Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 231 Avengers Assemble!

It’s freezing cold in Chicago in December.

The temperature was 28 degrees Fahrenheit, so Ethan wrapped his coat tightly and rolled up his scarf.

He trotted with his hands in his pockets, then plunged into a warm, air-conditioned carriage.

That behavior, which was like a groundhog running away, made Evelin smile and roll her eyes. Although she also felt that the world was so cold at the moment, she did not embarrass herself like Ethan and work at McDonald's who came to see him off. After the staff nodded, they ladylikely got into the back seat.

With the hum of the engine, the group left McDonald's headquarters. Looking at the suddenly moving steel jungle, Evelin asked in a funny way: "Are you that cold?"

Ethan, who was rubbing his hands, nodded quickly.

"Yeah~ Compared with California, this place is like a cold cave!"

In his previous life, Ethan lived in New York. Although the winter temperatures there were almost the same as those in Chicago, being afraid of the cold had nothing to do with a person's physical fitness.

If you stay in the comfort zone for a long time, you will naturally have a stress reaction after leaving.

California is such a place. No matter how cold it is in the Bay Area, it won't go below zero and can be done with a sweater. But Chicago?Ethan, who was wearing leather shoes, felt a little bit cold.

"Okay..." Evelin was too lazy to pay attention to Ethan's pretentiousness and changed the subject, "So... the solution you told me yesterday turned out to be to write a bad check to McDonald's?"

"Oh - the idea is really -"

"Great!"

Evelin gave Ethan a thumbs up with a happy look on her face.

In fact, when Ethan said that he could balance their cooperation with McDonald's, Evelin was indeed full of curiosity. The girl wanted to know that when "Alien" and "Starry Sky" were not suitable for children , how can Ethan convince McDonald’s to cooperate with them.

The initial communication between the two made her very satisfied. In her opinion, it is indeed a good idea to put "Snake" and "Pac-Man" into Happy Meal, because she felt that the green snake was the best from the beginning to the end. He and Yellow Bean are cuter than other game characters designed by Ethan, and are very suitable for children to buy and collect.

But when she heard the chairman of McDonald's say that the popularity value of these two images in America might be somewhat uncertain, she suddenly felt a little unhappy.

There's nothing I can do about it, it's just an old mother's mentality.

After Evelin spent a lot of time and energy to knead them with her own hands and caused a huge response in society, does anyone dare to say that they are bad?Are you blind?Or is it dark?

If it weren't for the fact that Evelin didn't care about business, she would have definitely retorted at that time and slapped the McDonald's chairman in the face with actual sales volume and the world's popularity.

But when she was holding back her anger and heard Ethan say that he would make a separate game for the "Pac-Man" and "Snake" brats, the provocation of speaking with facts made her feel comfortable. Very cool.

'Do you think the popularity of these two games in America is uncertain? '

'Oh - I'm sorry - my company's next product is them! '

'Do you think your vision is good, or do you want to say that our choice is poor? '

'uh-huh? '

Although these are all empty promises, it is more exciting to use future products to make current decisions, isn't it?Because once McDonald's expresses cooperation, it means that they actively admit that their previous judgments were wrong; and if they do not cooperate, with the blessing of time, when the future results appear, one of them will be nailed. The pillar of shame is on.

Evelin felt that they would not lose after winning for four years.

Then in this case...

Chairman of McDonald's?
Just wait to be criticized by shareholders!
Thinking of this, Evelin straightened her nose and was extremely happy.

And how could Ethan not understand what this guy meant?
But regarding my sister’s description of ‘blank check’…

He still had something to say, "Do you think I wrote a bad check to McDonald's?"

"Isn't it?" Evelin asked back: "When our company has not implemented the project you said, aren't all your promises just empty checks?"

The next second, Evelin felt something was wrong again.

"and many more!"

She looked at Ethan with wide eyes, "You haven't already thought about the game, have you?"

She raised her left hand and pointed at herself, "You hid it from me?"

"Oh Ethan—how could you—"

She raised her fist, trying to convince people with her reasoning.

The startled words made Ethan shake his head quickly, "No, No, No..."

"Calm down, calm down, calm down..."

"I was just bragging!"

"I haven't even started thinking about games or anything!"

"real!"

When Ethan opened his eyes wide and bullied to show his sincerity to his sister, Evelin also retracted her hand that wanted to hit him, frowning and said: "Then isn't this still a blank check?"

"..." This was a good question. Ethan patted the back of the driver's seat and said, "Let's not go to the airport now. Let's take a walk around Chicago."

"You can drive any way you want, as long as you don't go to Nancheng."

Evelin was a little confused by the lackluster words.

But after the driver obeyed the order, turned the steering wheel lightly, and took them around the Midwestern cities in America, the skyscraper city that had been erected since the 80s was paved with people wearing bows on their heads and on their feet. Portrait of yellow figure in high heels.

Although Ms. Pac-Man is a decent person, at this moment she has acquired the characteristics of a ghost.

Appearing in the streets and alleys like a ghost.

Although Ms. Pac-Man was wrapped in a shawl and wearing white sleeves, she looked like a lady, as if she was attending a banquet, but when she opened her hands, an invisible flag was also waved by her.

She seemed to be celebrating success, but more like she was declaring occupation.

And in every corner of the arcade, many people are braving the cold to interpret madness.

Sometimes the raised arms seem to be able to lead to cheers.

Sometimes the rotation is more like a substitution after failure.

When groups of twos and threes gather together, what is the use of force to suppress others?What's the reason for publicity?What is the use of opportunity to sell goods?It doesn’t exist at all!
"So - Evelyn - you still think I wrote a bad check?"

Looking at the crowds in the streets and capturing the female figures who could be identified at a glance, Ethan leaned in the car and said with a smile: "Games, movies, music... these things related to creation cannot be sold through simple publicity. Even if they are sold, they cannot easily receive good reviews.”

"We can attract businesses to purchase goods by rendering the competition, and we can also attract people to learn about the game through publicity of the competition. But if they are not really interested, then they will not be able to gain happiness from the game. Only if they really want to play , when you think the game is interesting..."

"They will be excited about the little bit of harvest."

Ethan stared at the world outside the window with emotion.

Evelin, who was lying on the car window, raised the corners of her mouth.

Perhaps because it was uncomfortable to look at it from a distance, after passing an intersection, she retracted her body and nudged Ethan with her elbow, saying, "Shall we go down for a walk?"

"..." Ethan didn't want to go on, "It's cold." He shook his head decisively, and pointed at his face, saying: "I only appeared on TV half a month ago. Now you want me to go directly to the street?"

"Oh—if I'm recognized, I'll be in big trouble."

"Then let's go to the cinema!" Evelin gave the solution. "Aren't our games sold in North American theaters? And Disney and Warner's games are also sold in them? Don't you want to know who's in that place? Are games more popular?"

While talking, the girl took out a mask from her handbag and handed it to Ethan, then reached out to untie her ponytail and stuffed the hair tie into Ethan's hand.

"Put on your mask and tie your hair. I guarantee no one will recognize you!"

Ethan couldn't find any faults with his neat movements.

And to be honest, he did want to see the results of his victory, so he decisively tied his long shawl hair behind his head, covered his cheeks with a black mask, and jumped out of the car with Evelin.

After waiting for them to get into the largest theater on East Illinois Street...

A stagnant heat wave made them instinctively squint, and the scene of people squeezing people to death perfectly presented the buzz of ten thousand bees gathered together.

"Go right! Go right! Go right! Go right quickly! The ghost is coming up!"

"Attention! Attention! Attention! You have eaten a lot of beans! The crazy ghost is about to appear! We have to choose a good location to escape first!"

"Oh - look! The dancing shoes! The dancing shoes are out! Come on, come on! Let's grab it quickly! Don't let the little ghost eat it! That would be such a waste!"

The sudden roar made Ethan's eyelids jump, and the critical blow from the eardrums reminded him of the scene in his previous life when he was hiding in an Internet cafe to play games - the Internet fees in that era were very expensive, and many children received pocket money. They can only use the Internet for an hour, so after spending all their savings and not having enough fun, they will reluctantly give up the computer while standing behind others to watch others play games.

When watching "Red Alert", if someone can come out with an Apache, it will cause the children to cheer.

When watching "VR SWAT", if someone completes the game in one go, it will definitely cause a scream.

While watching "Sword and Fairy"...

Cough cough cough...

This game is actually not suitable for playing in Internet cafes because it can easily attract a lot of bad guys.

The bad guys will try their best to give you spoilers and tell you how good Zhao Ling'er is. When you fall in love with Zhao Ling'er, they will tell you Zhao Ling'er's final ending, and then...

Players who have not experienced the baptism of the Internet will be heartbroken and lose the light in their eyes.

Zhao Ling'er is already dead, so what a waste of time!Ma’s money back!
The happiness of childhood is really happy, and the feeling of being carefree is really beautiful.

While Ethan was reminiscing about the past, looking around also allowed him to see everything clearly.

In the cinema where he is, there are twelve electronic arcade machines, nine of which are "Ms. Pac-Man", and the remaining three are one of Warner's "Superman" and one of Disney's "Mic." "Journey to the Vault", and the last one is "Star Wars".

As for the distribution of players, the electronic arcade of "Ms. Pac-Man" was crowded with people. If the ratio of men to women were placed in later generations, it would be absolutely correct, and "McDuck's Vault Journey" and There are two or three kittens in "Superman".

As for Star Wars?
The lonely figure is the last stubbornness——

"May the Force be with me!"

Ethan's shouting like a middle-aged child made Ethan shake his head. This achievement made him very satisfied. After a brief walk around, he found that Evelin actually bought a dozen tickets and came back. He took it and took a look, oh— —

"You want to watch "Superman"?" He was very surprised.

Because "Superman" is a Warner movie!

What's the difference between my sister's behavior and that of capitalizing on my enemies?

"What are you thinking about?" Evelin hit him angrily.

"If there's a crowd outside the movie theater and there's silence inside, wouldn't you be able to laugh loudly at Steve Ross the next time you call him?"

"You can also tell him that you contributed a movie ticket to "Superman"."

"Let him not have to thank you."

'Holy shit!So cruel? '

Ethan thought for a moment according to his sister's thoughts, and then he tightened his mouth and tried not to laugh out loud.

Although Evelyn's behavior was not very harmful, it was extremely insulting.

That petty Steve Ross would definitely smash things in anger.

"can."

"great!"

And when Ethan and his sister were strolling around Chicago with a smile after finishing their work, in New York, in the Rockefeller Building, in the conference room of Warner Communications Division, there was a cloud at the moment.

Steve Ross, chairman of Warner Communications, sat in the chair.

Below, are Kirk Kerkorian, chairman of MGM;

Cornelis van der Krugt, CEO of Philips North America;
Ron Miller, the de facto controller of Walt Disney;
Commodore owner Jack Trammell;

Willard Rockwell Jr., son of Rockwell's founder and current chairman of the company.

After waiting for the staff to leave the scene, Steve Ross, who was sitting in the main seat, put his elbows on the table, crossed his hands, and said with a smile: "I am very happy that you can accept my invitation. This holiday before Christmas We come to New York to get together at an awkward time. I know that many of you here have only heard of each other’s names and have never met each other before today, but that’s not important, right? Because being here means that We all have the same goal. We all want to—"

"revenge."

Steve Ross's words were very straightforward, but none of the old foxes present had any substantive expressions. They just looked at Steve Ross with calm expressions.

This situation made the smile on Steve Ross's face even wider. He nodded slightly and said, "Okay, since everyone gives me face, let me first tell about the harm Ethan Jones did to our Warner Communications."

"Everyone should know that Warner Communications and Ethan Jones held a new product launch conference on the same day. At that launch conference, we received a lot of intended orders, but after he introduced it to the world through a live broadcast across the country, After launching our own products, our game sales at Warner Communications shrank instantly."

"So far, the "Superman" game has sold 300 units, which is a huge gap from the [-] units we expected. At the same time, because we have prepared [-] units in advance, our current direct losses are There are more than [-] million."

"In addition to games, our Superman movie has also been a huge hit."

"When countless consumers walked into the theater just to play Ms. Pac-Man, our movie only had a box office of 540 million in the first week, which was a huge gap from the expected 800 million."

"According to the current results, even with the blessing of Christmas, the box office of "Superman" movie will not be too good. Let alone our goal of winning the year, even if it is in the top ten, I guess it will be difficult."

"This situation will cost us more than $5000 million."

"Coupled with Ethan Jones' previous attack on our home console project."

"We at Warner Communications have lost [-] million in this war so far."

Steve Ross still smiled, but his eyes were filled with ice.

And when he stood up on his own initiative and handed Warner Communications' reports to everyone for them to circulate, the guys who saw the numbers in the reports gained a little bit of popularity.

"So...who's next?" Steve Ross asked with a smile.

MGM boss Kirk Kerkorian took over the conversation and said: "Although we at MGM have only had one direct contact with Ethan Jones, which was this summer's "Tom and Jerry," that contact It didn’t cost us too much money, or in other words, from a business point of view, our MGM expansion in the field of video games is quite successful.”

"However, this does not mean that we at MGM have won."

"Because our MGM acquisition of Columbia Pictures was disrupted by Ethan Jones."

“According to the information I have learned, whether our country’s Department of Justice will reject our acquisition of Columbia Pictures, the person who made the biggest intervention was the former teacher of Ethan Jones’s sister Evelyn Johnson’s school. Barbara Babcock, professor at Stanford Law School.”

"Their behavior is a counterattack against our cooperation with Warner."

"After the acquisition fails, we at MGM will lose at least US$2000 million in cash, and we will also lose the opportunity to return to the film distribution industry in North America and overseas."

This situation made everyone present frown slightly.

No one expressed their opinion on the matter.

And Steve Ross didn't care. After nodding slightly at his friend, he turned his attention to the next person, Cornelis van der Klucht, CEO of Philips North America.

This guy didn't hesitate and spoke directly, saying: "I think everyone sitting here should know what the current situation of our Philips is like."

"We own the patent for the video game, but we have not made any profit from it to date."

"We produced the excellent home console Apollo, but this project cost us a loss of 3000 million U.S. dollars, because we have only sold 100 units of the 20 million units we originally prepared."

"We have a cooperation with MCA, the parent company of Universal Pictures, to jointly develop optical disc technology, but as far as I know, Ethan Jones is also working on this and has invested millions in it."

"I don't know how they developed it, but I know..."

"He will definitely take action against our Philips."

"And now, the MGM, Disney, and Paramount Games alliances formed by Philips..."

"It has been completely destroyed by him."

"These are facts, information that everyone can check. As for how much money Philips has lost? We can't actually calculate this. We only know..."

"If Ethan Jones continues to make trouble like this, we at Philips may go bankrupt."

If an outsider were to look at it, the words of Cornelis van der Krugt, CEO of Philips North America, might be a bit exaggerated, but to everyone present, they felt they were honest.

Because under Ethan Jones' attack, many companies present may go bankrupt and change hands.

Ron Miller, the actual controller of Walt Disney, said: "Like Philips, we don't know how much our Disney is losing. We only know that if it continues, Ethan Jones may become our Walt Disney Company." ·The Disney Group has a new owner.”

"Under the joint attacks of Ethan Jones and Roy Disney, the stock price of our Disney Group has fallen by 17.00%. Most of the sales of new games are made through internal digestion."

Jack Trammell, the boss of Komodo, said: “In the case of the chip dispute, our direct losses at Komodo were US$500 million. At the same time, under the short selling by Goldman Sachs, in order to acquire 6502, we At the cost of the collapse in stock prices.”

"Citibank and the Ford Foundation on the company's board of directors have already expressed clear dissatisfaction. If we fail to gain a clear advantage in the personal computer industry in the next year, they may abandon us and clear out their positions... …”

Willard Rockwell Jr., the son of Rockwell's founder and the company's chairman, was perhaps the most innocent. After listening to the other five, he said: "We just want to make computers."

"Then he got slapped by Ethan Jones."

“Our acquisition of Allen Bradley cost us almost $[-] million.”

"But that's not why I'm here today."

"I'm here today because we at Rockwell are very concerned that if we continue in the computer industry, Ethan Jones will do to us what he did to MGM."

"Because, as far as we know, the teacher of Ethan Jones' sister Evelyn Johnson is in the Department of Defense? Now she is a senior advisor? And she is in charge of a top secret project?"

"What we at Rockwell eat are defense orders. If the consultants in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are not satisfied with us, then let alone making computers, we may have problems with the company's operations. Because companies like Boeing, Lockheed, Companies like Thor and Martin hope that we will die soon."

"Pfft--" These words made Steve Ross, who was sitting in the main seat, laugh.

Although he knew that the smile at this moment was a bit impolite, he didn't care.

After attracting everyone's attention, he first cast an apologetic look at Rockwell's chairman, and then said: "So...have we reached a consensus now?"

"Consensus of cooperation?" he added.

This inquiry was unanimously agreed by everyone present.

As they nodded, Steve Ross also put away his smile, knocked on the table, and said: "Okay, then I declare that the Avengers meeting has officially begun."

"The topic we want to discuss today is-"

"How to Dismember Ethan Jones!"

(Volume [-]: I come, I see, I conquer)
(End of this chapter)