Chapter 1000: Chapter 4: The Arena and Preparations
During the flight of over ten hours, the in-flight crew arranged breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon tea. Additionally, at the hotel in Bermuda, dinner had already been arranged. It’s just that Lu Xuanyu’s situation is a bit special. Many ingredients specifically for Benchmark Man cannot be exported as ‘fresh food’ beyond the national border.
Theoretically, all tal-based organisms will never be able to gain a foothold on Earth, unable to compete with Earth-native organisms. Even throwing tal-based mammals back to the Carboniferous period, they might be eliminated by the giant insects and primitive vertebrates of that era—the body functions needed to dominate Earth, plus the unimaginably evolved skills of Carboniferous animals, can’t offset the energy loss brought by ‘body temperature requirents’.
Only a species like humans, who understand energy conversion and have an excess of productivity, can fully realize the capabilities of benchmark gene modification.
Thus, tal-based species absolutely have no possibility of becoming invasive species.
However, at this point in ti, the public is exceptionally sensitive to such matters. Although Xiang Shan has many thods available to directly bypass customs, to avoid causing trouble, he still conford to the public will.
Before the benchmark gene modification surgery is correctly recognized by everyone, it still needs to proceed step by step.
Lu Xuanyu can only consu supplents.
However, theoretically, this may actually aid his growth. As long as he can overco the initial hunger torture, he can completely break away from aerobic respiration and use electric field energy to sustain life operations.
In the coming ti, Lu Xuanyu’s food will gradually include ‘undigestible parts’ to provide a ‘sense of fullness’. Superman Enterprise can also provide several types of foods that give a sense of fullness, cannot be digested or absorbed, yet won’t cause intestinal obstruction. At present, Superman Enterprise has internal projects with Benchmark Man volunteers to cooperate in fasting experints.
Incidentally, after Xiang Shan listed the costs of a Benchmark Man’s ‘electric field energy and nutritional supplents’ and the cost of a Homo sapiens’ healthy three als, this type of project passed the Ethical Committee without much trouble.
Lu Xuanyu lay on a small bed, pressing his stomach. He felt a bit uncomfortable. This feeling of an empty stomach was rarely experienced in his thirty years of life. Thinking about possibly accompanying this feeling in the future, he was sowhat unadapted.
However, this feeling of discomfort could in no way offset another level of pressure.
—Your fists, they bear a weight heavier than you can imagine!
How large is Superman Enterprise now? The world’s number one corporation, and it’s far ahead of the traditional Fortune 500 companies. Even if Lu Xuanyu doesn’t care about financial news, he knows this company’s developnt is truly ‘sothing new every day’.
To be singled out by Xiang Shan for a betting agreent…
“So, how much exactly is it…”
If he loses, how much would Superman Enterprise lose…
When the plane landed, Lu Xuanyu was still thinking about this question.
Xiang Shan rubbed his eyes reddened from playing video gas and boarded the extended luxury car that ca to pick them up. Seeing that Lu Xuanyu was still sowhat absent-minded, he said, “Old Lu, you’re still thinking about what we talked about on the plane?”
Lu Xuanyu smiled wryly, “How could I not think about it?”
“Ah, you really don’t need to mind. The so-called ‘betting agreent’ is just an add-on. In fact, cooperation is inevitable.” Xiang Shan opened a bottle of sugar-free soda casually, “The valuation adjustnt chanism is designed to minimize uncertainties, information asymtry, and agency costs between investor and entrepreneur by incorporating stock buyback and monetary compensation,”—put simply, when investors and entrepreneurs have different views on ‘uncertain future profitability’, they set conditions to safeguard their interests.’
Xiang Shan shrugged: “Considering the current situation, anyone with common sense can see that Superman Enterprise represents the major trend. Cooperation is, in fact, inevitable. It’s just that those decision-makers in managent may have doubts about our future.”
Lu Xuanyu scratched his head: “Didn’t you say, well, anyone with sense could see, that kind of thing…”
“Scientists and financiers are the best at deceiving people with real data,” Xiang Shan said. “Quite unfortunately, we have the top-notch scientists. Naturally, the managent on their side will have grumblings, wondering if we’ve successfully deceived their scientific advisors, leading them to misjudge our situation—they inevitably have such thoughts.”
“What I need to do is to show an absolutely confident attitude. Thus, I proposed the betting agreent aggressively, to let them see we have absolute confidence in our technology. In reality, this betting agreent guarantees our profit no matter the outco, the difference is only in how much we gain.”
Xiang Shan patted Lu Xuanyu’s shoulder: “So, no need for you to ntally overload yourself. No need.”
“Thanks, I feel much better now…” Lu Xuanyu looked at his own hands: “But… there’s still a bit…”
No matter what Xiang Shan said about ‘no matter the result, it’s just a difference of more or less profit,’ to have him specifically ntion a betting agreent…
The upper and lower limits must be calculable in the hundreds of billions.
And this terrifying volatility turned out to be decided by his fists…
Throughout history, has any military leader had this kind of treatnt?
Lu Xuanyu took a deep breath.
Not sure if it’s out of ‘excitent’.
The next day, Xiang Shan took Lu Xuanyu to the site of the Number One Martial Arts Tournant.
The style of this ‘venue’ was indeed very sci-fi, consistent with the style of Superman Enterprise.
According to the original plan, the Number One Martial Arts Tournant was supposed to be held in the Federation’s Connecticut. It is one of the six states in the New England region. Xiang Shan initially chose Connecticut because it is far from the Bible belt. The six states in the New England region are generally open and modern, and it’s also the most ‘gun-ban-heavy’ area in the Federation. Xiang Shan thought people here might have a greater acceptance of Remodelers. This point, Connecticut seed better than the conservative areas or ‘swing states’—that’s what he thought.
Then, he didn’t foresee the enormous protests from anti-intellectualists in the Federation.
Additionally, there’s the issue of ‘visa’ in the Federation. Apart from professional athletes, so masters also received invitations. These martial artists have so connections to their countries’ military or police systems, and so are rumored to have participated in so social activities in Latin Arica in the past.
It wasn’t easy for these martial artists to obtain visas in the first place. The dostic uproar in the Federation placed enormous pressure on the foreign affairs departnt.
Feeling the obstruction in negotiations, Xiang Shan simply changed the main venue to Bermuda.
The capitalist Heaven’s regulations are completely different from normal countries. In this peculiar place, even nationality can be openly priced and sold, and the ‘pledge of allegiance’ ceremony can be skipped when one joins the country—it seems they know well that those bringing money to join don’t intend to be loyal to this country that allows ‘secret naturalization’.
Here, all problems can be solved with money.
It’s just that, due to insufficient ti, the main venue of the Number One Martial Arts Tournant didn’t have ti to seek designers through a global tender. After computers got a concept map, a bunch of engineers just cramd to put it together quickly.
Regarding this, Xiang Shan is sowhat dissatisfied. He feels this venue was built a bit too plain.
However, Lu Xuanyu stood in front of that enormous venue, speechless.
“This… where’s the plainness…” He looked up at the enormous building. The exterior has a similarity to Beiping’s “Bird’s Nest,” but inside the “Bird’s Nest” lies an “egg,” and the egg-shaped do encases the structure, making it an enclosed structure. Decorative patterns like circuits cover the entire surface in straight lines.
“Adding circuit patterns makes it sci-fi… What cheap sci-fi sense?”
Lu Xuanyu took a deep breath: “There’s no need for it to be like this… it’s too large. It’s already Olympic-sized.”
“There’s a need, a need.” Xiang Shan said: “Don’t forget, there are people who want to compete with you in mounted martial skills. If there’s a second tournant in the future, unrestricted firearms might be allowed—oh, adding firearms events works too. You can also only compete in the cold weapon group. Additionally, so insist on ‘no limits.’ To prevent them from complaining the venue is too small, we just make it the biggest.”
“So far, no one has been inside here yet. Get in here and experience the venue.” Xiang Shan said.
From then on, Lu Xuanyu’s training was conducted here. These days, his training pace finally slowed down. At the sa ti, he began adapting to the “indigestible food plus supplents” diet plan.
On the first day, Lu Xuanyu felt he was sowhat spiritless. However, starting from the second day, he had a feeling of ‘glowing with vitality’. Moreover, although he himself didn’t realize it, data from the instrunts showed he had beco faster.
Xiang Shan, however, was busy in places Lu Xuanyu couldn’t see.
Yawgmoth and Zhu Xinyu temporarily served as technical staff, monitoring Lu Xuanyu’s status. anwhile, Chen Feng was in an entirely ‘tourist’ mindset, waiting to watch the matches.
Until one day, Xiang Shan rushed over and handed Lu Xuanyu a piece of data.
“Old Lu, your first opponent has been decided,” Xiang Shan said. “Luisinho Gracie, a well-known Jujitsu prodigy. Moreover, this is a very arrogant fellow, choosing heavyweight and unrestricted type, and even requested to fight with your unrestricted prosthetic body output.”
Xiang Shan looked at Lu Xuanyu, seriously said: “I’ve had True Martial 1 design the ‘script’ for this first match. Let’s play it this way for the first bout.”
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