73: Chapter 73 You're Next

He had temporarily dealt with Su Dai.

Gao Yuan left the clubhouse and had Wang Yifei Bingbing send all the supplies he purchased to the clubhouse warehouse. Then, Gao Yuan had his robots transport the items to his secret warehouse at the Black Fish Technology Industrial Park in the real world.

Gao Yuan passed through the Space-Time Gate and returned to the real world.

The security supplies this time were all purchased by posting tasks at the clubhouse. Such simple tasks not only earned points but also money, so many Bronze members were scrambling to accept them...

As for who got to take the tasks, that was Wang Yifei Bingbing's choice, which was why Li Qingmei had been trying to get close to her before.

Qin Mugutan also wanted to take them...

But he wasn't close to Wang Yifei Bingbing. He wanted to get on her good side but feared a misunderstanding, and he wanted to contact Gao Yuan but didn't dare...

After all, in Qin Mugutan's heart, Gao Yuan was originally a top-tier person. Having collaborated with him once was already a stroke of luck. Now, Qin Mugutan's status had risen significantly thanks to the cigarettes! He was now considered a figure of some importance in Longjing.

The security supplies Li Qingmei had procured for Gao Yuan were intended for officials, making them much higher-end than what Gao Yuan had bought for himself before.

Gao Yuan first went to the warehouse...

He activated the Security Robots. There were ten in total; two would follow him for close protection. These robots could be described as versatile; they weren't just capable of simple disguises. An Yi could even disguise himself as Li Zhengji...

But these new robots could not only take on the appearance of others but also change their gender, physique, and even turn into pet dogs. In terms of defense, they didn't just have laser guns; they also had protective shields. The shield was a high-energy magnetic field that could block laser beams and stop machine cannon rounds within a hundred meters, and its lethality was also very high...

Gao Yuan chose two and named them An San and An Si, letting them follow him. The remaining eight were hidden in corners of the technology park. If he went out, these eight would follow him without showing their faces, remaining hidden around him at all times. They could be passersby or stray dogs, appearing only when Gao Yuan encountered danger...

In addition to the Security Robots, Gao Yuan also equipped himself with a Protective Sphere. When not deployed, this thing was only the size of a fist. Worn on his person, it could be activated in times of danger, instantly expanding into a sphere three meters in diameter. It would encase Gao Yuan, capable of withstanding a free fall from several thousand meters or temperatures of over a thousand degrees. It had a built-in life-support system, with enough oxygen to ensure Gao Yuan's survival inside the sphere for seven days!

There was also an Armed Self-Defense Reconnaissance Drone. Gao Yuan set it to stealth mode and linked it to his brainwaves; it followed him at all times...

If it detected a threat, it could also share intelligence with the Security Robots.

Having done all this, Gao Yuan felt his current security was much stronger than that of the United States President... Only then did he feel at ease. He didn't want a hijacking incident to happen again!

After setting these up, Gao Yuan went to his office...

Then Ruru came in...

"Boss, Vice President Zhang is looking for you..."

"Where is he?"

"In the conference room! The representatives from Nine Stars are here!"

Gao Yuan was stunned for a moment, then thought, 'Good timing.' He had already dug the pit and was just waiting for them to jump in. Furthermore, he needed Nine Stars' help to deal with Su Dai in the Future World!

There had always been a rumor online that Nine Stars was a country disguised as a corporation! Nine Stars' business interests were so vast that nearly half the people in the Southern Dynasty relied on Nine Stars for their livelihood! Over 70% of the population had some connection to Nine Stars!

Gao Yuan had originally been wondering where he should go to get some fierce beasts...

He had even thought about buying some from Middle Eastern tycoons, but he hadn't expected Nine Stars to deliver themselves to his door!

Since he was giving them such a large business deal, it wouldn't be too much to ask them to gift him a zoo, right?

Gao Yuan didn't rush to the conference room...

Instead, he began to contact An Yi and An Er. By now, they had already arrived at the Nine Stars headquarters in the Southern Dynasty.

Gao Yuan's mission for An Yi and An Er was to steal Nine Stars' top-secret data and core technology! Although he didn't need these technologies himself, he could sell them to other companies—for example, Japan enterprises might be very interested!

An Yi and An Er were both robots...

They had countless ways to steal Nine Stars' data without their security systems detecting a thing.

Moreover, even if someone noticed something unusual, they would certainly never suspect 'Li Zhengji'.

An Yi, disguised as Li Zhengji, could not only pacify Li Bingxi at Nine Stars but might also be of great use at a critical moment!

Gao Yuan listened to An Yi's report...

An Yi transmitted Li Bingxi's entire itinerary and all his speeches to Gao Yuan, and even the contents of his phone calls with Little Morgan...

Gao Yuan let out a cold sneer after reading them...

The Morgan Family...

You're next!

Gao Yuan left his office and walked toward the conference room...

The representative from Nine Stars was the Group's Vice President, Li Taixi, who was said to be the cousin of Chairman Li Bingxi!

This man's arrival showed that Nine Stars was acting with full sincerity.

At the moment, Li Taixi was somewhat unhappy. He felt he was being slighted because the person receiving him was Zhang Baiyi. He didn't consider Zhang Baiyi to be of sufficient status, so he had been acting perfunctorily...

Gao Yuan walked into the conference room and locked eyes with Li Taixi immediately.

"President Li, my apologies. I didn't expect you to be so fast—too fast! I was originally in Qinjing, and when I heard you were coming, I rushed back immediately, but I still couldn't beat you here..."

Gao Yuan shook Li Taixi's hand warmly, his eyes full of sincerity...

"Vice President Zhang, why haven't you given President Li a small gift? Bring out our latest product, the Constant Temperature Clothing... Nine Stars is our important future partner; we must be sincere, understood?"

Zhang Baiyi had a look on his face like he was constipated...

Sincere?

Do you even have such a thing? Ever since sharing life and death with Gao Yuan in the jungles of the Golden Triangle, Zhang Baiyi was certain that he would never be Gao Yuan's enemy for the rest of his life.

This guy had an endless supply of black technology and a particular fondness for playing dirty...

It was very frustrating...

If Li Taixi had asked for it himself, Zhang Baiyi would certainly worry that giving them the Constant Temperature Clothing would leak secrets. But since Gao Yuan said to give it...

Zhang Baiyi wasn't worried, because whatever Gao Yuan was willing to give away, the other party wouldn't be able to figure it out even if they were given twenty years to study it...

Previously, Zhang Baiyi had wanted Gao Yuan to apply for patents, but Gao Yuan had given him a lesson.

Patents... they protected the interests of those already in power. Those ordinary people who made money from them were just dealing with trifles—it was like 'buying the bones of a thousand-gold horse' to show value. If you truly believed that patents could protect your technology, then you had already lost...

For epoch-making technology like this, once you applied for a patent, various institutions and individuals would quickly develop technology that was 'different' from yours but had similar effects...

Gao Yuan was confident that if he threw these things on the market for them to study, they still wouldn't understand them... If you were one step ahead of others, as soon as you came out, others would naturally follow, so applying for a patent could at least make some money.

But if you were twenty steps ahead, they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at, so how could they follow? Applying for a patent would just be giving them directions...

Even if everyone played by the rules, how could earning patent fees compare to the profits of a monopoly?