The employees were busy setting everything up. Rachel was at the base directing and making arrangements. At the sight of me, she merely glared distastefully but did not say anything disparaging.

I was not very familiar with the technology, so the best I could do was to handle the miscellaneous items on the side. The damage done to the base was repaired with such skill that I could not tell the difference.

With Armond and Rachel delegating, I watched in amazement as the employees ferried over and set up all sorts of sophisticated machinery.

Two of them brought a sort of excavation machine in. It wasn’t large, but it was fully automated. They left the machine and departed.

I was curious and couldn’t help myself from getting a closer look. It wasn’t turned on, so it just looked like a pile of scrap metal.

I couldn’t understand why children were so fascinated with these things.

 

“These are used to assist in the development phase,” came Joseph’s voice from behind.

I was nonplussed. “Assist the development?”

 

Joseph nodded. “There aren’t many laborers here in Lavelian Village. The robots basically handle all of the follow-up work.”

“Were the stolen goods similar to this?”

“Yes, they were,” said Joseph. “That was why the projects had to be postponed. However, it was a good thing that we have backups on hand. The commencement of the project wasn’t a problem. Our worry is that if the technology is leaked, it would be a hassle to haggle and fight for copyright.”

voice came suddenly from behind.

but I lost my footing

an instant, the machine came to life and raced backward, smashing into everything in its path. It

six-foot-tall machine fell over. Thankfully its progress was halted by the wall and the damage was not as bad as

me steadily. “Are

my head and looked behind

“It…”

a troublemaker, aren’t you? Things will always go wrong whenever you

things are?” she chastised. “It’s difficult to fix them, you know. Don’t you feel bad for the people who have

and apologized. “It was

it’s not even your money, to begin with,” she said scathingly. “How nice it must be to spend your man’s money like that.”

should concern yourself with the repair works. Let

not to pursue it as she caught sight of the look

spun around and started describing the extent of the

that she directed the sarcastic comments to me on

machine caught my interest. It had scraped off some

caught me examining the wall. “It’s crowded and chaotic here.

this base? Murphy Corporation

said, puzzled. “Murphy Corporation built this

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