Tony Stark's words were indeed a little surprising, because everyone had almost tacitly agreed that he was the sponsor of this organization. After all, the Illuminati was established under his call!
"Please! You can't look at me like that. Just the Venus project will probably cost me a few billion dollars. Not to mention the follow-up expenses. Because of the new energy, Pei Bo and I were already very unhappy. "Tony patted his head as he spoke.
"If I spend such a large sum of money without her consent and can't explain where I'm going, she'll definitely resign. She is very important to me! "
Well, is this Tony's confession to Pei Bo? But unfortunately, the heroine was not here. He really valued Pei Bo.
Captain Rogers patted Tony on the shoulder and said seriously, "That makes sense, this money shouldn't be paid by you alone. My salary at S.H.E.L.D. is about 400,000 dollars a year. After deducting living expenses, I can donate it all. Also, I recently signed a copyright contract with a comic company. If there are royalties, I can also donate them. "
Well, Captain Rogers suddenly became very noble. But obviously, this money was not enough to cover the expenses of this plan. So, Tony shook his head, "Captain, unless you can end the legal case with the military and let them compensate you for your losses over the years, it is estimated to be more than 30 billion dollars. If we have this money, it will be enough for us. "
"But I have already stated before that whether I win the lawsuit or not, the compensation will be used for charity." It seemed that Captain Rogers really had no intention of fighting against the military compensation.
"If the Venus base is launched, the minerals should be self-sufficient. There should even be a certain amount of wealth, which should be able to make up for this in the future. If necessary, we can even extract the core of Venus and extract gold from the core? "Li Jie thought of his own ideas. Tony agreed with Li Jie's words.
"Yes, you are right. When the Venus base is officially launched, it will indeed be so. However, that was in the future. Moreover, if a large number of minerals from Venus hit Earth, Earth's resource industry would collapse. Perhaps millions of people would lose their jobs. That's not what we wanted to see. Therefore, to a large extent, the minerals on Venus can only meet our own needs and can't be exchanged for resources on Earth. "Tony also rejected this idea.
"Although Venus can indeed be self-sufficient in the later stages of the plan, before that happens, the Venus Federation must be able to survive. We still need a large upfront investment. This amount of money is an astronomical figure, as you all know. "
Li Jie looked at Tony gloomily. Where did the originally forthright tycoon Iron Man go? Why are you so stingy now? Just for a few billion USD?
Hmm? Tens of billions of USD is called "just"? Probably someone is not very sensitive to money.
"Are you going to join some other rich superheroes? Just like Nightingale from the comics, a nouveau riche would join the Illuminati? "Li Jie could only place his thoughts in this direction.
Otherwise, there is no way to solve this problem. Li Jie glanced at Charles as he spoke. It seems that the professor is also a rich man. It can be seen from the fact that the Xavier School for Gifted and Talented was actually rebuilt from his ancestral home.
"Of course not." Tony waved his hand and denied Li Jie's conjecture. "I don't have a good candidate who can directly pay to help us solve our current predicament. You know, what we are going to do can't be leaked. I can't just pull a person in before determining a person's true character. "
Li Jie was considering whether to pull Harry in, but after listening to Tony, he dispelled his idea. At the same time, after careful consideration, it was not appropriate for Harry to come in.
After all, Oscorp was also a company, not Harry's words. Large-scale capital flows were likely to cause Harry to stumble. Therefore, he decided to just think about it.
Captain Rogers, who watched all this silently, sighed in his heart. Why is the current scene so familiar? Ah! It seemed that Hawkeye owed Deadpool a million yuan at the time. Everyone was worried about such a sum of money.
He had now joined the Illuminati, and there was a world-class rich man here, but he would still be troubled by money. Captain Rogers understood in an instant what it meant to be a hero without a penny.
Only Charles and Hank were left on the scene without expressing their views. Everyone was waiting to see what they had to say.
Hank pushed his black-rimmed glasses and said, "In fact, Charles was a very rich man before, and his family has accumulated wealth for him for hundreds of years!"
Oh oh oh! Here it comes! Sure enough, this quiet big bald man is the real invisible rich man! Li Jie suddenly became interested.
"But." Hank pushed his black-rimmed glasses again and said, "Over the years, in order to maintain the expenses of the Mutants School, Charles has spent almost all of his savings. The Mutants School is almost a welfare school. Even if the students can't afford the tuition, Charles will call them in. "
Ha! After talking for a long time, Charles is now also a pauper? The others present were a little disappointed. Everyone thought that Charles could come up with a huge fortune.
"Yes, this school has spent almost all of my savings over the years. In the last two years, the expenses have been relying on me and Hank to sell patents to get funds to maintain the study. "Charles also said helplessly.
"Patent? What patent? "Tony was interested when he heard about patents. He knew the scientific research abilities of Hank and Charles. In the 1960s, they were able to create the first generation of the invisible force field. The technology patents of this kind of technology may help everyone out of the current predicament.
"It's mainly some civilian technology. For example, adding some mechanical fluids to the internal combustion engine to achieve a more full combustion effect. Hank's words instantly lost Tony's interest. "That's right," Hank's words instantly made Tony lose interest.
These patents could indeed make money, but at the same time, they were also easy to circumvent. If they were licensed at a low price, they really wouldn't make much money. In fact, it was right to think about it.
Charles' Mutants School had always been the focus of the US government. If you really came up with some black technology for weapons of mass destruction, or something similar, the US government would have exploded long ago.
Hank didn't seem to notice Tony's expression and continued, "When the Osborne Group released their limb regeneration medical plan, I also had some ideas because Wolverine has a strong self-healing ability. I tried to extract the X gene in his body, wanting to create a medicine that can quickly heal wounds. Although it is unlikely to regenerate limbs, it has the ability to instantly recover a large number of traumatic injuries! "
Hank's words instantly attracted everyone's attention. If Hank's experiment was really successful, and drugs that could quickly heal trauma really existed, this would be an incredible invention.
Think about those fatal wounds. It was not uncommon for the injured to die because of bleeding from the trauma on the way to the hospital. If this medicine really existed, it would completely change the status quo of trauma treatment!
"So what's the result, Doctor?" Li Jie was curious about the final research results of Hank. In fact, everyone was very curious.
"Well, it can only be said to be half successful." Hank said this and shook his head. "The rapid trauma healing medicine has side effects. It is like the Osborne Group's limb regeneration program, which relies on cell division to recover wounds. We know that human cells have a limit on the number of division. A large number of cell divisions will reduce human life span. "
"Moreover, the limb regeneration program also has a combination of injections that can repair cells. My medicine can't concentrate everything in one emergency medical kit. "Hank said as he shook his head.
"So, unless the body is strong enough to be like Captain Rogers, it is very dangerous for the average person to use this kind of rapid healing medicine. It is very likely that they will die immediately." Well, killing or saving people, it was not clear.
"I tried to reduce the proportion of the medicine in the medicine, wanting to make the medicine more gentle. When I eliminated the terrible side effects, the entire medicine's medicinal properties were almost eliminated."
"So, how much medicinal properties are there? If the medicine's efficacy is better than Yunnan Baiyao, then in fact, this is also a very useful and commercial medicine. " Li Jie thought that as long as this medicine still had some medicinal properties, even if it was not that strong, it would still be profitable and help the organization make some money.
"Er …" Hank looked a little embarrassed. "In fact, after all the side effects have been eliminated, the medicine's efficacy is very poor. In fact, it can no longer heal wounds. "
Hearing Hank say this, Li Jie and the others felt a little disappointed. Perhaps Hank did not want to appear incompetent, as if he did not do anything. So he quickly said, "In fact, there are still some uses, such as rapid regeneration of damaged hair. I believe that if we continue to study it, there should be a breakthrough. "
Listening to Hank's words, Tony was a little disappointed, but he did not show it. "Well, doctor, we can do this research together. We can do this research together. Although I'm not very good in the field of biology, but … "Before Tony could finish, Li Jie suddenly interrupted him.
"Wait!" Li Jie touched his chin and suddenly said, "Doctor, you just said that you want the medicine to be effective, what is left?"
"Only the rapid growth of hair. Why? "Dr. Hank looked at Li Jie strangely.
Clap, clap, clap! Li Jie suddenly clapped his hands, looking very excited. Everyone else looked at him in confusion. What was there to be happy about?
After a while, Li Jie recovered. Looking at the puzzled eyes of the other four people, he suddenly understood. Yes, these four people's positions might be too high, so high that they did not pay much attention to the lives of ordinary people. Maybe some things were actually their blind spots, so they did not think of what he was thinking!
Thinking of this, Li Jie could not help but laugh. He cleared his throat. "Everyone, everyone, please listen to me!" Please listen to me! "Li Jie attracted everyone's attention.
"Do you know how much food aid the United Nations and other countries in the world is worth in a year to Africa?" Li Jie suddenly said as if he had suddenly said something completely unrelated.
"About 15 billion US dollars, if you are talking about pure food and not other material support," Tony Stark answered Li Jie's question. He raised his eyebrows. He did not quite understand why Li Jie suddenly said this.
"Then do you know how much people in the world spend in treating hair loss in a year?" Li Jie said with a smile, "More than 20 billion US dollars!"
"In this world, people's pursuit of beauty is endless! In the age of the Great Voyage, in order to achieve a slim waist, the noblewomen in Paris invented a kind of shapewear that could be called a torture device! "Li Jie said energetically.
"Plastic surgery hospitals in Korea, cosmetics in the East Ocean! A bottle of SK2 cosmetics can sell for hundreds or even thousands of US dollars, but how much does it cost? These products bring a huge profit of tens of billions of US dollars to their country every year! "Li Jie raised a finger and said seriously. The others already had a rough idea of what Li Jie was trying to express.
"And hair loss, especially baldness in middle-aged men, is a global problem! So far, other than wigs and hair transplants, there is no better way to do it. You have to believe how desperate those middle-aged baldness people are! "
"Tony Stark, can you imagine how you will look when you start losing your hair and go bald in five years?" Tony thought about Li Jie's description and suddenly felt that if such a body really existed, it would be the end of the world! He was willing to spend billions of US dollars to get his hair back!
"Captain Rogers! If you suddenly start to go bald, can you still stand in front of the world with a smile, showing off your beautiful blue eyes and clean head? " Rogers touched his head subconsciously. If such a day really came, maybe he should always wear a balaclava or a baseball cap.
"For some people, losing their hair is equivalent to losing the world!" Li Jie said, but he suddenly noticed Professor X in front of him. The atmosphere suddenly became very awkward. "Ah, Professor, I'm not talking about you."
Professor Xavier winked at Li Jie and said, "Actually, you're not wrong. When the last strand of my hair left me, I felt that the whole world had abandoned me! Believe me, I've tried wearing wigs, but there was no suitable one for my face shape. "
Xavier's joke was a good way to ease the awkward atmosphere. Li Jie also smiled. He said to Dr. Hank, "So, Dr. Hank! Your research did not actually fail! Instead, you found another correct direction! "
"Do your research in this direction! Find a medicine that is really suitable for controlling hair regrowth! You have to know that for many people in this world, saving baldness is more important than saving the world! "Li Jie patted Dr. Hank on the shoulder.
Well, now the organization's funds were settled!
Yes, the Illuminati not only wanted to save the earth, but also a lot of middle-aged men. Li Jie suddenly felt that they and the others were really doing a great service.
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