Chapter 133: Chapter 117: Poaching Talent 1
Translator: 549690339
Harrison Clark stayed behind.
He divided his daily time into three parts.
Every day, he spent two hours instructing the fighters in the Runners faction, helping them improve their Azure Dragon Armor control skills for free. Although it had no practical significance, it was the condition for Harrison Clark to stay here and enjoy the supplies and resources provided by the Runners faction.
He spent four hours every day exercising and adapting to his new physical condition after his gene awakening level surpassed 31%.
And he spent ten hours each day, obsessively studying the “outdated” knowledge in the Runners faction’s database.
The Runners faction was founded about two hundred years ago by an avid fan of Dr. Sergey, who was also the president of a comprehensive university.
The president delved deeply into Dr. Sergey’s life and numerous scientific achievements.
Ultimately, he believed that Sergey had never gone insane, but rather lived more lucidly than anyone else.
When this president left the World Government, he copied all the scientific research literature in the electronic library of the school, which eventually became the core knowledge base of the Runners faction.
Although the World Government let the Runners faction operate freely, they did not generously share their accumulated knowledge and achievements.
After two hundred years of development, the Runners faction’s progress had been largely limited due to financial and human resource constraints. Their main improvements and advances came from recycling obsolete products from the World Government and absorbing its achievements.
Harrison Clark didn’t care about the scientific achievements of the past hundred years; he wanted to study the outdated documents from two hundred years ago.
He didn’t expect to become a prodigy by learning everything at once; he mostly focused on material science, energy science, and advanced development in artificial intelligence.
He mainly studied basic formulas and some core concepts, trying to sort out a usable industrial upgrading tech chain based on his own abilities.
Of course, this was difficult. Even the university historical materials from two hundred years ago were like a sealed book to him.
Unfortunately, the technological achievements in these historical materials only extended back another two hundred years, to around the 27th century, which was still too vast of a gap compared to the 21st century.
If it had been before, Harrison Clark would have certainly been furious, given up, and moved on.
But now, he had learned his lesson and had grown numb to such unfavorable situations. Having something to learn was better than having nothing at all.
As they say, contentment brings happiness.
He began to proactively face difficulties that previously would have sent shivers down his spine and with which he had been reluctant to deal.
This time, he would learn as much as he could from the materials of the 27th century.
Who knew? He might find materials from the 23rd or 24th century next time.
He was willing to accept this unprecedented challenge.
With his own strength, he would learn the thousands of years of progress made in several disciplines.
Coming back time and time again, learning a bit more with each visit, he would eventually succeed.
What prompted the shift in Harrison Clark’s thinking was his gene awakening level, now as high as 31.77%.
He had more confidence in his memory than ever.
Even if he couldn’t understand it yet, he could still forcibly memorize it.
As more and more fragments of knowledge were pieced together, one day they would form a complete system.
In addition to this foundational work, Harrison Clark also had about one or two hours of leisure time every day.
He allocated this leisure time to things he was good at and familiar with.
Copying songs, oh no, listening to songs.
Memorizing plots of successful movies from various periods in the 21st century, studying famous figures in its art history, and discerning which artistic celebrities had genuine talent and which were just products of capital operations.
Once he returned, he would compile all the newly memorized songs and hand them to Julia Lambert.
He would try to win over talented singers, composers, songwriters, arrangers, and musicians with potential sooner rather than later.
If conditions allowed, he would start cultivating these talents from childhood!
Then, before the next dream-entry month, he would draft a long-term plan for Summit Ventures, detailing which movies to produce and which people to win over.
As long as he completed these tasks, he could convert more resources into his own industrial value, laying a better foundation for Summit Ventures, so that it could play a more significant role and serve as a better motive force in the upcoming thousand years.
Harrison Clark had already witnessed Summit Ventures’ failure once, and he certainly wouldn’t stumble into the same trap twice.
Of course, it couldn’t be denied that his past failure to recognize these methods was because he was dull, mediocre, and lacked business acumen.
Now, he had finally come up with better ideas, and he had formulated detailed implementation plans in his mind because he had become somewhat smarter.
Happy times always flew by quickly. Two months later, a small Battlecruiser appeared outside Freedom Town.
“Harrison Clark, have you had enough fun?”
A well-dressed Nora Camp swaggered into the depths of Freedom Town, catching Harrison Clark watching a movie in the audio-visual room.
Harrison Clark stood up and stretched, “Can you please wait for me to finish watching this movie?”
He wasn’t panicked and had been mentally prepared for this.
Since he found out that the Gentleman’s Strategy didn’t work on General Camp, Harrison Clark changed his tactics, reverting to his previous carefree and arrogant manner.
After all, she was a hard-hearted woman who wouldn’t be swayed by emotions until she was pregnant. There was no need to waste effort.
Nora Camp’s breathing became slightly heavier, but this emotional fluctuation quickly disappeared.
“Impossible. My time is precious. I can’t afford to waste it on you anymore.”
Harrison Clark took out a stack of documents from his bag and handed them to Nora Camp.
“General Camp, these are the findings of the mission 1 undertook this time. Please review.”
Nora Camp said unhappily, “I know your gene awakening level, or else why do you think I came?”
Harrison Clark shook his head. “These are my self-test parameters, done in private. There’s only one copy in the world. Please take a look.”
Nora Camp grabbed the documents and simultaneously called the guards outside using her communicator, ordering them to seal off the scene.Harrison Clark walked out with his hands behind his back.
“Where are you going?”
“Since you won’t let me watch the movie, I might as well use this time to deal with some personal matters.”
Nora Camp looked at the files while holding Harrison Clark’s hand. “What personal matters?”
“How about I bring back the second-best S-level armor warrior in the entire army for you?”
“Second-best in the whole army?”
Harrison Clark nodded, “Yes, only second to me.”
“Are you talking about Needham Brown?”
Harrison Clark wondered, “You know?”
Nora Camp nodded, “Of course, I know. Do you think the military’s intelligence system is for fun? Someone has already talked to Needham, but he’s not interested. He said he doesn’t want to conspire with those who have different paths.”
Ignoring her attempts to dampen his spirit, Harrison Clark headed straight for the Security Department’s office building.
“Why haven’t you left yet?”
Needham Brown asked, slightly surprised.
Harrison Clark sat down in front of him, ‘Til teach you something before I leave.”
“What?”
Harrison Clark looked at him.
“The core concept of the Fugitive faction is that there is something wrong with humanity. If we were completely in line with the World Government, there would be no hope, right?”
Needham was taken aback by the sudden deep question, thought for a long time, and nodded, “Yes.”
Harrison Clark squinted, “But both Dr. Sergey and all of you can only take this view as a conjecture, without any conclusive answer, right?”
“Yes.”
“I can tell you that your guess is correct. This is indeed the truth.”
Needham shook his head blankly, “How can you be so sure? Can you prove it?”
Harrison Clark thought for a while, then shook his head, “You’re still trapped in this game, as a pawn. You think you’ve woken up, but all that’s happened is that you’ve flipped sides — you still haven’t jumped out of the chessboard.”
“Although my mind has jumped out, my body is still on this chessboard, and I can’t pull you out. So I can’t convince you, I can’t prove anything to you. I can only tell you my answer; believing it or not is up to you.”
After a long time, Needham shook his head, “I don’t believe you.”
“Is it because your rational thinking and logical analysis conclude that my words are not trustworthy?”
“Yes.”
“Then let me ask you another question. Your blind charge, attempting to break through the Solar System, is a meaningless act. The only hope for preserving the human race lies with me. You should leave the Fugitive faction and return to the army with me. What is your answer?”
Needham shook his head again, “Different paths, no common ground.”
Harrison Clark laughed.
He pointed at Needham and said, “You think you’ve overcome logic and gained emotions. But you’re still deeply trapped in it. You can’t draw colors on a pure white paper with the same white paint. Both of your continuous decisions are based on rational judgment, which contradicts your highest ideal.”
“If you want to jump out, you must go against your rational logic and make the opposite decision. That is to believe me and go with me! I don’t care about anyone else in the Fugitive faction, but the reason I want to take you with me is that my intuition tells me that you will be very useful to me! You see, when I make decisions, I completely abandon logic and go with my gut feeling.” Needham’s train of thought derailed on the spot.
It took him a long time to ask with a mix of confusion and excitement, “Where does your intuition come from?”
Harrison Clark whispered, “I am the most special person in this world. You are at least the second or third most special person. Do you believe that a person’s body can be blown into pieces and survive with only a head left?”
Needham continued to shake his head, “I don’t believe.”
“But I believe because I have seen it. This person is you.”
“Absurd!” Needham slammed the table and got up.
Harrison Clark shrugged, “See, I’ve provoked you emotionally again. Alright, I’m leaving, follow me.”
Ten minutes later, Harrison Clark and Nora Camp walked shoulder to shoulder to the edge of Freedom Town.
A long step was extended from the Battlecruiser.
Nora Camp took the first step up.
She wasn’t in the mood to talk to Harrison Clark and just frowned in deep thought.
She was making a decision.
Harrison Clark slowly raised his foot.
He began counting down in his heart.
“Three.”
“Two.”
“One.”
A shout came from behind.
“Wait!”
Harrison Clark slowly turned around to face Needham, who had already changed into casual clothes.
“I’ll go with you.”
Harrison Clark asked back, “Have you figured it out? Why?”
Needham: “No reason. I just want to do something unreasonable..”
