"Who are you? Damn hackers. You're everywhere, like cockroaches. You're not welcome here."
The sloppy foreigner was roaring. In his eyes, the intruder was Gray Hand in a mask.
Gray Hand ignored him for the moment, because Lin Qiye was speaking with the Intelligent AI.
"Tell me about Good Times Workshop."
[This is a special-equipment workshop with poor business. It has between twenty and thirty members, all contacted one-way by Peter Novich.] [From the information I've gathered, these members are between forty and fifty years old. They are obsolete technical personnel from the old era.] [They once served old-era intelligence organizations, and during that period created large numbers of creative special-operations equipment for agents. But due to changes in the times, they fell into financial difficulty. Later, under Peter Novich's initiative, they formed this loose workshop.] [The specific business model is: the members' works are sold on consignment by Peter Novich, while they also accept various custom orders.]
"With this loose a management model, they're still listed for sale? If someone spends money to buy them, wouldn't they just disband on the spot?"
[What they require is not a one-time buyout, but long-term employment, with a fixed salary, insurance, allowances, and other benefits.]
Lin Qiye was speechless. A group of unemployed people who had reached retirement age but had no safety net wanted benefits that good.
No wonder it still hadn't sold.
"How much would it cost to meet their requirements?"
[A base monthly salary of one thousand US Dollars, plus various welfare expenses. On average, each person would require an annual expenditure of twenty thousand. It is estimated that in one fiscal year, personnel salary and welfare costs would be six hundred thousand US Dollars.]
```[Considering the imbalance between their research and sales, sustained losses are highly likely. Including