A month later, on the top floor of Noah Group, in the chairman's office, Li Yue sat on the sofa, calmly looking at the middle-aged man in front of him, listening to his report.
"Chairman, the company's integration is now on the right track. In terms of online business, the portal website has been sold to Google as per your request, and for the remaining game development, a large number of employees have been recruited as per your request."
A capable and thin middle-aged man in a black suit stood in front of Li Yue, diligently reporting on the work.
This was Lawrence Carmanda, the Vice President of Noah Group, responsible for handling various large and small business matters of the company. He was a veteran who had worked in the group for nearly ten years and was a talent promoted by the parents of this body.
Because of this, Li Yue also trusted him. Of course, this trust was established after confirmation through hypnosis.
"In terms of industry, the group's main businesses are the research and manufacturing of new alloys, civil engineering machinery, large transport machinery design, and aerospace military agency!"
"As per the Chairman's instructions, over the past month, the game development department has recruited seventeen software engineers and nearly a hundred employees, just waiting for your research orders, Chairman."
"In addition, as per the Chairman's request, we have been extensively acquiring the remaining shares of Noah Group scattered on the market. In one month, we have acquired about 9.7%. For the rest, due to our large-scale acquisition causing a significant increase in stock prices, shareholders are unwilling to sell. If we want to acquire them, it will take more time!"
"This way, my shares have increased by about another ten percent. Unfortunately, the delisting plan requires too much preparation time, otherwise, it wouldn't be so troublesome!"
Li Yue sighed. In fact, what he wanted more was to delist, which meant withdrawing from the stock market and turning Noah Group back into a private company from a listed one.
However, this plan required too much time and preparation, which didn't align with Li Yue's interests, so after thinking it over, he gave up on it.
"Yes, well done. However, the game business will be our major focus in the future. Seventeen software engineers are still too few; at least a hundred are needed to launch subsequent projects. So, continue recruiting people! Once you've recruited enough, I'll tell you the specific research!"
"Yes, Chairman!"
Lawrence nodded. Although he didn't know exactly what this young chairman wanted to research, he didn't say much. Through the news reports this month, he was already well aware of the terrifying hidden methods of this young man.
In one month, the police came four or five times, and the purpose of each visit was simple: to investigate the cause and clues of death.
And the people who died were all former shareholders of Noah Group.
All five former shareholders, not one less, died.
Among them, one committed suicide by jumping off a building. One died in a car accident after running a red light. Of the remaining three, one died in a gang fight, one fell to his death while climbing, and the last one had the worst fate, soaking in seawater for over ten days until his body was so decomposed it was unrecognizable before being discovered.
These five people died one after another within a month, and all died in accidents.
However, no one believed these were accidents. Everyone suspected that this matter was related to Noah Group, especially the new chairman of Noah Group, this young man who held 75% of Noah Group's shares—no, now he held 85% of the shares.
But suspicion is just suspicion; without evidence, even the President has no right to arrest someone!
"Alright, you can go now. Gaming will be the group's new key project. If necessary, even the industrial department will need to shift resources! Remember to recruit enough personnel as quickly as possible."
"Yes, Chairman!"
Lawrence nodded and then left the office.
"Sigh!"
Only after Lawrence left did Li Yue sigh.
"These police are really troublesome.
Even though they have no evidence, they keep coming here to cause me trouble. Fortunately, Noah Group is not a large company yet and hasn't attracted national attention, otherwise, it would be troublesome!"
Li Yue frowned slightly. Although his hypnosis was flawless, being constantly watched by a group of cops made it difficult to do anything, which was too inconvenient.
"Just wait a bit. After a few months, when this matter fades, I will have enough time to complete my plan!"
From the day he took control of Noah Group, Li Yue had his own ambitions. He wanted to develop Noah Group into one of the top giants in the United States. Only by doing so could he have enough capital and energy in the future to firmly establish himself and not fear the schemes of those with ulterior motives.
Achieving this would be difficult, but Li Yue already had an idea, which was gaming.
Yes, gaming, but not ordinary games, but virtual games.
In the Marvel world, virtual reality technology is not a particularly advanced technology. Whether it's the virtual combat training area in the mutant X-Mansion or the virtual research labs in some powerful research institutes, such technology exists.
However, these technologies are for private use, expensive to build, and cannot be popularized.
Li Yue's idea was simple: to civilianize and popularize such technology, and the easiest way was to turn it into a virtual game, like the virtual online games in novels, made into helmets or game pods, allowing human consciousness to connect to the game for playing.
Achieving this requires very powerful technology, from human neural networks to consciousness linking technology, none of which can be missing. These technologies are not lacking in Marvel, they just haven't been made available to the public yet. Noah Company doesn't have such technology, and neither does Li Yue.
But the system does!
Such technology is not difficult for the system. Li Yue had asked before, and the system possesses such technology, and there are many types. However, materializing such technology requires a considerable amount of energy and can only be rewarded to Li Yue after he completes the tasks assigned by the system and obtains enough energy.
Li Yue wanted this technology, and the system agreed. He just had to wait for the task to arrive.
"Now, I just have to wait for the system to issue the task. Once it's completed, I can get it!"
"Once I get it, I'll have the game department develop it, and the industrial department manufacture the helmets and game pods. With both approaches, in one or two years, Noah Group can become a new generation of giant enterprises!"
"By then, even if someone covets it, I will have enough strength to stand firm in this world."
Li Yue thought to himself, picking up a glass of red wine and slowly sipping it, looking at the New York City outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and falling into deep thought for a moment.
...
The sky gradually darkened. New York, Times Square!
Times Square, located in the heart of Broadway and the New York Theater District, is also a bustling entertainment and shopping center, hence it is very prosperous, with people coming and going.
But tonight, this bustling place welcomed a special guest.
In the sea of people, a person wearing a black hoodie walked with his head down. He looked so out of place, walking awkwardly as if struggling, while his head kept turning as if searching for something.
Looking closely, one could see a strange face hidden under the black hoodie, translucent skin with prominent blue veins, and a bluish glow on his face, looking somewhat grotesque and eerie. One could tell at a glance that this was not a normal human being.
Suddenly, his gaze fixed, and he pushed through the crowd, rushing towards his target in his mind, which was the core point of the underground power grid laid by Oscorp.
The strange man suddenly knelt on the ground, forcefully lifted the protective net with his hands, and eagerly reached out to tightly grasp the cables.
"Ah—"
The strange man held the cables, and streaks of electric light burst from his palms. His body trembled, and he roared with exhilaration. As he roared, the surrounding crowd saw this abnormal scene and scattered in panic.
...
At this moment, Li Yue was still in the top floor office of Noah Group, handling the day's documents.
Suddenly, the system's voice sounded in his mind.
"Host, a new task has been generated."
"Hmm?" Li Yue suddenly put down the documents in his hand, looked up, and said with a look of pleasant surprise, "What task?"
"Ding, Task: Save Electro!"
"Task Content: Max Dillon, an electrical engineer at Oscorp Industries, has always been overlooked and ostracized by his colleagues. During a circuit repair, he accidentally suffered an accident, mutating into Electro. At this moment, he is facing a turning point in his life in New York's Times Square!"
"Task Requirement: Save Electro, Max, and subdue him to avoid his inevitable death."
"Task Reward: A set of 27th-century virtual gaming technology!"
"Max Dillon? That extremely insecure unlucky guy from 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'?" Li Yue raised an eyebrow. "Subdue him? It seems... it's not that simple. This guy's ability is quite strong, and he's easily provoked. It seems it's time to use my Mouth Jutsu!"
Smiling, Li Yue checked the time. It was already past seven in the evening. Although Noah Group was not far from Times Square, it would still take a few minutes to get there. He wondered if that time would be enough!
After all, in his impression, it seemed that shortly after Max was discovered, he was shot by the police and also provoked by Spider-Man, completely turning from a Spider-Man admirer into a hater.
A typical case of turning from a fan to an anti-fan.
"System, how much time do I have!"
"Ten minutes. The host must reach Times Square within ten minutes, otherwise, the probability of completing the task will be greatly reduced!"
"Oh, ten minutes, that should be enough." Nodding, Li Yue packed his things, put on his coat, and headed out the door.
"This task looks quite simple. I wonder how much source energy you can gain, System?" Li Yue asked as he hurried towards the parking garage downstairs.
"According to the system's simulation, saving Electro and allowing this former villain to survive will not cause a significant fluctuation in the world's source energy. It can steal about five hundred to seven hundred points of source energy. After all, Electro is not a major villain, so the effect is average!" the system replied.
"Five hundred to seven hundred points of energy? Is that enough to materialize the virtual technology?" Li Yue asked.
"Sufficient. Materializing this technology requires spending one hundred points of energy stolen from other dimensional spaces, and the remaining energy will be used for the system's energy reserves to allow the system to evolve as soon as possible!"
"Evolution, huh? I wonder how much source energy that will require!" Li Yue muttered to himself as he arrived at the parking garage, opened the car door, and started his white Chevrolet.
"To evolve to the next step, the system requires one million points of source energy, which is about one-millionth of the Marvel world's total source energy! I hope the host works hard!"
"Fuc*k, a million? I'd better focus on the present first!"
Li Yue cursed with a laugh, got in the car, and drove straight towards Times Square.
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