"Haha, Mr. Killian, just as expected of an outstanding young man. Since that's the case, then I won't beat around the bush."
"Germaine, didn't you already prepare the dessert gathering? Take Miss Lisa and Mrs. Redman to enjoy it first."
After hearing Killian's words, Kennedy laughed and then spoke to his wife beside him.
And after hearing her husband's words, Germaine immediately understood. She stood up and invited the two women to step out with her.
Lisa, upon hearing Mrs. Germaine's invitation, also tactfully rose to her feet. After giving Killian a slight smile and signaling to him, she left straight away with the two ladies.
"Alright, now it's just the three of us."
"Mr. Killian, before we discuss business, I have to admit that you are a true genius."
"According to my team's analysis, every single piece of technology in Baymax, developed by your company, is years or even decades ahead of anything currently on the market."
Once the ladies had all left and only the three of them remained in the room again, Kennedy immediately praised Killian.
"You flatter me, Senator Kennedy. We've only managed to get ahead of other companies in certain areas of research."
Killian replied politely.
"Perhaps. The main reason we invited you here this time is because I think very highly of Baymax, and of your potential as well."
"If you don't mind, this old man and Senator Redman would like to be friends with you."
After seeing Killian respond, Kennedy continued.
The reason they had lowered themselves to personally invite Killian over this time was precisely because of that.
Because both of them had personally experienced the wonders of Baymax.
It could be said that if someone told them it was a creation from a hundred years in the future, they would have believed it without hesitation, and yet it had now been created in the present.
That was why, right after experiencing it, they hurried to arrange a meeting with Killian.
And they also believed that the world was not lacking in clever people.
Once others realized this point, they would definitely come to win him over.
But did they not have the advantage of being closest to him first?
"Haha, Senator Kennedy, you think too highly of me. Becoming friends is of course no problem. After all, for a businessman like me, having more friends only means having more roads to take. There's no downside."
"However, in business, I also believe in one saying, there is never affection without reason."
"I assume, Senator Kennedy, that you want something more as well?"
After hearing Kennedy's words, Killian smiled and said.
"Of course. Since ancient times, if friends want to maintain their friendship, the most important thing is shared interests, isn't it?"
"As long as we have common interests, then we'll be friends forever, won't we?"
At that moment, Kennedy looked at Killian with his wrinkled face wearing a smile as he spoke.
"Mm-hm. I'm listening."
Now that the topic had been laid out openly, Killian calmly swirled the wineglass in his hand and answered.
"I have two proposals."
"The first is that we purchase twenty percent of your company's shares for three billion dollars. In return, you will gain my friendship and Mr. Redman's friendship as well."
"Within the United States, we will both support you with everything we have."
"What I can guarantee is that with the two of us, along with our like-minded colleagues in the party, anyone in America who wants to make a move against you will first have to weigh whether they even have that qualification."
And when he said those final words, Kennedy's eyes showed a dominance that did not belong to a man of his age.
Especially that line, that within the United States, anyone who wanted to touch him had better first ask themselves whether they were qualified.
Killian did not doubt those words in the slightest.
Because Kennedy was not only one of the representatives of the Democratic Party, the strongest of America's many parties, but behind him stood the Kennedy family, one of the five evergreen families present since the founding of the United States.
The sheer power behind him was obvious.
To put it bluntly, in this place, if black technology were not taken into account, then even the Stark family would amount to nothing more than a nouveau riche family in comparison.
And Killian, who understood that very well, knew that Kennedy truly had both the aura and the right to say such things.
And to be honest, if he wanted to develop more technologies in the future, then he would have to cultivate more allies of his own.
Reduce the number of enemies, increase the number of friends.
That was the proper development direction for a company.
As for those TV dramas and movies where people casually sent assassins to kill each other, anyone with a brain would not act like that.
"Mm, a very good proposal. And the second?"
To be honest, Killian was a little tempted.
But only three billion dollars in exchange for twenty percent of his shares?
Sorry, his money was not blown in by the wind.
Forget three billion, he would not agree even for thirty billion.
"Five hundred billion dollars, in exchange for Baymax's core technology. The real core technology. The intelligent chip and the scanner."
After hearing Killian's words, Kennedy suddenly leaned forward and spoke at extremely close range.
The greed in his eyes was so undisguised that Killian felt he could still sense it even if he closed his eyes.
As expected... there was not a single simple politician in America.
Or rather, the simple ones could never climb to this position.
To be honest, five hundred billion dollars in exchange for Baymax's technology was indeed not a bad offer for Killian.
But those technologies were the key to his company's future development. There was no way he could hand them over.
Everything after this, whether artificial intelligence or other robot development, would require Baymax's technological foundation.
And besides... Baymax was still only at the beginning.
Killian's expectations for Baymax were that of a truly all-purpose robot, and even now, the people in the lab were still working overtime to develop new functions for it.
If he sold Baymax off now, then he would be no different from a fool who traded away a golden egg-laying hen for a pile of gold bricks.
"Heh, Senator Kennedy, this conversation of yours is truly eye-opening."
"To be honest, it's a real pity you didn't become a businessman."
Looking at Kennedy, who was nearly leaning right into his face, Killian pushed his chair back a few spaces before finally speaking unhurriedly.
"Heh, in our world, politics and business don't conflict with each other, do they?"
In response to Killian's words, Kennedy leaned back into his own seat again and said with a half-smile.
(End of Chapter)
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