Chapter 1: Moves
"Roger, speed up the process of the temporary mission!
Good... You mean captain them ...
Be! Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, Major General Lawrence"
Stark straightened up on the roof of Bernie's Repair Shop away from everyone until the other party hung up on the crypto star.
"Andrew Engineering...
They would even participate in the tender for such a small-scale mecha design... ”
Eevee was looking strangely at the list of applicants, the entry called Andrew Engineering and Design Company.
Before Joanna died, she called out the name of this company, which is very intriguing.
Before they came back, Selinda specifically explained to Nataya and Eevee about this company, it turned out that Joanna had already sold the design of this mecha cooperated by Bernie and Serinda to this company for a high price of three million federal coins, and they would use it to participate in the bidding of the Star Sea Spiritual Power Research Institute this time.
Nataya looked at Ibrahimovic and asked:
"There's something wrong with this company...
Eevee habitually lifted his glasses
"Andrew Engineering Design Company, is the first brand of federal civilian mecha, in addition to being inferior to the Federal Armored Academy in terms of technical leadership, they are very good in terms of production line, assembly capacity, maintenance strength and product itself, and they are also one of the important partners of the military."
"Shouldn't such a good company come? . . ."
Nataya still didn't understand what was wrong with what Ibu said.
"Okay, you think so, now you can pick up ten federal coins under your feet every minute.
Suddenly, you see a five-dollar federal coin five hundred meters away, and it takes you two minutes to run over and back, and you're quite tired.
And every minute in front of you, ten more federal coins will appear, and if you don't pick them up right away, they'll disappear.
Now I ask you, will you go and pick up the five dollars that are 500 meters away? ”
"It's like... It's not worth picking up those five dollars."
After Ibu explained this, Nataya seemed to understand something.
Andrew's designer income is well-known in the Federation, and there are many middle-level employees who get more than 1 million federal dollars a year in dividends and bonuses.
In such enterprises, those designers with innovative abilities often have terrifying incomes, and many of them have hundreds or even tens of millions of federal dollars per month.
Then these people will definitely be used by the company in more profitable places, such as the development of pendants for civilian mecha or the iteration of military mecha.
One of these two is to win by volume, and the other is to rely on technology monopoly to obtain ultra-high profits.
I'll tell you this, the 'Spartan II Change' that Andrew sold to the Federation last month cost 40 million federal coins each.
I've just studied its disassembly, and if I were to do it, aside from the R&D costs, the profit of each unit would be about 15 percent, which is six million federal dollars. You see how many of our targets are this time...
What's more, there is also the transfer of design copyright.
This is absolutely not allowed for a big-name company like Andrew.
Moreover, it is difficult for a contract of this magnitude to be ranked in the joint review of investment within their company, because the cost of the R&D department is too high, and the profit of the target is too small.
Even if you win the later production line transformation, it is only a contract of tens of millions, how can it be so valued... ”
Nataya thought for a moment and asked
"Joanna definitely wasn't because of this blueprint, I felt that her soul power at that time was full of anger and betrayal"
"Who knows... Now that Joanna is dead, there is no clue to Bernie. However, I have a hunch that if something goes wrong, there must be a monster, and one of the two places of Andrew and the Xinghai Spiritual Power Research Institute must be the reason for Bernie's sudden departure! ”
While Ievee and Nataya were lost in thought, a whistling Stark descended from the staircase to the first floor of Bernie's Repair Shop and looked at the two girls.
"I, go out to walk the dog, don't run around at home, press and hold the wristband if there is a situation, I will receive your star message for help immediately"
Stark looked at Nataya and pointed to the wristband on his hand, which was given to Nataya by Stark when he had just left the Laupa mine and restored the Starnet link.
"Go ahead, don't bother us!"
Ibu immediately replied to Nataya, and grabbed Nataya to the temporary experimental area of the warehouse.
There are only a few days left, but the drawings that are far more perfect than their own design are in the hands of a team that is stronger than their own execution, and Ibu, who is full of arrogance in his bones, can't admit defeat now, not to mention, whether it is the competitor Andrew or the financier this time: Xinghai Spiritual Power Research Institute, there is a reason why they must be close.
"You two are so tired of being together every day, you will be misunderstood... How nice a man is... ”
Stark looked at the back of Nataya, who was being taken away by Eevee, shook his head, and walked to the tin house in the corner.
It is said that it is a tin house, but it is better to say that it is a tin can. This is the Black Bear Borg for their captive ------ Stuttgart home Walker, the one who kicked in the iron plate... No, it's the hapless beard on the iron pier, specially custom-made.
A tightly enclosed sheet of metal, with a small hole no more than twenty centimeters in length and width, from which food and clean water would be brought in every day.
But there was no place for sewage under the iron box, not even a small hole.
Stark walked to the tin can, used the high-frequency cutting dagger in his hand, slowly drew the shape of a door along the outer wall of the iron shell, and then pushed it inward.
An opening in the can that was still curled up appeared.
A thick stench wafted out of it, and a dirty man who couldn't see a human form at all crouched in the corner, blocking his eyes with his hands.
I haven't seen such a bright sky in days.
"Come out for a walk with me, or stay locked up here?"
The man with short blond hair, with the hot sun behind his head,
The person squatting in the corner slowly adapted to the brightness, looking at the man who had just opened the confinement room, it was like seeing a god with holy light who had come to save him, without thinking about it at all,
I was just thrown here by this person for many days and ignored it...
"Go for a walk! Go for a walk! ”
Walker hurriedly agreed, and crawled to the door of the tin can in a panic.
"Go for a walk!"
At this moment, in the mysterious underground space of Alabastan, the star of the imperial capital of the Monsaka Empire, the man in the darkness added another sentence to the old man who was kneeling down the steps.
"You can also discuss it with him, and if he wants you to ask my opinion, just those three words.
Also, you tell him.
Some things don't necessarily have to come to me, but what I liked him the most back then was precisely his decisiveness! ”
"Yes, master! Then I'll go and spread the word right away! ”
Just as the old man was about to retreat after his bow, the man in the darkness said another word.
"By the way, you bring him a word,
The one I was waiting for has already come,
I could leave here at any time, so he can do whatever he wants."
"Yes, master!"
As the old man's footsteps faded away at the end of the stairs, a terrifying wail suddenly came from the darkness.
The wailing voice sounded like a dying jumping worm, hoarse and dark.