Chapter 101 The Genius Sets Off Again (Part 2)
"Wait!! You've been planning to let me use this method for a long time??? Then why did you let me read so many books????"
Schiller was pressing an earphone into Stark's ear, and Stark dodged and said: "Is this cheating??? Damn it!! Don't do this!! My ears! I've already learned those things, I don't need..."
"You don't really expect you to learn what I learned from college to doctoral studies in a few nights?"
"You've already thought about being an off-site coach!!! You liar! You clearly told me that if I can't learn these things, Stark Group will be finished!!!"
"That's just on a macro level, I'm right, you have to learn these things one day, so why can't it be yesterday?" Schiller said.
Regardless of Stark's evasion, Schiller still pressed a headset into one of Stark's ears. He said, "Don't make a fuss. I'm just an off-site translator. This is very common, right?"
Steve said beside him, "In fact, politicians also do this when they talk about things. Behind them are their staff teams. They also wear this kind of headset when they are accepting some important interviews. Of course, this kind of equipment was much more expensive and rare in my era. Only the most important people could have it..."
Stark fiddled with the headset in his ear desperately as if he was bitten by a flea. He said, "Damn it! Then why did you make the atmosphere so desperate before? And you stuffed so many books into me. I stayed up all night to memorize them all!"
"That's right. If I don't do this, you will never look at them in your life." Schiller said,
"Okay, forget about it, But are you sure it will work? "
"Damn it... I should have thought of it earlier! You vampire doctor! If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have used your old headphones. I would have made a more advanced, complete monitoring system..."
Stark slapped his forehead and regretted it. He said, "Why didn't I think of it before! I can let you do it! I can just be a repeater at the venue. Even if I can't, as long as you can, isn't it okay? ! "
Stark was really a little angry, but he was not angry at Schiller, but at himself for not turning this corner.
Of course, this was all Schiller's fault. He was very anxious when he came to Schiller to seek a solution, and Schiller used a very serious attitude and tone, and used rhetoric to make Stark fall into a strange circle of thinking, thinking that it was abnormal for him not to know these things.
That is, Stark ignored worldly affairs all day long, otherwise he would know that Obadiah also had a whole think tank behind him, and the entire Stark Industry could not be decided by Obadiah alone.
Stark is a wealthy man. It doesn't matter if he doesn't know these things. As long as he has money, there are people who know them. If he spent the whole day hiring staff, he would have formed a dream team by now.
But Schiller's misleading made him feel that he was paying the price for his previous willfulness, so he didn't consider his money and scientific research ability.
Not to mention anything else, even if he wrote an AI expression analysis system, it might be much faster than endorsing it himself.
"Is this psychology?! You liar!!" Stark gritted his teeth and said, "You studied psychology just to make people fall into this kind of predicament, so that they can pay you a lot of money for treatment?!!"
"Don't make me sound like an unscrupulous quack."
"Aren't you an unscrupulous quack?"
"Although I am a little unscrupulous, I am definitely not a quack."
"Mr. Stark, the car has arrived." Jarvis reminded: "The meeting will officially start at 10:30, and you are expected to arrive at 10:20."
"Okay, okay, that's it." Stark still seemed a little nervous: "That's the only way."
Schiller patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, when you get there, you will find that you are not an alternative."
Stark got in the car and arrived at the negotiation venue in a short while. He came late, and most of the people here had already taken their seats.
Stark took a quick look and found that almost everyone was wearing headphones, and some were blatantly holding computers for video calls. On the other side of the computers was a large group of people sitting at a conference table, which looked like another small conference room.
Stark said to Jarvis: "Deduct Schiller's medical fees... deduct all of them!!! Don't let me see his name on the year-end financial report!!! This damn bastard fooled me!!!!"
Jarvis said: "The headphones have been connected for thirteen minutes."
Schiller's voice rang in Stark's ears: "It doesn't matter, of course you can deduct all the previous medical fees, but this kind of political consulting service also needs to be paid, the price is 200,000 US dollars a minute..."
"Shit, you vampire doctor!"
"If you don't agree, I will hang up immediately."
"Don't! No, no, no... Wait, I think we can still talk, 200,000 US dollars is too expensive, but don't hang up yet, the negotiation is about to begin, what do you want me to say?"
On the other side, in the psychological clinic, Peter and Steve were sitting at the table listening to Stark's anxious voice. Steve was quite gloating, but Peter felt a little bit sorry. He said, "It seems a bit too expensive, doctor, I think we can make it cheaper..."
"You are now considered Stark's staff team. When the money arrives, we will split it in half."
Before Peter could continue to say anything, Stark's voice came again from the other end: "Hello? Hello? The negotiation is about to start. What should I do?"
"Don't do anything, just wait. In fact, you can be distracted in the first 30 minutes. You don't have to listen to what they say."
"Is this really okay?" Obviously, Stark was in a highly nervous state. It was the first time he seriously participated in such an occasion. He always felt that he should do something immediately to show results.
"Believe me, you just stay."
After that, Stark sat there half-believing and half-doubting. Soon, he found that Schiller's words made a lot of sense, because the first person who spoke was actually talking about World War II.
The military representative began to recall their glorious days from the Pearl Harbor incident. Before 20 minutes had passed, Stark was already very sleepy. The spokesman sent by the military could talk about all kinds of classic battles like a running account, and always used the same set of great and glorious words when boasting about the military's achievements and resume.
No one could listen to such a speech for 10 minutes. In the end, when the first round of speeches by the military was over, most of the people in the audience were drowsy.
The next person to come on stage was the representative of SHIELD. As soon as he opened his mouth, Stark wanted to faint immediately because he started with the Iron Curtain speech.
The SHIELD agent was a little better than the military representative. He knew all kinds of intelligence wars and the history of special service organizations. But Stark thought that he was here to participate in the negotiations, not to learn modern history.
About 40 minutes later, it was Stark's turn to speak. Schiller said, "Open the first manuscript and read it. Just finish it."
When Stark opened the manuscript, his eyes went dark because the manuscript started from the Industrial Revolution.
He read for a full 20 minutes before finally finishing the manuscript. After finishing, he turned on his headphones and said, "Oh my God, this is the first time I have fully understood the development history of Stark Industries..."
What made Stark despair was that this was not over yet. Then, starting from the military, they began to talk about the evolution of future military organizations, the development direction of future weapon systems, and the possibility of World War III. They talked for another 20 minutes.
The SHIELD agents were the same. They talked about the importance of the independence of the agent organization from the monitoring system, the development of individual combat and intelligence information warfare in the future, and the path to establish a global intelligence system...
Stark whispered into the headset: "I want to cut the consulting fee in half for this part. This has no practical significance at all. This is completely different from what I thought..."
"What do you think it will be like?" Schiller's voice came from the headset, "Start all kinds of conspiracy theories in a dark room?"
"You have to know the most important thing. In fact, this negotiation is just a formality." Schiller said.
"Everyone knows what the other party has bargaining chips, and everyone also knows what bargaining chips they have. The result of this negotiation has been determined from the beginning. In fact, even if you are a weirdo like before, thinking nothing and listening to nothing, the result will not change."
This gives Stark a more ridiculous feeling than learning those theoretical knowledge, as if you have learned all kinds of fancy fighting techniques, but in the end you only need one punch to defeat the enemy.
Then, when it was Stark's turn to imagine the future, he had learned to close his eyes and read the script, even though the direction of the development of the mechanical industry written on it was completely nonsense to him.
The script combined some nouns together to create some high-sounding words, which sounded like a technology scam, but Stark still closed his brain and read the script without any waves.
Then the two parties entered a stage of great joy. One of the old generals with gray hair said to Stark: "I remember the glorious era of Stark Industries. You Starks are all geniuses. Your father is one, and so are you. The floating car he researched at that time was amazing. But you also know that the military did not cooperate with him due to some conservative needs. We are really sorry..." Before Stark could answer, Schiller said in the headset: "He is scolding your father for being incompetent and you are not as good as your father. Scold him back." Stark was stunned, and then imitated Schiller and said: "Indeed, I believe that most people in the military, like you, a respectable general, have a long-term vision, but the current era is developing too fast..." At this time, Nick Fury, who was sitting at the end of the negotiation table, said: "In large-scale army landing battles, ordinary weapons still have some effect. Although mechas can significantly improve the combat capability of individual soldiers, in group operations, adaptability also needs to be considered..."
Schiller's voice came from the headset: "He is giving you a way out to ease the atmosphere of the negotiation. You can smile back at him."
Then Stark smiled at Nick, and Nick got goose bumps from his smile. He felt that Stark was very strange today, too strange.
The military and SHIELD both found that Stark was a little bit wrong, so they got to the point earlier than before.
Then Stark found that the main topic of this negotiation took up less than one-tenth of the entire negotiation time.
First, Nick Fury pointed out the fact that the military might have kidnapped Dr. Connors, and the military bit back and said that it was SHIELD's self-directed and self-acted. The two sides had a tug-of-war, and finally the military lost a little and stated that it would question some officers who might have made radical actions.
Listening to their argument, Stark asked Schiller in his ear: "Do they really not know that we hid Connors?"
"The military may not know, but Nick certainly knows. He just needs such an attitude to show that we should unite to deal with the military. He has expressed his position to me before. You can take over without worry..."
Next, Stark and SHIELD joined forces to beat the military, which was somewhat unable to resist. After all, they had a lot of chips in their hands, including the body of the red iguana, the anti-serum that Connors might develop, some evidence in SHIELD's hands, and the mecha delivered to the military by Stark Industries.
In short, the negotiation ended at a very fast pace and a very absurd ending, and everything turned out just as Schiller had expected.
The military introduced a scapegoat, that is, the Tartu officer faction led by Robert. They were purged, and then the account was written off. The military and SHIELD joined forces to fabricate losses and jointly demanded an increase in military spending.
Stark Industries will establish a stable cooperation system with the military and SHIELD, provide some auxiliary single-soldier armor exoskeletons, restart medical research projects, and will occupy a larger part of the results.
Stark, who returned to the psychological clinic, pulled off his headphones and said angrily: "You damn bastard doctor..."
Before he finished speaking, a voice came from behind him: "You damn bastard!!! Stark..."
Stark turned around, Pepper ran in angrily, her eyes were full of tears, Stark hugged her, and he heard Pepper's heart beating fast.
Pepper said: "I went to find you early in the morning, and you disappeared! Not even wearing a mecha! I asked Jarvis, he didn't say anything, I thought you were in trouble! You scared me to death, you bastard..."
Stark hugged Pepper tightly and whispered to comfort her.
In the dim room, there was only Pepper's low sobbing and Stark's vague bass.
The path of a genius is always destined to be more difficult than that of others. The sensitive heart of the genius Stark is always more tormented than that of an ordinary person.
But at least, this fledgling who was just about to leave the nest, when he was flying shakily in the cold wind, there was still a branch willing to let him land.
He saw Peter hiding behind the entrance and waving at him, and Schiller and Steve who were also standing there.
He saw that the TV in the living room of the clinic suddenly flashed, and a smiling face composed of symbols appeared on the screen.
He thought, Stark, you are really a genius.
Not only the smartest genius in the world, but also the luckiest genius in the world.
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