100: Chapter 100 Doraemon Exploded!!

The air in the study was so thick it was suffocating.

The pendulum of the old-fashioned wall clock swung sluggishly, and every "click" sounded like a heavy hammer striking Chairman Fan Jianguo's nerves.

Fan Zhonghai sat in that rosewood master chair.

This old man, who once turned clouds over with a flip of his hand in Haihu Province, was now hunched over, as if his spine had been pulled out.

He did not look at his son, his cloudy eyes fixed intently on a crack in the floor.

His voice was dry, devoid of any warmth.

"Go to the Su family and apologize."

Five words.

But they were like five red-hot steel nails, driven directly into Chairman Fan Jianguo's kneecaps.

Chairman Fan Jianguo froze in place, the veins in his neck throbbing, his entire face flushed to the color of a pig's liver.

"Dad! Fan Yu is still suffering inside! That is your own grandson!"

He dug his hands tightly into the seams of his trousers, unaware that his fingernails had broken off. His voice was a roar squeezed from the depths of his throat: "You want me to go and kowtow to that freeloader? Why! What kind of soul-stirring soup did that Lu Li feed the higher-ups?"

"Why?"

Fan Zhonghai finally lifted his eyelids.

There was no anger in his eyes, only the dead ash of someone who had seen the ending.

"Just because of that USB drive."

"The old leader let me in on the truth."

The old man tremblingly raised his cane and struck it heavily against the floor, producing a dull thud.

"The things Lu Li brought out can make China's technology soar, and can smash the technological blockade of those Western robbers to smithereens!"

"Your son touched the nation's lifeline! It is only because I tried my best that he wasn't sentenced to death!"

Chairman Fan Jianguo's brain buzzed.

Soar? That Lu Li?

This was even more absurd than hearing the sun rise from the west.

The key was, with his father's seniority, could he only manage to keep Fan Yu from being sentenced to death?

"I don't believe it..."

Chairman Fan Jianguo's lips trembled, his eyes unfocused. "Even if he is a genius, can he act lawlessly? Is our Fan Family's decades of foundation going to be destroyed by a freeloader?"

"You can choose not to believe it."

Fan Zhonghai waved his hand wearily, as if shooing away an annoying fly.

"Get out, do as I say, and take five percent of the shares to apologize. Otherwise, I will strike your family from the genealogy and have your brother come back to take over Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment."

This is the Jingzhou Fan Family; in the face of absolute interest, family affection is as thin as paper.

Chairman Fan Jianguo did not know how he walked out of the study.

Just as he stepped over the threshold, a disheveled figure pounced on him.

"Chairman Fan Jianguo! What did Dad say? Can you save Fan Yu?" Fan Yu's mother's makeup was completely ruined, two black lines of eyeliner hanging down her face, looking like a vengeful ghost demanding a life.

She grabbed Chairman Fan Jianguo's collar tightly, her sharp fingernails almost sinking into his flesh.

Chairman Fan Jianguo was shaken until he was dizzy, and the pent-up fire in his chest finally found an outlet.

"Save my ass!"

He swung his hand violently.

"Slap!"

A crisp, loud slap.

Fan Yu's mother stumbled a few steps, hitting the cold wall, covering her face and looking in disbelief at her usually gentle and refined husband.

"Dad wants us to go apologize! To take the shares and give them to that guy named Lu!"

After roaring this, Chairman Fan Jianguo seemed to have all his strength drained, collapsing weakly against the wall, gasping for breath. Suffocation engulfed him like a tide.

Did he really have to admit defeat?

Go apologize to the enemy who sent his son to prison?

He was not reconciled; how could he be reconciled!

"Ring—!!"

The urgent ringing of a mobile phone exploded abruptly, piercing and heart-stopping in the dead corridor.

Chairman Fan Jianguo irritably took out his phone and glanced at it; it was Old Liu, the head of the public relations department at Tianqiong Interactive Entertainment.

"Speak quickly if you have something to say!" He pressed answer, his tone icy, carrying a malevolence that could erupt at any moment.

"Bo... Boss! There's a situation!"

Old Liu's voice was trembling, not from fear, but from excitement.

Like a gambler who had lost his mind, he had finally drawn the trump card in the last round.

"We monitored a video online! It's about Guanghui Technology! It's definitely huge dirt!"

"If we handle it well, we can directly smear that brat Lu Li! Make him lose his reputation!"

Chairman Fan Jianguo was stunned, his originally dull eyes instantly shooting out a green light like a hungry wolf.

Dirt? At a time like this, what could be more exciting than dirt on Guanghui Technology?

"Send it over! Immediately!"

Less than five seconds after hanging up, his WeChat vibrated, and a video link popped up.

Chairman Fan Jianguo tapped it with trembling fingers.

The image was a bit shaky and the pixel quality wasn't high; it was clearly filmed with a mobile phone.

The background was a dilapidated old residential building.

In the center of the video was a blue, round thing.

It was the latest Robot released by Guanghui Technology—the Doraemon Robot.

It was standing at the entrance of the unit, seemingly blocking something.

Suddenly.

"Zzzzt—"

A teeth-gritting sound of electricity came out.

Immediately after, the Robot that represented "high technology" suddenly spewed thick black smoke from its abdomen.

Flames appeared!

"Bang!"

A dull thud.

The Robot fell straight to the ground, its blue shell engulfed by flames, making a crackling burning sound.

The camera shook violently.

Crying children and the noise of many people could be heard all around.

The video ended abruptly.

Chairman Fan Jianguo stared at the blackened screen.

One second.

Two seconds.

"Ha..."

"Haha..."

"Hahahahahaha!!!"

The wild laughter echoed in the corridor, making Fan Yu's mother on the ground shudder.

Chairman Fan Jianguo laughed until tears came out, his whole body bent over like a shrimp.

Heaven does not cut off all paths!

Is this the Robot that Guanghui Technology bragged about to the heavens? Is this the technology the nation treats like a treasure?

Battery self-ignition! Exploding in the street!

This is no high technology; this is clearly a ticking time bomb sent into thousands of households!

The light in his eyes was terrifyingly bright, like a drowning person grabbing a straw.

No.

It was grabbing a lifebuoy.

Although he didn't understand technology, he understood business, understood human nature, and even more, understood how to use public opinion to kill.

Public opinion is fiercer than a tiger.

As long as this fire starts burning, even the gods can't save him!

"Wonderful!!!"

Chairman Fan Jianguo slapped his thigh hard, the gloom on his face wiped away, replaced by a morbid excitement.

What "peerless national scholar," what "leading the era." It turns out he's just a fraud who only knows how to build machines on PPT!

As long as the public opinion is loud enough, as long as the whole internet is condemning Guanghui Technology for endangering public safety, even if the nation wants to protect him, they have to weigh the public anger!

"Old Liu!"

Chairman Fan Jianguo roared at the phone, his voice becoming shrill from excessive excitement, "Buy me a trending topic! Buy internet trolls! Push it to the entire internet!"

"I've already thought of the headlines—"

"Guanghui Technology's Shocking Scam: Doraemon is Actually a C4 Bomb》"

"《It Can Even Explode! The Ticking Time Bomb Lu Li Gave to His Relatives!》"

"I want the whole internet to know that Lu Li is a complete fraud!"

On the other end of the phone, Old Liu hesitated: "Boss, this... after all, they have official backing, won't it be too risky?"

"Screw that!"

Chairman Fan Jianguo was already blinded by the pleasure of revenge; reason? That's for the dead.

"The officials also need evidence! As long as public opinion rises, as long as everyone thinks he is a fraud, will the officials still protect him? When the wall falls, everyone pushes; I'll see if he dies or not!"

This wave of advantage is mine!

This is an overwhelming advantage!

How can I lose?

There's no way to lose!

Chairman Fan Jianguo seemed to have already seen the image of Lu Li losing his reputation and kneeling in front of him begging for mercy like a dog.

He glanced at his wife, who was still sobbing on the floor.

Suddenly, he felt that the crying sound had become pleasant.

"Stop crying!"

Chairman Fan Jianguo straightened his messy collar, a hideous and twisted smile appearing on his face.

"This time, I will make that guy surnamed Lu suffer a painful loss."

...

The internet world.

The video, which was originally only circulating on a small scale, instantly exploded across the entire internet, driven by some mysterious funds.

Major marketing accounts swarmed in like sharks smelling blood.

[Shocking! Guanghui Technology's so-called high-tech Robot is actually this kind of trash?]

[Exclusive Reveal: Guanghui Technology Robot self-detonates in the street! Fortunately, no children were hurt!]

In the comment section, the rhythm was being steered wildly.

"I knew it! There's no such thing as black technology, it's all just for scamming money!"

"Holy crap, it really exploded? If this were in the house, wouldn't it burn people to death in the middle of the night?"

"Refund! I don't want the Doraemon I ordered anymore!"

"Don't be so anxious, upstairs; maybe it's a 'self-destruct function,' specifically for preventing thieves, hahahaha!"

"@Guanghui Technology, don't play dead! Come out and explain! Why give away a strategic-level product like it's cheap cabbage! Why did it explode!"

On the trending list.

#Guanghui Technology Robot Self-Detonation#

#Guanghui Technology Battery Major Safety Hazard#

Two entries, like they took a rocket, directly landed at number one.

The red "Explosive" tag was shocking.

This night.

Lu Li was eating melon seeds in his western-style house, enjoying rare family time.

The global internet, however, was about to unleash a magnitude-10 tsunami because of his Doraemon.