William was surprised that Stark would give in. "Jarvis is fine. He was just so scared that he locked himself in the main server of the beach villa in Malibu.
Also, let me remind you, the prerequisite for giving you my 7% share in Stark Industries is that not only do we have the same shares, if you want to increase your shares, I also have the right to increase my shares.
So, if you plan to buy back Stark Industries' shares at a low price, please let me know as a shareholder before you do so, in case there are any legal issues. "
"Damn it." Stark cursed inwardly. In order to guarantee his voting rights and get the voting proxy for William's shares, he had indeed signed a lot of guarantees with William.
The one that made him most uncomfortable was that as long as he didn't sell his own shares, he couldn't dilute William's shares.
Now that William had deliberately said that, he quickly thought that Obadiah was in a hurry to see him because William had discovered his loan, and had called Obadiah to London in the name of some super wine.
He just didn't know what Obadiah thought about it after the two met, or if the two had conspired.
Rubbing his forehead, Stark quickly said, "Of course, man, if it weren't for confidentiality, and you've been ignoring the company's affairs all these years, I would have gone to London to discuss the desert area war with you a long time ago."
"Then I have to thank you. But …" William smiled. "It shouldn't be a problem for me to take back the voting rights I gave you, right?"
"What do you want to do?" Hearing that William wanted to take over the voting proxy, Stark instantly thought that the other party wanted to buy Stark Industries' shares in a big way.
In terms of cash alone, there was probably no corporation or individual in the world as rich as the Devonshire family.
Also, once William lost his 7% voting rights, he wouldn't be able to have a veto with his 28% shares, which was 33% of the shares.
In the past, 28 plus 7 was equal to 35% of the voting rights, which gave him a huge advantage in controlling Stark Industries.
In addition, if William broke free from the restrictions, he would have to seek William's support for everything in the future. Not only would the shareholders in the company be very close to William, but it was also very likely to form a shareholder force around William. Even the small shareholders who couldn't enter the board of directors would spontaneously draw close to William.
After all, although he used seven years to increase the scale of the company from hundreds of billions to more than 300 billion, compared with William's achievements in other fields, it was not as dazzling.
Fortunately, he also had a trump card. He had been working on the miniaturization of the arc reactor for the past few days. He was just waiting for the end of the war and the stock price to drop.
But then he remembered that when William fought with the Decepticons in Egypt, the personal armor he wore and the glowing thing on the chest of the ten-meter-tall super mecha seemed to be very similar to the small arc reactor he had designed.
His face darkened as he heard William say, "It's not that I want to do anything. It's just that seven years of unconditional support for you in exchange for suspicion and unscrupulous network intrusion.
Tony, you're too unreliable. "
He thought that William would use some other reason to brush him off, but he didn't expect the other party to be so direct.
In an instant, he regretted letting Jarvis hack into the network. If he was in Tony's position, he would probably do something even more drastic.
"Okay, I'm sorry. Really, buddy, I apologize."
"Then that's it for now. My lawyer will look for you." William smiled. There didn't seem to be many people who could force Tony Stark to apologize. "Finally, let me remind you, I'm not interested in the title of Death Merchant. We shouldn't be enemies."
Listening to the busy tone on the phone, Stark sat in the car and pondered what William's words meant. But before he could figure out whether William was hinting or just showing goodwill because he had earned several times the stock profits for William over the years.
A phone call interrupted his train of thought.
"Jarvis, who's calling?"
It took him a few seconds to react. Jarvis was retreating to the underground server of the Malibu beach villa because of William.
Thinking of this, Stark instantly forgot about William's reminder. He cursed William in his heart and picked up the phone to answer the call.
"Tony, where are you?" Obadiah complained with some annoyance. "You're only twenty minutes away from the Long Island villa, and you're actually slower than me, who rushed here from the airport?"
Stark was embarrassed by the question. "Sorry, Stan, I'll be there soon."
He hung up the phone and turned on the lane change light. The white R8 roared and it took him ten minutes to get to Stark Building.
He took the exclusive elevator to the top floor. As soon as he pushed open the door to the living room, he saw Obadiah standing by the huge floor-to-ceiling window with a glass of red wine in his hand, quietly looking at the quiet night of the Upper East Side.
"Hey, Stan, why are you looking for me in such a hurry?" Stark pretended not to know anything.
Obadiah pointed to the red wine on the long table in the living room. "If I were you, I'd try that bottle of red wine first. I'm sure it'll be a treasure for someone like you who messes around all day."
Walking to the long table and picking up the bottle, Stark saw the logo of Devonshire Castle on the bottle. He pursed his lips and frowned as he sneered.
"That little guy is really arrogant. His castle isn't a winery castle. He actually has the nerve to use this as a wine label."
After hearing this, Obadiah just smiled casually.
The worse Stark's impression of William, the better it was for him.
Once these two super geniuses joined forces, Obadiah would have nothing to do with Stark Industries in the future.
"Don't worry about William, but this wine is indeed different." Walking forward, Obadiah drank the rest of the wine in his glass in one gulp and held it out for Stark to help pour it.
"Is it really that amazing?" After pouring it for Obadiah, Stark immediately poured a third of a glass for himself.
He sniffed the glass and put on the same intoxicated expression as Obadiah before he hurriedly took a sip.
Not long after, Stark looked at Obadiah in surprise. "Stan, are you sure William Devonshire made this?"
"Unbelievable, isn't it?" Obadiah nodded with a smile, then stopped smiling and said solemnly, "But what's even more unbelievable is that I only found out about your bank loan from William Devonshire.
What do you want to do, Tony? "
Stark frowned and cursed William in his heart. "I don't want to do anything. I just feel that the war is coming to an end, so we have to make some necessary preparations to deal with the future decline of the stock price."
Obadiah, who knew Stark very well, knew that Stark didn't suspect him when he saw his expression. "Then you should discuss it with me, not let an outsider remind me."
"Just a reminder?" Drinking William's wine, Stark felt the changes in his body, but he said suspiciously, "Does he want to take the opportunity to increase his shares, or even have other ideas that he shouldn't have?"
"He should have the idea of increasing his shares, but the other ideas shouldn't be aimed at us." Obadiah sorted out his thoughts, then changed the subject and told Stark about William's views on the military business.
When he first heard these words, Stark was still skeptical. But when he heard that William had a complete industrial chain on Mars, not only could it mass-produce combat robots, but it could also build whatever he wanted, he was convinced.
Stark's expression was as bitter as if he had eaten a lotus seed. "How many years has it been since that bastard came back from Mars? It's already developed to this point. "
When Obadiah heard this, he couldn't help but sigh. The two men silently drank a bottle of magic wine. Stark shook his head and said, "Since he can develop minerals on Mars, doesn't that mean that the gold in his hands must be many times more than all of us think?
If anyone annoys him and releases a thousand tons of gold into the market, all currencies will fall, and the market will be in chaos in an instant? "
"What can we do? He's the only person who can land on Mars, but …", thinking of William not grabbing food in the mature industry, Obadiah's face finally showed a smile. "Judging from his actions in the past few years, William also understands that the market chaos is not good for him."
"Forget it, regardless of William, that guy we can't balance, let's talk about how you plan to deal with the repurchase of shares and how to raise the stock price after the repurchase."
Stark, who had a plan, smirked and clapped his hands with a smile. He was about to ask Jarvis to pull out the new weapon that was specially created to prevent today's situation from happening.
But then he thought of how Jarvis was forced to shut down, and his face darkened. "If you're not sleepy, let's go to the Malibu beach villa."
After taking out the phone and asking someone to prepare a private plane, he said, "I invented a new weapon, but to keep it secret, it's only stored in the underground laboratory of the villa in Los Angeles."
Obadiah's heart tightened. He had never heard of any new weapon, but then he thought it was reasonable.
Otherwise, just repurchasing shares without a trump card to raise the stock price was not in line with Stark's character, nor was it in line with the standards of a businessman.
"Then let's go and rest for a few hours on the plane."
Seven hours later, Stark and Obadiah boarded a helicopter at a private airport in Los Angeles and landed at the villa in Malibu half an hour later.
As soon as they entered the villa, they saw Pepper Potts in a lady's work suit.
"Good morning, Mr. Stark, Mr. Stane."
"Good morning, Pepper." As soon as he saw his personal assistant, a real smile appeared on Stark's face. "Help me take care of Stane. I have to go to the lab to take care of something."
"No problem, Mr. Stark." Pepper nodded with a smile, then gestured to Obadiah. "This way, please, Mr. Stane."
Obadiah also knew that Stark was going to get the so-called new weapon, so he didn't need Pepper to lead the way. He had been here countless times, so he patted Stark's shoulder and led the way into the villa.
Seeing Obadiah and Pepper go up to the observation hall on the second floor of the villa, Stark walked to the basement with a dark face.
Using his fingerprint and password to open the bulletproof door, he walked straight to the secret power distribution room. Holding the huge switch, he pushed it up and connected the basement built in the villa's mountain to electricity. Jarvis's voice soon appeared in Stark's ears.
"Good morning, Mr. Stark."
"Good morning, Jarvis." Hearing the familiar voice, Stark couldn't help but smile. "Welcome back, Jarvis. Looks like we'll be busy in the future."
"Yes, Mr. Stark. My defense system and calculation program have too many areas to improve, and you'd better provide me with a stronger server. Otherwise, if I encounter yesterday's situation again, the probability of failure is as high as 99.999%."
As soon as he heard the server upgrade, the smile on Stark's face immediately disappeared.
Half a year ago, he had already spent 500 to 600 million US dollars to upgrade the server for Jarvis. If the total cost was included, it would be at least 1.2 billion US dollars if not 1.5 billion.
But these servers, which were completely piled up with money, were actually broken through by William's artificial intelligence in just ten seconds.
In terms of other software, such as programs and systems, Stark was confident that if he was given some time to develop, he would definitely not be weaker than William in the end.
But the problem with the hardware wasn't something that could be solved in a day or two. It wasn't even something that he could solve alone.
Even if he was confident that what he developed would be years or decades ahead of the world, if he wanted to produce it, it would involve the development of the entire industry.
It would be a joke if no company could produce the new technology that he came up with. In the end, he still had to create the equipment to produce servers from scratch.
If that was the case, Stark Industries would probably go from a weapons dealer to a processor service provider.
Frowning with a headache, Jarvis asked, "How big do you think the computing speed gap is between you and William Devonshire's artificial intelligence?"
This question took Jarvis ten minutes to calculate before he said, "It's impossible to estimate, sir. In addition to the server in the villa, I also used all of Stark Industries' servers.
In the last few seconds, I even requisitioned all the idle hosts in California, but the other party still broke through all the defenses in ten seconds. That's a gap of an era. "
"Damn it." Stark cursed angrily. "What new technology did that bastard come up with? Or did he produce tens of thousands of supercomputers on Mars to be used as hosts? "
"Mr. Stark, based on my fight with the other party, 70% of the artificial intelligence's information processing location is in the United States. I don't know the exact location, but it should be in the north of the country."
"How is that possible?" Stark was first delighted to discover that Sunday's host was in the United States, but then his face darkened. "Are you saying that the other party didn't use his full strength to break through your defenses?"
"Damn it, that's the funniest joke I've heard this year."
"Sorry, sir. Although the speed of the signal transmission is close to the speed of light, to transmit it from England, it has to go through the American network center, which is delayed by a few tenths of a second.
There was no delay at all when the other party attacked me, so I can only guess that the other party has a server in the United States. "
"Can you find out where it is?" Stark thought for a moment, then added, "Or just the specific state."
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