American comics: Becoming the god of technology from Osborn

Chapter 89 Roxxon Collapse
"Welcome to today's Daily Bugle News Radio. I'm J. Jonah Jameson. I'm sure you're all aware of the horrific events that took place in Harlem a few days ago."

"A monster with horns and a mysterious man with a hammer fought on the campus of the Roxxon Group. The fight eventually led to the collapse of the Roxxon Building. An eyewitness took a video and boldly exposed it."

"We still don't know the identity of the witness or his current situation, but we can be sure that he must have risked his life greatly to shoot the video."

"If it weren't for this mysterious man, we would never know that Dario Aguerre, the once highly respected president of the Roxxon Group, was actually a monster. He might even be a mutant. We would not know how many criminal activities he has been involved in over the years."

"Every time I think of the witness who may have suffered retaliation, I can't help but feel sad. No matter who this person is, he is a true hero! He dedicated himself to a just cause!"

At this point, Jameson suddenly changed the subject and criticized righteously: "Not like some masked man who wears strange clothes and crawls on the wall every day. Yes, I'm talking about Spider-Man! He is not a hero! He..."

Almost a week has passed since the Roxxon Building collapsed and Dario began his escape.

During this period, SHIELD still did not give up on suppressing the heat of the incident and concealed as much information as possible.

Thanks to Dario clearing out all the people in the Roxxon Park in advance and the Quinjet's stealth technology, only the few people at the scene saw Alpha Team from their appearance to their departure.

Therefore, basically, apart from the videos and criminal evidence that the stand-in Pierce ordered Hydra to spread on the Internet, and the actual collapse of the Roxxon Building, other secret information related to Asgard, SHIELD and Hydra is unknown to the outside world.

All news media that reported this incident only focused on Daario and did not pay much attention to the unidentified Thor.

As for the Osborn Group, which was hiding behind the scenes and directing everything, even the people from SHIELD and Hydra knew nothing about it.

At first, SHIELD may have more or less suspected that it was the Osborn Group that spread the video footage. After all, Osborn's artificial intelligence technology was obvious to all, and it was not shameful for SHIELD to be unable to compete with it.

Of course, Tony Stark, who invented Jarvis a long time ago, is also within the suspicion of SHIELD. To be honest, if we only count those who have the ability to do it, the list is actually quite long.

But after Dario said the word Hydra in an angry tone, even the most suspicious Fury turned all his attention to Hydra without hesitation.

Especially when Fury suddenly remembered his dearest mentor, Pierce, who seemed to have not been seen for a long time, and after thinking about the various strange details carefully, he believed 70% of what Dario said that Hydra was hiding in S.H.I.E.L.D.

It is worth mentioning that when rumors that Thor and Dario were suspected to be mutants were spreading, Genosha was the first to come out to clarify that neither of them were mutants. However, the result was the same as before, people never cared whether they were really mutants or not.

In this series of events, the one that suffered the most was undoubtedly the Roxxon Group itself.

The headquarters campus in New York was reduced to ruins, the company's boss became a criminal and his accounts were frozen, the group's top executives were forced to accept investigation, and a host of financial crimes were implicated.

The stock price was plummeting every minute. In just a few days, Roxon's stock price fell from its historical high to its historical low, and it was still breaking new records.

This is far beyond the description of broken bones.

To make matters worse, too many forces are jealous of Roxxon's energy industry. Usually, few people dare to go against Roxxon because they can't find any evidence against it. Now Roxxon is facing the most serious crisis in history. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is at the end of its strength. Those who didn't dare to come out before naturally all came out and began to frantically grab the cake that Roxxon originally occupied.

The force that grabbed the most cake was the Osborne Group.

Harry took advantage of the low stock price of Roxxon Group and directly acquired more than a dozen Roxxon subsidiaries, covering many fields such as oil extraction, mineral collection, bioenergy research and development, weapons manufacturing, digital products, and even an officially licensed nuclear waste treatment plant.

The Roxxon Group is a giant enterprise after all. Energy is their main business, but not the only one. They also have many other very profitable industries.

Roughly speaking, the cost for Harry to acquire these businesses was at least twice as cheap as starting over on his own. Even if he did nothing, he could still make a fortune by reselling them to other companies.

After this incident, the Roxxon Group was severely damaged, the company's assets shrunk by more than half, and the shares were reshuffled. Harry became the largest shareholder with 34% of the shares, Ekana Venture Capital Company held 18% of the shares and was the second largest shareholder. The third largest shareholder was Rand Industries, which held a 15% stake.

The former was a venture capital company headquartered in Connecticut that had invested in many companies. Harry didn't know much about this company, but he was more familiar with the latter, Rand Industries.

The company of the famous street hero Iron Fist is Rand Industries, but now it belongs to Harold, the murderer of Iron Fist's father. Iron Fist has not returned from Kunlun yet.

All in all, although the Roxxon Group still exists, it is no longer the same Roxxon it once was.

All members of the board of directors were replaced and reorganized, all important positions throughout the group had to be replaced, and there was a mountain of miscellaneous tasks that needed to be dealt with in a timely manner.

Fortunately, these tasks have little to do with Harry and are handled by employees of the Osborne Group.
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Washington, S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Triskelion Building.

Ever since Hydra was exposed, the atmosphere in the entire SHIELD has become particularly solemn in the past few days, and everyone is looking at their colleagues with scrutiny.

Everyone consciously kept a distance from each other and kept their nerves tense at all times.

Fury looks like everyone looks like Hydra.

"Haven't you found out where Pierce is yet?"

In the director's office, Fury asked Hill with a grim expression.

"I'm sorry, Director. No one has seen Deputy Director Pierce since last month. He hasn't even made the routine report to the World Security Council."

Hill shook his head.

"Neither the surveillance records nor the mission files provide any clues to Pierce's whereabouts."

(End of this chapter)