Fake corporate warfare: poaching talent, buying bots, tampering with bids, and acquiring shares.
Real corporate warfare: seeing whose fists are harder, then duking it out.
Qin Shi grumbled to himself.
But this also showed that Primal Energy Company really was powerful.
United Pharmaceuticals was an old-established power in Eastern Xia, and had long held the top spot in the industry.
Yet Primal Energy Company could stand against it, even to the point of competing head-to-head.
"I'll think it over."
Qin Shi didn't agree, but he didn't refuse, either.
The chance to test the Great Universe Server was certainly tempting.
Although he rarely went to class, he hadn't fallen behind on the theoretical material.
With browsing privileges higher than those of most top students, he'd learned about many hidden fragments of history, like the tip of an iceberg beneath the fog.
The star sea was vast, and the Milky Way was only a corner of it.
Beyond Eastern Xia, there were other Super Powers and civilizations backed by Spirit Pillars.
The Great Universe Server had originally been created to serve Super Powers and civilizations scattered throughout the star sea.
It was said to have been made by the High-level Pillars of the neutral faction, [World String] and [Doorway].
By using gravitational-wave resonance to transmit data across dimensions over immense distances, it allowed different civilizations—carbon-based, silicon-based, energy lifeforms, and others—to connect through dedicated "consciousness resonance devices."
Countless lives amassed wealth, expanded their territories, and developed their legacies inside it... It was like an incredibly realistic Second Universe.
Of course, its greatest allure was that if a "player" had high enough permissions, they could freely adjust the flow of time and achieve a different kind of "immortality."
Even extraordinary giants who could command the winds and clouds across the star sea found that