Chapter 1269 Pushed Away
Do you want to send it? It is indeed going to be sent. Because there is a reward notice inside the X base. Whoever can be the first to discover the energy signal from another world will be rewarded with 500,000 Eagle Dollars (personal tax is at their own expense).
"Fred, the two of us are going to send! 250,000 yuan each!" Raymond jumped excitedly: "Hahahaha! I can change to a better car. BMW Z4 here I come!"
Raymond was excited there, but Fred said coldly: "I discovered this by myself."
"Huh?" Raymond stopped cheering and celebrating.
"I said I discovered this by myself. While I was working hard, you were playing minesweeper. Don't look at me like that, I just took a video of you playing minesweeper and passed it on to the personnel department " Fred said: "So, half a million is mine. And you? You are going to be fired for fishing at work!"
"You..." Raymond never thought that Fred, whom he thought to be a good friend, would denounce him for two hundred and fifty thousand eagle dollars.
"Fred, you will have retribution!"
Fred wiped the lenses of his black-rimmed glasses: "But I have at least half a million, and I still have a job. As for you, Mr. Raymond, you'd better go online and look for other jobs."
Raymond: …………… “FUCK, Son-of-a-bitch!”
Raymond is gone, fast. Dr. Coleman didn't like him in the first place, because the guy spread gossip about himself behind his back. I just haven't found a suitable reason to fire him. And now playing minesweeper during work hours? This is the best excuse for firing, and you don't have to pay severance pay this way.
Raymond packed his things that night, and he was sent to the nearest city by bus early the next morning. This is a small city called Star City, with a population of about 10,000 people. The whole city has three lively main roads. Every year during the 15th day, there will be many people who come to set up stalls and sell things on the central main road. Living here is very convenient for shopping!
Raymond looked at the city, at the city's bus timetable. There is actually only one long-distance bus to a big city a day. He could only curse in a low voice: "Fred, you bitch. I curse you to death!"
"Congratulations, Fred, you have made outstanding contributions to our team in one year. You have made the greatest effort for us to discover the alien signal and prove that my research direction is correct." By Raymond Fred the Damned is receiving the honor and cheers he deserves inside the base.
Standing in the largest conference room in the base, all middle and high-level scientific research personnel and middle-level and high-level military personnel were applauding and cheering for him.
Dr. Coleman handed over a check representing half a million dollars to Fred.
Dr. Coleman finally breathed a sigh of relief. If he didn't make some achievements, he was really finished. Fortunately, there is no limit to the road, and just when he felt that he was going to die, Fred found a signal from another world.
This saved me, and I finally didn't have to worry about my salary being cut. Be it the military or the chaebols, they got the news right away, and everyone was very happy. So the reward of half a million dollars came down soon.
As the largest capitalist country in the world, the Eagle Country is pretty good at money. After all, five hundred thousand Eagle Dollars is not a lot.
And Fred is also experiencing the highlight moments of his life. Although it is said that there is a lot of tax to be paid for 500,000 Yingyuan, there is still a lot left, and I can finally buy a house with all the money. Ah, no, not the full amount. Because home loans are tax deductible. You have to figure out which one is more cost-effective, tax deduction or interest.
At noon on the day Raymond was sent away, representatives of the military and the chaebol couldn't wait to come to the research room.
"Can you open the door to another world?" The representative of the chaebol, a man wearing a custom-made suit and gold-rimmed glasses, said with a standard Wall Street elite style and spoke English with a London accent.
Fred didn't like this kind of elite style very much. He guessed that this guy might have graduated from Harvard, Yale, or Brown, and maybe went to study abroad at the University of London or King's University. Pretentious stuff. Fred was so contemptuous in his heart.
But Dr. Coleman dare not neglect this Wall Street elite. Because he knew that the person in front of him was the representative of the gold master's father.
Yes, X-base was indeed established by some great pouting ass. But that great man is now smearing Ma Yinglong in prison, he can't control the current X base.
Because now the enemy of the military - Capitol Hill is getting stronger and more scrutinized. Therefore, the flow of funds for the military has become more and more difficult.
Organizations like Base X, many of which are invested by big chaebols.
It seems inconceivable to the Chinese people on the other side of the ocean. Why can private companies participate in this important weapon of the country, or even take the lead?
But this is common in the Eagle Country. In this country, when the country wants to do something, most of the time it doesn't set up a department to do it, but pays money and outsources it to companies.
Including manufacturing aircraft, producing weapons, maintaining nuclear warheads, repairing aircraft carrier nuclear submarines, etc., these things are all done by private companies. There are also various consulting services, etc., and sometimes even audit work is entrusted to private companies.
So it’s not a big deal for such a big project to have chaebols involved. Moreover, the chaebol itself is the group most concerned about whether they can open the other world.
Because as long as a slightly lower alien world is opened, for example, a world whose productivity is a hundred years behind the earth, or a world with low martial arts among those low-martial worlds, then capital and guns can make Eagle Nation earn a lot of money. .
The representative of the chaebol, this Martin with gold-rimmed glasses, couldn't wait to ask: "When will the door to another world be opened?!"
"It depends on our judgment of the energy of this alien world. Judging from the current overflowing energy, this world should be a low-level world." Although he doesn't like Wall Street elites, Fred still said: "But we More samples are needed. Determine the power level of that world."
"How long will it take?" Martin turned to look at Fred.
Fred calculated: "At least three months."
"Huh?!" Martin turned to look at Coleman: "Doctor, I came here only after you told me that there was a breakthrough. It will take you three months to confirm? I think you are wasting your time! It’s January in ten days, and the financial report for the new year is coming out. We don’t have so much time to waste.”
"Our shareholders are waiting for an exciting news, so that they will not protest. They won't feel that the billions we invested last year were wasted. Do you understand!"
Martin has Martin's appeal. Capital has never been something that anyone can easily control, and neither can capitalists. Because there are countless greedy hands under the capitalists pushing them forward. Huge capital has never been controlled by a single individual. To a certain extent, capital is a terrifying alienated monster. Only the power of the state can wrestle with this monster.
But what if state power and alienated capital stand on the same line?
The representative of the military, Miloch, took off his brigadier general's hat and played with it in his hand: "Doctor, in the new year, our supreme leader was re-elected. He needs good news to consolidate his position. There is good news that can inspire people in the speech."
Brigadier General Miloch doesn't need to say too much, the pressure is enough.
Miloch doesn't understand scientific research, but he understands politics. Martin doesn't understand scientific research, but he understands capital. Coleman understands scientific research, but he is trapped by capital (salary) and politics (position).
He knew that if he did not satisfy the representatives of capital and politics, then his own capital and politics would be finished.
So he and Fred whispered for a long time, and the two argued in low voices for a long time before Coleman raised his head and said, "Gentlemen, we can try to open a small door first, the very small one. Send ten Several advance team members entered, let them explore the way first, and determine the world over there."
"If there is danger, we will close the door to the other world. If it is safe, we can carry out a larger-scale expedition. In this way, we will also hand over the results, what do you think?" Dr. Coleman proposed a compromise scheme.
Martin and Miloch looked at each other, and it seems that there is no better way.
Only Fred, who had just received a reward of 500,000 Eagle Dollars, thought to himself: Crazy! Dr. Coleman went crazy trying to secure his position. Doesn't he know how scary the uncertain world is? He actually wanted to open the door directly. Looks like I'm going to take a day off this afternoon and definitely not coming back! Five hundred thousand eagle dollars is enough for me to spend for a while.