Even Coulson could only have two team members disguised as FBI agents and investigate in Beverly Hills for about half an hour under the pretense of tracking down a major criminal.
Then, because they did not have an investigation warrant, they were forcibly evicted by the resort's security.
After a week of investigation, these organizations found no trace of the Wind Riders.
Instead, some mutants hiding in Los Angeles were found and then chased around by these organizations.
Three of the mutants, who had nowhere to go after being chased, contacted Ian and then accepted Mark's offer of recruitment through him.
Although Ian initially assured that the three men were of good character, Mark still left surveillance devices on them.
Then Mark sent them to join the Flint brothers in Sean's training.
If there are any problems, they will definitely be exposed through these six months of training.
"Boss, we have completed the online recharge interface for all the games under Payne Games, and the secure encrypted USB drive has also been manufactured by the factory. Now the online banking can start operating."
That morning, Curtis, the president of Payne Bank, reported to Mark on recent work.
After acquiring Payne Bank, Mark began to coordinate the bank with Payne Games to complete his online banking plan.
After this period of work, both parties have now completed the software and hardware preparations.
"Let's officially launch it then!"
Mark gave the order.
After obtaining his permission, Payne Games immediately issued a public announcement that online banking and online payment services would be launched simultaneously.
Users can receive an encrypted USB drive simply by opening an account at Payne Bank.
In the future, when using software and games from Payne Games, you can recharge at any time simply by inserting the encrypted USB drive into your computer.
The announcement immediately sparked cheers from countless Payne game users.
"That's great! This will make topping up much more convenient in the future, and I won't have to go to the post office to mail money orders anymore."
"It's so convenient! The money arrives instantly after topping up, instead of waiting two days like before."
"Opening an account is a bit of a hassle; I have to go to Los Angeles!"
"..."
Users near Los Angeles have already traveled directly to Payne Bank in Los Angeles to register and open accounts.
Other users who live further away are also planning to travel to Los Angeles during their holidays.
"Payne Bank currently only has one headquarters in Los Angeles, which is not very convenient. Once we have sufficient funds in the future, we will need to open branches in all states."
Mark saw some users' complaints online and thought to himself.
Although Payne Group has made a lot of money recently, it also has many expenses and its cash reserves are not very high.
For example, there's the hospital built near Future Medicine, the Payne Estate purchased at great expense, and the Payne Group Tower that Mark just put up $500 million to build.
Payne Group is now valued at over $100 billion, but that's just an estimate, representing the outside world's high regard for the group's potential.
Currently, the group only has about $3 million in available liquidity, and is temporarily unable to open branches in various states.
If Mark were willing to accept investment from major capital groups, he could immediately obtain a large sum of money and solve the problem of insufficient funds.
However, he felt that Payne Group's current scale was not big enough, and that the pharmaceutical and Payne Games sectors were still in a period of rapid development.
Accepting large amounts of foreign investment now would be a huge loss and could easily lead to losing control of the group.
Mark plans to wait until the Payne Group has continued to develop for some time before considering accepting the addition of external capital.
Chapter Ninety-Three Soaring into the Sky
After settling his company affairs, Mark left Los Angeles and boarded a plane to continue collecting sunlight data.
The investigations into Windriders by various organizations in Los Angeles have not stopped.
However, as time went by, they began to operate covertly, with most of them withdrawing and only a few remaining to continue their investigation in secret.
Payne Bank's user base has been growing rapidly during this period, from a small bank with just over 1 depositors to a large bank with over 200 million depositors, and its market valuation has skyrocketed accordingly.
Online banking doesn't require a high level of technical expertise, and seeing Payne Bank's success, other banks quickly followed suit.
Established banking giants such as Wells Fargo, Citibank, and Morgan Stanley have all launched their own online banks.
Although these banks have substantial assets, a large user base, and a good reputation, they have not ventured into the internet industry.
The tens of millions of users of Payne Games are all potential customers of Payne Bank.
In the development of online banking, they are far behind Payne Bank.
Nowadays, gamers who can afford it will open an account at Payne Bank, since topping up directly online is just too convenient.
Payne Games' profits have recently surged as more and more people have opened online banking accounts.
The combination of Heroic Myth, Panda Chat, and numerous single-player games brings Mark over $20 million in revenue each month after taxes and operating costs.
Three months later, the first phase of the Future Medicine Affiliated Hospital was also completed.
After consulting with Mark, Killian named it the Future Hospital and transferred all the pharmaceutical company's patients to the newly built hospital.
In the future, pharmaceutical companies will be closed to outsiders, and outsiders will no longer be allowed to enter at will.
This relieved the security personnel at Future Pharmacy, who felt their pressure greatly reduced.
Two months passed quickly, and Mark finally collected enough sunlight points to meet the upgrade requirements!
It was already dusk, and the plane began its slow descent.
Below is Doman Island in the Caribbean Sea. The group quickly left the airport and checked into a nearby hotel.
Upon entering his room, Mark immediately raised his LV9 biofield to level 10.
[Biofield LV9→LV10]
Mark could clearly feel that the invisible force field enveloping him had instantly become stronger!
Then, with a thought, his bio-force field completely distorted the gravitational field.
Mark's body lost gravity and detached from the ground, hovering in mid-air.
Mark opened the window on the 23rd floor of the hotel, put on his electromagnetic pulse glasses, and flew out of the window!
It wasn't completely dark yet, and many people were strolling and playing in the square and park outside the hotel.
"Oh my god, what is that?"
"God! I think I saw someone fly out of the hotel room!"
"..."
Some people looked in shock towards the hotel and exclaimed in surprise.
But when others heard the noise and turned around, they could only see a black dot disappearing into the horizon.
Mark flew freely in the twilight sky, facing the sea breeze, feeling extremely happy!
The feeling of flying freely is incomparable to flying in an airplane.
He unleashed his full speed and, after testing, discovered that his maximum flying speed was 120 meters per second, or 400 kilometers per hour.
This exceeds the maximum speed limit of a helicopter.
If Mark wants to achieve even greater speed, he needs to continue upgrading the biofield to obtain a stronger propulsion force!
Mark then began to fly upwards.
2000 meters, 5000 meters, 10000 meters!
This is already at the altitude of the Falcon aircraft's flight path. The air here is thin, and the temperature has dropped to -50 degrees Celsius.
However, Mark was enveloped in a biofield and felt no cold at all.
Moreover, even without a biofield, with his LV10 super physique, such a low temperature could not harm him.
More than ten minutes later, Mark reached 80000 meters!
The air here is extremely thin, and the temperature has dropped to -110 degrees Celsius.
The sunlight, which had disappeared, shone on him again.
[Sunlight value +1 +1 +1...]
Mark watched the rapidly increasing sunlight value and realized that the efficiency of gaining sunlight value here was even faster than before on the plane.
Two hours later, Mark had collected 1000 points of sunlight.
Only then did he look at the information in his mind and discover that among the unlocked abilities, there was an additional thermal vision.
【Heat Vision LV0: (0/1000)】
Mark casually added the 1000 sunlight points to his thermal vision, raising the superpower to level 1.
His eyes felt slightly hot, and a beam of red light shot out from them, extending hundreds of meters forward before gradually dissipating.
Mark reached out and touched the light, feeling that its temperature was around 100 degrees Celsius.
This temperature is fine for boiling water, but it's far from sufficient for fighting an enemy.
However, it is believed that as the level of heat vision increases, this superpower will eventually become a nightmare for enemies.
The sun disappeared again at that moment, and Mark immediately turned around and swooped down!
With a bio-force field continuously providing thrust, Mark can fly upwards until he enters real space.
But there is no need for that at the moment; it would just be a waste of time.
Under the combined influence of the biofield and gravity, Mark swooped down at an extremely high speed, returning to an altitude of 1000 meters in just two minutes.
"We were flying too fast just now and didn't notice that we were a bit off-center."
Mark then realized that he was not standing on Dorman Island.
He stood in the air, turned his head and looked around, his pupils slightly contracted, and soon spotted Doman Island more than 100 kilometers to the southeast.
Mark immediately turned around and sped off in a southeast direction.
"Ok?"
But just as he had flown more than ten miles, his keen hearing picked up a faint scream coming from afar.
Mark looked in the direction from which the sound came and saw a small island, about 200,000 square meters in area, more than 50 kilometers to the west.
This must be a private island.
The island is surrounded by high walls, and there are a large number of security personnel patrolling the area, making it appear to be heavily guarded.
The screams came from a room in a building on the island.
As Mark turned and moved closer to the island, the screams grew clearer.
Moreover, this was not the scream of one person, but a mixture of three different screams from men and women, which was chilling to listen to.
Mark's eyes instantly turned cold. He knew without even looking that something inhumane was definitely happening on this island.
On remote islands like these, the police rarely venture, making them lawless zones in the eyes of many, where people can act with impunity.
"Alice, help me investigate this island and then try to hack into its internal network."
Mark gave the order to Alice.
"This island is called James Island, and the registered owner is Eric Epstein! However, this island is not connected to the internet and cannot be hacked."
"It turned out to be him!"
Upon hearing Alice's name, Mark's expression changed drastically as he recalled the person behind the scenes who had sent mutants to kidnap him!
Chapter Ninety-Four Breaking In
Mark planted a listening device on CBS host Nisley and overheard her conversation with someone behind the scenes.
At the time, Nisley only addressed the other person by their surname, not their full name, so Mark only had suspicions.
Now, on the other party's private island, having heard such horrifying screams, Mark has every reason to go ashore and see for himself.
If anyone on the island is truly committing evil, regardless of whether they are the same person who initially tried to kidnap him, they should be killed immediately to resolve the matter.
Mark didn't hesitate any longer and flew swiftly towards James Island.
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