American comics: Starting from a copycat arms dealer.

Chapter 33 Umbrella Development in North America

Carl and Ian's conversation continues.

“Although it’s already past three in the morning, I still want to hear your detailed introduction to the current situation of the branch.

After understanding the situation of the branch, I can tell you about the development plan of Umbrella. "

Ian acted very seriously, nodded from time to time, and then began to introduce:

“After preliminary investigation and consideration of multiple factors, the North American base was chosen to be located outside Poughkeepsie, New York.

Thanks to the hard work of more than 90 workers day and night, the total construction progress of the base has reached nearly %.

Meanwhile, at the Woolworth Building in Lower Manhattan, 79 Umbrella expatriates are temporarily working on floors 81-300.

After completing the final work of base construction, these employees will join the branch base.

Another part of our employees are located in various continents in North America. We have established one or more offices in most continents of North America, each with 3 to 10 employees.

And following the boss's instructions, we also invested in several mainstream radio and television stations, including CBS and ABC.

As for the newspaper industry, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Daily Bugle have all acquired small stakes.

It even invested in mainstream social networking platforms Twitter and Facebook.

After this kind of premium acquisition like a money-spending boy, the umbrella group now has its own voice channel in mainstream news media and online news media.

Having said that, I have to interject.

An instant messaging software called WhatsApp has been gaining extremely strong momentum recently, and the company has the potential to become a unicorn enterprise.

I think it is worth considering taking a controlling stake in or acquiring this emerging Internet company.”

When Carl heard the familiar name WhatsApp, he recalled it carefully before remembering it.

The company later became the world's second largest Internet instant messaging giant, with more than 20 billion monthly active users.

Now that we know about this unicorn company that only appears once in a century, how can we easily miss it?
Karl decisively ordered: "Your suggestion is good. The acquisition plan of WhatsApp will be handed over to you to execute."

Hearing that his suggestion was adopted by the boss, Ian felt full of energy. It was a rare blessing to be able to work with such a wise boss.

There seemed to be light in Ian's eyes, and he issued a military order directly: "I will never let down the boss's trust."

Carl felt a little amused when he saw that Ian became so excited just because he casually accepted a suggestion.

The tool man recommended by Red Queen is really useful!

Then, Carl asked about Umbrella's mainstream business, arms sales in North America.

Hearing this question, Ian's excitement suddenly disappeared, and he said with a self-blaming look:

“Although the weapons and ammunition under the umbrella are superior to those on the international market in terms of both quality and price.

However, when we develop our business in North America, we always encounter an unknown resistance.

Even after we had negotiated a few deals, the customers would always cancel their orders for various strange reasons.”

Carl had expected the sluggish arms sales in North America, after all, North America is the headquarters of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Umbrella wants to enter the North American arms industry, and will naturally be obstructed by SHIELD. Therefore, Carl did not blame Ian for his incompetence. He even said to comfort him, "It is SHIELD who is suppressing us secretly. It is normal for arms sales to be cold."

Then, Carl talked about his next plan.

"The arms industry can develop slowly. I plan to build a private hospital and change the track to break the covert suppression of SHIELD.

The private hospital plans to have a business that can completely cure two terminal illnesses, AIDS and gastric cancer, while also providing life extension services.

In order to make the umbrella company famous, I plan to launch a "super promotion". The specific plan is as follows."

After hearing the entire plan, not to mention the feasibility of the plan, Ian looked a little terrified.

"Vampires? Oh my god, these legendary creatures really exist? This is incredible."

Ian is just an ordinary person. If it weren't for his absolute trust in Carl, he would never believe that vampires really exist.

Carl didn't explain too much. After all, Ian was just a tool. He told him to just follow orders and do the preliminary work, and not to think about anything else.

Ian quickly calmed down. As the head of the North American base, he knew that Umbrella possessed iron armor technology and was not weak in strength.

Moreover, Umbrella is an arms company. The head of a branch base may not have to have a big heart, but at least he must have strong psychological endurance.

After Ian calmed down, he patted his chest and said, "Blade Warrior, Eric Brooks, right? I know a few black market brokers, it shouldn't be difficult to find him."

Seeing that he already had an idea for the preliminary work, Karl nodded with satisfaction and said:
"The Red Queen is working hard to find the whereabouts of the high-ranking members of the vampire clan. If the preliminary preparations go well, according to the plan, the first shot to eliminate the vampires will be fired in a week!
If you encounter trouble that can only be solved by force, you can seek help from the Red Queen.

I will authorize you to use the two A1-type steel armors at the North American base."

Afterwards, Carl used wireless headphones to ask Red Queen to upgrade Ian's authority from B1 to A1.

When Ian heard that his boss valued him so much and gave him the extremely powerful steel armor to use, the few concerns in his heart disappeared at once.

"Thanks for the care, Boss. I believe that as long as the A1 armor is deployed, those creatures in the sewers will probably only be able to lie trembling at the feet of the umbrella."

Carl laughed, this is true.

Not to mention the iron armor, vampires have too many weaknesses, and are afraid of garlic, sunlight, and silver weapons.

Moreover, holy water, the cross with the power of holy light and other church products can also extremely restrain vampires.

As the world's largest arms giant, it is easy for Umbrella to produce some ultraviolet grenades, silver-coated bullets, etc., and even the modification of ultraviolet medium-range and short-range missiles is not a problem.

No matter how many vampires there are, as long as we take out missiles to wipe out the area, all the vampires will be just cannon fodder.

Using iron armor to fight vampires is like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

It was precisely because of his technology for mass production of steel armor that Carl dared to go to war with the vampires, the kings of the dark world.

The two talked for two hours. Outside the blinds, a few rays of hazy morning light reflected on the exquisite long table in the conference room.

Carl realized that he had been talking about work with Ian all night without realizing it, and when he came to his senses, he knew it was time to end the conversation.

“It’s morning already and the super promotion plan is set as the highest priority.

The task of acquiring WhatsApp is not urgent, so set it as the third priority. It won’t be too late for you to go back and have a good sleep to replenish your energy before starting work again.”

(End of this chapter)