American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

Heberon Industrial Park.

Luke's lab.

"You want to build a city?" Nick's one eye widened. He found that he was increasingly unable to understand Luke's style of doing things.

"Yes, not just a city, but also many supporting buildings." Luke was busy in the lab, planning to see if he could update his energy collection technology once or twice during this time.

"Your plan is too crazy." Nick flipped through a portion of the plan that Luke had given him, and even he felt a headache looking at those projects.

"Crazy means big profits." Luke said without hesitation. No matter when or where, energy is his basic need, and he cannot and will not give it up.

"Then under what name are you going to transfer these devices around the world? Heberon?" Nick patted the plan.

"I choose to take a two-pronged approach." Luke said.

"New energy?" Nick thought of the new energy expansion plan that Heberon and Stark had already started and were already making tentative contacts with some officials.

"Yes, it's a good skin, isn't it? No one can see through it." Luke said with satisfaction.

"Okay, even if you've settled most of the expansion plan, what about your Tower of Babel? Its expenses are not a small amount. Approval is also a problem, how do you plan to solve it?" Nick asked again.

"Why should I spend my own money?" Luke asked back in surprise.

Nick was stunned by Luke's question, "Then whose money do you want to spend?"

"Of course, it's our esteemed customers'." Luke gave his answer as a matter of course.

"What method are you going to use this time to get them to pay?" Nick almost laughed out loud.

"Notify our esteemed new customers, tell them that the longevity potion formula has been upgraded. We have adopted the latest material, Dragon Bone! That's right, it's the bones buried underground that possess mysterious power. The power contained within them can make people live longer and also restore people's health.

However, compared to the longevity potion made from vampire factors, their quantity is limited and they are non-renewable resources. Once they are used up, they are gone. But Heberon has found a way to replenish its consumed power to a certain extent, so that it can be used longer with relatively restrained, balanced energy consumption and replenishment.

Do you think they will be tempted?" Luke asked.

"You really hid that dragon bone!" Nick gritted his teeth.

"No, it was the capable Miss Quiet who tracked it down during that cleaning operation. I just forgot and didn't have time to tell you." Luke, who was exposed, remained calm and directly threw the blame on the ignorant Quiet.

"So, S.H.I.E.L.D. painstakingly dug those bones out of the ground, and before they could even warm them up, they're going to be sent to you again?" Nick didn't know what to say anymore, although Luke didn't say a word about asking S.H.I.E.L.D. to hand over the dragon bones, but every word implied that you would hand over the dragon bones to me sooner or later!

It was conceivable that if those high-level officials and old immortals knew the effect of the dragon bones, they wouldn't force Nick to hand over all of them, but at least half of the dragon bone share would definitely fall into Luke's hands. Who told him to have exclusive technology in his hands and a successful precedent?

And the half of the dragon bone share that he left behind, if Luke did come up with technological achievements again, then as time went by, those who needed the longevity potion later on would also use various methods to make Nick transfer the share little by little.

"How can you say that? Make the best use of everything. It's better to create benefits for both of us in my hands than for you to keep it in S.H.I.E.L.D. as a dangerous item." Luke said solemnly.

"This is fraud! Luke!" Nick defined Luke's behavior.

"No, this is not fraud!" Luke retorted, "As long as we do give them the goods they want. With mutual consent, and both parties get what they want and are very satisfied with the result, how can this be called fraud?"

"Don't tell me you really have this technology." Nick didn't know what to say.

"You can guess." Luke gave a very bad answer that made Nick curse in his heart.

"What can I, or rather S.H.I.E.L.D., get from it?" Nick directly asked the core question.

"If that person's actions go smoothly, the Sorcerer Supreme and I plan to prepare a new currency common to the Nine Realms, and S.H.I.E.L.D. can participate." Luke casually gave a condition that made Nick breathe heavily.

"Really?" Even if Nick wasn't a financial expert, he at least understood how big the prospects and benefits of a new currency common to the Nine Realms were! He even started planning in his mind, if those high-level officials didn't pay, then could S.H.I.E.L.D. bleed and divert some funds to invest in Luke's construction plan for a long time?

Although the probability of this happening was almost zero.

Of course, Nick also knew that with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s size and strength, it might not be able to eat much of the share, but even if it was just a little, it would be unimaginable wealth in the future. More importantly, S.H.I.E.L.D. might be able to use this to buy some of their products from other races and civilizations in the Nine Realms. Nick couldn't give up this opportunity that was offered to him.

"Of course." Luke nodded.

"Deal." Nick agreed instantly, as if afraid that Luke would go back on his word. And he assured Luke that he would definitely handle all the affairs for him as before, and would never let disturbing things interfere with his research and personal time.

"But I need to explain that this time, those people may not just want to be a buyer."

However, while guaranteeing, Nick also reminded Luke. After possessing the longevity potion with vampire factors, those people might be able to more calmly lengthen the time to have more in-depth negotiations with Luke and the others.

"It doesn't matter, you can establish a company and sell half of its shares for the amount of funds I need. It's fine if they pay or donate the shares of their subordinate companies, even political resources are fine. Until this half of the shares is distributed.

You can even limit and delineate a participation strength threshold and a limited number of places. I think they will be too busy arguing with each other to bother you at that time." Luke said indifferently.

Anyway, his ideal metal city is both overt and covert, and he doesn't care about the overt one. Even if some shares are distributed, he doesn't care. The covert one built in cooperation with the mages is the top priority. Luke doesn't expect to completely control everything in his own hands, he still knows how to share.

This can be proven by Nick, who was a little excited next to him.