27: Your justice grandpa is here!
After school, Tang Gao didn't spar with Liu Ren; instead, he let him go to sleep and rest, lest the guy burn himself out before the college entrance examination.
Returning home, he turned on the local channel and found that today's reports were exceptionally lively, mostly revolving around the Sān Yè Cǎo Group Liang City Branch.
From the Blood Rage Thrall Case, to the Magic Mechanical Puppet, and then to the human-animal technology grafting that violated human ethics… facts proved that if you found one cockroach in your house, there was no doubt that your house was already full of cockroaches.
As these matters concerning the Three-Leaf Clover Group were unearthed, various official organizations in Liang City, in order to demonstrate their correctness, or like the Dan Yao Association to compensate for their major errors in duty, actively kicked the Three-Leaf Clover Group while it was down.
Tang Gao rarely made himself a cup of green tea, sat on the sofa, and leisurely looked at today's harvest: “Not bad, not bad, I’m one step closer to becoming a Second Order.”
In this world, most talented people are actually stuck at the unranked level.
Being able to become a First Order Cultivator is already like a Dragon among men.
As for becoming a Second Order Cultivator, this not only has strict requirements on talent, but also on the Cultivation Technique Rank, martial arts or Spell mastery, Spiritual Qi quality, Medicinal Pill resources, Magical Artifacts, armor, etc.
These seem unrelated, but they are actually necessary aids to becoming a Second Order Cultivator.
Of course, those whose talent is strong enough to Breakthrough the norm are exceptions.
Violent Justice, as usual, was doing missions on autopilot, Cultivating on autopilot, exercising on autopilot… A whole day down, his life was very fulfilling.
As for the Alchemist, apart from going out in the afternoon to find an internet cafe to distribute Materials everywhere, the rest of his time was spent studying Alchemy; after a day, he looked much more profound, his eyes filled with the clear wisdom of a medicine fanatic.
Of course, the Alchemist Avatar refined many Medicinal Pills today, and after selling them in bulk to shops, he gained more than a year's worth of Cultivation.
Tang Gao chose to accept the earnings, then opened the quest log to check today's quests, calmly taking a sip of tea.
He flipped through it and indeed found the quest related to the Sān Yè Cǎo Group Liang City Branch.
Tang Gao sat up straight, clicked on the quest, and was about to check it when he noticed a red dot on the main quest function bar next to it.
No one can refuse to click a red dot.
Tang Gao clicked on the main quest and found that a new quest chain popped up, with a progress bar next to it.
[One-star Quest: Refine optimized Medicinal Pills and begin promoting and selling them]
[Two-star Quest: Organize relevant Materials and submit a report to the relevant departments]
[Three-star Quest: Kill the Magic Mechanical Puppet and obtain the Alchemy equipment from the Alchemy factory]
[Four-star Quest: Sell large quantities of optimized versions of Three-Leaf Clover Group medicine and Medicinal Pills in the black market]
[… ]
[Ten-star Quest: Alchemist Clone creates a pharmaceutical group and takes over all existing market share]
The progress bar reached 11.2%, proving that this afternoon's drastic actions were quite effective, but these could at most harm the interests of the Sān Yè Cǎo Group Liang City Branch; they were not yet enough to harm its Foundation.
The timing and intensity were still not enough.
As for quests above four stars, especially the ten-star quest, Tang Gao pretended not to see them.
Are you kidding? Letting the Alchemist Clone create a pharmaceutical group, what's the difference from me starting with a begging bowl and establishing an Imperial Dynasty by brute force?
“Hmm… which quest should I do?”
After a moment of hesitation, Tang Gao gave up hesitating and accepted all quests from one star to four stars.
“Only children make choices; of course, I want them all!”
The one-star, two-star, and four-star quests can be fully entrusted to the Alchemist Avatar; just let him do them with all his might.
The four-star quest is certainly difficult, but the Clone doesn't need to eat, drink, or sleep; it can definitely level up skills by throwing Cultivation at them or by refining a large number of Medicinal Pills to stack skill levels.
My Alchemy doesn't require any human effort or energy; I can directly launch a benign, ultra-low price war.
Buy large quantities of Materials for finished Medicinal Pills and have the Alchemist Avatar refine them day and night, the main goal being to disgust the Three-Leaf Clover Group to death.
Let these hateful capitalist societies see what epoch-making excellent Clone productivity is!
You foolish capitalist groups, eat my Clone's tyrannical iron fist!
The more Tang Gao thought about it, the happier he became, and the more feasible he found it, clapping his hands: “Brilliant! I should mobilize the power of the people!”
Tang Gao chuckled, rubbing his hands, and excitedly said: “Alright, tonight I'll first complete the three-star quest, and then go do this four-star quest! If I don't drive the Three-Leaf Clover Group away, I'll take their surname!”
I don't believe that with me doing this, you can still stay peacefully in Liang City!
“Clone, activate!”
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The Alchemy factory was located near Tiesha Village, which belongs to Liang City. It was originally located in Liang City, but later, due to environmental protection policies and public complaints about the Alchemy factory's various environmental pollutions harming people's health, the Alchemy factory had to move to the vicinity of the countryside.
In the first two years after moving here, farmers also protested the discharge of waste medicinal liquids from the Alchemy factory, which killed their crops.
But after the Alchemy factory killed a few people and paid compensation, the local people no longer dared to speak up, admitting their bad luck and moving to other places.
They have money and can use money to buy your life.
How could Mortals have the qualifications and ability to contend with such a business giant?
The Alchemy factory was doing very well, even expanding several times, buying up all the surrounding fertile land to build the factory, and no one dared to object.
Tang Gao squatted beside the black, oily fertile field, grabbed a handful of soil and kneaded it. The rich earthy scent rushed into his nostrils, very earthy; if crops were planted, there would definitely be a good harvest.
Tang Gao stood up, looking at the vigorous weeds growing in the fertile field, his expression gradually sinking. He looked up at the towering factory walls, the Alchemy factory walls that blocked the sunlight, and the faint, strange medicinal smell permeating the air around.
The closer to the Alchemy factory, the more barren the land became, and even the growth of wild grass gradually became stunted, until not a blade of grass grew. The strange smell became stronger, and the color of the soil even turned strange, becoming grayish-white.
It was quiet all around, no insect chirping, no bird calls… all animals seemed to have disappeared here.
This place felt like a land of deathly silence.
Tang Gao didn't understand medicine, and even his knowledge of Alchemy was only a superficial understanding from hearsay.
But Tang Gao knew one thing.
If a place is barren, and even insects are unwilling to approach, there must be a problem.
Tang Gao walked a few steps forward, and no trace of green could be seen in his vision, only a certain indescribable strange and evil feeling. Looking up, the high walls blocked all sunlight beyond a certain boundary, casting down a deep, unspeakable darkness that submerged everything beneath it in this heavy darkness.
Darkness submerged everything, including everything that life should have.
A pair of blood-red eyes lit up in the darkness, and a searchlight shone on the blood-eyed youth wearing a ferocious, pitch-black armor.
“Who are you? What are you doing here?”
Tang Gao controlled Violent Justice, the corners of his mouth turned up, his smile bright, and he drew the Battle Saber from his waist: “You will pay the price for your sins.”
This was a long-awaited, heartfelt statement that Tang Gao was once again willing to truly utter.
The land here is polluted; it will be impossible to Cultivate here for decades.
Most of the villagers of Tiesha Village have also been driven away; a portion of them should become displaced.
Of course.
The Three-Leaf Clover Group won't care.
How dare a few lowly people hinder the grand development of the Group?
Tang Gao's smile grew even brighter, and the Righteous Battle Qi on his body rapidly surged: “Your Righteous Grandfather is here.”