"Are we really going to roll out an upgraded version right away?"
Dr. Connors asked with some hesitation within Primus.
In his opinion, it was unlikely to come up with another good invention in such a short period. But to immediately release an upgraded Self-Healing Serum just for an exhibition would undoubtedly cause the company to lose a lot of money.
"Of course not," Ben replied, shaking his head.
Right now, even the production of the initial version of the Self-Healing Serum wasn't meeting demand. If they released an upgraded version, the military and S.H.I.E.L.D., who had only paid deposits, might immediately breach their contracts and demand to purchase the upgraded serum directly.
That would mean huge losses for him.
"We can just use any invention to get by," Ben said.
His original plan was to unveil the initial version of the Self-Healing Serum at the exhibition. However, with Norman's help now, Primus wouldn't need to advertise at the exhibition.
His only goal now was to take down Hammer Industries.
He knew Justin Hammer would team up with Ivan to build a batch of Iron Legion.
In fact, Ivan had attacked Tony with his somewhat outdated equipment in the past month, but he hadn't succeeded.
Even now, from within Primus, his superhuman hearing could detect Hammer Industries working day and night to modify that batch of Iron Armor.
"Perfect timing, I was planning to build some robots to protect Queens anyway."
Ben mused.
Justin Hammer was a man with very little research capability, but he was excellent at scamming funds. He knew what the military would want after seeing Iron Man's battle suit, so he had been building towards wearable battle suits from the start.
But Ivan wasn't so rigid.
He wanted to build an iron army, which meant the robots would need to be remotely controlled.
This was exactly what Ben wanted too.
He had already made plans to secretly tamper with the machines after they were modified, to prevent this prodigal son from blowing them all up at once!
"This is my property!"
"What property of yours?"
Connors, who was playing with a lizard in his hand, was startled by Ben's sudden shout. Then, as if remembering something, he asked, "Speaking of property, now that the company is making money, shouldn't we be looking for a new work environment?"
"A small cultivation room can't house many lizards, let alone other animals. If we continue like this, it will take us years to fulfill the current orders."
"Also, I can't always have the lab and my room together; it's unhygienic."
Connors complained at length, but it all boiled down to one sentence: the company was too small, and he wanted a mansion.
"Don't worry, don't worry. We'll have the Ecopark, and we'll have the building too," Ben said, looking at Hammer Industries not far away.
Then, he started thinking about what product to use for the exhibition. Honestly, having returned from Sakaar, he had a wealth of technology to draw from, but most of it was weaponry.
However, Ben didn't intend to make weapons, or rather, he didn't intend to make weapons and sell them to mold.
After much thought, he finally decided to create an Anti-gravity Car as the exhibit for this expo.
"Anti-gravity System? Can that really work?" Connors asked in surprise.
Although he was a doctor of biology, he knew something about anti-gravity systems.
It was likely a scam, much like a perpetual motion machine.
"I remember Howard Stark had the idea for an anti-gravity car in the last century. He was limited by the era, but even now, the anti-gravity system hasn't been realized."
Even Iron Man's battle suit achieved flight through propulsion.
He gave Ben a strange look and said, "Let alone inventing an Anti-force Device, if you can just explain the principle of the Anti-force System and provide a feasible concept, you'll be the founder of New Physics."
"It's not that exaggerated," Ben said.
The physics in the Marvel world and the real world were not the same.
Did you think Marvel was science fiction?
Wrong!
It's more of a fantasy work.
Besides, "An anti-gravity device isn't a zero-gravity device or a gravity-altering device. I just need to provide a counter-force to balance it with gravity."
"Aren't you changing the subject?"
Connors' eyes widened. If that was the case, then Iron Man's battle suit already had similar technology, and wasn't the Green Goblin's skateboard, which was slightly inferior, also floating using this principle?
"Are you going to say whether it's anti-gravity or not?" Ben immediately asked.
Of course, he couldn't directly copy Iron Man's technology.
Otherwise, bringing Iron Man's technology to his exhibition would be slapping him in the face, wouldn't it?
Ben was worried Tony would fly in front of Harry wearing his battle suit and roar at him:
"Potter, how dare you use my magic against me?"
"How about using Sonic Levitation Technology, or Airflow Suspension?"
Connors shrugged, indicating he didn't have much useful input.
Ben didn't mind. He transformed into Grey Matter and buried himself in research. Fortunately, the battle suit he got from Tony and the technological data from Sakaar provided him with inspiration.
At this moment, Connors walked over with his little lizard again, acting like an old man walking his parrot.
"By the way, the company has grown now, it can't just be the two of us..."
"And Harry," Ben said without looking up.
"Okay, three..."
"Sorry, I'm here too, Mr. Connors," Eunice interrupted him coldly.
Connors: ...
"Then four, but that's still too few. We need to hire more employees, like cleaners, doormen, and people specifically to negotiate business," Connors said.
Currently, almost all of Primus's orders were being handled by Harry and Norman.
With such a large company, Ben was often absent, and Connors' identity was sensitive and he wasn't eloquent. He was good at research, but when it came to business, he was far from a match for those old foxes.
So, after hearing Connors' words, Ben also started to think.
As the company continued to grow, more employees were indeed needed to handle more affairs.
He had originally only thought of researchers, but a company couldn't just have researchers.
Even Tony needed a Pepper Potts.
So he put down what he was holding, his frog-like horizontal pupils swept over, and asked, "Are there any good candidates?"
It wasn't Connors who answered him, but Eunice:
"There are some, sir."
Then, Eunice projected many resumes into the air, one by one, for Ben and Connors to view.
"Although Primus Technology has not released any recruitment information yet, after the Self-Healing Serum was released, many job seekers wanted to find a job here and submitted their resumes to our website and email."
"Hmm..."
Ben stroked his chin, appearing to be in thought.
The resumes selected by Eunice were all excellent, with some people having truly astonishing career histories.
However, Ben would not be fooled by these written words.
Without even thinking, among these resumes, the real job seekers were probably very few. Most of them were spies trying to find out the serum formula.
The biggest piece of evidence was that he found an "acquaintance" among them.
Natasha Romanoff.
An agent belonging to S.H.I.E.L.D.
Since Natasha's identity was exposed when Stark Tower was occupied by Animo last time, she naturally couldn't continue working there.
Ben didn't expect her to take a detour and submit her resume to him.
"Are you very interested in her resume?" Eunice seemed to notice Ben's gaze focused on Natasha, so she specifically enlarged her personal information.
"She even worked at Stark Industries?" Connors said in surprise.
"If you are interested, Eunice will send you an interview invitation," Eunice said.
"No! No!"
Ben quickly interrupted Eunice.
His reaction made Connors feel a little strange.
"Is there something wrong with her?"
"There are too many problems," Ben said, shaking his head. "That woman is no good!"
"Are you worried she's here to steal the serum formula? I don't think so. I don't think Stark would do something like that given his personality."
"Stark might not, but who told you Stark is behind her?" Ben waved his hand, sweeping away all the resumes.
He didn't explain anything to Connors, just said, "Bear with it for now, Doctor. We have too many secrets..."
He pointed to the little broken watch behind him.
"This place is too small. If we hire people now, the secret of the watch will be discovered and made public very soon. Then I'll be in a lot of trouble."
Connors understood this.
"The technology in this watch is too astonishing," he marveled. "I don't know what kind of intelligence could have created it."
The ability to transform into an alien was somewhat similar to the Lizard Serum, but in reality, it was worlds apart.
Not to mention the other technologies in the watch.
Of course, more importantly, the alien in the watch possessed terrifying destructive power.
Even though this watch wasn't created as a weapon, humans always have a knack for turning anything into a weapon.
Just as Ben was studying the Anti-gravity Car, a conspiracy against Spider-Man was brewing in the shadows.
Hell's Kitchen.
Bullseye, acting as Kingpin's envoy, found one of The Hand's Five Fingers—Madame Gao.
"What business does Kingpin have with me?"
Madame Gao was a somewhat gaunt woman, appearing to be around fifty years old, with a sharp glint in her eyes.
She didn't welcome Bullseye's visit, but she didn't immediately expel him either.
In the powder business, Kingpin and Madame Gao were both competitors and partners.
Previously, their enemy had always been Daredevil, but over a month ago, a guy named Spider-Man burst onto the scene and, along with Daredevil, dealt a significant blow to their operations.
And now, there were two Spider-Men.
Yesterday, a little past midnight, the air conditioning repairman came. He worked until almost two o'clock, but he didn't fix the air conditioner. Fortunately, I bought a fan on short notice, or I would have died of heat
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