Don’t be fooled by the fact that Stark Industries’ California headquarters looks like a market every day these days, with hundreds of thousands of American rednecks crowding together, selling guns and missiles in full swing, and the transaction volume is getting higher day by day.
But they haven't even disposed of a single one of the weapons production lines they put on the market...
The weapons production line was something that individuals and enthusiasts who wanted couldn't afford, while the military-industrial complexes that could afford it banded together to pressure Obama to lower the price to 10% of the cost.
Aren't you Stark Industries going to shut down your weapons division anyway? Why not give us a taste of our own medicine before we do? We've been pissed off by you, Stark, for so many years, and now it's time to get it all out today.
Although the Pentagon's generals and various committees remained noncommittal about Stark Industries' current actions, they would not allow any of their weapons production lines to be exported outside the United States...
So when dealing with the production line, Obaday had a deadlock in negotiations with representatives of other weapons companies.
On the one hand, the money is too little, so there is no need to bear the pain and sell the things.
On the other hand, the buyers are these few anyway, we have formed a united front, it’s up to you to sell or not…
If you don't sell it, it will just gather dust in the warehouse.
Well! ~These people are just talking.
They were also afraid that Stark Industries would go back on its word and suddenly restart the production line. So these companies would definitely buy the production line back...they just wanted to get a lower price.
In order to drive away those shareholders who still had illusions in the company, Obama had to sell these production lines. Otherwise, the company's stock price would not have fallen to the lowest point, and he would not have repurchased as many shares.
However, he was very unhappy with the price, which was less than 10% of the production line cost. So everyone started to get stuck on the price issue on the production line. Now they are in a stalemate that is dragging out time and wearing down each other's patience...
Meanwhile, a wealthy American woman named Lorraine Broughton, a newcomer from Kansas who owned a weapons company with only ten employees and produced less than 1000 firearms annually, became Obaday's savior.
The smaller players on those production lines couldn't afford them, and those who could afford them banded together to undercut him on price. And Obaday had to sell them as quickly as possible, so these production lines had been giving him a lot of trouble these days.
Now Anna's mother Lorraine, who has come to California to shop, looks like a newcomer who wants to enter the military industry market, which provides Obadi with another option.
……
So, Anna was still at the Stark Industries' 'Country Fair', accompanied by her mother Julia, and her two dogs, jumping and picking all the way...
The pistols here look pretty good. I might buy 20 of them and play with them while shooting!
The CZ806 over there is well-made, worthy of Stark Industries' top-notch craftsmanship, and it's only 999! This is really a must-buy and no-buy scam...
Come play it 100 times, I'll go home and play one and throw one away...
Hmm! ~These bullets are on sale! Ten or twenty boxes of each...
I'm rich now!!
Anyway, when the little brat was strolling around the "market" and shopping.
At this time, in the office of Obaday, the president of Stark Industries.
Her mother Lorraine brought a group of lawyers and procurement experts under her command to discuss the procurement of large quantities of inventory weapons and production lines with Obaday and his assistant.
For example, all guns have a starting unit of 537819336 pieces. Individual missiles, drones, and the Freedom series of Jericho missiles, etc., can be purchased if the price is right.
And Ms. Lorraine generously gave the price of the production line...
20% of the cost price...
It is exactly twice the price of those military-industrial enterprises that have already quoted prices.
Just this one bid made the old man aware of their intelligence capabilities.
Ms. Lorraine Broughton came here to shop, of course not because she had too much money and had no place to spend it, or because she had a female shopping addiction or something.
It's just that the number of her younger brothers has expanded a bit in recent years, and the cost of equipment expenditure in the organization has become higher and higher... So in addition to preparing employee benefits for her younger brothers, she also has to try her best to reduce procurement costs here.
Moreover, the production lines she bought are actually used by people. They are not left gathering dust because there are no technicians on the farm.
After seeing the once-in-a-lifetime bargain price of Stark Industries, even the police station with only two official police officers, Chief Lorraine, has begun to consider whether to expand the weapons room to store 1000 rifles after returning.
For example, in today's negotiation with Obaday, Anna's mother Lorraine placed an order with the old man for 20 rifles, 20 pistols, a CZ806 production line, a Glock production line, a drone production line... plus some other miscellaneous items, with a total value of about US$8 million.
For this, Stark Industries, which is divesting its weapons business, generously gave away a case of wine...
There are also 537819336 CZ806 automatic rifles.
……
Of course, Luo Lin's men alone couldn't use up all these weapons. Her family only needed a few thousand people to carry weapons around every day. But she didn't lack channels for exporting...
Moreover, the weapons here are now sold so cheaply that even the cost price cannot be recovered.
Play?
After all, with such a small transaction amount, there is no need for Obaday to come in person to receive guests and participate in the negotiations.
Just send Tony's representative Pepper Potts to sign and it will be done.
After all, there are only two gun production lines and the smallest drone production line in the company. The bulk of what he needs to deal with now are the fighter jet production lines, missile production lines and tank production lines in the company that are directly worth tens of billions of dollars.
The little things Lorraine bought weren't even a fraction of what they cost.
However, the arrival of Ms. Lorraine just happened to break the price alliance among those American arms companies, giving him an extra bargaining chip when negotiating the price of the production line with the representatives of those companies.
He also had a new idea: to find wealthy people in rural America to take over the production line and set up a new company.
So old man Obaday, who is usually very particular about his dealings with others, happily talked to Ms. Lorraine and her group about this small business worth only $8 million.
They also invited the family to attend the annual charity gala held at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in two weeks.
Chapter 027 Tony was my childhood idol!
"Mr. Stark, there have been new changes to the Broughton family's itinerary in Los Angeles that you instructed us to monitor..."
The voice of artificial intelligence Jarvis was heard in Stark's underground laboratory.
"What changes?"
After hearing Jarvis' voice, Tony stopped debugging the Mark II foot armor and asked the artificial intelligence with some curiosity.
"Ms. Lorraine Broughton ordered $8 million worth of military-grade weapons and production lines from Stark Industries. Miss Anna Broughton also spent $20 worth of guns and ammunition at the gun market..."
"And Miss Anna Broughton is now heading towards the Malibu Villa with Miss Potts..."
"..."
Tony was not surprised at all that Lorraine Broughton bought arms and that Anna came to him, because he found out that Ms. Lorraine seemed to be a CIA official in the country, and maybe these weapons were purchased secretly for the CIA.
Anna was a little brat who always wanted to hang out. Now that she was in California, she wouldn't miss the opportunity to mock him for buying dog hair. But if she was with Pepper, Stark would be a little curious.
"How did they meet?" Stark asked Jarvis, because he had never told anyone about the identity of Anna's family. "It seems that the two of them don't know each other..."
"When Miss Anna Broughton visited the company, she asked Mr. Obade to come visit her in the name of Danyang's childhood idol. To fulfill the wishes of the family of the company's new client, Miss Potts brought Miss Anna Broughton here..."
"Oh! Danyang's childhood idol?"
"Then do you know why I'm her idol? It seems like I'm still very important to her..."
When Stark heard that Anna actually considered him her childhood idol, he had to admit he felt a bit proud. After all, even though Anna was just a little kid, she was actually a six-year-old Superman... The satisfaction that a super fan brought him was more useful than the sighs of a million ordinary people.
"According to a Weibo post posted two minutes ago by a company coffee employee, Mr. Stark, you are the childhood idol of Miss Anna Broughton, who slept with the cover girl for eleven months of the year..."
"..."
Now Tony knows why Pepper is with Anna, and the two of them come to the Malibu villa without stopping...
Pepa is now dragging the little brat here to cause trouble for him.
……
Anna and Pepper were riding in a luxury car heading to Malibu. She and Pepper actually met after Lorraine's mother finished her business talk.
At the time, the family of three, along with their two dogs, were touring the office building at Stark Industries headquarters, led by a tour guide and a group of high school students who were participating in the event...
Then when she met Obaday, Anna took advantage of her innate advantage as a 6-year-old and asked old man Obaday to admire her childhood idol.
Stark's assistant Pepper Potts happened to be nearby, so Anna, who was still cosplaying as Wonder Woman, was entrusted to Pepper Potts by her two mothers, and came with her to "worship her idol".
As for the other members of the family, even the two dogs had no interest in meeting Stark, so the two mothers went to the balcony of their home in Los Angeles... no, to the balcony of their hotel... to spend some time alone.
It’s indeed our own hotel…
After six years of swindling and plundering, Lorraine's mother now has investments all over the world. Besides Julia, who manages her household and finances, neither she nor Anna knows exactly how much she has. As for accommodation, Anna only knows that Lorraine owns a chain of hotels in major cities in several countries.
The hotel's name is also easy to remember: XX Continental Hotel. It always has a professional-looking black lobby manager. Mr. Wick feels like he's home every time he checks into a hotel. He's so happy.
For example, the Continental Hotel where they stayed when they came to Los Angeles this time is called the Continental Hotel Los Angeles. It can be said to be a very safe and comfortable place in this city.
that's all.
……
Anna, who was now sitting opposite Pepper, felt a little strange, because ever since they came out of Stark Industries in the car driven by Happy, this guy had been twisting and turning in the seat belt of Stark's luxury car, as if he was uncomfortable and itchy all over.
The assistant, Little Pepper, kept looking at her with strange eyes. However, Anna did not restrain herself under the assistant's speechless gaze and the expression of being unable to say anything. Instead, she twisted her body even more happily.
There was nothing she could do about it. It was simply that her super senses within her Iron Body were too strong...
It was like Bella from Twilight when she first became a vampire. She had her senses at rock bottom, but she could still detect the dust in the air, the smell of months-old perfume in the car, the residue and nail polish stuck in the seat that couldn't be removed even after a car wash... In just one car, she could detect the presence of dozens of different women. A luxury car like RR's was, to her heightened senses, like a bus.
And now she has chosen the cleanest seat in the back row, which is the seat Tony sits every day... There is no trace of other women here, but she doesn't have any special preference for sitting in a seat full of the remains of a big man, right?
And from Anna's observation, there was only one relatively "clean" seat in the entire car, which was the passenger seat next to Happy. There was almost no sign that anyone had sat there.
But when she got in the car, she was curious about the treatment of the boss seat in a luxury car, so she ran to the back... So now she regrets it so much.
You know, usually Anna is always flying around like a BUU-BUU-BUU, not like now, when she has to have such an intimate contact with the remains left in the car. Even sharing a cape with Steve is much better than this feeling.
So Anna, who was feeling extremely awkward all the way in the car, finally calmed down after she put the small shield placed aside under her butt.
Then she asked Pepper, who was looking at her speechlessly and strangely, curiously, "Sister Pepa...how many women has Tony had in this car?"
"Why do I smell so much feminine scent in the car..."
"..."
Bang! ~Sizzle~!
The partition was not closed, and Happy, who heard the little brat's complaints, almost crashed Tony's Rolls-Royce into the roadside telephone pole...
"Ah! The car is parked! ...Just when I need to change seats!"
boom!
After unbuckled her seat belt, Anna took the opportunity to jump out of Tony's luxury car, then jumped open the passenger door and sat next to Happy.
While sitting on it and fastening her seat belt, Anna didn't forget to breathe deeply.
"Huh~~~Finally no woman has sat here..."
Chapter 028: Discovering the truth behind moving to the lakeside cabin~
"I'm never riding in your car again, Happy!"
Little Anna jumped out of the car in front of Tony's Malibu villa, climbed in with her butt sticking out, and reached out to get her little shield and little Vulcan sword, while complaining to the happy driver standing next to the car.
"Because you drive so slowly!"
"It wasn't slow at all, okay? I was driving at 120 kilometers per hour, which is the maximum speed limit on that road." Faced with the little kid's complaints, Happy had a different opinion.
Besides, Happy couldn't bring himself to drive his boss's car with women and children in tow. "And the most important thing about driving is safety..."
Well, it's as if the person who was racing a Rolls-Royce and a dog on the road three months ago was not him.
"Tsk! ...You don't even dare to drive 200 kilometers per hour."
Facing Happy's rebuttal, Anna put on a look of disdain, which made the fat driver of the Stark family grit his teeth and feel the contempt from a 6-year-old girl.
"You didn't even overtake a single car on the road, and you still dare to call yourself the most skilled driver..."
"This is much slower than when I went out to buy soy sauce!"
"..."
--I really want to hit her! ~What should I do?
As they walked into Stark's Malibu villa, Happy was furious and glared at the little brat. Now he finally understood why Stark hadn't had children for so many years...
"Miss Anna Broughton, I don't think anyone can drive faster than you..."
As the three of them walked into the villa, Jarvis's faint voice on the loudspeaker rang out in the hall.
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