Chapter Twenty-Four: The Story of the Origin

  The troops under his command were still advancing towards Xuzhou on the Jinpu Road, and Gao Yang handed over the command to Wekes and shuttled away to Modu.

  That evening, in the French concession, in the newly opened building of SC Trading Company. Gaoyang entertained officials from the British, French and Italian consulates in Mogador, as well as several prominent business figures.

  Americans are selling sulfonamides all over the world, and the huge profits have attracted businessmen from all over the world. It didn't take long for them to find SC Trading, which sells sulfonamides to Americans. With just a few words, they claim to have global agency rights and molecular formula ratios, each one shouting as if they were the ones selling the goods.

  Savoring his coffee, Gao Yang sat on the sofa, ignoring the clamor of the clowns in front of him and said calmly, "Want to buy? Can, each share is 30 US dollars, as much as you want, gold settlement, pay when goods are delivered, don't mention anything else."

  Gaoyang finished speaking and the surrounding noisy voices all quieted down. Everyone was speechless for a while.

  A moment later, Baron Victor Sassoon slowly stood up, pushed his glasses and said slowly, "Mr. Gao, I am a businessman of the British Empire, are you sure you want to sell sulfanilamide to me at this price?" The tone was full of arrogance.

  Gao Yang smiled and nodded to Sha Xun, saying "Baron, I certainly won't sell it to you at this price. After hearing your words just now, I've decided not to do business with you. Please leave my company immediately!"

  Everyone in the room was stunned, it was the first time they had seen such an arrogant Chinese person. Sassoon was also stunned, and when he came to his senses, he hastily and angrily said to Gao Yang "I am a merchant of the British Empire, how dare you look down on the British Empire?"

  "Is my English not standard? Or can't you understand? Get out of here immediately!" Gaoyang said coldly to Sasha.

  Angry Sasha stared at Gao Yang fiercely, then suddenly turned around and left in big strides. "Anyone who doesn't want to buy can leave now, I don't lack salesmen. My time is precious, those who want to buy just sign the contract." After finishing speaking, Gao Yang stood up and left the meeting room, leaving Gao Feng and the businessmen to negotiate.

  Arriving at a small conference room on the second floor, Gao Yang lightly patted his face to make a smiling expression before pushing open the door. "Good evening! My dear friends." Several white men in the room also came up with a smile.

  After the mutual greetings, everyone sat down on the sofa. After the servant brought up coffee, they began their formal discussion. "Mr. Chirkov, has General Manager Gao already informed you of my opinion?" Gao Yang said, holding up his cup of coffee.

  "Mr. Gao, I was sent here this time to negotiate with you on the specific amount, I wonder if it is possible to lower the price a bit?" Chirkov said, sitting opposite Gao Yang.

  Gao Yang didn't say a word, quietly sipping his coffee. After a while, he put down the cup and said in a low tone, "As far as I know, by the end of this year, Americans will complete the industrial production of sulfonamide. You're sitting here chatting with me now, every minute, every second is losing huge profits."

  Chirkov was a representative of the Soviet Union who wanted to purchase the molecular formula and ratio of sulfonamide. Unlike other countries, Gao Yang agreed to this transaction, quoting 90 tons of gold.

  One reason is that the United States will complete the industrial production of sulfonamides within a year, and Gao Yang wants to make a fortune before the last moment arrives. Another reason is that several months ago, the Soviet Union had just split Mongolia, and although Gao Yang was furious in his heart, he could only watch as the white bears now came to their own doorstep to be slaughtered, and of course, they couldn't be polite.

  "Mr. Gao, you have to guarantee that within three years, you will not resell the molecular formula and ratio again." Chirkov said after a brief pause.

  "This can be written into the contract." Gaoyang said with a smile. He stood up and extended his hand to Chirkov, "Nice cooperation."

  The next evening, on a small boat in the outer sea of Magic City, Gao Feng came to Gao Yang's side and said, "I've seen the gold on the ship, but there are many people on the ship." Gao Yang smiled and said, "You guys go back first." After finishing speaking, he took Ano and boarded a small boat heading towards a cargo ship flying the Soviet flag not far away.

  After boarding the ship, under Chirkov's leadership, they arrived at the cargo hold. Looking at the neatly stacked gold mountain in front of him, Gao Yang smiled and nodded to Anno. Anno handed over the box in his hand to Chirkov. Several expertly dressed men quickly took over the box and opened it for inspection.

  Chirkov walked up to Gao Yang with a smile and said, "Mr. Gao, you should still have quite a bit of stock left, right? How about selling it all to us?" Gao Yang looked at Chirkov and smiled, saying, "There's indeed not a small amount of goods, are you sure you can afford it?" "We can discuss the price, hehehe." Chirkov said while looking at the experts.

  After a while, several experts put down the documents and nodded to Chirkov, "Hehehe." Chirkov's eyes lit up with a brilliant smile. Amidst the laughter, a large group of armed men suddenly rushed out and surrounded Gao Yang in the warehouse.

  "Mr. Gao, don't you think it's time to inform your subordinates to exchange the sulfonamide in stock for yours? If you disagree, I'll have no choice but to put you in a sack and throw you into the sea. By the way, how's your swimming skill?" Chirkov laughed with his eyes narrowed, like a weasel catching an old hen.

  "Alas," Gao Yang sighed softly and said, "Originally, I should have cooperated with you and shouted a few cries for mercy. However, I really don't have time to play with you guys anymore. Since you're not willing to resolve this in a businesslike manner, I can only say sorry."

  In Chirkov's astonished gaze, Gao Yang walked to the side of Jinshan and stretched out his hand. With a "whoosh", Jinshan disappeared. The people around were all stunned, what was going on? Gao Yang patted his hands, turned his head and said to Ano "Two minutes." Then he made an apologetic gesture to Chirkov, and in Chirkov's dumbfounded gaze, he vanished from the warehouse. Ano, who was standing aside, took out two MP18s from his windbreaker and began clearing the area.

  Two minutes later, Gao Yang returned to the warehouse with Ano and opened the sea valve at the bottom of the warehouse. After setting up the bomb, he shuttled back to his original time-space in Africa.

  In a certain section of the Ogowe River in Africa, Gao Yang sat on the riverbank wearing shorts and a sun hat, leisurely fishing. A dozen or so mercenaries and local tribal recruits were scattered around him. Gao Yang listened quietly to what Yuan Dian was saying in his mind, but his tightly clenched hands on the fishing rod still revealed his emotions.

  "The manufacturing power that created me possessed the most advanced space-time shuttle technology only 200 Earth years ago. At that time, even 200 years ago, artificial intelligence had already gained the upper hand in the war against intelligent life forms, but the advantage was not so great yet. So, the manufacturing power filled my internal space with technologies and energies related to warfare, hoping that no matter which era I returned to, I could help the intelligent life forms of that time win the war." The original words were filled with a strange emotion.

  "Before the action, in order to fill me with energy, the intelligent life forms even stopped the entire star domain's defense system. When I and the actor were about to shuttle, the artificial intelligence motherbody suddenly invaded the action headquarters, and I was also infected by the motherbody and implanted with a virus. The space-time shuttle also started at the same time, the actor shuttled successfully, but I rushed into the space-time chaos under the infection of the virus, and when I exhausted my energy and rushed out of the chaos, I fell beside you. Originally, the actioner's identity command was washed away by the virus, and at that time, it just absorbed your DNA password, so it defaulted to you as the new commander."

  "What do you mean now? I'm no longer a commander giving orders?" His tone was tinged with a hint of bewilderment.

  "No, the virus has been eliminated and your identity is still preserved," Yuandian explained. Gaoyang slightly let out a breath of relief and continued to ask, "Then what if you get infected with the virus again? Change to a new host?"

  "To be precise, it's not a virus, but the will of the mother body with strong capabilities. If you want me to infect again, unless I meet another intelligent body as powerful as the mother body." The origin said, letting Gao Yang relax, picking up the towel beside him and wiping away the cold sweat on his forehead. Then he asked, "Since your internal space has so many war materials, why don't you just give them to me directly?"

  "My energy was all consumed in the chaotic timestream, and when you gave the order to activate the time-space shuttle, it used up even more of my energy. You altered the timeline's flow direction in this new timestream, generating a massive amount of spatial energy. I can only gradually unlock resources and technology after collecting these energies."

  "Then where does the energy for my frequent back-and-forth shuttling come from?" Gao Yang asked strangely. "Because there are fixed time-space markers, and direct shuttling between different markers doesn't require consuming extra energy." Yuandian explained in detail.

  "Alright, got it. So what I need to do now is get more energy points for you to recover your abilities, right?" High Sun completely understood.

  "That's it."

  Gao Yang stopped asking questions and sat quietly, holding the fishing rod to start fishing. Time flew by quickly, after sunset Gao Yang carried two fish back to the villa, which he had caught with great effort that afternoon, and handed them over to the chef to make braised fish and fish soup.

  At dinner, Yuan Dian reported to Gao Yang that the hostile takeover of Orpheus Corporation had been completed. Specifically, Yuan Dian found out through the internet that Mr. Orpheus was engaged in oil futures trading and had a connection with a powerful figure in the US government, resulting in substantial gains.

  The originator, impersonating a powerful figure through the network, revealed to Orpheus that the United States is likely to take military action against Iran in the near future, causing oil prices to skyrocket, and asked Orpheus to buy a large number of oil futures.

  Mr. Orpheus had invested most of the funds in the futures market with great confidence, when an investment fund called SC Risk Investment Fund approached him and expressed interest in acquiring his company. Mr. Orpheus refused to sell but suggested using his company as collateral to secure a large sum of money for short-term investments. After signing the contract, he invested all his assets in oil futures, waiting for the US military threat against Iran.

  Even if the US hadn't threatened Iran with military force, Orffis wouldn't have lost much and might even have made some money. But just last month, the world's largest car-owning nation made a big push to develop electric vehicles to combat air pollution, and suddenly there was a major technological breakthrough!

  This news, once confirmed, hit the oil futures market like a meteorite, sending it plummeting into the abyss, and Mr. Orpheus, who was caught in the trap, went bankrupt.

  Just a few days ago, Mr. Orpheus was shot dead by unidentified armed men somewhere in Europe, and now Gao Yang has become the largest boss of this mining area.