The Goddess Shines on America

Since my younger brother wants a skyscraper even if he flatters himself, Alice, as an older sister, will certainly not be stingy about fulfilling her wish. The project of the research institute is vast and mighty, and there is still a long time before the completion of the underground space. The research of the ternary computer by the hackers is endless. Now that there are new things, she rushed to catch the flight that night. Fly to Los Angeles.

"Hello, welcome to British Airways flight CA4369, our destination..."

Alice was sitting in the window seat of the business class in a daze, with hundreds of economy class passengers dragging large and small suitcases around in a wider space separated by a curtain a few meters behind. As for this space, the total number of seats is no more than twelve, and it is only half full.

"Hello, hello sir, thank you for your trust, we will definitely present you with the best design."

A middle-aged man had just finished his last call, and he was able to walk around with such a large portable mobile phone. He was either crazy or busy with business. Well, since he is now buying a business class seat, the answer is naturally clear, so when the man sat on Alice's side, the girl couldn't help casting a glance at him.

"Oh," the girl said in surprise, "Aren't you Mr. Remus Bolton?"

The man was busy putting the phone into his bag, and he was taken aback when he heard this: "Remus Byrne, may I ask you... ah! Ms. Alice Wang!?"

Alice couldn't help laughing: "It's such a surprise to meet you here. Mr. Byrne, thank you for your strong support for the design blueprint of my Exeter research institute. The finished product is so beautiful."

The top senior designer of Foster + Partners in the UK and the blueprint designer of Alice's computer research center, the cost and design results are so amazing. It's really strange, Alice looked at her watch and said, "It's the middle of the night, and you're in such a hurry to get to Los Angeles?"

"It's not Los Angeles, it's New York." Politely pointing to the destination of the transatlantic passenger plane, Remus Bolton said with a smile: "The GE Building wants to maintain the interior decoration, but they're not sure what the materials for the floor tiles and wallpaper should be." How to deal with it, so I placed a special order with our firm."

"Oh, wow, the GE Building." Alice pouted and sighed, "The nineteen skyscrapers in Rockefeller Center are the pride of Manhattan and the entire United States."

"Yeah, otherwise, we would have ushered in the NBC headquarters and General Electric successively." When it comes to professionalism, people will always have something to talk about, Bourne immediately couldn't control his mouth: "And you must know, Singularity The shape of the electrical building is also particularly prominent. It is 850 feet high, with 70 floors above the ground, rising like a square torch, and this is a building from the 1930s!"

"Rockefeller's building is indeed a treasure." Alice said slowly, "So Mr. Bourne, I'm afraid I have some bad news to tell you."

Bourne's expression changed: "What's the matter?"

"You and I both know that Japan is now developing rockets at a high speed. I also have some investments in Ginza. According to some internal information, it seems that there are Japanese chaebols who want to buy our landmarks and national pride. ..."

In fact, these words are a bit biased. Remus Byrne was born and bred in England, and it should be too late for all kinds of schadenfreude to see such troubles in the United States. Of course, unless his IQ is really fed to dogs, it is impossible to say that.

"Then this will definitely cause a stir," he said, looking at his side, and said with an idea: "By the way, Ms. Wang, since you have invested in real estate in Ginza, here at Rockefeller Center, you Don't have any ideas?"

At this point, the plane has entered the gliding state and is ready to take off. Alice looked out the window and glanced at the terminal building under the night of the centuries-old fog.

"U.S. real estate and Japan are two different things. I put the bubble and don't join in the fun, what can I do with my money in New York?" This is the investment idea of ​​a big capitalist, Remus Byrne listened with wide-eyed eyes, But Alice changed the subject: "Then Mr. Bourne, I want to build another building here, do you think you can spare time?"

He actually wanted to provide himself with a huge performance! ?

"Oh my God, absolutely no problem." Of course Bourne agreed in one breath, but then added: "But I still need to complete the task of the GE building first, why don't you think we can make an appointment?"

No one spoke, because the plane had just finished accelerating and rushed into the sky. For a while, the entire cabin was completely silent, and there were only various expressions of the passengers as if they were bearing the acceleration. Of course, the quality of the Boeing airliner is excellent, so it took only a moment, as Alice saw, an old man in the southeast corner read the newspaper again with ease.

"The time is fine. As for my phone...this is the pager number." When writing down this series of numbers, Alice was indeed quite emotional. Rao has invested in the construction of several industries under his own banner, but if he really wants to leave a standard "office phone" for people, he really can't do it now.

"Thank you, Ms. Wang." There was silence outside the window, and the plane was gradually climbing towards the stratosphere. The entire journey would still take a long time, so Bourne continued to ask: "Then, may I ask you about the details of this newly built building?" What request?"

This is the beginning of the designer's preliminary work. As for Alice, the idea of ​​the super headquarters building is of course often echoed in her mind, and there will be so many skyscrapers as examples in the future, so she can certainly come up with her mouth.

"You have to know that I am from Los Angeles, and the city of Los Angeles, even extending north to the entire Silicon Valley, has no high-rise buildings." She said happily: "So there is no suspense in terms of location selection. The entire downtown Los Angeles Only the palm-sized piece of land is the concentrated area of ​​skyscrapers, and this building of mine must be there to join in the fun."

This is indeed expected. It is completely different from the style of Manhattan Island. Although the Greater Los Angeles County is a vast area, it is also because of this that few companies will stupidly build any high-rise buildings. If you want to say which urban agglomeration in the United States can best hide wealth from the people, it may be Los Angeles.

Who would have imagined that a low-rise building with three or two floors in West Hollywood could be the headquarters of a well-known movie company? Suddenly looking at the vicinity of Long Beach, ordinary tourists who don't know the truth must be stunned-where are there so many yacht harbors moored in patches?

As for Silicon Valley and Seattle, let alone, the major companies are all good at occupying land, and collectively suffer from high-rise aversion syndrome.

Alice's current Cisco headquarters is built according to the plan of later generations. There are more than a dozen buildings with the highest five floors, but each has the size of a middle school teaching building, plus a dormitory for senior staff. Can take up space. As for Seattle, no one can count on how high the land price in Redmond is. Microsoft, whose peak market value once exceeded 500 billion US dollars, has several buildings with more than five floors?

As for Apple's later spaceship headquarters... the cost is really high, and the area occupied is even more amazing, but it is also far from skyscrapers.

Remus Byrne knows what Alice's main business is, not to mention that those messy industries are distributed all over the world. Even though Cisco has the largest number of people just listed, it is staying in San Jose steadily, and is even planning to rebuild it. A headquarters building. It's unexpected to build a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, this situation...

"Do you want to rent it out or use it yourself?"

This question really hit the point, Alice chuckled and said with a smile: "Well, let me tell you the truth, my brother fell in love with Iron Man's Stark Tower, and he forced me to build such a building too Woolen cloth."

I see, Remus Byrne also laughed. Of course he didn't know who Alice's younger brother was, but since her elder sister was only sixteen years old, it was no surprise that her younger brother wanted to be Iron Man.

"Oh... If I also have a sister like you, I will be so happy."

Full of envy and hatred, Bourne said: "It's a pity that my sister Maggie is a grumpy fat woman, and she always likes to live with her mangy dogs. I also have an older brother who lives in Surrey , A few days ago, my sister-in-law passed away, and he adopted his nephew. Maggie likes to trouble that little boy the most, she is..."

Alice was not interested in listening to the short stories of these parents. Feeling that the plane had stabilized in the stratosphere, she immediately found a topic and said, "By the way, Mr. Bourne, I would like to ask an interesting question. Order? I mean, since you have designed the blueprint of the research institute for me, where is the copy of the blueprint?"

"Oh, we have a special archive room for storage." Byrne said proudly: "We have opened up a separate room for... um..."

Suddenly, this engineering designer, who may not have a high EQ, flashed an expression called "something is not good" on his face.

Alice raised her eyebrows. Although the final answer was uncertain, how could she not guess part of the truth of the panic at this moment: "Mr. Bourne, you are not going to tell me that your archives are on fire, are you?"

"No, no, of course there is no fire." Bourne was a little flustered. Seeing Alice's staring eyes, he uncomfortably had an idea called "want to escape". But this is an airplane, so where can he escape?

"that……"

"Just say it, Mr. Bourne, am I the one who will leak the secret to your boss?"

Alice realized that there seemed to be something really happening, and it was still related to herself. Otherwise, how could this designer not dare to look directly at his own eyes?