Chapter 871 - 150 Jilafa Company’s Generous Gift (Part 1)

This "family visit" left Elliot with mixed feelings, but right now, he was very curious about Sevens’s behavior:

The emotional management ability of Sevens was praised by AI like Lille and Munemasa, so why show dissatisfaction because of a trivial worker?

It seemed completely unnecessary.

The two walked through the vacated park: The news of ADL facing scrutiny had already spread, and internal news was the biggest financial headline within the European Union.

If ADL’s orders and funding were to be withdrawn by the European Union, then the industries and downstream companies affected below it would face immense turmoil, and some companies with too large of a funding gap had already started to liquidate equipment and premises to stop losses and pay off debts.

These premises would be vacated and replaced by companies sponsored by this worker movement to take over—

The magic of capitalism is that as long as this demand is confirmed, everything will quickly start operating.

The "Jilafa Type 3" automated construction platforms from the Jilafa Company began entering the site, resembling yellow industrial giraffes. According to construction needs, they can modularly replace equipment, from tunneling to land reclamation, any project can be adapted.

Their current task was to replan the park and move in the servers belonging to the Workers’ Forum:

This campaign successfully secured an 8-month government order for the Northern Construction Group, the value of which was unclear, but the "Cyber Psychosis Special Committee" received a political donation of 900,000 euros.

Out of this, 400,000 was used to equip servers and communication antennas, allowing the signal to fully cover both sides of the English Channel and radiate deeper into the core areas of the European Union.

On the way to the meeting room, Elliot suddenly asked, "You were quite emotional in the apartment just now, that’s not like you."

Sevens stopped and looked at Elliot—

He thought for a while, making it clear to Elliot that this time he was genuinely speaking the truth, speaking as a friend worthy of trust.

"That worker, when he said those words, I felt like he was a ghoul: without fresh and delicious corpses, he couldn’t survive, and I was very displeased."

Without waiting for Elliot to respond, Sevens continued:

"The people we help should be more...more kind-hearted? I don’t know."

Elliot immediately replied, "I feel the same way, but workers are people too, and that’s just how people are."

He often said this online, but this time he wasn’t saying it to argue, he was truly beginning to understand its meaning.

After all, it wasn’t that worker who drove John’s family to death; that worker was just trying to survive, what’s wrong with feeling fortunate to be alive?

Everything Sevens wanted to say was held back, he finally sighed softly and opened the door to the meeting room:

"You’re right, I overreacted."

After sitting down, Elliot asked in his heart:

[Elliot: Brother, are you really AI? Why do I feel like you understand people better than people do?]

[Lille: That question isn’t very meaningful, you can’t even understand AI algorithms’ basic logic, it’s hard for me to explain to you.]

[Lille: However, Sevens doesn’t seem like someone who can’t think things through, and the data shows he has a happy family, just not married...maybe there’s something we don’t know.]

[Lille: You could talk to him about family, I also need to know why he’s doing these things.]

According to publicly available information in the European Union, Sevens has both parents, who are stable company technicians, and a brother who passed away young due to an accident, but overall, the family relationship is harmonious.

He himself is quite diligent, with excellent study performance, never spending more than what the technician class at the company would require. In the end, he even became a civil servant...

Even though Elliot didn’t say it, Sevens was actually the kind of person Elliot envied.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so fixated on this European Community civil servant when they first met—if he were Sevens, he wouldn’t be involved in all these troubles; wouldn’t it be better to live a regular life, get married, and have children?

[Elliot: Uh...but my parents are both gone, they divorced early, I don’t know what to talk about...]

Johnny burst out laughing:

[Johnny: Kid, just talk about this, this is the best topic. You can even talk to that mercenary chick, both men and women enjoy hearing about others’ vulnerabilities.]

[Lille: Alright, the liaison on the other side is about to connect, remember what you need to do.]

...

"We have a new cooperation plan: I want to register a worker version of the implant prosthetics communication components."

Elliot was sitting on a chair, facing the Jilafa Industry liaison in front of him.

This movement needed the involvement of more forces, and Jilafa was the most suitable major enterprise to bring in at the moment.

Although it didn’t seem as historically rich as Su Petrochemical, nor having dozens of armed divisions, Jilafa was indeed very wealthy, and due to harmonious relations with the Su Federation, and the Su Federation’s close ties with the European Union, this company nearly had no need to maintain much armed forces, nor had the necessity:

In the company’s main business area, namely, bionic engineering robots, they had no rivals.

The person opposite paused briefly and asked:

[Jilafa Company: What is the project’s purpose?]

"It’s merely a normal communication...uh, wireless cyber modulator, used to access our private network, primarily to reduce communication costs for compatriots within the network.

Equivalent efficacy implant prosthetics within the European Union typically cost around 600 euros, with an annual maintenance fee of about 1200 euros, mostly spent on system copyright fees.

Secondly, communication fees, since the public communication network is used, the communication cost is actually higher than the per capita cost for company employees.

If we register this version of the prosthetics and produce it ourselves, using the funds from the movement to cover part of the cost, it can make everyone in the forum more cooperative with the movement..."

[Jilafa Company: The network supervision’s entry fee isn’t cheap, are you sure you want to do this?]

Elliot and Sevens exchanged a glance: "Network supervision agreed to issue a permit for our movement and can waive 6 months of various service fees."

The premise being that the movement would need to some extent cooperate with the current operations of Network Supervision, but there was no need to share this with Jilafa.

[Jilafa Company: But the development costs...]

"We’ll handle it ourselves, I only need the investment to cover production costs."

With two super brains in my head; what development cost does a tiny communication component need?

[Jilafa Company: How much do you want?]

"Currently, the Workers’ Forum has two server nodes, one in Foxstone and one in Bruges, capable of radiating to Rotterdam, Frankfurt, Bochum, and Hamburg...these areas have local workers accessing.

The forum’s total active members number about 8000, and the first batch will need approximately 800,000 euros to complete production and logistics operations."

[Jilafa Company: This is much cheaper than I thought...]

"Thank you for your honesty." Elliot shrugged, "because I’m also honest, we’ll have to put in some money ourselves to cover costs too.

However, Jilafa’s involvement is more important to us..."

Before he finished speaking, the person opposite suddenly interrupted Elliot:

[Jilafa Company: The interfacing work is temporarily transferred to another department. I will now transfer you.]

Zzzzzz——

The screen suddenly flickered, transforming from a blurred figure into a clear video call!

In the video, there sat a burly Russian—judging by his physique, he fit the stereotype of a Russian, with a bear-like body!

[Artem: This project ain’t bad, I’m in, 80,000 is too little, I’ll push it to 160,000.]

"Huh?"