Chen Changsheng's Umbrella Corporation had already been founded, but he still had yet to decide what products it would manufacture. The company's framework had been established, yet nothing had truly gotten on track, and Chen Changsheng still had many things to handle.
Recently, Chen Changsheng had been in constant contact with Tony Stark, and their relationship had improved considerably. Chen Changsheng had absorbed the memories of so many scholars and top scientists, so he naturally possessed the foundation needed to become a genius. Communicating with a genius like Tony Stark was effortless for him. However, possessing knowledge was one thing, while using it flexibly was another.
Tony Stark had an endless stream of wild ideas, and he also had the ability to bring them to life. That genuinely made Chen Changsheng envious.
Although Chen Changsheng felt that his own reserves of knowledge were sufficient, he always felt as though something was missing when compared with Tony Stark. Perhaps that something was the flash of inspiration possessed by true geniuses.
As the old saying went, the most precious thing in the twenty-first century was talent. But in Chen Changsheng's view, what the twenty-first century lacked was talent capable of turning imagination into reality like Tony Stark.
During his conversations with Tony Stark, Chen Changsheng learned that Tony had recently been researching a new weapon—a missile capable of flattening an entire mountain with a single shell.
What could he say? As expected of a weapons magnate, even the things he researched were extraordinary.
Tony Stark felt no pressure discussing such destructive weapons with Chen Changsheng, and Chen Changsheng did not mind either. From time to time, he even offered Tony Stark some new suggestions.
For a time, the two of them actually began to feel a sense of kindred spirit. Chen Changsheng was also a weapons magnate; it was merely that the two of them researched entirely different fields. However, regardless of the field, both of them possessed the ability to destroy the entire Earth.
Stark Industries pursued greater firepower, while Umbrella Corporation pursued the ultimate potential of individual life. Put that way, the two did not seem to conflict at all. If the opportunity arose, they might even be able to cooperate.
When Chen Changsheng mentioned that he planned to develop a drug capable of strengthening the human body, Tony Stark immediately interrupted him. He said that his father, Edward Stark, had already developed a similar drug with Dr. Erskine during World War II, creating Captain America.
From Tony Stark's words, Chen Changsheng could tell that the genius had also once worked hard in this area, but had gained nothing.
Chen Changsheng smacked his lips and thought, As expected of Marvel. This really is an unreasonable universe. His own existence was already unreasonable, but compared with the countless unscientific things in this universe, he was still far too insignificant.
When Tony Stark was young, Edward Stark had used Captain America, Steve, as the "other people's child" to educate him. As a result, the young Tony Stark had also spent some time researching human enhancement. Unfortunately, he had achieved very little. Later, after his father died in a car accident, Tony abandoned the idea.
This was also a limitation of the era. If Tony Stark truly devoted himself to researching human enhancement now, then with his wealth and intelligence, he might genuinely be able to discover something.
However, given Tony Stark's current state, he truly would not study these things unless he encountered some kind of life-or-death crisis and had no choice but to devote all his energy to it.
After hearing that Chen Changsheng wanted to research the human body today, Tony was also quite interested. However, as a genius, Tony Stark firmly believed that a good horse did not eat old grass. He, the wealthy Stark, had plenty of other things to do and should not waste time on something he had already researched. Human enhancement could be left to Chen Changsheng, this young man.
Chen Changsheng could not tell Tony Stark outright that he only needed to move a finger to enhance an ordinary person into Captain America. Therefore, he could only tactfully describe the future prospects of physical enhancement from a technical perspective.
Before leaving, Chen Changsheng made a request to Tony Stark. He hoped to purchase some high-end equipment under the name of Stark Industries.
Tony readily agreed to Chen Changsheng's request. In his eyes, Chen Changsheng was someone he liked, one of the few people who could converse pleasantly with him. Helping with a small matter was no problem at all.
With Tony Stark's assistance, Chen Changsheng's company developed at astonishing speed. In summary, it had money when it needed money and people when it needed people. Inside Umbrella Tower, Chen Changsheng performed a transformation from a little white rabbit into a hunter. The hunter's astonishing destructive power completely stunned the researchers.
In a world where Resident Evil did not exist, a single hunter would probably be enough to occupy these scientists for quite some time. The hunter had no Blacklight Virus in its body, so it naturally was not infectious. Chen Changsheng had also restricted the hunter's unparalleled ability to evolve.
After all, that ability was related to his own life and fortune. Chen Changsheng had no intention of letting too many people learn about it.
Of course, hunters were still far too dangerous. Chen Changsheng decided to take inspiration from Resident Evil's Bio-Tyrant and produce biological weapons with powerful self-healing abilities that could also control human weapons. That would be more reasonable.
Thus, after a period of cultivation, a biological Bio-Tyrant giant standing more than three meters tall appeared in the laboratory. This was naturally Chen Changsheng's work. Relying on Umbrella Corporation's researchers, Chen Changsheng felt that he might not even be able to eat a hot meal by the New Year.
Chen Changsheng had spent extra time creating the Tyrant because he was worried that its appearance would be too ugly and provoke unfavorable speculation among humans. Therefore, Chen Changsheng altered the Tyrant's appearance and also made some improvements to its skin.
The Tyrant's original appearance, with its flesh turned outward, was terrifying and highly intimidating, but it was genuinely rather unsightly. Thus, to save trouble, Chen Changsheng directly changed it to black. From a distance, it looked like a giant black gorilla, eliminating many of the obvious problems that human cloning would otherwise face.
Chen Changsheng copied a segment of memories for controlling various light and heavy weapons from the Web of Conspiracy and transferred it into the Tyrant's mind. A Bio-Tyrant proficient in all kinds of skills was thus freshly completed.
This method was still far too advanced, so Chen Changsheng pretended to customize a batch of chips for the Tyrant, disguising the process as though the chips controlled it.
Although installing chips in biological weapons looked somewhat incongruous, it was still much more reasonable than Chen Changsheng's direct method of injecting memories.
The Marvel world already possessed cloning technology, though it was not very mature.
But that was not a problem. Chen Changsheng merely altered the nutrient solution ratios, and Umbrella Corporation in this world immediately possessed the latest genetic cloning technology.
Other companies still needed to raise cloned humans normally for ten or twenty years. With Chen Changsheng's technology, only a few short months were needed to grow a person from infancy to the optimal adult state.
Thinking about it carefully, cloning technology being too advanced was not necessarily a good thing, as it could easily make humans feel threatened. Therefore, Chen Changsheng also placed genetic shackles on his company's clones. Each clone had to periodically enter a nutrient pod to replenish essential nutrients, and its lifespan was only one-third that of an ordinary human.
With these restrictions, humans would hopefully gain a psychological advantage when facing cloning technology and would not oppose it quite so fiercely.
While waiting for the next batch of Tyrant clones to mature on the production line, Chen Changsheng ordered a batch of conventional weapons from Hammer Industries and some unconventional weapons from Stark Industries through Stark Industries, arming the Tyrants.
After personally learning how to use the weapons, Chen Changsheng directly implanted the memories into the first batch of completed Tyrants. These Tyrants possessed tremendous abilities and had been meticulously refined by Chen Changsheng. They were certain to be much stronger, and probably much smarter, than the mass-produced clones of the future.
Therefore, Chen Changsheng had no intention of selling them as weapons. It was better to keep them by his side. At the very least, they could serve as the face of Umbrella Corporation.
A company possessing only one product seemed too monotonous, so Chen Changsheng decided to develop some drugs beneficial for strengthening human immunity. Similar drugs already existed in this world, but Chen Changsheng wanted to produce improved versions.
They would be better than the existing products and somewhat more expensive, allowing them not to interfere with companies in the same industry. That way, no one would target Chen Changsheng's business.
He needed to make money—quickly. After all, the US Dollars he had borrowed from the bank were accruing interest every moment.
Chen Changsheng saw the situation clearly. In this world, he still had to follow this world's rules. If he could become both a Tech Magnate and a financial magnate like Tony Stark, then even S.H.I.E.L.D. would not dare do anything to him.
During a previous conversation, Chen Changsheng had learned from Tony Stark that the military would soon hold an internal weapons bidding event. Chen Changsheng's thoughts began to stir. Whose money was the easiest to earn in this world? It certainly was not that of a playboy like Tony Stark.
If he wanted to make a fortune, he still had to turn his attention toward the military.
Thus, Chen Changsheng asked Tony Stark to secure him a booth.
Tony Stark's relationship with Chen Changsheng was good at the moment. He merely felt that Chen Changsheng was eager to prove himself. Partly because he had the perspective of someone who had been through it before, and partly because he wanted to see what new things Chen Changsheng had, he generously agreed to Chen Changsheng's request.
Chen Changsheng eagerly prepared to obtain a large order from the military and ease his financial pressure. As for what to display, the Tyrant was the most suitable choice. It fit the current level of technology and was not too far ahead of its time. It was like Iron Man Armor in the future: although it was highly advanced, plenty of people could still manufacture it.
The only thing beyond current technology was the Arc Reactor, and that was the core competitive advantage. More importantly, Arc Reactor technology was not truly beyond reach. After all, the large Arc Reactor in the Stark Industries complex had already been publicly displayed for decades.
That was how it was. The technological gap might appear to be only a few years or a few decades, yet people simply could not develop the technology themselves. Nor was it worth seizing by force.
What Chen Changsheng needed to do was announce his latest cloning technology and then hold on to the key technology of memory transfer. Whenever he imagined that someone might use cloning technology in the future to create many idiots possessing only instincts, Chen Changsheng could not help but snicker.
Chen Changsheng was also preparing to leave a massive pit for those who would plagiarize his achievements in the future. Perhaps humanity would eventually develop a method of implanting memories, but even then, it would seem close at hand while remaining impossibly distant.
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