Laura's Beautiful Journey

After informing Katie, who was preparing for a long trip, Laura drove a Reventon and set off. The meeting place set by the two parties was in the top-floor conference room of the Crawford Building. Laura, who planned to keep a low profile during this period, did not intend to fly there directly.

Although the Best armor has optical invisibility function, she, Lara Croft, still did it secretly when she wanted to enter her company building, is that true? !

As a result, Laura's "low-key" plan was completely ruined by the roar of the V12 engine of this supercar, which is limited to units in the world.

The sharp front of the car combines the design of two large air intakes, and the multiple sharp angles outlined by straight lines give the entire body a sense of speed and sharpness, attracting the attention of most people wherever it passes.

At this time, in the Crawford Building, there was a waiting area for VIP customers on the third floor.

Reed Richards was sitting upright on the comfortable and soft sofa just like a well-behaved middle school student.

"Reed, drink some juice. You should relax a little, otherwise you may end up talking nonsense later. Remember, you are here today to attract investment."

A bald man sitting opposite him saw his overly nervous look, so he quickly spoke to persuade him.

Unlike Tony Stark, who made most of his inventions with widespread practical value, the smarter Reed Richards was forced to borrow money to survive.

For this space observation mission, Reed even mortgaged his building to the bank and collected rent from office tenants on each floor for a year in advance. But this huge sum of money, which street criminals would never dare to imagine in their lifetime, is a drop in the bucket before the sky-high costs of the space program.

In fact, the investor Reed first looked for was the U.S. military, with whom he had maintained a "good" relationship for many years. However, when the person in charge heard that it was a "space program", he rejected it without hesitation.

"Mr. Richards, all the money the military has invested in you and your various projects over the years has ultimately been a loss. And due to the decline in military expenditure growth this year, our military has no extra money for you to waste. ,terribly sorry."

The above are the original words of the person in charge. After he said these words, he immediately left without looking back. He looked anxious as if he was afraid that Reed would chase him and continue to ask for money.

In fact, this is no wonder the military is ruthless. What others say is basically true. The purpose of the cooperation between the military and Reed has been to let him create high-tech next-generation weapons to maintain the United States' "world hegemony" status.

In the beginning, they were only responsible for providing money, and Reed was responsible for the design and manufacturing. As a result, as soon as Reed got the money, he started to let himself go and use it to do some messy research.

In this regard, the military boss said that it was okay. After all, most of these small sums of money, which were euphemistically called "research funds", actually went into their own pockets. When they were given to Reed, they were actually less than 10%. .

The result is that because there is no supervision, Reed feels that the military is simply the "best" partner to cooperate with, so he is responsible for providing the money, and he can do whatever he wants. It is so exciting that he can fly!

The consequence of this is that after the military spent tens of millions of dollars and waited eagerly for a year, it obtained the "super wear-resistant fireproof clothing material" from Reed.

After seeing the results, the person in charge at the time was blinded on the spot, fell straight to the ground, and was then taken away by an ambulance.

But money must continue to be made. In view of Reed's reputation in the scientific community, and Tony Stark being too arrogant, Reed is still the best candidate for military bosses to apply for "research funding."

As the saying goes, one learns from one's mistakes. Since there will be chaos if there are no restrictions, Qian Reid can only write a "proposal composition" for this second cooperation.

At that time, Tony Stark had already developed the Iron Suit, so the title given by the military was "Wearable Individual Combat Exoskeleton Suit."

The general idea is to ask Reed to make a shrunken version of the steel suit, without the bells and whistles of the Mark series. It doesn't matter if it is bigger, more focused and thicker, but the firepower must be fierce, and the production and maintenance costs must be low!

Although Reed was a little unhappy at the time that he had to do this kind of "defective product" that he looked down upon, he still shouted "I know this question!" because he had no research funds, and then successfully accepted the order again.

This time, the military bosses "only" hacked 70% of the small money, just to give Reed enough funds to tinker with the individual armor they wanted. Of course, the main purpose was not to assemble the troops, but to In order to come up with something to stop the crowd, so that the follow-up plan of greed for small money can continue to be implemented.

Unfortunately, Mr. Reed eventually went off topic. The individual combat armor system he designed, internally codenamed "Terminator", has extremely strong defensive power and can withstand two rounds of armor-piercing shells from the main gun of the US M1 Abrams main battle tank.

Sounds cool, right? but! This "individual combat system", which cost 35 million US dollars in research funding and cost up to 6 million per unit, has no firepower components! Therefore, it was nicknamed the "single-soldier turtle shell system" by testers.

The good "Terminator" turned into a "tortoise shell". The second person in charge, who had a huge psychological gap, vomited blood and twitched all over during the inspection. He and his predecessor worked together in a military sanatorium. Brothers in distress.

In order not to embarrass themselves too much, after the military sent Reed out as a gift, they called in Hammer Industries, which was at war with them at the time. After all, the other party had modified the "iron patriotism" style of Colonel Rhodes of the Air Force. The glorious resume of the "Zhao" suit firepower system.

Justin Hammer naturally agreed to such a good thing, and brought the only "Terminator" individual combat system delivered by Reed to the Hammer Industrial Base overnight, and asked their "chief scientist" Ivan ·Vanke came to carry out the transformation.

After seeing the relevant design drawings, Ivan was absolutely amazed by Reed, and then clearly stated to Justin Hammer:

This thing has been designed and manufactured from the beginning to only focus on defense and discard all other "useless" systems and components. He can't change it, so why not take a look at his unmanned robot soldier design if he has the time? The cost is cheap, the firepower is powerful, and the military is divided into different types for differentiated design. It is simply worth the money!

The military at that time was obviously deceived by this rhetoric again, and secretly and openly gave Justin Hammer and his Hammer Industries a lot of technology, funds, and purchase orders to express support.