Chapter 93 System Consumption

【heavenly dao system】

Character: Wang Xiuyuan

Strength: 30, Constitution: 22, Intelligence: 20, Willpower: 20

(Average person's value is 10, human genetic limit is 100)

sin points: 467,300, merit points: 237,738

System Skills: 【Master-level Futures Trading Experience】, 【Master-level Stock Trading Experience】, 【Master-level Currency Trading Experience】, 【Master-level Baji Quan】, 【CQB Close Quarters Battle Special Operations System Combat Experience】, 【Master-level Rifle Marksmanship】, 【French Proficiency】

As soon as Wang Xiuyuan opened the system data panel, he saw a pleasant surprise: his sin points and merit points had skyrocketed to an unbelievable level.

His sin points had increased by 420,000, and his merit points by 220,000; 'getting rich overnight' was the perfect description.

Without hesitation, he opened the merit mall to strengthen his body. Having once lived as a corporate slave, Wang Xiuyuan knew the importance of health better than anyone; aside from the matter of life and death, nothing was more important than a healthy body.

Since he had acquired a significant amount of merit points this time, Wang Xiuyuan planned to give his body a comprehensive upgrade rather than just strengthening his four basic attributes.

He had thought about how to strengthen his body long ago, but back then, his merit points were too low to take action.

Strengthening a single internal organ required 10,000 merit points, while a one-time strengthening of all internal organs cost 50,000 merit points.

Strengthening the muscles of the left hand alone cost 10,000 merit points, while strengthening all the muscles in the body also cost only 50,000 merit points. The same logic applied to bones and the brain.

However, the system mall had another option: a complete, full-body enhancement cost 200,000 merit points.

Undoubtedly, this was the most efficient way to save merit points; the only drawback was that it took a long time to save up for a single use.

It just so happened that the merit points in Wang Xiuyuan's hands tonight were enough for one full-body enhancement, and he certainly wasn't going to miss this rare opportunity.

With over 37,000 merit points remaining, he first spent 28,000 to raise all four basic attributes to 30. The remaining 9,000-plus merit points were only enough to add an extra 4 points to Strength.

This was because, starting from 31 points, strengthening a single attribute point cost 2,000 merit points—the cost had doubled again from the previous tier.

Not long after the enhancement, Wang Xiuyuan immediately felt a warm sensation throughout his body, knowing that his physical form was undergoing a change.

The feeling was hard to describe—like jumping into a 39-degree Celsius hot spring after being frozen in the snow for a long time, or like a starving person finally eating a bowl of hot porridge.

In short, it was a very comfortable feeling, and a sense of satisfaction welled up from deep within him.

Afterward, Wang Xiuyuan opened the sin mall and purchased the full set of technical data for the Glock series of pistols he had been longing for. From now on, he would have another stable 'cash cow' in his hands.

A Glock pistol with a market price of over five hundred dollars had an actual production cost of only seventy-five dollars; such a high gross profit margin was simply insane.

There was no need to mention how expensive labor costs were in America. If the components of the Glock pistols were produced separately in various prisons and then a specialized factory was established for final assembly, the cost per gun could be reduced by at least another half.

Establishing a firearms manufacturing company to make money was only one aspect. The more important reason he cared so much about this data was that it could be his chance to break into the behemoth known as the American Military-Industrial Complex and become a part of it.

The American Military-Industrial Complex is a massive entity centered around five major defense giants—Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and General Dynamics Corporation—with forty-two large defense enterprises as the backbone, and over 30,000 primary contractors and nearly 50,000 subcontractors acting as its wings.

It covers multiple industrial fields such as electronics, machinery, chemicals, and metallurgy, with over 3.7 million jobs directly or indirectly involved in the production and sales of the military industry chain.

In the past, Wang Xiuyuan wouldn't have stood a chance of becoming part of the military-industrial complex, but today's Wang Xiuyuan was no longer the same.

He didn't bring Second-generation rich kids like Reynoldson Rockefeller, Devik Morgan, and Gluck Dupont into business just to give them money for nothing. When they became business partners, these people were naturally tied to Wang Xiuyuan.

The Morgan Consortium controlled General Dynamics Corporation and Northrop Grumman.

The Rockefeller Financial Group controlled Lockheed Martin and Westinghouse Electric.

The Dupont Conglomerate started in munitions and controlled DowDuPont, the world's second-largest chemical company, along with several large defense enterprises. Additionally, they co-controlled General Dynamics Corporation with the Morgan Consortium.

With Reynoldson Rockefeller, Devik Morgan, and Gluck Dupont as his sponsors, it really wouldn't be difficult for Wang Xiuyuan to become part of the military-industrial complex—provided he had a sufficiently solid stepping stone.

Just like someone wanting to join a writers' association, no matter how strong your connections are, you must at least be literate first—even if your poetry is as crude as 'you pee a hole, I pee a pit,' it's fine as long as it's something.

With the connections of the Rockefeller, Morgan, and DuPont families, as long as Wang Xiuyuan's firearms company was run decently, he could smoothly enter the American defense industry, adding another layer of security to himself.

Since transmigrating, Wang Xiuyuan had been working hard to break into and integrate into various circles. This wasn't because he truly wanted to merge with these people in his heart.

Rather, every place has its own unique rules of survival. If you want to live comfortably in a place, you must play the game according to its rules.

Anyone who dared to try and change or challenge the rules of the game met a miserable end, and Wang Xiuyuan, even as a transmigrator, was no exception.

No matter how impressive he was, at most he could use information asymmetry to make a bit more money, and that was it.

But in this world, having money isn't enough. What's truly powerful is authority—the airtight, indestructible network of interpersonal relationships formed by power and wealth.

Why can Asians never truly gain a solid foothold in the upper echelons of America?

Because the space at the tip of the pyramid is only so big, the number of spots where people can stand is limited, and power, wealth, and resources are all finite.

If Wang Xiuyuan wanted to stand up there, he would have to kick a family off the tip of the pyramid. No family wants to be kicked off, so what would those families at the top do?

Naturally, those slightly weaker families would band together for warmth and practice collective exclusion. This is the simplest and most effective method.

There aren't even enough resources and spots for the white and Jewish people themselves; why would they let an Asian take a bite of the pie?

A family that cannot stand at the tip of the American pyramid is just an oversized piggy bank, no matter how much money they have. There are no exceptions.

If Wang Xiuyuan didn't want to be slaughtered like a pig, he had to establish a firm foothold at the tip of the American pyramid and truly integrate into it. Those were the rules of the game.

As for the idea of making money and immigrating to another country, it was pure nonsense. The rules of the game in every part of this world are actually more or less the same.

Every place has its local powers, and their cake has long been divided. Why would they make a spot for you?

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