"Hello. I am Ankit Alderson, the owner of galaxy technology.", Ankit said calmly while shaking hands with Ross.
"Is this the product?", Ross said as he looked at the robots beside Ankit.
"Yes, these are the products. We should go towards the test field to give a live demonstration of their capabilities."
"Yea, Sure."
Inside the military base, the test field had shooting targets, all kinds of guns, weights and a race course to test soldier's flexibility and endurance.
The first test was shooting targets. The robot flexibly picked up all sorts of pistols, automatic guns and even knives to hit moving or stationary targets at various distances. The thing that amazed Ross the most was the fact that the robot hit a moving target 1700 meters away with a McMillan Tac-50. Even more amazing was the fact that the target was at a hight speed at around 25 meters per second.
"Very good. They can make excellent snipers and even be vanguards.", Ross said excitedly.
"There's more.", Ankit said with a smile.
Soon, the robots were instructed to lift the weights. Even 500 kg of weights were easily lifted. They jumped over 3 meters.
The test for flexibility was passed with flying colours as the robots finished it within half the time a normal soldier would take and this alone was in par with the ace soldiers in the army.
"You can also test their melee. Send a few of your soldiers to beat them.", Ankit said in a leisurely manner.
"Go.", Ross said.
Soon, eight soldiers sent were lying on the floor, out of breath and mildly injured. Major General Ross's eyes brightened when he saw this but soon returned to earlier solemn exression.
"We will surely order the products but their loyalty or the fact that who controls them is abit worrying?", Ross said.
Of course, this was a thing to be considered. What if the military bought robots and used them but at last they were betrayed and the whole country was taken over.
"You can rest assured in this matter. When you buy these robots, we intend to sell in batches of ten and you will get the master control of the ten robots and also the self destruction box. With that, you can even destroy the robots if the master control is lost. And as for problem from me, I am just a businessman. You will not have any problem from my side."
"One more thing. The battery problem. The stats you sent us indicate that the robot can only function for three hours."
"That is correct. Also in battle conditions with too much movement, it is likely that it will only work 2 hours or so. We are working on developing new batteries, so after around a year or two we can replace the batteries of the sold robots for free but the new robots might have a slight price increase."
"That's good. How much is the price for each set?(each set contains 10 robots)", Ross asked.
"$10 million."
Ross sucked in a cold breath of air. According to unit price, this was a million dollars per robot. Even the MQ-1 predator drone only cost slightly above 4 million dollars. But after a little thought, he knew that it might be worth it.
He had been allowed to spend a total of $1 billion dollars to buy these robots. He indeed did so.
"100 sets. We will order more after observing their use in the battlefield."
Ankit was pretty natural. The robots were being produced and soon the production capacity would reach 1,000 robots per day. But, of course this was 50 percent normal robots with standard weak metals, thirty percent premium civillian(normal) robots with slightly better performance while only 20 percent were combat robots.
"We can deliver in about two months.", Ankit said.
"Okay. The money will be transferred to your company's account soon."
"What about overseas sale?"
"You can do it but in limited quantity.", Ross just said 'limited quantity' but didn't number it directly.
"Very well. We will be taking our leave now."
The same chopper that dropped him here took him back. He also took both the robots back.
Ankit was soon back. He didn't return home but went to the company to have a talk with Ashly.
"Ashly contact countries that US currently exports arms to and ask them if they want combat robots. The price for them is $ 1.5 million per robot. Also I will send you design drawings for a factory. You build them."
Ankit was very stunned but more intimidated when he saw the powress of US military after visiting the military base just now. He decided to speed up creation of his own private armed forces comprised of robots.
"Okay. The sale of robots should be enough to handle that."
"Also, establish robot research division. I will teach them a bit and leave them to dabble in the field."
"Okay. Because of the salary offered by us, alot of scientists from Europe are also willing to work for us. It is actually easy to find researchers."
In actuality, North America and Europe had alot of researchers but most of them didn't have research jobs or proper funding to carry out research so they were just working as professors in colleges. In simple words, alot of them were looking for research jobs and fundings to get into research.
Ankit soon left and went to the research building. The gene development serum was at a critical phase and would soon bear results.
Sure enough. After a few days, the low level gene development serum was developed. In actuality, the method Ankit had obtained from system was about how to develop the body by taking bath in fixed amount of herbs.
What Ankit and the other researchers had done was find out what would cause the genetic enhancement and isolate it to make injectable serum.
So now, all people had to do was inject the serum rather than bathing in hot herbal bath three days in a row.