Chapter 957: Repercussions
After reading the draft feature article sent by Forbes magazine word for word, Drew, who was obviously a little foggy, turned his head and looked at Eric for a while, as if he was trying to find something different, and at the end, the girl popped out a sentence: "Eric, why don't we buy another plane?"
Eric reached out and knocked on the door of the girl's head, and smiled, "You're going to run an airline." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Drew just blinked his eyes and said, "$136.7 billion, I suddenly think that maybe we should hire a few more bodyguards." ”
"No," Eric shook his head, "Wait a minute, let Natasha make a sign and hang it outside the gate, and it says, 'Miss Drew Barrymore is holding a Gatling gun tonight and taking care of the money,' and I don't think anyone will dare to come." ”
"Hehe," the girl laughed happily, and then said very seriously, "That's a good idea, I'll have someone buy a Gatling gun tomorrow and keep it at home, well, two, one for each twin." ”
Eric was just joking, and when he heard the girl say this, he realized that the United States is a country that can't ban guns.
Although it is still impossible for ordinary people to buy heavy weapons such as Gatling, it is not a problem for those who are the richest at the top, and many of the people Eric knows now like to collect weapons of war such as tanks and cannons.
"Be careful, these things aren't for fun," Eric said, and then he got up and said, "I'll make a few calls." ”
Drew nodded his head and saw Eric walking upstairs, so he immediately jumped up, picked up the cordless phone on the desktop and began to dial, and after connecting, he muttered to someone who didn't know about buying the 'town house artifact'.
After two lives, and after so many years of accumulation, in the face of more than 100 billion dollars of wealth, although Eric knows that this means that the social resources he can use are getting bigger and bigger, and his personal potential influence is getting stronger and stronger, he has been able to deal with it calmly.
Moreover, this time Eric has no intention of hiding his wealth, and he does not plan to do it again in the future.
After all, Eric's personal assets exceed 100 billion, and in the eyes of ordinary people, legends will gradually become legends, and as the wealth under his name continues to grow, ordinary people will gradually feel numb to this matter, because it is difficult for most people to imagine what hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth means, so they will only gradually feel that this is just a bunch of numbers.
Of course, what needs to be done still has to be done.
Eric talked on the phone with Chris, Warren Buffett and other acquaintances in the upstairs study, discussed with each other about the problems he might face next, and asked Kelly, who was in charge of the assistant office, to pay proper attention to the media for the next period of time and intervene if necessary.
Eric didn't want to get the same reputation that the Rockefellers had in the first place.
Although we are in the era of information explosion, because the media channels in the United States are becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of a few large media groups, the control of public opinion has become simpler.
With the media resources that the Firefly system now has, no matter what kind of media image Eric wants to create for himself, Firefly can basically do it.
Over the years, even though there have always been all kinds of gossip rumors about him in the circle, because Eric has maintained a very low media exposure, his image in the public mind has always been very low-key, even a little mysterious.
Although the paparazzi will be more keen to dig into the privacy of celebrities who want to keep a low profile, there are very few paparazzi who dare to follow a super-rich man like Eric.
After all, the paparazzi digging news is driven by profits, chasing Eric, not only is it very difficult, the input and output are completely disproportionate, and the risk is also high and scary. There is definitely more than one Silicon Valley billionaire in the United States who spent 10 years setting up a special fund and relentlessly suing a gossip website that exposed himself as gay to bankruptcy. And if the Firefly Group wants to kill a gossip tabloid, it definitely doesn't take ten years that long.
It wasn't until it got dark and Natasha came and knocked on the door that Eric hung up the call with Chris and went downstairs with Natasha.
It's just that as soon as I walked to the staircase, I saw a black six-barreled machine gun in the center of the living room, and the girl was still stepping on a pile of ammunition boxes on the floor very stylishly, posing proudly to herself, and Eric almost stepped on the air.
That's too efficient, isn't it?
"Hehe," seeing Eric's embarrassed appearance, the girl smiled proudly, patted the dark barrel, and said: "Eric, this is M134, the same style as Schwarzenegger in "The Terminator", I just sent it over, but that guy only has this one in stock, and if you want it again, you have to wait a few days." ”
Eric noticed a row of glittering 7.62mm bullets in the open ammo box on the coffee table, and only felt a little numb in his scalp, which was obviously not fake. A high-speed machine gun that can shoot 6,000 rounds per minute, a misfire or something, that would definitely knock anything into a sieve.
Seeing that the girl was still not afraid to pull up a bullet and want to stuff it into the chamber, Eric finally recovered from his sluggishness, stepped forward in three or two steps, copied the petite body of this girl and pressed it on the sofa, and slapped it on the little buttocks three times, listening to the girl's humming and chirping without any remorse, and raised her hand three times.
"Hmm...... It hurts," and when Eric let go of her, the girl lay limply on the couch, turned her face and said expectantly, "Eric, we can take this machine gun to hunt in Palmdale on the weekend, there are a lot of wild boars there." ”
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Finally there was no movement.
Eric sat on the sofa, looked at the twins at the kitchen door with a somewhat overwhelmed expression, and pointed to Gatlin in the living room: "This, who sent it, let the other party take it." ”
Hearing Eric say this, the girl who buried her head in the pillow immediately sulked and said, "Eric, we have already paid, this is ours." ”
Eric subconsciously raised his hand again, and finally put it down, got up and walked to the machine gun, and said to the twins, "Move to the gym first." ”
The girl saw Eric and Natasha raise the gun together, walked towards the gym, got up from the sofa with a red face, followed Eric with a pillow, and said, "Eric, I thought you would like it very much, don't men like guns?"
Eric glared at the girl helplessly: "Do you know how dangerous this thing is, and dare to put it in the living room?"
The girl pouted: "Eric, I'm twenty-three years old, and I'm not a little girl anymore." ”
Just put the machine gun on the shelf that Eve brought in, hearing the girl's words, Eric couldn't help but be stunned, looking at the baby face next to him that had not changed much, and suddenly felt a little emotional.
Before I knew it, it had been ten years.
After ten years of getting along, the girl can naturally easily feel Eric's emotional changes, inexplicably a little emotional, throw away the pillow in her hand and come over, carefully hug Eric's arm, and admit her mistake: "Eric, you have spoiled me too much, you need to smoke a few times often, or how many more times will you play?"
"Well, it's still my fault," Eric chuckled, bowed his head and kissed the girl's delicate face, "let's go to dinner, and never touch these dangerous things again." ”
"Uh-huh. The girl nodded: "What about this now?"
"It's confiscated, I'll bring it back to Jianjiao Manor tomorrow as a collection. ”
"Hehe, I know, you must like guns, how can a man not like guns. ”
After packing up the pile of ammunition boxes in the living room, everyone began to eat dinner.
"Although there are only eight episodes, the reality show was filmed for two months, accumulating more than 100 hours of footage, and Chrissy spent all of her $5 million budget," Drew took Eric upstairs to the living room and watched the "Beverly Girls" demo together. Stuffing the tape into the projector, turning off the lights, the girl returned to the couch, curled up comfortably beside Eric, and suddenly said mysteriously, "In the first episode, we also used a small plot you once said, and the effect is really great." ”
"What's the plot?" asked Eric, curious.
Drew sold the pass and said, "You'll find out later." ”
Eric had no choice but to turn his attention to the TV screen.
The plot begins early in the morning.
Amid a montage of cuts and soothing background introductions, four girls living in different parts of Beverly Hills—Deborah Hall, Cali Wittlock, Kristen, and Samir Cuarón—welcome their day.
Deborah Hall, like Drew, lives in the most luxurious Strausdale estate in Beverly Hills, and she is actually one of Drew's girlfriends, who won a lead actress in this reality show.
Through the background voice self-introduction, Deborah Hall's father is a very successful real estate developer, and the family fortune is around $1 billion. Her mother was a typical housewife, so under the influence of her mother, Deborah Hall's dream was to find a good husband and become a housewife who would enjoy a comfortable and prosperous life in the future.
However, the girl also added very bluntly at the end: this needs to be after she has had enough.
Originally from New York, the iconic blonde and blue-eyed Karly Wittlock grew up on the Upper East Side to lawyer parents, entered acting school at the age of sixteen, aspired to be an actress like Jodie Foster, and is currently working alone in Hollywood, but unlike the small-town dreamers who can only live in motels or basements, she lives in her vacation home in Beverly Hills, and her parents only live in Los Angeles for a period of time every winter.
In the shot, Carly Wittlock, who woke up in the morning, began to hurriedly dress up, she has an audition to attend today.
With short haircuts, a penchant for voluminous men's t-shirts and ripped jeans, Kristen looks like a tomboy and is often mistaken for a lace, but she's not. He is 23 years old and runs a bar at the foot of Beverly Hills. In the shot, this energetic and thin girl looks very bold, talkative and laughing, and she also does not shy away from her rich past.
She didn't know who her mother was, and her father lived in Chicago and the two sides were estranged. Relying on the trust fund left by his grandparents, he was young and frivolous, bohemian, dropped out of school at the age of fifteen, had children out of wedlock at the age of seventeen, was married, fought, took drugs, went to jail, had a few treasures about the famous rehab in Los Angeles, became enlightened at the age of twenty, began to travel the world, returned to Los Angeles two years later, opened a bar in Beverly Hills, had a stable boyfriend, and the most recent goal was to regain visitation rights for his six-year-old son.
The last Samir Cuarón, the quintessential child of the wealthy American elite, graduated from Stanford Law School, temporarily lives with his parents, who run a chain of restaurants in Los Angeles, and is currently interning at a well-known law firm in Los Angeles.
Despite their very different personalities and backgrounds, these four girls have one thing in common: they are all proud sons of heaven who live in Beverly Hills.
In the smooth narrative footage, the four girls have very different lives and appear on the TV screen, although he has already read the script and knows where things will go next, Eric still watches it with relish.
The biggest feature of reality TV is to satisfy people's desire to peep, and the overall conservative style of the United States is also destined to have a strong curiosity about the legendary life in Beverly Hills, who have not necessarily left the town where they live until they are in their teens and twenties.
The first episode of "Beverly Girls" quickly satisfied some of the imaginations of young people in Beverly Hills.
After a day's life, under the arrangement of the crew, the four heroines gather together in a bar run by Christen Heyman. At the same time, there are more and more handsome men and women in the bar, and after a series of bright and bright shots, the four girls and their partners come to the billiard room of the bar together, and communicate with each other while playing ball.
Immediately, Eric quickly understood what the girl meant when she said that she had used a small plot that she had once said.
In the picture, Deborah Hall, who is wearing a short dress and has a charming posture, complains that she is blocked by her hair because she is behind the score while playing with several men and women. So, to the whistle of a crowd of men and women, Deborah Hall seductively raised her hand to lift the hem of her skirt, took off the red lace undergarment, and tied her hair into a ponytail with the undergarment as a strap.
Eric couldn't help but laugh as he looked at the classic ponytail shots on the TV screen, which were obviously carefully arranged.
Deborah Hall is a member of Drew's girlfriend group, and Eric doesn't remember when he told the girl that this would definitely be very seductive, so this Nizi decisively used it on this reality show.
Once in order to hype "Walking with the Kardashian Sisters", Chrissy Jenner directly asked her daughter to shoot a video and put it on the Internet. Now Eric is definitely reluctant to use such an unpopular method, but looking at the picture on TV, Eric said: "Now, Drew, let people make this shot into a dynamic GIF and upload it to the Internet, I guarantee that "Beverly Girls" will be even more popular." ”
"Hehe, we're ready to do that," the girl smiled and nodded. (To be continued.) )