Mei Man: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

Chapter 245 Buyout
Inside Ferro Farnsworth's laboratory.

"Considering the current problems encountered in patents, I have specially prepared two options for you..."

Sensing the change in the expression on the investor's face, Ke Lin immediately put forward his own conditions.

"I will pay a fee to buy out the investment in your hands, or continue to be an investor and compete with Radio Corporation of America for the legal patent right of the TV set."

It is said that there are two choices, but in fact, there is only one choice that investors can really choose.

After listening to Ke Lin's suggestion, some shaky investors quickly made a decision, and they were willing to sell the investment agreement in their hands.

According to the agreement they signed with Ferro Farnsworth at the beginning, once the TV patent is industrialized, as investors, they will also obtain part of the income and even equity from it.

But obviously, they can't wait for that time.

Affected by the Great Depression, the economy has not improved for a long time, and even some inventions have been postponed.

For many investors, the television patent in the hands of Ferro Farnsworth is their only hope.

Unfortunately, this hope has also become distant because of the relationship between the American radio company.

Therefore, rather than continue to pour money into TV patents, it is better to sell now.

At least, there is still a little income. Although it is not much, it is better than the failure of the entire investment in the future.

With the first investor letting go, Colin soon bought most of the investment in Ferro Farnsworth's patent.

Sign the contract that Colin had prepared long ago, and leave in a hurry with a check.

After a while, only Ke Lin, Ferro and the last two investors were left in the room.

The two of them invested the most in Ferro Farnsworth's television patent, and the buyout price offered by Colin simply couldn't compensate for the funds invested by the two of them.

"So, what are the two choices?"

Although the share of the agreement in the hands of the small investor is not much, the accumulation of the small amount has made Ke Lin one of the main investors of the Ferro TV patent, second only to the two investors in front of him.

"Mr. Colin Looper, I know it's offensive to ask such a question, but can you tell me why you care so much about the television patent?"

After a moment of silence, one of the investors asked.

As investors, they may have taken a fancy to the prospect of TV, thinking that it may occupy a certain market in the future.

But it is obviously impossible to get a glimpse of the rapid development of television in the future, which is the limitation caused by the times.

"As I said, I see the future of television, and there is no doubt that it is a great invention."

Fortunately, Colin is not in this limitation, but he will not tell the other party the future he knows.

"What if it fails, what if the future development of TV is not as expected?"

Nothing happens.

He answered silently in his heart, but on the surface Colin still made a confident expression and replied: "I firmly believe that this day will not happen."

Facing Ke Lin's confident attitude, the expression on the investor's face became much more silent.

"Sorry, Ferro."

In the laboratory, the other party was silent for a while, and finally apologized to Ferro Farnsworth on the side.

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Ke Lin in front of him, and said with a wry smile: "I don't have such firm belief as you, Mr. Ke Lin. The investment in TV patents in the past has already made me feel exhausted. I thought I would see it soon." As a result, I don't have the courage to confront RCA about the matter of RCA."

Nodding, Ferro Farnsworth in the laboratory expressed his understanding.

No one wants to see what happened to Radio Corporation of America, but it just happened.

Not to mention investors, even Ferro himself is confused about this.

And at the same time as it withdrew, another investor who had been watching from the sidelines made a choice as expected.

According to the other party, he has a radio investment in his hands, and the American Radio Corporation is the largest radio patent manufacturer in the United States. From the beginning, he had no choice.

With the departure of the last two investors, Colin has now become the largest investor in Philo Farnsworth's television patents.

While confirming this identity, Colin also quickly adjusted his attitude.

He looked at Ferro Farnsworth who was in a panic in the laboratory, and asked, "Mr. Ferro, if you want to make a TV in the fastest time, how long will it take?"

Returning to his most professional field, Ferro Farnsworth's original uneasiness eased a little. He frowned and thought for a while, then replied: "If you don't consider the issue of clarity, , In half a month, I can make a TV set."

Unlike Radio Corporation of America, which stole the patent, Ferro Farnsworth had already manufactured the prototype five years ago, which was also the key to his patent application. The reason why the patent was delayed Industrialization is also because the clarity of the original prototype could not meet Ferro's needs.

In the following years after obtaining the patent for the television, Ferro Farnsworth has been working hard to optimize the picture technology and signal reception technology of the television.

Turn on the prototype in the lab and watch the blurry image play.

From Colin's point of view, the image of Ferro Farnsworth's TV prototype is naturally blurry. After all, with the vigorous development of liquid crystal materials in the future, the resolution of the screen will become more and more improved.

If the prototype screen of Ferro Farnsworth is put in the future, maybe others will not even want to see it.

However, in the current period, mechanical TV sets are the mainstream.

The electronic TV invented by Ferro has shown more progress in the picture. Although the picture on the prototype still looks a little distorted, at least it can recognize the outline of it, which basically satisfies ordinary people's understanding of TV. .

Withdrawing his gaze from the TV, Colin turned his head and looked at Ferro aside: "For the time being, put aside the research on image technology, and immediately manufacture a new TV. Next, it will become the key to our plan."

If Colin's memory is not wrong, the first television set claimed by the American Radio Corporation was not officially manufactured in the laboratory until 1933.

This is also the key for RCA to seize the TV market, and Colin's approach is, since your RCA won't make a TV until next year, I'll just launch the TV first, and at the same time make the TV The title of father was placed directly on Ferro Farnsworth.

For ordinary people, such an approach may be difficult, but don't forget that Ke Lin himself holds the newspaper's media channel.

As one of the largest newspapers in New York City, he has a great say in the media.

Not even RCA can match that.

And this is also the key to Ke Lin's daring to compete with Radio Corporation of America for the TV market.

……

【Silver Mark (248/1000)】

【Faith (89020/100000)】

The Antiworld, 890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

Colin opened his eyes, and the surrounding scene changed from the train from San Francisco back to New York to the rebel base.

Taking a deep breath, under the influence of [Super Brain Power], Ke Lin quickly adapted to the changes in the surrounding environment.

Looking away from the text in front of him, a thoughtful look flashed in Colin's eyes.

With the development of "Superman" comics in the world, the collection of "Faith" has always maintained an orderly process.Judging from the numbers presented in the text, it won't take long to be careful, and the rest of the [Faith] will be collected completely.

However, unlike the smooth collection of [Faith], the acquisition progress of Anti-World [Time Shards] seems a bit slow.

Although Colin has been in contact with various objects with [distorted time nodes] in the anti-world, including the recently "resurrected" "Tony Stark".

However, the growth of [Time Shards] is still not ideal.

Perhaps, I should try to get in touch with more [Distorted Time Nodes]?
Looking down at the imprint with a faint bronze luster on the back of his hand, Colin couldn't help thinking.

For a long time, his actions in the anti-world have been mainly passive, and there are few active cases.

Of course, there is a reason why he pays more attention to the real world, and it is also because of the method of obtaining [Time Fragments], which is not as convenient as [Faith].

It's just that right now, the 【Faith】in the real world is about to reach the number of upgrades.

If he doesn't want to delay the imprint upgrade time because of the [Time Fragment] problem, he needs to work harder and try to collect all the [Time Fragment] required by the [Silver Imprint] as soon as possible.

When it comes to [Time Shards], the first thing Colin thinks of is naturally the 'Tony Stark' who has just been 'resurrected' in the rebel base.

Of course, according to Howard.

'Tony Stark' is not resurrected, but awakened.

In the previous "biochemical man" experiment, although Howard, Nick and others made promises afterwards, they re-adjusted Tony Stark's brainwaves with Dr. )'s memories, erasing his memories of the laboratory.

However, a discerning person can see at a glance that the cracks inside the rebel army have already formed.

After this period of time, Colin could also detect other atmospheres brewing inside the base.

Howard may have noticed this problem, but he himself did not express anything about it, but put more energy on 'Tony Stark'.

……

"So, your ability is to turn yourself into a big meat ball?"

"How do you do this, I mean turn the body into a flat surface, and how do your internal organs work in this state?"

Inside the rebel base, the 'awake' 'Tony Stark' is trying to adapt to the strange atmosphere in the base.

His last memory only stays at the moment of the car accident. When he regained consciousness, the whole world changed drastically.

His father turned into a half-human, half-mechanical existence, and the people around him also looked strange.

Even 'Tony Stark' had a hard time adjusting to everything around him.

"So, what are your abilities?"

Sitting down in the base, 'Tony Stark' turned his head and glanced at Nick Fury beside him, stopped for a moment on the blindfold on his face, and then asked curiously.

"Is it some kind of light that shines through the eyes?"

Turning his head and staying on the face of 'Tony Stark' with the only intact eye, even Nick Fury, who opposed Howard's biochemical experiment, had to admit that the 'Tony Stark' in front of him was indeed Lifelike is like real, if he hadn't experienced everything that happened in the laboratory before, maybe he would really think that the one in front of him is 'Tony Stark' himself.

The one who died in a car accident.

"No, my eyes don't have any power."

Shaking his head, retracting his gaze on 'Tony Stark', Nick Fury replied casually.

"It's just blind."

Hearing Nick Fury's reply, 'Tony Stark' was silent for a moment before saying, "Sorry."

Sorry, 'Tony Stark' looked at Nick with a silent expression beside him, hesitated for a moment and couldn't help lowering his head and asked: "Maybe it's my illusion, but why do I always feel that you don't seem to like it very much? I?"

"That's your illusion."

Faced with the doubts of 'Tony Stark', Nick gave him a deep look, while shaking his head in denial.

Watching the back of Nick Fury getting up and leaving, 'Tony Stark' shrugged his shoulders, turned his head to look at a squirrel standing on his shoulder, and looked at his girl with a look of expectation.After hesitating for a while, he turned his gaze to the other side, Jessica who was drinking from the bottle.

Seeing 'Tony Stark' look away, Doreen Green's expression became visible to the naked eye, and the squirrel 'skin monkey' on her shoulder also quickly stretched out its paw and patted Doreen Green's cheek, squeak cried out to comfort him.

"What's your name?"

From Jessica, the first thing 'Tony Stark' smelled was a strong smell of alcohol, obviously the other party had been in this situation for some time.

His eyes stayed on the empty wine bottle placed by Jessica's hand, and then 'Tony Stark' asked.

Although, it seemed that the smell of Jessica's whole body was unbearable to get close to.

However, through the smell of alcohol on the other party's messy hair, 'Tony Stark' still noticed the beautiful face under the messy hair.

Of course, the more important thing is that the state of the other party's drunkenness at the moment is obviously a good opportunity to set up a relationship and ask questions.

(End of this chapter)