pjbooks Chapter 171 Gundam Industry
Chapter 171 Gundam Industry
Chapter 172 Gundam Industry
Tang Jinmao then opened up and told him a lot of things.
Yu Zhen was stunned. It was the first time he had ever come into contact with the unknown side of the North American upper class and learned what the world of real financial giants and the rich was really like.
Of course, Tang Jinmao was actually showing off in a roundabout way, trying to use some of the uniqueness that belonged to the Western world to completely drag Yu Zhen down with him.
He, too, had received some kind of warning from the White House's owner, knowing that if he didn't make a final push to completely assimilate Yu Zhen into Western territory, all his previous efforts, gains, and even everything he currently possessed would be met with a strong counterattack, and he would lose everything he had now.
The rules of survival among the upper echelons of Western capital have always been the same.
Once you have the opportunity to enter this circle, you either have to completely conform to it, or you can always control resources that others don't have and cherish, so that you can compete with them in the short term, profit from it, and maintain the so-called neutral role.
But no one can remain so-called maverick forever.
For the past six months or so, the precious resource that Tang Jinmao has been relying on has undoubtedly been Yu Zhen himself.
But now, with Yu Zhen planning to return to the east to develop his career, he suddenly panicked and lost his composure, wanting to quickly seek to be assimilated by the mainstream circles.
However, his rise to power was originally based on Yu Zhen.
It's not that easy to change your social standing and be accepted by the mainstream all at once.
"Yu, you are a writer, so you should be able to understand even more that when a person's wealth accumulates to a certain level, simply possessing material wealth is no longer enough. The ambition that grows in the heart of a billionaire is..."
"For example, in what areas are these growing ambitions? Like the promise I made to help you become the Emperor of North America?"
Yu Zhen was probably able to figure out the answer, but he still gave a timely reminder.
This is a message to Tang Jinmao, telling the old man not to lose his mind.
Upon hearing the words "Emperor of North America," Tang Jinmao immediately perked up. "My God, but—in this day and age, how could I possibly still have the chance to be emperor? Modern society has long since lost the conditions for emperors to survive. Your promise is—I really, really, I can hardly believe it anymore."
Yu Zhen nodded and smiled, "It all depends on human effort. If you believe, it will work; if you don't, you have absolutely no chance. But it doesn't matter. Whether you become the Emperor of North America or not is your own business. I'm just playing a game, treating it as a kind of humanistic experiment."
Tang Jinmao sighed and steered the conversation back to what had just happened, "What you don't know is that the truly wealthy people in North America aspire to a life far beyond that of mere North American emperors. They—they want immortality, eternal life!!"
Yu Zhen raised an eyebrow. "So, they invest in research on biotechnology and genetic medicine just to seek the possibility of immortality? Is that what you mean? Heh, isn't that just a normal human tendency?"
He shrugged and spread his hands to indicate that he completely understood. "If it were possible, I'd also like to live forever! What, Brother Chuan, don't you want to live forever?"
Tang Jinmao shrugged. "But the problem is, the methods they used—my God, you know, in your novel, poor little Truman is a cloned biological genetically engineered person. Regarding this setting, you really hit the nail on the head right away, the most, most, most secretive project in that mysterious biological genetic medicine field—"
Yu Zhen chuckled. "Is it really such a coincidence? My science fiction novel's premise has coincidentally collided with reality? And that's why my work has the opportunity to become a bestseller throughout the West? Are you implying that from the very beginning, certain financial groups have been secretly pushing things along, trying to establish this kind of science fiction concept in society?"
Tang Jinmao nodded. "Me too. Only after becoming a billionaire, through a friend's introduction, did I truly gain the knowledge to know just a glimpse of this mysterious circle. And I even had the opportunity to experience firsthand, on a superficial level, the allure of those biological, genetic, and medical technology experiments. My God, you know, in my youth I was a playboy, indulging in nightly revelry and sleeping with countless women, to the point that I was ruined by that thing early on—"
Holy crap, you're starting to share such secret things with me?!
Yu Zhen sighed, realizing that he was indeed quite important to Tang Jinmao.
"Brother Chuan, are you trying to tell me you've gotten a new gun? And a really powerful one at that??"
Tang Jinmao blushed, a rare occurrence for him. "If that were the case, I would be ecstatic. Unfortunately, their technology is not yet fully developed. I only made a rudimentary attempt at a gene-edited skin graft that had a very short effective period of just over a month. But even so, during that month, I felt as if I had truly returned to the body I had at eighteen years old."
"And the price?!"
"Well, the price is that now when I pee, I often get my toes wet, which is absolutely awful. But they promised that with the next new technology, my lifespan will likely increase from one month to three months, or even half a year, who knows? The most, most, most important thing is that there will be an optimal compatible standard to replace it—"
Yu Zhen's heart skipped a beat. Holy crap, the Gundam industry in North America was already popular in the 1980s?!
Seeing Yu Zhen's sudden change in expression, Tang Jinmao quickly said seriously, "Yu, it's not what you think. The adaptation of the standard body and the channels are all very formal, otherwise the cycle would not have been so long."
Moreover, current gene cloning technology has made breakthroughs, and key breakthroughs have also been achieved in the technology of using our own biological genes to proliferate from the cell body.
It is believed that sooner or later, any aging organ or component in each of our bodies may undergo a major transformation in biotechnology and genetic medicine, much like an old machine.
This is almost the same tendency as in your novels —
When the hell did I ever mention the industrialization of Gundam in my work?!
Yu Zhen's expression changed drastically. He never expected that the reason his science fiction series was so popular and best-selling in the Western world was because someone had given him such shocking information.
However, he quickly regained his composure.
Ultimately, even without his science fiction series, the Western biomedical and gene industries, as well as the industrialization of Gundam, would still have flourished.
Just like Tang Jinmao's behavior at this moment.
Once a capitalist reaches a certain level of wealth, their pursuit in life will certainly transcend the so-called level of wealth.
Like ancient emperors, who, possessing immense resources, wouldn't want to live longer, or even immortality?