From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 85 "Hurricane" (4000)

"I know." Sui Yang stopped discussing the topic of nanotechnology and continued:
  “Atlas’ focus in the next year will be on people’s livelihood areas, such as the reconstruction of Earth Zero-1 and Zero-3, to improve and enhance the lives of the company’s residents as much as possible.

The main universe with normal order needs a "hurricane" to sweep away the filth, so that companies and humans can have a good development environment. "

Good environment?

"Boss, are you going to attack Walter International?" Alexia suddenly became energetic.

"Yes." Sui Yang did not deny it. "All the medical insurance businesses launched by the company are within the price range that most people can afford and provide promised services. However, those guys regarded it as malicious competition and said that we Deliberately starting a price war.

There are still many media outlets in the East Coast that are smearing our insurance business as a scam.

Next year, or the year after, the company will launch extraterrestrial colonization projects, update the medical welfare system, and launch more civilian technology and new energy products.

In the military field, Atlas has a large number of old weapons and equipment that need to be sold, and such a large-scale operation touches the interests of almost all walks of life, and Vought International is just one of them.

But if human beings want to continue to progress and develop, each of them is essential.

Since the other party claims that we initiated the malicious competition first, let the other party experience the so-called "malicious" competition first-hand. Vought International will be the primary target, and by the way, we can deal with those superheroes who have lost their humanity. "

"Well, I quite like physical competition, not so many twists and turns."

Alexia strongly agrees, because Vought International has not been able to completely recover until now, and is inseparable from the tyrant who led the research and development she led.

Sui Yang did not comment on this, but thought about the next "business war" operation.

Today in the main universe is January 1996, 1.

The third space gate opened on September 1995, 9, so the next time it can be opened is November 12, 1996.

From 1.10 to 11.11, there are still ten months.

In the drama "Black Robe", the protagonist team announced the truth about Compound No. 5 to the society through online media, but Walter International's public relations team responded quickly and quickly stabilized the stock price and restored its reputation and image.

Therefore, the most effective way to eradicate Walter is exactly what Alexia said, which must be physical means.

The top executives of Vought International's board of directors are equipped with corresponding superhumans responsible for security issues, such as Black who follows Stan Edgar's orders.

At this stage, Atlas individual weapons are sufficient to break through and kill most superhumans without causing large-scale destruction and injuring innocent people.

Then dispatching a hunter company specialized in assassination and stealth can first dismantle Walter's senior management, causing the other party to directly lose its emergency response capabilities.

The second is the "stock price war".

The Internet era of the main universe was opened by Atlas, which resulted in the initiative of the media being in the hands of Atlas.

It is also revealed that most superheroes are scum addicted to D and kill for fun, as well as the truth about Compound No. 5. However, the difference is that Walt in the main universe will lack senior leaders and will face a devastating blow.

Retail investors and investors who lost confidence in Watt began to sell their stocks. If there is no senior management and public relations team to stabilize the situation, the stock price will fall rapidly until the transaction is closed.

However, Walter International's number one "product", the people of the motherland, is the target that Atlas needs to focus on.

Among all the plans to deal with the people of the motherland, Sanguinius, who had received an increase in psychic power due to Sui Yang, already had the strength to fight head-on. However, the original body was not proficient in the control of psychic powers and needed to be carefully taught by Sui Yang. time.

Another project involves programming the brains of soldier boys.

After nearly two years of research, the biological department has made considerable progress. Although the programmed soldier boy has lost his sense of autonomy and is like a reconstructed soldier, he is an excellent "biological weapon."

Currently able to execute some simple commands, still need to be debugged and tested.

In addition to brain programming, the biology department is also focused on studying the special radiation emitted by soldier boys.

This radiation has a strong inhibitory effect on Compound No. 5. If a superhuman is hit by the high-power energy cannon released from Soldier Boy's chest, he will completely lose his so-called superpowers.

According to research and analysis, the radiation emitted by soldier boys all the time is similar to gamma radiation.

After all, while being imprisoned, the Soviet Union tried every means to test and turn the soldier boy into a "mobile nuclear power plant."

The Department of Biology named the radiation gamma-5.

As the detailed data of Gamma-5 was uploaded and shared, the individual equipment research and development team under the Ministry of Scientific Research began to design weapons specifically designed to deal with superhuman beings.

It can be said that it won’t be long before Vought International will no longer pose a threat to humans in the main universe.

As for how to deal with the superhuman species...

According to statistics, there are more than 20 superhumans in New York State alone, accounting for % of the total number of superhumans in the United States.

The total number is about 50,000, close to 60,000.

Walter International has its roots in New York and the East Coast of the United States. It owns a large number of private hospitals, orphanages and schools, and uses a complete system to inject No. 5 compound into newborn children.

Although the vast majority of individuals who have acquired superpowers tend to be scum and believe that they are a species superior to humans, there are also many children with physical disabilities who are detained by Walter in orphanages and special schools for experiments.

Therefore, Sui Yang plans to use gamma-5 to eliminate Compound No. from superhuman bodies.

There are also a very small number of "wild" superheroes who are not deeply involved in the world and have not been incorporated into a formal unit by Walter, but still have a heart to do their best to save the world.

Such as Queen Maeve and Starlight.

However, according to time calculation, Starlight may not have been born yet, but Queen Maeve is similar to the people of the motherland, and she should be just 16 or 17 now.

Queen Maeve in the play is over forty years old. Under the intimidation of her motherland and the control of Walter International, she is unable to change the world and is helpless and entangled in accepting the reality.

Even so, Queen Maeve still sticks to a certain bottom line. At the end of the third season, she chose to resist Soldier Boy's small "nuclear explosion" in order to protect everyone.

Therefore, "superheroes" like Queen Maeve are still "human" in nature. After Walter's complete collapse, they can be considered for recruitment to Atlas.

After a few seconds of silence.

Sui Yang no longer thought about how to target Walter, turned around and walked out of the biological center, and told Alexia: "Try to debug the soldier boy before September this year."

"It's not a big deal, leave it to us." Alexia waved with her back to Sui Yang.

Leave the biocenter.

Coming to the semi-open corridor, Sui Yang looked at Sanguinius and Leon, who had been waiting for a long time, and said with a smile: "In the next few months, you will all learn by my side, understand?"

"Understood, father."
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  ... "Wow~! Wow!"

Fierce applause echoed in the huge staircase auditorium.

The lights gradually came back on, and the holographic screen suspended in the front of the auditorium fell into darkness.

Obviously, the content that had just been broadcast aroused the expectations of the guests, reporters and cameramen sitting here, and they all applauded.

Soon, a male host in a black formal suit returned to the podium and said to the crowd with a professional smile:
  "Haha, it seems that everyone is looking forward to our Atlas maglev train. Yes, this kind of thing that should appear in science fiction movies and games is about to become a part of our real life.

This is thanks to the scientific research team of Atlas breaking the technical shackles and successfully extracting stable room-temperature superconducting materials, once again creating a future for our world!
  So, now is the question and answer session that everyone is most looking forward to. Have you thought about anything you want to ask? let me see…"

After the words fell, the reporters present raised their hands, hoping that the host would choose themselves to ask questions.

You must know that today is September 1996, 9. It is also Atlas’s annual summary and future press conference. All the reporters invited are extremely eager to be able to tell the story of their newspaper and company in front of the camera. Name opportunity.

The popularity of the Atlas press conference usually tops the list in September and October every year. As long as there is an opportunity to appear, it is one of the shortcuts for reporters to enhance their reputation in the industry.

"It's just you, right, my friend sitting in Seat 16 in Area B, what do you want to say?"

As the host's words spread, some of the lights on the scene also focused on a male reporter wearing glasses and with a buzz cut.

!

Seeing that he was selected, the male reporter quickly stood up, sorted out his words and said: "Hello host, I am Holga Nathan from the Philadelphia Daily News. I would like to ask on behalf of all of you, how did your company become so popular? Has achieved an absolute leading position in Xiang’s field?”

"Oh, my friend, your question is difficult to answer." The host pretended to be embarrassed and said with a smile:
  "Maybe the salary and benefits provided by Mr. Sui were too high, so the scientific research team worked hard to develop a lot of instruments and formulas that I can't understand at all?"

Such an unexpected answer made the entire venue burst into laughter.

"Okay host, I understand, thank you for your reply."

Of course the male reporter knew that the host would not respond seriously, but his goal was achieved, so he also smiled and sat down again.

"Then... let's invite our friends from Building 14 in Area D to talk about your problem."

The light moved and finally focused on a female reporter with short hair.

The female reporter looked surprised. She didn't expect that she would actually be selected after raising her hand.

She stood up with a slight frown on her face, as if she was debating whether to speak out about the issues arranged by her boss.

But in the end, in order to get a high bonus and keep her job, she said with a slightly trembling tone: "Hello, the host, this is Natalie Weiss from the New York Morning Post.

I... what I want to ask is, how does your company treat the soldier boy who should have been sacrificed, but exposed the incident of Compound No. 5 on the Internet? "

! !
  After hearing this question clearly, the venue suddenly fell into a brief silence, the kind of silence that could be heard when a needle dropped.

Everyone present knew that this topic would definitely ignite a hot topic, but no one would dare to say it at the Atlas press conference.

On the one hand, you have a formidable military background, and everyone here was invited to come, but you asked such a controversial question. Isn't this deliberately looking for trouble?

The little girl is too young and has not experienced the dangers of the workplace. She is obviously sold out by her own company. The company can not only detonate hot topics but also throw the blame away.

"Madam, your question is even more difficult to answer than the last one." The host looked embarrassed again, but did not reveal any panic, and responded:
  “Recent news and media revelations have shown that Vought International’s Compound No. 5 drug was created through various extreme experiments on young children and innocent people.

The final result of Vought International was not what I, the host, could have predicted, but I know that Atlas's position has always been clear, that is, it will never use innocent people to carry out biological experiments.

Finally, I hope you will stop asking similar questions. "

"OK…"

The female reporter, whose forehead was covered with cold sweat, returned to her seat, and the light was instantly removed from her body.

Everyone around her felt sorry for her, thinking that the little girl's career path would be quite bumpy.

However, what no one noticed was that the female reporter lowered her head and her eyes were calm, completely free of worry and panic.

Just like the nervous performance just now, was it just the excellent acting skills of this "female reporter"?

In fact, this "trouble-finding question" was a scene staged today by the Atlas Public Relations Department using people who had been placed in the New York Morning News a few months ago. The purpose was to give Watt International another stab. One knife.
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  ...

At the Atlas headquarters building on the West Coast, when the annual press conference was held, the straight-line distance between the two parties was nearly 4000 kilometers in New York.

Water Tower.

In the conference room on the 99th floor;

"Our trading this morning was down 68% and six minutes ago it was down 15%."

"Ms. Stillwell, Mr. Edgar's phone cannot be reached."

“The entire board has also lost touch, what do we do?”

The core members responsible for the normal operation of Walter have all gathered here to deal with the most severe public relations crisis in history.

Because if they fail, they will spend their next life in a prison with no daylight.

The only remaining senior executive of Walter, Vice President Madeleine Stillwell, who was sitting at the "V" table, stared blankly out of the window.

It seems that the vice president, who always looks like an elite female, can't think of a solution at all.

First, the kidnapped soldier boy suddenly appeared and described various operations of Walter on the Internet without expression, and also uploaded a large number of real and detailed documents.

Immediately afterwards, the board of directors lost contact and the stock price collapsed...

This is a dead end.

At this moment, the conference room, which was originally full of disputes and anxiety, suddenly became quiet.

?

Feeling something was wrong, Madeleine turned her chair and saw the motherland man walking quickly towards her position and said hurriedly:
  "The criminal investigation team has locked down the specific location of Soldier Boy! We can tell the public that he is a Russian spy. If we let me... let me deal with him, we will have a chance to restore the company's image!"

(End of this chapter)