1: King of the Cottage System

June 7, 2002, 10:00 AM.

In a cluster of roadside stalls next to the SEG Plaza in Huaqiangbei, the most famous place in the south of Daxia.

At this moment, a young man of about twenty, dressed in plain clothes, was unhurriedly spreading out his stall on an empty patch of ground.

This stall was extremely crude; calling it a storefront would be an exaggeration, as it was really just a piece of cloth laid on the ground to display his precious goods. Passersby looked at the brand-new, white, coarse cloth spread on the ground.

They guessed that this must be some youngster who had just entered the mobile phone sales business. Seeing this, they felt no curiosity and simply walked past the spot toward their own destinations.

In this era, Huaqiangbei was the largest region in the south for the production, sales, and wholesale of electronic components and mobile phones.

Every day, young people full of dreams came to Huaqiangbei, attempting to make their mark, but in the end, they often left in despair, having lost everything.

Therefore, this scene was a common one, yet it was also the beginning of a cruel reality!

"Another loser has appeared. Seriously, any Tom, Dick, or Harry dares to come here to start a business. Hah, I give him less than three days!"

Not far from the young man's stall, a youth selling mobile phones from a pedal tricycle said disdainfully.

Looking at the pedal tricycle, it had the name "Peng Ge Mobile Stall" posted on it; this Peng Ge must have been selling mobile phones for quite some time.

"Yeah, look at how shabby he is, he doesn't even have a folding table. I reckon he'll struggle to even last three days."

To the side of Peng Ge Mobile Stall, a stall owner who had a folding table to display his phones was looking at the youngster, who was doing even worse than him, with a face full of contempt.

However, the mockery from the peers nearby did not affect the young man's actions in the slightest. He continued to unhurriedly smooth out the coarse cloth and then placed six identical mobile phones on it.

This young man's name was Lin Chen, a transmigrator from 2023.

After transmigrating, he had obtained a mountain fortress king system. At this moment, he was taking the first step in his career, officially selling his first knock-off mobile phone!

As the name implies, this mountain fortress king system was capable of reverse-engineering and producing certain products—a shameless system for what is commonly known as knocking off products.

The mountain fortress king system had two functions and one item. First, the two functions of the mountain fortress king system were the Virtual Laboratory and the BUFF enhancement function.

The Virtual Laboratory, as the name suggests, meant the system would provide a Virtual Laboratory. Inside the Virtual Laboratory, as long as he knew the detailed name or code name of the item...

...he could conjure it out of thin air within the Virtual Laboratory, allowing him to disassemble, imitate, research, and simulate the knock-off manufacturing process.

Besides this, the Virtual Laboratory could also conjure up the semi-finished products he was developing at any time, and he could even choose the progress level of these semi-finished products.

It is worth mentioning that the quantity of the virtualized equipment or the semi-finished products he developed was infinite; as long as he wanted, he could fill the entire Virtual Laboratory with them.

However, it was a pity that the items in the Virtual Laboratory were, after all, virtual; only the knowledge could be brought out.

As for the final BUFF enhancement function, it was a rather metaphysical feature. It could unscientifically provide BUFF enhancements to the items Lin Chen manufactured and to Lin Chen's factory.

This BUFF enhancement mainly had three aspects. At level one, it could provide a 15% quality increase to the products produced by the factory, a 15% increase in learning speed for personnel, and a 15% increase in work focus.

Each of these BUFF enhancements was extremely unscientific, but Lin Chen didn't know why they had such miraculous effects, so he could only attribute them to the black technology of an unknown super civilization.

After all, even something that clearly violated the laws of physics, like soul-transmigrating from 2023 to 21 years ago, could be done; so, simply affecting a person's mental brain and improving the quality of certain items seemed quite scientific in comparison.

After all, if scientific technology could reach the level of controlling every atom and molecule on a large scale, then rearranging the atoms and molecules of a product to achieve a product quality improvement that could be called metaphysical was also possible.

Two system functions and one item. What was this final item?

This item was a Versatile Machine!

Currently, this Versatile Machine could change into various shapes according to Lin Chen's will. It could be said that whatever tool or machine Lin Chen wanted, as long as he had the blueprints, it could simulate and transform into it. It could be viewed as a swarm of nanomachines that could be controlled by brainwaves.

However, it was a pity that the current level of the mountain fortress king system was only level one. The production precision of this Versatile Machine could only reach 2 microns, which was only equivalent to the precision of ordinary domestic high-end machine tools in later generations.

Besides this, although it could transform into any shape at will, because it was only level one, the total weight of the transformed object could not exceed 50 kilograms.

Therefore, in some situations, this Versatile Machine was just better than nothing; having it was better than not having it.

"Whew!"

At this moment, Lin Chen stood up after arranging the mobile phones and took a deep breath, then shouted angrily:

"That goddamn bastard Huang He! He ate, drank, whored, and gambled, owed 20 million, and ran away with his sister-in-law!"

"Bastard Huang He, Huang He is a bastard, give me back my hard-earned money! Give me back my hard-earned money!"

Passersby at the scene heard Lin Chen's roar and, seeing Lin Chen's furious face and red eyes, were all stunned.

What's going on? What happened to this young man?

However, before people could continue to be stunned and puzzled, as they gradually crowded around to watch the spectacle, Lin Chen continued to shout angrily:

"Bastard Huang He, Huang He is a bastard, give me back my hard-earned money! Give me back my hard-earned money!"

"Huang He ate, drank, whored, and gambled, and ran away with his sister-in-law. Now, us workers are left with no other choice but to take the factory's mobile phones out to sell them to cover our wages."

"Now, for only 850 yuan, just 850 yuan, you can take away a mobile phone that should have sold for a thousand. The Chenguang Mobile Phone produced by our factory definitely uses quality materials. This Chenguang Mobile Phone can even display Chinese, and the sound is loud; it is definitely a good product!"

The passersby who gathered around heard that this mobile phone, which originally sold for a thousand, was now only 850 yuan, and they were somewhat tempted.

The selling price of many large foreign mobile phone brands was usually between 1,200 and 4,000 yuan, and even Boda Mobile, the most famous among current domestic mobile phones, was around 1,000 yuan, so this 850-yuan mobile phone was indeed very cheap.

At this moment, this so-called Chenguang Mobile Phone only needed 850 yuan; if they could buy it, they would save at least 100 yuan. Many passersby were somewhat tempted.

"Heh."

Peng Ge, who was nearby, saw signs that Lin Chen's mobile phones were about to sell well. He immediately sneered and mocked:

"The world is really going downhill. There are too many scammers in this world, and it's just too easy to cheat money out of fools."

The people who were preparing to buy and negotiate heard Peng Ge's words, and they immediately stopped their attempts to negotiate.

It is said that competitors are enemies; seeing Peng Ge act like this, could it be that there was something wrong with these mobile phones?

Lin Chen, who was to the side, saw the people's actions and immediately pretended to be furious, like a lion, saying:

"If you don't understand, don't act like a know-it-all. These mobile phones of mine were made by the veteran workers with great effort. If there were problems, would I dare to bring them out to sell?"

After saying this, Lin Chen seemed to be getting desperate; he instantly picked up a mobile phone and performed an action that made everyone at the scene drop their jaws.

"Smack!"

Hearing that crisp sound, everyone at the scene opened their eyes wide, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Because the furious young man from just a moment ago had actually taken that mobile phone and slammed it onto the ground right in front of them?!?

My goodness, has this youngster gone crazy?!? A mobile phone selling for 850, and he just slammed it down like that?

At this moment, the passersby who had gathered to watch the spectacle were all dumbfounded.

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