Territory Tour

The talent brought over from Tony has been handed over to the laboratory for cultivation. Replicants with a higher degree of integrity require a longer time to slowly develop, so Duncan cannot make use of these high-tech talents for the time being.

The robot production lines are still being assembled. The lines only require human supervision to self-form and can even perform self-creation.

A few days later, Duncan attended a summit to meet with leaders from various regions to discuss cooperation and security issues. The process involved both unpleasant and pleasant moments.

Umbrella Corporation is willing to help developing regions grow rapidly by providing technologies that have been blocked by Europe. In return, these developing regions must cooperate with Umbrella Corporation on factory construction and recruitment.

Duncan is currently not lacking in products for external sales; he can produce smartphones, home computers, and various daily necessities.

It sounds a bit unscrupulous, but Umbrella is currently like a diligent porter, continuously transporting technology from the Marvel world to the Resident Evil world. As long as it is a good product verified by the market, he copies it entirely without paying any patent or copyright fees.

With a large amount of production materials in his hands, Duncan has no worries about being unable to develop.

Tony's Stark Industries could actually copy technology from the Resident Evil world as well, but the Marvel world has relatively normal and sound laws. Anti-monopoly laws strictly limit the expansion of Stark Industries, forcing it to focus on fixed fields.

Therefore, Stark Industries can only complement Umbrella Corporation; Stark Industries focuses on industrial and high-tech development, while Umbrella Corporation develops biotechnology and real industry.

Only by obtaining more money can more research be carried out.

After the portal stabilizes for a period, Stark Industries will send scientists to the Resident Evil world, allowing their researchers to work under the support of the abundant funds here and live a life of luxury with no budget constraints.

In a city in Poland, a global secret summit has begun.

Duncan attended this meeting to negotiate cooperation matters with leaders from various regions.

Some developing regions are currently desperate to introduce foreign capital to seek development. They have no objections to Umbrella Corporation building factories there and are even very welcoming.

The first round of negotiations was relatively pleasant. The representative from the Russian region voiced their concerns and requested that Umbrella Corporation show more sincerity.

It has been nearly twenty years since the fall of the Big Brother, and the interior of Russia has only just stabilized. The only products they can offer are energy and agricultural goods, leaving them almost disconnected from the international community.

Umbrella Corporation used new technology to aggressively seize the energy market, which almost cut off the sales channels for Russian energy products. If it weren't for the fact that Umbrella's headquarters is in the Americas, Russia would have directly taken the lead in retaliating with frequent military exercises.

During the evening break, Duncan also pondered how to compensate Russia. If Russia were pushed to the brink, it might truly trigger a third world war.

The probability is very low, but it does not mean it is zero.

Therefore, he needs to provide development opportunities to Russia and some other countries that rely primarily on energy trade.

The next day, the meeting continued. Duncan proposed a solution at the conference table: Umbrella Corporation would accept a symbolic amount of rubles, provide Russia with production materials for civilian goods and a development roadmap, and sign a trade agreement to stably purchase various bulk commodities from Russia annually.

Russia is still being sanctioned by various parties. Given the scale and future development prospects of Umbrella Corporation, this proposal is very reasonable. The production materials and the trade agreement provide Russia with enough of a buffer period to find their own path for regional development during this time.

The Russian side did not hesitate for long before agreeing. What they valued was not the trade agreement, but primarily the production materials and development roadmap provided by Umbrella Corporation, as well as the move to break the sanctions tacitly agreed upon by the West, which made Russia feel the sincerity of Umbrella Corporation.

The civilian market in Russia is currently mostly import-based. Having just transitioned from socialism to capitalism, the civilian goods sector is still characterized by high demand and low supply. Some things that are mundane in other regions become light luxury goods when shipped to Russia, making them difficult for ordinary citizens to afford.

With Russia satisfied, other regions that rely on energy for their wealth did not dare to object and accepted Umbrella Corporation's goodwill with smiles.

The subsequent handover of cooperation is no longer Duncan's concern. The android took a plane at the airport back to Raccoon City; the entire regional summit only took six days.

Once all the work at hand was finished, he suddenly found himself with nothing to do.

The heads of various departments became much more relaxed after recruiting a batch of high-quality talent from all over the world. They have also started to learn how to handle simple matters on their own, and after a few months, they have slowly become accustomed to the new work mode.

With the focus on expanding influence and increasing the people's happiness index, profitability has become secondary.

Duncan is not a person with a strong desire for control; he has delegated all the power he could, and for a moment, he had nothing to do.

With nothing else to occupy him, he decided to go on a "territory patrol."

The movements and expressions of the android were completely natural. That the android could be identical to a real person is all thanks to Tony's neural electrical signal reception technology and artificial intelligence technology.

Duncan can be inside The Hive, wearing signal glasses, exercising while using his mind and intelligent auxiliary programs to complete the control of the android.

It is just like how Tony, in the basement laboratory of his villa, controls the Mark 42 armor, Prodigal, located on the first floor.

This process is like a video call; multitasking is not a big problem.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, no one noticed a low-key SUV leaving the company. Duncan drove to wander around the downtown area of Raccoon City, which is currently undergoing major infrastructure construction.

The Umbrella engineering team is fully occupied, as the expansion of Raccoon City and the re-planning of land require a large number of workers.

Every street in Raccoon City currently has a construction site. The city must first meet housing requirements, followed by commerce and entertainment.

Like many large American cities, Raccoon City has a small population and a large area. Currently, it remains spacious even after a large influx of outsiders.

The current infrastructure is all for the sake of the future. The Raccoon City of the future will inevitably develop into a large city with millions of people, and housing distribution measures will also require a large amount of housing support.

People are still pouring into Raccoon City every day, and the stations and airports are crowded every day. Before long, the population of Raccoon City will reach 200,000.

Once the population reaches 500,000, the current housing in Raccoon City will become tight.

The vehicle passed through every street, and then Duncan arrived at the central square of Raccoon City.

The commercial district of the square has become exceptionally hot due to the arrival of a large number of tourists. The holographic advertisements in the center of the square are rotating through commercials for several internationally renowned clothing brands.

The traffic of the holographic advertisement boards is even greater than that of the screens in Times Square. Many people spontaneously upload the images captured by their cameras to the internet, and tourists even become unpaid promoters, showing off their photos after their trips.

This has led to the advertising fees for these boards being calculated by the second, and the monthly rent is also a relatively high price.

Beautiful models wearing strangely styled long dresses stand in the air, posing seductively for the surrounding tourists. However, most of the women below have rather bloated figures, and the slim-fit clothing in the advertisements does not give them the desire to buy, only the desire to take pictures.

The appearance fee and monthly rent for this clothing advertisement add up to 1.8 million dollars. If sound is added, the price will double.

Tourists are always tireless when it comes to new things. In this city, they do not need to worry about their safety, taking photos without any scruples and freezing their smiles in the pictures.

Some enthusiastic tourists will even pull over the Umbrella Security personnel patrolling the streets to take photos together. The Umbrella logo on their bodies has also become something worth viewing and commemorating.