Although the cooperation process was full of twists and turns, after repeated acquisitions and rejections, these conglomerates also understood Noah Company's firm stance.
For Noah Company, cooperation was only to promote the virtual game faster; otherwise, there would be no need to do it with other companies.
They themselves had a complete production chain, but doing so would mean delaying the launch of the virtual game "Myth" by another year or even longer.
What Li Yue lacked now was time, so he didn't care about the small profits. Cooperating with other conglomerates to form a huge interest group would undoubtedly be more conducive to survival and allow them to utilize their resources to launch "Myth" faster, enabling Noah Company to develop rapidly in the shortest possible time.
After more than a week of negotiations, finally, Noah Company reached a perfect agreement with five other giants.
The five major giants were the Stark Group, IBM, Osborn Industries, Google, and Microsoft.
They would provide various software and hardware support, build hundreds of production lines for virtual helmets and virtual game pods around the world, and provide and develop all relevant patents, allowing the virtual game project to be launched on a large scale within three months, at least ensuring that everyone in the United States could own a virtual helmet.
It would only take a maximum of one year to promote it to the rest of the world.
What the Noah Group contributed was the sharing of the virtual game platform. The method of sharing was stock exchange.
Li Yue gave up twenty-five percent of his shares, exchanging them with the five major giants, with an exchange ratio of 1:1.
In other words, Li Yue took twenty-five percent from his eighty-five percent stake and exchanged it with the other giants, five percent for each company.
And five percent was just enough to enter the board of directors.
From now on, Li Yue held sixty percent of Noah Company's shares, and also held five percent of the shares in Google, Microsoft, Stark, Osborn, and IBM.
This process, naturally, also involved a lot of negotiation and compromise.
The negotiations were from the Noah Group, and the compromises were from the other five. After all, although Noah Company's market value was far less than theirs now, anyone with a discerning eye could see the future of Noah Company.
Not to mention surpassing them, at the very least, competing with them was only a matter of time.
By that time, even if they wanted to exchange shares with Noah Company, they might not have such an opportunity, so although it seemed like they were at a disadvantage now, they were actually gaining a huge advantage.
The virtual platform, a new industry, an undeveloped industry, its huge profits were enough to make them compromise.
The cooperation was thus settled.
"Three months, in just three months, Noah Company will shock the world!"
Three months later, Li Yue believed that the Noah Group and "Myth" would become the focus of the world.
"Although the shares I now hold are significantly less, Noah Company is still mine to command; I've just shared some profits!"
"But this is even better. Cooperating with other conglomerates to form a huge interest group can not only deter those with ulterior motives but also prevent the US antitrust agreement!"
Once the virtual platform was opened, even if someone wanted to cause trouble and use the antitrust agreement to sue Noah Company, there would be no hope.
"Everything is ready. Now, I can truly stand firm in this dangerous world. At least, on the surface, no one can threaten me!"
...
Three months later!
Boom!
The whole world was shocked!
It was as if a meteorite had crashed onto Earth, making the entire world tremble.
"Have you heard? Noah Company is about to launch a virtual game!
The advertisements are everywhere, the entire United States, Europe, and Asia are covered in their ads!"
"A virtual game! I thought we'd have to wait another ten or even decades for it to be launched. I never expected a company to make virtual technology civilian and mass-producible now. I just don't know how much the virtual helmet and virtual game pod in the advertisement will cost!"
"It shouldn't be expensive, right! If it's too expensive, how will it be promoted, and how will people afford it?"
"I don't know, we have to wait three more days. Only after three days will Noah Company officially hold a new product launch conference, and the prices of the virtual helmet and virtual game pod will be announced there!"
"Yeah, Noah Company, previously unknown, I specifically searched for it on Google this time and found that Noah Company has actually reached a cooperation with Google, Microsoft, IBM, Stark Group, and Osborn Industries. It's hard for Noah Company not to develop rapidly!"
"Another giant enterprise is rising rapidly!"
...
Countless people were discussing and talking about virtual games and Noah Company.
Every day, in every corner of the world, countless "Myth" game advertisements were broadcast everywhere, whether on television, the internet, streets, or even on airplanes, trains, and subways, Noah Company's advertisements could be seen everywhere.
The virtual era had officially arrived!
This technology, which was originally thought to take at least ten more years to develop, had now formed a perfect chain, sweeping across every corner of the world.
On the market, the previously circulating dozen or so shares of Noah Company had been hyped to sky-high prices, but even so, no one was selling.
Everyone knew that the shares of this company were a golden egg. When the virtual game was officially released, they would soar even higher.
And at this moment, on the top floor of Noah Company, in the chairman's office, Li Yue was talking to the company's vice president, Lawrence.
"Lawrence, is the press conference in three days ready?"
"Yes, Chairman, the platform for the press conference has been set up, and all the equipment has been checked more than three times to ensure there are no flaws. Invitation letters to major global companies and news media have been sent out, and they have all responded that they will attend!"
"Okay, very good!" Li Yue leaned on the sofa and nodded to Lawrence, "You go up and explain at the press conference in three days!"
"Ah?"
"What? No confidence?" Li Yue smiled lightly and asked.
"No, no, but, Chairman, you..."
Li Yue waved his hand, "I'll just watch from below. I don't like to show off like Tony Stark. I still hope to live a stable life."
"Lawrence, everything in the company is now on the right track. For the rest, I can rest assured with you here. The press conference in three days is in your hands. I believe you won't disappoint me!"
"Yes, Chairman!"
"Okay, go get busy!"
After Lawrence left with an excited expression, Li Yue finally stood up from the sofa.
"Although technology can change life in this world, the Marvel world is, after all, a world of superheroes. Conventional technology has too little influence on the origin of the Marvel world. After all, not to mention that virtual reality technology has long existed in the Marvel world, even such conventional technology is nothing in this universe!"
"Therefore, unless it's groundbreaking black technology, like creating black holes or something, otherwise, it's impossible to influence the direction of the Marvel world and cause fluctuations in the universe's origin by relying on technology!"
"And there is also super black technology in the system, but materializing it requires too much energy. After all, that kind of technology doesn't conform to the rules of the Marvel world. To take it out, energy must be spent to conceal and deceive the universe's origin, which is simply an astronomical price, too uneconomical."
Li Yue sighed, "For now, I should honestly carry out the system's tasks and complete them to obtain origin!"
"System, check my personal attributes!"
"Ding!"
With a crisp sound, a clear transparent light screen appeared in Li Yue's mind.
"Host: Li Yue
Age: Twenty-one years old
Strength: 13 (10)
Speed: 13 (10)
Constitution: 11 (10)
Spirit: 150 (10)
Special Ability: Illusion Control (Forms an illusion domain, within which mental illusions can be created, controlling the target's mind and five senses. The specific strength changes with the host's spiritual power. The stronger the spirit, the stronger the ability.)
Overall Evaluation: Second Tier!"
Over the past few months, Li Yue's physical fitness hadn't changed much, only a slight improvement.
This was the result of his continuous physical training and ability training over these past few months.
And his evaluation was still Second Tier; it was still too difficult to improve his strength further.
Although he had complete information about Illusion Control in his mind and knew how to use it to improve his strength better, his spiritual power was insufficient, which undoubtedly greatly limited the development of his ability.
Of course, there was still improvement.
Although the evaluation was still Second Tier, his illusion domain had reached a radius of a thousand meters. Within this range, he could easily hypnotize a person's mind, control their five senses, and make them fall into a deep illusion.
However, Li Yue understood that he was still very weak now.
After all, if someone really wanted to kill him, a sniper rifle or a missile could do the job.
"It seems I must complete tasks as quickly as possible and obtain stronger abilities from the system. Although this Illusion Control is very strong, its effect in combat is too poor!"
"Moreover, there are many black technologies in this world that can shield spiritual power, such as Magneto's helmet!"
Thinking of this, Li Yue asked in his mind, "System, do you have the most suitable ability or item for me right now!"
"Yes, but due to insufficient energy, it cannot be materialized. The host needs to complete multiple tasks!"
"Okay, show them to me first!"
"Okay!"
Instantly, a large amount of information appeared in Li Yue's mind.
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