Enlightenment: Attaining the Dao at Age 8

Chapter 126: Chapter 105: Sweeping Across Night City

However, when Li Chang’an only controlled the Anti-Terrorism Mobile Team, they had still suffered one defeat after another.

But now, Li Chang’an had taken over the Yunxiao Group and was in charge of all of Night City. He had power, money, and manpower. He could even change the laws…

What could this motley crew of gang members possibly use to resist?

In their Despair, gang members from every district of Night City could only scatter and flee. Some escaped to the Evil Land, others to Dog Town. Those who weren’t on the NCPD’s records for murder dejectedly went to tattoo parlors to have their ink removed.

Barely a month had passed.

The people of Night City were shocked to discover that the city once known as the place where “as long as there’s life, there’s crime” had undergone a monumental transformation.

There was a time when no place in the world was more like Hell than Night City. If a car was left parked on the street for more than an hour, its tires would be slashed and its stereo stolen in a heartbeat.

Men and women alike could be dragged away at any moment by some unknown criminal darting out of an alley.

In such situations, simply being assaulted or robbed was considered the best possible outcome.

The worst-case scenario was being targeted by the Cleaner Fish. They wouldn’t just drain the victim’s entire family of their wealth; they would also harvest the victim’s organs and cybernetics to sell on the various black markets.

Mountains of unsolved murder case files piled up in NCPD precincts across the city.

But now, with the gangs completely eradicated…

The populace was astonished to find that their cars could be parked on the street without the tires being stripped. They no longer had to fear being mugged or abducted for organ harvesting by criminals in the alleys. When they went to sleep at night, they no longer worried that a gang war over territory would end their life with a stray bullet in their sleep.

All of Night City was filled with peace and quiet.

It was so safe that many of Night City’s residents found it hard to adjust for a while.

A month later, the curfew order was lifted.

Only then did the people of Night City realize that after just one month of iron-fisted rule, Li Chang’an had given them back a city where they could walk the streets even after midnight.

Consequently, Li Chang’an’s reputation among the common people of Night City instantly shot to the top, making him the most highly-rated Night City Emperor in history.

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Having dealt with both internal and external threats, Li Chang’an began to focus his energy.

After inheriting the Yunxiao Group, he now had access to the world’s most advanced technology and equipment. For someone with Heaven-defying Comprehension, this was undoubtedly excellent nourishment.

After all, while the technological side lacked a traditional Martial Dao, it could pave the way for a Genetic Martial Dao.

If he could just unravel the mysteries of genetics…

Even understanding just one percent, or even one-thousandth of it, would bring immeasurable benefits to Li Chang’an’s future development.

He began to hole himself up in the lab, conducting all sorts of experiments and measurements.

The first thing he experimented on was, naturally, the Extraordinary Potion sold by the Advanced Technology Group.

Selling the Extraordinary Potion was without a doubt the most profitable business in the world today, and the Advanced Technology Group had made an untold fortune from it.

Nearly everyone was green with envy.

Many factions would stop at nothing to get a piece of the pie.

But despite so many companies trying for years, none had achieved any tangible results in the field of Extraordinary Potion research, aside from the few that Advanced Technology had voluntarily given a sales quota to.

In other words, Advanced Technology was still the only one capable of producing the Extraordinary Potion.

Naturally, Li Chang’an was also very interested in this.

After all, the Extraordinary Potion could awaken a person’s Extraordinary Ability, which would be an extremely valuable Evolution Path even in the Main World.

If he could figure out how to create it, the formula for this one potion might be worth more than everything else he gained from his current reincarnation.

He took the Extraordinary Potion he had purchased to his lab and began analyzing its components using various instruments and his Heaven-defying Comprehension.

Half a year flew by.

Despite investing immense resources and energy, Li Chang’an, as expected, failed to reverse-engineer the production method for the Extraordinary Potion.

It couldn’t be helped. The difficulty of reverse-engineering something in the field of Advanced Technology without any relevant data or theoretical foundation was simply astronomical.

Even with his ’cheat’, it would be difficult to get a concrete answer in just a year or so.

He could only vaguely sense that the Genetic Potion produced by Advanced Technology contained a very strange type of active cell, which could induce orderly evolution in human genes.

But without any reference sample, it was impossible for Li Chang’an to deduce what this active cell was extracted from, even with his Heaven-defying Comprehension.

Of course, Li Chang’an’s half-year was not entirely without gains.

He had developed a Genetic Potion with almost no major side effects that could significantly improve the body’s control over its muscles.

The potion’s enhancement might not seem like much.

But in reality, it was extremely precious.

This was because it worked not only on ordinary people but also on top-tier Transcendents.

Most importantly, it had no significant side effects!

After inventing the potion, Li Chang’an first conducted live experiments on a group of death row inmates.

Once he confirmed there were no issues with taking the potion, he distributed it to the Anti-Terrorism Mobile Team and prepared to package it for public sale.

After he took power, the Anti-Terrorism Mobile Team, as the core backbone that had followed him from the very beginning, naturally enjoyed ever-improving benefits and treatment.

Boosted by the Extraordinary Breathing Technique and Close-Combat Fighting Skill, today’s Anti-Terrorism Mobile Team was completely different from its past self.

Not only had their numbers expanded to five hundred, but their various weapons and equipment had also been upgraded.

At full firepower, their combat effectiveness was nearly enough to sweep through all of Night City!

To be honest, no normal corporation would ever allow a violent group that could turn on them at any moment to expand to such a scale.

Nor would they ever show such absolute trust in it.

But Li Chang’an was clearly an exception.

Because his own strength was great enough to handle any and all unstable factors.

No matter how large the Anti-Terrorism Mobile Team grew or how powerful it became, they wouldn’t dare act presumptuously in front of him, their absolute leader.

In recent years, the Yunxiao Group’s profitability had actually been steadily declining.

After all, as Advanced Technology’s Extraordinary Potion sold better and better, more and more new factions rose up in various places. With more people wanting a slice of the cake, the slices naturally got smaller.

Having their lunch stolen by a bunch of new, smaller factions…

In the past, this would have been completely unthinkable for the Yunxiao Group.

Yet now, it was gradually becoming a reality, and the Yunxiao Group was powerless to change it in the short term. The root cause was that the quality of the Genetic Potions produced by the Yunxiao Group in the last two years had been very mediocre.

Even the Genetic Expansion Potion that Charles had injected into his bodyguards, while selling reasonably well on the market, didn’t actually make much money due to its high production cost.

When the Genetic Potion Li Chang’an had developed, which he named the ’Neural Enhancer,’ was packaged and released, it set off a small frenzy in the international market.

A Genetic Potion with almost no side effects, coupled with a very low production cost—these two factors combined guaranteed that Li Chang’an would make a huge profit.

In this world where capital reigned supreme, money was equivalent to power.

Earning more money naturally meant he could further expand his influence.

The Yunxiao Group was already a massive corporate entity. Li Chang’an just needed to make it grow into a new money-making Giant Beast, and he could quickly accumulate a force that the outside world could not ignore.

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