Chapter 144 The Dilemma of Another Mr. Lee (5 chapters owed)
Peter is not Spider-Man, so Martin Lee needs to get in touch and get to know him again.
In many versions, he is Spider-Man's old enemy, Kingpin's opponent, and in a few cases the enemy is the Osborn Group.
Martin's "financial industry" emerged eight years ago, during the last hurray of the U.S. housing market. In fact, it appears to have been around the same time that United Construction Company was founded.
In New York, being engaged in "finance" and "real estate" almost means that they are gang leaders.
Considering that he has now become a hot potato, but Martin still contacts him in this way, the financier may not be in a good situation.
Martin said warmly: "Considering that our last names are the same, I will call you by your first name. I hope you don't mind."
"Of course not."
"You have strong technical ability, but you suffered unreasonable consequences because of your interns. Disaster, I deeply regret this. If it’s convenient, I would like to know what your plans are in the future.”
“At present, the side effects of lizard serum cannot be eliminated, but it does not mean that there are no other I will continue to invest in research on application methods.”
"But you need money." Martin found the entry point, "With all due respect, the court today only said 2.34 million US dollars, but the final loss will be doubled."
Lille raised an eyebrow: "Why ?”
“You are the Osborne Group competitors, and you are ahead - they are still happy to make a small stumbling block, not to mention that the government is happy to do it. "
This is a bit nonsense - - Lille immediately realized that Martin was leading himself against the Osborne Group.
Because this does not require the Osborne Group to stumble, the city government itself will ask Lille to "reimburse" it.
Lear nodded slightly: "That's true. For example, clean up the areas that are not correct in the accounts."
Martin smiled: "It seems that you understand, I will just say it bluntly, the environment is not good, We are all the same, do you think this technology can make money? "
"Yes, and it can make a lot of money - me. We can transfer 10% of the company's shares, provided that we pay the amount of compensation."
"It's too little, not enough."
Liel said again: "Then. Add another piece of information, the matter in Laboratory No. 3 is under investigation, we are the technical support consultants of the NYPD.”
Martin nodded: "The research laboratory sponsored by the Osborne Group - this is a point that can be hyped, but the matter has not been finalized yet. It is not enough."
Not enough?
Lille thought for a while and said: "Martin, you may have no idea what I mean by 'a lot of money'. Let's do this. Let's sign an agreement.
In the next three weeks, I will Bian will provide you with 1,000 units of full blood. If it cannot be completed, I am willing to pay compensation. The price is up to you."
Martin was stunned.
The minimum amount of blood required is 1 unit of blood per person at a time. In other words, this is equivalent to finding 1,000 people to donate blood within these three weeks.
The current average market price of a unit of blood is US$300, which means that Lille will provide whole blood worth at least US$300,000 in the next three weeks!
Blood supplies are no better than other medical supplies. If they are operated even a little bit, they will definitely exceed this price——
The key is that Lille only has a broken laboratory.
"If that's the case" Halfway through thinking, Martin raised his head and saw that Lille was quite calm.
He has the ability to be very sensitive to people's emotions and can even control people's happiness, anger, good and evil.
Just when he wanted to try the water, he instinctively felt that it was best not to try.
"So. I originally wanted to ask for more benefits, but since you are so honest, I can't be left behind. But I am curious, aren't you going to negotiate more terms with me?"
It was not until this moment that the atmosphere really eased - before that, the willingness of both parties to cooperate had not been truly achieved.
Seeing that Martin is not pushing the envelope, Lille currently believes that Martin is still worthy of cooperation.
So he said: "Hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation is already a lot. Besides, you can't just look at the money, but also your influence in Chinatown.
Since we have confirmed our cooperation, then I'll be honest, I think 10% is pretty generous, both to you and me.
If you want more. I will reject it directly
My situation seems difficult, but the development prospects are quite good. Once I tell this, there is no shortage of collaborators.
And finance. Martin, let me put it bluntly, without further industry support, your financial empire has reached its limit
As the subprime mortgage crisis recedes, your living space will only get smaller and smaller. ”
This sounds a bit contradictory. Why will Martin’s industry shrink when the subprime mortgage crisis subsides? This is mainly a matter of industrial layout.
Martin’s industry is not very profitable. It relies on a large scale.
Relying on several Chinatowns and Asian settlements as base camps, the order of the base camp is established under the dual maintenance of sweatshops and gangs.
Sweatshops can create. Many positions have a slight advantage in political operations, but the profits are pitiful, so they must rely on gangs to complete their rule. In other words, ruling gangs is the basis for maintaining sweatshops.
This kind of order has resulted in two members who are highly bound to him in the 150-person New York Assembly.
However, as the financial crisis has passed and high-tech industries have entered a period of development, everyone's assets are growing faster than yours, which means you are losing money.
It is equivalent to assets shrinking.
When Lille was talking to him, he had already looked through all the relevant corporate annual reports that he could find. He thought that Martin was on fire now——
Martin only had two options, either Expand high technology, or annex other gangs to expand territory violently.
However, he couldn't handle Jin Bin in the latter, and there was no high-tech company to play with in the former. The reasons for the two were somewhat similar - he belonged to an ethnic minority, and he was the easiest to handle among the ethnic minorities.
If he hadn’t brought along other Asians and had super powers, it would have been basically impossible to establish such a financial and criminal organization.
Liel's words were very confusing, making Martin a little unsure - does the financial empire you are talking about include my other industries?
Not waiting for his reaction, Lille continued: "We are natural allies, Martin, you have to realize this.
It's like you brought me more than just money. , I don’t know if what I brought you is a biological product - I also have a company, and this company has greatly reduced the cost of security.”
Another seemingly contradictory statement.
He checked the gun ownership rate, crime rate and illegal drug dealing rate in Chinatown, and found that they were not high.
On the other hand, some large industries such as financial companies, real estate companies and banks have a much higher probability of problems - Martin and Kingpin are obviously very different in choosing criminal targets and industrial layout.
Both of them need to rely on people to maintain the empire, but Kingpin relies on providing shady white-glove services to his superiors, using violence and brutal suppression on his subordinates, and dividing the spoils among his own people. Money is not important. It goes without saying.
Martin relies more on his superpowers, so he can attack more wealthy people and competitors. He has no allies at all and his men are all small soldiers.
There is no need for a large criminal industry to ensure the "employment rate" of criminals, and the transformation will be faster.
".This is indeed a good thing." Martin said meaningfully, "You are deeper than you seem, but you chose to continue to keep in touch with Peter Parker, the troublemaker, after the incident, and even hired , why? ”
“There are many reasons - you can look at it as what I think he can bring in the future The benefits are greater than the losses.
My lawyer also asked me why I didn’t cut him off completely and get rid of all the spotlight and attention.”
This is also Martin’s real problem. ——A minor brat made such a big mistake that even the boss couldn't bear it, so it was normal for him to be fired.
Lear was also quite familiar with such operations, so he understood their questions, and he continued to explain:
“But then I thought about it, first of all, I am one of the sponsors of the laboratory, and I also acquiesced in Peter becoming I am an intern, so if he makes a mistake, I am also responsible. I don’t want to be an irresponsible person.”
If there is a problem in the company, it would be too irresponsible to just dismiss the intern or contractor. Perfunctory.
The same thing is said - Lille is reluctant to return to this approach given the choice.
“If something goes wrong this time, throw away this one, next time something happens, throw away that one, always throw away one person——
Just abandon everything for the safety of your assets, build yourself a cool vault, and then sit on it all day long admiring your money?
I'm not that kind of asshole.
Peter did something wrong and stood up to bear the consequences. He was able to bear the consequences, learned a lesson, and had the opportunity to help the NYPD restore the true truth of the murder case and atone for himself.
I believe he can get better, my partner also believes he can get better, and the court also believes he can get better after education. In short, I hope this trend of improvement comes true. “You choose the people who believe in you, and you want good things to happen, simply put. ” concluded Martin.
"Yes, I hope good things come true."
Martin laughed after hearing this - a real smile from the heart, not a laugh, but a feeling that Lear said it very well and sincerely. It doesn't look real.
He took out a glass and red wine from the wine cabinet of the car, and while pouring the wine, he said: "My parents would comfort me like this when I was young, telling me that when I grow up, good things will come true.< br>
But when I get rich, they will never see it. ”
“.I’m sorry.”
"My eternal regret - we should have known each other a few years earlier, there is an idiom in my hometown."
"It's too late to meet." Lear smiled and took the glass.
Martin showed a surprised look: "I thought you were a native American."
"I like to study, and the scope of study also includes excellent culture-so I don't really like red wine. We can have tea next time.”
“I remember—the tea in my hometown is very good, let you try it next time.”
The two raised their glasses, and Martin said: "Then I hope we can work together to make good things come true."
After drinking a glass, the car arrived in Hell's Kitchen.
The moment Lille got off the car, Martin’s hands suddenly turned black and white——
He didn’t want to use his ability at first, but he felt that a person who believed that good things come true would With such a deep scheming mind - to put it harshly, Lille's whole person seemed to him to be extremely contradictory.
People with good intentions will almost always make innocent mistakes; but people with sophisticated means and deep thoughts will never say these words or do these things.
At least that's what he thought, so he wanted to know a little more about Lille.
His instinct told him not to reverse Lille's attributes of good and evil, but it shouldn't be a big problem if he understood it properly.
This energy will allow Martin to slightly feel the negative emotions buried in Lear, and feel his heart to a certain extent, without causing his entire being to reverse good and evil.
The moment the negative energy inadvertently came into contact with Lear, Martin's expression changed drastically, his whole body jumped, and the driver was stunned.
Martin stared at Lille through the rearview mirror, fearing that the negative energy would trigger a bigger reaction——
But fortunately, nothing seems to have changed in Lille.
“.It’s okay, keep driving.”
[The new company: International Gene Cooperation Co., Ltd. has been registered. 】
[Research Project 1: Artificial Blood]
[Progress: 80%]
[New personnel have been added to the biological laboratory, and new research projects have been added]
[Name: Peter Parker (on probation)]
[Fields of expertise: cross-species genetic engineering, biological programming ( Studying), Biomechanical Engineering (Studying), Biomaterials Material Science (under study)]
[The second research project is forcibly locked as: corpse research (cancerous, immature lizard serum injectors)]
[The laboratory is currently under pressure from public opinion, assisting Researchers are conducting reasonable public relations】
[Exposure to products derived from science and technology: negative energy]
[The extreme thoughts brought about by negative energy have been greatly eliminated]
[The negative energy dissipates. 】
Lil's expression remained unchanged - looking at the car driving away, thinking that this kid still couldn't help using his super power.
But he thought Martin would directly give him a reverse of good and evil, and then figure out his own psychology, and he didn't know why he just touched him lightly.
Maybe Martin is still in his early stages and is not as versatile as he was in his mature stage?
It just so happened that Lille also tested whether the negative energy that is theoretically a product of technology has any impact on him.
The answer is, almost none.
Behind him, Lille heard the sound of spider silk being shot, and it was obvious that Gwen was behind him.
He turned around and saw the girl wearing a white battle suit and sticking to the wall.
"What's the matter?"
"Well there's a lot of things, actually - first of all I want to thank you for not giving up on Peter, he will get better."
"If I remember correctly You said you are not familiar with each other.”
“It’s not! I’m just praising you for setting a correct example for the city!”
Lil thought as he looked at Gwen who jumped up. The little girl just couldn't hold her breath, so why was she so anxious?
Gwen said again: "If you don't talk about this, you..."
"Don't ask, I won't answer you if you ask. Didn't I also explore your true identity? If I were you, I would Paying more attention to the case in Laboratory 3 will help reduce the sentence, don’t you think?”
“Of course I know this-but why should I pay attention? Help someone you don’t know well.”
“Set the right example to the city”
Gwen paused for a moment, and the two big eyes of the suit continued to change, and slowly swung their spider threads to Lille.
"You deserve a beating for your speech, has anyone said that?"
"No - I'm just telling the truth, why do you deserve a beating?" Lear raised his hand, " Is there anything else? I’m really busy right now.”
“No.” Gwen hung up the thread and landed on the street lamp. “I’m also very busy. Do you think I am?” Aren’t you busy?”
“I didn’t say that, you should be a voice changer, really.”
"You don't need to teach me!"
Gwen slipped away with a cobweb, and Lille thought it was quite funny - it felt like teasing the teenage daughter of the old Wang family next door.
Looking at Gwen wandering away, Lear remembered that many fan works in his previous life liked to fall in love with Gwen, which made this girl become the wife of all worlds.
But Lille really doesn’t have that idea about Gwen - isn’t it perverted for a social person of a psychological age to find a college student or even a high school student to fall in love with?
At least you have to be a social person like V
Why did you think of this?
Liel shook his head.
【Unstable energy is about to explode】
I touched a big one at work today
Thanks to the devil who stayed up late at night for the 111 starting coin reward
By the way, have any of my alliance leaders joined the group? Damn it, I didn’t ask this question. The sponsor’s father joined the group and let me know
(This chapter End)