After Eddie agreed to the interview request from his boss, he left the Daily Globe.
Meanwhile, Charles emerged from the training room, where Red Queen had already prepared the information on the Life Foundation for him.
"Red Queen, display the data," Charles commanded.
Following Charles's orders, a plethora of information about the Life Foundation and its founder, Carlton Drake, appeared on the virtual screen in front of him.
Charles first opened the information about the founder.
Carlton Drake, the founder of the Life Foundation, held a doctoral degree. His parents were British, and at the age of 19, he developed a new gene therapy that extended the life expectancy of pancreatic cancer patients by twice the usual amount.
After five years of research, he founded a large medical company in San Francisco, focusing primarily on medical fields but had no other significant breakthroughs or discoveries in the medical field besides the aforementioned therapy.
Currently, his company, besides the medical field, also invested heavily in the aerospace sector, constructing rockets to explore space with the aim of finding new habitats suitable for human survival.
The Life Foundation, a company operating in the medical and aerospace sectors, currently had a market value of 23 billion US dollars.
However, due to the crash of the Life-1 exploration spacecraft launched yesterday, the market value had plummeted to 22 billion US dollars, evaporating 1 billion US dollars in just one day.
In addition to this introduction, Red Queen also intercepted a video file for Charles. Upon opening it, Charles watched footage of the rescue operation at the crash site of the spaceship.
Seeing the spaceship crash, Charles rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "It seems that symbiotes have arrived on Earth."
After some consideration, Charles concluded that there were likely four symbiotes brought by Life-1. Two died during the experiment, leaving only Riot and Venom alive. Eventually, Riot and his host were killed by Venom and Eddie.
With Carlton Drake's death, the experiments on homeless people, and the explosion of the second spaceship, the Life Foundation was completely ruined. The company went bankrupt, was acquired, and its assets were sold off to compensate for the deaths of the test subjects.
With this in mind, Charles formulated a plan: to acquire the opposing company and capture Riot to hand over to Orochimaru for research. Surely, Orochimaru would have significant interest in studying symbiotes.
With his plan in mind, Charles immediately instructed, "Red Queen, notify Ginny to come over."
"Understood, Master!"
At that moment, Ginny was attending the roundtable meeting and collecting this month's payments when she suddenly received a call from Red Queen.
Seeing the caller ID showing Red Queen, Ginny addressed the elders in the video conference, "Apologies, esteemed elders, I have something to attend to."
"Elder Ginny, please go ahead and handle your business. We can wait," one of the elders said, and the others echoed similar sentiments.
With the elders agreeing, Ginny nodded and then left the room.
As Ginny left, some of the elders participating in the video call began to discuss, "Do you think we'll be eligible to purchase?"
One of them shook their head, "Let's give it a try. After all, Charles Agency has already started selling, but it's unclear what the specific requirements are."
"But I heard it doesn't require money or similar items, but rather some special things."
"Let's ask Elder Ginny when she comes back. Hopefully, we'll qualify for the purchase."
After a few more words from the others, they stopped and waited for Ginny to return.
Meanwhile, Ginny, who had left the room, answered the call from Red Queen.
"Red Queen, what's the matter?"
"Secretary Ginny, Lord Charles has requested your presence at the base. He has something to discuss with you."
"Alright, Red Queen, I'll handle things here and return as soon as possible."
Ginny was aware of Charles's return from the report of the werewolf in the base yesterday, so she wasn't surprised to hear that the boss wanted to see her.
After hanging up the phone, Ginny pushed open the door of the top-floor meeting room at the Continental Hotel and walked in.
"Everyone, the profits you've handed in during this period are all in order. Lord Charles is quite satisfied with everyone's progress."
"If any of you come across some peculiar items or items with mythological significance, feel free to contact me."
"If the items you provide catch Lord Charles's interest, he won't hesitate to reward you generously."
At that moment, one of the elders in the video call spoke up, "Elder Ginny, I heard that there are some items related to ninjas being sold in Charles Agency. I wonder if we, as elders, have the qualification to purchase them."
Hearing the elder's words, Ginny's expression changed. She glanced at the hopeful eyes of the elders and then said:
"The tradable items offered by Charles Agency, I will send you a list. After all, the things available for trade are not something that can be bought with cash. As subordinates of Lord Charles, we will grant you the qualification to purchase them."
"But as I said earlier, these items cannot be purchased with cash. If you can bring something that interests Lord Charles, you may exchange it."
The elders' faces immediately lit up with smiles upon hearing Ginny's words. They happily said, "Thank you, Elder Ginny. We will surely endeavor to find things that interest Lord Charles."
Ginny waved her hand, not paying much attention. She then sent the elders a list of items that Charles had traded with S.H.I.E.L.D. last time before ending the roundtable meeting.
With the meeting adjourned, Ginny left the room. After collecting the profits paid by the Continental Hotel, she left the place and got into the car driven by John, heading towards the base.
Three hours later, Ginny returned to the base and met Charles in the meeting room.
"Boss, you wanted to see me."
"Ginny, how much available funds do we currently have?"
Without much thought, Ginny replied directly, "Today, I just collected the profits from the roundtable and various Continental Hotels around, and currently, we have about 5 billion in liquid funds."
"If we include disassembly and stock collateral, we can mobilize funds of over 100 billion."
Charles picked up a document beside him and handed it to Ginny. "This is a company located in San Francisco, the Life Foundation."
"I need you to short this company's stock, make it plummet, and then swallow the company at the right time."
"We have plenty of time for now, so you have a considerable amount of time to make arrangements."
Upon hearing her boss's words, Ginny looked through the materials in her hand. After seeing the company's current high value of 22 billion, she thought for a moment before speaking, "Boss, is there something wrong with this company?"