[Tags: Hong Kong crime dramas, System, tycoon, unstoppable army-building]
After transmigrating into the Hong Kong crime-drama world of the 1980s, Chen Fan starts out as a lowly “blue lantern,” doomed to be trampled by gangsters and shaken down for protection money.
Chen Fan sneers and activates the [Super Settlement Money System]! Whenever one of his men gets beaten and bleeds, the System pays out gold coins: 3,000 for minor injuries, 20,000 for serious injuries, and 100,000 if they die in battle!
Faced with hundreds of enemies drawing their knives, Chen Fan charges forward instead of backing down. He unrolls a canvas bag stuffed with cash and roars in the street, “Everyone who shows up today gets 200! If you get cut and bleed, you get at least 800! Medical expenses go on the books! Go wild and start hacking!”
With this “blood-and-flesh investment” strategy, Chen Fan launches a crazed campaign of conquest like a war profiteer! Low-level thugs making a few hundred a month? I’ll pay a 10,000 base salary to recruit death-dealing gods! Others fight over turf with knives, but Chen Fan simply throws down 500,000 in cash: “A hundred just to show up! I’m hiring all five thousand walled-village laborers to take over this entire street!”
He beats D in a fistfight, crushes a Red Pole with one hand, and brings the Sai Kung Big Fool to heel with overwhelming force. When he owns the most luxurious money pit in Sham Shui Po, and even multinational conglomerates and the Four Great Detectives come sniffing around, Chen Fan quietly opens the vault filled with billions in cash. “Ready to come work for me?”
Not bad, but too little and not enough to watch.