Chapter 7: The Copycat Reaper (I)

Returning to the home world of the X-Men, New York is very different from the last time they saw it.

The chaos and disorder of the past are gone, and a scene of prosperity is born. New York is rebuilding its home as it emerges from the haze of war, and large cranes can be seen rumbling everywhere. Even New Yorkers walking on the road have regained their long-lost confidence and smiles.

"It seems that the peace agreement has been signed. Hong Lang laughed.

"That's God's arrangement. King Kong took a step forward, and as far as the eye could see, there was peace and tranquility everywhere.

Shen Yi took out his handheld computer and began to check the income from their last investment.

Due to the peaceful relationship, the stock market is in a state of full red. In particular, the construction of infrastructure projects is rising rapidly. The investment of $300,000 has risen more than 20 times in one year, becoming $7 million. This situation made everyone happy.

Gentle and joyful, "After two months of accumulation, we can use two million dollars to buy five D-grade scrolls." I've already inquired and can buy the basic materials needed to make the Reaper, including various electronic components, related supporting parts, and various metals, and about three D-class identification scrolls. ”

"That means there are still two D-class appraisal scrolls left?"

"That's right. ”

"Looks like there's something else to bring back. By the way, how about crafting weapons?"

"I'm afraid it's too late. However, if you bring the finished product, I am afraid that the quantity will be greatly affected. ”

Shen Yi thought for a while and said: "Gentlely, you go and take a look at the finished bullets, grenades, and explosives demand standards, we don't need weapons, only ammunition." By the way, if possible...... Crack down on some special bombs. ”

"What kind of special bomb?"

Shen Yi whispered a few words in Wen Wen's ear, and Wen Wen was shocked when he heard it.

After thinking about it, she nodded in agreement: "That's a good idea, and it should be able to bring a lot." But that's two months of stock of appraisal scrolls. In the future, if the super factory is really established, hundreds of terminators every month will not be able to meet the demand even if it is just a light identification material. ”

Even with the raw material processing model, there is still a limited number of products that can be brought back to the city, which is another major problem in addition to the difficulty of building a gigafactory.

Hong Lang said: "Then buy the appraisal scroll externally, as long as the value of what we bring out exceeds the value of the scroll itself, everything is worth it." ”

Gentle immediately said: "The problem is that what we produce cannot be used for sale. All the investment we have here can only be converted into our own combat power, and it is impossible to use it for trading. Not being able to get back the gore point means that we can't create a virtuous circle by selling the product. It's not worth it unless we all go the technological route. ”

King Kong smiled and said: "Be content, difficulties always exist, if not, a program can make us invincible." Can you imagine a scenario where thousands of Terminators could be easily brought out of the home world for sale? I guess that would drive Bloody City crazy, and maybe the Guardians of the Rules would have to rush out and talk to us again. ”

"That's right. The corners of Shen Yi's mouth pursed slightly, revealing a good-looking smile: "Difficulties will always exist, but they can't stop us either." ”

Then he took out a large stack of drawings from the coat of arms: "There are a total of 124 design drawings of the Reaper, Wen Wen, Luo Hao, you go to the largest processing companies in New York, take out these drawings separately, and entrust them to process them." Flood King Kong, you go and rob the bank, we need more money to pay for the manufacturing costs. ”

Contract processing is an important part of Shen Yi's Reaper manufacturing plan. Otherwise, with their own strength, it would be impossible to complete the production of the Reaper.

In order to ensure that the technology is not lost, Shen Yi decomposed the reaper into the core part and the peripheral part. All the peripheral components are completed by local companies in the United States, and the core components are completed by Shen Yi himself by renting factory machinery.

Due to the tight schedule, they had to complete the negotiation of processing agreements and plant leases as early as possible. Still, it was not an easy task to make the parts that Shen Yi needed in a short period of time. One of the two biggest problems is that most of the equipment that can produce the harvester is CNC equipment, and the program must be deployed before processing. The second is that negotiations take time. If you want other factories to stop their own production and take over foreign business, it is not possible to solve it by giving money.

The first problem was solved by Zeus, and every part that needed to be machined and the corresponding processing program were designed by Zeus in advance. The solution to the second problem is to push the grace order.

Shen Yi shook his hand casually, and a few pieces of Tui En Orders flew into Gentle's hands: "Everything is prioritized by efficiency, as long as there is efficiency, although you are generous, you must complete the production of all parts and components within eight days, so that we can solve the rest of the things." ”

Gentle smile: "It's a shame that you got these things, otherwise I really don't know what to do." ”

The Grace Order may not be useful against those with strong force, but it is very effective against ordinary people.

It's just that for adventurers, how can ordinary people be worth investing in? Therefore, in the eyes of most adventurers, the Push Grace Order does not make much sense.

From this aspect, it can also be seen that people often talk nicely, saying that wisdom is also part of strength, but in actual action, they always ignore those mortals who do not have force.

For Shen Yi, in order to complete his next plan, he needs to rely on a large number of ordinary people without force.

He needs their wisdom, experience, skill, knowledge, capital, connections, but not their fighting ability. The latter only means that the cost increases and is difficult to control.

You must know that if you want to build a huge gigafactory in the home world, the two most fundamental problems are actually money and people.

Tens of billions of dollars in capital needs, and only 10 days out of 300 days in the home world, these two super difficulties make the Gigafactory plan difficult, and even Superman cannot make a difference in this situation.

The only way to do that is to recruit people with great business acumen in the home world itself.

However, the inferior nature of people is destined to no enterprise that can develop steadily and healthily under the condition that it cannot maintain basic contact with the CEO of the enterprise for a long time. People are selfish, and the world of the X-Men is not an era of loyalty and service.

With the Tui En Order, Shen Yi and the others can freely recruit the talents they need, and the procedures for dealing with them are greatly saved. It may not exempt you from the rewards and brains you should pay, but it can save you the time it takes to build friendship and trustβ€”something that Shen Yi and others don't have.

At least in the "people" link, many problems have been solved.

As for the money part, as long as there are outstanding talents, money can naturally be earned.

Then the rest is a matter of time.

Hearing Wen Rou say this at this moment, Shen Yi laughed: "The reward of the Skynet program is not a test of the adventurer's combat ability, but the ability to plan and organize. As for the Tui En Order, it may not be that important. There are many strange props in the bloody city like stars in the sky, there is no this and that, the key is whether you have a perfect plan and executable skills, props are just auxiliary roles, tools to achieve goals. This tool doesn't work, so I'll use something else. ”

"Are you boasting about your strong planning and organization skills?" asked King Kong.

"No, I'm reminding everyone what's important in this game. Grace can turn strangers into friends, but selfishness and greed can turn friends back into enemies. So don't make stupid mistakes for the sake of unwarranted gain. For those who can help us, we are to be as kind, generous and kind as possible. ”

"Understood!"

"Then let's do it. ”

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The next action went according to plan.

They looted on a large scale, grabbing 12 million US dollars in one day, causing a national sensation.

Gentle and some large processing enterprises quickly finalized the entrusted processing agreement. For adventurers, as long as the processing agreement can be completed within the specified time, the dollar is a floating cloud. Although their requirements are somewhat bizarre, such as ensuring that they use their own materials, not keeping any basic drawings, relevant design parameters and samples, and not asking about the origin and use, etc., they are so generous that no one will refuse such an agreement.

Especially in this era when chasing profits is like chasing life.

The Reaper's production plan is finally in full swing, Luo Hao is responsible for supervising the production period, and King Kong is responsible for purchasing other small accessories needed for production.

After completing the business negotiations, Wen Wen Ze and Shen Yi continued the next step of their plan - to acquire a small factory, which will be used to produce and process the core components of the Reaper, and on the other hand, it will also serve as the prototype of their future super factory, and prepare to develop it step by step.

In the hotel, Shen Yi was sitting on the bed, holding his head in his hands, as if he was thinking about something.

Gentle uses a handheld computer to collect information about the target company.

"Chisman Company, one of the former Chrysler Group companies, is mainly responsible for the production of aircraft precision parts, and there are twelve large production lines, suitable for retrofitting into the production lines we need, in recent years, due to the mutant war, the company's performance has declined sharply, and it is in a state of huge losses. When the new Chrysler president, Bieleshlar, took office, he decided to cut off some non-main business sites that were not profitable, and Chisman was one of them. Its public selling price is $38 million, and there are a number of companies planning to sell it now. ”

"I've seen the news that Bileshlal's real purpose is to sell it to a large conglomerate in exchange for a billion-dollar contract that we can't get, and because the legacy of the conglomerate culture is ingrained and detrimental to our new way of management. Think about something else. ”

"Martin Company, one of the auto parts manufacturers, was affected by the impact of the mutant war, lost a lot of money, and was no longer able to support the company. The main problem with it was that the move was opposed by the company's unions, who thought that the new company might lay off its employees drastically. ”

"Give up, we don't have time or experience tossing with the union. What we need is not unions, but workers who can fight for money. ”

Newman Brothers, a small processing company, processes specialty materials for a number of heavy industries. During the mutant war, the Newman brothers thought that the war would end sooner or later, and once used a large amount of money to buy a number of advanced production lines at a low price, so the company was not weak. Their source of funding is mainly the Newman family, a mafia family, of which the Newman brothers are a member. Two months ago, the Newman family was defeated by another mafia family, the Hargraves, in a turf war, and the Newman Brothers Company was in the midst of a broken financial chain, a family collapse, and the Hargraves family was pressing. They were planning to sell the company in exchange for enough money to compete with the Hargraves family, and for that reason, many companies were reluctant to take over the company. For them, the risk is too great. The company was sold for $8 million, but experts estimate that this is only one-fifth of the company's capital value. ”

Shen Yi quickly took the handheld computer, and after carefully reading the information of Newman Brothers, he said, "This is it." ”

"If you buy this company, beware of the Hargraves family's revenge. They have threatened that no one should provide financial support to the Newman family. We can't keep this factory every day. ”

"Then destroy them first. Go to the Newman family and tell them that we helped them destroy the family, and they gave us the company, and they will agree, just so that Hong Lang is idle. ”

"You said don't cause too much turmoil here, it might cause unnecessary trouble. ”

"The problem is that we don't have a better way. Shen Yi said and stood up from the bed.

Walking to Gentle's side, he gently hugged Gentle's waist: "If we want to build our super factory as soon as possible, we will inevitably have to take some risks, the risk itself is not terrible, what is terrible is that the risk is not proportional to the reward." ”