79. Dark tide
In the reception room near Capitol Hill, Marcus Watsendon is waiting for the two guests today, even though Osborne's new drug has been successfully launched and has received a good market response, but the business giant who stands at the top of the medical industry does not think that Osborne Jr. and a so-called young genius can shake Watsonton's throne for many years.
If he really frees up his hands, there are countless ways to knock the shallow-based Osborne into the dust, buy, merge, poach, and create a crisis of public opinion...... A fierce offensive was enough to overwhelm Osborne and Ambrera, who had not yet established themselves, but the private affairs of the family prevented Marcus from taking more energy, and the most important thing for him at the moment was how to solve the problem of mutants.
The research progress of the laboratory is close to stalling, and according to the scientific director, they lack living samples of mutants, and more experimental materials are needed to find ways to suppress or even eliminate mutant genes by comparing data.
This answer made Marcus furious, but he was helpless, and it just so happened that he also had the idea of attacking mutants, so he contacted the two guests today.
The roaring fire released warm heat from the fireplace, the weather gradually turned cooler, the elderly Marcus couldn't help rubbing his hands, he was no longer an energetic young man, just the trivial matters of the family and the company affairs were enough to make him exhausted, if the business empire he had built all his life could not be handed over to his son, then his life's struggle was not meaningless.
Marcus had a blazing fire in his eyes, he couldn't watch Warren turn into a monster, who would accept a mutant in high society?!
In the midst of the turn of thoughts, someone pushed the door in, and one was Senator Kelly, who often appeared on TV, with a smile on his face and a kind and kind look; The other has a serious face, with a solemn aura that no one can approach.
"Colonel William Stryker and Senator Robert Kelly, both of whom have the same position and conception, should know each other, and they don't need to be introduced too much." Marcus stood up and greeted the two invited guests.
As an army colonel, Stryker glanced at the senator, a trace of contempt in his eyes, the other party just regarded opposing mutants as a kind of political capital, where would such a profit-oriented politician understand the horror of those freaks.
"Mr. Watsonton, if you have something to say, just say it, every second of time is precious for a successful entrepreneur like you." Stryker took a seat and picked up the glass on the table as if he were in his own home.
Marcus's smile froze for a moment, and then returned to normal, even if he didn't like the military colonel's tough style, but if he wanted to get the data of mutants in vivo experiments, he had to cooperate with the other party.
Who in the military doesn't know that this Colonel William Stryker has an unreasonable hatred and dislike for mutants, and has been dedicated to the study of mutants since his youth, and some people even call him a "butcher", and his hands are stained with the blood of mutants.
"Senator, please be seated." Waiting for Kelly to take his seat, Marcus slowly spoke: "I'm not very good at roundabout political negotiations, just like Colonel Stryker said, let's get straight to the point and get to the point." ”
"The Watson Company is very interested in mutants, I know that Senator Kelly is the vanguard of the anti-mutant movement, and Colonel Stryker is advocating the extermination of the freaks hiding in human society, I think we all have the same position, why can't we join forces?"
Marcus observed the faces of the two of them, and said quietly: "I believe you also know the heritage of Watsonton, and to put it bluntly, my ancestors came to this rich land on the 'Mayflower', no matter how many rulers this country has changed, Watsendon has always been firmly rooted in this country, has experienced countless ups and downs, and has never wavered!" ”
Senator Kelly's eyes lit up, as a politician with great ambitions, he certainly knew what kind of terrifying energy a plutocratic group like Watson could mobilize, many departmental politicians were their guests, and even every presidential election was an excellent investment opportunity for these capitalists.
If he can get Watsonton's support and use his proposed mutant registration bill to spark heated public opinion and then attract more attention, maybe he can have a chance to go further.
Marcus saw that Senator Kelly was already moved, and looked at Stryker again, he never thought that there was anyone in this world who could refuse the temptation of money and power at the same time.
"I heard that Colonel Stryker has been proposing to the White House that mutants be classified as a dangerous group and that they be arrested or imprisoned on a large scale to prevent them from becoming a threat to society?"
"They are a bunch of deformed freaks, and from birth, the evil genes like a devil's curse have been lurking in their bodies, and most of them will show different abilities by the time they reach puberty, some good and some bad...... Their presence has reduced humanity to the lower class, and the two races are destined to coexist, and when the conflict escalates and the conflict erupts, the mutants will put us in concentration camps and send us to gas chambers just like the Nazis did to the Jews......"
Stryker gushed that he had been interested in mutants for a long time, and at the Paris Peace Summit in 1973, Mr. Colonel, who was still a young man at the time, met the guy called "Wolverine" for the first time, and since then he has been concentrating on mutant research, and later because of the family tragedy that happened to him, he changed from a mutant researcher to a cruel and ruthless executioner.
Marcus and Senator Kelly disagreed with Stryker's words, thinking that the other party was too alarmist, human beings, as the primates of all things, evolved over tens of millions of times to become the masters of this beautiful planet, and just mutants can shake their status?
The two of them, who didn't have an exact understanding of mutants, laughed secretly in their hearts, especially Senator Kelly, who proposed the mutant registration bill, just to attract the public's attention, create momentum for himself, and establish a positive image of upright and unyielding, as for the group of mutants hiding in Tibet, he didn't take it to heart at all.
"Colonel Stryker is really forward-looking, mutants are indeed a stubborn disease parasitic on human beings, a time bomb that threatens social security, just rashly starting a war between two races, I'm afraid many people will not agree, after all, there are some short-sighted incompetents in Capitol Hill."
Marcus echoed his words, an old man with sunken eyes, who knew the art of negotiation, first closing the distance between each other, and then putting forward conditions, while at the same time feeling the psychological defenses of his opponents, making seemingly reasonable concessions, and finally achieving his goal.