I, a ship girl, am the savior of civilization.

It felt like Belfast and I had become hostages.

Hit by a fully automatic pistol?

45. Belfast's ship equipment

This sudden turn of events left Laura and Belfast somewhat bewildered.

Ah... should we cooperate with Obadiah's performance or just kill him with a single punch? Laura fell silent in the face of this thought-provoking question.

However, Tony, inside the Iron Man suit, was caught in a dilemma, while Fury, observing from afar, couldn't help but tense up.

If Obadiah had accidentally fired a shot, it would have been a diplomatic incident regardless of whether anyone died.

However, S.H.I.E.L.D. did not expect Laura and Belfast to go to Obadiah's house. With no way to reach them, Fury could only pray that Obadiah would not drag the whole world down with him.

"Obadiah, put Laura down, she's just a child!"

By concentrating energy into the auxiliary pulser, the bright light emanating from his palm shone on Obadiah, causing a small sun to suddenly appear in the room.

"Isn't it precisely because she's a child that she's valuable to kidnap?"

Feeling the situation had stabilized, Obadiah finally revealed his villainous nature, turning to Belfast with a menacing glare: "And Belfast, was this your doing? Beep—(manually censored)"

“Uh, relax. Actually, this was told to me by an agent who infiltrated Stark Industries.”

Trying his best to calm Obadiah down, Tony slowly lowered his hands: "Let them go, and I'll let you go."

“Tony, we’re not three-year-olds anymore. You and I both know what’s holding this fragile balance together.”

Seeing Tony move the pulse cannon away from him, Obadiah breathed a slight sigh of relief, but the muzzle of his gun remained firmly in his hand: "I'm finished. Ironically, I just hoped Stark Industries could have done better."

"So you choose to smuggle weapons to terrorists, and even let them use the weapons I invented to attack me?"

Tony's tone rose a few degrees: "You're just doing this for your own selfish gain."

"Shut up, you don't know anything. What are you doing, an arms dealer pretending to be a peace ambassador?"

Enraged by being called out, Obadiah fired a shot at the floor in a fit of extreme anger: "I'm not going to argue with you anymore, just let me leave, it's better for both of us."

"otherwise……"

Turning to the side, Obadiah glared at Tony, but noticed that Laura and Belfast looked like they were watching a 52-episode family drama.

"Hey, is it over?"

Laura crushed the Pocky she was holding and looked at Tony and Obadiah, who were staring at her, asking without any sense of crisis.

"In the end, there was no fight... It's a bit boring. Belfast, let's go back."

The dramatic showdown she was most looking forward to didn't happen. After grabbing a bag of snacks, Laura got up and walked towards the now-ruined door.

"Bah!"

A bullet struck Laura, stopping her in her tracks.

"Stop right there, or don't blame my bullets for being blind."

Feeling insulted, Obadiah warned again.

"Second Miss, would you like me to end this dispute?"

Leaning down, Belfast whispered in Laura's ear. To be honest, Belfast had long been dissatisfied with Obadiah's repeated threats.

Not only did they take her hostage, but they also didn't spare the second young lady. If Laura hadn't given the order, Belfast would have wanted to grab the ship's equipment and let Obadiah experience what it meant to be as free as the wind.

"Well, there's no point in watching any longer, let's end it now."

Nodding, Laura added, "Let's try out the new ship equipment while we're at it."

While Tony was building the Iron Man suit, the Noah's Ark dock had already finished casting Belfast's hull and connected it to Belfast along with its ship equipment.

However, because it rarely gets used, that ship equipment is still gathering dust in the Noah dimension.

"Your will."

Standing in front of Obadiah, Belfast shielded Laura behind her, her ship equipment gradually materializing: "Obadia, to be honest, you're not a bad partner."

"You've ended up in this situation for a very simple reason."

The massive, heavy armor materialized, with electromagnetic railguns and plasma weapons floating in layers behind them, creating a striking visual impact before Tony and Obadiah's eyes.

"Because you have become an obstacle to the future that the Second Miss desires."

In the blink of an eye, Belfast had changed into her signature maid outfit, pointed her numerous cannon barrels at Obadiah, and asked with a smile.

"So, Mr. Obadiah, shouldn't you put down your little pipe first? Pointing a gun at a girl is not gentlemanly behavior."

Looking down at his M1911 and then up at the numerous turrets hovering and pointing at him, Obadiah decisively lowered his weapon and gave a French military salute.

Even being locked up in jail is better than being riddled with bullets on the spot.

However, Obadiah's swift surrender left Laura somewhat disappointed. To be honest, Laura was really looking forward to seeing Obadiah and Belfast, the champion of the multi-turret cult, engage in a mid-range showdown…

Um, I did a mental simulation, but I think I'll pass.

Just then, the belated sound of police sirens rang out from outside. Tony's dramatic entrance, bursting through the door, made quite a commotion and attracted the attention of many.

"Then, I'll leave the rest to you."

Belfast and Laura tugged at Tony's skirt before disappearing into the ripples of time travel, leaving Tony alone to contemplate life.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the time-space teleportation, Fury silently concealed himself in the darkness of Tony's coastal villa.

To be fair, Fury's racial talents are indeed impressive, and coupled with his ability to bypass Jarvis's alarm, it's no wonder that Tony was intimidated by S.H.I.E.L.D.

"Chief Egg, I almost didn't spot you."

Laura wanted to pat Fury on the shoulder, but because she was too short, she could only tug at the corner of Fury's clothes.

Fury, who was planning to create an air of mystery during his conversation with Tony, almost lost his composure. If he hadn't managed to control his instinctive grappling techniques, Fury might already be embedded in the wall by Belfast.

Thanks to the surveillance Natasha had set up in Obadiah's house beforehand, Fury had been following the events closely. When Belfast summoned her ship equipment and pointed it at Obadiah, Fury was genuinely startled.

It can summon a large-scale armored force at any time, making it virtually impossible to defend against if used for assassination.

For his own safety, Fury subtly took a few steps back. Although Belfast was currently only wearing an ordinary maid outfit, Fury knew that if necessary, dozens of cannons would be pointed at him immediately.

"The two from Aerriel?"

Remembering the teleportation mentioned in the previous report, Fury quickly calmed down. Pointing to the villa at his feet, Fury didn't try to hide anything: "I'm here for the owner of this villa."

"S.H.I.E.L.D. needs Tony Stark."

46. ​​Higher-dimensional life forms

As for Obadiah, Fury has already sent Coulson to negotiate with the police, and Obadiah should get a proper resolution.

There was no life-or-death struggle, and no casualties; this is a good ending.

Thinking about how she had unintentionally saved Obadiah's life, Laura couldn't help but marvel at how incredibly great she was.

While Tony was still away, Fury had already used S.H.I.E.L.D.'s technical support to unlock Jarvis's alarm and was slyly starting to consider how to bring Tony into S.H.I.E.L.D.

However, they happened to run into Laura and Belfast, who had been teleported there.

"So, you two from Aerriel, what brings you here?"

Having witnessed the existence of the ship's equipment, Fury's attitude towards the two became noticeably more cautious. However, Laura seemed oblivious to this change and didn't notice the change in the director's demeanor.

"Be more formal in business, but you can call me Laura in private."

Laura mentioned it briefly, then pointed at Fury: "This time, Laura's here to see you."

"Find me?"

Fury's eyes turned dangerous: "You're tracking me?"

"Well, not really."

Laura twirled her hair with her index finger and said somewhat shyly, "It's just that you can see it if you want to."

With the nanounits having been distributed for so long, most of the important world protagonists on Earth are under Laura's surveillance. However, as mentioned before, the Dawn cannot handle these nanounits all the time.

Laura can see everything, but she can't know everything. If Laura doesn't actively search, she won't be able to find Fury's whereabouts.

However, this explanation sounded terrifying to Frey.

"The ability to see everything? In the Skrull database, the only beings that seem to be related are higher-dimensional life forms."

He gasped, his brain churning like a battleship on adrenaline with only its last burst of firepower, frantically trying to figure out Laura's origins.

After making contact with Aerriel, Fury inquired with the Skrulls, but to no avail. Even the Empire, which had once been able to contend with the Kree, had never heard of the civilization of Aerriel.

But now, recalling Laura's words during their first encounter, "I am Aerriel," Fury had a vague idea.

Higher-dimensional life forms typically possess individual power different from that of technological civilizations, and what appears in the universe is not the original entity, but a dimensional projection containing will.

Because of his status as a Skrull in distress, Fury wasn't entirely ignorant about the overall structure of the universe.

Throughout the long history of the universe, whether it was the Kree Empire, the Nova Empire, or even the Skrull Empire that was defeated, all have records of interacting with higher-dimensional life.

One of the most sensational events was the Kree Empire, led by the Supreme Intelligence, assembling a fleet to besiege a low-dimensional projection of a high-dimensional being.

The final result was that the lower-dimensional projection was destroyed, but the Kree Empire alerted the higher-dimensional entity. In its fury, the higher-dimensional being directly pulled the Kree fleet, along with that star system, into its own dimension.

After that, the coordinates of a portion of the star system were completely lost on the map of the Milky Way, and the Kree fleet that participated in the war has not returned to this day.

After testing the power of higher-dimensional life forms for the entire universe, the Supreme Intelligence never issued any further instructions targeting higher-dimensional life forms. After that, all star systems inhabited by higher-dimensional life forms were listed as extremely dangerous.

The most prominent characteristic of higher-dimensional life forms is their higher-dimensional properties. Just like three-dimensional beings, which have an extra dimension compared to two-dimensional beings, allowing them to observe two-dimensional beings from a much broader perspective.

Therefore, higher-dimensional life forms basically possess, to varying degrees, abilities similar to omniscience.

Even Laura's time travel is considered one of the ways to move to higher dimensions. At least, it seems that no one in the universe can achieve such precise small-scale spatial teleportation.

Although it's uncertain, for someone like Fury, if there's a possibility, then he should think in that direction.

Laura, of course, had no idea what Fury was thinking. If she knew that she had been imagined as a higher-dimensional life form, Laura probably would have...

Wait a minute, it seems like Laura herself doesn't even know what her true nature is.