Esmond hadn't started using the Virtual Labs he'd bought from the system store along with the Virtual World which the labs were connected with and integrated into.
Though the system had removed the side effects and problems associated with Virtual Labs, the Virtual World would allow Esmond to both test out his simulations with near identical environment to the external world.
Now getting the System Knowledge Databank as a reward, he felt it would perfect for him to recreate some of the items and projects from his past lives.
He might not need it now but uploading it to the S.K.D would definitely bring him some sort of benefit.
"Carter?!"
"Yo yo yo!
What do you need fool?"
Carter was twirling like a ballerina, trying his hand at dropping some hot verses before Esmond called for him.
He'd come across rap music by chance while fascinated by the graceful movement of ballerinas, so he started performing them at the same time which Esmond caught a glimpse of, leaving him somewhat scarred.
"… let's just… argh *sigh* fuck it… Carter is the lab ready for me to use?"
"Yeah sure.
What were you thinking of creating and testing?"
Carter was confused by the weird glare he got from Esmond however he was too focused on creating his own rhythm book.
"… I was thinking of creating a few different cars and see how they perform.
Possibly battery powered…
But I will also work on fuel and some other things.
How much time can you offer?"
Esmond asked Carter about the time dilation within the Virtual World for him to work because he wanted as much time as possible to work without being disturbed.
"For now, the max an hour will give you is roughly 5 days within the virtual world."
Esmond felt let down, hoping it would have been a month or more, but 5 days weren't enough to get anything done in his mind.
He couldn't do anything more about it but complain in his heart and asked Carter to take him to the place where the headgear was for the mental submersion.
They returned to the cabin and went underground to a shelter build below the house with a huge intricate lab and systems storing severs and more.
Echos severs were even down here, so the place generated great amounts of heat, but Carter had done some work to make parts of the underground complex freezing cold.
Either way, Esmond wasn't here to tour around, rather he was focused on the work that needed to be done.
The car yards his father had bought were cleaned out and the cars sent to the warehouse he owned.
Carter brought the cars to the Spatial Ark Land and got to work dismantling them.
The two caryards had roughly 60 cars each of various types, sizes, and engines so he had a good sample of cars to work with in the future.
Previously Esmond had Julia work with a local car manufacturing company, Holden, to sell their factory on the outskirts of Adelaide, in the city of Elizabeth.
Layla was now in charge of the acquisition, with her mother overseeing her work, and Esmond had been informed that a deal could be sorted out soon enough with the slightly generous offer that was made.
Esmond knew the factory would close in the coming years due to costs and eventually close, with hundreds out of a job.
Living already within Adelaide and not too far away from the massive factory, Esmond believed it to be a perfect place to start work on his car manufacturing company.
He'd already come up with a name, not wanting it to be completely associate with Primal Management, other than being a subsidiary company.
Esmond planned to connect some of his businesses with each other, while others couldn't come close to one another at all.
In this case though, the car company would be connected to Primal, but not under the same name.
Manston would be the name of car brand, just so he could please his father who'd always wanted to enter the car manufacturing business.
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Finally reaching the room where Carter had set up Esmonds personal virtual gear, the two entered with Esmond a little confused by the setting of the room.
"It looks like-"
"A normal bedroom… well I made it like so because the virtual gear is built into the bed as well as the advanced headgear."
Carter showed Esmond the thin band that looked a little like a crown which he would wear as he laid down on the bed.
The bed also had receivers built within which helped the system recreate him close to near identical within the Virtual World plus manage his health and nutrition while active with the headgear.
Esmond laid down without any second thought and let Carter pass him the small silver band that he placed on his head before everything went black as Carter activated his headset and connected him with the Virtual World.
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When Esmonds eyes opened again he was within the Virtual World, a currently simple endless span of land with simple hills and grassland all around.
With a single thought, Esmond as the administrator of the world, instantly found the location of the Virtual Labs and teleported over.
What he found on entering the space called Virtual Labs was his mind being filled with the facilities built in the lab and what each offered him.
There were laboratories designated to specific sciences like chemistry, physics, biology.
But there were also labs for medicine, technology, art and so on.
It was endless and the grandest place of it all was the library where books and media of all sorts was continued within.
The thing was though, Esmond needed to fill the place with knowledge for the library to unlock the labs and other information related to the corresponding science.
For example, Carter had uploaded the information he'd gathered from the internet into the Virtual Labs which unlocked the chemistry, physics, technology, and other facilities like the testing grounds.
His first plans were to upload Edmonds's memories of the past he'd deciphered to the labs which had accepted the knowledge in part, but Esmond needed to make the final adjustments before the labs were opened with tools and equipment Esmond could use to conduct his projects.
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"Carter, how much have you uploaded from my past memories?"
'Mmm, nothing in comparison to the whole amount, but I might have added maybe one life or two at the most.
Its quite hard to decipher the knowledge cause how deep it can be in some of your lives.'
"I understand.
Anyway, where do I need to go first?"
'Best you go to the library and first write out your design and plans.
Once your happy with your proposal, the library access its credibility before publishing the information and opening the corresponding knowledge to the project and the labs needed to create it.
For now, the labs needed to make cars and batteries are open but if you want to upgrade them then you need to create the theory with the project to make it possible and add it to the library for it to access.'
Carter made sure to fill Esmond in as much as possible so he wouldn't think of the labs like the ones he came across in the past which required external input and help to make the labs function.
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Having reached the library again, having come through earlier when he went sight seeing through the labs, he found a desk before sitting down.
Just as his buttocks touch the seat, he felt his mind connect with the library as he could inspect each bookcase with a simple thought and could scroll through the books without moving a muscle.
Esmond called for some books from physics to electronics and chemistry so he could start work on the electric batteries with a greater lifespan and faster recharge speeds.
They would become the backbone of the brand, similar to Tesla, a competitor Carter found in the United States owned by Elon Musk.
It was currently working hard to change how the public saw electric cars and from what Esmond knew of the future, he would succeed, so he found no point to buy the company completely, instead investing and becoming another major shareholder by covering his tracks with Carters and Echos help.
He didn't want any traces to lead back to him, especially with a car brand he was making that would become a competing company.
Esmond expected Tesla would take a huge hit just by him entering the market, however he didn't plan to go on the offensive immediately.
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After working for 30 days within the Virtual Lab, Esmond had created close to 70 different projects and ideas that the library accepted and added to its collection while also opening the corresponding labs.
Esmond worked round the clock to build his projects with the help of the drones to do most of the menial work, so he didn't need to bother with spending too much time in the labs unless something needed his personal attention.
He'd designed and built a new efficient engine which worked in conjunction with his new batteries, making it a hybrid engine, that offered more power for less fuel.
Current engines are roughly 30 to 35 percent efficient with the fuel they use, leaving 60 percent or more as waste, but Esmond had created a new engine type with the hybrid fuel source to increase efficiently levels to 50 percent at the minimum.
He made more efficient engines as well than the 50 percent, however he didn't plan on releasing those engines to the public, mostly leaving them for military or other uses.
He'd also made some progress on the jet engines he was creating for the both the military drones but also for his fighter jets.
Within the short time Esmond made a terrific amount of progress in Carters eyes, however Esmond felt he still couldn't complete enough work during his time in the Virtual World.
'*Sigh* I'll just have to find some way to improve the Virtual World dilation somehow…'
Esmond finally left after spending 30 days within the lab and finally came out to a bright and smiling Carter who looked crazy in the eyes.
"You bastard! All this extra work you've created for me!
Why do you hate me so much!"
Ignoring the cursing and moody Carter who seemed to have stopped his ballerina twirls and kicks already, he looked over to the side and saw a shining steel humanoid drone who made sense of the cursing.
>Master, 73 projects were detected within the Virtual World which have now been added to the new production lines and will be adapted for the specified fields as per the files<
"Ahh… now I understand…
Sorry for making more work for you Carter… and Echo…
Thank you for your sacrifice…"
Esmond acted a little sarcastic, but he understood why Carter was annoyed because it meant some of the vehicles, they'd already made might need to either be scrapped or fixed so they could work with the adjustments.
He chose not to stick around and get out of the underground facility, having been in the Virtual World long enough for one day.
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Back in the cabin lounge room, Esmond laid down as he turned on the tv with Carter lying down on the sofa as he flipped to the news channel.
"You know, everyone is currently at the villa in Phuket.
Up to you when their holiday should come to an end, but I've gotta say, they are an impressive bunch."
Carter was talking about the number of special forces that had gathered from all over the world in Phuket to work for Esmond.
From Netherland, United States, France, and various other nations, all either abandoned by their nations or left to squander over the years as they waited to be called to action.
Their families had joined them and were brought over Phuket with the promise of a better life and future.
Many of the families had children or other members like their brothers and sisters.
Everyone right now was enjoying the villas and their five-star facilities, waiting for Esmond to arrive.
Even the guys that helped him Nigeria were they're with everyone from their families, including cousins and aunts.
All people that were surviving off their livelihood.
Carter thought he would hop on over on the next flight to Thailand, however Esmond waited on going for one reason.
And it included the system store…
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"Purchase another week of accommodation and travel for the families.
Let the recruits know I will be there in a weeks' time."
Esmond opened up the System Store with 1,101,500 Credits in his bank and searched through the list of categories instead of scrolling through the endless items in the store.
He wanted to buy some of the appealing items up for sale which costed billions of credits sadly, like the 10th Legion of the Great Imperial Xoplis Royal Guard priced at 13 billion credits.
Unfortunately, he could only afford the Buklish Special Security Forces, priced at 500,000 Credits, thanking his luck they weren't pricier because of their ability to absorb knowledge.
It was a genetic ability of the humanoid race which were identical to earth human anatomy expect their appendix within their body was a muscle that could be trained by using cultivation methods specified to their bodies and energy within the air.
However, as they were a technically advance race, they quickly reached a highly advance era with flying cars and space faring machines, they also improved their training methods for the appendix.
Which made them create a system with the born children of their race where they would be sorted into career paths from a young age.
Their Special Security Forces were one of those units created from millions of children who were selected at a young age to begin training.
Taught a variety of methods from undercover training to bodyguarding and military strategies, each member of the unit was equivalent to a fleet commander and could take up those roles if it was required of them.
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Before Esmond completed the sale, he checked the store for some other items like schematics for certain weapons, but they all costed too much, and nothing was useful for him right now.
He was hoping for something to help with the time dilation of the Virtual World, unfortunately nothing was on sale which he could afford.
That left him with one option and that was to try his own hand at editing the coding of the virtual world and its servers.
Which would cause him to slow down his current work capacity, so he had no idea what to do other than complete the sale of the Buklish Special Security Forces, however he noticed soon pitifully laughed at his failure to slow down and read everything…
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*Ding*
[Buklish Special Security Forces – Body Coding and Organ Augmentation]
[(Sent to Inventory) – Machines and serums to help with body upgrading that helped increase the numbers of Buklish Special Security Forces through]
[System has edited the serums to work on all known species genetic codes within its database]
[The Machines have also been updated and improved to eliminate as much of the problematic issues of the procedure and to help remove any faults with manual interference.
Machines are therefore made to operate automatically and with minimal manual interference]