Jessica was so frightened that she screamed on the spot: "You killed her!"

But what made Dane feel relieved was that despite this, she did not rush over immediately. Instead, she stood there with a conflicted look on her face, not knowing whether she should take action.

Natasha, at this moment, was squatting on the ground, sweating profusely and covering the wound on her waist.

She was experienced and knew just by touching it that the bullet had penetrated the skin and flesh but had not damaged any vital tissues or organs.

"You should know why I shot."

Natasha gritted her teeth, but her mind was clearer than ever.

"Knowing, only in this way can I eliminate doubts..."

Yes, if Natasha brought Hawkeye back intact, Nick would inevitably still suspect her, so she had to be injured.

Hawkeye didn't see Dane's face, and his memory only stayed at the moment when Drakkov appeared and shot. As long as Natasha's reasons were realistic enough, he wouldn't have any doubts.

Dane didn't need to explain this matter explicitly, Natasha figured it out after thinking about it for a while.

But that's not all. Dane threw the gun back into his men's hands and recited a string of numbers at a moderate pace.

"This is my private number. If you find anything and want help, you can call me on this number."

After saying that, he turned around and prepared to leave.

Natasha suddenly asked, "What are you going to do with Drakev?"

"That's none of your business."

After that, Dane carried Jessica to the car. The entire team quickly cleaned up the scene and disappeared from Natasha's sight a dozen seconds later...

Only Hawkeye, who was still sleeping, and Natasha, whose wounds had not been treated, were left.

Since it has to be an act, it has to be realistic. The gunshot wound that Dane left on her was a penetrating wound. As long as the wound is blocked and the bleeding stops, there will be no problem.

But in order to gain the trust of the suspicious Nick Fury, she could only pretend to be serious. Faced with a beautiful woman who looked seriously injured, even a black-salted egg would feel soft-hearted.

Twenty minutes later, Dane and his group had boarded the private plane. Jessica stared at Dane, as if she had a lot to say.

But she didn't say anything, and Dane had no interest in asking. He just picked up the tablet and started doing his own thing. Although he was here, there were still many things in the company that needed his attention.

Fortunately, Pepper's abilities were quite good and helped him share a lot of work.

He was not worried about Natasha because he knew that Nick Fury's energy was now basically focused on finding Tony Stark.

Don’t be fooled by how powerful SHIELD will be in the future, but right now it is just an organization not much stronger than the CIA. It often has to impersonate the identities of the other two major intelligence agencies when doing things. Otherwise, who would recognize it if it showed its SHIELD credentials?

Now Nick Fury is extremely anxious and is looking for Tony Stark all over the world!

But the whereabouts of the rich second generation is now in Dane's hands. Since he knows who designed the accident, he only needs to keep an eye on the mastermind behind the scenes.

It just so happened that Obadiah had a phone call with the Ten Rings Gang some time ago. The moment they were connected to the Internet, Cortana found the location of 3.3 Tony through the IP address, and by controlling the other party's surveillance, she saw Tony's current situation.

He had just undergone chest surgery and was lying in bed recovering with a battery in his arms. There was no need to worry about his life for the time being.

However, he has already begun to trick those terrorists into helping him find materials. Judging from the types of those materials, he is now ready to start building the Ark Reactor.

Just at this time, Pepper called him.

"Dane, the patent application for iodine has been approved!" Pepper's tone was a little excited. Even though she was not a scientific researcher, she knew how much commercial value this new element had.

Iridium is the name given by Dane to the new element, which can make the Ark reactor operate more efficiently than before and have better energy output.

Dane wanted to see, when Tony Stark no longer needed his father's new elemental blueprints, how would Nick Fury show him favor and trick him into joining the Avengers?

Chapter 715 Jessica was fooled

After the patent application for the iridium element was approved, Dane immediately ordered the engineering department to start work, preparing to build a large reactor at the company headquarters to get rid of dependence on external energy.

Since Howard has applied for all the patents that can be applied for in the Ark Reactor technology, Dane cannot use his technology directly.

However, the so-called cold nuclear fusion is not a specific technology, but a general term for a large category of technology.

It refers to nuclear fusion reactions that take place at relatively low temperatures or even room temperature, but this technology does not have only one route.

Just like the two technical ideas for thermonuclear fusion reactions today, tokamak magnetic confinement and inertial confinement, they are not considered the same technology because of their different directions, and their patents are unrelated to each other.

For example, Stark's cold nuclear fusion is actually an extension of the tokamak magnetic confinement technology, and its foundation also depends on it.

In order to circumvent the professional barriers set up by the Stark Group, Dane plans to abandon the other party's design ideas and replicate cold fusion in another way.

Although he did not inherit any power from his original body, and most of his knowledge could not be developed due to the differences in the basic physical rules between the two universes, the most important and creative inspiration of intelligent life was retained.

He was once the god of inspirational dreams. Even though he no longer possesses the divine power, he still possesses the same strong understanding and spirituality as 01.

Therefore, in just the time it took to return, he came up with a new cold nuclear fusion design idea.

The new cold nuclear fusion will be based on the element of galaxy and will be operated with the help of Cortana's computing power.

Unlike the tokamak magnetic confinement, the inertial confinement device has a very fast reaction time, with fusion occurring once every billionth of a second. It also requires the participation of a laser drive device, and the laser must be able to accurately hit the fusion target in the target chamber, which is impossible without a sufficiently powerful computer.

The birth of the metal element galaxy has greatly improved the reaction efficiency, and the remaining auxiliary work will be completed by computers that run fast enough.

It just so happens that Cortana is capable of doing this job.

As the only quantum computer in the world, its operating speed is tens or even hundreds of billions of times that of traditional integrated circuit computers. The only thing that affects its performance is energy.

As long as she has enough energy, Cortana can even guarantee an accuracy rate of over 75% for weather forecasts.

Dane wanted to build a cold fusion reactor in the company because Cortana was a big energy consumer. If she ran at full power, it would make too much noise. Anyone interested could just check the power consumption and immediately see the clues, which was not conducive to secret operations.

Just as Dane was concentrating on communicating online with researchers from the technical department, Jessica spoke.

"Don't you have anything you want to say?"

"What do you mean?" Dane said without looking up.

Jessica tentatively said: "What just happened..."

She didn't actually have much hope, because adults didn't like to discuss serious matters with high school students like her, let alone matters that were obviously very secretive.

But Dane simply looked up at her and said, "That woman just now is an agent. She's preparing to infiltrate the enemy and gather criminal intelligence."

This sentence made the middle school girl's blood boil, and she quickly asked, "What criminal organization are you going to deal with?"

What a cute little fool! Now he's "you guys"? She heard the conversation between him and Daredevil. Kingpin was doing his dirty work!

In Jessica's expectant eyes, Dane did not hide anything and said directly: "Hydra."

Oh, Hydra. Wait?

Jessica is down, this name sounds so familiar!

Then she suddenly became excited: "Impossible! Hasn't Hydra been destroyed?"

Dane frowned. The other party's voice was so loud that it hurt his ears.

He could only put away the tablet and stare at Jessica, which made the noisy little fool feel embarrassed and sit down again.

Fortunately, the cabin is well soundproofed, and the other security team members are separated from here by a cabin, so they cannot hear it.

"But how is this possible?" Jessica lowered her head, looking like a sneaky dog, which made people laugh.

But she is still a high school student, young and lively, so she looks a bit cute and lovely.

But Dane, as if with a heart of stone, said bluntly, "If you can't adjust your mindset, then I advise you to give up this job and return to an ordinary life."

In the original book, Jessica did get tired of being a superhero for a while and chose to live a bad life.

But that was after she had been physically and mentally tortured by the Purple Man. Now she has not had that experience, so she still has the typical American girl's personality and looks carefree.

If she ignored it, even without the Purple Man, she would probably suffer a great loss at the hands of others.

If nothing else, Jin Bing would give her a headache.

Faced with Dane's reprimand, Jessica immediately became like a primary school student and sat down obediently, as if she was afraid of being abandoned by the teacher.

The reason why she behaved like this was simple, because she couldn't beat Dane.

Since restoring the complete super soldier serum, Dane has completed an upgrade through genetic self-optimization.

After all, Steve is still a little weak by nature. According to the theoretical efficacy of the serum, he has not yet fully realized its potential.

Before Dane optimized his genes, his physical fitness had already reached the level of a top athlete. After undergoing a "super soldier" transformation, he further raised the limits of human beings.

With his current strength, lifting a car is not a problem at all. He can move faster than a cheetah. What's more rare is that he can maintain this speed for a long time, retaining the advantage of Homo sapiens' strong endurance.

Of course, no matter how strong he is, he is not stronger than Jessica. After being transformed by unknown radioactive chemical reagents, her upper limit of strength can reach 25 tons, and her maximum speed can reach kilometers per hour, which is faster than the high-speed rail.

She also possesses remarkable endurance, and her skin can defend against bullets from ordinary civilian guns. Even if her defense is broken by more intense firepower, her recovery speed is far beyond that of ordinary people.

It can be said that in terms of physical transformation, Jessica's body has reached the forefront of super soldier serum, not to mention that she can fly, which Captain America cannot do.

Dane hasn't figured out which organs or hormones are responsible for these changes in her body yet. Once he studies it thoroughly, it means that he will also gain the same physical fitness.

However, compared to Jessica's strong physical fitness, her spirit and willpower are somewhat insignificant, and it seems that the physical enhancement has not enhanced her brain.

Dane had examined her knowledge and thinking ability, and found that she was a complete academic failure, just like most white people who had received a happy education.

In front of Dane, who possessed the power of Purple Man Hormone, Jessica's divine power was completely useless. She was even fooled by him and sent to Umbrella with just a few words...

Strictly speaking, Dane is now acting as a so-called "mentor". While helping Jessica control her own power, he also promises to take her to do something truly meaningful.

As for Kingpin, Dane tricked her into believing that it was a whetstone left for Daredevil, and she believed it.

"If you cut off one head, two more will grow. The Hydra is not so easy to destroy.

I do not wish to explain to you why Hydra is still alive, because whatever the reason, it does not affect our enemy."

Jessica was startled when she heard this, but she quickly nodded. It was true. Hydra! That was Captain America's enemy. If it was still alive, then as a new generation of superhero, she certainly had a responsibility to help!

Jessica suddenly felt the blood boiling in her chest, but she didn't notice that Dane was looking at her as if he were looking at a sand sculpture...

Chapter 716 Damn them all!

Just as Dane returned to New York, Natasha also returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. with Hawkeye.

Although they were a small team with only two people on the surface, they had local agents to help support them at the mission location.

So shortly after Dane and the others left, Cortana called for medical reinforcements.

As for Drakev, he was naturally "dead". Although Natasha couldn't figure out Dane's thoughts, she believed that the man would not let Drakev out easily.

For this purpose, Natasha specially made up a logically consistent story, claiming that she had killed Drakev.

Maybe he didn't take this person seriously at all, or maybe his attention was distracted by Tony Stark's affairs. In any case, Nick didn't suspect Natasha this time and didn't even send anyone to confirm the body.

This is actually a very serious mistake. In intelligence work, the basic principle is to see the person alive or the body dead.

But that's what happened in the original movie. When Natasha "blew up" Drakoff in the movie, she didn't even bother to check the body, so she didn't even know that she had blown up the wrong person.

Until a few years later, when a powerful imitation master came to hunt her down, she still had no idea what grudge he had against her.

When he saw his sister Yelena, he was even shocked that Drakoff was not dead.

Nick Fury's attention is not on the "Red Room" at the moment, and the Hydra agents in S.H.I.E.L.D. are not doing their part, so naturally, Natasha easily gets away with it.

However, Nick still took the most basic precautions and met with Hawkeye alone afterwards.

"You stayed with her the whole time?"

Hawkeye, with a bandage wrapped around his chest, faced Nick calmly: "Yes, I even stood guard at the door when he went to the bathroom."

Nick laughed and nodded. "So she did kill Drake? Oh, and I heard his daughter is still there."

In Natasha's story, in order to save Hawkeye, she had no choice but to abandon Antonia.

Hawkeye was the first person to hear this. He already had a good impression of Natasha and knew how urgent the situation was. If Natasha had not fought back desperately and chosen him between the two options, he might never see his family again.

Therefore, he was very grateful to Natasha and believed her statement. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain how they survived Drakev's gun.

So even though Hawkeye had lost consciousness for a while, he still made a promise to Nick in person, claiming that he saw Natasha killing Drakoff.

Nick didn't think much about it, just nodded, already thinking about what level of authority to give Natasha.

Although she passed the test, she had just joined the company and had worked for the "Red House" before, so the authority she was given at the beginning would not be too high.

It's not that I doubt her, it's the rule. Hawkeye also went through this in the beginning.

Nick is a huge believer in compartmentalized management, and he reserves some discretion for everyone, even his most trusted agents.

At this time, Hawkeye suddenly asked: "Where is Natasha? How is she now?"

"She has a penetrating wound in her lower left abdomen. Because it wasn't treated immediately, it's now severely torn. However, this minor injury is not considered serious by our medical team and will be healed quickly."

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