Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 282 Anchor Point Plot
These familiar faces come from the news and the Internet. They are not those in the entertainment industry, but tycoons from Wall Street and technology companies.

For example, Bill Gates was at the charity event, chatting with others.

The CEOs of websites such as Amazon and Yahoo were also present at the party, as was Susan Wojcicki, vice president of Google's advertising business, head of YouTube and partner of NortonEye.

Earlier this year, after Google co-founder Larry Page replaced Eric Schmidt as CEO of Google, Susan Wojcicki was promoted to oversee advertising.

The advertising cooperation for "Lucy 2" was negotiated between Norton Eye and this female vice president.

So now when she saw Tang De, Susan Wojcicki also came over and took the initiative to greet him: "Hi, congratulations, Tang."

“Thank you, Susan.” Tang De and Susan Wojcicki hugged each other and then clinked their glasses. “Congratulations to you, too.”

Susan Wojcicki smiled and said, "We need to work together more in the future. To be honest, my children have been clamoring to watch Lucy Part 3, and I like this movie very much, too."

"Thank you for your like." After exchanging pleasantries with her for a while, Tang De thought he could have some peace and quiet for a while.

Unexpectedly, when Bill Gates passed by Tang De, he suddenly asked, "Tang?"

Tang De quickly stood up: "Hello, Mr. Gates."

"Hello, Don." Bill Gates shook hands with him gracefully, and then said, "I heard your new movie is a big hit again."

"Yes, the box office is higher than the previous one." Tang De nodded.

"I heard it's a series of movies, right?" Bill Gates seemed very interested in the Lucy movie.

"Yes."

"Then do you want to make a game?" Bill Gates' Microsoft has always had a game business. When this was suddenly mentioned, Tang De immediately raised his eyebrows: "Of course I'm interested, Mr. Gates."

If the Lucy IP can be made into a game, it will be very helpful in expanding the influence of the movie.

But of course Bill Gates couldn't discuss the specific details with him. The two simply confirmed their intentions, and then the rest was left to the people in charge of Microsoft's gaming business.

That night, Tang De bought several pieces of Tang Dynasty porcelain at a charity auction and then stored them in his most heavily guarded villa.

Jessica also expanded her network of contacts at the charity gala, especially with the wives of wealthy people. Although these people do not have any real power, they can influence the wealthy people in North America.

After the charity gala ended, Microsoft quickly sent someone to negotiate with Norton Eye about the IP of Lucy.

The attendees also included the famous game production studio consortium, Zenimax Media
This company is a partner of Microsoft and has many game studios under its umbrella. It has produced "The Elder Scrolls", "Fallout" and "Doom" series, as well as the classic assassination game "Dishonored".

This time, Microsoft wanted to purchase the "Lucy" IP to make games, so it found them.

Since both parties did not have many objections to IP cooperation, the meeting quickly moved on to the issue of revenue.

But Microsoft is rich and powerful, and did not bother with Norton Eye at all, so this link with the longest delay was skipped directly.

The two parties directly entered into negotiations on specific matters of IP cooperation.

In addition to Microsoft, many other companies came to us, such as Mattel, which sells Barbie dolls. They wanted to produce some Barbie dolls based on the Lucy series of movies.

There's also Hasbro, which wants to make some Cyberpunk toys for kids.

These things took up a lot of Tang De's time, but fortunately, he reaped a lot of rewards in the end. Not to mention the movie box office, just the IP share after the cooperation could earn him about 60 million US dollars.

After finishing these things, Tang De continued to work on the new movie.

Norton Eye has two blockbusters this year, with Greta and James Wan directing one each. They have now entered the shooting stage. In order to ensure the quality of the films, Tang De has to run between the two and control the quality of the films as a producer.

Fortunately, both Greta and James Wan are very capable. Although Greta has never filmed a blockbuster, she has been learning from Tang De and is experienced, so she is quite comfortable when it comes to blockbuster production.

Therefore, within three or four months, the two films were completed at the same time and entered the post-production stage.

Although Vincenzo, who had been looking forward to the ending of the Earth story, could not wait for the movie, Warrior Comics released many single-player comics of heroes during this period.

Vincenzo bought all of them and took them home to watch.

From these comics, he discovered many details and a lot of plots about Lucy, especially one of the black characters, Verus.

This character is a black prosecutor who voluntarily resigned because he was unable to change the current corrupt situation and the fact that high-level government officials oppressed the people.

This made him, a man with a strong sense of justice, feel confused and even desperate, and he left the procuratorate with no other options.

However, privately, he still works as a private detective and lawyer, helping some people obtain their own rights.

While helping people with their lawsuits, he suddenly received a special case. The client was a group of people infected with the disease. They wanted to sue the largest group in the city, the Maconsri Military Industrial Group.

Because this group conducted experiments near their homes without obtaining everyone's consent. As a result, after the experiment, the soil contained extremely strong radioactive elements, which corroded everyone and caused partial necrosis of their bodies.

This was undoubtedly something that the people could not tolerate, so Virus agreed without hesitation and began to investigate this special experiment of the Maconsri Military Industrial Group.

But during the investigation, an accident happened. The group discovered the facts of Virus' investigation and released the mechanical hound to hunt him down.

In order to escape, Verus had to bury his body in radioactive soil.

When he came out of the soil, he found himself covered in blood and his face was completely unrecognizable.

He screamed in fear and ran like a wild animal. He thought he would completely melt away due to necrosis, but he didn't expect that just after his flesh melted into his skeleton, his body would undergo new changes.

Verus has awakened supernatural powers and can infinitely multiply his body.

Although this superpower looks a bit disgusting, it has to be said that it is very practical.

With infinite proliferation, he soon had many clones and successfully investigated the inside story of the experiments of the Maconsri Military Industrial Group.

It turned out that the Maconsri Military Industrial Group discovered a magical piece of land near the gathering place through geological exploration.

This piece of land is square, 5 meters by 5 meters in size. It looks inconspicuous and no different from other lands, but it has many strange elements, all of which are elements that have never been found in the periodic table. It stands to reason that these elements will gradually spread and migrate over time. But the elements on this land do not follow this characteristic. The Maconsri Military Industry Group has been searching for a long time and has not found any traces of element migration, as if all these elements are bound to this land by an unknown force.

To this end, the Macon Sri Military Industrial Group began to conduct experiments to artificially migrate elements to see what would happen.

As a result, after these elements were moved, they soon dissipated after emitting strong radioactivity, and the McCansli Military Industrial Group had to make a lot of efforts to preserve them.

Finally, they found a suitable method to preserve these elements by using a container containing CPH4 elements.

After Virus discovered the truth, he quickly filed a lawsuit against the McCansli Military Industrial Group in court. However, the McCansli Military Industrial Group was deeply rooted and maintained close cooperation with the political arena, so it was not afraid at all.

On the contrary, they hired lawyers to sue the people, claiming that these people were slandering them and committing fraud.

Virus had to desperately investigate the evidence, so he commanded multiple clones to sneak into the Maconsri Military Industrial Group to try to steal secrets.

But unfortunately, the capabilities of the Maconsri Military Industrial Group were more powerful than he imagined. They found his real body through Varus's clones, and used firepower to eliminate most of his clones, and finally captured him alive.

This behavior resulted in no lawyers defending the people after the court opened. In the end, the judge directly declared that the McCandless Military Industries Group was not guilty and believed that the people were suspected of defamation and should pay McCandless Military Industries Group a sum of reputation loss compensation.

After the verdict, Virus suddenly became the object of everyone's scorn.

Everyone thought that this guy must have received money from the McConsley Military Industrial Group and deliberately did not show up at the trial. Especially when Virus reappeared later, he was dressed in a suit and tie, becoming a so-called upper-class elite, which further confirmed everyone's speculation.

So everyone's anger shifted from the Maconsiri Military Industrial Group to Virus.

It was in this context that Lucy and her group came to this era.

She came here following clues about the land. After investigating Virus, she went to Virus' villa and met this notorious elite lawyer with her own eyes.

As a result, she discovered that this Virus was not a real person, or rather, he was not the real person at all.

Lucy led others to conduct an in-depth investigation and finally discovered that the Maconsiri Military Industrial Group had used some unknown means to control Virus's clone. In other words, the Virus who now appeared in front of everyone was just a puppet without self-awareness.

In order to find the true identity of Virus, Lucy led everyone to the Maconsri Military Industrial Group and successfully found Virus in the laboratory on the bottom floor.

However, the condition of this original body is not good, it can even be said to be very bad.

Because he has been cut into countless pieces, each piece has been used in different experiments, and the only part retained is the head.

The rest is cut off soon after it grows out.

Even though it was just a cartoon, Vincenzo felt creepy and his hair stood on end after seeing this scene.

The same thing happened to Lucy and her group. They immediately rescued Virus, destroyed all the laboratories, and rescued his clones.

However, after a long period of isolation and experimentation, Varus' spirit had already collapsed and fell into chaos. No matter how they tried to wake him up, they could not save Varus.

As a last resort, Lucy traveled back to the past again.

It was at this time that an important setting was thrown out.

That is the law of world lines. If Lucy helps people in the past to change the established history, the world line will fluctuate and a new world line branch will be born.

That is to say, they saved Varus, so the world lines now become two, one is that Varus was rescued, and the other is that Varus was not rescued.

The Varus they rescued was no longer the same Varus as before, but the Varus in a completely new world line.

However, Vincenzo had no idea what this setting represented. He only knew that Lucy and the others would not easily change the world line.

The reason for saving Virus is that in the future, Virus will become brain dead.

If we don't rescue him now, it will be too late.

After Lucy returned to the past, she saw Virus who was about to be arrested and handed him a crystal.

This is a little gadget made of CPH4, infused with Li Si's superpowers, that can soothe the mind.

Lucy then traveled back to Pierre, and Verus woke up at this moment.

According to his account, he had gone through all kinds of unbearable torture over the years, but fortunately the things Lucy had given him helped him and prevented him from collapsing.

Now that he is out of the cage, he wants to make the Maconsiri Military Industrial Group pay the price.

Then, Verus joined Lucy and her group, blew up the entire building, found the person in charge, and imprisoned him.

He was not killed directly because Verus wanted him to be punished by law and to vent the anger of the people.

But now he is no longer suitable to stand in front of the stage, so Li Si took over his duties, became a lawyer, and disclosed all the scandals of the McCansli Military Industrial Group.

The power of the Macon Sri Military Industrial Group collapsed overnight, and all criminals were punished.

At the same time, Lucy and the others came to the place where Virus buried himself and found that special piece of land.

"So what is this?" Virus was a little confused. Even though he had researched a lot of information, he still didn't understand why this land was so special.

Lucy explained, "This is an anchor, one of the anchors that seals off the sky... We need to destroy it, but not now."

After reading the comics, Vincenzo also understood that after the ancient gods left the earth, they covered the earth with a layer of sky, isolating them from the real galaxy.

To break the blockade, you need to find several anchor points and destroy them simultaneously.

Now that Lucy and the others have found the first one, using this calculation, the rest will not be difficult to find.

"So when will the sequel to Lucy be released? I really want to see the third one." Vincenzo made a complaint on the forum, and then suddenly saw the promotion for The Eye of Norton.

“Wow, the Lisi and Leopatra movie is finally coming out!”

(End of this chapter)