Kowloon Walled City.
A dilapidated barbershop.
Lu Yan sat in front of Cyclone.
“Uncle Dragon, is there something you need?”
Lu Yan asked with a puzzled expression.
In the past few days, he had opened his first high-end car repair shop, so he was quite busy.
Cyclone was the leader of Kowloon Walled City, single-handedly guarding a fortress, protecting the peace of 50,000 people. Their lives had a chance to breathe because of him.
Lu Yan was once one of them.
Lu Yan was not from this Hong Kong film world.
He was a time traveler.
Two years ago, Lu Yan was a repairman, but in an accident, he found himself transported to the Kowloon Walled City in the Hong Kong film world.
He had nothing back then, and he was an illegal immigrant. Due to his expertise in repairing household appliances, he gained Cyclone's recognition and eventually obtained legal status in the Hong Kong film world.
People in Kowloon Walled City were generally poor. They repaired their appliances whenever possible, saving money.
Unbeknownst to him, Lu Yan, who was barely in his twenties, had become a prominent figure in Kowloon Walled City, second only to Cyclone in status.
Lu Yan provided a lot of technical support, improving the machines in small workshops, increasing efficiency and income, which naturally earned him the love and support of the people.
Even Xin Yi, Cyclone's intended successor, would respectfully address him as "Brother Yan."
In this chaotic city, those with abilities naturally commanded respect.
Lu Yan thought he would continue living like this when the system arrived.
The Tech Tycoon System!
As long as he completed the system's challenge tasks, he would receive generous rewards.
The system offered many challenge tasks to choose from, and there was no time limit.
After careful consideration, Lu Yan's first challenge task was appliance repair, which was his old profession.
Once the appliance repair progress bar reached 100%, Lu Yan would receive technology related to the smart appliance industry.
Lu Yan knew very well that the demand for appliances in the mainland, across the sea from Hong Kong, was terrifyingly high.
The mainland's appliance-to-the-countryside policy back then directly boosted a terrifyingly large consumer market.
Being prepared, this was one of Lu Yan's life principles.
Never fight an unprepared battle!
There was still some time before Hong Kong's return to the mainland.
The Soviet Union was still around, but it was nearing its collapse.
Time was definitely on his side.
To date, the appliance repair challenge task, which had been going on for a year, had only reached 68.9212%, a long way to go.
The most crucial point.
Whenever Lu Yan guided others in repair techniques or authorized them to repair appliances, it would increase the challenge progress bar, just at a much slower rate.
In fact, Lu Yan discovered that modifications could also increase the challenge progress bar.
Of course.
If Lu Yan personally repaired the appliances, he could also receive various small rewards, such as several hundred to several tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, or even extremely rare and special cards, such as stock single-day rise/fall cards.
These special props were rare and unpredictable.
So far, Lu Yan only had one stock card, which could make a specific stock rise by 50% on a single day.
He had not used this stock card yet, waiting for the most suitable opportunity.
After all, the props had no expiration date.
Apart from that, there was another kind of prop that Lu Yan loved the most, the Refurbishment Card, which could refurbish any broken item worth less than HK$10,000, restoring it to 80% new.
If two cards were used, it could be restored to 90% new.
If four cards were used, it could be restored to 99% new.
However, Lu Yan didn't think it was worth it.
The Refurbishment Card wasn't rare, it was relatively easy to obtain, repairing something like a rice cooker could give him a chance to get one.
As long as he didn't go overboard, the system would turn a blind eye.
For example, damaging an appliance himself and then repairing it, as long as he didn't exceed ten times, and only did it once every three days.
Lu Yan was quite satisfied with this system.
As for refurbishing broken items worth more than HK$10,000, it would require multiple Refurbishment Cards.
For example, to refurbish a luxury car that originally cost HK$1 million, regardless of whether it was 30% new or 50% new, it would require 100 Refurbishment Cards.
This required Lu Yan to carefully calculate how to maximize the benefits of the Refurbishment Cards.
In the early stages, he needed capital, so he had to do this calculation, trying to take advantage of every opportunity.
This also allowed Lu Yan to earn a full HK$10 million within a year, but he immediately invested HK$5 million to open a high-end car repair shop.
This was a finely decorated car repair shop.
Clearly.
Lu Yan's target customers were the upper-class elites, not ordinary citizens.
Next.
Lu Yan wanted to develop rapidly and needed connections.
As for the car repair shop targeting the general public, it was under renovation, and it would officially open in three months.
Lu Yan had already accepted his second challenge task -
Manufacturing Cars!
Even though it was a car manufacturing challenge task, Lu Yan tried it and found that repairing and modifying cars could also increase the challenge progress bar, just at a slower rate.
Once the progress bar reached 100%, Lu Yan would receive technology related to the electric vehicle industry.
This temptation was far greater than the appliance repair challenge.
Of course.
So far, the car manufacturing challenge progress bar was less than 0.001%.
Lu Yan was not in a hurry.
The car market still needed some time to mature.
Especially on the mainland.
He wouldn't miss out on making money there.
Everything was developing smoothly.
Lu Yan was very satisfied with his current life.
Moreover.
On the day he awakened the system, he also got a beginner's package, which included an internal martial arts skill -
The Nine Yang Divine Art!
After a year of practicing the Nine Yang Divine Art, Lu Yan had reached the peak of the Post-Heaven realm, not far from the Pre-Heaven realm.
In Kowloon Walled City, only Cyclone could defeat him.
This leader of Kowloon Walled City was a genuine Pre-Heaven realm powerhouse.
Lu Yan's unbreakable status in Kowloon Walled City was inseparable from practicing the Nine Yang Divine Art.
Sometimes, fists were the fastest solution.
Especially in a chaotic world.
Now, if he were to participate in the Olympics, Lu Yan could easily sweep all the major events.
However.
That would be too small-minded.
At least, that's what Lu Yan thought.
Martial arts couldn't be exposed for the time being.
In Kowloon Walled City, only Cyclone and Xin Yi knew that Lu Yan knew martial arts.
Xin Yi's respect for Lu Yan was partly due to being defeated by him. From initially being evenly matched, now Xin Yi couldn't even block a single move from Lu Yan.
Lu Yan's Nine Yang Divine Art combined with military boxing was simply too powerful.
Even Cyclone had to look at Lu Yan with admiration.
“There is something.”
Cyclone subconsciously handed Lu Yan a cigarette, but quickly retracted it, remembering that Lu Yan didn't smoke or drink.
This was truly bizarre in their world!
“Uncle Dragon, please speak.”
Lu Yan said, “Also, smoke less.”
Cyclone hesitated for a moment after hearing this, then put the cigarette he had just put in his mouth back into the cigarette box.
Clearly.
He had made up his mind.