows, movies, animations, games, VR transcendence. Basically, it can be said that all types of entertainment that can be experienced on the Internet are under the jurisdiction of Tianen Group and its branches.
On the social level of Sogo, there is a bias towards resistance to this kind of entertainment. But because of this, fewer means of entertainment also leads to more loyal users...... This means that they will be less competitive in business.
Because the inhabitants of Sogo Island don't have a choice. The things that are released by the branches of Tianen Group, even if they are expensive, have to be bought.
The most iconic is the "program fee". Except for the six "free programs" designated by Tianen Group, all the remaining programs will be deducted according to the viewing time when watching. And this deduction is the same as the electricity bill, it is not prompted at all when it is used, and it is automatically settled and deducted at the end of the month.
Because the prevailing view of Sogo Island is that these entertainments are depraved. Therefore, even if the SOGO Group subsidiaries used a clearly unreasonable fee system, there was no large-scale opposition———— and it could even be said that opposing the fee system itself meant that they were "lazy people" who enjoyed such entertainment, or "jealous people" who wanted others to fall. And such people will be alienated by others on social media as well as in real life...... Because just by approaching them, agreeing with them, and supporting them, you may be perceived by others as "a self-depraved kind."
Therefore, although there is always opposition, these voices have never been able to gather.
These true entertainment lovers can be said to have bitter words.
However, this loneliness of social alienation, and the frustration of having to pay a lot of money to enjoy what you like, has been accumulating over time...... They never went away.
"Buyi" believes that this incident is likely to come from the revenge of such people. So he reported the matter to the branch and the three sages of Sogo Island, and then passed the matter in his heart.
But two months ago, a gangster wearing a jackal hood bypassed the dense protective equipment and broke into the house when he was not at home. and kidnapped and bound his wives and daughters. A blocking chip is inserted into their interface
After that, he tied them up and put them in the bathroom, and turned on the shower heads.
When he came home, he subconsciously thought that his wife and daughter should be taking a bath. So he didn't pay attention even if he heard some sounds.
And when he thinks that the bath time is too long, and goes to the bathroom to check...... However, he was attacked and knocked unconscious the moment he opened the door. Later, his wife and daughter saw that the "masked wolf-headed man" would be taken away without barking.
When he was doing this, he didn't have time to plug in the chip that could block the signal in the first place. Therefore, the moment he received a heavy blow to the head of the non-barking, Abe Biomedical's "Special Member Emergency Treatment Team" was immediately dispatched. They arrived at Buya's house within three minutes by helicopter, but unfortunately they did not find Mr. Buya and the bandits, but saw his wife and daughter tied up in the bathroom.
There are no cameras at all in the house, which is also what these middle and high-level people have in common. They put too much trust in the city and crime warnings that are fully monitored by the Three Sages, and they will do more or less legitimate things. Therefore, in the places where these actions may be carried out, all devices with monitoring capabilities that can be controlled by the Three Sages will not be installed.
The surveillance camera outside the house did not find anything. The gangsters were not found to have entered or left during the whole process.
Soon, the Sogo Group's executive department arrived on the scene. But after a very thorough search for evidence, nothing was found.
In addition to the footprints, the gangsters obviously had *** hands outside, but they did not leave fingerprints, and even the dander did not fall off at all. Therefore, the executive department once suspected that this gangster might be a "servant", at least there should be a synthetic skin on his skin.
But even if its 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 any news related to the time. But soon, rumors about it 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 absolutely no memory of this.
After that, the gangsters put the ransom letter next to his wife's bed in the middle of the night. The bodyguard who was in the same room had no memory of this———— she swore that she had never seen anyone appear in the room. But Sogo Island does not allow memory censorship, so she can only be removed from her post.
The gangsters demanded a ransom in the form of "gold bars" and demanded that they be placed at a designated place. The wife who did not bark immediately notified the Sogo Group's executive department.
The executive officers put in a tight grip——— this time a large number of personnel, not just cameras, were deployed to monitor the ransom and the surrounding area. But in the end, the letter said that the ransom had passed, but no one came to take it.
At that time, the executive department of the Sogo Group believed that this should be the information that they had an insider and leaked the information about the matter.
So they took the opportunity to carry out an internal purge......
With a large number of job losses and incarceration in the Executive Department, the news finally could not be suppressed.
Sogo Group shook the pot and asked the branch of Tianen Group to report on the incident. And blamed the incident solely because they overpriced their entertainment programs.
Sogo Island is ruled by the Sogo Group, and six of the twelve spirit directors and twelve human directors are from the Sogo group - the remaining six spirit directors are from the other Big Six, and the chaos caused by this incident has caused everyone to feel troubled.
Therefore, it was a rare, overwhelming vote of 1 to 23.
In the end, the Tianen Group branch had no choice but to announce the news and really lowered the pricing of most of the entertainment programs.
And the day after they lowered their pricing......
——Not barking, but suddenly returned to his home safely with the interference chip removed.