Such an enormous sum of money had bought them nearly ten thousand prime properties across major cities around the world!
They also had J.A.R.V.I.S. to thank for its assistance. Otherwise, relying on S.H.I.E.L.D. Group's personnel alone, there was no way they could have completed such a massive acquisition in so short a time.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Group's almost crazed buying spree left countless people baffled. Was S.H.I.E.L.D. Group planning to enter the real estate market?
With S.H.I.E.L.D. Group's strength, there would be no problem with that. But shouldn't they be like other large corporations entering real estate, buying land and building skyscrapers or commercial districts themselves?
They should not have been doing what they were doing now—directly acquiring so many expensive prime commercial properties, scattered across major cities worldwide. Though none of them were small, they were not particularly large either. Most people simply could not understand why S.H.I.E.L.D. Group was spending such a staggering amount of money.
Some people even published articles directly criticizing S.H.I.E.L.D. Group's move, claiming that its previous successes with S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto, Holographic Smartphones, and the new cancer drug had gone to its head. After making that film doomed to fail, it had come up with another foolish idea and begun recklessly buying high-priced real estate.
Such massive spending would inevitably affect S.H.I.E.L.D. Group's cash flow and could very well cause its financial chain to break. The rapidly rising S.H.I.E.L.D. Group might pay a painful price for the arrogant and blind decision of its upper management!
The uproar over the all-Chinese film had yet to die down when the real estate acquisition incident pushed S.H.I.E.L.D. Group back into the eye of the storm. Many people no longer had faith in S.H.I.E.L.D. Group's future development, and even sales of S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto and Holographic Smartphones were affected to a certain