The Tide of Corporations

[Black Dragon, level 49 guild leader, Dugo Technologies, faction reputation +2000, leader reputation +500]

[Level 48 Dark Hacker Scorpion, Dugo Technologies, faction reputation +2000, leader reputation +500]

He switched to the faction panel, where he now had 380,000 faction points. He could now vaguely see the light at the end of the tunnel for the level 2 civilization's cap of 1 million.

As for the leader points, they are 52,800 points, which are the hardest to obtain among all faction attributes.

However, the benefits he brings are also the greatest; next to the leader points, there is a large 'mission marker'.

[Leadership Mission: The Tide of Enterprises]

Difficulty: Unknown

Mission Briefing: The ascension of a large corporation inevitably involves stepping over the corpses of countless other organizations. As a leader, your task is to emerge victorious in this global corporate war.

Mission Objective: To become the champion/runner-up/third place in the 17th Corporate War.

Quest Rewards: 100,000/50,000/30,000 Faction Reputation, and a random Enterprise Leader template.

Every time a leader's points exceed 50,000, a leader mission will automatically appear; and completing this mission will automatically grant a 'boss template'.

In other words, as long as the faction develops smoothly, the 'boss template' can be farmed indefinitely.

This is also the biggest advantage of establishing a faction.

Similarly, this is why, in Cyberworld, regardless of the civilization or race, the faction leader is as strong as a monster.

"Mr. G, the virtual reality headset coverage has reached 70%. I'm thinking, shall we start the second phase of the plan?"

Mr. Brainstem, a representative of the Holy Brain Group, suggested.

"After all, our CEO said that we need your company's armed forces to join her as soon as possible."

"Hehe."

The senior engineer narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance.

The corporate battle for supremacy is divided into three stages—

Regional, hemispherical, planetary

At the regional level, it means that in any one of the 30 regions on this planet, you can achieve a human data ownership rate of more than 50%, which will naturally allow you to break through to the next stage.

The "hemispherical level" refers to engaging in fierce competition, seizing market share, and forming alliances with various super-corporations in either the 15 regions of the Southern Hemisphere or the 15 regions of the Northern Hemisphere, ultimately making one's technological solutions the preferred choice for half the planet.

Planet-level, needless to say, is the collision between two super-technical solutions, and the final winner will become the technology service provider of the three mother cities.

This advantage is enough to allow a startup to rise rapidly and become an oligopoly.

However, considering that this is a corporate war, military conflict is only one form of struggle. Some companies merge with each other, some jointly develop a certain technical solution, or they directly become downstream hardware providers.

These are all possible.

Thus, a rule emerged during the war, and this rule conveniently allowed the "military contractors" to exploit a bug.

The rule is that if a company completes the transformation of 10 million human data points, but explicitly abandons its own technical solution, it can remain in the war as a "loser".

This rule was originally intended for companies that were being acquired or for companies that had reached technological cooperation agreements.

These companies reached verbal agreements with the "**Group" to become "upstream and downstream suppliers," providing technical support in order for their business partners to become the ultimate winners.

This is within the scope permitted by the rules of war.

Groups such as "military contractors," "mercenary groups," and "assassin organizations" exploit this rule by quickly modifying 10 million pieces of human data in the first phase and then choosing to abstain.

In this way, they can immediately travel to other areas to serve their employers.

The senior engineer's eyes flickered, and he smiled:

"Of course, our Hunter Legion, Mech Legion, and Claw Legion are already ready to serve your company."

Upon hearing this, Mr. Brainstem breathed a sigh of relief, glanced around, and whispered:

"As you know, Ms. Ye is somewhat isolated at headquarters."

Ms. Ye, also known as the Dark Girl, the Girl CEO, and the Dull-hearted Doujinshi Girl by the players, is also the 550th test subject rescued by Director Du and his team.

The biggest winner in this Electronic Brain Project.

No one knows how powerful Ms. Ye's SS-level superpowers will be in this corporate war.

Please set off as soon as possible.

"Of course, not a problem at all."

For some reason, seeing Mr. G's sincere expression made him feel inexplicably uneasy.

So, he subconsciously activated his brainstem.

In an instant, thousands of brainstems on this planet were connected.

Mr. Brainstem is not a single person. To be precise, he is a member of the "Brainstem Modification Project," and every member of the "Brainstem Project" can be called Mr. Brainstem.

The brainstems of these "brainstem men" are connected, meaning that regardless of whether they are male or female, young or old, they all use the same brain.

The advantage of doing this is that their information exchange is seamless whenever needed, making them the best salespeople and negotiators.

Suddenly, the perspective changed.

On the sea, aircraft carriers are moving. On the decks, powerfully modified mechanical warriors, biological hunters, and super mercenaries sit or stand, some with half-smiles and others with grim faces.

In the sky, there are hundreds of anti-gravity aircraft. These anti-gravity aircraft have no other advantage than that they are suitable for long-distance deployment.

At this moment, between every four anti-gravity aircraft, a super mech was suspended by a thick metal cable. Some were humanoid, some were beast-like, but regardless of the type, they were all covered with energy cannons, large melee weapons, and remote-controlled weapons.

In addition, the sea surface is occasionally and regularly churned with towering waves, which indicates that there are also some huge objects moving on the seabed.

Such a scene could only be achieved by a large military contractor deploying its full resources.

Through the memories of another Mr. Brainstem, this Mr. Brainstem can finally confirm that what Mr. G said is true.

"When do we evacuate?"

"Mr. Brainstem asked."

"Evacuate?" The senior engineer chuckled. "No rush, no rush. We still have some things to do here. If it's urgent, why don't you evacuate first?"

The unease that had been nagging at Mr. Brainstem resurfaced inexplicably.

"That won't do, I have to go with you."

"Let's go then."

"Where to?"

"Naturally, it's Hive City."

At this moment, outside the atmosphere of this planet, mechanical octopuses of at least level 45 are hunting, each octopus the size of a small hill.

From a distance, the entire planet appears to be enveloped by an ocean of octopuses, giving it a powerful, Cthulhu-esque feel.

Outside the octopus zone, two 'meteorites' are crossing the asteroid belt and heading towards the planet.

Furthermore, during the flight, the surface of the 'meteorite' rapidly disintegrated, revealing a device that resembled an aircraft cabin, but was hundreds of times larger.

Ancient empires possessed such delivery technology, but its delivery range was limited, and it could only be used within the atmosphere.

However, Cybertron's deployment technology can be used to deploy within planetary systems, for example, the distance from a planet to its moon.

As they approached the planet, the delivery capsule automatically disintegrated, and two Cybertronian robots flew out and headed towards the radiation layer.

However, at the same time, a large number of mechanical octopuses blocked the two of them.

"What happened?" Tianwei asked.

"Visiting mechanical life form, this planet is off-limits. Please return immediately."

"We are Cybertron General's attendants, get out of the way!" Venus said without any politeness.

"Access denied, ding, access denied."

"Alarm! Alarm!"

A giant wave parted from the octopus sea covering the planet's surface, engulfing the two of them.

Even more dangerously, some armed satellites orbiting the planet are approaching the two.

Tianwei restrained Venus, who was about to erupt in anger, and frowned, asking, "What's wrong? Why isn't my highest mechanical authority working?"

"The Cyber Test Site is undergoing its seventeenth social transformation experiment. Interference, unsealing, and entry are not permitted."