Doctor Erik Seveg was nearly driven insane.
Being a doctor wasn't like any other profession, especially for a research doctor like him. He needed to rely on sponsorship from all sorts of people to fund his experiments and make a living.
But...
Doctor Erik Seveg had originally been highly sought-after in the Federation. After all, he was a major figure in the field of physics. He couldn't exactly secure funding just by talking, but putting together a couple of polished PowerPoints could still bring in some sponsorship money.
And what happened?
Even now, Doctor Erik Seveg deeply regretted agreeing to that black bald man's invitation to research the Tesseract. Why had he been so bewitched at the time?
Of course.
Even if no one had invited him, Doctor Erik Seveg would still have gone. But the problem began after that day.
After parting ways with his assistant Jane, Doctor Erik Seveg had originally planned to return to his laboratory. Unfortunately, when he got there, he discovered that his laboratory's funding had been cut off.
Why?
Because Lake Edwin had been the one to let him go.
From then on, Doctor Erik Seveg discovered that he could no longer obtain the funding he needed from anyone in the Federation.
Yes.
Anyone.
At first, Doctor Erik Seveg thought the Wall Street people of this era had simply become harder to fool, so he turned around and tried to fool some smaller investors instead. But after watching one small investor after another go bankrupt for no apparent reason once he succeeded in deceiving them, it was obvious that Doctor Erik Seveg's reputation in the capital market had been completely ruined.
Lake looked at the agitated Doctor Erik Seveg. After sensing his thoughts, he couldn't help laughing before shaking his head and saying, "If