[Comprehensive British and American] Welcome to Lego City

In the office building of the Lego company, a wailing voice suddenly sounded in one of the offices: "It's over, I forgot to mention something in the meeting just now! The boss suddenly changed clothes and surprised me, I didn't even read the memo!"

Before he could finish his voice, he was suppressed by louder cheers from behind: "Breaking [-]! The box office on the premiere day will definitely break [-]! Ahhh!"

"What happened?"

A group of people turned their heads, and the company employees who were cheering just now slapped the table excitedly: "Just now the premiere day data prediction model came out, what do you guess the box office is?"

He rubbed his fingers mysteriously and compared a number, "Forget it, I can't help but want to tell you—eight. Although it is basically a superhero, as an animated film, we are already the top one. A batch, in case you haven't studied it, "Ice Age 3" had a box office of 1380 million on its first day, and in the history of animated films, its total revenue can be ranked among the top ten."

As he finished speaking, the people around him showed incredulous expressions at the same time.

"This... Are there so many people who usually buy toys?"

"A lot of adults are not necessarily willing to buy toys for children and teenagers, but they will go to the movie theater to watch family comedy and super British movies!

And I have to admit that even if the boss didn’t tell us about the promotional video at all, he really did the right thing last week in warming up, and it’s almost to the point where everyone in the country knows about it. "

He finally summed it up in one sentence: "Don't worry about the comments on the Internet that say that our publicity costs are too high and waste people's money, the box office is real! We are rich, and wait for the company to send out red envelopes! By the way, I heard someone screaming just now, Is it John? What do you say you forgot?"

Colleague John was also dazzled by the results of the box office forecast on the first day. After a while, the excitement subsided and panic reoccupied his brain. Then he said with trembling lips:

"Do you still remember Leeuwenhoek's long comment on the analysis of the plot? They found that the Lego Brainiac robot, the villain of the movie, had the Lex Group logo printed on the body, thought it was an easter egg, and then suspected that the plot was actually different. I forgot to tell Mr. Murphy about the dark thread!!"

"Don't panic, this matter is not your responsibility, it should be investigated by the production team who carried the private goods."

The colleague suddenly collapsed: "But who knows where our film production team is! I asked Ms. Hope in the financial department, and she didn't even want to tell us the production cost. No matter how I asked her, she just laughed——

Laughing so much that I was really worried about whether we had an affair with the tax bureau. Isn’t it the same as going home when the IRS gang come to our finance office for tea for a while? "

"Calm down, John."

"I'm sorry, I can't calm down, this movie looks like it fell from the sky, and it's still so hot now.

I can't fool the media now that the Lex Group is actually one of the film's sponsors, right? !Can the media be trusted?We're going to be sued by Luthor tomorrow! "

"Is the Lex Group really not a sponsor of the movie?"

Even Lex Luthor's secretary in the real universe couldn't help asking his superiors: "Why did they do such a thing? If there is hatred, there is no need to print the Lex Group logo on the The two plots fall to decent robots in the later stage. If you want to please you, you don’t have to set it so cryptically and never make publicity.”

"I never spend money wrongly." In the real universe, Luthor said coldly standing in front of the French windows of his building, "Everyone wants to find the production team of the Lego movie, but they have no idea that this so-called studio is not in our universe.

The Wayne Group once offered a sum of money and wanted to participate in the production process of the movie, but LEGO would rather sell them a cut than tell their secrets.

In the end, Master Wayne, who was never short of money, pretended "understanding" that he had never spent the money. Half a month later, Gotham Charity received an anonymous donation from Lego. "

"Maybe they just don't want to offend the IRS," the secretary said.

Three quotes from Chicago mob boss Al Capone - 'Heavy machine guns are better than submachine guns; pay your federal taxes on time; and always wear a condom when you have sex. '

The second of them says that tax evasion must not be done in the United States. Even transnational criminal groups must always keep this in mind, and companies across parallel universes may not be able to escape this law.

"Who knew? I heard people from the IRS went to the Lego headquarters for afternoon tea every day during this time.

Maybe they'll catch Lego by the tail before all the government organizations that manage superhumans and special events. "

"Bruce Wayne wanted to participate in the film production on a whim, maybe because the Sky Eye Society finally couldn't accept that LEGO made a lot of money every day in the name of a group of superpowers and aliens under their noses, and Or the Justice League finally can't bear to pursue Lego for violating their image rights and reputation rights."

When he said this, Luther seemed a little gloating. After all, whether it is Lego or Chaoying, they are both big troubles on earth in his eyes.

As a member of the villainous group the Illuminati, he hasn't seen a Lego City face at a meeting in a long time.

But the most important problem is that the supervillains of the real universe have not participated in the internal screening held by Lego, so they don't know that the Lego movie is shot by real people in the parallel universe.

They only know more about the existence of Lego City than ordinary people, and they take it for granted that the plot of the movie and the relationship between the characters are all fictitious.

——This means that fictional characters cannot make positional judgments.Just because the president of Lego City in the movie is a good guy doesn't mean he's really a good guy.

In the movie, the superheroes of Lego City and the president are on the same side, but it does not mean that they are really on the same side.

Luther turned his head to look at the secretary, and asked abruptly, "What do you think about this matter?"

The secretary was stunned before realizing that he was asking about the logo of the Lex Group in the movie. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "I think this is probably just a plot easter egg in the movie. Maybe you will appear in the second movie?"

"What did it say on the Internet?"

"They said that Lego Brainiac was sent by the Lex Group in the movie. You are the real murderer behind the whole plot, and the Lego Clown is your companion, and there is a bigger conspiracy and mafia behind it .”

Luther thought about it.

If Murphy could hear their conversation, he would reply that that organization is the Legion of Doom. He is about to remove the word "honor" from his title and replace Lego Luthor as the chief commander, but he just doesn't know What is the use of this commander's name other than being particularly sought-after when recruiting people.

As for the IRS, which has been investigating and never wanted to give up, it was first attracted by SHIELD and the New York Stock Exchange——

Basically, S.H.I.E.L.D. felt that there was a problem with Lego, so they came to go around and found that 'I can't find anything wrong' (Hydra undercover has hidden merits and fame).

The New York Stock Exchange, which was following behind, received the listing application submitted by Murphy, and discovered that the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

So after a close inspection, I found that there seems to be no problem, but what is the S.H.I.E.L.D.

Later, it finally attracted the attention of the IRS. This department with live ammunition and armed forces surpassed the FBI and CIA passed by the Lego headquarters one day and found that there were densely packed corpses lying in front of it. Everyone thought there was a problem but they just didn’t know where the problem was.

IRS: Weird, take another look.

Since then, Lego's treasury office has become a mecca for any American corporation trying to evade taxes.

Looking at other people, they are not like Apple, which forcibly makes its own books into losses, and talks and laughs with the IRS every day. Is this the strength of the leader of the contemporary toy industry in making false accounts?

Murphy:?No, don't talk nonsense!

His identity as the CEO of Lego Company is familiar with several executives of the IRS.

Everyone left their contact information with each other, and they could still chat if they had nothing to do, but the response they got after submitting tax statements and other materials has never changed: "There is a problem, and it needs to be adjusted."

At the premiere of the movie, he also received their blessing text message: "It seems that although we don't know the cost of your movie until now, we can know your final income. Come on, look forward to the day when you are on an equal footing with Disney!"

Come on, legal department...

And even if everyone has cooperated with Chaoying, they are not all in the same field, and there is no certainty when the next movie will be shot. I feel that selling toys is more worry-free.

After eating, Murphy leaned on the bench on the beach of the island and thought about how to write a reply to the IRS executive. Before he could figure it out, he received a second message from the same department: "Mr. Murphy, your company account Half a month ago, a large bill was left with an unknown source, can you recall the transaction process?"

Who can remember such a thing.Bubu looked back at the records and reminded: "Do you remember the time I said that a big customer came to the online order and bought almost all Lego products regardless of price and age group?

The final delivery location was an empty construction site in New York, and the courier later said that all he saw was a weirdo on a motorcycle waiting for him at the destination. "

Murphy was a little impressed.

"So who is the buyer?"

Bubu: "I don't know, you won't let me investigate."

The two adults on the beach were busy with work, the children slipped to the other side for after-dinner exercise, and a few stayed in the house to play games.

Batman in the real universe noticed that Murphy had stopped and was lost in thought while facing the computer, and asked inadvertently, "What's wrong?"

"The IRS thinks there is a problem with Lego's income." Murphy said frankly, "Do you know this account?"

Anyway, he has a clear conscience, with such a big humanoid computer by his side, it is not in vain.

"The IRS is still in contact with you every day?"

Wouldn't one day hear that the president of Lego City fell into the hands of the tax office?

Batman was a little speechless, but he still took the record handed over by Murphy, turned on the computer and typed on the keyboard.

Then Murphy saw his expression getting more and more serious, more and more serious, and finally he looked like Batman himself without the uniform.

Really tricky?

"How about it?"

"Wait." The other party said concisely, "Checking."

Another half hour passed.

A new message came from the IRS: "Mr. Murphy? The result of your reply is very important. If you refuse to answer, we may choose to freeze your account and property under your name."

Murphy didn't bother to go around in circles, so he sent directly: "Wait a minute. Batman is checking."

IRS: "??"

No, is your relationship with Chaoying so close? !Scary!

As the clock ticked by, Bruce sat up unknowingly, staring at the computer screen with his dark blue eyes.

After a while he finally spoke: "There is indeed a problem with the account. The name and identity of its owner are completely fictitious. We traced the three transfer records to the source of the money, and its registration location is here."

Murphy looked at the red dot on the map, and lowered his voice: "This is it. As I remember, this used to be one of Grandma's toy stores."

"It seems that you are very familiar with the real universe."

"It is my habit to know myself and the enemy."

"Then you must also know that Grandma Cixiang is a subordinate of Darkseid, the monarch of Apocalypse. The conclusion is very clear as to who bought your company's toys."

Boob let out an exclamation that only Murphy could hear: "Wow, a heavyweight fan. Darkseid weighs more than 800 kilograms, right?"

Murphy replied to the IRS: "Batman found out, and the buyer is Darkseid. Are you going to investigate him?"