American comics: Starting from a copycat arms dealer.

Chapter 12: US$ billion funding gap
The first method of making metallic palladium is by dry production from ore.

The second method is to use the by-products generated in the production process of copper and nickel from copper and nickel sulfide ores as raw materials and produce them by wet smelting.

The cost of a palladium reactor is less than one percent of that of a reactor based on new elements.

It is suitable for large-scale production and will also help Carl to obtain higher profits when selling the Iron Man suit in large quantities.

While Carl was secretly conducting large-scale industrial production demonstration of the Iron Man suit.

With the tacit cooperation of major forces in the world, the waves caused by the Sidi Moussa Prison bombing quickly subsided.

The existence of information cocoons made most ordinary people quickly forget about the bombing.

Except that Russia was still relentless and insisted on finding the mastermind behind the bombing. As a result, it sent elite KGB agents to investigate for three days and three nights, but could not find any useful clues.

In the end, it can only be left unresolved, with at most a few meaningless protests in diplomatic statements.

It's October now.

The Marvel world remains calm on the surface.

The opening ceremony of the Stark Industries Expo hosted by Iron Man Tony Stark was a complete success, with the expo receiving tens of thousands of visitors every day.

Tony Stark also successfully overcame the poisoning crisis without any obstruction from the villain and successfully synthesized the new element.

Nowadays, people can often see Iron Man wearing the Mark VII armor and flying around in the sky above New York.

The Thor 1 incident also happened smoothly, and a small town in Old Bridge, New Mexico was destroyed by an unknown robot.

The news was quickly suppressed by SHIELD and did not cause much stir.

No one knows that in a corner of the earth, in the memory extraction laboratory of Umbrella headquarters.

After Ivan Vanko completed his mission as a tool, he was discarded by Karl and sent to meet God.

After all, it’s better not to let too many people know about a good thing like the Ark Reactor.

There is no way Tony Stark would hand over the Ark Reactor technology.

Then the Ark reactor technology in Carl's hands is unique.

He felt excited just thinking about the profits from monopolizing the Iron Man suit.

It seems that his T-virus plan can be implemented ahead of schedule. Although the prosthetic transformation technology and bionic human machine technology are good, it is too wasteful to exchange them with system points.

The Iron Man suit can also achieve the results Carl wants.

Therefore, he planned to wait until the time was right and then implement the T virus plan in advance.

It was a sunny morning and a light snow began to fall in Sokovia in early winter.

The temperature outside has dropped to minus 3 degrees Celsius, but it is still as warm as spring inside the hive base.

Carl had just woken up in the soft big bed in Wanda's bedroom when Red Queen brought him good news.

Umbrella's iron armor has been finalized and can be mass-produced at any time.

Karl inspected the intelligent precision manufacturing production workshop at the Ground Protection Umbrella headquarters.

The scientist in charge of the design and finalization of the Iron Man suit was Johannes William, who previously worked at Stark Industries and had designed and manufactured the Iron Man suit for the villain Tony's good uncle Obadiah.

William was hired by Carl from Stark Industries at a high salary. At the beginning, he had some reservations.

After Karl installed the chip controller behind his head, he became completely obedient. Now William bowed his head respectfully, following Karl who was inspecting the smart workshop, and introduced him to the three finalized steel suits.

"Boss, there are currently three types of Iron Man Suit designs. The first is the police-use C1 Iron Man Suit.

This suit uses special stainless steel as the main armor material, and its price is extremely low, costing only US$100,000.”

"After testing, this armor can perfectly defend against attacks from small-caliber bullets. The disadvantage is that it cannot completely defend against attacks from tungsten core armor-piercing bullets and large-caliber bullets."

"The second model is the B1 steel suit for sale, which uses titanium alloy with strong defensive performance as the main material. It has moderate cost and strong combat capability. The cost is one million US dollars.

“The third model is the self-use A1 steel suit, which uses expensive gold-titanium alloy as the armor material and has extremely strong combat performance.

The advantage is that its defensive capability is very good. After testing, it can perfectly withstand the frontal bombardment of small missiles and armor-piercing shells.

The downside is that it costs $30 million.”

William did not hide anything and introduced to Carl in detail the differences between the three types of iron armor.

After listening to the introduction, Carl had an idea in mind and asked about the cost of the small Ark reactor.

He knew that after the big forces bought his iron armor, they would definitely modify and upgrade it, so in the later stage he even planned to directly sell the finished small Ark reactor.

William, who was wearing a white dust-free work suit, immediately replied when he heard the question: "The cost of a small Ark reactor is 50,000 US dollars, which is already the lowest price for industrial large-scale production."

Carl nodded in satisfaction and issued an order: "For the next three months, do not announce the news of the Iron Man Suit to the public. Priority will be given to manufacturing 1 A Iron Man Suit.

Then we started to mass produce the police-use C1 type iron suits, and we only needed to produce 1 B type iron suits."

"Understood. I will make the iron suit that Boss wants on time!"

William, who looked mature, answered respectfully. He already understood what Karl meant.

Umbrella is not yet fully grown. Once the construction of seven new secret bases around the world is completed, it will be the best time for Umbrella to officially step onto the world stage.

Under the strict management of Red Queen, Cardo doesn't have to worry about the matters in the precision intelligent production workshop.

He is now more concerned about whether there is enough money in the umbrella company's account.

Nowadays, Umbrella needs a lot of money to build a new base, and it also requires a lot of money to purchase raw materials to manufacture the iron armor.

In addition, with so many bases established, we need people to manage them.

Although clones are useful, seven secret bases require at least hundreds of thousands of clones.

Even if it is possible to produce clones on a large scale from embryo culture balls, it would still cost a lot of money to produce so many clones.

Umbrella's funding gap is now as high as more than 40 billion US dollars.

After so many years of selling low-priced arms, Carl still doesn't dare to go too far. The prices of some high-tech arms are similar to those in the international arms market.

In this way, although the profit is high, there are not many orders.

Unless he breaks off relations with all the arms dealers in the world and sells large quantities of high-tech weapons at low prices.

Otherwise, the Umbrella Group’s profits would hardly change from month to month.

The monthly profit is about 3 billion US dollars.

The reason why Carl could make so much profit was that the cost of selling arms was much lower than that of others.

(End of this chapter)