The bustling cafeteria fell silent instantly because of a worker's words.

Immediately afterwards, most of the people in the workshop dropped their rice bowls and ran back.

On the one hand, it was out of concern for my colleague, and on the other hand, it was to see what was going on.

Director Wang put down his rice bowl, looked at Lin Yang with a frown, and said, "Yangzi, let's go take a look too. I remember this Jia Dongxu is from your department, right?"

Lin Yang was pondering what exactly was going on with Jia Dongxu.

In my memory, he shouldn't have died so young. Could it be that my arrival caused a butterfly effect?

Director Wang's request was exactly what Lin Yang wanted to hear, and he also wanted to go to the scene to see what was going on.

Therefore, after agreeing, he and Director Wang hurriedly went to Workshop 1.

A few minutes later, the two hurried to Workshop 1.

At this moment, several doctors from the factory area carried Jia Dongxu onto a makeshift stretcher and put him into a jeep.

"Thank goodness, it seems he's alright!" Director Wang breathed a sigh of relief when he noticed that Jia Dongxu's upper body was fine and he still had the strength to cry out in pain.

Lin Yang looked at Jia Dongxu's legs, which were tightly wrapped in bandages, and said, "Although he is alive, his legs are useless. It looks like he will be bedridden for the rest of his life!"

"It's pitiful," Director Wang sighed upon hearing this.

As the director of the subdistrict office, she knows all too well how important a young laborer is in this era.

Immediately after seeing the jeep carrying Jia Dongxu about to leave, she said to Lin Yang, "Yangzi, go and tell him that I'd like to take this car to the hospital too, and check on this young man's condition while I'm at it!"

"Aunt Wang, this car must smell of blood. Why don't I have someone find a car to take you there?" Lin Yang said with concern.

"Yangzi, you're underestimating your Aunt Wang!" Director Wang said speechlessly, "Back in the day, your Aunt Wang carried a gun and fought in battles, and even now she's a member of the militia! What's a little bloodshed compared to that!"

Lin Yang was genuinely unaware of this situation.

With a look of admiration, she said, "I never imagined that Aunt Wang was such a heroine!"

"Alright, alright, stop flattering me, or they'll drive off!" Director Wang waved his hand helplessly.

Seeing this, Lin Yang didn't hesitate and immediately went to the jeep and told the driver what had happened.

The driver, of course, would not disagree.

After Director Wang got into the passenger seat, Lin Yang walked towards the workshop with a puzzled look on his face.

He wanted to see exactly how Jia Dongxu had injured himself.

As soon as I entered the workshop, I saw Yi Zhonghai standing alone in front of the blood-soaked machine tool, sighing deeply.

"Yangzi, you're here too!" Yi Zhonghai said with a bitter face when he saw Lin Yang. "What happened?! How could Dongxu be so unlucky? He just lost both his legs!"

"What's going on with this old man?" Lin Yang asked with a hint of doubt. "Wasn't Jia Dongxu in the security department before? How come he's back in the workshop?"

"Sigh, it's all my fault!" Yi Zhonghai shook his head helplessly and said, "When I found out that Dongxu was back this morning, I wanted him to leave your security department as soon as possible, so I asked the director to pick him up from there. I didn't expect that my good intentions would backfire!"

"No way, why is Jia Dongxu still in the workshop at noon? Isn't it lunchtime?" Lin Yang was still a little confused.

“We recently received a batch of urgent work in our workshop!” Yi Zhonghai said, pointing to a group of parts in front of his machine tool. “These parts are needed next week. Dongxu said he was a little late this morning and wants to make up for it by noon!”

As they were talking, Sun Haili, the workshop director of Workshop 1, walked in from outside.

His expression, however, remained quite calm.

After all, the machinery of that time was not advanced, and although their steel rolling mill was large, the machinery was quite old.

Accidents happen all the time.

Even some other factories with high-level jobs have annual mortality targets, so a few deaths are not a big deal.

Therefore, although Sun Haili was a little surprised when he heard that Jia Dongxu had an accident, he was not so nervous after learning that the person was not dead.

Upon seeing Sun Haili, Yi Zhonghai immediately went over to him, abandoning his conversation with Lin Yang.

Now that Jia Dongxu has had such a serious accident, the factory will definitely have to pay compensation.

In addition, Jia Dongxu's job position has become vacant, and the Jia family will definitely need someone to fill in.

As an elder in the courtyard and also Jia Dongxu's mentor, he still needed to help make arrangements in advance.

After Yi Zhonghai went to find Sun Haili, Lin Yang stayed alone in front of the pile of parts. Feeling the pungent smell of blood, he prepared to leave.

But at that moment, he suddenly noticed that one of the parts in front of him seemed different from the others.

Before he could reach for the part...

A system notification suddenly appeared in my mind.

"Ding! The system has detected bicycle parts illegally manufactured by Jia Dongxu, a criminal, in the host's possession!"

"Congratulations, host, you have obtained one pound of rice seeds!"

"Ding! The host has not taken any action against this violator. There will be no additional reward this time."

"Please keep up the good work, host! Keep striving!"

Upon hearing the system's words, Lin Yang finally understood Jia Dongxu's situation.

It turns out that he stayed at noon to work overtime not to make up for the time he missed in the morning.

Instead, he wanted to do his own side jobs when no one was around, but he ended up hurting himself while doing them.

Looking around, I realized that no one was paying attention to us.

Lin Yang quickly put away the part stained with Jia Dongxu's blood.

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