Chapter 034: The Man Closest to God

After some discussion, the two ultimately decided not to bring Steve Trevor into the fold.

The reason was simple: after spending several days finally locating Steve Trevor, they found he had already retired and was living the life of a retired old man.

Diana felt that this was fine for him and chose not to disturb Steve's life.

Left with no choice, Wang Bo had to produce a batch of mechanical soldiers, disguising them as humans to first establish the basic structure of these companies.

Then they would gradually hire people.

Admittedly, this approach worked well. Wang Bo and the others quickly perfected the rules and regulations of each company and put them into operation.

A month later, the telephone company, tourism company, food company, technology company, radio company, construction company, and a host of other miscellaneous companies under Diana's command were all on track.

But no one knew that eighty percent of the employees in these companies were mechanical soldiers.

Only twenty percent were native humans of this world.

However, this was only temporary. Over time, Wang Bo and Diana would gradually reduce the number of mechanical soldiers and increase the number of humans.

Eventually, mechanical soldiers would be completely phased out of Diana's companies.

But at the same time, as the companies operated, a large amount of work piled up on Diana.

This made Diana extremely uncomfortable.

She was a warrior, a hero, but definitely not a qualified businessperson.

So Diana complained to Wang Bo every day, "I think we should find a professional manager to handle these company affairs for me."

Wang Bo did not reject Diana's idea.

In principle, he agreed.

But the problem was that in this era, such a person was not easy to find. After all, this was the time right after World War I, not the twenty-first century with its population explosion and abundance of talent.

Finding a satisfactory professional manager was no easy task.

Left with no choice, Diana borrowed Friday from Wang Bo, hoping that Miss Friday could help her handle a series of very busy official duties so she could catch a break.

Wang Bo did not refuse, and Miss Friday did not refuse either.

Because in Miss Friday's view, these tasks were nothing at all. What took Diana several days to handle, she could finish in an hour or even less.

Thus, under Miss Friday's command, the various companies operated at an unimaginable speed.

Some companies, such as the food company, had already begun to generate profits, which was undoubtedly astonishing.

At the same time, Wang Bo also found one of the greatest scientists of this world, Nikola Tesla, and invited him to join Diana's company.

Undoubtedly, Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest scientists in human history. Even alternating current alone was enough to make his name immortal.

Not to mention that besides alternating current, Nikola Tesla had many other astonishing inventions.

Nikola Tesla had an extremely brilliant life: he clashed with Edison for a lifetime, declined the Nobel Prize eleven times, gave up becoming the world's richest man, remained unmarried for the sake of science, slept only two hours a day, had seven hundred inventions, was called a "god," and ultimately died in poverty.

Since he had come to this era and had the opportunity to recruit this super scientific maniac under his command, Wang Bo naturally would not let it go.

So Wang Bo hurried to the United States, found this scientific maniac, and moved Nikola Tesla with his sincerity, successfully bringing him into Diana's company.

Of course, Wang Bo's so-called sincerity was not money, because Nikola Tesla truly did not care about money.

This was not just empty talk.

Since Edison invented direct current, electrical appliances were widely used, but electricity bills were very high, so operating direct current transmission became the most profitable business at the time.

But later, Tesla left Edison's company, met George Westinghouse, the head of Westinghouse Electric, and with his support, officially introduced alternating current to society in 1888.

From that day on, Edison and Tesla began the War of Currents.

At the Columbia Exposition in May 1893, Tesla demonstrated alternating current lighting and became the winner of the "War of Currents." Afterward, Tesla won the contract for the design of the Niagara Falls hydropower plant.

From then on, alternating current replaced direct current as the mainstream power supply.

Tesla held the patent for alternating current. At that time, for every horsepower of alternating current sold, a royalty of $2.50 had to be paid to Tesla.

Driven by strong interests, a group of financial forces threatened Tesla to give up this patent right, intending to monopolize it for profit. After multiple negotiations, Tesla decided to abandon the patent for alternating current, on the condition that the patent would be permanently open.

From then on, he tore up the patent for alternating current, losing the right to collect royalties.

Thus, alternating current had no patent, becoming a free invention.

If the invention patent for alternating current had not been given to all humanity for free, then every horsepower of alternating current would have brought him $2.50 in "patent fees," and he would have been the richest man in the world.

So Tesla truly did not care about money.

Wang Bo found it difficult to use money to move this scientific maniac, so he used something else.

A healthy body and unimaginable scientific technology.

When Wang Bo injected Tesla with spider serum and demonstrated some futuristic technological achievements, Tesla almost without hesitation joined Diana's company.

From then on, he became the chief scientist and technical advisor of Diana's "Super Future Technology Company."

Wang Bo believed that with Nikola Tesla's help, Diana's company would inevitably develop with unprecedented smoothness and might become a giant-level company in the human world.

After Nikola Tesla joined Wang Bo and Diana's camp, Wang Bo expressed to Nikola Tesla his determination to prevent World War II and showed Nikola Tesla the horrors of World War II.

Although Nikola Tesla was a scientific maniac, he was not someone indifferent to humanity.

Upon hearing Wang Bo's goal, Nikola Tesla immediately stated that he was willing to contribute to the future of humanity.

Thus, Diana finally gained an ally who could provide tremendous assistance to her plan.

And this ally was undoubtedly very reliable.

At the same time, Nikola Tesla also suggested to Wang Bo that he should recruit another natural ally—Albert Einstein!