Kryptonians: Man of Steel

Chapter 173 The Military's Needs

Regardless of the fact that America's annual military expenditure is so high, it is still a public expenditure on the national books, and the support of the private consortium has not yet been calculated.

But they are also very distressed to ask them to spend such a large sum of money.

If it weren't for the fact that they were really bullied this time, if they come again, they will only be able to board bombers and fighter jets. It is not worthwhile for them to win, and they are not willing to come to Luther.

Wouldn't it be better to let Iron Man work for nothing?Iron Man will even pay for the battle damage he himself caused.

Luther always felt that this was the result of finding trouble for nothing and having too much money to spend.

He also doesn't care about money, and there is too much money to spend, but he will not be responsible for the damage he caused. If he dares to send any compensation bills, Luther will not care.

And this time the lizardmen's attack also made them realize that Iron Man and Luther are still very valuable.

Of course, this is also because they didn't know that the lizard serum was a product of Osborne Industries, otherwise they would have gone to Osborne Industries to request mass production of the lizard serum, and they would have given it back to them.

Norman himself was also relieved. He was also glad that he destroyed the lizard serum and traded the lizard serum to Luther.

Otherwise, he doesn't know how to be held accountable now.

"Compound No. [-] cannot be mass-produced now, and the cost has not been reduced. The funds spent on the research of Compound No. [-] have not been recovered, so I don't plan to mass-produce Compound No. [-] for the time being."

Luther shook his head and said.

To put it bluntly, the value of Compound No. [-] has not been squeezed out, and it would not be worthwhile to launch Compound No. [-] now.

Lieutenant General Alvin thought.

He is too clear about the thoughts of these capitalists. He has been doing arms sales for so many years. Isn’t that what those capitalists and entrepreneurs do? They use the defective products in the research process to sell them after the bidding is successful, and wait to extract the value of these defective products. Only when it is clean will it launch a complete one, and at this time they have already developed more advanced products.

"Money is not a problem, Mr. Luther, I got an indicator this time, we can spend 100 billion U.S. dollars every year to arm our army."

Lieutenant General Alvin said directly.

If she just wanted money, America, who was very wealthy, wouldn't mind giving some away.

In the new fiscal year, the annual military expenditure of the US military has reached 8860 billion U.S. dollars, which is very close to 9000 billion U.S. dollars.

This figure is so huge that it is unimaginable, especially when we compare it with the entire annual income of the American Federation. These military expenditures account for almost 20% of the income.

Only $240 billion to $260 billion is spent on shipbuilding each year, accounting for less than 3% of the total military budget.

Within the US military, the allocation of military budgets can be said to be quite complicated.

As one of the most important services, the navy can directly receive one-third of the total military budget, which is 3000 billion U.S. dollars.

Maintenance is a big cost, but maintenance can also make a fuss, as well as procurement, so it is not known how much value the 3000 billion can have.

Now America plans to invest an annual budget of 100 billion U.S. dollars into the cooperation with Emperor Industries, and what they want is Compound No. [-].

Luther knew very well that the actual figure of the 100 billion budget should be even greater, and he might directly report 150 billion or even 500 billion when reporting.

Only Compound No. [-] has an advantage when facing lizardmen, because Compound No. [-] is faster than lizardmen, and may not be as powerful as lizardmen, but it is faster and can be completely crushed in a battle.

"In addition, we also need a representative of America as powerful as Mr. Luther. The price is not a problem. I can be directly responsible for the budget within 100 billion."

Then Lieutenant General Alvin continued.

Using 100 billion US dollars to create a super soldier to become the representative and symbol of America looks crazy, but in fact it is not crazy at all. Ka also felt that he had earned it.

"This is impossible. My technology is top secret, but if you want it, you don't actually need Compound No. [-]. I personally recommend an enhanced technology."

Luther's expression remained unchanged. Although it was fun to create a motherlander for America, the fun cannot be brought out now, otherwise it would be boring.

The Homelanders incident was one of the small incidents prepared by Luther to entertain himself and stimulate the Illuminati's plan to strengthen the Earthlings SHIELD.

"what is that?"

Lieutenant General Alvin originally wanted to say that the only compound they wanted was No. [-], but the way of speaking must not be so direct, and they have to be roundabout.

So he planned to first listen to what Luther said about the strengthening project, and then reject it on the grounds that it did not meet their requirements.

"Both the corpses and living bodies of the lizardmen have been captured for research. I believe you are also doing research."

Lieutenant General Alvin felt something when Luther opened his mouth.

The military did get some lizardman corpses, but they didn't catch the alive ones. They got the information that Iron Man captured a live lizardman while protecting the people and killing the lizardman, and the corpse was brought back for research.

And the cooperation between Luther and Tony is almost unknown to everyone. Could it be that they have analyzed the lizard serum?
"Not lizard serum, reptiles have no potential. Do you know arthropods and insects, General?"

Luther snapped his fingers, and then a metal incubator rose up from the hole in the floor.

Lieutenant General Alvin looked at this high-tech scene, very envious and felt like a bumpkin.

Especially after a very clear video of the virtual projection model unfolded in front of Luther, Lieutenant General Alwin's eyes widened even more.

"This body enhancement technology, I call it ant serum."

Luther was talking nonsense seriously.

"Ant serum? What is it for?"

Lieutenant General Alvin was thinking, wouldn't it turn a person into a giant ant?
Like lizard serum.

"Of course not. What our Emperor Industries pursues is the evolution of the human body. The lizard serum has deviated from the evil path. What it looks like after transformation. General, do you agree that it is the evolution of new humans?"

Luther shook his head and said.

"Of course not, that would make me reptilian-phobic."

Lieutenant General Erwin shook his head quickly. The new human should be more beautiful, more perfect, and more in line with human fantasy and desire from the heart.

It's as if everyone likes to see handsome men and beautiful women, not lizard people.

"This kind of modification is potential, deep genetic modification, not something that is revealed on the surface."

Luther said.

(End of this chapter)