A certain American comic book's secondary profession master

Chapter 175

The Cosmic Cube was recovered by Howard shortly after Steve Rogers fell into the sea in 1945.

Since then, the Tesseract has been kept in the possession of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Apart from Howard occasionally studying it, others have virtually no access to it—and the Arc Reactor, as well as the discovery of new elements, were based on research into the Cosmic Cube.

This is why Li Wei has always believed that the Arc Reactor is more likely the result of Howard's research.

After all, given Anton Vanke's status, it's practically impossible for him to have access to the Cosmic Cube.

It wasn't until 1973, with the arrival of Mar-Vell, a Kree using the alias Wendy Lawson, that Project Pegasus officially began, and Howard and Mar-Vell started working together on the Tesseract in hopes of developing a light-speed engine.

However, in 1989, Marville's betrayal of the Kree Empire was discovered, and he was assassinated by a special forces team led by the Kree Empire's Yon Rogge.

Carol Danvers, who destroyed the engine prototype and absorbed a massive amount of spatial energy, was taken away by Yon Roger.

The Tesseract has been listed as "missing" by S.H.I.E.L.D.

It wasn't until 1995 that Carol Danvers returned to Earth by accident and met Nick Fury.

As the two meticulously unraveled the mystery, they helped Carol Danvers regain her memories and also discovered Marville's stealthy research spaceship hovering near its orbit, along with Skrull women and children hidden inside, and the Tesseract.

After the incident, Carol Danvers entrusted the Tesseract to Nick Fury for safekeeping.

However, Nick Fury, who was not yet the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. at the time, did not hand over the Tesseract.

Instead, they hid it.

Therefore, according to S.H.I.E.L.D. records, the Tesseract remains "missing".

Even after Nick Fury became director, this did not change.

If nothing unexpected happens, it wasn't until after the Thor incident, during the battle between Thor and Drax, that Nick Fury truly felt uneasy.

Furthermore, the discovery of Dr. Selvig's talent led to the formal initiation of the Dark Energy Project, preparing to restart research on the Cosmic Cube in order to create more advanced weapons to deal with potential crises from the universe.

That is, the plot of the post-credits scene in Thor 1.

But no one knew that at that time, Selvig was already being secretly watched by Loki.

Therefore, in this respect, Nick Fury actually deserves some credit for the Chitauri invasion.

If he hadn't restarted the research on the Tesseract and revealed the whereabouts of the Space Stone, Thanos wouldn't have been able to find it.

This box containing the Tesseract is also Howard's legacy. Inside this box, the Tesseract's energy will not leak out at all.

Just like Li Wei now, if he hadn't used the Time Stone to peer into the past and future, he wouldn't have been able to confirm that this box contained the Tesseract, and he might not even have known about the secret chamber where this box was hidden.

Looking at the Cosmic Cube in front of him, Li Wei sighed slightly.

It's a good thing that the Space Stone fell into his hands so early.

As long as this thing isn't discovered by Loki or anyone else who knows about it, it will save a lot of trouble.

For example, it's probably impossible to avoid the Chitauri invasion, but it's likely that it can be delayed for several years.

Since there are no space wormholes without the Space Stone, the Chitauri fleet can only reach Earth by flying.

Moreover, aside from the unexpected events that may occur along the way and the supplies that need to be replenished, the other civilizations along the way will bring a lot of trouble to the expedition.

The time allotted for preparation on Earth will be far more than that.

Unlike in the Avengers, they won't have to rush into battle.

Moreover, the war was fought in New York, a place where it was impossible to exert any influence.

Li Wei quickly closed the box and then decisively put it into his spatial backpack.

In this way, as long as he doesn't reveal it, no one in the world can find the Space Stone unless they kill him. But Li Wei doesn't think he's so easy to kill now.

I wonder what Nick Fury's expression will be when he comes here after he's fully recovered and finds the Tesseract missing.

After all, this room was kept secret and therefore had no surveillance cameras.

There are rooms outside the rooms, and they are even separate.

But it didn't work.

Li Wei remained invisible until he entered the room, and he also avoided being monitored when opening the portal.

There was no sign that the door to the secret room had been opened.

Of course, based on the abilities Li Wei demonstrated in this incident, he will definitely be a suspect.

But as long as there is no evidence, what can anyone do to him?

Tony, the only one who knew the inside story, was unlikely to betray him.

So there's absolutely nothing to worry about.

After obtaining the Cosmic Cube, Li Wei did not rush to leave.

Instead, the portal opened again, leading them to a secret room that had been sealed for many years.

A secret room that had been almost completely forgotten since Howard Stark's death in 1991.

I repeated a similar procedure to when I obtained the Cosmic Cube.

In this secret room, Li Wei found an entire box of test tubes filled with red liquid.

Seeing these test tubes, Li Wei smiled.

He knew that since Howard had been replicated, how could there really be no trace of him?
The red liquid in these test tubes is none other than the Pym Particles, the very substance that led Hank Pym to leave S.H.I.E.L.D.

Having obtained the Pym Particles, Levi's trip can be considered a success.

I put my inventory back in my inventory and then reopened the portal.

This time, he didn't go anywhere else.

Instead, he returned to Phil Collison and Tony's team.

Although S.H.I.E.L.D. still has many things he covets, such as obelisks.

However, those items were not stored at the Tri-Wing headquarters, but at other bases, so they had to be postponed.

At this point, Phil Coulson's team had reached the exit of one of the three main emergency exits, but Alexander Pierce did not appear.

Upon seeing Levi's appearance, Tony immediately cast an inquiring glance his way.

Did you get the item?
Li Wei nodded slightly.

It means I received it.

Phil Coulson, who noticed the two of them, frowned upon seeing this.

Judging from their behavior, he could guess that Li Wei must have gone to do something.

He simply couldn't have guessed it, and even if he had, he couldn't have stopped it.

He could only keep this matter to himself and wait until Nick Fury returned before reporting it to him.

“No need to wait here. Alexander Pierce is going the same way as Melinda. Let’s go over there!” After waiting another minute, Levi suddenly spoke up.

(End of this chapter)