Chapter 296 Need to Exchange Blood
In the end, Mariko did not get the answer she said she expected. She was a little disappointed by what Harry had said. "Miss Mariko, I need to think more about this matter." Harry said this to Mariko with a slight apology.
After that, he left here with Li Jie and Peter. Only Mariko was left, who seemed a little unhappy because the plan didn't work out. However, Mariko was not depressed because of this, because there are very few successful cases in business talks that can be discussed at one time.
Asking price and counter-offering, raising bargaining chips and thinking about value, these commercial games have always taken time to consider. When an excellent businessman discusses business with others, he must have a rhythm that belongs to him.
If you are introduced into an unfamiliar rhythm, you are likely to be manipulated. What Mariko is doing here, in essence, is trying to bring Harry into his own rhythm.
Because for this young man who is under twenty, it is impossible for Mariko to say that she does not feel slighted in her heart. Sometimes being young means being impulsive, and at the same time young people are more eager to succeed.
Just like Tony Stark back then, he served as the boss of Stark Industries in his early twenties, and he has always been synonymous with high profile. And he never hid his desire to succeed.
Today's Harry Osborn is hard not to be compared to Tony Stark back then. Many people thought that Harry Osborn would be a Tony Stark double.
However, Harry's personality is completely different from Tony Stark's, and he is destined not to become another Tony.
But it is precisely because of her youth that Mariko chose to cooperate with Harry Osborn. If the current authority of the Osborne Group is still Norman, then Mariko will never show this child.
Because no matter how kind a father Norman was to Harry, everyone who worked with him in business knew that this was a terrifying beast. He is a real cannibalistic capitalist.
And what Mariko is looking for is not just simple cooperation. Her grandfather Yashida Ichiro, the lunatic who was afraid of getting old and longed for immortality, once tried to capture Wolverine's self-healing factor.
However, this plan failed in the end, and Yashida Ichiro died in the end. And his granddaughter, Yashida Mariko obtained the code to open the key of the self-healing factor through another method.
Longevity is the dream that almost any senior high-ranking person prays for. They are used to the joy that power and status bring them. They also hope that this kind of happiness can last for a long time.
The most addictive thing in the world is not the hallucinogens of all kinds of mental dependence, but the pleasure of grasping power!
Just as Li Jie and the others left the Sakura Restaurant, Mariko's men, who had been waiting in the back kitchen of the restaurant and other rooms, also filed into the room.
"Take him back." Mariko pointed to the boy who had just severed his finger and said, without any warmth in his tone.
After two strong men in black suits respectfully bowed to Mariko, they pulled away the timid boy beside him.
"Shinichi, go and inform Chairman Yasuda to lobby Mr. Harry." Mariko told her private secretary, a handsome man.
"Yes, miss." The secretary named Shinichi replied immediately. But after he finished speaking, he seemed a little hesitant and asked a question. "What if the Osborne Group doesn't want to cooperate with us?"
"Mr. Harry doesn't seem very enthusiastic about this plan." Shinichi's words made Mariko frown.
Yes, Harry was a little calm, unlike a young man who had just turned eighteen. He doesn't care that much about the rush to prove himself. As long as the mentality is impatient, there will be flaws, and there will be opportunities for Mariko to use her means if there are flaws.
Because Mariko didn't know, Li Jie, who was beside Harry, had always been an adult in his mind. Especially after the tempering of the past year, all kinds of things have made Li Jie more and more aware of the dangers of the human heart.
Li Jie had been advising Harry to keep a low profile when Harry first entered the company as an intern. Out of trust in Li Jie, Harry also acted in a low-key manner. In this kind of subtle influence, Harry's personality has also partially changed, and he no longer has the impetuosity he had when he first joined the group.
Mariko frowned. "In the field of biological research, no company or country in the world can compare to the Osborne Group. This is why I have to cooperate with them. Only they can tap the potential and wealth of Daken."
The Daken that Mariko said refers to the boy who was taken away. "But you're right, everything needs to be looked at on both sides. Where there is success, there will be failure. Harry Osborne I thought he was a good businessman, but it doesn't look like he is that good. Help me contact the United States On the one hand, we need an alternative plan. So many years of planning cannot be so wasted."
After Li Jie and the others left the cooking booth, they had no intention of visiting Kyoto anymore. The three of them walked around the neighborhood with unhappy expressions, and then returned to the hotel in Osaka early.
The Osaka Castle is just lit up. Standing in the presidential suite of the Osaka City Hotel, you can see the lights of the city through the large floor-to-ceiling glass.
The night lights of Osaka are not as good as Manhattan and Times Square in New York, nor can it be as good as Tokyo, the capital of the East. But there is another view. As a seaport city, the cargo ships moored on the wharf and the busy freight workers on the wharf show the firepower of this old industrial city.
Li Jie cooked a few dishes with the kitchen utensils in the suite, and three friends sat near the window, watching the night view and having dinner.
"What do you think of today's events?" Peter Parker couldn't help but speak first. "That kid, we know. That kid must have something to do with Logan."
"We're not sure about that," Harry said uncertainly. "Maybe, maybe not."
"This amazing recovery ability is not an ordinary skill. It's not something you can find when you go to the boxing gym and tell the trainer a trained boxer." Peter Parker said with a fork on a prawn.
"Dr. Hanke said that the more powerful mutants are, the rarer they are. And such powerful self-healing people like Logan are even rarer. If there is no connection between the two, I won't believe anything Yes." Peter said somewhat confidently.
"Okay Peter. We don't even know if he's a mutant yet." Harry said helplessly.
"He is indeed very likely to be Logan's child. I just don't know if Logan is aware of the fact that he has a child." Li Jie kept sorting out the plot in "Wolverine 2" in his mind, feeling more and more aware of this. The child is Wolverine's son, although Wolverine is not described as having a child in the movie.
But according to logical speculation, the accuracy of this guess should be very high.
"Do we need to help Logan rescue his child? That Mariko is simply a lunatic. She actually let a child self-mutilate." Peter said that there was some indignation here.
"Uh, I think it's not easy for us to intervene in this matter." Li Jie said with some embarrassment.
"Why?" Peter and Harry asked curiously.
"Because you don't think that child looks a bit like Mariko? Maybe Mariko is his mother." Li Jie thinks this is entirely possible.
"Well, if you put it this way, there is indeed a bit of a similarity." Harry recalled the appearance between the boy and Mariko, and felt that there were indeed quite similarities between the two.
"If the boy is Logan's son, but Mariko is Logan's wife..." Li Jie shrugged, indicating that this problem is not easy to solve.
"So our best way is to pass this news to Logan through channels. As for how to solve this family matter, let Logan decide for himself."
Harry and Peter glanced at each other and agreed that this was the safest course of action.
"But speaking of which, Harry. Do you think there are some problems with the management of Dongyang?" Li Jie turned the topic back to the problems Harry is facing now.
"There are a lot of problems, delays, prevarications, all kinds of kicks." Harry was a little frustrated when he said this.
"There may be more serious Harrys." Li Jie said to Harry seriously. "You lack prestige here. They seem to be respectful to you, but they despise you in their bones. Maybe there should be a big change here."