Chapter 173: Life and Profit (Da Zhang Monthly Pass)
"This should be Talent Sequence 2: Student,"
Roger pointed to the lightest-colored secret potion on the far left, and then pointed to the darkest-colored secret potion on the far right, "This should be Talent Sequence 40: Magician. As for what the one in the middle is, I don't know.
I know, but I’m not sure what the 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 the talent sequence has extraordinary significance.
Not knowing the name of the talent sequence means that you are unable to locate your own extraordinary power, and you have not mastered the direction of these extraordinary powers. If something goes wrong, you may fall into chaos and madness."
"Um."
He Ao stared at these three secret medicines.
He is actually very aware of the consequences of cognitive errors.
The 'magician' who was killed by him in the main world misunderstood his own talent and misunderstood the 'sleight of hand' as a 'magician', which led to the whole person going crazy.
but,
He Ao's eyes stayed on the secret medicine in the middle.
Is this talent sequence between ‘student’ and ‘magician’ the ‘sleight of hand apprentice’?
Judging from the people he has come into contact with in the main world who have the talent of 'Magic Apprentice', the abilities of 'Magic Apprentice' seem to be somewhat similar to that of 'Magicians', and the crazy extraordinary person will also identify himself as a 'Magician'
, which most likely means that there is some relationship between the two.
However, He Ao also had a guess in his mind and did not dare to confirm it. If he guessed wrong, he would be in big trouble.
He looked away and did not go to get the 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 the talent sequence for you."
Roger rolled his eyes and ignored the three secret medicines placed on the table. He turned and walked towards the corner of the clinic.
The assassin's body was lying 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 already 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 the thin man to do it.
As the operator of the I-27 robotic arm, the thin man himself was eligible 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 1,750 federal coins. If the book is missing or cannot be returned by the expiration date, the deposit will be withheld and regarded as a 'purchase'.
Such a high deposit itself is actually a magic weapon to persuade workers to quit. No one is willing to pay more than 1,700 federal dollars 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 exhibit from the factory's archives.
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 longer 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 small print that states that the designed maximum service life of the robot arm is 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 core parts of the robotic arm. Under normal circumstances, the retail price of such parts will be more expensive than those installed in the complete machine. If they exceed the design service life, according to Chenxi City laws, they can no longer be used.
Replacing these core parts and using them for another five years is worse than buying a brand new robotic arm and using it for ten years.
Of course, Avis Group can also choose to replace parts and continue to use them.
But did they replace it?
Obviously not.
If the Avis Group had replaced the core parts, there would have been no possibility of the abnormal noises that Jack heard. In fact, the emergency system of the robotic arm should have been on the verge of collapse as early as when Joey's parents took up the job.
After memorizing the entire manual, He Ao's understanding of this robotic arm is already as good as 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 instructions aside, He Ao opened the bracelet and entered the company homepage of the manufacturer of the robotic arm, Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company. Then he directly clicked on their online store and looked for 'TB-167A' in the search box.
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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, there is a possibility that it will be taken off the shelves, but since Avis Machinery Factory can still buy a brand new machine of this model, the possibility of it being taken off the shelves is not high.
He Ao thought for a while, 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 is NB-167, which is similar to the model of Anvis Machinery Factory. The product picture looks like the TB-167A machine used by Anvis Machinery Factory.
The arms are almost identical.
He Ao clicked on the details. The parameters of this robotic arm were exactly the same as the TB-167A, and the 3D stereoscopic image was exactly the same. It was launched twenty-three years ago, and the price was 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 Roy's company and 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 scanned the structure diagram on the instruction manual with his bracelet and sent it, P.S.
[Do you have this TB-167A model of robotic arm? I went to visit the machinery factory in Anvis today and it seems to be quite easy to use.]
Customer service:[wait a moment]
Customer service: [Hello, this machine is customized by Avis 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 logged out of the website, opened the equity review website, and logged in to Roy's account.
Roy has recharged the membership of this website and can view the ownership structure and risk information of companies in the federal territory at will.
He entered ‘Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company’ into the search box.
Soon, the information interface of Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company popped up.
He Ao directly turned his attention to the equity structure.
Abbott Smart Manufacturing's stake is incredibly complex.
The software shows that its controlling shareholder is ‘Avis Holdings’. Through multiple shareholdings and layers of nesting, Avis Holdings holds a total of more than 67% of the shares of Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company.
The company’s successive CEOs were all executives of Avis Power Group.
In other words, Abbott Intelligent Manufacturing Company is a company actually controlled by Avis Electric Energy Group.
After checking this, He Ao put down his bracelet and leaned on the chair.
This machine sells for 10 million, and if used for ten years, the average annual mechanical cost is 1 million.
This is after ten years of use.
What if I continue to use it 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 an extra five million in profit.
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 was paid by the insurance company.
Without the accident insurance bill, at most 100,000 yuan would be wasted.
Even if you 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 never 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 the machine in Chenxi 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, all you need to do is 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 is exactly the time when this kind of robotic arm starts 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."
