"Mr. Hawking, let me be frank: I'm determined to win this project.
Rather than let us keep engaging in this destructive competition and allow Reed to reap the benefits, name your terms. I can compensate you.
That way, you won't have to take any risks, yet you'll still gain something from it."
In another office, Victor looked at Hawking with a broad smile.
If anyone else had dared compete with him so viciously, he had plenty of ways to deal with them. A man who had risen to his position could hardly have relied entirely on honorable business practices.
But the man before him specialized in fighting crime and had two equally formidable underlings. Just today, they had stopped terrorists from hijacking a plane.
His own methods probably would not even be enough to fill their teeth.
So, he could only offer up more benefits to settle the matter.
Hawking looked Victor over, then smiled.
"Since Mr. Victor has put it that way, it would be rather disrespectful of me to refuse.
How about this, then—"
"Fine, fine. I accept."
After hearing Hawking's terms, Victor thought for a moment before agreeing.
In Victor's eyes, Hawking's conditions were not particularly harsh. He merely wanted Victor's technology company to cooperate with the current Hero Alliance International Company on some business ventures.
However, the bulk of the profits from those ventures would go to Hero Alliance International Company, while Victor's company would essentially be working for free.
But compared to the profits from Reed's project, it was a drop in the bucket, hardly worth mentioning.
"One more thing. I need Reed to help me complete research on the Gravity Chamber afterward. It's too dangerous for him to go up to the Space Station, so when the time comes, he can stay at your