Life Simulation Game
Chapter 174

Life and Profit

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"This should be Talent Sequence 2: student,"

Roger pointed to the Secret Medicine with the lightest color on the far left, and then pointed to the darkest Secret Medicine on the far right, "This should be Talent Sequence 40: Magician. As for the one in the middle, I don't know what it is, and I don't know what Secret Medicine is in this way."

Then he raised his head and glanced at He Ao, "If you want to take this Secret Medicine, you must be mentally prepared. The name of Talent Sequence has the meaning of Transcendental.

Not knowing the Talent Sequence name means that you are unable to locate your Transcendental power, and you have not mastered the direction of these Transcendental power. When something goes wrong, you may fall into chaos and madness. "

"Yeah."

He Ao stared at these three Secret Medicine.

He is actually very aware of the consequences of cognitive errors.

The "magician" who was killed by him in Main World had a misunderstanding of his own talent and misunderstood "Trick Apprentice" as a "magician", which led to his madness.

However,

He Ao's eyes stayed on the Secret Medicine in the middle.

Is this Talent Sequence, who is between the "student" and the "magician", the "Trick Apprentice"?

Judging from the people Main World he has come into contact with who have the talent of "Trick Apprentice", the ability of "Trick Apprentice" seems to be somewhat similar to that of a "magician", and the crazy Transcendental person will also identify himself as a "magician", which most likely means that there is some connection between the two.

However, He Ao was just guessing and didn't dare to confirm. If he guessed wrong, he would be in big trouble.

He looked away and did not pick up Secret Medicine on the test tube rack. Instead, he looked at Roger who started to yawn again, "Are you still up so late?"

"I'll work overtime to extract Talent Sequence for you."

Roger rolled his eyes and ignored the three Secret Medicine placed on the table. He turned and walked towards the corner of the clinic.

The assassin's body lay there.

Seeing Roger starting to be busy again, He Ao shook his head and smiled, sat on a chair nearby, and took out the manual with more than a thousand pages from his arms.

He had memorized the entire instruction manual, but the book itself was important evidence, so he brought the book back.

Well, when I left, I also went through the procedures for borrowing books and asked Gaunt Man to do it.

As the operator of I-27 Mechanical Arm, Gaunt Man is qualified to borrow this book according to the factory's rules and regulations. After verifying his identity and paying the deposit, He Ao took the book away.

The deposit for this book is as high as 1750 Federal Coins. If the book is missing or cannot be returned upon expiration, the deposit will be withheld and deemed a "purchase".

Such a high deposit itself is actually a magic weapon to persuade workers to quit. No one would be willing to deposit more than 1,700 Federal Coins just to borrow a book with more than 1,000 pages to read.

But He Ao had money, so he successfully swiped his card and legally took out this important evidence from Archives in the factory.

As for why this manual is an important piece of evidence,

Because although it is written at the back of the manual that the design life of this robotic arm is fifteen years, it lists the service life of each module in detail when describing each individual module.

Among these important modules that make up the robotic arm, except for the outermost iron sheet of the robotic arm, none have a service life of more than fifteen years, and the module with the longest service life is only thirteen years.

It doesn't mean that it can't be used beyond its designed service life.

After the designed service life is exceeded, it can still be used, but the module will begin to have various problems. The longer the time, the greater the problems.

Especially the emergency system of the robotic arm will start to have problems after more than ten years. After more than twelve years, it will already have significant wear and intermittent failures.

Most other modules will exceed their maximum safe service life after more than eleven years, which may cause various accidents.

The robotic arm controlled by Joey's parents has been in use for more than fourteen years.

In the middle of this manual, there is a very silly paragraph of small print that states that the robot arm is designed to have a maximum service life of fifteen years, but it does not guarantee the safety of use for fifteen years. Some important parts should be replaced after more than ten years.

These important parts are all the core parts of the robotic arm. Under normal circumstances, the retail price of such parts will be more expensive than those installed in the whole machine. If they exceed the design service life, according to the Dawn City law, they cannot be used anymore.

Replacing these core parts and using them for another five years is not as good as buying a brand new robotic arm and using it for ten years.

Of course, Anvis Group can also choose to replace parts and continue to use it.

But did they replace it?

Apparently not.

If Anvis Group had replaced the core parts, there would be no possibility of the abnormal noises heard by Jack. In fact, the emergency system of the robotic arm should have been on the verge of collapse as early as when Joey's parents came to work.

After memorizing the entire manual, He Ao's understanding of this robotic arm is no less than that of some corresponding professional engineers. After all, not everyone will memorize a manual of more than a thousand pages.

He can also clearly determine the approximate source of problems with the robotic arm.

After putting the manual aside, He Ao opened Bracelet and entered the company homepage of the robot arm manufacturer "Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company". Then he directly clicked on their online store and looked for "TB-167A" in the search box.

But there is no such model.

Generally, this kind of search failure may be due to insufficient permissions, or the search is for customized products.

Of course, it is possible that it will be removed from the shelves, but since Anvis Mechanical Factory can still buy a brand new machine of this model, the possibility of it being removed from the shelves is not high.

He Ao thought for a moment, clicked on the classification interface of the online store, entered the robotic arm category, and took in all the categories at a glance.

Finally, his eyes rested on a large robotic arm. The model of this robotic arm was NB-167, which was similar to the model of Anvis Mechanical Factory. The product picture looked almost identical to the TB-167A robotic arm used by Anvis Mechanical Factory.

He Ao Click for details. The parameters of this robotic arm are exactly the same as those of TB-167A. The 3D stereoscopic images are also exactly the same. It was launched 23 years ago and the price is 10.73 million Federal Coins.

The price is probably about right as well.

He Ao thought for a moment and clicked on the online customer service dialog box.

To chat with customer service, you need to fill in the company name. He Ao casually filled in the company of Roy, and then entered the conversation interface.

The first person to connect was the intelligent customer service, and He Ao directly clicked to switch to manual.

It's almost ten o'clock now, and customer service is still online.

Customer Service: [Hello, how can I help you? ]

He Ao used Bracelet to scan the structural diagram in the instruction manual and sent it, P. S.

[Do you have this TB-167A model of robotic arm? I went to visit the Avis machine factory today and it seems to be quite easy to use. ]

Customer service: [wait a moment]

Customer Service: [Hello, this machine is customized by Anvis Group. Can you take a look at this one? ]

I sent a link to the NB-167 that He Ao just watched.

He Ao: [What is the difference between these two models? ]

Customer service: [About that]

He Ao: [How long is the service life of this product? ]

Customer Service: [The designed service life is ten years. After ten years, it is not recommended to continue using it. ]

He Ao: [Are there any machines with a service life of fifteen years? ]

Customer service: [No, this product can be used for up to ten years. After more than ten years, various problems may occur. ]

He Ao: [Thank you]

He Ao exited the website, opened the equity review website, and logged in to the Roy account.

Roy has recharged membership on this website and can view the equity structure and risk information of Federation's domestic companies at will.

He entered "Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company" in the search box.

Soon, the information interface of Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company popped up.

He Ao turned his attention directly to the shareholding structure.

The equity of Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company is extremely complicated.

The software shows that its controlling shareholder is "Anvis Holding". Through multiple shareholdings and nested layers, Anvis Holding holds more than 67% of the shares of Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company.

The company's successive Executive Director were all senior executives of Anvis Electric Power Group.

In other words, Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company is a company actually controlled by Anvis Electric Power Group.

After checking this, He Ao put down Bracelet and leaned on the chair.

This machine sells for 10 million and is used for ten years, with an average annual mechanical cost of 1 million.

This is after ten years of use.

What if it continues to be used after ten years?

The annual mechanical cost of this machine is equivalent to one million. Starting from the eleventh year, the annual net profit will be one million more. One more year will be one million more. If it is used for five more years, there will be five million more profits.

Five million, how much is a worker's life worth? 300,000.

Even if both operating workers died, it would only be 600,000.

Oh, the 600,000 yuan was paid by the insurance company.

Without the accident insurance bill, at most 100,000 yuan would have been wasted.

Even if they have to go to court, the cost shared by the legal team maintained by the group is extremely low for each case. It can be as high as 100,000 yuan.

And how many workers who have not even attended community college have legal awareness?

If calculated using mathematical expectations, the "life" cost spread equally to each machine may only be 30,000 to 400,000.

And how much profit can it bring?

Even if a machine like Dawn City exploded after being used for more than fourteen years, it still brought a profit of more than 4 million yuan to the factory, a profit rate of close to 1,000%.

To achieve such a terrifying profit margin, you only need to change one line of text.

Change the design service life from ten years to fifteen years.

Then change the serial number of the robotic arm, and it will become a "customized new model" with a design life of fifteen years.

It was launched twenty-three years ago and accidents began ten years ago.

Thirteen years was exactly the time when this kind of robotic arm began to have various problems.

In this way, everything is correct.

He Ao took a deep breath, held the handle of the chair tightly, and slowly released it.

He opened the social platform software, and two of the five suspected victims in other cities he contacted in the afternoon responded to him, and both of them were online at the moment.

He Ao sent them a message, communicated with them, and obtained the incident materials of the two people.

He finished reading the materials quietly, then put on his mask and made a video call to Christos.

"Hello?"

After the phone rang a few times, it was quickly answered.

"Didn't I say before that I need you to do me a favor?"

He Ao looked at the man in the silver suit on the video call, "I think there is some material that you may be very interested in."

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