American comics: Starting from a copycat arms dealer.

Chapter 1: Sokovia Umbrella Group

2010 October.

Sokovia, Eastern Europe, the Umbrella Group located in the northern suburbs.

On the surface, the Umbrella Group has built a complex of high-rise buildings in the northern suburbs of the city.

In fact, the tall buildings on the ground are just a cover.

In the center of this beautiful complex of buildings that combines Chinese and Western styles, there is a skyscraper that is more than 300 meters high. The building has a very high-tech appearance, and the name of the umbrella "UMBRELLA" is on the top of the building.

This is the headquarters of the Umbrella Group, and as of now, there are tens of thousands of employees working here.

Among them, half are black armed soldiers cloned through cloning and brainwashing technology.

Three thousand meters underground in the Umbrella headquarters building, there is a secret base called The Hive.

The reason why Carl Davis built this base deep underground is naturally because there are too many dangers in the Marvel world.

This hive base is designed to withstand a nuclear bomb explosion, with the artificial intelligence Red Queen taking over the defense of the entire base.

Even so, Carl still felt that this place was not safe enough.

After all, he knew that there was a baby god in the core of the earth, and once it was born, it would destroy the entire earth.

Therefore, Carl is in a state of anxiety all year round.

In 2008, he had just traveled to this world, and before he had time to figure out the situation, he was stunned by an aerial bomb during an air raid.

As expected, his original family died in the air raid, and Carl became an orphan who had just turned 18.

There were air raids and bombings everywhere at the time, and the huge noise produced by the bombs forced Carl to hide in the basement of his home and tremble in fear.

After the air raid, he wandered aimlessly in the streets. When he saw Tony Stark publicly announce that he was Iron Man on TV, he realized that he had come to the Marvel world.

This made Carl feel very powerless for a time. Not only did he come to the Marvel world, but he also came to Sokovia, which was in the midst of a civil war.

Fortunately, Carl has a [copycat technology system]

When he saw that an imitation Soviet AK-47 rifle cost only 10 US dollars in the system mall, he knew what he should do.

He wants to become the world's largest arms dealer!
Previously, the average selling price of AK-47 rifles in the international arms market was usually between US$300 and US$800.

But at Carl's place, an AK-47 only costs $30.

Once this price was announced, it instantly broke through the bottom line of the entire international arms trade market.

Even the second-hand market couldn’t sell it for cheaper than Carl.

As a result, Carl quickly accumulated his first pot of gold.

Then there was half a year of low-key development.

At the beginning, Carl only dared to sell light weapons such as rifles, submachine guns, and drones.

Later, when his business grew, he began selling various medium-range and short-range missiles, even imitating Stark Industries' Jericho missiles.

As the arms smuggling business grew bigger and bigger, Carl began to seek to establish an open company so that he would be better able to deal with risks.

The Umbrella Group was established under such demand.

Through the huge profits from the arms trade, Carl bribed all the warlords, big and small, in Sokovia, including the government at all levels.

After two years of development, by 2010, the Umbrella Group had secretly controlled almost everything in Sokovia and became the behind-the-scenes master of this small Eastern European country. Even the Hydra secret base originally hidden in Sokovia and Baron Strucker's Hydra were conquered by Carl.

But he was still not satisfied to stop there. He always thought of the purple sweet potato spirit that would arrive in a few years and the baby god in the core of the earth.

Carl felt that he was in an extremely dangerous state of anxiety all the time.

Therefore, in recent months, Carl has become more and more courageous and even started selling Jericho missiles in large quantities.

You know, the Jericho-1 missile invented by Iron Man Tony Stark is very popular in the international arms market.

But Iron Man closed the weapons department of Stark Group in 2008 and no longer sold any arms to the outside world.

The price of Jericho missiles in the international arms market has also risen sharply.

In addition, Iron Man's growing fame has led to a continuous increase in the price of Jericho missiles on the black market.

Therefore, Carl came up with an idea and relied on his own [copycat technology system] to crazily sell Jericho missiles to the outside world.

Last month, the Umbrella Group secretly sold 30,000 containers of Jericho missiles to several oil-producing countries in the Middle East.

It is impossible that all 30,000 containers are loaded with missiles. Most of them are loaded with fixed launch platforms, land-based launch vehicles and other accessories.

Such a large-scale arms trade would have been impossible if the Middle Eastern sheikhs who own countless oil and gold had not offered a price that Carl could not refuse.

He might not dare to take such a big risk to ship this batch of goods.

The price of a Jericho missile on the black market has now risen to 15 million US dollars.

The Middle East is willing to pay 30% higher than the black market price and purchase unlimited Jericho missiles.

Carl's system price, a Jericho missile costs only 2 US dollars, compared to the buyer's offer of 1950 million US dollars.

This profit of nearly a thousand times would make even God excited.

Carl was no exception, and he took the risk and approved the sale of this batch of goods last month.

Who knows, even if I am very careful and don't reveal any flaws.

After the transaction was successful, the buyer in the Middle East, either stupid or arrogant, relied on his possession of a batch of high-tech missiles and directly launched a "defending freedom" war against the United States.

With the help of the Jericho missile, several Middle Eastern countries achieved unprecedented great victories in the early stages.

This caused a sensation throughout the world.

Then Iron Man Tony Stark received the news that in the Middle East war, the Jericho missiles of his own Stark Industries were extremely powerful, and under the coverage of various firepower, the US military was defeated.

After receiving the news, Tony Stark, who was confused, decisively put on the Mark 5 Iron Man suit and went to the Middle East in person to investigate the source of such a large batch of Jericho missiles.

He didn't believe that so many Jericho missiles were produced by Stark Industries.

You know, since he invented the Jericho missile in 2004, until now, due to its high price, only about a thousand Jericho missiles have been produced.

But on the battlefield in the Middle East, more than a thousand Jericho missiles are launched every day.

As Tony Stark once claimed at the hearing that he was a messenger of justice who protected peace on Earth, he must find out the source of these Jericho missiles.

However, although he is good at inventing technology, he is not so good at secretly investigating the source of arms like an agent.

After investigating for half a month and eating sand in the Middle East desert for so long, Tony Stark still found nothing.

(End of this chapter)