Chapter 378: Courting Death (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote for Me) 4500 Words. Please Vote for Me at the End of the Month!!

The dwarf doctor Edgar Sisko finally left in despair and continued the next experiment. After he left, a tall female researcher walked up to Nick Fury at some point.

"You know how scary that thing is, right, Nick Fury." This woman may not be top-notch in appearance, but her voice and body shape give people a feeling of peerless elegance. It makes people feel good about it unconsciously.

"Barbara Minerva...you talk too much." Nick Fury did not look at the woman but reminded her very coldly not to forget his duty.

The woman was not angry because of Nick Fury's words. She just shrugged and took out a lollipop from her pocket. She held the lollipop in her mouth and said nonchalantly: "I don't want to meddle in your business. I just don’t want your arrogance to kill me too.”

Nick Fury frowned and seemed to be affected by the woman's words, but he immediately stopped dwelling on the topic.

"Barbara Minerva, you should know that there are more than just us humans in this world, and those ancient and evil guys are spying on this world all the time. We must arm ourselves!"

These words seemed to be convincing Barbara Minerva, and they seemed to be convincing himself.

"Really? Arming you with the God of War Ares? Are you sure this won't be an opportunity to destroy mankind? Didn't anyone tell you that that madman almost destroyed the entire world, if it weren't for those legendary stories decades ago? The hero appeared to stop him, and he succeeded, and now you are trying to use his power to protect the world in your mouth? "

Barbara Minerva clearly found Nick Fury's actions ridiculous and pulled no punches.

"That's enough, Barbara Minerva, have you forgotten your identity? You are just a criminal with many crimes. All you have to do is complete the task we gave you and find those ancient artifacts with magical power. , to offset the crime you committed."

Here I would like to introduce Barbara Minerva. This woman is not called this name at all. This is just one of her dozens of aliases, and she just happens to be using this alias now. As for her real name, I'm sorry, no one knows it except herself. Even SHIELD only knows that she is British but was born in Idaho. There has always been a blank about her childhood experiences. When SHIELD caught her, they also thought about interrogating her past. Unfortunately, this woman has been telling nonsense. So far, she has provided SHIELD with more than thirty versions, but none of them are true. .

But this woman does have abilities. She can be said to be a replica of the Black Widow. If her identity and background were not too complicated, SHIELD would really have the intention to completely absorb her and become a signature female agent after the Black Widow.

"Yes, yes, I will work hard." Faced with Nick Fury's scolding, Barbara didn't care at all. She just raised her hand casually, which was a response to Nick Fury.

This woman not only has a unique talent for crime, but she is also one of the world's best connoisseurs and archaeologists of ancient artifacts. What's even more rare is that she is also familiar with many unknown legends and secrets. This makes her the perfect choice for S.H.I.E.L.D. to collect those dangerous ancient artifacts.

After saying this, Barbara chewed the lollipop into pieces, swallowed it in one gulp, and then walked outside very lazily.

"What are you going to do?" Looking at this cat-like woman, Nick Fury also had a headache. Her personality is always so unpredictable and she does whatever she wants.

"Didn't you ask me to work hard?" Barbara asked in surprise.

Nick Fury choked for a moment, and then said angrily: "I'm asking you what you want to do?"

"Go to Chicago! I found the God-killing Blade of the Cheetah Goddess of the Thane tribe in Africa at the Art Institute of Chicago. I plan to get it and then... take a vacation! I must take a vacation! Don't you know that a woman's biggest enemy is fatigue? I have been working for several months and I must take a vacation. Otherwise, I will sue you in the guild!”

Nick Fury really wanted to tell this woman, you are not a regular employee at all, you are just a gangster, even if you are in the guild, you haven't even joined the company yet! But after thinking about it, he felt that there was no point in talking about these things with this woman, so he simply said nothing and just waved his hand impatiently to tell her to get out.

After driving people away, Nick Fury remembered again that Chicago was not peaceful recently. But then I thought about it, this woman was so smart that she could handle this little thing by herself, so she quickly put the matter aside.

Stay tuned for experiments.

This experiment is very simple. It uses ultra-high-frequency gamma ray beams to illuminate the statue. This is an extended application of Bruce Banner’s gamma ray bomb in the military. Although it cannot cause direct damage, it has unparalleled Penetrating power, it can shine through anything (penetration here does not mean destroying the statue, but the light will reflect through, just like X-rays). Edgar Sisko hopes to use gamma rays to penetrate The numerical changes after the statue are used to analyze the possible strange abilities of the statue.

In fact, Edgar Sisko himself was reluctant to do this research. No scientist would like to conduct so-called research on an unknown item while being completely kept in the dark. Unfortunately, Edgar Sisko had a weakness that S.H.I.E.L.D.

He was short of money. Every scientist had his own research topic of interest. Edgar Sisko was no exception. His research direction was telepathy, mind control, illusion creation, and other research similar to mental power. He believed that the human body had limits, but the spirit did not. This was a very promising research direction. Unfortunately, no investor was interested in this seemingly childish research project. The key point was that this thing could not create profits at all, and Edgar Sisko had never thought of using his research to create profits.

So his research had been stagnant, and he was doing it quietly by himself, without a dedicated laboratory, without research assistants, and without sufficient funds. You have to know that scientific research is always a money-burning thing. Apart from anything else, even volunteers used in research need money.

At this time, SHIELD came over and expressed its willingness to invest. This made Edgar Sisko very excited, but in return, he had to work for SHIELD.

It was nothing. He didn't care where he worked.

But the research in front of him... made him very unhappy.

"The countdown begins. Everyone, get behind the shield."

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, start!"

A green beam of light gathered on an instrument, and finally rushed towards the statue with a buzz. Soon the statue was illuminated and became transparent. Light continued to pass through the statue and was received by the receiver. Edgar Sisko observed the changes of the statue from time to time. At the same time, he also stared at his computer, where various values ​​kept changing.

Everything is normal. This thing is just a piece of marble!

Edgar Sisko kept muttering in his heart, thinking that SHIELD was really making fun of him. You know, they have been working for three consecutive years for this broken statue, and he even stopped his own research during this period!

Sometimes Edgar Sisko didn't know whether it was right to accept SHIELD's invitation. SHIELD did fulfill its promise and allocated him a lot of research funds every year, but the problem was that he had no time to continue his research. He had money but no time. What was the difference between this and before?

But he didn't dare to give up. After all, money means opportunity. If you don't have money but time, that's bad luck.

Just when Dr. Dwarf was feeling dissatisfied, suddenly all the computers and instruments started to alarm!

Just now, their receivers began to not receive any gamma rays!

Dr. Dwarf quickly looked up and saw that the statue was like a sponge absorbing water, absorbing all the rays into the statue!

Nick Fury rudely pushed a researcher away and stood in front of the instrument, asking nervously: "What's going on? !!"

"I... I don't know..." Edgar Cisco really couldn't explain this phenomenon.

It was also at this time that the statue changed again. The green statue that was originally irradiated by gamma rays suddenly began to emit bursts of golden light.

"Doctor! The power of the gamma generator has exceeded the standard! It must be shut down immediately! Otherwise..."

Everyone present understood what the consequences would be. Gamma rays have extremely strong penetrating ability. When the human body is exposed to gamma rays, the gamma rays can enter the human body and ionize the cells in the body. The ions produced by ionization can corrode complex organic molecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids and enzymes, which are the main components of living cell tissues. Once they are destroyed, the normal chemical processes in the human body will be disturbed, and in severe cases, cells will die.

With the gamma ray dose at the scene, if an explosion occurs, no one present will survive!

"Shut it down quickly!!!" Edgar shouted immediately, not caring about the experiment at all.

Although Nick Fury also wanted to know what would happen next, he was not stupid. The research could be carried out later, and there was no need to put his life in it. So he did not stop it.

"The switch has failed and must be manually disconnected!"

"Then turn off the power quickly!"

Click! Bang!

There was a sound of the switch breaking, and then there was an explosion. The laboratory suddenly darkened, and then the emergency lights came on.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the statues in the test field again. Except for the rising heat, there was no more abnormality.

Nick Fury breathed a sigh of relief. This time he had not gained nothing. He was just about to praise Edgar, but he found that Edgar was staring at the statue stupidly, as if he was broken. Nick Fury did not find it strange. After all, most people in this world will never see this kind of scene in their lifetime. Didn’t he see that other researchers had similar expressions?

Just when Nick Fury thought so, the disaster had already come.

"Hey, dwarf, do you want everything? I can give it to you!"

"Who... who are you?" Edgar found that he could not move, his mouth could not speak, his eyes could not move, like a statue. He could only shout in his heart.

Unexpectedly, his shouting could be heard by the other party.

"Interesting, aren't you facing me? Why do you still ask such a stupid question?"

"God of War... Ares!!!!" Edgar was not stupid, so he could naturally associate it.

"Yes, dwarf, I have seen your inner desire. You want to succeed, and you want the whole world to pay attention to you. Because you were born a dwarf and ugly, you were ostracized by girls in your relationships, so you have a strong desire for women. Hatred, you are afraid of women, you hate women, you want them to know how great you are! Come on, be loyal to me, and I can give you everything you want, including the wealth, reputation, handsome appearance, etc. I can give you a strong body!”

That voice sounded in Edgar's heart, like a whisper from hell, full of fatal temptation. Edgar is very smart, his IQ is as high as a terrifying 248. He can understand that this kind of devil's temptation is definitely not a good thing, but understanding is one thing, but desire is another. He did want everything that voice said.

"I...I...I do!"

"Hahaha, very good, very good, then you do as I say!" Ares said. Then streams of information entered Edgar's mind silently, and there was everything he needed to do!

"ah!"

Edgar suddenly came to his senses.

Nick Fury looked over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Edgar's reaction was quick. He didn't seem to have any abnormalities on the surface. Instead, he pretended to be still horrified: "Then... what is that? What the hell is that? Why did this happen? That's not a statue. ”

Suspicious people like Nick Fury have been fooled by him.

"That's exactly what we need to know, doctor. Now, get this sorted and you'll be busy next!"

After speaking, Nick Fury turned and left.

Looking at the back of the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Edgar showed an evil smile: "Yes, we are very busy."

…

Chicago, the famous J. Parker Rooftop Restaurant, is located on the west side of Lincoln Park. The restaurant next to Lincoln Park provides the best angle to view the park. Climbing up and looking into the distance, you can not only have a panoramic view of the park, but also the tall buildings in the city in the distance. The group and lakeside scenery also come into view.

But now the atmosphere here is a little weird. Parker's restaurant, which had always been prosperous, seemed unusually deserted tonight. There was only one table in the entire rooftop restaurant being used, and there were no other customers.

There were four people at that table, two men and two women. One of the men is very famous throughout the United States. He is the prodigal son of a wealthy family, the number one playboy in the United States, and the president of the Stark Group, Tony Stark. The woman sitting next to him was his secretary, Pepper Potts.

But obviously, both of them were not in a good mood. As for why, let’s talk about the two people opposite them.

Kay and Diana.

Kai and Diana hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they were chatting happily until an unexpected guest interrupted them.

After Tony saw Diana for the first time, he had a lot of thoughts. This is normal. If Tony is famous, according to statistics from the good media, the playboy changes his female companions much faster than he changes his clothes. The most exaggerated time was that he changed eight women in one day. A female companion. Anyway, no one believed that those women were just eating, watching movies and attending events with Tony.

But with Diana, he had been deflated continuously. Tony has always been a narcissistic bastard, but it's not like he hasn't been rejected by women. After all, not everyone likes his money...right? But there is really no such thing as Diana's eyes that clearly reveal disgust and disdain. After all, Tony believes that in addition to money, his talent and handsome appearance are also powerful tools for seducing girls. If you don't like his money, you may like his talent. Even if it's not good enough, he still has a trump card, which is his appearance.

It seems that he has not seen the interview in which Barkley once described Jordan.

If he were a plumber, no (many) people would tell him he was handsome.

So he took it for granted that it was a routine. He had seen bloody dramas! This must be an anti-routine.

As a result, he saw Kai and Diana talking happily.

Pepper Potts saw it too.