Chapter Two: One Scrap Chip Revives a Billion-Yuan Factory

Wanqing placed a prepared equity agreement before Chenzhou. “Ten percent. Sign.” Before he could, Cheng said, “Activating YaoCore chips without permission violates intellectual property law. Starting tomorrow, Ruifeng will never receive another YaoCore chip. You revived a city with no food.” The thirty-two X9s were already preserving every malicious command from Cheng’s phone. The old A1 spoke clearly in Chenzhou’s mind. “Creation Trial: thirty percent complete.” “Monopolistic superior node detected.” “Apply for Level-Two authority challenge?” Chenzhou signed, then met Cheng’s stare. “An embargo?” He smiled. “Then today we begin building a controller that never has to kneel to you.”