Chapter 306

Before leaving Hogwarts, Murphy went to inspect the school's teaching situation; in truth, he mainly wanted to see if the practical classes were continuing according to his original vision.

The results were quite good. A former Oxford professor who had accepted the werewolf virus was in charge of teaching the practical classes. Murphy sat in for a while; the other party had a broad perspective and was patient, making him very suitable for guiding this group of students who had just come into contact with scientific methodology.

Murphy felt reassured.

Once this group of students reached the fifth or sixth year, after having undergone sufficient training in scientific research methods, they could be allowed to enter places like the Magic Research Institute for internships (to work for free).

Returning to the Magic Research Institute, Murphy joined forces with several groups to establish a set of magic radar scanning models.

After calculations, as long as frequency modulation was performed through a massive directional magic antenna array, while ensuring scanning precision within one to two meters, the magic radar's scanning range could reach between three thousand and five thousand kilometers. If the precision requirements were relaxed, the radar's scanning range could be even greater.

However, such a magic radar could not be realized using a crow array antenna; it required higher array precision and too much computational power. Unless Murphy was prepared to use everyone in the mind network as human computers, the duration of the crow array antenna would not be enough to support a full-angle scan.

Building a true magic radar physically was imperative.

Fortunately, the various prerequisite magic technologies for the magic radar—magic antenna theory, magic frequency modulation, magic metal, etc. —were basically already in place.

The most important were magic metal and magic reflective materials; one was used to conduct magic, the other to reflect magic fluctuations.

According to estimates, to achieve the expected effect, the magic radar to be built would need a diameter of at least forty meters and would require 6,800 tons of magic metal.

Relying on the laboratory to produce so much magic metal was unrealistic. Fortunately, the magic radar's quality requirements for magic metal were not high, and Murphy's solution was also very simple: hire goblins to produce magic metal.

In any case, since the goblins lost Gringotts, many were unemployed at home; idling was idling, and it was easy for unrest to occur, so it was better to find them something to do.

As for the funds to hire the goblins—at the time, raiding the Durkheim family had yielded quite a lot of gold coins; taking from the goblins and using it for the goblins was reasonable and appropriate.

……

During the period of gathering materials for the magic radar project, the ten magic research institutes built in the name of various research institutes under the Umbrella Corporation were also steadily advancing.

Selling computers and various chips to the Umbrella Corporation had earned almost endless money, and the Umbrella Corporation's next layout for mobile communications had already begun. Coupled with the anti-cancer virus medicine about to be launched on the market, Umbrella had become the most profitable company in the world, bar none; the rankings of the following few combined couldn't catch up.

If Umbrella were treated as a country, its annual revenue would already exceed that of countries like Portugal, Finland, and Israel, reaching 31st place globally.

Such terrifying economic strength made Murphy's various decisions relatively aggressive; almost half of the profits were used to advance the construction of laboratories around the world, and the remaining half was used for horizontal expansion.

Relying on Murphy's foresight, the more promising startups in various industries could hardly escape his discerning eyes.

Umbrella had become the world's largest angel investor and had also almost become the final destination for all excellent startups.

Amidst this terrifying expansion, Umbrella was inflating at a horrific speed, gradually taking on the shadow of the super-enterprise from which its name originated.

And this naturally aroused much wariness. Starting last year, several countries led by the United States had been putting pressure on the UK in every possible way. Facing allies across the ocean, the British government had always been spineless. If it weren't for the fact that the Umbrella Corporation also had quite a few "friends" in Parliament, Umbrella would probably be facing the danger of being dismantled now.

And even so, the big stick of sanctions had already begun to fall on Umbrella's head. First, the United States joined other EU countries to impose protective tariffs on Umbrella's various products, and then the US government, citing Umbrella Corporation's entry into the Soviet Union, launched an investigation into Umbrella for "suspected threats to US national security" and again imposed a 100% punitive tariff on Umbrella products.

The markets in the United States and Western Europe were basically blocked. On one hand, Murphy began to put on masks, establishing one shell company after another in various countries to circumvent sanction policies; on the other hand, he began to cast his gaze toward the vast Third World.

Not doing business with me, right? Is it possible that this Earth can't function without you?

Umbrella has technology where it needs technology and capital where it needs capital; where can't it make money?

It's a pity that if the British government weren't all cowards, Murphy would even dare to withdraw from the group directly and join the socialist camp.

However, even so, the operation of setting up shell companies to participate in construction in the ancient Eastern country while earning some red bills must also be done.

……

Besides the encirclement and suppression in Muggle society, the Ministries of Magic of various countries in the Wizarding World also began to find trouble for Murphy.

The cause was that Albus Dumbledore, as the President of the International Confederation of Wizards, submitted a whistleblower letter and an investigation application to the Confederation.

Dumbledore disclosed a shocking scandal to the Confederation: a former employee of the British Ministry of Magic, current Hogwarts governor, and owner of several magic shops—Murphy Darkholm—used the method of dumping magic potions to Muggles to illegally acquire wealth, causing magic potions to flood Muggle society, and he used this illegal wealth to hire Muggles to study magic, causing a large number of Muggles who should not have known of magic's existence to know of the existence of the Wizarding World.

At the same time, he also controlled the Ministry of Magic and even recently occupied Gringotts, making the Ministry of Magic Murphy's one-man show, while he himself became the actual dictator of British wizarding society.

During this period, he used deception, torture, brainwashing, slaughter, and other means to commit numerous crimes, while also seriously violating the "International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy," causing all wizards in the Wizarding World to face the risk of exposure.

In the whistleblower letter, Dumbledore listed numerous pieces of evidence, including the testimonies of many former Aurors, former Ministry of Magic employees, some bankrupt magic shop owners, goblin victims, etc., as well as the potion products of Murphy's puppet enterprise in Muggle society—the Umbrella Corporation—the proof of their medicinal properties and homogeneity with wizard potions. At the same time, there were also a large number of investigations and documents regarding various suspicious aspects of the Umbrella Corporation, and so on.

President Dumbledore requested a comprehensive investigation into Murphy Darkholm and the British Ministry of Magic, and called on the Ministries of Magic of various countries to use their connections with Muggle governments to cut off transactions with the Umbrella Corporation and sanction the company's commercial activities, in order to strike at this illegal enterprise that endangers the safety of the Wizarding World, and to restore the world's original order as much as possible.

As the President of the International Confederation of Wizards, and having been the premier benchmark figure in the global Wizarding World for decades, this whistleblower letter of his caused a huge uproar in the International Confederation of Wizards and among wizards globally.

Relying on Dumbledore's past prestige, once the whistleblower letter was out, the fact that Murphy violated the Secrecy Act was already a nail in the coffin, with no need for investigation at all.

Looking at Murphy Darkholm's rise to fame over these years, anyone could realize that his wealth came from improper sources.

For a time, the international wizarding society was filled with indignation, and the voices condemning Murphy for breaking the law and the British Ministry of Magic for inaction rose wave after wave.

The day after the whistleblower letter was sent, Barty Crouch, whose hair was almost turning white from worry, came to Murphy's residence on White Ferret Mountain.

"What should we do? The International Confederation of Wizards demands an explanation from us, and they will send an investigation team over next week." Barty Crouch said with a tense face, "It's already impossible to cover up the news now; the commotion abroad is too fierce, and we can't block the news at all..."

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