American comics: Starting from a copycat arms dealer.

Chapter 62 Selling the 'Rope' to Hang Yourself

Seeing this, Karl said shamelessly: "As long as you think it is reasonable, business requires reasonableness and win-win results."

After a pause, he continued, "By the way, when does Mr. Rumlow plan to trade this batch of goods?"

Rumlow thought for a moment and said, "I hope to set the transaction time at Port Jefferson, New York tomorrow afternoon."

Karl said enthusiastically: "No problem, we will try our best to meet the customer's requirements, is there anything else you need?"

Seeing Carl's face, Rumlow had already seen through this hypocritical profiteer, and said expressionlessly: "I also want nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles. Do you dare to sell them?"

"Oh, about this." Hearing that the other party wanted to buy big fireworks, Carl raised his eyebrows and thought quickly in his mind.

At this stage, nuclear weapons do not pose much threat to us, and it is said that qualified capitalists dare to sell the rope to hang themselves.

So - if you don’t make money when you have it, you’re a bastard!

However, it is not easy to sell such large fireworks at a 'reasonable' price.

So Carl pretended to be very embarrassed and said, "Mr. Rumlow, you also know that nuclear weapons have no selling price in the international arms market.

do you understand? "

Rumlow was a little surprised to hear that his words seemed to be negotiable. He didn't expect that Umbrella was willing to take the risk of selling nuclear weapons.

After all, nuclear weapons are extremely contraband that can easily cause international disputes, and normally no force would dare to sell them openly.

Did this profiteer leave a secret door in his nuclear weapon? Otherwise, wouldn't he be afraid that the fireworks he sold would explode on his head?

Rumlow would never have guessed that Carl already had the strength to withstand nuclear weapons.

After all, in the normal worldview, no one can ignore nuclear weapons.

Therefore, the best Rumlow could do was guess that Carl might have left a secret door in the weapons he sold.

But that was nothing to him.

Although Hydra suffered heavy losses, some weapons scientists still survived.

Even if there was a secret door, Rumlow would still buy it.

At worst, we can just buy it back and let Hydra scientists fix the backdoor.

Even if the secret door cannot be repaired, as long as we have nuclear weapons, it will be a great deterrent, and others will never dare to try to provoke Hydra easily.

This gives Hydra valuable time to develop.

Thinking of this, Rumlow decisively offered a price that Carl could not refuse.

"Five hundred million US dollars, we only need three intercontinental nuclear missiles with a TNT equivalent of one hundred thousand tons!"

"Uh" Carl pretended to consider it, but he was actually very satisfied with the price.

After all, three low-yield intercontinental nuclear missiles cost less than five million US dollars.

A hundred times the profit, this business is worth doing!
However, Carl did not give an immediate consent. He believed that if he waited a little longer, Rumlow would raise the price on his own initiative.

Sure enough, I saw Karl hesitated for a minute, neither agreeing nor refusing.

Rumlow knew that 500 million US dollars would not be enough to satisfy Carl's greedy appetite.

Although he wanted to slap this profiteer to death, he still spoke consciously:

"Six hundred million US dollars! This is the highest price I can offer within my authority. After all, the funds I brought this time are not much."

The underlying meaning is that I only have this much money with me, and I can’t afford anything more expensive.

Seeing this, Karl smiled with satisfaction and said, “Deal, I believe this transaction will not be our last cooperation.

After all, the umbrella company is always willing to make concessions to generous customers. I have another weapon that you will definitely like, so I will give it to you as a gift.

By the way, I hope you can give me some after-sales suggestions so that Umbrella can better upgrade and improve its products. "

Rumlow was a little confused: "What gift?"

Carl stretched out his left hand to indicate that he was looking at the holographic image, and said with an unfathomable smile:
"Let Red Queen introduce you to Umbrella's next generation of latest biological virus weapon - the T-Virus!"

The holographic projection screen suddenly switched.

The Red Queen projects the full image of a special dark green spiral test tube onto the screen.

[The T virus is a special RNA virus that combines leech gene fragments. It has the ability to strengthen and recombine biological genetic factors.]

[The T virus has shown amazing properties in the laboratory, such as strengthening and reorganizing the host's DNA, giving it amazing endurance and vitality.]

Rumlow kept frowning throughout the whole process and was still confused after listening to the introduction.

"So, this is some kind of bio-enhanced virus like the Super Soldier Serum?"

Super soldier serum?
It’s terrible to be uneducated, Carl complained silently in his heart.

The Red Queen just introduced it in a slightly more elegant way, but Rumlow couldn't understand it?

After all, the other party is a big customer. Carl shook his head and explained: "This is a zombie virus. You should understand this explanation, right? Have you seen "The Walking Dead"? "

Rumlow's face changed: "Zombie virus? Is there really such a world-destroying virus in the world?"

Seeing that he finally understood what the T virus was, Carl was too lazy to continue explaining. He was already giving him face by explaining it to him.

“Mr. Rumlow, all the weapons orders you placed, along with the gifts, will arrive at Port Jefferson promptly tomorrow.

Remember, payment first, then delivery!

And the transaction must be paid in full, and the umbrella does not support installment payments at the moment."

At the end, Carl stared at Rumlow with a serious face, leaving him no room for refusal.

Rumlow's face changed again and again. It was still difficult for Hydra to pay such a huge sum of 19 billion US dollars in one go.

But Karl's words were there, and he didn't dare to question anything.

Rumlow was furious and nodded in agreement, saying, "Before 12 o'clock tonight, 19 billion will be transferred to the Umbrella account. Please check it, Mr. Carl."

Carl was very happy that he had made a killing on a sucker who had come to him.

“Good! As soon as the funds arrive, the umbrella will be shipped immediately and will arrive at the transaction location on time.”

Rumlow said "thank you" and left Manor No. 7 in a daze.

As he walked out of the manor, he shuddered.

"Wait, Chief Pierce only gave me 10 billion dollars. Where can I find another 9 million dollars in such a short time?"

The funds were required to arrive tonight. Rumlow wondered if he had a mental problem.
How did they get tricked into signing an order worth 19 billion?
Now that I think about it carefully, when Karl proposed to increase the price by 30%, I agreed without thinking?

The order had been placed, and Rumlow had no idea that he was being affected by Carl's mind control.

It had no choice but to think about how to report to Pierce in a tactful way with a nervous mood.

When Karl was the only one left in the living room, he thought to himself:

“Mind influence is quite useful, but this method can only be used to trick ordinary people with weak wills.

If it is a human with a super physique like Captain America, it would be difficult for mind control to affect the other party. "

(End of this chapter)