[Reset] and [Offspring]

Naming the company Titan, or rather Atlas, was Sui Yang's way of filling the void of his lingering regrets.

But Soldier Boy...

As a popular character from The Boys Season 3, it was impossible for Sui Yang not to know who Soldier Boy was.

In short, he was a high-spec Captain America who feared no nuclear bomb and possessed a chest-mounted cannon—only a version that was arrogant, megalomaniacal, and temperamental.

But the information Sui Yang had read went beyond that.

Since Soldier Boy existed, it meant the federal government had already reached an agreement and partnership with Frederick Vought, and that Compound V, the serum capable of transforming humans into "supes," also existed...

The world was truly a mess.

This was Sui Yang's first thought after finishing the newspaper.

Immediately after, a cold, hollow, and emotionless voice resonated in his mind once more, repeating in the same intermittent fashion:

[Possessing... hundreds of billions in assets in North America, when the time comes... the gate to other worlds will open... whether humanity survives... is yours to decide...]

Hearing this, Sui Yang felt the world becoming increasingly bizarre.

Setting aside the hundreds of billions in assets for a moment, a gate to other worlds?

And he was the one to decide whether humanity survived??

What kind of nonsense was this?!

However, Sui Yang could only grumble to himself.

Adhering to the mindset of "since I'm already here," he continued to develop his plans step by step.

If for no other reason, he had to resolve the threat of the "supes" and even more hidden dangers for the sake of himself and his loved ones in this world.

Who knew what else this world held?

To avoid a direct conflict of interest with Vought International that might lead them to dispatch supes for an assassination, Sui Yang slightly modified his company's strategic development policy.

First, if Atlas wanted to secure its status within the United States, it had to involve itself in the arms industry. However, Sui Yang shifted the focus toward "cheaper" individual combat equipment and took on "sales" and "contracting" services for both domestic and foreign clients.

Second was public livelihood.

Through decades of operation, Sui Yang had the fruits produced on his own estates and farms transported to his factories for "extraction" and "processing," yielding "health supplements" like effervescent tablets and lozenges packed with multivitamins.

Sui Yang also pushed advertising to the extreme; the text promotions in newspapers were merely child's play.

Big moves included spending tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to partner with movie theaters in major cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

The requirement was simple: before the movies played, they had to air advertisements for Atlas's consumer products.

Moreover, the content of these ads was even more "brainwashing."

One classic ad opened with an actress lying on her side in bed, looking out at the night view with a hint of disappointment, while the actor was in the shower, pounding the wall in a mix of self-reproach and frustration.

At this moment, a male narrator would say: "Exhausted after a long day of work, feeling drained and spiritless, afraid you can't give her steady happiness anymore?"

The screen would suddenly go black!

When it returned to normal, the big screen would display a bottle of supplements bearing the Atlas logo—the red "Λ" symbol.

The male narrator would then say with great passion: "Titan Brand Kidney Treasure Tablets, restore your foundation and replenish what you've overdrawn!"

The scene would switch again to the actors lying in bed in their pajamas, and the actress would look into the camera as it slowly zoomed in, smiling: "He's good, and I'm good too~."

It ended there, lasting only 30 seconds in total.

Creative ads like this—or rather, Sui Yang's ideas—were endless. In the America of the 1940s and 50s, this was explosive, even sparking a nationwide craze.

The initial partnership term with the theaters and screening halls was a minimum of two years, and the addendum explicitly required that no other manufacturers' ads be played during the contract period, or a penalty five times the fee would be incurred.

At first, the theaters thought it was easy money.

One had to realize that the purchasing power of ten thousand dollars in that era was equivalent to three hundred thousand dollars before Sui Yang had transmigrated. Who would be idle enough to make advertising fees more expensive than filming a movie?

But when the advertising effect caused Atlas's sales to double repeatedly and its reputation to soar, other manufacturers flocked to the scene, all wanting a piece of the pie.

Hindered by the contract terms, theaters with high foot traffic and prime locations had no choice but to play Atlas's ads for two years unless they paid the hefty penalty.

And two years was enough for Atlas to achieve a staggering lead.

Finally, there was communication and transportation.

By the 1960s, Atlas held a controlling stake in a telecommunications company and possessed a professional R&D team, while in transportation, it chose to hold shares in other companies across the rail, automotive, and aviation sectors.

As for automobiles, the enterprise with the deepest partnership with Atlas was General Motors, which even created a high-end brand specifically for Atlas.

Over time, in the eyes of the public, Atlas became a "conscientious" enterprise involved in medicine, health, agriculture, animal husbandry, and industrial manufacturing.

In the eyes of the federal government, however, it was an "honest" entity that worked without complaint, helped the military handle thorny issues, and paid taxes—especially inheritance taxes—diligently...

Speaking of inheritance taxes, one had to mention the issue of Sui Yang's offspring.

Sui Yang was only 25 when he first transmigrated, but from 1870 to 1960, a full ninety years had passed, yet his appearance had not changed in the slightest.

In reality, not long after arriving in this world, Sui Yang discovered that his physical constitution far exceeded that of an ordinary person.

His strength, speed, and endurance were far beyond the norm, and he was not troubled by illness, but what "distressed" Sui Yang the most was...

Immortality.

That was correct; his appearance seemed to have frozen at the age of twenty-five.

It was not as if he had never had female companions; he had even had many romantic escapades during his "cowboy days."

However, as he gradually came to understand his unique constitution, he chose to decline marriage outright to minimize the possibility of exposure, which in turn meant he never had the opportunity to sire any biological offspring.

Fortunately, this did not cause him much distress; after all, Sui Yang wanted to solve the mystery of why he had transmigrated here and where the voice in his head originated.

As for those who knew the secret of his "immortality," initially, there was only Arthur Morgan, a group of adopted orphans, and their direct descendants, who also formed the foundation of the mercenaries belonging to Atlas.

Returning to the subject of inheritance tax.

To conceal his identity, Sui Yang would use makeup to forge an aged appearance, and every fifty years, he would stage his own death, only to reappear in the public eye under the pretext of a "grandson inheriting his grandfather's business."

To date, Sui Yang had staged his death twice, paying 50% of his cash assets to the tax bureau each time without ever using so-called welfare or charitable foundations to circumvent the law that mandated a 50% tax on inheritances exceeding 2.5 million dollars.

This was why, even though the founder of Atlas was Chinese, he was still able to get the green light all the way through the American West... Of course, at times, Sui Yang would also have his private security team employ some "small" tactics behind the scenes, until May 30, 1993, at 14:14 Seattle time, when his net worth successfully surpassed one hundred billion dollars.

Shortly thereafter, he received a coordinate that led him deep into the rainforests of West Africa.

Over one hundred and twenty years of memories flashed through his mind, but Sui Yang merely shook his head with a smile before preparing to enter the ruins with the others, yet...

[Can pass through the first world... obtain... Reset... and... Offspring...]