After informing Katie, who was preparing for a long trip, Laura drove off in a Ravinton. The meeting place was set for the meeting on the top floor of the Crawford Building, and Laura, who had planned to keep a low profile during this time, did not plan to fly over directly.

Although the Best armor has optical stealth function, she Lara Crawford is still sneaking into her own group building, like words?!

As a result, Laura's "low-key" plan was completely ruined by the roar of the V12 engine of this supercar, which is limited to 21 supercars worldwide.

The sharp front of the car combines the design of two major air intakes, and the straight lines outline multiple sharp angles, giving the whole body a sense of speed and sharpness, attracting the attention of most people everywhere they pass.

At this time, in the Crawford Building, there is a waiting area for VIP customers on the third floor.

Reed Richards sat upright on a comfortable sofa like a well-behaved middle school student.

"Reed, drink some juice, you should relax a little, otherwise I'm afraid I'll talk nonsense later, remember that you're here today to attract investment."

A bald man sitting across from him saw his overly nervous appearance, so he hurriedly spoke to persuade him.

Unlike Tony Stark, who made most of his inventions and had a wider range of practical value, the more intelligent Reed Richards was forced to go into debt at this time.

For this space observation mission, Reed even mortgaged his building to the bank, and charged a year's rent to the office tenants on each floor in advance. But this huge amount of money, which street criminals would never dare to imagine in their lifetimes, is a drop in the bucket before the sky-high cost of the space program.

In fact, Reed's first investor was the U.S. military, which had maintained a "good" relationship for many years, but the person in charge of the other party did not hesitate to reject it when he heard that it was a "space program".

"Mr. Richards, over the years, the military has invested in you and your various projects and ended up losing all of them, and due to the impact of the decline in military spending this year, our military has no extra funds for you to waste, I am very sorry."

These were the exact words of Mr. Charge, and he left without looking back as soon as he said this, as if he was afraid that Reed would chase him and continue to ask for money.

In fact, it is no wonder that the military is ruthless, what people say is basically the truth. The purpose of the cooperation between the military and Reed has always been to let him create high-tech next-generation weapons to maintain the "world hegemon" status of the United States.

In the beginning, they were only responsible for giving money, and Reed was responsible for the design and manufacturing. As a result, as soon as Reed got the money, he began to let himself go and use it to do some messy research.

In this regard, the military boss said that it was okay, after all, most of these small money, which are called "research funds", actually went into their own pockets, and when they were given to Reed, they were actually less than a fraction.

As a result, because there is no supervision, Reed feels that the military is simply a "no better" partner to work with, so he is responsible for giving money, he can play as he pleases, and he is so cool that he flies!

The evil result of this is that after spending tens of millions of dollars and looking forward to it for a year, the military got the "super wear-resistant fireproof clothing material" from Reed's hands.

After seeing the results, the person in charge at that time turned black on the spot, fell straight to the ground, and was then pulled away by an ambulance.

But the money still has to be earned, given that Reed's reputation in the scientific community is too loud, and Tony Stark is too arrogant, so Reed is still the best choice for military bigwigs to apply for "research grants".

As the saying goes, if you eat a trench, you will grow wise, and since there is no limit, it will be messed up, so this second cooperation for Qian Lide can only write a "proposition composition".

At that time, Tony Stark had already made the steel suit, so the question given by the military was.

The general meaning is to let Reed engage in a shrunken version of the steel suit, don't want the bells and whistles of the Mark series, it doesn't matter if the focus is thick, but the firepower must be fierce, and the production and maintenance costs must be low!

At that time, although Reed was a little unhappy that he wanted to make this kind of "defective product" that he didn't like, he still shouted because he had no research funds, "I will do this question!" After that, I successfully took the order again.

This time, the military bigwigs "only" hacked seventy percent of the small money, just so that Reed could have enough funds to figure out the individual armor they wanted, of course, the main purpose was not to assemble the troops, but to be able to come up with something to block the mouth of the Youyou, so that the follow-up greedy money plan could continue to be implemented.

It's a pity that Reed ended up "off topic". The individual combat armor system he designed, internally codenamed "Terminator", has extremely strong defensive power and can carry two armor-piercing shells from the main gun of the US M1 Abrams main battle tank.

Sounds awesome, right? But! This set of "individual combat systems" that cost 35 million US dollars in research funds and cost as much as 6 million yuan in a single set has no firepower components! Therefore, it was jokingly called the "individual turtle shell system" by the testers.

The good "Terminator" turned into a "turtle shell", and the second person in charge who had a big gap in his heart spit blood and convulsed all over his body on the spot of the inspection, and became a difficult brother in the military sanatorium with his predecessor.

In order not to lose his face too cleanly, after the military "sent Reed out", they found Hammer Industries, which was fighting with them at that time, after all, the other party had a glorious resume of transforming the "Steel Patriot" suit fire system of Colonel Rhodes of the Air Force.

Justin Hammer naturally agreed to such good things, and brought the only "Terminator" individual combat system delivered by Reed back to the Hammer Industrial Base overnight, and asked their "Chief Scientist" Ivan Vanke to transform it.

Ivan was amazed at Reed after seeing the relevant blueprints, and then clearly said to Justin Hammer:

From the very beginning, this thing was designed and built to defend and discard all other "useless" systems and components. He can't change it, so why don't you take a look at his drone soldier design? The cost is cheap, the firepower is powerful, and the military branches are subdivided for differentiated design, which is simply worth the price!

At that time, the military was obviously fooled by this rhetoric again, and secretly gave Justin Hammer and his Hammer Industries a lot of technology, funds, and purchase intent to show support.