Chapter Four: A Thirty-Million Order—Paid First to My Enemy

Regulators sealed the batch. Three packaging houses joined the Spark Safety Alliance, and Haiyue added another sixty-million-yuan order. To evade blame, YaoCore declared that the defect came from its contractor—publicly conceding Spark’s right to use alternative packaging. Wanqing placed the first qualified controller on Chenzhou’s desk. “You paid our enemy, then made the enemy build our road.” “The road is borrowed.” He listened to the controller’s bright pulse. “We need factories of our own.” An emergency alert sounded from western city limits. At Taiyue Robotics, which YaoCore was preparing to acquire, eight hundred warehouse robots had sealed the workshops with three hundred workers inside. Every robot repeated the same message: