Shima Baozi's 14th Book

[System + Favorability + Wild Growth + Building a Technological Power] In 1997, Liu Song is a street vendor in Guangshi, buying and reselling cassette tapes. After a chance encounter with Liu Meier, the campus belle of the freshman class, he activates a Favorability System. Every time her favorability toward him rises by 1%, he gains a new technology.

“VCD decoder chip reverse engineering”

“Conductive magnetic coating for cassette tape”

“...”

“Neural encoder-decoder for brain-computer interfaces”

From consumer electronics to basic communications, then on to chips, AI, and quantum technology, he keeps going back and forth with Liu Meier, making progress and then backtracking as her favorability steadily climbs.

From a street vendor to the pinnacle of the world.

“Impossible! How could a mere street vendor develop technology like this?!”

The major companies that looked down on him back then are full of regret!

“Impossible! Liu Meier is just a student. Where did she get the capital to back him?!”

Sorry, my boyfriend is a billionaire!

“Impossible! How could Huaguo have technology like this?!”

After years of leeching off others, the United States is on the verge of a breakdown as one cutting-edge innovation after another emerges: superchips, super AI, quantum computers, virtual reality, and brain-computer connections.

“Damn it, Huaguo is really going to surpass us!”

“It’s all that Liu Song’s fault!”