Chapter 64 - The Truth Unfolds
The following morning, the atmosphere within the headquarters of Nanyuan Technology was thick with a quiet, focused intensity. The digital dust from Jason’s late-night excursion into SIMON’s servers had barely settled, yet the next phase of their counter-offensive was already in motion. With a final, decisive keystroke that seemed to echo through the silent office, Nanyuan Technology officially submitted their authorization application. Almost simultaneously, a brief but potent announcement appeared on their official Weibo account, signaling to the world—and their enemies—that they were no longer merely defending; they were reclaiming the narrative.
The internet, ever a tinderbox for scandal, ignited within minutes. Among the flurry of reposts and the "marmot screams" of excitement from the "Nancheng Couple" fans, a high-profile marketing account—known for its surgical deep dives into corporate espionage—published a post that sent shockwaves through the tech community. The title was stark and provocative: *The Nanyuan Technology Leak: Details That Will Chill You to the Bone.*
The post was a masterpiece of investigative deduction, meticulously organizing two primary discrepancies that the public had hitherto overlooked.
First, the author presented a side-by-side comparison of two critical dates. On one side was the report from the *Nancheng Daily*, documenting the exact day Nanyuan Technology had donated their state-of-the-art robots to the municipal government. On the other was the timestamp from SIMON’s own surveillance footage, which Jason had so graciously liberated. The discrepancy was glaring. A robot identical to the donated model had appeared in SIMON’s overseas laboratory a mere twenty-four hours after the donation ceremony in Nancheng.
"This was no spur-of-the-moment theft," the post argued, the words dripping with clinical suspicion. "It suggests a predatory gaze that had been fixed on Nanyuan Technology long before the first crate was even packed. For a machine to cross the ocean and enter a high-security lab that quickly, the logistics had to be pre-arranged. This raises a harrowing question: who among the personnel responsible for overseeing these donated units was either so negligent as to lose one, or so corrupt as to hand it over? Nanyuan Technology deserves a clear, uncompromising accounting of this betrayal."
The second point was even more damning, cutting straight through the bureaucratic fog of the Nancheng government. The blogger pointed out that when SIMON filed for third-party appraisal after their "successful" imitation, they explicitly listed the comparison specimen as a medical robot provided by the Nancheng municipal government.
Yet, when the accusations of intellectual property theft were first leveled against Nanyuan, the company had been visibly blindsided. The implication was clear and devastating: the municipal government had provided Nanyuan’s proprietary technology to a foreign competitor for "appraisal" without ever informing the creators.
"Is this reasonable?" the post challenged, echoing the growing outrage of the netizens. "Is it even legal? Under what authority was a donor’s intellectual property handed over to a third party for secret testing? And most importantly—whose hand held the pen? Who signed the document that authorized the release of that sample?"
The post concluded with a sharp, pointed demand for transparency. Given the sheer technical prowess Nanyuan Technology had displayed in defending itself, the author suggested that the "hidden hands" behind this conspiracy were likely already scrambling to suppress or destroy the flight recorder data and surveillance logs. The call to action was simple: the Nancheng government must provide a reasonable explanation. The truth could not be allowed to remain buried under layers of official seals and corporate lies.
