As a foreigner, Alex naturally had no intention of getting a U.S. green card or naturalizing.
Instead, he used this large "inheritance" to invest in the stock market and openly visit Las Vegas casinos.
While winning a large sum of money, Alex was also pondering a question: why was Clark Kent, who also possessed a Super Brain, so impoverished?
His adoptive parents worried themselves sick over the farm, yet couldn't come up with money; their house was about to be repossessed by the Bank, and it was Batman who bought the Bank to resolve the crisis.
He didn't want to expose his strength, but being a little "smarter" shouldn't be a problem, right?
Just like now, Alex easily won a billion U.S. dollars with a few million U.S. dollars at a Las Vegas casino.
Not only did Las Vegas not make things difficult for him, but they even sent a team of bodyguards to protect him throughout, and arranged a high-security hotel for him to stay in.
After all, if you can win big, the casino is actually very happy; this is equivalent to a living advertisement that will attract more gamblers, and the money earned from them will quickly return the investment, and even multiply several times over.
As for arranging bodyguards, that's even simpler; it's merely out of concern that competitors might deliberately cause trouble and frame the casino.
This made Alex quite depressed; he had originally expected a classic scenario, but it turned out to be an unexpected development.
However, he then used this billion U.S. dollars to start speculating in stocks; of course, Alex didn't go too far, because if he were invincible and always successful, he would be targeted.
Wall Street regulators and the FBI are very strict about illegally obtaining and profiting from insider trading.
Alex was very cautious, only investing after thorough study and data analysis.
Then his billion U.S. dollars turned into 2.5 billion U.S. dollars, and after this move, Alex stopped speculating in stocks.
Instead, he chose to open a company.
He shifted to studying and researching biological genes, after all, Alex wasn't that ambitious yet; he calmly accepted that a Kryptonian transmigrating to the Marvel Universe wouldn't experience any acclimatization issues, but he worried about unobservable problems in the microscopic domain.
Heaven knows if that unknown entity gave him a Marvel Universe common version of the Kryptonian concept?
If not, he didn't want to die without knowing why.
...
"BOSS, you are truly a genius I've seen, an unprecedented genius!"
With a 2 billion U.S. dollar investment, "Monarch Company" was established.
The company name came from the "Monarch" organization in the Godzilla series.
Alex's first step was to find those leading Research Personnel in the field of biological genes, invite them to join the company or become his teachers, and then Alex learned their knowledge at an astonishing speed; anyway, there was already Tony Stark, who became a thermonuclear astrophysicist in just one night, so he wasn't that surprising.
"Professor Landa, thank you for your guidance."
Alex smiled and nodded.
He spent a month studying, and currently can be said to have completed the knowledge summary in the field of biological genes; if he had the mindset of Research Personnel, he would definitely become a Super Research Personnel, but Alex had no intention of cultivating his own way of thinking and patterns.
Moreover, due to his nationality and race, Monarch Company couldn't obtain various high-precision instruments for biological laboratories; the U.S. had locked down technology in this area.
But it didn't matter, Alex himself was a Super Machine that surpassed all human instruments.
His Super Vision was more advanced and powerful than all human observation technologies, and his Super Brain's computing and analysis capabilities also surpassed those Super Computers.
It was just difficult to extract cells; Alex had already awakened his Steel Body and Biological Field, which meant his physical resistance was already maxed out, plus he had been exposed to the Sun for so many days; it's hard to say if he could withstand nuclear bombs, but at least he was confident that missiles and such couldn't break his defenses.
Finally, he managed to extract his own cells and began to study their various reactions under sunlight.
This process lasted for a full year, during which Alex isolated himself, avoiding Sun exposure.
..."Sample 115, in good condition."
"Sample 191, in good condition."
"Sample 239, in good condition."
Alex put down the data and breathed a sigh of relief.
For a full year, various samples were exposed to sunlight for different durations, in different environments, and at different intensities.
The result was that all samples survived and showed no adverse changes.
Kryptonian cells are very active; they can survive as long as there is sunlight.
Alex, after a long time, was exposed to the Sun again and stretched comfortably.
In one year, the 500 million U.S. dollar Emperor Tower was also completed; compared to the future 600 million U.S. dollar Stark Tower, the Emperor Tower leaned more towards defensive capabilities, with a main steel frame, concrete-encased steel, alloy base, etc., which made it very expensive.
Since construction began, Monarch Company had been losing money, after all, up until now, Alex had only stayed in his laboratory, and no one knew what he was doing.