Chapter 68 Purchasing Skills

The many models and styles of the Glock family are essentially derivatives and modified versions of the glock g17. Once Wang Xiuyuan purchased the technical data for the glock g17 pistol, he could completely improve upon it.

Since the technical data and patents for the glock g17 were already in his hands, any changes he wanted to make were just a matter of words. He could open a company and hire some firearm designers to make the modifications; it wasn't complicated at all.

The most difficult stage of anything is the process from zero to one. The accumulation from one to two, or even from one to ten, is essentially a repetition of that zero-to-one process.

Because the development path and direction have already been determined, and the most difficult stages of tackling key problems and trial-and-error are over, the rest is just a process of patching and reaping the fruits of victory.

Although Wang Xiuyuan could understand the rules set by the system, he couldn't help but feel a bit frustrated.

As a low-level pseudo-gun enthusiast, Wang Xiuyuan had naturally learned some information about such a famous pistol as the Glock in his previous life.

The Glock company launched its first pistol, the glock g17, in 1983, but the launch date was not the registration date of the relevant patents. In fact, the Glock company began developing this pistol as early as 1980.

On April 30, 1981, after a year of product R&D, Glock finally applied for a patent for its newly developed pistol design.

On May 19, 1982, Glock submitted four new pistols to the Austrian military for testing. After passing various rigorous tests, the pistol successfully entered service with the Austrian military and secured an initial procurement contract for twenty thousand units.

It was currently mid-1980. The safest way for Wang Xiuyuan was to purchase the full set of technical data for the Glock series from the system mall and register the patents before the end of 1980. This meant he only had half a year left.

The Glock series was definitely a firearm family that Wang Xiuyuan could not give up. Although there were many pistols more user-friendly than the Glock family, such as the Beretta 92F and Beretta M9A3, the SIG Sauer P320, the HK VP9 and HK45, and so on...

These models were all more user-friendly than the Glock, but they were also significantly more expensive. Therefore, these models were generally purchased by elite special forces from various countries and middle-income individuals with deep pockets.

The combined annual shipments of these models that were better than the Glock series didn't even match the Glock series alone. The reason was that the Glock series had lower production costs and lower retail prices in the civilian market, so a vast number of people bought them.

For the vast majority of ordinary people, as well as the police and military of various countries, the Glock's performance in all aspects was more than sufficient, and affordability was the priority criterion.

Since entering the market in 1983, the Glock series has sold over twenty-five million units, entering the markets of more than a hundred countries and maintaining the title of the world's best-selling pistol.

This was simply a gold mine that could continuously generate cash flow. When Wang Xiuyuan saw the full set of technical data for the Glock series in the system, he made up his mind to get his hands on it and open a firearm production and sales company.

Since his current quota of sin points wasn't enough to buy the full technical data for the Glock series, Wang Xiuyuan unhesitatingly turned his attention to other, cheaper items, such as various combat skills, special forces combat experience, practical shooting techniques, and so on...

There was a high probability Wang Xiuyuan wouldn't use these skills normally, but it was better to know some if conditions permitted. If a critical moment truly arrived, he might not have the chance to learn even if he wanted to.

Wang Xiuyuan understood this logic better than anyone.

In his previous life, Wang Xiuyuan had bought a huge number of paper books and set up a dedicated study at home.

The books were of all kinds, including the Four Books and Five Classics, complete collections of Tang poetry, Song lyrics, and Yuan songs, various world classics, literary works by Haruki Murakami, Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Wang Xiaobo, Yu Hua, Shen Congwen, Lu Yao, and Wang Shuo, detective novels by Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, and even sci-fi and supernatural novels represented by Dune, The Three-Body Problem, Ghost Blows Out the Light, and Grave Robbers' Chronicles.

If you were to ask if Wang Xiuyuan liked reading?

He would definitely still read! It was just that he had never even flipped through the vast majority of the books he bought.

However, Wang Xiuyuan had a very, very deep realization: even if he bought a hundred books and only read one of them,

as long as a certain piece of content from that one book he read was useful at some point in the future, even just a little bit, then the money spent on all hundred books was more than worth it.

This was also why Wang Xiuyuan chose not to save up his seventy thousand plus sin points now.

It wasn't that he didn't realize how much profit he could generate by saving two hundred thousand sin points to buy the full technical data for the Glock series; as a transmigrator, he knew exactly how big a cake that was.

But Wang Xiuyuan was very rich now, or at least he wouldn't worry about money for the time being. Instead of blindly pursuing more wealth, it was better to use his limited resources on himself.

How much wealth a person possesses in their lifetime isn't determined by how much money is in their bank account or how much expensive real estate they own. Those are just paper wealth, a form of confidence.

The wealth that truly belongs to a person is only the part they spend on themselves.

With over seventy thousand sin points, Wang Xiuyuan ultimately chose three skills: Master-level Baji Quan (Price: 20,000 sin points), CQB Close Quarters Battle Special Operations System Combat Experience (Price: 20,000 sin points), and Master-level Rifle Marksmanship (Price: 20,000 sin points).

These were the three skills Wang Xiuyuan had carefully selected from a large pile of options.

Baji Quan focused on close-quarters combat for self-defense; its moves were clean, efficient, and full of power. Most importantly, it looked very good when fighting.

Being cool is a lifelong pursuit.

When he first got the system, he had considered the Master-level Baji Quan skill. However, for long-term interests, he ultimately chose the Master-level Currency Trading Experience worth five hundred thousand sin points. Now that he was actually using sin points to buy skills, how could Wang Xiuyuan pass up Master-level Baji Quan?

The CQB skills combined with Master-level Rifle Marksmanship were incredibly practical in urban street fighting. With these three skills at his disposal, Wang Xiuyuan's safety would be significantly enhanced.

When he had more sin points in the future, he would definitely continue to buy several more skills. For example, Master-level Krav Maga, Mastery Level Pistol Marksmanship, Master-level Sniper Rifle Marksmanship, and Master-level Shotgun Marksmanship were must-buys.

These were all extremely practical combat skills. It was fine if he didn't need them for now, or even if he never used them.

But once there was a need for these skills, he had to know them; otherwise, it could lead to unimaginable consequences.