Marvel's Speedster

When the general father and daughter were worrying about their careers or emotional difficulties, Ross and Pepper were happily counting the gains, because they had received more than one order, in addition to the generous Pentagon throwing money to the cutting-edge laboratories Gwen's father, Chief George Stacey, finally convinced the stingy government and the Congress. Recently, the chief announced that he would allocate part of his budget to customize new bulletproof equipment for the laboratory to replace the 21,000 pieces of New York police that have passed five years. In addition, he purchased 20,000 pieces of Phoenix drug, and promised that these life-saving items will be distributed to the police before the crime-intensive summer, and the poor grassroots police officers will no longer have to pay for it out of their own pockets. Purchase expensive equipment and medicines.

Although these two orders belong to the nature of government procurement, the price is inevitably lower than the market retail price, but compared to the negligible manufacturing cost, they can still be called windfall profits-especially the latter. The main material of Phoenix Potion is the product of self-replication of mutant Hela cells. This cell line will not age and die, and has the characteristics of infinite division. As long as the cheap nutrient solution is replenished in time, the number of cells will automatically increase every 24 hours Double—the basement of the biological building is full of such things. Ross often racks his brains to deal with the excess tissue, and even if the price is still comparable to silver in the outside world, how can he not be willing to sell it.

However, what Ross and Pepper valued was not the originality of the transaction, but the subsequent impact of the transaction. As the military and the government have opened their doors to laboratories, more institutions will definitely join the procurement ranks in the future. And 14 potential groups who have the willingness to buy will also be encouraged by this transaction.

Compared with the war-torn small countries in Central Asia, the purchasing power of North America is the most meaningful, and it will also have a profound impact on opening up the rich Western European countries and Japan and other markets for products

This is really great for Ross, who has been under financial pressure. He can temporarily stop thinking about some unsound funds and continue to maintain the secret plan of burning money.

"I have asked the doctor to send invitations to his colleagues, and we may receive many visiting groups in the next few months | many of them are potential customers." Pepper said happily. "Expect these tour groups to bring us some good news.

"Don't be stingy when you need to give gifts. The money is on the taxpayers anyway. We just need to get our share." Ross reminded him that he suddenly hated the current situation a little bit.

There are no people from Asgard, no alien invaders led by Loki, and even Mutant Brotherhood's troublemakers have gone to a small country in Eastern Europe. The peaceful United States is like stagnant water, and there are no cutting-edge laboratories to squeeze out the market. Opportunity for maximum purchasing power.

Perhaps it will take until monsters like the green titans appear one after another before ordinary people will face up to the dangers brought by the advent of the new era.

But before that, he still had to wait hard.

The joy of the good news wears off, and then Pepper tells him the bad news.

"Recently, there has been a call in the fishing industry that some people are trying to link our normal operations with monopolistic behavior. As far as I know, independent prosecutors are already preparing for this. They are likely to cause us some trouble."

"Is it a personal choice, or is there a lobby group standing behind it?" Ross asked casually. The group's counterattack, Watsonton Pharmaceutical's hostility is only the first time, but it will never be the last. In fact, it was beyond Ross' expectation that someone could stand up until this time.

But he has a solution, and now he just needs to determine which hand is trying to reach into his wallet.

"Senator Stern." Pepper shrugged and said the name of the owner of the hand. "Senator Stern has extensive interests in the military industry, and has recently received sponsorship from some pharmaceutical giants. He can't wait to do several feats, and we are his goal."

"Malick thought so before." Ross said with a half-smile.

In the original timeline, Stern was one of the big men in the Senate who was in trouble with Tony. In addition to his noble status as a senator, Ross also happened to know another ulterior identity of him. In this world, perhaps Tony's physical condition made people feel that Stark Industry could take control with ease, and there was no need to rush him to hand over the blueprints of the Iron Armor, so they turned their attention to the cutting-edge laboratory without a deep background. body.

So Ross's response is also very simple, let Mr. Malik's tragic story repeat.

"I'll keep an eye on it." As he said so, he picked up his phone and issued several instructions to Todd.

Pepper pursed her lips and smiled. She didn't know what Ross was going to do, but she believed that Ross could solve the problem.

The senator's threat has not yet come, and now there is a very difficult matter waiting for Ross to deal with.

"Do you have any thoughts about Miss Betty?" she asked as nonchalantly as possible.

"What happened to Betty?" Ross pretended to be stupid and didn't answer directly.

"Her father, a three-star general, took such good care of you, don't you have any objections?" Pepper continued to ask.

"What are you trying to say?" Ross asked back.

"What about Gwen, and Mary Jane?" Pepper finally asked what she wanted to know most, and she asked it for herself. "Are you going to choose one of them?

Pepper's question made Ross pause for a moment.

It has been two days since Betty arrived. Although he has kept a distance from this lady in these two days, and his attitude is polite and thoughtful, but he rarely comes into close contact with him personally. It seems that the contacts at the working level do not involve personal relationships, but he has a keen sense of intuition. It is still difficult to conceal the past from the woman, the police procurement is undoubtedly due to George's vigorous promotion, and behind George's actions must be Gwen's plea - unlike Mary Jane whose father is an alcoholic, the general's daughter's The arrival undoubtedly put pressure on the director's daughter.

But asking Ross to give up isn't a good idea either. Definitely needless to say the two little girlfriends, Betty, Pepper, and Susan, who recently avoided suspicion and came over, are all excellent women. Regardless of their heart, appearance and ability, they can meet Ross' needs. I don't want to see these women go away one by one.

Therefore, whether to choose or not is a question, but there is always only one correct answer.

"No matter what we want, once we have it, we'll want something else." After thinking for half a minute, Ross couldn't help sighing, just from his tone, it seemed that Mr. Byrne was the one who hurt the most .

"I knew that men are greedy." Pepper laughed immediately at him.

The two employers before and after were playboys, which is also a frustrating discovery for Pepper.

Stark was after a moment of indulgence, but Ross was more than that, it seemed he wanted more.

However, I am used to seeing excellent men, and it is difficult for Pepper to adapt to mediocrity.

But after all, Ross's ideas do not conform to the ethical standards prevailing in ordinary society, Pepper specially reminded a few words.

"It's true that ordinary people can't do it, so maybe it's okay to be non-ordinary people." Ross thought to himself, and changed the subject casually.

After a while, intelligence chief Todd was ordered to arrive in a hurry, and it was inconvenient for Pepper to stay, so he returned to his office.

"Miss Potts told me some bad news, now maybe you can give me clearer details." Ross asked directly.

Without enough accumulation, it is already difficult to complete the task of focusing on the whole of New York with the strength of the laboratory alone. It is unrealistic to further extend the tentacles to Washington. Fortunately, there are still a large number of hidden resources left by Brotherhood 657. for use.

Although Magneto himself went to Latvinia, it is impossible for his organization to relocate so quickly, and some people still remain in the United States, including the Mystique department. During the event of the Mutant Registration Act, she played the hardline Senator Kelly, a rising star in Congress. Although Mystique had to keep a low profile than before to avoid being found by acquaintances after taking over the role of Senator Kelly, she still had some reliable news. Source Todd can also buy some information from her that is not available to the outside world.

"Which one would you like to ask sir?" Toad asked respectfully.

"Looks like there's more than one piece of bad news, which is a pleasant surprise." Ross raised an eyebrow. "Is there anything I don't know about other than senators and prosecutors?"

"Dr. Samuel Stern, who left the laboratory, recently returned our people and refused the financial review request made by the upstream holding company. We have completely lost control of his business."

In order to disassociate himself from future green titan incidents and avoid arousing public suspicion, Ross did not directly invest in Samuel's new company in the name of himself or the laboratory, but took a complicated way to indirectly hold shares, which is invisible It is reasonable to have fewer and fewer contacts, but in any case, it is rude to refuse the reasonable request of the major shareholder. Dr. Stern must have done a lot of things in private that he does not want others to know.

"It looks like he's going to do something big." Ross narrowed his eyes and murmured for a while, "silently thinking about the changes that Samuel's actions may bring.

At last he decided to go and find out for himself, to see for himself what stage Samuel's secret work was in.

"Let's go to East 97th Street." He ordered, and walked to the locker room alone to change his clothes.

"If we're lucky, we can dance cheek to cheek with the green titan today."

Ross whispered, his expression covered by the closed black mask. .