422: Chapter 422 Shen Fei: Since you're here, you're mine.

Meanwhile, Crab's team also began to act. They bought headline advertisements on various media platforms and started their promotion.

However, because they cut the line, the headline advertisements were twice as expensive as usual.

The two teams divided the work and cooperated with each other; in short, they had only one goal: to cut off Transsion's investment plan.

(Cashing in!)

After the promotion, the White House press secretary officially held a press conference.

After all, they needed an endorsement to attract more research teams.

"In order to stop falling behind China in the field of scientific research, we are officially establishing the Global Research Acceleration Program.

This is a global research funding platform aimed at supporting frontier research in basic science.

Our investment scope is global; regardless of your background, you may apply for our funds.

After review, we will also provide sufficient research funding!"

This brief press conference soon reached China and instantly climbed to the top of the Chinese trending searches.

#United States National Foundation#

#Transsion Future Foundation#

The comment section was buzzing; the discussion, which had already quieted down, became lively once again.

"The United States is benchmarking against Transsion! They didn't even bother to change the name—one is called the Future Foundation, and the other is called the Global Research Acceleration Foundation. The United States is truly lagging behind; they even have to copy our projects."

"No nationality restrictions, a global recruitment system for review experts... In short, whatever Transsion does, the United States follows. It's a pity that they can't collect patent fees on this kind of plan, otherwise, President Shen might have recovered a portion of his investment in advance."

"Awesome! The United States has sanctioned us four times, yet it had zero effect, and now they've started to imitate us."

Meanwhile, when Wang Hua knocked on the door and entered, Shen Fei and Zhang Mingzhu were looking at the news online together.

"Boss, the United States is causing trouble again! Although it doesn't seem very reliable, it is definitely aimed at us."

Shen Fei nodded. He knew, of course, that the United States was targeting them, but to benchmark publicly, they also needed the necessary technology.

While establishing a foundation isn't difficult, the supervision of funds is a major issue.

If—and I mean if—the United States were honest and incorruptible, then perhaps... they might have a chance. But...

"Alright, don't worry about the United States. Focus on forming our expert committee. As long as we stay ahead of them, their plan won't affect us."

Wang Hua nodded and began coordinating with Li Qing's intelligence department to screen the personnel.

December 20. Transsion's Human Resources Department received another large batch of applications for part-time reviewers.

Over eighty percent of the resumes came from the United States, mostly from experts, scholars, professors, and staff from peer companies.

On the surface, they all firmly claimed that they wanted to contribute to the future of humanity, but in reality, they were all secretly inquiring about the salary.

Most importantly, many of these individuals were top talents in their respective fields; some were people Wang Hua had previously tried to recruit but couldn't.

When Wang Hua sorted the resumes and brought them into Shen Fei's office, Shen Fei wore an expression that was both excited and perplexed.

"Boss, the quality of the resumes this time is ridiculously high."

She placed a stack of printed resumes on the desk: "This one is a physics professor from MIT. This one is an associate professor of computer science from Stanford, and here is a materials scientist from Berkeley National Laboratory. We have tried to contact these people before, but never made any progress. Now that they want to join our selection committee, I think this is an opportunity."

The resumes on the desk certainly piqued Shen Fei's interest.

After all, these professors had rock-solid backgrounds; their number of patents, project experience, and every aspect of their history could stand up to scrutiny.

Shen Fei looked at these materials and nodded silently. The things he was leveraging with his 10 billion in funds seemed to be quite significant.

At the very least, the United States was really going all out.

He had originally thought they were just benchmarking against the foundation, but he hadn't expected them to actually send over a batch of highly sought-after talent.

[United States: Didn't I just send a batch of review experts? Shen Fei: Once they've joined our company, aren't they mine?]

Shen Fei nodded, but he suddenly asked, "Why do you think they are suddenly willing to come?"

"There are likely two reasons: first, our foundation is indeed investing in the future, and on the other hand..."

Wang Hua didn't finish her sentence, but the motive was already very clear. After all, it would be strange if so many top American scientists were submitting resumes at the same time for no reason.

"Boss, should we... weed them out?"

But Shen Fei suddenly flashed a devilish smile. Since they had their own agenda, why shouldn't Transsion have its own little scheme?

"I never said there was anything wrong with them! These people's qualifications are genuine, their resumes are real, and their abilities are authentic. Although they are just on the review committee, it doesn't mean they can't become our people. It's just that behind them..."

Wang Hua nodded quickly. She knew the direction of their next move, so a smile identical to Shen Fei's immediately appeared on her face.

"Boss, someone is definitely pulling the strings behind this, but these people are genuine experts, not fakes. If the United States wants to send us talent, we'll take it."

Zhang Mingzhu, who was nearby, also nodded. "We can let them join the platform committee first, and then not assign them any B-level projects to review. Then, we can use our internal A-level projects to attract them. A few months later, it won't be certain whose people they are."

Shen Fei looked at his "silly" wife; it seemed like it was time for a second child.

"Using their own strategy against them." Wang Hua said, smiling at Zhang Mingzhu.

"Exactly, using their own strategy against them."

Shen Fei walked back to the desk and picked up the application from the MIT physics professor.

"These are all valuable treasures! The United States thinks they are infiltrating Transsion and can intercept our projects. But they've forgotten one thing: scientists are the least gullible group of people in the world. Although I don't know what methods they used to trick these people into coming, since they have joined the Transsion family, they will definitely be kept. After all, money and technology are things these people surely value..."

Wang Hua nodded. After all, a good research environment, sufficient funding, and an efficient team were more convincing than any propaganda.

"Since they want to stuff sand into our mix, we'll just pan for gold within the sand. Conduct interviews according to the normal process. Our foundation is oriented toward the future and conducts technical R&D, so we must have people with strong technical capabilities. Don't reject them just because of suspicion; that would be pushing true talent out the door."

Wang Hua took the resumes and nodded. "Understood. I'll go arrange the interviews."

"There is one more thing." Shen Fei suddenly came up with a new plan...