Life Game In Other World
Chapter 167: Blockade (Please Subscribe, Add to Favorites, Request Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 167: Chapter 167: Blockade (Please Subscribe, Add to Favorites, Request Monthly Tickets)

After Joey’s parents died, the Avis Machinery Factory in Dawn City almost echoed the same rhetoric.

He Ao had briefly browsed this piece of news; it was published two years ago, which was also around the time the incident happened.

Then he exited and entered the official website of the Avis Energy Group, finding recruitment information for Avis Machinery Factories in various Fortress Cities from the careers page.

Places like machinery factories are basically always hiring, even if not short-staffed, they would post hiring needs to prevent staff turnover.

Therefore, this careers page should contain all Avis Machinery Factories.

He Ao counted them up and found that about thirty cities had Avis Machinery Factories.

He then noted down the names of these cities and continued searching with the keywords ’city’ + ’machinery factory’ + ’mechanical arm’.

This time, he found some relevant content.

Most of the content was still irrelevant, but starting from page twenty, reports of mechanical arm accidents by small media outlets began to appear.

Some were mechanical arm malfunctions, others were techno-propaganda articles from the Avis Group.

He Ao roughly collected them; there were over a dozen reports of mechanical arm malfunctions and explosions across different cities, including the incident in Dawn City that led to the death of Joey’s parents.

The similarity among these news reports was that they were all covered by tabloids.

Some were even from the entertainment sections of adult magazines, with virtually no influence, the readership was under a hundred, some even had only a few, and there were no comments at all.

Even the report on the Dawn City incident had never been seen by Joey himself.

Due to their negligible spread and influence, these news reports were preserved.

He Ao roughly organized the information: nineteen incidents in total, involving fifteen cities, with thirteen incidents resulting in fatalities, spanning from ten years ago to just over a month ago, and there were roughly two incidents per year.

After jotting down these incidents, He Ao logged into the Federation’s most extensively used social media platform and started searching for content on the platform using these keywords through its internal search engine.

Most of the messages were useless, but He Ao still found six people who had posted pleas for help on the social media platform.

One of them was Joey, whose post had almost no views, with only some of his classmates and friends helping him share it.

Excluding Joey, there were still five others whose pleas for help also had very little traffic. They too had lost relatives to mechanical arm explosions, and the Avis Group had ignored them, prompting them to seek help on the platform.

Compared to these five, Joey was actually lucky because, thanks to Christos’s bill, he received 600,000 in accidental death compensation.

Of those five who shared a similar fate, the one who received the most from Avis Energy Group got just 100,000 in compensation, and two had even been detained for causing disturbances at the factory.

He Ao sent private messages to each of these people in turn, explaining his situation and hoping they could share any evidence and information they had.

After doing so, he turned his head and looked behind him.

There was a black sedan that had been following the taxi from the moment he got in.

——

The man with the telescope hanging around his neck obediently waited by the roadside.

After a while, a silver-gray sedan stopped in front of him.

The rear window slowly rolled down, revealing a slim man inside wearing a tidy gray suit, with a natural curl to his hair and an upright posture.

"Get in,"

the man said softly after giving him a glance.

It was only then that the man with the telescope dared to nod and bow as he entered the car, sitting beside the man in the gray suit. "Boss, the taxi that Joey got into is just ahead, it looks like he’s heading towards the Crown District."

"Mhm."

The man in the gray suit acknowledged with a grunt, said nothing else, and slightly squinted his eyes.

Calming music filled the car.

The man with the telescope obediently closed his mouth.

The vehicle continued forward.

After a while, unable to hold back, the telescope man asked quietly, "Boss, that card Jack made can open the factory’s access control, aren’t we going to block it?"

"Gana, I know you’re eager to kiss up to the big boss, but you’d better not disturb the boss’s music,"

the driver spoke impatiently from the front seat.

Gana obediently closed his mouth.

"The card won’t open the factory door."

After a while, the music ended and the man in the gray suit slowly opened his eyes.

"The boss indeed has a sharp eye, almost godlike foresight; everything is under your control."

Gana couldn’t help but flatter.

The man in the gray suit did not respond but gently pressed a button beside the seat.

A 3D panoramic map appeared in front of the two.

The map marked their location with a blue arrow and marked the position of the taxi ahead with a yellow arrow.

Red routes crisscrossed between the buildings on the map, simulated by the intelligent system as possible routes the taxi could take.

The man in the gray suit paused, minimized the map, and gazed thoughtfully at the layered buildings.

Suddenly, his gaze settled on the projection of a towering building ahead.

This building was also on the simulated route of the intelligent system.

Then he gently raised his hand, looked at Gana beside him, "Have your people go around from both sides and block the road ahead. He’s going to Ino Media Building."

"Ino Media Building?"

Gana was taken aback, "What’s there?"

The man in the gray suit glanced at him, leaned back in his seat again, closed his eyes slightly, and another piece of music began to play in the car.

Knowing he had spoken out of turn, Gana suppressed his curiosity, sent a message to his men to block the road ahead.

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Ino Media Building.

He Ao closed the webpage on his bracelet.

Christos’s election office was there.

"Hello, due to a system alert, there is congestion ahead, would you like to take a detour?"

A warning light lit up on the taxi’s driver’s seat, and at the same time, the intelligent system’s female voice asked, "If you choose to detour, it may add about ten minutes to your journey time, and the fare will increase by approximately 3.25 federal coins."

He Ao looked up at the road ahead, where the cars were gradually beginning to crowd.

"How long will this congestion likely last?"

He Ao asked softly.

"The estimate is 8-15 minutes, and the congestion will cause your fare to be about 2 federal coins higher than your original estimate," the intelligent system replied calmly.

"Then no detour, continue on the original route."

He Ao reclined in his chair and continued to look for key news on his bracelet.

"Very well."

The intelligent system’s light slowly faded away.

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"Boss, we’ve blocked them."

Gana looked at the man in the gray suit beside him, "We’ve caused a minor car accident up ahead, blocking the road. If he tries to take the deserted side road, we’ve also got people waiting to block him at the intersection."

Then he glanced at his bracelet, "He didn’t detour, he’s now entered the congested section and his speed has dropped."

At this moment, the sedan they were in also slowed down.

The man in the gray suit looked ahead at the dense, congested traffic, opened the car door, and stretched his limbs.

A series of crackling sounds came from his body.

"Let’s go and see this little lucky fellow who has received an unexpected ’Grace.’"