Chapter 612 Laken's Private Territory

"What should I do if I suddenly find myself addicted?"

Sitting on a small plane flying from Los Angeles to Laken Suburb Airport, Alice said, "I suddenly want to build a secret base on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau!"

Oscar said happily at the side: "Warmly welcome, we want to carry forward the glorious tradition of Alice the Rabbit, dig deep holes all over the world to accumulate food, and strive for the great goal of letting people around the world live underground before the arrival of 2050! "

"No, I'm serious." Alice touched her brother's head, the soft black hair felt good: "We have to find something interesting for ourselves, what do you think is the most interesting thing now? Play games and go shopping. Party racing and horse racing are indeed a thing; like those rich second generations on the east coast, they fly to Paris every weekend, not to mention going around the city, they must drive a certain Bentley and must put a certain Classical music...is not impossible."

"Uh, that kind of exaggeration will be scolded to death by my father."

"But what about business property? You can't just cash out all the cash and throw it in the pool, can you?"

Oscar made a manual squint in an uncooperative manner: "I think this is a good idea, really, I haven't tried it yet!"

"Die you..."

As early as on the plane returning to Los Angeles from China, Alice was calculating the company's assets. In fact, when the famous movie star Audrey Hepburn reported that she was critically ill, the relevant anti-cancer drugs were not yet ready for the market, and they were just treated as dead horses. The result is good. With the absolute star effect and quality assurance of products, the market value of the umbrella is really too high to be too scary.

Of course, Alice has no historical basis for the market capitalization potential of this precious company, but after repeatedly calculating the probability theory with HP-001, she learned that if the umbrella continues to develop at the current level, in 1999, the bear grip A market value of over 500 billion is by no means a problem.

This is really scary, because it has not been established for ten years by then.

So regardless of what it will be used for, Alice definitely has the capital to play in the construction of underground bases-reasonably, even if all conventional methods are used, the full cost of a building will be at most 80 billion U.S. dollars? For example, when Apple’s market value was at its peak, it had accumulated 200 billion US dollars in cash, which was enough to build three buildings.

But all these delusions in her mind will take a while. Her entire consortium has just started a big project, that is, a series of investments in the whole of China. It is definitely a time when money is short. If you really want to be willful again, you have to wait for these investments to start creating value.

Alice began to sort out the accounts.

The increase in market value itself has nothing to do with the available funds of the company, and the annual profit is everything. However, the rising market value represents the high development potential of the company, which allows it to obtain high-value loans from banks. Therefore, according to Umbrella's current annual profit and the sudden increase in market value, Alice can easily obtain a loan amount of up to tens of billions of dollars just by making a series of phone calls.

As soon as she returned to Los Angeles, a series of orders were issued, and all the employees of the companies involved were busy. This series of investment projects is so numerous and complicated that even if all the employees worked hard overtime, they would have to be busy for a long time.

At the very least, although Alice has indeed marked out some specific locations in China that are suitable for building factories by virtue of her geographical advantages, it still requires someone to conduct on-site inspections. Even moving a vase at Lao Wang's house next door requires someone to go there in person. How can there be no on-site supervision of people from the company's headquarters for this kind of foreign investment and factory construction?

But these things don't require Alice to stay at the headquarters all the time, so after setting up the whole task, she and her brother flew to Laken City to play.

The sky is gray, the wild is vast, the wind is blowing, the grass is low and the sand is dusty. This is the most common situation in the entire Utah state. However, the Acre Mountains, where the small town of Laken lies, is quite beautiful.

Alice has invested in a series of investments. First, she has acquired several municipal energy companies such as waterworks and power plants. Drakken's heavy factory building is also under construction in the suburbs of the city. Considering that the city will expand, the factory is quite far away, and it is definitely located in the downwind and downstream of the river, and even the corresponding road construction has already started.

At the same time, the land selected for digging the hive base has also been purchased, and the price is really cheap. With ease, at the foot of the Acre Mountains on the outskirts of the city, Alice bought a vast land capable of building an entire resort with a wave of her hand. Now everything is easy, since it is a private territory, even the oil and gold found belong to her, not to mention just digging a hole to build a house?

The Bombac plane landed at the newly built small airport. Alice and her younger brother got off the plane one after another. A Hummer with broad shoulders and a thick back was already waiting there. Brody was in charge of responding, and he had been on-site in charge of supervision for half a month.

"Hey guy!"

Oscar happily patted Brody on the shoulder: "What's interesting in this small town? Let me introduce you, let's go out tonight and have a good time?"

Alice glanced sideways: "I'm sorry buddy, Laken doesn't have a strip club, and you're not even old enough, be honest!"

Brody smiled lightly and said, "I believe that the construction aspect alone is enough to make you excited for a long time, come on."

The car quickly drove into the urban area of ​​Laken. This is a peaceful town with a total population of 3,000, making it impossible for it to be very lively, but it will also make the administrative divisions highly concentrated, and you can browse everything easily. Brody drove a Hummer across the city, which attracted a very high rate of turning heads more easily. Many people looked happy when they saw it.

"It seems that we are really popular." Oscar was very excited, because there was a beautiful high school girl among the repeat customers: "The water and electricity people in the whole city now belong to us, right?"

"That's right, but there's nothing unusual about it." Alice felt amused seeing her brother's fuss, "Don't forget that we are still shareholders of HK Electric, and the whole of Hong Kong uses our electricity. "

"I've only been to Hong Kong a few times, and this small town can be seen at a glance!"

Too. The city is too big, and no one will take you seriously unless your achievements really break through the sky. But if in such a small circle, someone monopolizes certain industries, and everyone goes out without looking up, the sense of accomplishment is indeed different.

After a while, Brody drove the car to the destination. Of course, the construction site was not the first target, and the "Hive Investment Company" arrived first. For example, the recently acquired Laken City Water Company, etc., all pay from it. Of course, the same, the huge beehive base will also be turned into its investment industry.

The company floor does not need to be too high. The person in charge of the reception is an executive sent directly from the Alice Building. His name is Ryan Brand. Sophie found it carefully in Harvard's alumni directory. It is definitely worth it. new.

"Alice, and Oscar, take a look at our engineering drawings."

Brand greeted the two to sit down, and took out a large stack of documents attentively and cheerfully: "According to the day and night research of our loyal architects, we have designed a total of three sets of construction plans, all of which are based on both quality and efficiency. , but the cost is slightly different.”

Oscar is now a college student. The undergraduate stage of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences teaches purely academic knowledge. In just one year, he has really matured a lot. He has been able to handle business entertainment and browsing industrial construction drawings with ease. Alice is very satisfied to see that he finally did not pretend to understand, but humbly asked the technical director who was called for advice.

Of course, she also participated in it, and there are many details that need to be repeatedly emphasized by her.

"The total length of the tram tunnel is five miles. It must have a sufficient slope and must be absolutely safe. The 'high-speed rail' technology I gave you is indeed unique in the market. Even Japan's Shinkansen is different from it. , so you must ensure that it is formed once and tested repeatedly, I don’t want to repeat the construction.”

"Marble is fine here at the station, and the walls are changed to super-high-grade reinforced concrete for me. If the ground is broken, you can repair it casually. If the entrance to the laboratory guarded by the steel gate is still there, but the wall next to it is open, isn't it a joke? "

"I will ship a batch of high-quality air purification equipment from Japan. You don't need to purchase this, just wait for the receipt of the order. In addition, give me the document on the security design, and I will give you instructions on the probe. The principle of placement."

This small meeting lasted for a while. Even if the Wang family got up early today, it was already noon when they flew to Laken and entered the company. Lunch came soon, and they continued to chat until two o'clock in the afternoon. It was not until many, many work instructions were completed that Alice proposed to visit the site.

"You can think too well, old lady." Oscar felt amused: "You still plan to build a small power station at the bottom? You still want to design it to be fully automatic. We need to spend so much money on this design." How much does it cost?"

"Just one accident can destroy everything. Our hive is a place to study viruses. Do you want a leak?"

"That's why we need a multi-layer nano-scale air filtration device... But what does this have to do with the self-provided power station? Could it be that when the laboratory is powered off... the cold storage virus may be necrotic, but generally this does not happen, right? ?”

"So just in case, and what I designed is the seamless connection technology between power failure and power supply. This is not a simple technology. The software part is easy to say, but even the hardware part used for execution has to make the industrial sector very happy." It was made with great effort."

"The demand has been produced early, and then the technology will be released to the market after the technology matures to benefit mankind. Oh, sister, your idea is not bad."

"Finally smart, do you want to give me a kiss~?"

"Get out!"

The Hummer drove all the way and soon arrived at the construction site. This is a vast plain at the foot of the mountain, and the periphery has been surrounded by the employees of the hive to prevent irrelevant people from entering. The initial excavation work has already begun, with an army of trucks, excavators, etc. in place on a field capable of hosting a Super Bowl, but this is only part of the deep hole that needs to be dug.

"Look buddy, this is the live version of the blueprint."

The cold wind was blowing in the suburbs, and Alice had to find a hard hat to protect her hair: "That's where we're going to build a holiday villa, it's a big summer resort, and then take the elevator from there to the underground tram station, and then go all the way along the road. Look... Dangdang, this is the construction site."

Oscar stood beside the construction site, looking towards the foot of the mountain. This is not a simple distance. If you think about the design of the tram route as three miles, you will know how far you need to travel on the surface. So when you think about it carefully, this kind of design really has a wretched feeling, because all you can see from the ground is the manor at the foot of the mountain. Who can imagine that the real target is actually in the open space many miles away?

"Can we build something here?" Oscar rolled his eyes and said, "If someone investigates, they will definitely know that this piece of land belongs to you. Do you want to cover it up?"

Oscar was not stupid, he began to ponder after staring at the open space in front of him. Alice nodded with satisfaction and said, "It makes sense. Although many people like to keep a hunting ground or something, we have put the construction on the surface, and there is nothing to justify. Then Oscar, you should help think about it. What can we do to cover it up?"

Without thinking carefully, Oscar knew that he had actually come up with a bad idea.

Because isn't this a typical place where there is no silver three hundred taels?

The design depth of the honeycomb base is there. Even the ground-penetrating bombs have to be aimed and thrown three or two times. How can ordinary people have the ability to do anything? How about a planned holiday manor on the hillside? Since it is all owned by the owner, how can there be any reason to build a mess of buildings under the nose of the holiday manor?

"So, nature is the best barrier." Alice said happily: "This is the visual blind spot. When people drive on the road and see a holiday manor from a distance, they will naturally regard it as the location of all secrets. As long as they If you don’t have the ability to find the entrance in the house, who would have imagined that there are real secrets buried underground on the way they came?”

Oscar nodded like a chick pecking rice, because he finally understood why Alice actually drew such an extremely complicated blueprint when designing the holiday manor.

To be honest, the technological content of that manor is not high. Apart from the predetermined code lock at the door, there are no other electronic mechanisms. But just like a mysterious castle in a Gothic story, those organs designed with the most primitive means are often the most tingling.