Chapter 45: 1 year

*Chirp~chirp~*

In the forest of a certain place, a pair of grey finches were singing happily.

The dazzling sun shined through the cracks of the maple leaves and fell on to the wet ground. If you were to look closely, there are all kinds of mosquitoes flying around.

Of course, The pleasant scene was being recorded by a rather sneaky camera man.

You see, If he can set up his camera, the pictures he can take there will definitely be included in the "National Geographic" or "Animal World" allowing him to earn a fortune and become famous as everything before him looks so beautiful.

*Boom—Boom—!*

However, the roar of the engine of a black Hummer broke the tranquility of nature.

Although there was no clear road for vehicles in these woods, the hummer can rely on it's brutal off-road performance assist it while driving deep into the woods.

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Inside the car;

"Huh...ha..." There was the sound of someone breathing lightly while sleeping.

If you were to look inside you would members of team Alpha and Hank in suits in the front and co-pilot.

Meanwhile sitting in the back was William, who was leaning on a cushion and sleeping with his head up and his mouth open.

*Gu-long! Gul-ong!"* The tire seemed to run over a larger stone, causing the body of the car to shake.

But even though William's body was swaying he didn't wake up.

"Lieutenant."

The Alpha who drove the Hummer asked Hank, "It's coming up, do you want to ask the boss to wake up?"

Hank said quietly: "No, let the boss take a break."

"Yes, Lieutenant."

The two Alphas returned to silence, leaving only William's steady breathing in the car.

Shortly after.

Hummer drove past the wild forest area and came upon a dirt road that was lightly blocked by a more luxuriant foliage.

"Oh~! Uh~!"

William stretched, rubbing his sore neck, as he lowered his car window and looked outside.

The cool breeze under the shade of the tree help him sober.

Today was August 17, 2007, and it has been more than a year since William came to this world.

Umbrella also developed wildly within it's first year, monopolising the vast majority of Canadian companies.

Even if the outside world does not know how many assets William has, the US magazine "Fortune" still ranks Umbrella in the twentieth position of the world's top 500 companies.

"Fortune" used Umbrella's obvious own companies to calculate, and found that the Umbrella corporation's operating income was about 100 billion, while it's profit was about 14 billion, even while there were tens of thousands of employees.

Umbrella's various data overpowered Bank of America and became the 20th largest company in the world.

What about the world's number one?

It's….......Wal-Mart.

That's right, it's the Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart's operating income is 351.1 billion, and its profit is 11.2 billion.

But the world's second-largest BP has a profit of 22 billion yuan, even Umbrella's 14 billion yuan. How did Wall reach the world's number one?

That's because Wal-Mart's number of employees has reached a frightening 1.9 million, and it has been ranked first in the top 500 for many years.

However, "Fortune" magazine did not give a very good evaluation of Wal-Mart. On the contrary, it praised Umbrella.

They even published several articles stating that Umbrella will be the leader of mankind in the 21st century, and this attitude has obviously started to confront Wall Street.

For this, William would like to say thank them.

Because of the smoke-free war between Fortune and Wall Street, his Umbrella sits firmly on the cusp of the storm.

The money was incoming.

William is happy that he can get attention without preforming all kinds of micro-manipulations. So of course he would like to thank Fortune magazine.

Most of the 14 billion profits calculated before are deposited in the accounts managed by the system, and are completely owned by him.

The monthly amount of system funds that can be spent on itself is 500,000, but compared with 14 billion...

William didn't bother to touch the half a million.

Speaking of system.

Fortunately, William bought the Bank of Nova Scotia a long time ago.

Otherwise, if the world knows that he has 150 billion every year...

Well, that would be fun.

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During this year, William used the "Athabasca Agreement" signed by Umbrella and the United Nations to frantically acquire various arms companies.

Lockheed Martin was the first to fall, followed by Boeing, and then various veteran arms companies.

This means that...

V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft, C-130 Hercules, F-22 and other core technologies were all mastered by Umbrella.

Many of the past owners complained, but didn't complain.

Umbrella's nature was not moving as a country, but William's personal possession.

And capitalism also highly advocates personal property. If you have money, you are the father.

Working class?

They never really had rights.

The world is said that it was full of democracy and freedom, but in fact... hehe.

Now William is the father and the fund owner of most companies in North America.

With this, Umbrella's arms department used various core technologies and various drawings purchased in Ukraine to produce a large number of enhanced vehicles and weapons for the armed department.

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As for Xbox's research and development plan, it had been a bit shelved.

On the contrary, the "Resident Evil" that was going on at the same time was about to be completed.

For the Bungie production team, William is very confident.

After all, the first Xbox game "Halo" from his original world came from Bungie.

When William became a major shareholder of Microsoft and discovered that there were people from the Bungie production team in this world, it was hard to say how excited he was.

Xbox can be inextricably linked to the game. It is precisely because of the magical work of "Halo".

The Microsoft executives from his original world convulsed and forced Bungie to let 343 take over, almost ruining the "Halo" series.

Getting back to the subject.

When Bungie's "Resident Evil" launch, it will definitely shake the this worlds game industry.

But…

As stated before, Xbox development was stalled.

The software for games is easy to say, but the hardware had been full of billions of troubles.

Microsoft's engineers and designers can't understand what William said about the mainframe, because it is very different from an ordinary computer.

In the end, it just made a shell and drive system.

Fortunately, this shell looks good, similar to the original Xbox360 final version...

But it was still a trash prototype!

During the time when Microsoft was researching Xbox, William voted more than 100 million back and forth.

What is special to make a shell?

Want to know how many lives of agents or soldiers can be saved by this money?

Therefore, William directly used one of his major shareholders' rights to open up to a group of real engineers.

But there is another problem, who can he get to develop it...

In desperation, William chose to seek the help of Halsey's genius.

William didn't expect much. After all, no matter how smart Halsey is, it is impossible to understand the needs that the players will have... right?

Though it should be known as a fact is that she only needed two nights to work out the various circuit diagrams and software systems of the Xbox.

"..."

Thinking of this, William, who looked at the scenery outside the window, and felt really speechless.

Xbox console and "Resident Evil" being the first series of games that were expected to be released in the early morning of January 1, 2008.

At the same time, "Iron Man" will be released on November 11 this year.

And as the finale of "Star River Fleet 2", it will premiere on the early morning of December 26 on the Boxing Day after Christmas.

By then, Umbrella's three masterpieces will be listed one after another.