William was still surprised that Stark would relent, "Jarvis was fine, he was just scared and locked himself in the main server at the Malibu beach house."
I would also like to remind you that the voting rights for my 7% of Stark Group shares are given to you on the premise that not only do my shares and yours have the same rights, but if you want to increase your shareholding, I also have the right to increase your shareholding.
So if you plan to repurchase the shares of Stark Group at a low price, please notify me as a shareholder before taking action to avoid legal problems."
"Damn it," Stark cursed in his mind. In order to guarantee his voting rights, he had indeed signed a lot of guarantee clauses with William when he obtained the voting proxy rights for William's shares.
One of the things that made him most uncomfortable was that as long as he did not sell his own shares, William's shares could not be diluted.
Now that William said this deliberately, he quickly thought that Obadiah was eager to see him because William found out about his loan, so he used the name of super wine to call Obadiah to London.
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I just don’t know what Obadiah thought about the matter after the two met, or whether the two conspired to do something.
Rubbing his forehead, Stark quickly said, "Of course, man, if it weren't for the sake of confidentiality, and you have been ignoring the company's affairs all these years, I would have gone to London to discuss the war in the desert with you.
problem”.
"Then I still have to thank you, but" William smiled, "Now that I take back the voting rights given to you, there should be no problem."
"What do you want to do?" Upon hearing that William wanted to be a share voting agent, Stark instantly thought that the other party wanted to acquire a large amount of shares in the Stark Group.
In terms of cash alone, there is probably no group or individual in the world as rich as the Devonshire family.
And once the 7% voting rights in William's hands are gone, with the 28% of the shares he holds, he will not be able to achieve the veto power that only 33% of the voting rights of the shares have.
In the past, because 28 plus 7 equaled 35% of the voting rights, he had a great advantage and firmly controlled the Stark Group.
In addition, if William breaks away from the restrictions and has to seek William's support for everything in the future, not only will the nine-level shareholders in the company be very close to William, but it is also likely to form a shareholder force surrounding William, and even
Those small shareholders who cannot join the board of directors will also spontaneously move closer to William.
After all, although it took him seven years to increase the size of the group from hundreds of billions to more than 300 billion, compared with William's achievements in other fields, it does not seem so dazzling.
Fortunately, he also had a trump card, the problem of miniaturization of the Ark reactor. These days, he had achieved results, and he was just waiting for the stock price to plummet when the war was over to take it out.
But then he thought of the personal armor that William wore when he was fighting the Decepticons in Egypt and the glowing thing on the chest of the ten-meter-tall super mecha, which seemed to be very similar to the small Ark reactor he designed.
As soon as his forehead darkened, he heard William say, "It's not what I want to do, but my unconditional support for you for seven years, but what I got in return was suspicion and unethical network intrusion.
Tony, you are so unreliable."
I thought that William would use some other excuses to deal with him, but he didn't expect that the other party would say it so directly.
For a moment, he regretted letting Jarvis invade before. If he had changed positions, he would probably have taken more drastic actions.
"Okay, I'm sorry, really, man, I apologize."
"Then let's do this for now. My lawyer will go find you." William smiled. There seemed to be very few people who could force Tony Stark to apologize. "Finally, let me remind you that I have no respect for the title Merchant of Death.
interest, we should not be enemies."
Listening to the busy tone on the phone, Stark sat in the car and pondered what William's words meant. Before he could figure out whether William was implying, or just because he had made several times the stock profits for William over the years.
court.
A phone ring interrupted his thoughts.
"Jarvis, who's calling?"
It took him several seconds to realize that Jarvis was being forced by William to retreat into the underground server of the Malibu beach house.
Thinking of this, Stark instantly put William's reminder behind him, cursed William secretly, picked up the phone and answered the call.
"Tony, where have you been?" Obaday complained with some annoyance, "You who are only twenty minutes away from your Long Island villa are actually slower than me who is coming from the airport?"
Stark was very embarrassed to be asked, "Sorry, Stan, I'll be there soon."
After hanging up the phone and turning on the lane change light, the white R8 roared and hurriedly took about ten minutes to reach Stark Tower.
Taking the exclusive elevator to the top floor, as soon as he opened the door to the living room, he saw Obadiah standing by the huge floor-to-ceiling window with a glass of red wine, quietly looking at the silent night of the Upper East Side.
"Hey Stan, why are you looking for me so urgently?" Stark said, pretending not to know.
Obadiah pointed to the red wine on the long table in the living room, "If I were you, I would try that bottle of red wine first. I guarantee that a person like you who is messing around all day long will find a treasure."
Walking to the long table, he picked up the wine bottle and took a look. Stark saw the logo of Devonhill Castle on the bottle, pursed his lips and frowned sarcastically,
"That little guy is a real bastard. His castle is not a winery, but he has the nerve to use it as a wine label."
After hearing this, Obadiah just smiled casually.
The worse Stark's impression of William, the better it is for him.
Once these two super geniuses join forces, what will the Stark Group have to do with him and Obadiah in the future?
"Don't worry about William, but this wine is indeed different." He stepped forward, drank the remaining wine in the glass in one gulp, and held out the glass for Stark to help him pour the wine.
"Is it really that magical?" After pouring Obaday's cup, Stark immediately poured himself a third of the cup.
After holding the glass and smelling it, he showed the same intoxicated expression as Obadiah had before, and quickly took a sip from the glass.
Not long after, Stark looked at Obaday in surprise, "Stan, are you sure this thing was made by that guy William Devonshire?"
"It's incredible, isn't it?" Obadiah nodded with a smile, then put away his smile and said seriously, "But what's even more incredible is that I actually only found out about your loan from the bank from William Devonshire.
What do you want to do, Tony?"
Stark frowned and cursed William secretly, "I didn't want to do anything. I just felt that the war was coming to an end, so we had to make necessary preparations to deal with the future decline in stock prices."
Obaday, who knew Stark very well, saw Stark's expression and knew in his heart that Stark should not have any doubts about him, "Then you should discuss it with me, instead of letting an outsider remind you.
I".
"Just a reminder?" While drinking William's wine, Stark felt the changes in his body, but he doubted, "Does he want to take the opportunity to increase his shareholding, or even have other ideas that he shouldn't have?"
"There should be some ideas about increasing our shareholding, but other ideas should not be aimed at us." Obama calmed down his thoughts, and then changed his focus and expressed William's views on the military business.
When he first heard these words, Stark was still dubious. When he heard that William actually had a complete industrial chain on Mars, he could not only mass-produce combat robots, but also build whatever he wanted.
Stark's expression was as bitter as eating a lotus seed, "That bastard boy has only been back from Mars for a few years? He has already developed to this point."
When Obaday heard this, he couldn't help but sigh. The two of them drank a bottle of magic wine in silence. Stark shook his head and said, "Since he can develop minerals on Mars, that doesn't mean that the gold in his hands must be better than all of us."
How many times more than imagined?
If anyone makes him unhappy and releases thousands of tons of gold into the market at will, all currencies will fall and the market will be in chaos in an instant?"
"Then what can be done? He is the only one who can land on Mars. However," thinking of William not grabbing food in the mature industry, Obadiah finally showed a smile on his face, "From his experience in the past few years,
Judging from his actions, William also understands that a chaotic market will not be good for him."
"Forget it, regardless of William, the guy we can't check and balance, let's talk about how you plan to repurchase the shares and how to increase the stock price after the repurchase."
Stark, who had already made a plan, curled his lips, smiled and clapped his hands, trying to get Jarvis to use a new weapon to prevent this situation from happening today, and to deliberately come up with a new weapon to deal with shareholders.
But then he thought about Jarvis being forced to close down, and his face darkened, "If you're not sleepy, let's go to the Malibu Beach Villa."
After taking out the phone and asking someone to prepare a private jet, he said, "I invented a new weapon, but to keep it secret, it is only stored in the underground laboratory of the Los Angeles villa."
Obadiah felt nervous. He had never heard of new weapons before, but then he thought about it and thought it was natural.
Otherwise, just repurchasing shares without raising the stock price would not be in line with Stark's character, let alone the principles of a businessman.
"Then let's go and rest for a few hours on the plane."
Seven hours later, Stark and Obaday boarded a helicopter at a private airport in Los Angeles and landed at their Malibu villa half an hour later.
As soon as I walked into the villa, I saw Pepper Potts wearing a women's work suit.
"Good morning, Mr. Stark, Mr. Stan."
"Good morning, Pepper." When Stark saw his personal assistant, a real smile appeared on his face. "Take care of Stan for me. I have to go to the laboratory to handle something."
"No problem, Mr. Stark." Pepper nodded with a smile, then extended his hand to Obadiah and said, "This way, Mr. Stan."
Obaday also knew that Stark was going to get the so-called new weapon, and there was no need for Pepper to lead the way. He came countless times, patted Stark on the shoulder and walked to the villa first.
Seeing Obaday and Pepper go to the viewing hall on the second floor of the villa, Stark walked to the basement with a sullen face.
Use your fingerprint and password to open the bulletproof door, go straight to the secret power distribution room, hold the huge switch and push it upward, and connect the electricity to the basement built in the villa mountain. Jarvis's voice soon appeared in Stark's room.
in the ears.
"Good morning, Mr. Stark."
"Good morning, Jarvis." Hearing the familiar voice, Stark couldn't help but smile with joy on his face, "Welcome back Jarvis, it seems we will be very busy in the future."
"Yes, Mr. Stark, there are too many areas for improvement in my defense system and computing procedures, and you'd better provide me with a stronger server. Otherwise, if I encounter yesterday's situation again, the probability of failure is as high as 99.999%."
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As soon as he heard about the server upgrade, the smile on Stark's face immediately disappeared.
Six months ago, he upgraded the server for Jarvis, which already cost him 5.6 billion U.S. dollars. If the total cost was included, it would be 1.2 billion U.S. dollars instead of 1.5 billion.
But these servers, which were completely piled up with money, were actually breached by William's artificial intelligence in just ten seconds.
In terms of other software such as programs and systems, Stark is still confident that if he is given some time to develop, he will definitely not be weaker than William in the end.
But hardware problems are not something that can be solved in a day or two, or even by him alone.
Even if he is confident that what he develops will be several or more than ten years ahead of the world, if he wants to produce it, it will involve the development of the entire industry.
No other company can produce the new technology that I have developed myself. In the end, I have to create the equipment to produce servers from scratch. That would be funny.
If this is the case, Stark Group will probably change from a weapons dealer to a processor service provider.
His head hurt and he frowned and asked, "How big do you expect the difference in computing speed between your own and William Devonshire's artificial intelligence to be?"
This question made Jarvis calculate for ten minutes before he said, "It's impossible to predict, sir. In addition to the servers in the villa, I also called the servers of the entire Stark Group.
Even in the last few seconds, all the idle hosts in California were commandeered by me, but the opponent still broke through all the defenses in ten seconds. This is a gap of an era."
"Damn it," Stark yelled angrily, "What kind of new technology did that bastard kid come up with? Or did he produce tens of thousands of supercomputers on Mars to serve as the mainframe?"
"Mr. Stark, based on my experience with the other party, seven of the artificial intelligence's information processing locations come from the United States. The specific location is unknown, but it should be in the northern part of the United States."
"How is this possible?" Stark was overjoyed at first when he discovered that Sunday's host was in the United States, but then his face darkened. "You mean, the other party broke through your defense without using all their strength?"
"Damn, this is the funniest joke I've heard this year."
"Sorry, sir, although the signal transmission speed is close to the speed of light, if you want to transmit it from England, you need to pass through the network center in the United States, which will delay a few tenths of a second.
When the other party attacked me, there was no delay at all. I can only guess that the other party has a server in the United States."
"Can you find out where it is specifically?" Stark thought for a moment and then added, "Or just the specific state."