American comics: Becoming the god of technology from Osborn

Chapter 51 You are only worthy of being our OEM factory (Please read! Please give me a monthly ticket!)
Osborne Building, New York.

"This month, we have sold a total of 14281 bionic people, and the total number of pre-orders has exceeded 17. The number of orders is still increasing. Among them, the TW series bionic people account for 46%, the ST series bionic people account for 37%, and the AX series bionic people account for %."

Chloe reported the group's financial report for this period to Harry in a serious manner.

"The above is the sales situation of bionic people in the civilian market. The military has also signed an order with us, ordering a total of 15000 SQ200s, 3000 SQ400s, and 10 SQ800s. We have made reservations for prosthetic reconstruction surgeries and supporting smart guns for tens of thousands of disabled soldiers."

Over the past month, the Osborne Group has been continuously expanding the production scale of bionic humans. To date, nearly two thousand bionic humans are shipped out of the factory almost every week, and production is still being increased continuously.

Such a crazy production model not only did not cause overproduction, but on the contrary, the more supply there was, the more orders there were, and it has been in a state of supply exceeding demand.

Of course, not all bionic humans produced are sold to the outside world. A large number of them are employed within the Osborne Group. Basically, all departments now have five to ten bionic employees.

The bionic man has powerful working ability and does not need to rest. He can work 24 hours a day without distinction between day and night, which has greatly improved the work efficiency of the entire group.

However, this also caused another thing to happen. The bionic people were so capable that many employees, including higher-level managers, felt a sense of crisis that they might be replaced.

For this situation, Harry came up with a perfect solution - prosthetic modification.

All human organs such as the heart, lungs, bones, muscles, etc. have been made into prostheses. There is nothing that cannot be replaced. Those who are brave enough can even replace the brain. As for the consequences of brain replacement, even the developer Dr. Otto finds it difficult to explain clearly.

The functions of humans who have undergone prosthetic modification have improved by leaps and bounds in all aspects. Although they still need rest and are not as durable as bionic people in terms of energy, the gap between the two will be greatly narrowed, and they can also create considerable value for the group.

Moreover, Harry generously stated that the first batch of employees who voluntarily undergo prosthetic modifications will not have to pay for the prosthetics, but only need to sign a fifty-year employment contract.

Osborne Group's revenue and reputation have continued to soar due to the launch of the bionic man, driving the prosperity of thousands of industrial chains under its umbrella, which naturally makes its peers around the world jealous.

Everyone wants to get a piece of the action, and many biotech companies are beginning to get involved in the field of artificial intelligence, and vice versa.

Unfortunately, it is simply impossible to develop a bionic man from scratch that can rival the Osborne Group.

So most people decide to buy a few bionic men, disassemble them, and do reverse engineering on them.

However, it was not until they took it apart that they realized that it was easier said than done.

Because at the moment they turned off the bionic man and prepared to dismantle it, the bionic man seemed to have turned on some kind of protective measures, and the blue blood inside his body began to vaporize rapidly, disappearing into the air in the blink of an eye.

The bionic man's intelligent chip also activated the self-destruction program, deleting all data and leaving only an empty shell.

The best we can do is try to figure out the materials and related structures of biological components. As for the process and specifications for manufacturing biological components, that is an unsolved mystery and we can only use the clumsy method to practice again and again.

But even if they finally succeeded in understanding how the bio-components were made, they would not be able to make them work, because without the vital blue blood, without energy, the bio-component would be just a silicone model of a human organ.

Without Dr. Otto's neural control technology, the biological components would be purely mechanical and could not be used on humans.

Finally, it had the honor to become the OEM factory for mass production of biological components for the Osborne Group.

Hammer Industries is one of the "victims". Justin Hammer, whose Ivan Vanko was hijacked by Harry, has been in a state of panic for the past two months. No matter how much money he spends and how many people he hires to investigate who kidnapped Ivan, the result is always the same.

Not found!
Ivan, who was so big, disappeared from this world like a stone sinking into the sea, and no one saw him alive or dead.

As a result, the Hammer Iron Man project, which Hammer had spent a lot of time and energy preparing, was aborted before it even started.

It would have been fine if the plan had failed, but this plan was made with the military. Hammer boasted to them that he could create a second Iron Man, and got a lot of funding from the military.

As a result, something went wrong at the most critical link, Ivan was gone, and the Ark reactor was also lost.

Without energy, no matter how many Iron Man suits Hammer Industries produces, they will not be able to move and are just a pile of scrap metal in every sense.

The military was no fool. When they saw that Hammer had not made any move, they immediately realized that they had been fooled. They withdrew their funds directly and canceled many orders with Hammer Industries as a punishment.

Now that Hammer Industries has lost the favor of the military, its situation has suddenly become very difficult.

Hammer makes a desperate attempt to reverse engineer the secret of bionic people and then devote all his energy to developing bionic soldiers.

He definitely had no hope of getting the Iron Man suit, so he decided to change direction.

Before long, Hammer watched in tears as the blue blood evaporated, all the data on the chip was destroyed, and only an empty shell of the bionic man remained.

What’s even more infuriating is that less than ten minutes after he disassembled the android, a call came from someone claiming to be from the business department of Osborne Group.

Ask Hammer if he wants to enter into a business cooperation with Osborne and manufacture cheap biological components for them. If he wants to do it, he can take some time to come to Osborne Building to discuss it. If he doesn't want to do it, forget it.

Hammer didn't believe that this call was a coincidence. He had just taken apart the android when someone from the Osborne Group came to discuss cooperation.

Isn't this a naked humiliation?
With the technology of your Hammer Industries, you are definitely not able to understand such advanced technology as bionic humans. We in the Osborne Group are so compassionate and kind that we see that you are so pitiful that we will let you do some OEM work. I will eat the meat and give you some soup.

If you don’t want to drink it, forget it. There are plenty of people waiting to drink the soup, and you won’t make a difference.

This was roughly what Hammer understood as the so-called cooperation on the phone.

OEM is simply the name of exploitation!
It has always been the case that others have done OEM for them, Hammer Industries. How could they have ever done OEM for others?
There are not even a few companies in the entire United States that are engaged in manufacturing. Letting Hammer Industries do the manufacturing for Osborn is simply going against the grain!

So should Hammer just pretend that this never happened and continue doing his original business?

It seems that it really doesn't work. Hammer Industries is mainly engaged in military industry, and a large part of its income depends on military orders, but now the military has a tendency to neglect Hammer Industries.

Apart from arms smuggling, Hammer really needed a new source of income.

(End of this chapter)