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The next day, everyone in the Doom Group was busy.
In order to prepare for the inspection of the big shot coming, the atmosphere in the whole company became tense, and everyone sat upright at their posts.
Early in the morning, reporters were waiting at the company's door to take pictures.
These were the messages Doom deliberately revealed last night, to maximize the value of this visit.
As time passed, Kevin's convoy slowly came into Victor's sight, and his eyes immediately lit up as he went to greet them.
Inside the car, Kevin looked at the huge convoy and said to Fisk, "There's no need to be so grand. It's too inefficient."
"Mr. White, the public opinion recently has not been very friendly." Fisk said in a low voice.
"You also know that mutants are not very popular. After knowing that you are a mutant, your reputation on the Internet has dropped significantly."
"If we don't do it in a grand manner, we might be attacked by them. Although we are not afraid, it is not very decent."
Kevin thought thoughtfully, "Is that so? Then why is the Doom Group willing to publicize my visit so generously? Aren't they afraid of a drop in the stock market value?"
"How could that be possible?" Fisk shook his head gently and said, "No one can resist money, and you represent money now. No matter how loud the online shouting is, their company's night trading stocks have started to rise since last night."
Kevin nodded and said nothing more. He got out of the car and saw Doom standing in front of him. He stretched out his right hand and smiled, "Mr. White, welcome to the Doom Group."
"Your purple energy is truly a groundbreaking discovery. I bought a copy of your book that day to study. Unfortunately, I didn't have the chance to attend the book signing event that day. I hope you can sign an autograph for me before you leave." Doom acted like a fanatical fan of Kevin at this moment.
"Oh!" Kevin stretched out his hand and shook hands gently with the other party.
"Would you like to visit the various departments of our company? In order to keep up with the trend of this new energy, our company has invested a huge amount of money in research and development in the genetic research and development department."
"No need. I should have told you yesterday that I came here just to learn about the content of the Cosmic Storm project. I'm not interested in anything else."Kevin went straight to the point.
"The thing I'm most worried about has finally happened." Victor sighed inwardly, then without showing any expression on his face, he nodded and smiled, "Of course no problem, please follow me, all the research materials are stored on the seventh floor."
Under the leadership of Victor, Kevin and Fisk, together with many of their men behind them, walked towards the building.
Passing by the employees sitting upright downstairs, several people entered the elevator and headed to the seventh floor.
After arriving on the seventh floor, Victor waved his hand, and the three-dimensional projection prepared in advance unfolded in front of Kevin.
"The entire experimental project is based on the cosmic particle storm in a few weeks. We only need to keep the space station in the established orbit to obtain research data. By then..."
Victor described everything to Kevin bit by bit according to what Reed had given him and never mentioned his previous decision to close the project.
After Doom finished describing the situation, Kevin waved his hand and said, "Okay, I don't care about this. I want to meet the person who could execute this plan."
"Yes, yes, yes." Victor nodded and gave the order. Not long after, two men and one woman stood in front of Kevin.
Kevin looked at the three people in front of him. These should be the future Fantastic Four but why is one missing?
While he was looking at them, the three were also looking at him in return. Looking at this young and handsome boy, they could not connect him with the inventor of purple energy.
"Mr. White, let me introduce you. This is Susan Storm, the genetic director of our company. This is Johnny... and finally me. I will also take the space station to collect data."
After Victor finished introducing everyone with a smile, Kevin frowned and asked, "I remember there was a scientist named Reed who first proposed this plan. Where is he now?"
"Oh, you are really well-informed. In fact, Dr. Reed just lost contact with us yesterday, and now no one can find him." Victor said with regret.
"Lost contact yesterday?"
Kevin wondered how this could be such a coincidence. Originally, he had come here to ask Reed to research a machine suitable for exercise for him.
After all, he had no doubt about Mr. Fantastic scientific research and trouble-making abilities in the Marvel world.
As a result, he just arrived, and the person disappeared.
"Yes, it's really unfortunate, but our project is already very complete, and we can carry it out normally even without him," Victor assured.
"Okay." Kevin nodded and said, "But I have always been very interested in going to space."
"So, what you mean is." Victor thought of something, and a look of excitement appeared on his face.
"I want to join the space station, is there a problem?" Kevin smiled faintly.
"Of course not. We can do it anytime you want." Victor said excitedly, feeling that the matter was settled.
"As for the candidates, can I choose?" he asked.
"Candidates? How many people do you want to add to the space team?"
"No, it's just replacing a few people." Kevin corrected, pointing at Victor, "You and Ben Grimm, you two don't have to go to space."
"Ah!" Several people at the scene were immediately shocked. They did not expect Kevin to interfere in the personnel selection.
Reed's departure had reduced the number of people who could go to space to four, and now two more have been removed.
But only Kevin himself knew that Ben would turn into a stone man and lose his wife after going to space, and Victor would become Doctor Doom because of this incident, so out of the idea of doing good things, it would be better for him not to go up at the beginning.
"I understand." Just as the others were stunned, Kingpin and Victor suddenly understood.
After his order, only Susan and her brother were left. The meaning was too obvious.
Fisk glanced at Kevin subconsciously. At the age of 18, it was normal for him to have excessive feelings for beautiful women.
He was so busy showing his worth that he forgot that Kevin was also a teenager. Maybe he was trapped by a beauty, and he would make up for it later.
Victor was in a deep struggle. You know, Susan was his long-cherished fiancée, so how could he give her to someone else so easily? Even if Kevin was rich, he couldn't...
"By the way, since you have joined this plan, I will invest as well. I will first invest 3 billion to test the project's success. You can allocate all the money, and you can add more later if it is not enough." Kevin said casually, and the number he mentioned was directly three times the total investment of the entire project.
"Of course, no problem. I wish you a happy time at the space station." Upon hearing that he would pay extra money, Victor, who had been hesitating before, agreed immediately and happily shook Kevin's hand.
The knowing expression on the other person's face made Kevin stunned for a moment, wondering if he had misunderstood what he meant.