Omnic Crisis in Super God's Beginning

Chapter 69 Factional Struggle
"It's just awful."

"Everyone, do you understand?"

"What does the CEO mean? Why didn't you inform us about the 'Ascension Agreement' in advance?"

"This kind of matter should be discussed at the Supreme Council meeting. What the CEO did is indeed inconsistent with the company's regulations."

"But... so what if something like this happens? The company's rules are all made by that person..."

……

A group of company executives gathered in private, and important personnel included the director of the operations department, the director of the planning department, and the director of the labor department.

In an absolutely closed room without any electronic equipment or communication equipment, they freely expressed their opinions and opinions without any restraint, and without the fair and strict image they used to show to the outside world.

Here, they don't have many secrets from each other.

Birds of a feather flock together.

As the company's rule on Aiur became more and more stable, these senior officials, like those officials in the old days, formed factions suitable for themselves based on the division of interests.

When an interest faction gradually forms itself, the senior executives will inevitably align themselves with each other. As the senior executives align with each other, the second and third factions will also be born with the birth of the first faction.

The company only ruled El Star for more than a year, and the senior management divided into three different factions based on departmental relationships.

Self-interested faction, public-interest faction, and uninterested faction.

The main component of the self-interest faction is the interest group headed by the director of the operating department and others. They pay more attention to the amount of benefits they obtain from the company as a collective.

The public interest faction is the engineering department that focuses on the construction of the company's many engineering projects. They only care about the expansion of collective interests. In their eyes, collective interests are above all else. As long as collective interests continue to expand, their personal interests can be fully protected. .

The main group of the profitless faction is the scientific researchers of the scientific research department. Their minds are not focused on the interest disputes within the group, but are only obsessed with various research and the development and application of knowledge. In their view, This is the best way for them to realize their self-worth in the collective behind them.

Most people in the profitless group believe that as long as they continue to realize their self-worth in the group, their personal interests can be protected at any time, so they will be undistracted and devote all their thoughts to themselves and the group. Go to the scientific research career linked to it.

Among the three factions, the selfish faction is the one with the most expansionary intentions. It is also the faction that encompasses the most departments and recruits the most people.

It is human nature to form cliques, and the next stage after forming cliques is faction fighting.

No one would complain that their faction has more power, just as no one would complain that their own faction has more interests.

Struggles for power have also occurred within the company over the past year or so.

The public interest faction and the profitless faction operate independently, do not interfere with each other, and only seek to safely perform the work in their hands. However, the members of the selfish faction have shown that they are not satisfied with the status quo and want to strengthen the weight of their own interests within the group. posture, thus frequently causing some minor conflicts, intending to seize some power from the public interest faction.

As a political collective that unifies the entire planet, Gray Goo Company has begun to show its internal complexity after experiencing various pressures in the early stages of its establishment.

As time goes by, this complexity will become more intense.

What is shown now is just a small prelude.

At present, the senior leaders of the selfish faction gathered together not only to discuss how their faction should fight for power next, but also to worry about the "Ascension Agreement".

There was no way, this incident happened too suddenly, and it also brought enough security threats to make them a little uneasy.

"Even the CEO must abide by his own rules. Otherwise, the existence of company regulations will be meaningless. Without the constraints of those regulations, the company cannot protect the interests and safety of anyone." Director of the Operations Department He expressed his opinion rather dissatisfiedly.

"That's right." The director of the planning department also said:
"According to historical experience, if the existence of existing rules cannot limit the power of the highest authority, then a new set of rules must be established in time, but..."

The head of the planning department paused and then said in an incomprehensible tone:
"We don't have any force in our hands. Who can have the means to change the current company regulations and limit the power of the CEO under such circumstances?"

As soon as these words came out, the senior executives present looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly. They could not answer this question.

"There is a way...through parliament!"

After a long silence, a senior executive suddenly suggested:

"Now we hold the authority of the three departments of the company. Although the people in the engineering department and the scientific research department don't want to be with us, the power we have now can already influence some major companies. Decision made.”

"I think we can submit a decision-making motion through parliament that would give us some other powers."

"Didn't the company recently establish an energy department? According to the information I received, the energy department is likely to exist as the company's main authority department together with the engineering department for a long time to come."

"If we can control the Ministry of Energy through the company council, we will be qualified to negotiate with that person... As long as we have enough powers in our hands, our power will be greater, and it will be possible to let that person Let’s make some concessions.” Although this suggestion is unrealistic, it is indeed a more feasible route, so it has received some praise.

There was no way around it. Some of the policies and measures announced by the company made all members of the self-interest faction feel depressed.

Although those policies and initiatives have indeed brought tangible improvements in basic interests to all company employees, including them, no matter how many basic interests they have, they are just low-level interests in the eyes of senior executives. .

Those basic interests, for the senior officials, are nothing more than some superficial improvements in material life. These improvements are inherently dispensable to them.

They want to gain some more pragmatic benefits, such as the expansion of power in their hands.

However, the company's policies have greatly restricted their desires in this area. This restriction makes them feel depressed and makes their thoughts increasingly deviate from the track of the collective train.

Therefore, now they have to find ways to remove that layer of restrictions.

The conflict between superior power and inferior power will arise from this.

And while the senior executives of the selfish faction are still discussing how to fight for power and gain, clearing the way for their faction to take power within the company...

Inside the CEO's office.

Standing in front of Lu Yuan were Victor, who had been completely transformed into mechanical life, Professor Eureka, and a young man with a resolute and dull face - Chen Wei, the director of the energy think tank in charge of the Ministry of Energy.

"Victor, I didn't expect you to come to this point after all. How do you feel now...?"

Professor Eureka looked at Victor's current appearance and couldn't help but sigh.

He has a very good relationship with Victor. The two have had in-depth discussions on academics and ideological concepts. In addition, they have worked together for a long time, and they can be regarded as close friends who have known each other for many years.

Professor Eureka is also aware of some of Victor's past ideas and propositions. He knows about Victor's past fascination with machinery and the existence and execution of the "Synthetic Era Plan."

But seeing Victor, his best friend, transformed into another kind of mechanical life that was different from the past, Professor Eureka still had mixed feelings in his eyes.

At the same time, he was also curious. According to the content of the "Synthetic Era Plan", Victor, who finally became a mechanical life, had completed the transmission of consciousness, but would the other party still be the Victor he knew before?
Victor's mechanical eyes flashed with an icy cold light. He looked at Professor Eureka's old body and replied in the other person's familiar voice:

"I feel great, Professor. I have never felt better. I have completed my upgrade and evolution."

"Really, that's good. I'm honored for your success..." Professor Eureka felt dark after hearing this, but she pretended to smile.

It's just that although his facial disguise was very sophisticated, those subtle signs of convergence were still captured by Victor. From his holographic dynamic perspective, all the subtle changes in Professor Eureka's body could not escape his observation.

And those subtle changes, after being calculated by the core of Victor's emotional system, made him seem to see a trace of loneliness flashing through Professor Eureka's heart at this time.

After analysis, that kind of loneliness is the negative emotion caused by the loss of a familiar friend in front of you, but there is no way to save it...

After reading this trace of negative emotions from Professor Eureka, Victor fell silent.

The two made a tacit agreement not to communicate with each other.

They all looked at Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan initially looked at the three Victors in front of him with a dull gaze, and then focused on a surveillance video. What was shown on it was the content of the meeting being held by the senior executives of the selfish faction.

Nowadays, the shortcomings of the company's rapid development have been revealed.

Too rapid development has led to the rapid differentiation of the power class within the company, the formation of factions, and the struggle for power. This has formed a trend that gradually points the finger of the struggle for power at him, the person with the highest authority.

However, he did not want to prevent this phenomenon from happening. He has always only focused on the formulation, announcement and implementation of various development plans, and completely let the differentiation between the following departments go.

As long as their struggle for power does not hinder the company's various development plans, he will completely ignore the small conflicts and conflicts caused by the senior management to other departments.

He doesn't want to personally get involved in this kind of bad thing, nor does he want to suppress any faction.

That would only waste his limited energy and time for no reason, and would also cause the company as a whole to suffer some unnecessary internal friction in a short period of time.

For more than a year, Lu Yuan watched the selfish faction grow rapidly under his nose, becoming a small group that could threaten him, the CEO of the company, but he remained indifferent and made no attempt to stop the selfish faction. The meaning of pie.

Because he wants these factions to continue to thrive and grow wildly for a while.

Leeks need to grow taller before cutting.

(End of this chapter)