Chapter 372: Humans and animals are harmless
"Penglai City is the world's first floating city built by our company. It is located near the equator. Its main function is scientific research. It will consider opening up to tourism after the airport construction is completed. The whole city adopts highly automated equipment, big data computing management, and manpower management. Demand has been reduced to a minimum..."
After Umbrella officially announced the appearance of Penglai, it also launched some promotional videos, which included photos of various areas of Penglai, internal videos, ports, docks, and people working there, all accompanied by explanations.
Anyway, it is positioned as a civilian scientific research. It may open to tourism in the future and form a tourist city. It even hints that it may compete with entertainment cities such as Las Vegas in the future.
Floating city on the sea, this sounds like it has some tricks up its sleeve, right?
Not to mention, after mentioning that it might compete with Las Vegas, it really aroused the vigilance of many relevant interest groups.
Because this is very feasible and possible!
At present, this is the most suitable attribute.
A maritime city that completely belongs to Umbrella. A company owns a city that is its own and is still on the high seas. This is indeed aspirational.
In addition, the promotional video also contains many design plans for the future of Penglai City, as well as concept drawings, and simultaneous explanations
"...Now everyone sees that there are still many hollow steel frames in the city. When we complete all the modifications in the later stage, they will have a completely different image. This is a concept drawing..."
As the explanation video was completely simulated with AI special effects, after transforming the city that originally looked full of industrialization and mechanical charm, a beautiful city floating on the sea suddenly appeared in everyone's eyes!
The most important ones on the top floor are various airstrips, helicopter platforms, and the central control tower. The second floor is the area where people actively move. There are also many warehouses transported by air and some related factories.
The third floor also has some warehouses and factories, but it is mainly used for docking goods at the dock.
There is also a fourth layer underwater, which is planned as a planting layer for soilless cultivation to meet the needs of the whole city. It can also draw a breeding net under the sea to raise some economical fish in captivity.
It can be said that each layer has different difficulties and technologies, but this gives people plenty of confidence in Umbrella.
And many people still yearn for it.
The main reason is that the CG concept drawings of AI are so beautiful and look too sci-fi, and even have the feeling of a future space city.
"Now that the city remains stable, water injection has been completed on the bottom floor. When the urban construction is gradually completed, the water injection will be slowly drained to form a new buoyancy source and the transformation of the planting warehouse will be completed."
The concept map also briefly explains some principles, and it is very easy to understand.
Even some of the platform's defensive weapons are explained directly in the introduction.
Small forts that looked like Vulcan cannons and could intercept rockets were planned in various areas.
Some are for the air, and some are for the water.
However, compared to the huge city, these weapons were quite miniscule and did not have the ferocious feel of weapons at all.
"Although the armed forces are rudimentary, they are more than enough to prevent piracy. In addition, for maritime convenience, our company has obtained arms procurement authorization and weapons manufacturing authorization from Mexico. We are now preparing to purchase a batch of armed helicopters and rescue helicopters. Once the runway is completed, There will also be purchase intentions for transport aircraft..."
Umbrella then started spreading money again.
The most profitable company, bar none!
This is how the outside world evaluates Umbrella. He is truly as wealthy as any other country.
While seizing a lot of high-end profits, he also opened up profits from some new tracks.
Even if Mexico spends large amounts of money and orders large amounts of ships, it is still possible to free up part of the cash flow to purchase aircraft when the ships are still full of supplies.
As soon as the news came out, both Airbus and Boeing couldn't sit still.
This is really a big list!
Boeing itself is one of the giants of the big beautiful military-industrial complex, with such unfathomable background that the big beautiful talker can personally promote it!
All in all, Boeing and Umbrella still have a vaguely hostile relationship for the time being, and with Boeing's well-informed nature, we can also know that the authorities are preparing a "search plan for contraband."
But when faced with such a large order, they directly chose to let their interests speak for themselves.
You may search, but your original plan was to wait until the airport was completed to make excuses, so why not just wait until I sell the plane first, or at least collect all the money before you go!
Anyway, it won’t be a long time difference!
Whether it’s an airplane or their airport, it takes time.
And Umbrella has indeed signed an order with Boeing totaling more than three billion US dollars!
Ten Boeing 747-8 cargo aircraft.
This is an excellent civilian cargo aircraft with a carrying capacity of 23 tons, and it is the cargo aircraft with the lowest air transportation cost. It is indeed quite suitable.
However, Boeing's order will not arrive immediately. In addition to these ten new aircraft, Umbrella has also chosen some second-hand aircraft to buy or lease.
It can be said that the civil transport aircraft was negotiated quite quickly.
It's just that the armed helicopters are stuck, and no one is willing to come forward to talk!
Although Boeing has manufactured the famous Apache, this time they only accepted transportation orders and did not mention armed helicopters at all.
The international arms trade is not just about paying for something, there are usually many other political positions involved.
If it's a gun or something, it's actually quite easy to handle. Even some light armored vehicles are easy to buy.
But once we get to the helicopter, the problem becomes difficult to solve.
Don't look at helicopters, it seems that TV stations can just take out a lot of them, but in fact the technical requirements of armed helicopters are quite high, especially they have to adapt to the environment on the sea, which will make the requirements even higher.
It does not mean that civilian helicopters need to be equipped with some firepower.
You must know that Rabbit’s Wuzhi 10 has only served for three years! It’s not even exported yet!
Da Meili's side just refused to sell it for a while, and other forces that were able to sell armed helicopters immediately became more subtle.
Even the bitter bear is afraid of it. Even if Umbrella comes to ask for help, she might be worried about it, let alone just letting the news out.
Weapons and other items are often paid for in advance, subject to temporary price increases, or not delivered, which is a completely different world from civilian use.
After Umbrella spread the word, but no suppliers responded, it did not go around to buy them. It just bought a few more civilian helicopters, and then purchased some anti-materiel rifles to match them.
At least for the pirate force, this combination is more than enough, and it is also in line with the image of the security company...
————Second update~
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