After the annual meeting, the outside world and regional leaders became more wary of the Umbrella Corporation than ever. (-_-) (-_-)
The news was so shocking that it was hard to imagine: a crewed lunar spacecraft would be completed in 2007, accomplishing in two years what other powers had spent more than a decade trying to achieve.
They simply couldn't imagine how many years ahead the Umbrella Corporation's technology was.
Just as they were gripped by a sense of crisis and began considering renewed joint efforts to suppress the company, the Umbrella Corporation's latest move left them utterly dumbfounded.
The Umbrella Corporation publicly put its internal technologies up for sale, selling off a large number of promising civilian technologies to raise funds and focus all its efforts on conquering aerospace technology.
This was the pinned announcement on the Umbrella Corporation's official website. It listed thousands of technologies in all.
If they were all sold, the Umbrella Corporation would acquire a fortune beyond ordinary people's imagination in a short time.
But the Umbrella Corporation wasn't using money as the unit of exchange. Instead, it was trading its technology for supplies, cooperation, and other technologies.
The companies that had once regarded Umbrella as a scourge were stunned. Comparing the listed technologies with the tables of requested supplies, they found that buying the technologies on offer wouldn't cost them much. In fact, some of the prices seemed almost too cheap.
Some of the technologies with the greatest potential could easily launch a company worth tens of billions, yet their prices were less than a billion in supplies, or merely joint ownership of certain patented technologies.
But when employees forced to work overtime read the final clause, their spirits lifted, and they were deeply moved by the Umbrella Corporation's actions.
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