Deceitful Game

Chapter 230 Kindness is a Kind of Cancer

Although Ai Shiping became section chief earlier than Mingpo, Ai Shiping's office was much smaller than Mingpo's.

This is a tiny room of no more than ten square meters, and there's not much room to put anything in it. Just two sofas and a desk already take up too much space... there isn't even a life support chair for him.

You should know that the "life support chair"... which is actually a zero-gravity chair, is actually a perk provided to employees by Takagi Life. It's much more expensive than a hovercar.

In other companies, it would be virtually impossible for someone in the same position and at the same level to afford this. At the very least, only a department head could afford it.

However, at Gaotian Life, even section chiefs can own their own life support chairs—which are provided free of charge by the company.

Simply lying in the chair each day allows you to quickly enter a deep sleep. During this time, the prosthetic body is cleansed and maintained; bones and muscles are relaxed and aligned; and various parameters from the nervous system to internal organs are precisely monitored, allowing any disease to be detected and treated in its early stages. Fatigue is also repaired. Cellular nutrition is replenished in a timely manner, inflammation is suppressed, and cells that have become cancerous due to occasional radiation exposure are eliminated immediately. If a new prosthetic body is installed, immunosuppressants can be injected regularly and in precise doses. For chronic diseases, medications can also be administered regularly and in precise doses, and these medications are all reimbursed—all high-quality drugs.

Even among the "Big Eight," the average lifespan of Gao Tian Life's mid-level employees is the highest. This is why their sector is called the "Longevity Sector."

Ai Shiping definitely has his own life support chair. Mingpo borrowed Ai Shiping's chair when he needed his prosthetic body maintained. Mingpo has been inexplicably sickly since childhood, plagued by chronic illnesses. Now, almost all of his internal organs have been replaced with mechanical ones. Although outwardly only his left eye appears to be prosthetic, his prosthetic percentage exceeds 33%, entering the realm of "modified." Because of this, he needs constant immunosuppressant injections, as the rejection reaction in his internal organs is far more severe than in his limbs.

Picking up the coffee Ai Shiping had brewed, Mingpo frowned slightly and advised, "You should bring your chair inside. It's not safe outside. If someone tampered with your nutrient solution, you wouldn't even know how you died."

"I still need to play games."

Ai Shiping laughed carefree, sitting down opposite Mingpo with a cup of coffee in hand: "Isn't the gaming pod much more important than this? If it's just for a sedative effect, the gaming pod's effect is about the same. As for checkups and maintenance, these things don't need to be done every day. People at other companies only get checkups once every three to five years; I just extend it to once every three to five days."

"If you're really worried, I can just come to your place to do routine maintenance. You wouldn't poison me, would you, Xiaoming?"

You can't fool me.

Mingbo sighed and put the coffee on the table. "I'm from the executive department. You just want to lend your things to your subordinate, don't you?"

Upon hearing this, Ai Shiping did not try to deny it, but just chuckled as if he were pretending to be stupid.

Using the excuse that "his own office was too cramped," he placed his allocated zero-gravity chair in the common lounge. He only went there once every three to five days. The chair had no biometric code, so his subordinates could use it at any time.

Ai Shiping pretended not to know about it.

"Don't be so kind, you idiot."

Mingpo said calmly, "Not everyone deserves your sincerity. Kindness is a kind of cancer; when it starts to hurt, you're already close to death."

"...Did something happen?"

Upon hearing this, Ai Shiping's smile faded slightly.

He stared into Mingper's eyes: "Is it... that Montgomery guy?"

"Yes, I've taken care of it."

Mingpo closed her eyes and spoke calmly.

"Mingpu!"

Ai Shiping was unusually angry.

His voice rose slightly: "That's my man! What mistake did he make, and you didn't even tell me? If I didn't ask you, would you never tell me?"

One of his team leaders, Keller Montgomery, recently disappeared suddenly.

He left no message, and the company didn't ask him anything. They just sent him a message telling him to cut Montgomery's benefits and workstation, and to hand over his work to someone else.

Ai Shiping knew what was going on.

This only happens to employees who have been dealt with by the executive department. Typically, the executive department at headquarters will intervene when an employee attempts to sell company secrets, seriously damages the company's interests, or commits serious violations of rules and regulations.

"He wanted to send a whistleblower letter to higher-ups, S Ping."

Mingpo said coldly, "I'm reporting you. I'm reporting you for embezzling company property, forming cliques, and disrupting the company's healthy competitive atmosphere." S Ping is a homonym for "Ai Shiping," which can be considered a kind of "hesitant idiot." They've known each other since junior high school... Whenever Ai Shiping does something stupid and can't be stopped, Mingpo calls him by his name like that.

This isn't the first time. And it probably won't be the last.

"...How could he do that? It's not like he hasn't used it before."

Ai Shiping's eyes widened, and he murmured incredulously, "I didn't charge you..."

"Using company-provided employee benefits to win people's hearts is also a form of misappropriation of property. After all, it's only free for you, but it actually goes through the company's accounts."

"Furthermore, employee benefits are meant to motivate employees to work hard and get promoted as soon as possible. If you let them enjoy the benefits ahead of time, what incentive will they have to climb the ladder? If they become lazy at work, won't the company's interests suffer? So, you did violate the rules. His report against you isn't entirely unfounded."

Mingpo leaned back slightly on the sofa and said lazily, "Don't be silly, you big idiot. Isn't this how competition is in the company? No matter how good you are to him, it won't matter... Once he pulls you down, your position will be his, and everything will be his. Can the benefits you promise be more than all the benefits you already have?"

He warned, "Moreover, devices that involve blood contact or even nerve stimulation should not be used in public in the first place. The danger is too great. Even putting all that aside, you could still be committing a potential crime of endangering public safety."

"I just happened to have a part of the same mission as that guy, which is how I ended up saving you. That idiot had a deal with Wangchuan Biotechnology; he sold them a set of your company's HR contact information. I thoroughly investigated Wangchuan Biotechnology and was going through that guy's chat history... that's how I found this unexpected treasure."

"It was precisely because of this incident that I was able to intercept his whistleblower letter. Otherwise, you would be in an electric jail right now, being electrocuted while reflecting on what you did wrong."

"Listen to me, Ping. Put away your kindness; cleaning up this mess is a real pain. It was a lucky coincidence this time; I locked his email first. But what if I had been a day later? Yes, he would still die, but how would I have gotten you out of there? I don't know anyone in the Gao family."

"……All right."

Ai Shiping sighed, somewhat helplessly: "I'll move it in. But... oh well, it doesn't really matter anyway."

"What's wrong?"

Mingpo raised an eyebrow: "Speaking of which, what did you initially want to talk to me about? You didn't just want me to find that idiot I dealt with, did you?" "No."

Ai Shiping said softly, "I'm planning to resign, Mingpo."

The atmosphere immediately became heavy as soon as he said that.