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Chapter 352 Mister Fantastic

March 2002, Kennedy Space Center.

"Reed, I admit that you are a genius, but there is a lot of opposition to your space exploration plan. You should know that this is a project that costs tens of billions of dollars. hole, and pay for your dreams!"

Kennedy Space Center, there are two people sitting in the meeting room, one is Professor Thom, the head of the space center, and the other is the future Mister Fantastic, Reed Charlize.

"Professor, this is a great plan. It has unimaginably promoted the history of spaceflight development and the history of world science. I already have a complete plan, perfect spacecraft design drawings, and only need to invest a little US dollars to complete the project." Great results can be achieved!"

Reed waved his hands excitedly, trying to convince Professor Tom.

Professor Thom shook his head regretfully. In fact, he had already been persuaded by Reid, but the parliament did not support the proposal, and he was helpless.

"Reed, give up. 850 billion dollars is not a small number, it is the payment of countless taxpayers. You can convince me because I understand science and understand your ingenuity. And those big men in Congress think you The plan is too advanced, and exploring the mysteries of the universe is an impossible task at this stage." Professor Thom sighed, and whispered: "Give up, wait 20 years, and start this proposal when the time is right. "

20 years, this is not a small number.

Just as Congress can't bear the 850 billion scientific research funding, Reed can't bear it either. His plan is at hand, but he has to wait for 20 years.

Reed looked down and sat weakly on the chair.

It was so difficult to raise funds, which made him disheartened, and he didn't even listen to Professor Tom's comforting words.

"Reed, forget about it, I'll give you a long vacation, go home and have a good rest." Professor Tom nodded and left the empty conference room.

Outside the door, Reed's best friend, the future Stone Man Ben Grimm, is standing at the door quietly eavesdropping.

Seeing Professor Tom come out, the stone man sighed, turned and walked into the conference room.

"Reed, is there no hope?" The stone man said directly and sullenly.

Reed clenched his fists tightly, glanced at the plan on the table, and said in a deep voice: "There is still hope, we leave the Kennedy Space Center, form a company by ourselves, and seek capital injection from other companies, I don't believe it, it's so good Your plan will fall into your hands."

A complete plan and a practical implementation plan, this is Reed's confidence.

He believes that when he comes up with a plan, investors will flock to him, and when he has the money to build an aircraft, he will realize his dream.

Unfortunately, there is a gap between reality and dreams.

For a whole week, Reid found more than a dozen large companies, as well as many Wall Street financial giants.

However, when these people learned that the plan would cost 850 billion U.S. dollars and the Kennedy Space Center itself vetoed it, the cruel reality came.

Deny, refuse, still refuse.

Holding his plan book, Reed ran into walls everywhere among Wall Street and big entrepreneurs. Many people even thought they were liars.

In desperation, Reed could only cast his sights on his former competitor and rising star in the business world. Victor Dum "The Future Doctor Doom".

"Put the flower basket on the left side, Mr. Victor, he pays great attention to the company's external image, and the position of the door is the face of the company."

The 108-story Victor Building is the core of Victor Enterprises.

At the door, there is a black iron statue under construction, which shows Victor in high spirits.

Reed and the stone man, looking at the employees who placed flower baskets at the door, walked into the building with their heads down, ready to meet Victor.

As in many movies, the seeker arrives early, but the seeker arrives late.

From nine o'clock in the morning to eleven o'clock at noon, Reed and Stone were notified that Victor had time to meet them.

"After waiting for two hours, this guy's sense of time is really bad. Does he really regard himself as a big shot?" The stone man said to Reed with an angry face.

Reed himself didn't care, he waved his hand lightly, and said with a smile, "Small tricks that won't make it to the stage, Victor likes these the most."

Victor, Reid, Stoneman, Susan, all four are students of MIT.

During school, Reed's genius-like performance not only won the love of Susan, but also deeply hurt Victor's heart.

In Victor's words, Reed likes to show off his smart brain, as if he is the only smart person in the whole world.

In fact, MIT college students are just like middle school students in front of Reed. Even many tutors can't keep up with Reed's thinking and question whether they are stupid.

Therefore, Victor disliked Reed very much, especially after his crush Susan became Reed's girlfriend, and this dislike accumulated to the apex.

"Let me see who's here, the smartest Reed, and your little follower, Ben Grimm!" In the luxuriously decorated office, the future Doctor Doom said with a mocking look on his face. : "Let me think about it, what are you here for, please, please help me!"

Before the official contact, Reed had already sent an appointment, and also attached some planning materials.

Victor didn't even need to think about it, he knew the purpose of Reid's visit.Therefore, his purpose of bringing up old stories is only to hit Reed's self-confidence, because there is nothing that can satisfy his vanity more than his enemies begging himself.

"This rubbish, I really want to teach him a lesson." The stone man was furious, wishing he could rush up and kick him hard.

It's a pity that they came here this time to seek financing. Victor's company has a market value of 2000 billion US dollars, which is very helpful to their plan.

No matter how dissatisfied he was, the stone man knew that his idea was impossible to realize.

Otherwise, a big entrepreneur who is in charge of hundreds of billions of assets can put him in jail with a finger, and he will never think of it in his life.

"Victor, we are here this time not to quarrel with you. If you agree, I would like to talk about my plan and see if there is any possibility for us to cooperate." Reed got straight to the point and didn't talk nonsense with Victor .

Victor shrugged his shoulders, and without moving his butt off the chair, he waved his hands and said, "Speak, let me hear your plan."

"In my speculation, the high-energy cosmic storm may have affected the birth of the first species. If we can build a spaceship that can resist the cosmic storm, and go deep into it to collect data, it is likely to obtain the basic information of the first evolution With these data, we can feed back genetics, promote the second evolution of human beings, and understand more about the mysteries of the universe that belong to the unknown field.”

Reed spoke loudly, talking about his plans and goals, talking about what he thought was wonderful, and waving his arms vigorously.

For half an hour, Reid's explanation did not end.

Victor looked down at his watch, tapped his finger on the table, and stopped the tirade.

"enough."

"I haven't fully explained the plan yet!"

"Enough is enough."

Victor sighed, leaned on the chair and said, "You are still the same, thinking that you are the best, and everyone is inferior to you, and you can't even understand what you are talking about."

Speaking of this, Victor himself laughed, and said with a smile: "Your plan is very good, I only have one question now, Congress doesn't even believe that you will succeed, why should I believe you?"

The space exploration program was completely rejected by Congress, and it is no secret to the outside world.

It is undoubtedly a risky decision to invest in a project that is not favored by Congress and is even controversial within the space agency.

No entrepreneur will forget that investing is risky.

Once the $850 billion plan is declared Waterloo, it will shake the foundation of a company at least, and even destroy a large enterprise at worst.

"In the United States, only companies with assets worth over [-] billion can be rated as a consortium-level company. I have struggled for ten years to bring Victor Energy to the standard of a consortium company. Once I agree to your plan, then I only have There are two ways to go, one leads to the Kangzhuang Avenue, and the other leads to the abyss." The smile on Victor's face disappeared and was replaced by seriousness.

The market value of Victor's enterprise is 2000 billion, and he has 56% of the shares in his hand, and his assets are about 1100 billion.

Once he makes a decision, spend 850 billion US dollars to invest in the space exploration program.

Fortunately, the success of the plan is not a dream, soaring stocks are possible.

Conversely, if the investment fails, the stock is likely to plunge, and Victor's wealth evaporates instantly.

"In that case, let's take our leave." Reid turned and walked out with a look of disappointment on his face.

The moment Lidra opened the door and was about to go out, Victor's voice came from behind: "You are still so impatient, you don't wait for others to finish talking."

"What do you mean?" Reed held the door with one hand and turned to look at Victor.

Victor didn't answer, he reached out to caress the globe on the desk, and twisted it forcefully to the right.

"Crack."

As the globe rotated, the bookshelves in the room receded quickly to the sides.

Reed and the stone man looked up, and saw that there was another room behind the bookshelves, and two strangers were sitting in it.

In a small room like a dark room, there is a conference table, and two strangers in suits and sunglasses are sitting on the sofa holding red wine glasses.

Seeing a stranger appear, Reed and the stone man were surprised.

Victor stood up from the chair, spread his hands lightly, and said, "You must think that I'm trying to show you off by letting you hang out for two hours? Wrong, big mistake, you have been waiting for a long time. During the two hours of waiting, I was entertaining these two gentlemen, and now allow me to introduce you."

"This is Mr. Jinbing, the overlord of the gray industry." The person Victor introduced was the burly Jinbing wearing black sunglasses.

Jin Bing nodded slightly, her dark eyes were hidden under the sunglasses, which still made the air a little more dignified.

Reed and the stone man looked at each other, a little confused about the situation at this time.

Victor smiled and didn't say much, stretched out his hand and introduced again: "There is also this gentleman, the biggest angel investor on Wall Street, the gold master of countless entrepreneurs, he is"

(End of this chapter)