Amidst envious gazes, Michael drove the knight xv at breakneck speed to the Queens... Group headquarters building!
Michael didn't want to go to Manhattan and be neighbors with Tony Stark.
Michael's strength was not yet powerful enough to directly confront the Ancient One and Odin.
Before obtaining the Tesseract, Michael also didn't want to disrupt too much of the plot.
Although, with Tony Stark having already blacklisted S.H.I.E.L.D., he certainly wouldn't join the Avengers.
But as long as Michael didn't interfere with Thor's storyline, even if most of the plot of "Avengers One" didn't happen, Loki attacking New York with the Chitauri army would definitely still occur.
Activating the Tesseract requires a huge amount of energy, and where better to get it than the Stark Tower in Manhattan, New York!
Michael didn't want his own... building to be destroyed once, even if it was just a plaything in Michael's eyes.
But he could play with his own toys as he pleased; if others wanted to destroy them, that was unacceptable!
Although Tony Stark used private, completely unknown forces.
But... the ability to directly purchase a building in Queens as a headquarters still made Michael realize.
What it meant to be an obscenely rich person. This is what it meant to be an obscenely rich person!
"Sir, the preliminary preparations for... have all been completed."
"Currently, two projects are underway: first, acquiring the weapon research and manufacturing department from Stark Industries through normal commercial means."
"Second, merging with a pharmaceutical research, manufacturing, and production company that owns its own manufacturing plant."
"Currently, progress is good."
"However, the remaining funds are not much."
"...requires more capital investment."
Harry Hennis, acting general manager of..., a senior Wall Street elite privately trained by the Stark Family!
However, Michael knew that this guy had another nickname: 'Stark Family loyalist'!
"Understood," Michael said.
"New funds will be deposited into the company account soon."
"You'll serve as interim for now; once the new president takes over and gets familiar with things, you can return."
Michael waved his hand, dismissing him.
"Yes, sir!"
For Harry Hennis, if the family sent him to establish the... Group for Michael, then he would simply do it well.
For a loyalist specially trained since childhood, there was no need to know why, only to execute orders.
Harry Hennis bowed like a subordinate to Michael before exiting the chairman's office.
"Tsk tsk."
"This wicked capitalist World."
"And these big families, big players."
"It's 2024, and they still have loyalists!"
Seeing the door close, Michael clicked his tongue and sighed with emotion.
"Taibai, you heard all that, right?"
"Transfer ten billion U.S. dollars to the Group's account."
"Once everything is on track, it will be... time for it to be World-renowned!"
Tapping his fingers on the table, Michael said into thin air.
"Understood, sir!"
"Sir, the funds have already been deposited into the company account."
Taibai's capabilities are similar to Jarvis's; these... operations are quite simple.
From yesterday, when Michael returned to Earth, he had Taibai begin transferring funds from those... stagnant bank accounts.
Even so, after collecting the funds from various banks' dormant accounts for just one year and consolidating them, Michael quickly possessed over a hundred billion U.S. dollars!
Becoming the richest man in the World so easily, Michael, unfortunately, felt nothing anymore.
What's more, to avoid attracting attention and global panic, while White was moving on these dormant fund accounts, he also used the mutated gem to alter reality.
The memories of all relevant personnel were modified.
In other words, these hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars, and in cash no less, were Michael's completely legitimate and legal funds!
Although this operation consumed a large amount of energy due to modifying the subjective consciousness of intelligent beings.
That was a huge sum that Michael thought he would never possess when he first transmigrated.
But unfortunately, Michael merely teleported back to the Venus Space Station, basked in the Sun for a while, then replenished all his energy, and teleported back to Earth.
It's worth mentioning that after fusing with the Perfect Superman Bloodline, when energy absorption reached its limit, Michael would no longer be in such unbearable pain that he couldn't breathe.
He merely felt his body a bit bloated.
"From now on, you will take over the entire... Group."
"Refer to the management model of Stark Industries and provide assistance to the management team."
"Your main task is to monitor the entire Group, down to every single employee, identify their identities, and then set their ranks!"
"Agents and spies do not need to be dealt with, but limit their promotion ceiling; they can only be ordinary employees for life."
"Yes, My Lord!"
...After simply increasing White's workload, Michael began to consider who should take on the role of CEO for this... Group.
Harry Hennis was a loyal follower of the Stark Family, and even currently, all the senior executives of the entire... Group were loyal followers of Stark Industries.
These people were only borrowed for a while...
Although if Michael asked, Tony Stark would give all these people to Michael, Michael had no intention of taking them over.
Michael scratched his head, "Do I have to hire? Who knows what kind of weirdos will be hired in this Marvel Universe!"
He hissed, thinking about it really gave him a headache.
"How about..."
"Skye?"
When he first activated his super hearing, Michael seemed to hear a girl praying to find her biological parents.
Michael didn't know if this was Skye, but anyway... Michael felt that a lonely girl looking for her parents, this kind of drama, was still possible to imagine!
"It seems feasible."
"In the original story, this poor girl, though manipulated by S.H.I.E.L.D. to become S.H.I.E.L.D.'s super enforcer."
"But for a period, she even became the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.!"
"In that case, Skye's leadership ability is definitely sufficient!"
Michael tapped his fingers on the table, thinking carefully, it seemed feasible.
"Then, the 'Save Skye' operation..."
"Begins!"
To be continued: Feilu reminds you: three things for reading: collect, recommend.