In a mysterious research institute somewhere in the United States. Norman Osborn was looking at a report with a frown.
The report was not good news. Instead, it told him that the new energy they had discovered, or to be precise, a special gemstone suitable for being a carrier of new energy, could not be replicated.
At least human science and technology could not be replicated. Some people say that the end of science is theology. As long as the technology is high enough, then people can be no different from God.
This statement does make some sense from a certain point of view.
Just like the gemstone he found by accident, it has abundant energy. It is hard to imagine who can compress that powerful energy into a gemstone. If this gemstone can be replicated on a large scale, maybe new energy will be available.
But unfortunately, this report gave Norman Osborn bad news.
It has been 79 years since Norman Osborn destroyed the last superheroes of his era.
Many things have happened in 79 years, but the biggest change has been for Norman Osborn and the Osborne Group.
That is, Norman Osborn's control of the world has become more and more solid. He holds the world firmly in his hands, like his own toy.
He controls the life and death of the vast majority of people. He controls the economic lifeline of the world. The feeling of power is very good. Norman likes this feeling.
Norman even suspects that he can still maintain a young and vigorous state of life, in addition to the effect of the Infinity Serum, more importantly, the nourishment brought to him by the power.
Norman is obsessed with power and can no longer lose it. Power is probably the most addictive drug in the world. Far more than any other so-called hallucinogen.
As long as you have tasted the taste of power, few people can resist and give up the temptation brought by this taste.
But now, Norman Osborn's power is being challenged. He has to brace himself to deal with it.
This challenge does not come from the resistance organizers such as Spider-man and the American female captain.
For Norman Osborn, these are just minor problems. It wasn't a big deal. If he was willing to use most of his strength to deal with these rebels, then these rebels wouldn't be able to jump around.
However, there was no way for him to mobilize most of his power here.
Because for Norman Osborn, he has more work to do, and that is to study new energy.
The problem of energy was the real thorny problem that he had to face.
If there was no energy in this world, then the world would return to silence. How could there be power in a world where everyone was dead?
Thinking of this, Norman Osborn suddenly hated and loathed Tony Stark.
It was all this guy's fault for being so selfish that he refused to reveal the manufacturing method of the Ark Energy even before he died.
Even if this guy died, he would drag the whole world down with him. What kind of superhero was this? Now, he actually wanted her to clean up his mess.
Was there a mistake? Weren't superheroes supposed to do all these things well? This guy destroyed the world, and it was all Tony Stark's fault! Norman Osborn slammed his fist on the table.
He blamed the fault on Tony Stark. But he forgot who was the one who killed Tony Stark?
Anyway, now that Tony Stark was dead, there was no way to jump out of the grave and confront Norman Osborn on the spot. Who destroyed the world?
Finding a dead person to be the scapegoat was the most suitable choice. In any case, even if Tony Stark was dead, he would have to take the blame for his transmigration to another universe.
In fact, the Osborne Group had also studied a number of new energy projects.
For example, Dr. Octopus had once proposed the concept of studying an artificial sun. But the plan failed in the end, and Dr. Octopus sank to the bottom of the sea with his artificial sun. Along with them sank nearly three billion dollars' worth of funds and equipment that Norman had invested.
After that, the new energy project was unable to make any substantial breakthroughs. Because scientific research, like an artist creating a piece of music, needed inspiration.
Edison once said that genius was 99% sweat and 1% inspiration. If there was no 1% inspiration, the previous 99% of sweat would be meaningless.
This was the case for the new energy project. Without a genius's flash of inspiration, no matter how much research was done, sometimes, it would be useless.
In the past 20 years, Norman Osborn had spent a lot of money on new energy, but the results were few.
Although a lot of progress had been made in wind energy, solar energy, geothermal water, and geothermal energy. However, if they wanted to maintain the huge energy expenditure on Earth, they would still be strapped for cash.
Norman Osborn had also calculated that if he wanted to keep the world running normally and achieve a balance, he would have to do it. Then the number of people in the world should be controlled at about 700 million.
His calculation was a little more than Miquel's calculation by 200 million. But this was not much. For more than 10 billion people in the world, the chance of survival of 200 million more was too little.
The new energy project had been slow to make progress, and the existing energy was being consumed day by day. Everyone knew that the days of shale oil exploitation were not long.
Now that Norman could still control the world, a very important point was that he controlled the exploitation of shale oil. If even the exploitation of shale oil in the world was finished, then his power would probably be unbalanced.
At that time, it would be like the end of the world. Everyone was struggling to survive. Could he still manage most of the world like this? He was afraid that the whole world would be in chaos!
Norman shook his head in his heart. He let out a long sigh and said, "I really don't want to sign this order." With that said, Norman took out a thick document from his desk drawer.
"But today, the earth can no longer accommodate that many people. I have to control the population at about 700 million people. In order to maintain the continuation of human civilization, I have to make such a painful decision. If anyone dies because of this decision, then please don't blame me. "
Norman Osborn looked compassionate. "It's not my fault. If you want to blame someone, blame Tony Stark. His selfishness brought the world to the grave, and I am the savior of the world."
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