The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 335 Ransom technology exchange! The soaring monster stock!

"I have to get out of here as soon as possible!"

Quentinsha opened her palms and began to make hand gestures. A strange written symbol appeared in front of her eyes in an instant. It was a text similar to the ancient Cybertron language.

But compared to ancient Cybertron, this text contains more information and has more meaning.

Ancient Cybertron is considered the aristocratic language of the Transformers universe, and civilizations that can master this language are basically high-level civilized species.

The language of the Creator civilization comes from ancient Cybertron.

Swish——! !

The unique symbol suspended in front of Quentinsha was beating regularly like the melody of music and emitting bursts of faint blue light.

Quentinsha stared at the runes in front of her, with her hands fixed in a fixed position, trying to call upon the high-level officials of the Creator Civilization.

'I wish those old guys weren't dead yet.'

Quentinsha cursed in her heart, but she was also looking forward to hearing their voices. After all, at this critical moment, only her "family" could help her.

Other high-level beings of the Creator civilization exist in the prosperous areas of the universe all year round, where there are bright stars and countless cosmic wonders.

The extremely large celestial bodies distorted time and space, and the bent time strings formed countless "paradise" that were specifically used for the scientific research experiments of the Creator civilization.

It is also because of this that sometimes the communication signals sent by Quentinsha may not be received by the Creator's high-level officials.

However, this time, the distress signal that Quentinsha created through her hand gestures was a special signal of the highest standard.

It has stronger penetrating power. After passing through the signal amplifiers set up by the Creator civilization in various parts of the universe, this signal can be transmitted to a distance of half the universe.

Now, this is Quentinsha's only hope.

"Hurry up and answer!"

Seeing that the runes in front of her had begun to gradually dissipate, but there was still no response from the other side, Quentinsha felt anxious.

If you don't reply, it will die soon!
Fortunately, just one second before the rune was about to disappear, Quentinsha finally received the signal sent back by the Creator civilization.

[Quentin Sha...]

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Three months later.

Ideal City, headquarters of the Ten Thousand Worlds Base, command center.

Since the battle with the bounty hunters ended, the integration progress of the Transformers universe has come to an end, and the solar system and Cybertron have all been taken over by giant corporations.

The sphere of influence of the entire Milky Way is also being rapidly swallowed up and occupied by the expeditionary forces sent out by the giant corporations in the universe.

Any bounty hunter or other Transformer forces who disobey the orders of the Corporation will be routinely persuaded to surrender and then beaten up by the Corporation Expeditionary Force.

Thanks to neutron killing and the high efficiency of ship-borne weapons such as the MD-500, the "persuasion by reason" of the giant companies in the world is very effective.

On this day, Otto Cunningham urgently convened an internal high-level meeting and asked the heads of various departments and military marshals to all come to the conference room for the meeting.

Because Quentinsha, who had been sleeping for three months, finally woke up!
In the meeting room of the base headquarters, Otto stood on the main stage and looked around at the executives of the giant companies present. There was a holographic screen behind her.

The person on the screen was Leon, who had already left the Wanjie Base and returned to the Night City headquarters.

He looked down at the many executives present at the scene, like the ultimate boss controlling everything behind the scenes.

"Everyone, Quentinsha has now awakened. The first thing she did after waking up was to communicate with our staff, hoping to negotiate with us as a high-level member of the Creator Civilization!"

"And the bargaining chip she offered was to redeem her freedom with the core technology of the Creator civilization."

"According to it itself, it has already established private contact with the top leaders of the Creator Civilization."

Ott Cunningham got straight to the point and dropped several bombshell pieces of news. The most important of these was, of course, that Quentin Sha was going to exchange technology with a giant company.

This is something that all the heads of the scientific research department have been longing for.

But this news may not be good news to the generals of the Development Department, because Quentinsha has already contacted the Creator Civilization.

This means that Quentinsha now has the support of the Creator civilization, and they may fight with the Creators over Quentinsha's ownership.

"Wasn't it locked in the FTL Inhibitor? How did it get out again and get in touch with the Creator Civilization? What's going on?"

V asked in confusion. Quentin Sha was under the surveillance of the giant company's employees around the clock, and she "slipped away" right under their noses. This was somewhat beyond his imagination.

Soon, Ott gave his answer in time.

It turns out that the ways of asking for help used by Quentinsha and Yuanshi Tianzun are quite similar, which shows that high-level Transformers have some special communication skills.

It's a bit similar to the thousand-mile sound transmission in the fantasy immortal cultivation.

After careful investigations over the past few days, engineers from the Research Department have discovered countless miniature signal amplifiers in various parts of the Milky Way.

This also shows that the Creator Civilization's superluminal communication technology is not as advanced as that of the Universe's giant enterprises, but through such an amplifier, it can barely achieve a similar communication efficiency.

“Creator Civilization…!”

The top executives of the giant companies showed a thoughtful look. After a brief thought, Lucius Lane took the initiative to step forward and said:

"This matter requires formal negotiation. Let me go talk to Quentinsha!"

Lucius Lane is the interstellar governor who was just replaced from the 002 "Pacific Rim" universe, and now he has returned to his previous position as the mayor of Night City.

The position of Mayor of Night City may seem low on the surface, but Night City is the capital of the world's largest corporation and the most core center of power!
This is completely different from other metropolitan areas. If it were converted into an ancient official position, it would be the Jingzhao official under the emperor.

At the Night City headquarters, Leon's AI cabinet member Loki also made suggestions:

[Boss, if Quentinsha is really willing to give out a portion of the core technology of the Creator Civilization to redeem her own freedom, then we can accept it.]

[After all, the bodies of Yuanshi Tianzun and Cosmic Emperor are in our hands, so they can't pose any substantial threat to us.]

Although Quentinsha was always thinking about how to destroy the earth, revive Yuanshi Tianzun, and restore the universe to the ancient times.

But fighting and killing is really not in line with Quentinsha's professional field.

The bounty hunter corps it formed was a completely weak and second-rate force that was torn apart before it even entered the solar system.

Quentinsha herself also became a prisoner of the giant company.

From the beginning to the end, the price paid by the world's giant corporations was nothing more than a tiny amount of energy consumption and a cheap spot of light strike.

[Loki and I share the same view, provided that Quentinsha trades with us sincerely and brings out sufficiently heavyweight technology.]

AI Schiffer also gave advice.

[In addition, according to the log of the Research Department, Quentinsha also controls some advanced suspended animation technology. When it merges with metal objects, we cannot detect its vital signs at all.]

[But in this case, Quentinsha can still get in touch with the Creator civilization! ]

It turned out that during the period when Quentinsa was sleeping and pretending to be dead, engineers from the global giant company conducted many tests on Quentinsa, but the final results were all the same.

That is, Quentinsha had no signs of life. From the outside, it seemed that it had merged into the metal wreckage, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a living being or not.

At first, the engineers of the giant enterprise speculated that Quentinsa's consciousness activities were carried out in its core.

But if the core is dismantled rashly, it may cause irreparable harm to Quentinsha. If Quentinsha is killed, it will be a big trouble.

[If Quentinsha continues to pretend to be dead and refuses to cooperate with us, we will not be able to establish contact with her for a long time in the future. ]

【This is quite detrimental to our development! 】

AI Loki continued.

The reason why the development speed of the global giant enterprise is so fast is mainly due to Leon's will, which is constantly pushing it forward.

High efficiency and doing things neatly and efficiently have long been the belief of every employee of a large company, so everyone will try to convert the gains into tangible combat power or technology points in the shortest possible time.

Letting Quentinsha leave is of course risky for the Universal Corporation. After all, no one can guarantee whether it will come back with the Creator civilization to take revenge on the Corporation.

So even if you want to let Quentinsha go, you have to first take away all the technological knowledge from her!
After listening to the AI ​​cabinet members' speeches, Li Ang nodded and gave the final verdict to the senior executives of the Wanjie Base:

"Quentinsha can't let it go easily. We need to get as much information as possible from it, especially the [Seed] technology."

After receiving the order from the supreme leader Leon, Ott Cunningham immediately arranged for personnel to have the Astartes warriors bring Quentinsha to the meeting hall.

They decided to have a frank negotiation with Quentinsha right here!

On the one hand, these are all backbone senior executives of giant companies. They are all people who are nurtured by power and naturally have a sense of authority as superiors.

On the other hand, it was also to put some pressure on Quentinsha so as to gain a dominant advantage in the subsequent negotiations.

Not long after, a squad of Astartes Guards led by Mann escorted Quentinsa into the meeting hall.

The members of Mann's team back then all have their own career paths now, and most of them have risen from grassroots staff to management level.

And Mann is the commander of Leon's Guards, controlling the most elite Guards among the Astartes warriors. These Guards are all Primaris who have completed the transformation surgery.

They were the top fighters carefully selected from the Iron Hands, and they were also one of Leon's few core guards. When the Imperial Guards, with an average height of more than 4 meters, walked behind Quentinsha in full armor, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became solemn.

At this moment, Quentinsha has changed into the appearance of a human woman. She is wearing a blue robe, with faint runes appearing on her face, giving her the image of a mysterious witch from the Middle Ages.

Facing the imperial guards behind her and the room full of executives from giant companies, Quentinsha was not at all panicked. She even had a disdainful sneer on her face.

As a god, it won't be fooled by such a little trick.

Just three months ago, Quentinsha received a reply from the Creator's top leaders, and was told that in order to be saved, she must compromise with the organization and never leave the Creator civilization again.

Under pressure from reality, Quentinsha could only temporarily accept the conditions of other high-level officials of the Creator Civilization.

Disbanding my independent studio, returning to the organization to continue being the mother of life and being responsible for my own work section, although I have lost a certain degree of freedom, it is better than being a prisoner of a giant company.

Now, the Creator civilization far away in the depths of the universe is gearing up and heading to the solar system urgently to pick up Quentinsha.

But before the main force arrives in the solar system, Quentinsha's own safety still needs to be handled by it and it needs to mediate with the giant companies.

When they saw Quentinsha take the initiative to transform into a human form, the executives of the giant companies, who had been quite aggressive at first, suddenly became a little overwhelmed.

Because they were facing the face of a human female, they really felt it difficult to speak for a while. Quentinsha's initiative to show goodwill by retreating made them feel embarrassed.

However, Otto Cunningham remained unmoved. She looked at the other party calmly, then signaled Lucius to start negotiations.

As a top bureaucrat in the top echelons of a global corporation, Lucius Lane is best at maintaining stability, communicating, and cooperating with people from all sides.

He had already demonstrated this outstandingly when he was the chief of the NCPD in Watson District and worked as a lackey for Leon's LA company.

It is natural that he will be responsible for dealing with Quentinsha this time.

"Quentinsha, let's stop talking and start doing the deal."

Lucius did not exchange polite greetings with the other party. Instead, he waved his hand and brought up a holographic screen filled with densely packed technical projects.

All of this information was learned from Yu Tiandi.

As a senior "archaeologist" of Cybertron, Megatron certainly knows about the technical knowledge that the Creator civilization has mastered with a high probability.

From the advanced maintenance techniques of Transformers to various miraculous high-level "skills and techniques", Yu Tiandi explained them all.

In addition, there is a part of the content that is technological points guessed and imagined by engineers from giant companies.

Because the members of the scientific research department of the global giant company have no way of determining what magical technologies Quentinsha has mastered. If they find out that some of them are missing, they will suffer a huge loss.

So these engineers and scientific research members also used their own ideas to write a series of outrageous technologies and tried to ask Quentinsha for them to try.

If these technologies are available, that would be great, but even if they are not, it doesn’t matter.

Most of it is guesswork anyway.

Looking at the text information appearing on the screen, even with the most advanced data processor, Quentinsha was stunned for a moment before she came to her senses.

After reading these outrageous requests, Quentinsha was instantly amused. She raised her eyes and stared at Lucius, and asked in a cold and gloomy voice:
"Are you making a wish to me?"

"If you are making a wish, then according to human religious beliefs, you should worship me and have everyone kowtow to me."

"Please ask me to reward you with these useless things."

Quentinsha looked at Lucius with undisguised contempt. These stupid monkeys really had wild ideas.

If it weren't controlled by others, it would really like to crush all these fragile and stinky monkeys and throw them into the cold outer space like garbage.

Seeing this, Lucius just smiled indifferently. For an old bureaucrat like him, being shameless is a basic professional quality, so being humiliated is nothing.

Anyway, the giant global company holds the absolute initiative in the negotiations. It can first ask for a high price to scare the other party, and then gradually make concessions and reduce the price. It will not be too late to get the improved version of the [Seed] technology that the boss wants.

This kind of anchoring effect is very useful whether it is business negotiations or merchants selling products.

Although the Creator Civilization is more powerful than the Bounty Hunter Corps, distant water cannot quench immediate thirst. The one who is anxious now is Quentinsha, so Lucius does not have to worry about the other party not buying it.

"Quentinsha, as far as I know, you are an ancient god who has lived for hundreds of millions of years. You must know more than what is listed here."

Lucius said this in a slightly flattering manner. He was flattering the other person and trying to get him to talk.

As expected, Quentinsha snorted first, then said: "Hundreds of millions of years? Haha, I have existed since the birth of this universe!"

With just this one sentence, Lucius has learned that Quentinsha has lived for tens of billions of years, which also indirectly shows that the technological points she knows must be extremely numerous.

"I'll tell you the truth. I can't provide you with so many technologies. You can only pick the most important ones. I don't have other technologies."

Quentinsha was too lazy to continue the tug of war with Lucius and stated her bottom line directly.

Because the technical requirements put forward by the global giant are really outrageous.

What about artificial microuniverse, tearing space dimensions, disrupting the cosmic dimension strings... those are the unique skills of the Emperor of the Universe and Yuanshi Tianzun, how could it possibly know!
Even if she knew, Quentinsha would not be able to use it. Otherwise, with the Universal Corporation, there is no way they could catch her.

"Well, let's talk about this part of the technology."

Lucius smiled with a look of success. He highlighted the key technical contents designated by Leon on the holographic screen and asked Quentinsha to make a deal.

"Okay, that's all!"

Quentinsha looked at these familiar technical projects and instantly felt confident because these were all things she was familiar with.

Moreover, these are not considered to be core high-tech technologies. They can only be said to be relatively important, but not the most critical technologies.

Immediately, Quentinsha raised her finger and wrote a code on the holographic screen, transmitting part of the technical information to the database of the giant enterprise.

This is considered part of the ransom paid to the global giant. As for the rest, both parties need to make concessions and slowly make up the difference.

After receiving the technical information from Quentinsha, Ott Cunningham immediately stepped forward to receive and check it.

[Seed technology for making deformable metals, underlying algorithms that make machines intelligent, a full set of space bridge technology, stellar energy extraction technology...]

These technologies are relatively basic but very practical, and they happen to meet the minimum "ransom" requirements of the world's giant companies.

"I have annotated these technologies in sufficient detail using human language. Unless you are stupider than monkeys, it will be easy for you to understand them."

Quentinsha said reluctantly.

Although it had already prepared itself mentally to hand over the technology before the negotiations, it was still difficult to actually give these valuable contents to the giant enterprise.

Quentinsha felt somewhat tormented and reluctant.

Each of these pieces of scientific and technological knowledge is one of its unique skills, and is a universal truth that is the result of countless experiences and experimental summaries.

Otto Cunningham ignored Quentinsha. She immediately asked the staff of the research department to conduct tests based on this information to see if it would work.

At this time, Lucius also suggested that both parties suspend negotiations and exchanges. He set aside this period of time mainly to allow the staff of the Research Department to test the technology.

And waiting for the latest instructions from boss Li Ang.

"Quentinsha, our negotiations need to be suspended for a while. We can talk about something else before the experimental results come out."

Lucius showed a flattering smile, but in Quentinsha's eyes, it was particularly disgusting. It frowned and responded coldly:
"I have nothing to talk about with you humans."

From the bottom of her heart, Quentinsha looks down on humans as a civilized species.

Even if the cosmic giant is a human civilization from a parallel universe, in the eyes of gods like it, it is just a monkey that has gained some kind of opportunity, and is ultimately a monkey in human clothing.

"Aren't you curious about why Transformers like the Autobots and Decepticons would rather betray their creators and firmly serve humans?"

Lucius's casual question unexpectedly hit Quentinsa's heart, making her face instantly darker.

"Ha! I have created so many civilized species. They are nothing to me. I am just following the order of Yuanshi Tianzun and letting the Cybertronians act as watchdogs."

"Who would have thought that the guard dog not only failed to guard the house, but also let the wolf in. If I had known that these damn beasts would betray their own people, I should have drowned them in the magma!"

Quentinsa was of course extremely angry about the betrayal of Transformers such as Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Primal.

But now it has faded.

As long as they can leave here safely, these Transformers can do whatever they want. Anyway, I will have plenty of means in the future and can train a group of guards loyal to me.

"Quentinsha, it seems that you have a deep misunderstanding of our world-class giant."

Lucius continued to smile at Quentinsa without changing his expression. Although he was feeling angry in his heart, he still had to remain calm when dealing with this special god.

Just now, the boss Leon has told him that Quentin Shake is a "big customer"!
"The tenet of our Universal Giant Company is equal exchange. Whether you are strong or weak, as long as you contribute your value to the giant company, you will get enough rewards."

"Of course, in most cases, the conditions we offer to the strong are: one point of investment, two points of reward."

Lucius now felt like a salesperson selling blue chip stocks.

But the reason why the global giant company has been able to develop rapidly into its current huge scale is that it relies on countless "salesmen" like him.

Relying on deception and hype, they frantically promote the technological development of giant companies, increase productivity and then distribute dividends to attract more investors.

In less than a hundred years, an indigenous civilization was transformed into a super civilization close to a high level. This growth potential is totally a "monster stock" that will soar to the sky!
(End of this chapter)