After completing his ’money making’ task for the day, Tang Qing directly teleported back to his uncle’s house. The rest of the work was left to the robots. Tactical fighters, appointed by Tang Yi, would guard the teleportation node to various required locations as per the plan. They would leave behind soldiers and equipment to carry out the task, then move on to the next location.
Since there was only one teleportation node and the country was expansive, deploying over a hundred personnel of various types would take at least a week.
Tang Qing felt frustrated again at this thought. It was so much trouble to do something. It took so many people, so much money, so much energy. He had the feeling that the system was indifferent, giving him complete freedom.
Take the current loan task for example. He had basically withdrawn from it now as there was barely any profit. He didn’t understand why the system continued to issue such tasks. They were the main criteria of assessment before reaching level ten. Apart from the penalty of the loan task, the system had no other limits that could ’overwhelm’ him.
Was the system reminding him not to forget his original intention?
Or was there a deeper meaning?
Tang Qing couldn’t figure it out for the moment and the system didn’t pay any attention to his questions. Alas, he envied the systems that could chat and joke around with their masters.
Well, he’ll figure it out sooner or later.
Let’s take a nap and see.
Even though he couldn’t sleep anymore, it felt good to close his eyes and stay warm inside the duvet.
...
As Tang Qing was ’counting sheep’ lying under the duvets,
United States.
In a remote town near Texas,
A sixty-something man was respectfully answering a phone call in his civil residence on a farm. On his computer was the web page window of the chat with Tang Qing.
"Sir, as expected, he has agreed," the old man said modestly.
"Hmm, good, let your technical teams investigate everything about him. I will also send someone to assist you, but be careful with your methods. We shouldn’t have any conflict with this unknown force until we understand more about them," a voice came through the phone, neither sad nor happy.
"Yes, sir. Could he be one of the Covenant doing ’business’? After all, this transaction is a bit too big. But it doesn’t seem like their style. I’ve never seen such a method," the old man couldn’t help but ask.
"Hehe, old friend, I know what you’re worried about. But what does it matter? It doesn’t impact us in any way. Moreover, there is no conflict of interest in this matter, right?" the man on the other end chuckled.
The old man nodded and said, "I understand, Sir, I will find out about his background and purpose as soon as possible."
"Hmm, keep a close watch on Bright Biological Research Center’s X72 project. Let me know immediately if the second phase of testing is successful. I have a use for it."
"Yes, sir."
...
Over the next few days, Tang Qing attended his classes at school sincerely. He enjoyed the cozy school life during the day. After practicing calligraphy at night, he would go to the command room to watch movies. With the ability of his analysts to get high-definition movies efficiently, along with Little Two’s image optimization, it was even clearer than the big screen at cinemas and even the audio was top-notch. It was loud but not piercing.
Of course, this didn’t interfere with the work of others in the command room. Their smart chairs were equipped with something like an energy shield that could selectively isolate sound and dust. It even had initial defensive capabilities. According to Little Two, it could withstand continuous gunfire. If it were to be sold, it would definitely make a lot of money.
But Tang Qing didn’t lack money. Why would he sell it? The authorities would definitely investigate if these things were sold.
It was enough to keep these good things for himself.
From this, Tang Qing could see some hope, a hint of having future weapons. A chair this good, the system’s weapons for sale in the future can’t be less impressive, right?
But even if the system could sell large vehicle weapons in the future, to be honest, Tang Qing didn’t dare to use them blatantly. Unlike firearms and such, they were registered with various countries and arms dealers. If suddenly, another one popped up, the arms dealers would go crazy. Even if you had a military factory, it wouldn’t be ok.
It seemed like the system was forcing him to be an arms manufacturer.
...
March 26, Sunny.
Saturday.
After such a long preparation, as of yesterday, all the dozens of Sheng Tang Apparel stores in the province had been opened. Every day, there were profit reports coming in.
Looking at the growing sales numbers every day, Tang Qing was quite satisfied. Though he couldn’t get a penny in the short term and he had to continue investing money, this was his first enterprise. Also, it was his only wholly owned enterprise that was currently doing business.
According to calculations, excluding investments, the profit of Sheng Tang Apparel until the end of this year would only be over 30 million RMB, which was equivalent to his daily arbitrage earnings. However, making money from this enterprise was secondary to him. Watching it grow and expand was a joy in itself.