Chapter 371: Harmless to Humans and Animals
"Penglai City is the world's first floating city built by our company. It is located near the equator and is mainly used for scientific research. After the airport is completed, we will consider opening it to tourism. The entire city has adopted highly automated equipment and big data computing management, and the demand for manpower has been reduced to a minimum..."
After Umbrella officially announced the appearance of Penglai, it also launched some promotional videos, which included photos of various areas of Penglai, internal videos, ports, docks, and people working there, all accompanied by commentary.
Anyway, it is positioned as a civilian scientific research city, and may be opened to tourism in the future to form a tourist city. It is even hinted that it may be comparable to entertainment cities such as Las Vegas in the future.
A floating city on the sea, that sounds impressive, right?
It’s no wonder that after the possibility of competing with Las Vegas was mentioned, it really aroused the vigilance of many relevant interest groups.
Because it’s highly feasible and possible!
At present, this is the most suitable attribute.
A sea city that completely belongs to Umbrella . A company owns a city that belongs to it alone, and it is on the high seas. This is indeed something that people yearn for.
In addition, the trailer also contains a lot of design plans for the future of Penglai City, as well as concept drawings and simultaneous explanations.
"...Now everyone can see that there are still many hollow steel frames in the city. When we complete all the modifications later, it will have a completely different image. This is the concept map..."
As the commentary video completely used AI special effects to simulate the simulation special effects, the city that originally looked full of industrialization and mechanical charm was transformed, and suddenly a beautiful city floating on the sea appeared in everyone's eyes!
The top floor mainly contains various runways, helicopter platforms, and a central control tower. The second floor is the area where personnel actively move around, and there are also many warehouses and related factories that were airlifted in.
The third floor also has some warehouses and factories, but its main function is to handle goods from the dock.
There is also a fourth layer underwater, which is planned as a soilless cultivation layer to meet the needs of the entire city. Breeding nets can also be drawn under the sea to raise some economical fish.
It can be said that each level has different difficulties and technologies, but this gives people enough confidence in Umbrella.
And many people still yearn for it.
The main reason is that the AI's CG concept map is so beautiful and looks too sci-fi, even giving a feeling of a futuristic space city.
"The city remains stable now because the bottom layer has been filled with water. When the city construction is gradually completed, the water will be slowly drained to form a new buoyancy source and complete the transformation of the planting warehouse."
The concept map also briefly explains some principles, and it is very easy to understand.
Even some of the platform's defensive weapons are explained directly in the introduction.
Small artillery batteries that look like Vulcan cannons and can intercept rockets are planned in various areas.
Some are for air attack, and some are for water attack.
However, compared with the huge city, these weapons seem quite miniature and do not have any ferocious feeling at all.
"Although the armed forces are crude, they are more than enough to prevent pirates. In addition, for the convenience of the sea, our company has obtained the authorization for arms procurement and weapons manufacturing from Mexico. We are now preparing to purchase a batch of armed helicopters and rescue helicopters. After the runway is completed, we will also have the intention to purchase transport aircraft..."
Umbrella then started spending money again.
The most profitable company, no doubt about it!
This is how the outside world evaluates Umbrella, a company that is truly wealthy enough to rival a country.
While seizing a lot of high-end profits, it also opened up some profits in new tracks.
Even though Mexico is spending huge amounts of money and ordering large ships, and is still purchasing shiploads of supplies, it can still free up some cash flow to purchase aircraft.
As soon as this news came out, Airbus and Boeing became uneasy.
This is really a big order!
Boeing itself is one of the giants in the United States' military-industrial complex, with such profound background that it can be promoted personally by the person in charge of the United States!
All in all, Boeing and Umbrella still have a vague hostile relationship for the time being, and with Boeing's well-informed level, it is also aware that the authorities are preparing a "contraband search plan."
But when faced with such a large order, they still chose to speak directly with interests.
You are welcome to search, but your original plan was to find an excuse after the airport is built. So why not just wait until I sell the plane first? At least, you can go after I have collected all the money!
Anyway, it won’t take much time!
Whether it is an airplane or their airport, it takes time.
And Umbrella did sign an order with Boeing totaling more than 3 billion US dollars!
Ten Boeing 747-8 cargo aircraft.
This is an excellent civil cargo aircraft with a carrying capacity of up to 23 tons. It is also the cargo aircraft with the lowest air transport cost, and it is indeed quite suitable.
However, Boeing's order will not be delivered immediately. In addition to these ten new aircraft, Umbrella also chose to purchase or lease some second-hand aircraft.
It can be said that the deal on civil transport aircraft was reached quite quickly.
But the issue of armed helicopters was stuck and no one was willing to come up and talk!
Although Boeing has manufactured the famous Apache, this time they only accepted the transport order and did not mention any armed helicopters.
The international arms trade is not simply about paying for things, it usually involves many other political stances.
If it's a gun or something, it's actually quite easy to deal with. Even some light armored vehicles are easy to buy.
But once we got to the helicopter, the problem became difficult to solve.
Don’t think that helicopters seem to be readily available on TV stations. In fact, the technical requirements for armed helicopters are quite high, especially if they have to adapt to the environment on the sea, which makes the requirements even higher.
It's not like just adding some firepower to civilian helicopters.
You know, the Rabbit's Z-10 has only been in service for three years! It has not even been exported yet!
Da Piaoliang just held back on selling it, which immediately caused other forces capable of selling armed helicopters to become subdued in their attitudes.
Even the miserable Russian bear is afraid. Even if Umbrella takes the initiative to come to them, they may still be cautious, let alone just spreading rumors.
For weapons and the like, it is common to pay first, then delay delivery and then suddenly increase the price, or not deliver the weapons at all. It is completely different from civilian use.
After Umbrella spread the word, but no supplier responded, it did not go around looking for supplies. Instead, it simply bought a few civilian helicopters and purchased some anti-material rifles.
At least for the pirate force, this combination is more than enough, and it also fits the image of the security company...
