Are you really not going to take it?" General Ross said slowly.
"That's right, I'm not taking it!"
After saying that, Russell directly hung up the phone.
Although this would make General Ross unhappy, he wasn't worried at all.
If General Ross really intended to break his promise because of this, then he wouldn't mind letting General Ross know why he was called the Mad Traveler.
After hanging up the phone, he continued with his previous work.
After some thought, he finally decided to give Bakshi a call.
When it comes to wool, shearing once is shearing, and shearing twice is still shearing.
Although it's not ideal to always shear the same sheep, Hydra is wealthy and shouldn't mind too much.
After receiving his call, Bakshi was first stunned, and after a dozen seconds of silence, he slowly said, "Starting a military-industrial enterprise is not a huge problem."
At this point, Bakshi paused.
"But to meet the requirements you just mentioned, it won't be so easy."
Although Bakshi spoke tactfully, his meaning was very clear: this matter was a bit difficult to handle.
Hydra does have some influence, but it's not so vast that they can casually establish large military-industrial enterprises.
According to Russell's requirements, what he wanted was not just an arms company with R&D and sales capabilities.
What he wanted was an arms company with supporting production factories.
"I know this isn't an easy matter; otherwise, I wouldn't have specifically come to you."
"Don't worry, you won't be putting in effort for nothing this time!"
"The price of a Zaku armor set sold to the military is 120 million. If you want it, I can sell it to you at cost price."
Although Hydra had arranged many blonde, black-stockinged female assistants in the lab, none of these assistants had been able to access any confidential information up to now.
Currently, the only people in the lab who can access core data are Russell, Peter, and 3.
"What's the cost price?"
Bakshi was a little tempted.
"Eighty million!"
After Russell finished speaking, Bakshi on the other end of the phone fell silent.
Eighty million?
If the cost of the Zaku armor is eighty million, I'll eat the Zaku armor right now!
Although Bakshi was not a professional researcher, there was one thing he was certain of: the cost of the Zaku armor, which sold for 120 million, was definitely less than eighty million.
If the cost was eighty million, Russell absolutely wouldn't sell it for only 120 million!
"Eighty million is too high a price. It's hard for me to convince the leader. Give me a more sincere price!"
Bakshi said slowly.
"Sixty million, this is the lowest price. If you still think it's expensive, then forget it, pretend I didn't make this call!"
"Sixty million... Alright, I'll talk to the leader first, and I'll contact you after I have a result."
Although it only dropped by twenty million, Bakshi knew that this was almost the biggest concession Russell could make.
After hanging up the phone, Russell leaned back in his chair and looked up at the ceiling.
General Ross is responsible for orders and endorsements, and Hydra is responsible for establishing the factory and company.
This arrangement is perfect!
Although Hydra hasn't agreed to his terms yet, he has already taken it for granted that Hydra has agreed.
After dealing with these trivial matters, he went to the laboratory on the second floor.
As soon as he arrived at the laboratory, he saw 3 and Peter working diligently.
He still had 4 Zaku armor sets for the military that hadn't been delivered.
Before the Octopus Monster Arms Company was established, only 3 and Peter could work hard.
After checking the progress of the armor manufacturing, he first encouraged and praised Peter, and then took 3 to the office on the third floor.
After 3 closed the office door, he said to 3, "Can you use the spare full-intelligent liquid metal to make a second set of Symbiotic Armor?"
"Yes, just need to reprogram it!"
3 replied quickly.
"Alright then, use the full-intelligent liquid metal to make one more set of Symbiotic Armor to serve as your everyday body."
After speaking, Russell took out the silver-white container holding the full-intelligent liquid metal from the system space.
"Let's start now!"
Russell said to 3.
3, controlling the armor, nodded, walked to the large silver-white cylindrical container, and tentacle-like data cables emerged from the fingertips of the armor's right hand, connecting to the large cylindrical container.
While 3 was reprogramming and manufacturing the second set of Symbiotic Armor, Russell sat on the sofa chair and waited patiently.
Since obtaining the Symbiotic Armor, he had basically not used it much, except for wearing it to fly around New York a few times.
Although he doesn't really need to wear the Symbiotic Armor to fight now, for him who doesn't have flying ability yet, the Symbiotic Armor can be used as a means of transportation in addition to combat.
It only took a little over ten minutes for 3 to complete the programming.
Under Russell's gaze, a large mass of full-intelligent liquid metal flew out of the silver-white cylindrical container.
After leaving the container, the liquid metal began to deform rapidly.
It only took a few short seconds for the liquid metal to transform into the Symbiotic Armor.
Looking at the two almost identical sets of Symbiotic Armor in front of him, Russell pointed to the set that had just finished transforming and said to 3, "The new one will be called Unit 02, and the set you're currently using will be called Unit 01."
"You'll use Unit 02 normally, and I'll use Unit 01!"
To easily distinguish between these two sets of Symbiotic Armor that looked almost identical, Russell assigned new serial numbers to them.
Symbiotic Unit 01, Symbiotic Unit 02!
Not bad!
It's decided then!
Although they looked identical on the outside, Unit 01 had some more functions than Unit 02.
Zaku form!
Unit 01 had the Zaku form that was added later.
"Okay, sir!"
3 replied immediately without any hesitation.
While answering Russell, 3 began transferring data and creating a clone program.
3's core program remained in Unit 01, after all, it was the accompanying AI for the Symbiotic Armor.
After completing the data transfer, just as 3 was about to control its new body, Unit 02, to leave the office, Russell's voice sounded again.
"3, help Unit 02 change to a new paint scheme, with red as the main color. You can decide the specific style yourself!"
"Okay, sir!"
Although 3 didn't know why Russell wanted Unit 02 to have a red paint scheme, since Russell had instructed it, it would execute it unconditionally.
After 3 left the office, Russell put the large silver-white barrel containing the full-intelligent liquid metal and Symbiotic Unit 01 back into the system space.
Time flew by in the blink of an eye.
In the blink of an eye, it was Saturday.
On this day, before Russell even got out of bed, he received a call from Tony.
"It's Saturday today, when are you coming over?"
As soon as the call connected, Russell heard Tony's undisguised excited voice.
"It's only nine in the morning now, you don't need to be so anxious, do you? I'll be there at twelve!"
Russell replied with a helpless look.
PS: It's going on sale tomorrow, so this chapter is being released early, no need to wait until 4 o'clock...