Chapter 110: Establishment of Trading Channels (2 updates)
After the first stage of the preliminary selection, various forces took action to win over the talents who emerged in the first round of preliminary selection.
The larger forces will naturally target the geniuses who stand out in the first round and are expected to reach the Universe Finals.
The weaker forces focused on those geniuses who were one level behind.
Even many geniuses who failed to pass the first round of screening and were eliminated, but who still performed brilliantly, were sought after by many forces and organizations.
Even if Jiang Chen, Luo Feng and others are not interested in these things, there are still some invitations that are difficult to shirk.
For example, the top leaders of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, or the big forces in the Ganwu Universe Kingdom.
However, the two of them did not readily agree to the invitations from these forces. They just managed to be polite, which could be regarded as a 'good relationship' and a fairly good relationship.
Taking this opportunity, Jiang Chen expanded his business.
In the past few years, Jiang Chen has accumulated a lot of good things in his hands.
In addition to the [Space Furnace], which is a gold-absorbing weapon, it also has good technologies in spacecraft engines, intelligent optical brains, and various technological weapons.
Although the technology in the universe is very advanced, at a slightly lower level, in terms of 'cost-effectiveness', it may not be as good as the blueprints Jiang Chen exchanged from the system.
Through the opportunity of this genius battle, Jiang Chen and many forces in Qianwu Universe Kingdom have initially established a cooperative relationship.
Although these forces are willing to cooperate, it is more for the sake of Jiang Chen's achievements in the genius battle, and they hope to draw closer to Jiang Chen through benefits.
The scale of cooperation at the beginning was not large, and the attitudes of each force were basically to send some money to Jiang Chen.
Since it is a gift, it is naturally impossible to give it away without restrictions. According to the internal judgments of each force, there is an internal price tag for the 'cooperation' with Jiang Chen.
But Jiang Chen believes that as long as the performance of his products is superior enough and the price is attractive enough, and can bring enough profits to his partners, the attitudes of these forces will naturally change.
In any environment, unless you have a crushing force advantage.
Otherwise, if you want to make money, especially big money, you must recruit a group of partners with sufficient strength to make the cake bigger together.
Eating alone is frowned upon in any world.
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Virtual universe, in a quiet room.
Jiang Chen put away the contract he had just signed and said with a smile: "Master Yukan, the first batch of 'D5-class spacecraft engines' will be delivered within half a year. I believe this will be a long-term cooperation between us. Start. The products provided by our company are definitely the most affordable and have the best performance among the same level.”
The name Immortal in front of me, among the representatives of various forces who came to meet Jiang Chen. , the strength is not strong, but the status is very special.
He is a representative of the "Ji Family" from the three hundred princely families of Qianwu Universe Kingdom, and is also a disciple of "Ji Tianzang", the head of the Ji Family.
The teacher of Jiang Chen's other clone, 'Erso', the Phantom King, has a universe-level direct disciple, 'Ji Qing', who comes from this family.
Yes, it’s the ‘Ji Qing’ who fell in love with Hong in the original work and was eventually broken up by the Phantom King.
Due to his identity as 'Ji Qing', Jiang Chen also has a certain understanding of the power of the Ji family. He knows that this family controls a large number of industries in Qianwu Universe, so he is quite concerned about this transaction. For attention.
"I speak more directly. If I have offended you, please forgive me."
Yu Kan put away the contract, looked at Jiang Chen, and said, "We will cooperate with you. , I just value you as a person. As for the performance of the product, I don’t have high expectations, but it doesn’t matter. As long as the spaceship engine provided by you can reach the minimum standard of 'D5 level', this deal can be maintained. If you can successfully become the core genius of Virtual Universe Company, as your strength increases, your status in Virtual Universe Company will increase. , the scale of the transaction can also be expanded accordingly.”
Yu Kan's attitude was very clear. He did not expect this transaction to bring any benefits to the Ji family. Instead, he was prepared to lose money.
Just think of it as spending money to build a good relationship with Jiang Chen.
For such a family, there are many similar 'businesses'.
On the surface it is business, but in fact it is all about conveying benefits and establishing friendship.
The scale of the transaction, that is, how much benefit is delivered, depends on the strength and identity of the other party.
Jiang Chen didn't care about Yu Kan's attitude. He smiled slightly and said, "After the engine delivery is completed, you can ask your technicians to confirm it. As I said, I only sell the best products and I also like a win-win situation. Of course, you now It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree. After you receive the goods, you will understand that I didn’t lie to you.”
Yu Kan nodded. On the surface, he seemed to agree with Jiang Chen’s words, but what he thought in his heart was up to him. Only he himself knows.
The two sides continued to exchange a few polite words, and Yu Kan quickly said goodbye.
Jiang Chen took out the contract and looked through it a few more times before nodding with satisfaction.
Disregarding the relationship with ‘Ji Qing’, the Ji family controls a large amount of mineral resources in Qianwu Universe, including many special metals and ores with powerful extraordinary properties.
This is exactly what Jiang Chen needs most to build a mechanical army.
Just talking about B-grade to E-grade metals, the Ji family accounts for almost 30% of the entire Qianwu Universe Kingdom.
Of course, the bulk of it is still the ‘Business Department’ of Qianwu Universe Country. The Ji family only holds shares and obtains management rights.
However, the 'Business Department' only wants to make profits and rarely participates in specific management. In these mineral transactions, the Ji family still has a great say.
As long as he can establish a long-term cooperative relationship with the Ji family, Jiang Chen can obtain raw materials from the Ji family at a lower price than the market price.
It may only be a few percentage points cheaper, but when the base is enlarged to a certain extent, the savings are still considerable.
The most important thing is that as long as channels for resource acquisition are established, Jiang Chen can largely avoid being controlled by others when building a mechanical army in the future.
Even if the channels of the five giants are already quite reliable, one more channel always brings one more choice.
“The materials such as ‘liquid silver metal’, ‘black yttrium metal’, and ‘Luoyu spar’ controlled by the Ji family are in great demand if I want to build a mechanical army. With this With this channel, I can start making preparations."
Jiang Chen was thinking about his future plans.
After the preliminary test, the prototype of Jiang Chen's mechanical army has been verified in actual combat.
Next, we only need to continue to improve the design of the mechanical army according to this idea.
Of course, to build a mechanical army of sufficient scale, the funds required are also astronomical.
However, Jiang Chen still has enough time.
It will be a few years before the genius war ends.
Even the process of building a mechanical army can be completed after entering the core secret realm of Virtual Universe Company.
Jiang Chen only needs to collect this ‘start-up capital’ before the genius war ends and before heading to the initial universe.
"Well, for the time being, we can push back on the core made of the 'Void Dragon Bones' and design an E-class mechanical unit to collect the 'Zerg Brood' on the earth." Jiang Chen After making a decision, he quickly teleported back to his residence in the virtual universe, entered the specially opened experimental space, called up a design plan, and began to study and improve it.
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Two months after the first round of primaries.
On July 17, 2066, China time, the ‘Arena Battle’ of the second round of qualifiers began.
Similar to the original work, ‘Hong’ failed to make it through the first round of melee in the ring and was unfortunately eliminated.
However, with his strength, being able to reach this point contains a bit of luck.
Even through the melee in the ring, the knockout rounds and the reincarnation battles that followed, Hong had little chance of making it through.
Without crossing the threshold of the 'law', there is no way to achieve the ultimate ranking in the universe.
Luo Feng's performance was quite good. After passing through the melee in the ring, he won four consecutive games in the one-on-one competition in the ring, successfully grabbing a promotion spot.
Like in the original work, he unfortunately encountered ‘Rong Jun’ who was stronger than him and was put into the ‘loser group’ and entered into a long and cruel ‘reincarnation battle’.
However, losing the training of the ‘Reincarnation War’ cannot be said to be a good thing or a bad thing.
Some geniuses could have directly qualified for promotion, but they deliberately lost in the last round and entered into a 'reincarnation battle' to compete with geniuses one after another.
——Those who can reach the level of 'one-on-one in the arena' will not be weak even if they lose or are eliminated.
Playing against such an opponent is very meaningful for many geniuses.
Maybe the performance of a certain opponent can give you some insights.
For example, in the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, 'Rong Jun', who attracted a lot of attention from Jiang Chen, deliberately lost the last round of one-on-one in the arena and took the initiative to enter the 'reincarnation battle' to seek challenge.
Of course, this is also related to Rong Jun's personal style.
He began to try to create his own secret method at the stellar level, which required a lot of battles to discover the flaws in his secret method.
As for this, if you don’t have a powerful teacher, you won’t be able to specifically set up a suitable opponent in the virtual universe just by yourself.
Those ‘real’ opponents are more suitable targets.
However, this approach is not suitable for Jiang Chen.
With the end of the arena battle, the genius battle entered the long and cruel 'reincarnation battle' stage. Jiang Chen also temporarily put aside his focus on the genius battle and returned his attention to his own improvement.
Ontology still spends most of its time in the system library, constantly learning and researching new knowledge.
Occasionally I return to the outside world and do some research in the laboratory.
Except for very little rest time, Jiang Chen's only enjoyment is to drink a few bottles of precious wine purchased from the universe when he is tired, and wash away his fatigue through drunkenness.
As for the three clones.
The clone of 'Ersso' is in the 'Secret Realm of Death', focusing on studying the secret methods left by the Phantom King.
In the past few months of the Genius Battle, Jiang Chen has successfully practiced all 58 secret soul defense techniques and began to study other methods of the illusionist school.
The 'Illusion Warrior Style' followed by the clone of 'Uchiha Shisui' also requires deep attainments in illusion.
Of course, this identity cannot directly use the illusion secrets of the Phantom King's lineage, but as long as you understand the principles and develop some illusion methods to assist in combat, you can still do it.
Different from illusionists who rely more on illusions and soul attacks for combat.
Although the fantasy warrior style also uses illusion methods, it is only an auxiliary, and more importantly, it is the warrior's method.
As long as you draw some essence from the secret techniques of the illusionists of the Phantom King's lineage and develop some relatively crude illusion techniques yourself, it will be more than enough to deal with stellar battles.
As for the other two clones, they put almost all their energy into improving the mechanical legion.
In the first round of the genius battle, the mechanical army used by Jiang Chen can only be said to be barely a prototype, not even a semi-finished product.
Only after continuous improvement and polishing the details of each mechanical unit to the extreme can the mechanical legion be truly "complete".
Of course, apart from research, the two clones will also allocate part of their time and energy to practice secret techniques in combat.
Research and practice.
These two things occupy almost Jiang Chen's entire life.
Even the energy blocks produced by the [Space Furnace] or the transaction orders signed with various forces in the Qianwu Universe Country, Jiang Chen left it to Jarvis and his slaves to handle.
Jarvis is responsible for arranging production and acquisition, and slaves come forward to complete the transaction.
Except for a few extremely necessary scenes, Jiang Chen will not waste time at all.
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Time passes.
The four-person team from Earth, Jiang Chen and Luo Feng all entered the universe finals of the genius battle.
The eliminated Hong and Lei Shen also have their own opportunities.
Thor God, of course, has long been apprenticed to the 'Kab Realm Lord' who left the realm within the realm. After being eliminated in the genius battle, at the request of the intelligent life form 'Mist' who looked like an old man with a white beard, Leaving the earth and heading into the universe.
And Hong, because of his outstanding performance in the genius battle, attracted the attention of "Luo" who founded the "Three Ax Mountain" holy land and had the title of "Lord of Time".
After some exchanges, Hong chose to worship "Luo" as his teacher, left the earth, and followed "Luo" to wander in the universe.
Although Luo Feng has no intention of leaving the earth, he spends a lot of time on Mercury in order to practice the 'Shen Shen Weapon'. He will only return to the earth and his family during the breaks between training. Reunion.
——As for Mars, it has long become Jiang Chen’s ‘mine’.
Of the four people on Earth, only Jiang Chen is left, and he has been 'staying' on Earth for a long time.
More than eight months after the ring battle ended.
The long-awaited system prompt finally sounded.
(End of this chapter)