Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 902 - 292_2

New Dynasty Elegance's mouth twitched, "Pretty much." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"So according to you, the appearance of this idol is their image of the Great Sun Tathagata and 'golden body'?"

"Pretty much."

Enlightened, Brother Ni fell into even deeper confusion.

"What's wrong? If that's the case, why don't these monks install prosthetic bodies for themselves to also get a 'diamond body'?"

"It's lama."

New Dynasty Elegance emphasized, he's a notorious abbot known for being petty, so he couldn't show any goodwill to these heretics.

"Because they believe installing prosthetic bodies is wrong, a lesser path, heresy. Once you get a prosthetic body, not only won't you approach a diamond body, but your body, speech, and mind's karmic burdens will worsen, suffering harsher karmic retribution: body karma—phantom pain, speech karma—loss of five senses, mind karma—cyber psychosis and personality disorder. Once you have a prosthetic body, you'll never attain a true diamond body."

"That's strange."

The more Brother Ni asked, the more puzzled he became,

"They believe everyone has a diamond body, but it's obstructed and disturbed by the karmic burdens of body, speech, and mind, preventing them from becoming a Buddha in this life. Yet, they refuse to install prosthetic bodies, what does that mean? Do they think they are actually dreaming robots, that this world is fake, like Zhuangzi's butterfly dream? As long as they finish cultivating their karma and wake up, their body will already be the diamond body?"

New Dynasty Elegance: "Uh-huh, somewhat like that."

Brother Ni swore

"Religion-fanatics with a screw loose. Could it be that the Tathagata is a supercomputer?"

Then added

"Abbot, I'm not talking about you."

Thinking this might all be part of a game, Brother Ni felt slightly relieved; isn't a digital world inside a computer?

Well, worshiping a cyber Tathagata does require some mental capacity, I suppose.

"It's fine, I study the scriptures but don't believe in religion. Criticize all you want."

New Dynasty Elegance waved his hand, did he seem like a serious religious person, praying at a different mountain peak each day?

Hundreds of years ago, people like him would have been dragged out for punishment by both sides.

"Again with the Bible, Esoteric Buddhism, and some horn; what exactly are these AI trying to pull?"

Why not focus on the pinnacle of scientific creation, instead of playing gods and ghosts?

Brother Ni felt the road ahead was shrouded in mist.

Though many players believe those rogue AI are trying to breach the Black Wall to take over the entire human world, they've hidden so deeply; whenever you think you've found a clue, it quickly vanishes without a trace.

The conclusions drawn are scant, mostly unproven speculations.

But one thing is certain: whatever agenda these AI have, they are about to act.

As the two chatted, a commotion arose near the idol; a few large trucks arrived and halted in front of the statue. A group of Ye Corporation employees disembarked and drove away the lamas, then retrieved scaffoldings from the truck and set them up around the idol, opening the back of the statue.

It seemed they planned to maintain or modify the idol, possibly adding cyber halos to the cyber Tathagata, encouraging everyone to knock the cyber wooden fish and accumulate electronic merit.

In a daze, Brother Ni spotted an old lama among the crowd, observing the idol without moving. No one seemed to notice him, as he was quickly submerged in the crowd and disappeared.

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When establishing an organization, what are the first two departments needed?

The answer is [Human Resources] and [Finance]

The former is responsible for recruiting the employees needed for the organization, while the latter audits the recruitment expenses and personnel costs from the former.

Once these two departments are established, your organization begins operating, even though they produce nothing, fully appearing out of thin air as 'work.'

Once you've established these two departments, your organization will have [employees]. Consequently, [administration] and [logistics] concerning [employees] will appear, such as setting up assessment groups for evaluating employees' [performance] and [attendance].

These tasks then lead to the finance department reporting office expenses besides personnel costs, resulting in the creation of a [Logistical Support Department].

At this point, your entirely empty organization will prepare [office space] and [equipment], its first tangible assets, but it doesn't end there.

With space and employees, won't various safety issues arise? Shouldn't there be employee benefits?

[Safety Assurance Department] and [Employee Welfare Department] emerge.

In this process, meticulous readers have noticed.

Your organization has a multitude of departments, numerous employees, yet you might not have produced even a single thread.

But clearly, each employee is working hard, possibly overwhelmed by increasingly complex administrative tasks due to organizational expansion.

And this is in an ideal state; if we accumulate a bit more stuff,

useless superior connections, ghost jobs (registered but doing nothing, taking ghost salaries), promotional facade builders in propaganda departments, etc.

Your organization grows in personnel; the administrative system becomes more complex, efficiency slows, and the input-output ratio decreases.

If you wanted merely to renovate a road on the street, it might require approval from ten or twenty departments, layers of leadership endorsements; the 5,000 road repair cost might see the government inject 50,000, but the funds may never reach the ground before disappearing.