Chapter 389 Saving the World Is as Important as Saving Hair Loss

Tony Stark's words are indeed a bit surprising, because almost by default, everyone regards him as the sponsor of this organization. After all, the Illuminati could have been established under his call!

"Please! You can't look at me like this. Just the Venus base project may cost me billions of dollars. Not to mention the follow-up expenses. Because of the new energy problem, Pepper has already negotiated with I'm very unhappy." Tony patted his head while talking.

"If I spend such a large amount of money without her consent and can't explain where it went, she will definitely resign. She is very important to me!"

Well, Tony, is this a confession to Pepper? But it's a pity that the heroine is not here. He did take Pepper very seriously.

Captain Rogers patted Tony on the shoulder when he heard Tony's words, and said seriously: "It makes sense, you really shouldn't pay the money alone. My annual salary in S.H.I.E.L.D. is about $400,000, excluding living expenses. I can donate all of it. There is also the copyright that I recently signed with the comic company, if there is any royalties, I can also take it out."

Well, Captain Rogers became very tall in an instant. But it is obvious that this money is not enough to cover the expenses of this plan. So Tony shook his head: "Captain, unless you can end the legal case with the military and let them compensate you for your losses over the years, it is estimated to be more than 30 billion. If we have this money, we will be enough. "

"But I have stated before that no matter whether I win the case or not, the compensation will be used for charity." It seems that Captain Rogers really has no plans to pay the military compensation.

"If the Venus base is activated, the mineral resources should be self-sufficient. There is even a certain amount of wealth, which should be able to fill up the funds in the later stage. Even if necessary, we can also extract the core of Venus, from the earth. Refining gold from the core?" Li Jie thought of his own method, and Tony agreed with Li Jie's words.

"Yes, you're right. That's true when the Venus base is officially fully activated. But that's later, and if a large amount of Venus minerals hit the earth, the earth's resource industry will be broken. I'm afraid there will be hundreds of thousands of Thousands of people are unemployed. This is not what we want to see. Therefore, the minerals on Venus can only meet our own use to a large extent, and cannot be exchanged as resources on the earth." Tony also rejected this aspect of the idea up.

"Although Venus' plan can indeed be self-sufficient in the later stage, before self-sufficiency, we still need a large upfront investment. This amount of money is astronomical, and you all know it."

Li Jie looked at Tony with some depression, where did that bold local tyrant Iron Man go? Why are you so stingy now for "mere" tens of billions of dollars?

Um? Tens of billions of dollars are also called "mere areas", probably someone is not very sensitive to money.

"Are you going to join some other wealthy superheroes? Local tyrants like night owls in comics to participate in the Illuminati?" Li Jie could only put his thoughts on this aspect.

Otherwise it is really impossible to solve this problem. Li Jie glanced at Charles while talking, it seemed that the professor is also a rich man. This is evident from the fact that the Xavier School for the Gifted is actually a remodel of his ancestral home.

"Of course not." Tony waved his hand, denying Li Jie's conjecture: "I don't have any good candidates who can directly pay to help us solve our current predicament. You know, what we are going to do is not It's leaking. I can't randomly pull a person in before I'm sure of a person's true character."

Li Jie was thinking about whether to bring Harry in, but after hearing what Tony said, he dismissed his thoughts. At the same time, if you think about it carefully, it is actually not appropriate for Harry to come in.

After all, Osborn is also a group company, not Harry's. The large-scale flow of money is likely to make Harry stumble. So think about it.

And Captain Rogers, who watched all this silently, sighed in his heart, why is the scene so familiar now? ah! It seems that Hawkeye owed Deadpool a million dollars at that time. Everyone is troubled by such a sum of money.

Now that I have joined the Illuminati, there is still a world-class rich man here, but I will still be troubled by financial matters. Captain Rogers understood in an instant what a penny stumps a hero.

Only Charles and Hank were left on the scene without expressing their opinions. Everyone is watching what they have to say.

Hank pushed his black-rimmed glasses and said, "Actually, Charles was a very wealthy man before, and his family has accumulated wealth for him for hundreds of years!"

Oh oh oh! coming! Sure enough, this calm and bald man is the real invisible rich man! Li Jie suddenly became interested.

"But." Hank pushed his black-rimmed glasses again and changed the subject: "Over the years, in order to maintain the expenses of the mutant school, Charles has spent almost all of his savings. The mutant school is almost a welfare school. .Even if the students couldn’t afford the tuition, Charles would call them in.”

ha! After talking for a long time, Charles is also a pauper now? Others present were a little disappointed. Everyone thought that Charles could come up with a huge fortune.

"Yes, this school has spent almost all of my savings over the years. In the past two years, I have relied on Hank and I to sell our patents to obtain funds to maintain our studies." Charles also seemed a little helpless. .

"Patent? What patent?" Tony became interested as soon as he heard about the patent. He knew Hank and Charles' scientific research ability. In the 1960s, the first generation of invisible stances could be produced. This kind of technology giant's technology patents may help everyone get rid of the current predicament.

"It's mainly some civilian technology. For example, some additives for internal combustion engines to achieve a more complete combustion effect. And some new structures for micro-circuit boards." Hanke's words made Tony lose interest in an instant.

These patents do make money, but they can also be easily circumvented. If you license it at a low price, you really can't make much money. In fact, it is right to think about it.

Charles' mutant school has always been the focus of the US government. If you really came up with some black technology of weapons of mass destruction, or something of the same type, the US government would have exploded long ago.

Hanke didn't seem to notice Tony's expression and continued: "When the Osborne Group announced their limb regeneration medical plan, I had some ideas, because Wolverine has a super self-healing ability. I tried Extract the X gene in his body, and want to make a medicine that can quickly heal wounds. Although it is unlikely to regenerate limbs, it will have the ability to instantly recover from a large number of traumas!"

Hanke's words immediately attracted everyone's attention. If Hanke's experiment is really successful, and if there is a medicine that can quickly heal trauma, it will be an incredible invention.

Think about those fatal wounds. It is not uncommon for the injured to die due to traumatic bleeding on the way to the hospital. If this drug really exists, it will completely change the status quo of trauma medicine!

"So what's the result, doctor." Li Jie was very curious about Hanke's final research results. In fact, everyone is very curious.

"Well, I can only say that half of the success is achieved." Hank shook his head when he said this. "Quick wound healing agents have side effects. Like the Osborne Group's limb regeneration program, it relies on dividing cells to restore wounds. We know that human cells have a limit to the number of divisions. A large number of cell divisions will reduce human lifespan."

"And the limb regeneration plan also has injections that can repair cells. My medicine can't put everything in one emergency medical kit." Hank shook his head while saying.

"So unless the body is strong enough to be like Captain Rogers, it is very dangerous for ordinary people to use this quick-healing potion, and it is very likely to die directly." Well, it is unclear whether to kill or save people.

"I tried to reduce some of the ingredients in the medicine to make the medicine milder. When I eliminated the terrible side effects, the medicinal properties of the entire medicine were almost eliminated."

"So how many doctors are there in the medicine? If the medicine is more effective than Yunnan Baiyao, then it is actually a very useful and commercially valuable medicine." Li Jie thought that as long as the medicine has a little medicine, even if it is not so strong It can also be profitable and help the organization make some money.

"Eh~" Hank looked a little embarrassed: "Actually, after eliminating all the side effects, the drug's effect is already very poor. In fact, it can't restore the wound."

Hearing Hank say this, Li Jie and others felt a little disappointed. Maybe Hank didn't want to make himself appear incompetent, as if he hadn't done anything. So he quickly said: "In fact, it still retains some usefulness, such as being able to quickly regenerate damaged hair. I believe that if we continue to study, there should be a breakthrough."

Tony was a little disappointed listening to Hank's words, but he didn't show it: "Okay, doctor. We can do research in this area together, although I'm not very good in the field of biology..." Tony's words have not yet been said After finishing, Li Jie suddenly interrupted his words.

"Wait!" Li Jie touched his chin and said suddenly: "Doctor, what is left of the medicine you said just now?"

"Only the fast-growing hair is left. What?" Dr. Hank looked at Li Jie strangely.

Clap clap! Li Jie slapped his hands suddenly, and looked very excited. Everyone else looked at him in confusion, what's there to be happy about?

It took Li Jie a while to recover, and he suddenly understood the puzzled eyes of the other four. That's right, the positions of these four people may be too high, so high that they don't pay much attention to the lives of ordinary people. Maybe some things are actually their blind spots, so they didn't think about what they thought!

Thinking of this, Li Jie couldn't help laughing, he cleared his throat: "Everyone, everyone, please listen to me!" Li Jie attracted everyone's attention.

"Do you know how much food the United Nations and other countries in the world donate to Africa in a year is worth?" Li Jie seemed to suddenly say something completely unrelated.

"About 15 billion U.S. dollars, if you're talking about pure food, excluding other material support." It was Tony Stark who answered Li Jie's question. He raised his eyebrows, and he didn't quite understand why Li Jie suddenly said this.

"Then everyone knows, how much do those people spend on the treatment of hair loss all over the world?" Li Jie said with a smile: "Over 20 billion dollars!"

"People in this world have an endless pursuit of beauty! In the age of great voyages, in order to obtain a slender waist, a lady in Paris invented a body-shaping garment that can be called a torture tool!" Li Jie said energetically.

"South Korea's plastic surgery hospital, Dongyang's cosmetics! A bottle of SK2 cosmetics can sell for hundreds of dollars or even thousands of dollars, but how much does it cost? These profiteering products bring tens of billions of dollars to their country every year Huge profit!" Li Jie raised a finger and said seriously. And the others already roughly understood what Li Jie wanted to express.

"And hair loss, especially middle-aged men's balding, is a worldwide problem! So far, there is no better way except wigs and hair transplants. You have to believe how desperate those middle-aged bald people are !"

"Tony Stark, do you dare to imagine how you will look like after five years of hair loss and balding?" Tony thought about Li Jie's description and suddenly felt that if there was such a body, it would be the end of the world! He's willing to spend billions of dollars to get his hair back!

"Captain Rogers! If you suddenly start to lose your head, can you still stand in front of the world with a smile on your face, showing your beautiful blue eyes and the top of your head?" Rogers touched his head subconsciously. One day, I should probably wear a hood or a baseball cap all the time.

"For some people, losing their hair is equivalent to losing the whole world!" Li Jie said, but he suddenly found Professor X in front of him. The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became very awkward. "Ah, professor, I'm not talking about you."

Professor Charles blinked at Li Jie and said: "Actually, you are right. When my last hair left me, I felt that the whole world abandoned me! Believe me, I also tried to wear A wig, it just didn't fit my face."

Charles' joke eased the awkward atmosphere just now. Li Jie also smiled, and he said to Dr. Hank: "So Dr. Hank! Your research has not actually failed! On the contrary, you have found another correct direction!"

"Let's do research in this direction! Find a medicine that is really suitable for controlling hair regeneration! You know, for many people in this world, saving baldness is more important than saving the world!" Li Jie patted Dr. Hank on the shoulder.

Well, now the funding for the organization is secured!

Well, what the Illuminati want to do is not only to save the earth, but also save a group of middle-aged men. Li Jie suddenly felt that he and others really had immeasurable merit.

Saving the world is as important as saving hair loss!