[Era-Era Tycoon | Mountain Development and Infrastructure | Extreme Face-Slapping | Educated Youth's Revenge | A Higher-Dimensional Beatdown]
In 1982, Tao Kai's uncle's family stole the university admission and return-to-the-city opportunity he had risked his life to earn, then kicked him into a ramshackle hut in Blind Valley, Changbai Mountain, at thirty-five degrees below zero. He seemed mild and pure on the surface, but when it came to spending money, he was as ruthless and decisive as a tiger or wolf.
Facing bitter cold and dwindling food, with Zhou Bapi, the supply-and-marketing cooperative bully, blocking the roads and cutting off every means of survival, the Wilderness Guardian System awakened with a bang. As long as he stayed deep in the mountains, a hundred brand-new ten-yuan bills would appear under his pillow every day! The only condition: he had to spend it all in the forest district before sunset! In an era when the average monthly wage was just twenty-eight yuan, Tao Kai used his daily “forced spending spree” to build an elite hunting and shooting team with cold, hard cash, snatch a century-old wild ginseng, and seize control of ten thousand mu of forest land.
While his uncle's family basked in the glory of their steady wages in the capital, Tao Kai was already returning aboard a green-painted sleeper train, accompanied by a fully armed forest protection force and an empire built on mountain treasures worth billions.
