Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Zhuang Li stood by the broken bridge for a long time, with no expression on his face. No one knew what he was thinking.
7480 reminded cautiously: “Master, this road is not open yet, so no one will come here. You may have to walk back by yourself. These are the suburbs, far away from the city center, a full 98.7 kilometers. See if there is any food or drink in the car, you can take some.”
“Who said I have to walk back?” Zhuang Li opened the trunk, found a tool kit, took out a screwdriver, pliers, electric pen and other things, and began to dismantle the LCD display, intercom, radio, battery, circuit board and other components installed in the car. He also dismantled the mobile phone and took out the smart chip inside.
He worked hard for more than an hour to build a simple computer and used antenna interference to hack into a nearby radio station. He then held the intercom and said, “Hello, can you hear me? I’m Zhuang Li. I’m currently at the broken bridge on National Highway G97. I almost had a car accident, but I suspect it was murder. Please help me call the police.”
After repeating this sentence several times, he tilted his ear to listen to the movement on the other side.
After a few seconds, an urgent question suddenly came from the rustling noise: “Is what you said true? I am a taxi driver, and I just heard your voice on the radio.”
Zhuang Li repeated what he had said before.
The taxi driver confirmed many details before calling the police.
Radio stations close to the broken bridge all received the distress message. Some drivers ignored it as a joke; some drivers did not have walkie-talkies and could not communicate with Zhuang Li, so they did not dare to believe it; however, several enthusiastic drivers responded to Zhuang Li and helped him call the police.
The police station received seven or eight calls in a row, all reporting the same situation. Naturally, they took it seriously and immediately dispatched several vehicles to the scene of the crime.
When they got there, they saw a young man sitting on the guardrail waiting for them. A luxury car was parked at the entrance of the broken bridge, which had fallen down a few meters ahead.
The situation was indeed very dangerous.
The police immediately pulled up the cordon, collected the criminal evidence, and sent Zhuang Li back to the city center to record his statement.
While driving, Zhuang Li said he wanted to call his family, so he borrowed a mobile phone from a policeman.
But in fact he didn’t remember anything. After getting the phone, he accessed the Internet and did a quick search, and the original owner’s personal information came out.
In this small world, Zhuang Li was actually a well-known playboy. He liked to pick up girls, have fun, and race cars. He was even very high-profile in his behavior. On his birthday, he could invite most of the superstars in the entertainment industry to entertain him. Social media was almost always filled with gossip about him.
Of course, he could be so rampant because of his good family background.
His mother was a top socialite in China, and although she died young, she left him a legacy that would last him a lifetime. His father was the president of the largest automobile company in China, with a net worth of tens of billions.
When Chinese people mention the name “Zhuang Li”, the first thing that comes to their mind was wealth, and then debauchery.
The original owner also had a half-brother named Zhuang Han, who was three years younger than him and was only twenty-one this year. However, he started his own business when he was in college and founded a high-tech company specializing in software for autonomous driving.
The original owner had a very high-profile private life. He would show off his wealth on the Internet from time to time and had scandals with many female stars and internet celebrities, so everyone in China knew him.
But his younger brother was just the opposite. He almost never appeared in the media and never mentioned his prominent family background to people around him.
Netizens knew nothing about Zhuang Han, so naturally they would not bring the two brothers together for discussion.
But three months ago, Zhuang Han suddenly announced that he had developed the world’s most advanced intelligent AI, named Eugene, which had the ability to think and learn independently, was superior to humans in all aspects, and had extremely high commercial value. If this technology was applied to military, medical, industrial and other fields, it would surely set off a wave of technological revolution.
As soon as the news came out, many people expressed doubts about it.
But not long ago, several high-tech companies in Europe and the United States expressed their desire to acquire Zhuang Han’s company, and their bids were higher than each other, with the highest reaching one billion US dollars.
As a result, Zhuang Han became completely famous and became a wealthy new business tycoon overnight.
Only then did the Chinese people realize that he was Zhuang Li’s younger brother, and they couldn’t help but compare the two brothers together. Then they demoted the dandy Zhuang Li to the mud and praised the elite Zhuang Han to the sky.
So, in addition to “wealth” and “debauchery”, there was another entry about Zhuang Li on the Internet: “incompetence”.
Compared with Zhuang Han, Zhuang Li, who was already 24 years old, was simply useless.
Not long after, Zhuang Han rejected the acquisition by a foreign company and merged the software company “Cambrian” he founded into the family business “Huarui Manufacturing” in exchange for the position of president.
In other words, from now on, he would lead “Huarui Manufacturing” into a new era.
The original owner’s father, Zhuang Jincheng, had no desire for power and actually withdrew from the board of directors ahead of schedule. But he bypassed his eldest son and passed the position of head of the family to his step-wife’s son, Zhuang Han.
The original owner had an extreme personality and could not possibly endure such grievance, so he immediately went to his grandfather and asked him to help him seize the management rights of “Huarui Manufacturing”.
The original owner’s grandfather was quite influential in both the political and business circles, and he soon put enough pressure on Huarui’s board of directors. In addition, the original owner held 34% of Huarui Manufacturing’s shares given to him by his mother and grandfather, which was more than Zhuang Jincheng’s 31%. So he got his wish and became the president of Huarui Manufacturing.
Zhuang Han was defeated and had to settle for the second best, taking a small position as director.
The original owner won a great victory and posted dozens of Weibo posts to celebrate, making Zhuang Han and Zhuang Jincheng look humiliated.
That was not all. When he found out that Zhuang Han’s “Cambrian” was not actually acquired by Huarui and that the profits earned every year did not go into his own pocket, he got angry and asked his grandfather to continue to put pressure on Zhuang Han.
The original owner’s grandfather doted on him without any principles. With just a few tricks, Cambrian’s suppliers cut off their cooperation with Zhuang Han.
If Cambrian wanted to continue operating, it must accept the acquisition by Huarui Manufacturing. This promising software company would also become one of the original owner’s industries.
Today, Zhuang Han was in a state of anxiety and despair, while the original owner was very successful and had reached the peak of his life.
So the question was, who would want to kill such a reckless person?
Zhuang Li returned the cleaned phone to the policeman and said that the call was not connected. Then he closed his eyes and sorted out the mystery in his mind.
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