Inside the Commander's Office:
Liu Guosheng was happily enjoying his afternoon tea, an expression of immense satisfaction on his face. The desserts and tea leaves made from the high-grade materials of the New World instantly gave him a taste of extraordinary luxury.
Although he had been a rich second-generation heir who was used to eating High-Grade Ingredients, most of those things were only luxurious because of their branding and packaging. Take Red Wine from the top wine-producing regions, Kobe beef hyped to the heavens by the Red Sun Country, and all kinds of super-rare caviar. In truth, many of those things tasted little different from ingredients of the same type. This was especially true of drinks. Ordinary people really found it difficult to taste the difference between top-grade red wine and a bottle of red wine costing a few hundred yuan but made with decent craftsmanship. At least, Liu Guosheng himself could not taste the difference. The reason he usually enjoyed those things was simply that people of his status needed such luxuries to enhance their image.
But things were different here. The so-called high-grade ingredients here were truly high-grade in the literal sense. There was no brand premium whatsoever—only absolute purity!
The taste of Grade-One beef and Grade-Three beef was worlds apart. Tea grown in High-Grade Soil simply tasted better than tea grown in low-grade soil. That most primitive recognition from the body itself—the recognition of taste, nutrition, and every other aspect—was what true luxury meant. It was a level of quality that an ordinary body could judge, completely different from the luxuries whose prices were inflated by brand guarantees and various cultural values!
In a world like this, having power and influence is what truly matters. As he enjoyed the fragrant Grade-Three tea, Liu Guosheng thought this with