Chapter 683: The Best Investor
Of course, when it came to the internet industry, basic infrastructure was involved. Huge investments were required, and the threshold was high. The current Meng Chao could not manage it alone.
Most of the internet platforms were controlled by the nine mega corporations, and the most popular social media platforms belonged to certain individuals known as the Deity Realm superhumans behind the mega corporations.
Aside from the nine mega corporations, only the Red Dragon Army and a handful of forces of power had their own platforms and could say whatever they wanted.
This was a rather sensitive field.
If he joined it recklessly, it would be far too easy for him to gain unnecessary attention.
Meng Chao could only use the current platforms to carry out early inspection and preparation work while planning what he should do later.
Besides, he almost finished spending his money.
Due to the situation, he had to work quickly and do everything with maximum effort, and in one breath, he took on a lot of projects.
The monkey model weapons designs and ma.s.s production, the cultivation of tobacco and materials for alcohol, and the construction of the carbonated soft drinks factory used up money the fastest in the beginning.
The lair reconstruction and Superstar’s development itself also used up a lot of cash on Meng Chao’s side.
The amount of cultivation resources he used daily to become a five-star superhuman was also ridiculous.
After the pitched battle and after they faced the super monster horde, many superhumans gained an epiphany during a life and death moment. They saw a brand new path for them to reach a new cultivation realm, and they were currently training with everything they had now, just like Meng Chao.
Everyone was cultivating over their max capacity and using way more resources than necessary, so the prices for cultivation resources in the market skyrocketed.
Even though they hunted a lot of monsters and harvested their crystal cores, bones, blood, nerve bundles, neurospheres, and other materials during the pitched battle, these materials had to be refined over a long period of time before they were sent to the pharmacies. It was only then that they could be made into gene medicines and high-calorie nutritional fluid. Aside from the flesh and organs, very few of these monster materials could be eaten directly.
The production rate of the current pharmacies in Dragon City was limited. Even if they wanted to expand their production rate, they needed time to do so.
However, the superhumans’ chance to reach a new cultivation realm would disappear in the blink of an eye, and the window of opportunity would only last for a few days.
Before the production rate of the pharmacies could keep up with these superhumans, this was the last chance for plenty of unlawful merchants to do something crazy for the last time and jack up the prices for cultivation goods.
They threw all their money to horde cultivation resources, then went along with the tides and started jacking up the prices for the cultivation resources.
In just one short month, some of the prices for rare resources actually doubled.
Even with Meng Chao’s wealth, when he saw the prices for the crystals and gene medicine increase three times per day, his heart still leaped in fear, and he could not handle it.
In truth, he never thought about monopolizing these good projects that guaranteed wealth.
He was willing to share these projects with the lair, Broken Star Club, the Red Dragon Army, Blue Home, and other investors in Dragon City. He did not mind even if he was not the controlling shareholder.
As long as Dragon Citizens were the ones doing it, no matter how they handled the business, the profit would still end up in the hands of Dragon Citizens, and the one prospering was still Dragon City.
The problem was, these may be good projects in his eyes were just bizarre in the eyes of the normal people.
The monkey model weapons were crude and looked like sc.r.a.p metal.
The low-quality tobacco was like smoking fire, and the low-quality alcohol made them feel like their souls were about to escape their bodies when they drank it. There were also soft drinks that had all sorts of strange components in them, and some of them even contained lizard bones.
Would there really be a market for these things?
Even his long-time business partner, Lu Siya, was skeptical.
Of course, Meng Chao had already displayed unbelievable foresight when it came to the battle at Raging Waves, the n.o.ble Descent Hotel ambush, and the battle in the lair.
No matter how ridiculous his projects sounded, Lu Siya would take part in them without hesitation.
But there was only one Lu Siya in the world!
Besides, Lu Siya could only use her personal funds to help Meng Chao.
However, it was hard for her to convince her father’s Sky Pillar Minerals and her grandfather’s Sky Pillar Corporation to invest in projects related to the monkey model weapons and low-quality tobacco and alcohol.
The investors in the lair, Broken Star Club, Red Dragon Army, and Blue Home were willing to cooperate with him because they trusted Meng Chao, but now, Dragon City was expanding swiftly.
These investors themselves, the nine mega corporations, and the Red Dragon Army had plenty of projects that seemed even more reliable, and they also looked like they would bring great profit for just a small investment.
Now, everyone was throwing all their money into investments. Everyone had dozens of projects to invest in, and they did not want to put all their wealth on Meng Chao!
Meng Chao knew that his projects did not appear to be quite reliable to the people right now, and if he did not have his memories from his previous life, it was impossible for him to fully invest in them.
He had also pondered over whether he should reveal his secret.
He made quite a number of achievements in the past few years, and he was now the youngest Heaven Realm superhuman in Dragon City. He was also closely related to Agricultural University, the Abnormal Beast Research Department, the Red Dragon Army, Broken Star Club, and Blue Home. He believed that there would be people who would treat him seriously even if he said something as ridiculous as him returning from the apocalypse.
As long as they were willing to believe him, he could mobilize more funds and power to optimize Dragon City’s industries and tactical situation.
But after repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, Meng Chao still gave up on the idea.
It was not because he was paranoid that the mega corporations or related departments would capture him and research him. Logically speaking, after being in contact with so many higher-up members and powerful figures in Dragon City, even if Meng Chao was not confident in their moral character, he still trusted their intelligence.
They were able to gain a position in the Survival Committee or control mega corporations. It was impossible for them to be shortsighted idiots, and they seldom did things like killing the goose for the golden eggs.
The problem was, once he told someone his secret, it would no longer be a secret.
Meng Chao was not worried about his secret being known by other Earthlings.
He was worried that this secret would spill out of Dragon City and become a known secret among all the Other World races.
If he let others know about his secret, there would be no way this secret would not spill to the Other World races. There were a few ten million people in Dragon City, and most of them were normal people.
The Other World powerful fighters who were skilled in hypnosis and mind attacks could easily capture one or two of them to see into Dragon City’s secrets, especially when they wanted to figure out the origins of the monkey model weapons and low-quality tobacco and alcohol. The reason was that they were specifically made for export purposes and made to target certain people.
At that time, the Other World races would know that there was someone who could predict the future, and he used this to earn money during the war. He even intended to become the greatest victor of the Other World war.
Dragon City would become the target of many by then.
The Other World races would become enemies with Earthlings and send millions of elf a.s.sa.s.sins, vampire killers, orc suicide squads, and even mutant life forms in order to kill Meng Chao, the source of all evil.
That was too terrifying.
The other reason was that the current Dragon City was still ruled by the mega corporations.
The Red Dragon Army might be rising to power, but no one knew whether it could overtake the mega corporations later.
If Meng Chao shared the knowledge about his memory fragments to the people now, the greatest benefactors would be the mega corporations.
The mega corporations could set up tactical strategies based on his predictions and monopolize the important industries in the future beforehand, and from there, become stronger, thus become even more unshakeable existences than before.
Without the advantage of the information gap, the middle-sized and small firms were definitely not going to be able to compete against the mega corporations.
Even so, could a Dragon City that was eternally controlled by the mega corporations really be able to change the future of them being destroyed by the apocalypse?
Meng Chao did not know.
The complaints Lin Chuan, Gao Ye, and the others had about the mega corporations rang in his ears.
In his mind, he remembered how he ended up as an industrial mercenary and a Ghost a.s.sa.s.sin, and those were not happy memories.
If the mega corporations and Deity Realm superhumans were one hundred times stronger, was it a blessing or disaster for the normal citizens living at the bottom level of Dragon City?
Before he figured out this question, Meng Chao did not want to rashly reveal his trump card to the mega corporations.
If possible, he still wanted to look for investors that were not part of the nine mega corporations.
The Red Dragon Army was definitely a good choice.
Meng Chao had a good relationship with the army.
More than ten thousand members in Broken Star Club were gra.s.sroots officers in the Red Dragon Army.
The modified Ripple Force and Reckless Bull Force were basic martial arts that normal soldiers must practice.
One of the directors in Blue Home was even a member of the Red Dragon Army’s General Staff Department.
Through this, Superstar already became one of the greatest contractors of the Red Dragon Army.
On top of that, the biochemical lab under Superstar also inherited Spirit Creation Creatures’ biochemical modification technology. The new Giant Sandworms they developed contributed greatly in digging trenches, air-raid shelters, underground forts, and all sorts of basic facilities for the Red Dragon Army.
Besides, the export of monkey model weapons was always a forte for the military.
The Red Dragon Army was willing to work with Meng Chao, but they faced the same problem as he did.
They, too, had no money.
After all, the Red Dragon Army invested in way more projects than Meng Chao.
They attacked in all directions and conquered land. They had already set up more than one hundred forward operating bases deep in Monster Mountain Range alone.
Even if they were interested in Meng Chao’s projects and wanted to invest in them, they had to wait until they finished setting up the forward operating bases, had them operating smoothly, and could endlessly harvest the resources around them. And if they wanted things to run smoothly before doing anything, they had to wait for at least one year.
Meng Chao could not wait for one year, so he could only think of another method.
Fortunately, the G.o.ds never let down those who worked hard, and he really managed to find a rich investor willing to give him money.
Perhaps this person was the one who was the most suited for him aside from the nine mega corporations and the Red Dragon Army.
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The observation lift moved smoothly in the elevator shaft. It moved up and sent Meng Chao straight into the clouds.
Now, he was among the top levels of the Supernatural Tower.
If he looked into the distance from this place, the originally dazzling and magnificent Dragon City was like colorful wood blocks that spread into the wild from all directions.
Meng Chao’s blood raced, and his heart pumped loudly.
While he was in high school, he had sat at the edge of the balcony of the school building countless times with Chu Feixiong to look at the tower that reached into the clouds, dreaming about standing at the peak of Supernatural Tower and looking down at the world.
Today, he finally got his wish, but what made him even more excited was not the beautiful scenery in front of him.
Instead, it was the person he was about to meet behind the elevator door.
The door opened slowly.
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath, turned around, and walked out of the elevator.
In an instant, he felt as if he walked out of the clouds in Dragon City and into the galaxy.