Chapter Four: One Battery Buys a Neighborhood

Zhou had already drafted thirty-seven ways to become rich. “Why not?” “A battery ten years ahead makes you wealthy. One a century ahead makes you disappear. Vaughan is already buying every drone company in the city. If he recovered one drop of your alloy, he'll be mapping your shop's supply chain now.” Someone knocked downstairs as if to prove her point. Three suited representatives offered twenty million yuan for Zhou's shop, patents, and every prototype he had ever built. “The shop lost thirteen thousand last month,” Zhou told them through the intercom. “Your due diligence is optimistic.” “Mr. Vaughan pays for potential.” “Thank him for me. Not for sale.”