54: Chapter 54 Why make movies when you're not running a business properly?

If a single razor integrated a hundred Black Fish chips, and that razor sold for fifty thousand, with the chips inside bearing no Black Fish Technology branding...

Gao Yuan believed that major foreign manufacturers would certainly be interested in buying such daily necessities in bulk! After all, the daily necessities weren't manufactured by Black Fish Technology, and what they were buying wasn't technically chips. As for dismantling the chips for use later, that would just be recycling waste...

If the United States wanted to ban the import of small household appliances, they would be seeking their own destruction...

The United States itself doesn't manufacture many products. If they banned Xia country's products, there would be nothing left for their domestic market to use...

And integrating chips into small appliances is beyond reproach; it’s simply using a few more than usual...

"I have plenty of chips, so what! I like using this many; only with this many can the performance of this razor be fully realized!"

Furthermore, Gao Yuan didn't even need to develop new distribution channels now...

Because the foreign trade small appliance manufacturers he acquired already had established channels. He only needed to reveal the secret within to the original distributors, and those distributors would naturally help Gao Yuan find buyers...

Because they could also make an extra sum of money from this.

More importantly, the manufacturers using the chips were almost entirely outside the United States, making regulation extremely difficult!

The reason the United States' sanctions were so effective before was mainly because they always held the most advanced technology. But now the situation was reversed; high-end products were here at Black Fish Technology...

Once international semiconductor manufacturers got used to using Black Fish chips, the original chip manufacturers would go bankrupt due to a lack of orders. If Gao Yuan cut off the supply then...

The United States' only choice would be to lift the sanctions!

After all, when sanctions yield no actual results and instead make regulation harder, lifting them and moving through official channels would allow them to collect higher taxes and regulate more easily...

By that time, however, those distributors might not even want the sanctions lifted...

In the face of profit, sanctions are useless...

On one side, Gao Yuan began to set his plans in motion...

On the other side, Black Fish Technology's first 'commercial film' was finally about to be released...

As the sole creator, Gao Yuan was now fully disguised, wearing a mask and a hat, as he arrived at the Qinjing Wanneng Cinema.

Other films had powerful premiere lineups, with creative teams not only inviting well-known industry critics to screenings but also conducting roadshows...

Only "earth rescue" was deserted and quiet...

Fortunately, with Wang Dalin's previous support, the ticket sales for "earth rescue" were actually doing quite well.

When Gao Yuan bought his ticket, two-thirds of the seats had already been sold...

Gao Yuan chose a corner seat and entered the theater.

With ten minutes left until the screening, the audience members filed in one after another...

Gao Yuan could hear their conversations.

In front of him was a young couple. The girl wasn't very interested in sci-fi to begin with, and this film was a 'triple-threat-less' production (no famous stars, director, or studio).

It was hard to pique her interest...

The girl complained slightly, "Why are we watching this? Everyone else went to see 'Three Youths'! It's all your fault for not booking tickets in advance; now they're all sold out!"

"Babe, what's so good about 'Three Youths'? Didn't you see the trailer for 'earth rescue'? It was so hype! The special effects were explosive!"

"But... what does this Gao Yuan do? He's the director and the lead actor..."

"You don't know Gao Yuan? Do you know about the Photolithography Machine? No? You should at least know about the Constant Temperature Clothing; weren't you clamoring to buy one? The internet is full of talk about it. That Constant Temperature Clothing you envy is produced by a company under Gao Yuan... He's a big deal! And even more impressively, Gao Yuan is taking on the global chip industry single-handedly... cough, well, not quite single-handedly, Xiawei joined in too!"

The girl was clearly still uninterested...

"So he's just a businessman. Instead of focusing on producing Constant Temperature Clothing and getting it on the market sooner, why is he making a movie... honestly!"

Gao Yuan sat behind them, looking speechless...

It's an advertisement, okay?

Don't you have to advertise to sell things?

"earth rescue" would showcase all of Black Fish Technology's products for the next ten years from every angle...

Girls... sigh!

Gao Yuan turned his face away just as two more audience members arrived next to him.

They were also a man and a woman, though they didn't look like a couple.

They were also chatting...

"I wonder if Gao Yuan will give us a surprise... Xia country's sci-fi reputation is honestly terrible. In all these years, only 'the wandering earth' has been decent..."

"Who knows, but looking at the trailer, at least the special effects are good! Does your 'Movie Weekly' also follow 'earth rescue'?"

The man asked.

"Our editor-in-chief sent me. I have to go back and write a review. Whether it's a flop or a masterpiece, I have to see it to write about it! By the way, don't you work at 'Economic Figures'? Why are you here for a screening?"

The man replied, "I'm different from you. You're here for the movie; I'm here for Gao Yuan. Gao Yuan is currently in the spotlight. We've tried to get an interview several times but couldn't. I have no choice but to watch his movie; maybe I'll gain some insights!"

Hearing this...

Gao Yuan understood that the first wave of people watching his movie were either sci-fi enthusiasts or media personnel...

In short, normal people... with so many choices available at this time, they certainly wouldn't come to see a sci-fi film first thing.

Gao Yuan closed his eyes and waited for the movie to start...

Soon, the cinema lights dimmed...

The screen began to light up...

First was the Dragon Mark (censorship seal), followed by the production company's animated logo: Produced by Salmon Film and Television!

Then the distributor: Exclusively Distributed by Wanneng Film and Television...

Immediately after, the screen went dark.

What met the eyes was a massive fireball. The camera zoomed out, and Mercury, Venus... Earth, Mars, and Jupiter appeared on the screen one after another!

The entire image was quiet and mysterious...

The movie was in 3D, but the audience felt it was different from previous 3D. Older 3D simply had a stronger sense of depth, but "earth rescue" seemed to pull the audience right into the film...

The audience felt as if they were standing in space, looking at the Solar System, looking at humanity's only home...

The Earth was so beautiful.

Suddenly, a wormhole appeared abruptly in the center of the Solar System...

Without warning, the Sun was pulled by the wormhole. The massive Sun was torn to pieces by the immense gravity within seconds. At that moment, the Sun seemed to turn into liquid...

A collective gasp went through the audience. It was too realistic, too shocking... One could even see the Earth being drawn by the massive gravity, plunging toward the wormhole...

But in the next moment, the wormhole vanished without a trace... as if it had never appeared.

With the wormhole gone, the planets of the Solar System instantly lost their gravitational anchor and flew out along the tangents of their respective orbits...

Venus and Mars even collided due to their orbital imbalance, erupting into a massive display of space fireworks...

The camera then panned to Earth, which was currently hurtling toward the deep, dark reaches of outer space... its future unknown.