To be fair.
As for making the Overlimit Project public, Xu Shi's opinion was that it should have been unveiled long ago.
The basic Enhancement Chip had already been preliminarily completed under Jiang Chengcheng's development. Once the technology stabilized, mass production would only be a matter of time.
And with a concept model already in hand, a launch event was absolutely necessary—stirring up public interest, attracting investment, arranging preorder slots in advance... every part of it could make him a fortune.
Research was only the foreplay. Making money was the real goal.
At the same time, it was also the best way to show the various powers in Night Sin City what the conglomerates were capable of.
Whether it was Serpent Coil or Prism, both had suffered varying degrees of public-relations setbacks recently because of what had happened before.
That had also led people to question their authority. Discussions like "Are the conglomerates about to be finished?" had become commonplace across the major forums.
Under such circumstances, it was only natural for Xu Shi and Xie Qingyan to see eye to eye.
If we don't show them something substantial, do they really think we spend every day dealing with trivial matters like hacker intrusions and assassination attempts?
You've clearly never seen how a real conglomerate operates. (dge)
By comparison, setting a trap for Shen He seemed secondary—though that was indeed the case. There was no need to go out of his way to target him. As long as he did not act like an idiot as Xu Shi had in the original novel and simply dealt with Shen He at a normal level, after a few encounters, Shen He already seemed small and laughable.
But a protagonist was still a protagonist. Not only did he grow quickly and have absurdly