American comics: Starting from a copycat arms dealer.

Chapter 64 Space Dreamer

Karl was pointing at an innocent girl in a light pink halter dress and white pantyhose in the corner of the banquet hall.

He immediately recognized the girl with blonde twin tails as Gwen Stacy, the daughter of New York City Police Commissioner George Stacy.

I wonder if she has become Ghost Spider-Woman now?
Karl was a little curious. He was quite interested in this kind of sweet young girl. He especially wanted to try the feeling of galloping on a horse while holding her twin ponytails.

The key is that she might be a rare super heroine who ranks among the famous ones in the Marvel world, which gives Carl more ideas.

Wanda followed Carl's gaze and saw a pure and beautiful girl staring at her with interest.

After realizing that she saw her, she deliberately waved to me, wanting me to come over and talk to her, as if she was not afraid of me at all.

She couldn't help but feel a little curious about this courageous girl.

"Hi! Meet Wanda Maximoff."

"Gwen Stacy, nice to meet you. This must be your first time attending a party like this."

"how do you know"

Seeing Wanda walk over and start a friendly conversation with Gwen without saying a word, she immediately forgot about herself.

Karl couldn't help but curl his lips, thinking that women will forget about their boyfriends when they have a best friend.

Just then, a tall and burly man in a dark blue suit walked over with a nervous look on his face.

"Uh, dear Mr. Karl, sorry to bother you, could you give me two minutes to introduce myself?"

Carl felt secretly happy to see that the world's richest man in later generations, space dreamer Musk, was acting a little reserved in front of him.

However, he just nodded slightly and pretended to listen politely.

Seeing that Carl was willing to give him a chance, Musk's tense expression became more natural.

Fearing that the other party would be impatient, he quickly began to introduce:
"I'm Elon Musk, CEO of Space X.

Space X is a private commercial aerospace company dedicated to space exploration. Its current main research direction is reusable heavy-lift launch vehicles.

Reusable rockets are an extremely low-cost and promising space rocket technology.

We have now developed the Falcon 9 heavy-lift launch vehicle, which was successfully launched in an experimental launch a year ago.

Our short-term goal is commercial space travel, and our long-term goal is to colonize Mars!

Mr. Carl, I have always believed that there is no future for mankind if it is trapped on the small planet.

The resources on earth will be exhausted one day.

As for the development of space exploration, the endless cosmic resources are like treasures in the ocean, quietly waiting for humans to dig.

This is the best way out for mankind!

However, we are currently experiencing some minor financial difficulties.

Therefore, I implore Mr. Carl to provide a boost to the development of Space X!"

After Musk finished speaking, he waited anxiously for Carl to make the next decision on the life or death of Space X.

2011 was the darkest year in Musk's life. First of all, Tesla suffered a huge financial deficit.

Next is SpaceX, which has experienced three consecutive failures in the launch of its heavy Falcon 9 rocket.

A massive financial crisis followed, and Musk was also tormented by divorces, employee resignations, and outside ridicule.

It’s like the “Car Truth” website opened a “Tesla Death Countdown” column, which is like watching a joke and waiting for Tesla to die.

There were even 50 news articles in one day discussing how Tesla would die. There were also reports from Tesla employees that Tesla deceived the public and all the cash from orders was squandered!
This year, Musk was in a desperate situation due to the situation where everyone was pushing him down.

Therefore, whether or not to obtain Carl's financial assistance has become Musk's most urgent matter.

After listening to Musk's self-introduction, Carl already had a plan in his mind. The future development of Space X is obvious to all, and Umbrella will have to go into space sooner or later.

You can invest, but you have to be the controlling party in the shares.

After all, Musk, whose net worth is less than 1 billion US dollars, is not worthy of Umbrella being just a small shareholder.

So Carl smiled politely and said, “You have a good idea, Mr. Musk.

I am indeed interested in space exploration, but the situation you are facing now seems to be very bad?"

As he spoke, Carl raised his hand, and the holographic watch projected a video.

This is a video of Space X's three consecutive failed launches of the Falcon 9 rocket in the past two years.

"Is this what you call success? This imperfect rocket technology does not seem to be commercially viable yet."

To say it's imperfect is complimenting Musk.

After all, the cost of launching such a heavy-lift carrier rocket is as high as tens of millions of US dollars, but in the end only three big fireworks were set off.

There's a reason why reusable rocket technology is currently considered a hoax.

At first, Musk was shocked to see such high-tech as holographic projection.

"Oh, this is a holographic projection? That's so cool! Umbrella's technology is really advanced!"

But when Musk saw the video of his company's three failed rocket launches, his face suddenly turned black and he quickly explained:
"Mr. Carl, there are always many setbacks on the road of technological development, and every failure will accumulate more experience. Failures occasionally are nothing."

Although Musk tried his best to find excuses, it could not change the fact that the Falcon 9 rocket is now just a poor semi-finished product.

Karl was already impatient. After all, time was precious, and it was a great honor for him to be willing to listen to his explanation for so long.

Wouldn't it be better to use this time to go to a banquet and have an in-depth exchange with a few famous ladies?

So Karl waved his hand to signal the other party not to say anything more, and said in a tone of notification:

"Well, tomorrow you can go to the 81st floor of the Woolworth Building to see Mr. Ian De La Rosa, the head of Umbrella North America.

He will be solely responsible for the acquisition of Space X and Tesla on behalf of Umbrella.”

"Acquisition? No, no, no." Musk looked confused.

I just came here to attract investment, how did it turn into an acquisition?

After all, he is a billionaire and still has aspirations. Even though these two companies are about to go bankrupt, he still doesn't want to give up control easily.

"I will offer a price that cannot be refused and will absolutely satisfy Mr. Musk."

Carl frowned and added, in case Musk wanted to stay.

"Okay, sorry to bother you, see you sometime, Mr. Karl!"

Seeing that Carl was determined to get rid of the people, Musk didn't want to stay any longer. After saying goodbye respectfully, he turned around and left the banquet hall early with mixed feelings.

Seeing the other person's lonely back, Carl sneered in his heart. It's not so easy to get his money. It depends on whether Musk is sensible or not.

Otherwise, Carl wouldn't mind learning from the American tycoons and having himself shot eight times in the back, committing suicide!

(End of this chapter)