Marvel’s Speedsters

For some time after returning from Latvia, Ross was immersed in his lab work.

After more than half a year of development, the current cutting-edge science and technology laboratory has made great progress, the scale has gradually expanded, the profitability has been significantly enhanced, and the attractiveness to the outside world has also been continuously improved. In the past, it was only a few top-notch non-mainstream scientists leading a group of junior graduate students or even university interns to develop, but now it has successively recruited a total of nearly 300 researchers with considerable strength, and more than 100 visiting scholars working here.

Biotechnology, energy, precision manufacturing—- these are the three main directions Ross chose for S.T.A.R. At present, the results of the latter two fields are not obvious, but in the field of biology, it has taken the lead in completing breakthroughs leading the world. In addition to systems engineering and application development, cutting-edge laboratories are also one of the few R&D institutions that take into account basic research, and RD spending more than Stark Industrial Research Institute and Pym Technologies, known for its fundamental physics.

R in RD refers to basic research, and D is development, because basic research usually means pure investment of resources, so the general enterprise is not interested in this, R to D ratio of more than 1:10 is a considerable investment, and Ross’s investment in this area is three times that of ordinary enterprises, almost equal to the level of the federal government, which in the outside world is almost equivalent to semi-public welfare and semi-profit, rather than a simple for-profit company.

Although this is a crazy money-burning move, Ross has never created this laboratory simply to get money, and the short-term behavior of only doing development is beneficial to the company’s profits, but in the long run, the technology is developing rapidly, and Ross hopes to not only see the plan in five years from now under the premise of ensuring breakeven, but even have a longer-term vision. If one day the opportunity really comes, the laboratory has mastered some precious special resource, but there is no theoretical experience in basic research, or directional knowledge, it will be like a source of water, can only miss the opportunity in vain.

Under this development purpose, the management team led by Pepper continues to absorb new technologies and new products through mergers and acquisitions in North America and Europe and other regions to open up a broader market, and also undertakes the commission of some government departments and non-profit organizations, with the increase of employees and the expansion of the organization, the original 45 acres of land are not enough in a blink of an eye, and have to apply for a new purchase permit from the local government, and buy a 20,000-acre land in the northern area of the laboratory at a price of $23 million.

Although the land adjacent to New York City is not small, fortunately, the laboratory has a strong regional economic influence, with the performance of the fourth quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year, several well-known accounting firms are expected to have annual revenue of up to 1.2-1.4 billion US dollars, contributing more than 7% to Westchester’s local economic activity, so the purchase application is undoubtedly successfully approved.

In addition, the Watchman Company under the laboratory also reached a joint defense agreement with the New York Police with the help of George, responsible for undertaking joint vigilance tasks in serious situations; Later, after some difficult negotiations, Pepper persuaded the major insurance companies to sign contracts with the Watchmen to form a damage control company, hiring the Watchmen’s super-powered bodyguards to curb more and more superpowers from excessive damage to urban buildings to reduce the insurance industry’s compensation expenses.

During this period of rapid development, some people joined in, some came and went, and still others disappeared forever, disappearing like grit between fingers or the wind on their shoulders. But Ross’s attention never lingered for them, and he cared only about two things, one was that there was never news of New Mexico, the people he sent to this day have not found the exiles from Asgard, and the other is the problem of Betty’s status.

At this time, Betty’s body has basically returned to normal, her female red giant side is not as crazy as Hulk, basically can retain complete consciousness, but suddenly become this incredible creature, her heart has been greatly hit, avoiding contact with Ross, and refusing to contact her father, lack of care from others, which makes her mood has been very bad, specifically manifested in work, that is, frequent mistakes.

Just like this day, she had another big problem.

“The data is wrong, the real-time quantitative fluorescent polymerase chain reaction value after reverse transcription is close to 38 Heinz units, there must be nucleic acid contamination.” Who was responsible for completing the cleanup yesterday? Ross asked in annoyance in the lab.

Polymerase chain reaction has extremely high sensitivity, trace nucleic acid contamination will lead to false positive amplification results resulting in inaccurate experimental results, it is very tricky to handle, serious if the formation of aerosol pollution diffusion, or even to close the laboratory, in this case, Ross is of course in a very bad mood.

Feeling his anger, the other researchers turned their attention to the bewildered Betty.

“Do you still need me to repeat my previous reminder, Miss Betty? You’re not doing research at your father’s base right now, you’re not passing the time on a loose college campus, you’re working for a cutting-edge lab! What we need is a dedicated and talented scientist, not an absent-minded bystander, don’t tell me you haven’t figured out your identity until now! Ross unceremoniously criticized, after all, this mistake suffered heavy losses, dozens of people for more than a month of hard work may be wasted, and the client is the federal Department of Health and Human Services |, if the contract cannot be completed on time, it will be a big blow to the credibility of the laboratory.

Losing a sum of money isn’t worth being angry about, but Rose must give Betty a profound reminder to jump out of her endless self-isolation.

“I’m sorry.” Betty hung her head and didn’t explain anything to herself.

Ross stared at her for a moment, waved the others out, and by the way ordered the logistics department to come over and carry out a comprehensive cleanup.

He didn’t know what Betty was like at her father’s base and college, but in Ross’s view, work was work, and everyone could talk about anything in private, but not anything at work.

Management is an art that can be divided into many disciplines, but one of the most basic principles is to separate feelings from work, and even if Gwen does something wrong, Ross will ruthlessly point it out to his face, lest others think that personal relationships are more important weights than diligence and ability.

Every time she encountered this kind of occasion, although Gwen was aggrieved, sometimes scolded and annoyed, and would return home with her teeth and claws dancing in retaliation, she would never say a word in the laboratory. If there is a reason, it is insisted, and if there is a mistake, it is corrected, so although she has no major research results and the strength of the group she leads, no one will think that Gwen’s personal relationship with Ross led her to the top, because she is a capable girl, perhaps not a genius, but her efforts are recognized by everyone.

Compared with Gwen, although Betty is a few years older, her psychological quality is not mature enough, in other words, emotional intelligence is somewhat low.

When she shows negative resistance, Rose decides to give her a hard blow, otherwise she will be immersed in her own world forever.

“To be honest, Betty, I’m disappointed in you, you’ve been in the lab for a while, but it’s a shame that you haven’t been one of us until now.”

Betty raised her head and stared blankly at Rose, her mind completely frozen, unable to react as if frozen by glue.

I’m still not a member of the lab?

Having left her family, failed to get the love she imagined, and now even her job seemed to be lost, she panicked for a moment, staring at Rose deadly, eager to get his explanation.

Ross quietly looked back.

“You may wonder why I would deny you your qualifications, but it seems to me that you really don’t belong here. You are Betty Ross, a well-known female Ph.D. in biology who has published some papers in the past, and your credentials plus your family background are enough to put you in any advanced laboratory, but this is not the you I want to see. Betty, I need you to be as responsive as when we first met, even if there is some aggression, it is proof of enterprising, has your intelligence changed after the change in you? ”

His tone was a little heavy, listening to Betty’s ears made her mood more confused, for a while she even lost the ability to think, taking all the words as criticism, just passively standing in front of Ross, staring down at the floor, the whole process did not have the consciousness to defend herself at all, I don’t know how long the time passed, only to find that Ross’s voice stopped, and this torturous conversation was finally over.

“Go back and take a day off, look at the experimental record again, and then I hope to see a real Betty.”

Rose waved her hand, and Betty picked up the record book and walked out mechanically, she was really a little overwhelmed without Ross’s last words.

She met Ororo | outside the door, and the kind storm girl was startled by Betty’s pale face, and quickly helped her, sending her back to the apartment all the way before returning to Rose to complain.

“You’re freaking her out.” Ororo slapped Ross’s table hard.

“She’s a 26-year-old adult, did I scare her pants?” Ross asked rhetorically.

“Don’t put a face on me, I’m not a researcher who wants your salary.” Ororo glared at him fiercely.

“You are not my researcher, you are my free servant.” Ross straightened his face and said in a commanding tone. “Come here, give me a shoulder beating.”

“Who is your servant.” Ororo retorted ruefully, but his feet involuntarily walked over.

“I’ll take care of Betty’s affairs, today I’m going to prepare until I help her get back to normal, if you care about her, you can stay with her for one more day.” Ross said casually, sorting out the records of previous failed experiments by the way. The Federal Ministry of Health and Human Services | wanted a very small chain reactor that would allow researchers to quickly detect specific DNA | fragments with only a small set of different primers, eliminating the need for a separate reagent system for each cell.

Nucleic acid synthesis primers were originally Betty’s forte, but her poor form messed up what she did best.

However, Ororo saw something unusual in the superficial requirements of the Ministry of VIA.

“Is this really just used for medical purposes, I always feel that it seems that it can also be used to detect mutants.” Storm Girl asked, staring at the screen in front of Ross.

“Of course, all known genetic data is connected to our central system, as long as the characteristics are compared, it can be seen at a glance.” Ross smiled, and under his influence, Ororo’s biological knowledge was much stronger than before.

“Then what else are you doing it for, aren’t you afraid of exposure?” Ororo didn’t know what Ross was thinking, and immediately punched him hard in the back a few times in anger.

Ross stretched out three fingers unhurriedly| outstretched out.

“First, you have to have faith in me.”

“Second, who are the mutants and who decides? The federal government said no, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Department of Homeland Security said it didn’t matter, the initial system was built on our host, the authority belongs to us, and no agency or individual can access it without permission; All the data is filled in and modified by us, and upgraded through the cloud system networking, so in the future we say who is a mutant, who is a mutant, we can make this range very small, accurate to a specific individual, or we can make it infinite, spread to all possible carriers of the X gene or even unrelated people, like hiding a tree in the forest. ”

Ororo thought about it and felt that Ross’s words made sense.

“What about the third?” She asked curiously.

“Do you remember Doom’s deal with S.H.I.E.L.D.?” Ross did not answer directly.

“Of course.” Ororo raised her eyebrows, she had heard Rose say that S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had sent a batch of inhibitory serum to Doom in an attempt to help him overthrow Magneto’s rule.

“The Brotherhood’s Master of Illusions interrogated Victoria Hand and her men, and although his abilities were of little use to trained agents, he still obtained some information. S.H.I.E.L.D. claims to have depleted the suppressant serum, but there are still some stocks elsewhere, including several universities, independent companies, and a nonprofit. I’ve sent Todd and Wade to visit them separately, but it’s not enough, when these losers are empty-handed, they will focus more and more on us, and at this time, I need another group of people to bravely step up and share the pressure. ”

“Inhumans?” Frowning and thinking for a while, Ororo vaguely guessed his thoughts, the killer Creel who had attacked Ross was precisely related to that ethnic group.

Ross nodded.

“That’s right, that’s the third point. I need it to help me identify another group of people, mutants who have been hidden long enough, and it’s time to step up and raise awareness among the population. ”

Rose said as his gaze swept across the screen and inadvertently landed on a picture frame next to the table.

Skye, his mother’s adopted daughter, was smiling at him toothyly.