Chapter 683: Extra 34

Su Hao returned home.
The emperor, at the center of the storm, had shed his usual chilling aura.
The moment he entered, his wife, Li Huilin, her eyes welled with tears of heartache.
Li Huilin firmly believed that his relentless, perpetual-motion work had caused him this torturous ailment.
Therefore, as the behind-the-scenes boss of the Fanghuan Empire, she unusually exercised her veto power within the family, issuing Su Hao a mandatory month-long leave order.
A massive holographic screen lit up in the spacious study, displaying images of several core executives of the group standing in a neat row.
[Even with the chairman's wife issuing such a stern order...]
On the other end of the video call, the CEO of the North American region wore an expression of utter despair, as if saying, "I'm about to break down."
[You're still so stubbornly insisting on holding this international video conference! You really need to take care of your health!]
The head of the European region nodded frantically in agreement.
[Yes, Chairman. You should stop what you're doing and take a break... Your health is the pillar of the group!]
There was no flattery in the executives' eyes.
Only near-fervent loyalty and heartfelt concern.
"Alright, I understand. There's a mountain of tasks to complete; I need to get some progress before I can rest easy.
Don't worry, I'll listen to my wife's advice and take a good month off.
By the way, how's the global security situation progressing?"
[Thanks to you, the activity of terrorist organizations and transnational criminal groups has decreased significantly recently!]
On the one hand, governments worldwide have finally compromised, implementing comprehensive and tight global surveillance through the "satellite surveillance system" we provided.
On the other hand, security forces around the world are conducting a full-scale crackdown on unregistered individuals attempting to evade oversight and lacking biochips.
This iron-fisted approach, directly eradicating social threats and cutting off all potential crimes at their source, has indeed had a profound and far-reaching impact.
In this day and age,
biochip implantation has long since evolved from a cutting-edge technology into a sacred and inviolable obligation that every legal citizen on Earth must fulfill from the moment of birth.
There is no choice.
There is no way out.
Without a chip, you can't even open a public restroom door.
The general public and keyboard warriors online always love to indulge in wild speculation.
They naively believe that this is the ultimate means of authoritarian control by world governments attempting to monitor their meager privacy 24/7.
Every day, people post in anguish on dark web forums, crying out, "Human freedom is dead."
But the truth is far from that.
Those powerful figures don't have time to spy on what videos some shut-in is watching every night.
Even Su Hao himself, the man at the very top of the power pyramid, has a chip implanted in the back of his neck.
It is because of the real-time data interaction of this chip that
he can receive 24/7 cloud care from the world's top medical teams anytime, anywhere, enjoying a life with more robust security than any emperor in human history.
He is the Swordholder.
He too is within the rules.
Moreover, at its core, biochips are directly and inextricably linked to the globally unified financial settlement system.
The barbaric era of walking alone at night, fearing the risk of being robbed by street thugs because of a few tattered bills in one's pocket, has long since ended with the widespread adoption of biochips.
Even if, hypothetically, a madman were to commit a heinous murder or violent attack,
the system could, within fractions of a second, use pulse signals emitted by the victim's chip for satellite-level precision tracking.
Police drones could break a criminal's legs with a high-explosive stun gun before the criminal could even escape down a street.
The exponentially increased cost of crime and the expected return on violent behavior falling below negative values ​​have led to a staggering, precipitous drop in global crime rates!
But the social benefits extend far beyond this.
The chip also possesses a powerful built-in pathological early warning mechanism.
Even before countless people suffered sudden heart attacks and strokes, it sent out SOS signals to the nearest emergency center!
It dramatically reduced the unnatural mortality rate for all of humanity to a historically low level.
Regardless of the conspiracy theorists' frantic typing online.
In stark contrast to the initial hysterical paranoia and fears of the public.
This tiny biochip has not become a shackle imprisoning humanity.
On the contrary, it is being applied with unstoppable force to a truly positive and efficient path to improving the well-being of all humanity.
This is the power of technological capital.
[Also… there is another strange event I need to report to you.
Since a year ago, haven't the core members of anti-social terrorist organizations like the rebels, who have consistently topped the wanted lists, been frequently subjected to mass assassinations?
Just last night, another illegal group of hundreds of people was found dead in their secret base!
]
Not a drop of blood was found at the scene, the cause of death for everyone remains a mystery, and the world's top forensic scientists are practically bald from exhaustion!