Chapter 245 Natasha’s Bizarre Experience (6,000 words, please order the full version!)
Give me a small gift?
Looking at the phone that had been hung up, Russell's expression became a little strange.
Although Tony is indeed very wealthy and regards money as dirt, and is even willing to exchange a luxury watch worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for a box of strawberries, there are not many things about Tony that interest Russell.
Apart from his personal assets, which are currently not as good as Tony's, the only two things that interest him are Tony's smart brain and the rewards that Tony can potentially activate.
Although he didn't know what Tony was planning, since he took the initiative to call and invite, he didn't mind going there.
After asking the twin-tailed blonde secretary Ai Li to send in the documents that needed to be signed and reviewed today, he quickly completed the work of the chairman that needed to be handled today.
Then, under Ally's gaze, he flew out of the modified floor-to-ceiling window and flew towards Tony's mansion in the suburbs.
In less than two minutes, he arrived above Tony's mansion.
After using clairvoyance to observe Tony's mansion and discovering that Tony was currently in the laboratory in the mansion, he landed directly in the garden of the mansion without any hesitation.
Then, walked towards Tony's laboratory.
"You finally came!"
As soon as he entered the laboratory, Tony, dressed like a maintenance worker, came to him and said with a smile.
Looking at Tony, who was completely different from the previous playboy image, Russell glanced at the Ark reactor on Tony's chest.
The original palladium element reactor has now been replaced with a new element reactor, and its shape has also changed from the original circle to an inverted triangle.
When looking at the new reactor, he also used his clairvoyance ability to look at Tony's body.
"It seems that not only did you replace the reactor with a new one, but you also cleaned up the bomb fragments in the body."
Russell said with a smile.
"Sooner or later it will have to be dealt with, so we will deal with it together."
Tony said casually.
"Let's not talk about this anymore. You said you had a gift for me. I'm here now. Can you tell me what the gift is?"
Russell asked directly.
"Don't be so anxious, let's chat while drinking."
After saying that, Tony went to the wine cabinet, took out a bottle of whiskey, and poured two glasses.
Then, he returned to Russell and handed one of the glasses to him.
"When we talk about some secret things, it will feel better if we pair it with a glass of whiskey."
Tony took a sip and said slowly.
"Hidden things?"
Russell raised his eyebrows and looked at Tony curiously.
"Come on, sit down and talk."
Tony took the lead and sat down on the sofa, motioning for Russell to sit down and chat slowly.
Although he didn't know what Tony was trying to do, Russell didn't rush Tony. He sat down opposite him and took a sip of the whiskey in the glass.
"You reminded me that there was my father's relic in SHIELD. When I went to SHIELD to get it back, Nick Fury told me something."
"He told me that my father said the Ark reactor was just a springboard to great technology."
"My father was preparing to launch an energy competition, an energy competition that would keep all competitors in the dust."
"He found a clue to a super energy source. Compared with this super energy source, a nuclear reactor is like a 3A battery."
Having said this, Tony showed a rare expression of admiration and pointed at the new reactor on his chest.
"Limited to the technological level at the time, my father was unable to complete this great invention, so I helped him realize his idea."
"He has been dead for 20 years, and he still taught me a lesson."
"You are right, I am much greater than I thought. I underestimated him too much before!"
Tony said with a complicated expression.
"Your father is indeed a great man."
Russell agreed with Tony.
"Okay, that's the prelude, now it's time to get down to business."
Tony's expression became serious, and he gestured towards the intelligent robotic arm named "Die" in the laboratory.
After receiving his instructions, "Die" came to Tony and Russell with Howard's notebook.
"This is my father's notebook."
Tony said slowly.
"Isn't the gift you are talking about your father's notebook?"
Russell asked rhetorically.
"Of course not. Open it and take a look. You might be able to see something interesting."
Tony continued.
Although Tony hasn't told him what the gift is yet, Russell already has some guesses.
Isn't this guy planning on the Cosmic Rubik's Cube?
Russell opened Howard's notes and glanced at them quickly.
Sure enough, in Howard's notebook, he saw the information about the Cosmic Cube.
Although Howard did not directly name the Cosmic Cube in his notebook, he described the Cosmic Cube as a new energy source that had never been discovered by humans, and also drew the Cosmic Cube.
"You should have heard the story of Captain America fighting the Red Skull. That cube is the Red Skull's treasure, the Cosmic Cube."
Perhaps because he was worried that Russell didn't know what the Cosmic Cube was, Tony went out of his way to explain it.
"Then what?"
Russell closed the notebook and asked again.
"I don't know where the Red Skull got the Cosmic Cube."
"However, after synthesizing this new element according to the information given by my father, I discovered a problem."
Tony looked at Russell seriously.
"what is the problem?"
"This is alien technology!"
Alien technology?
Seeing the serious expression on Tony's face, Russell was stunned for a moment.
However, he quickly reacted.
Tony is a superhero on the technological side. For him, the powers from alien planets can be collectively referred to as alien technology.
"The gift you are talking about, could it be this Cosmic Rubik's Cube?"
Russell asked with a smile.
"You are thinking too much. This thing is not in my hands now, but in the hands of SHIELD."
"After learning about the existence of the Cosmic Cube, I found some connections and asked someone to investigate the Cosmic Cube."
"Although Captain America stopped the Red Skull back then, he eventually crashed together with the Cube."
"My father and the Scientific and Strategic Corps, the predecessor of S.H.I.E.L.D., searched near the crash site and wanted to recover Captain America's body and the Cosmic Cube."
"But it's a pity that my father only found the Cosmic Cube."
"As for Captain America, he was dug out of the Arctic Ocean by S.H.I.E.L.D. just ten years ago."
To others, what Tony is talking about now is indeed a secret.
But to Russell, this was no secret at all.
He could even tell Tony more specific details if he wanted to know.
"By telling me these things, are you trying to get SHIELD to steal the Cosmic Cube?"
"How is it possible! I am telling you these things just to let you know how precious this new element invented by my father but synthesized by me is!"
Hearing this, Russell gave Tony a roll of his eyes.
You're fucking kidding me!
Although he didn't speak now, Tony saw what he meant.
"Don't think I'm playing tricks on you. Only by letting you understand how precious this new element is can you understand the true value of the gift I gave you."
After speaking, Tony took out a USB flash drive from his pocket.
"There is information and synthesis methods on new elements. If you are interested, you can ask your people to synthesize them."
"I won't give you the design plan for the Ark Reactor. You already have it."
this……
Although he knew that Tony was very generous early on, Russell did not expect that Tony would be so generous.
This is a brand new element that can replace palladium, and it is also a new element studied from the Cosmic Rubik's Cube.
Although this new element cannot completely replace the Cosmic Cube, which is the energy source of the Space Gems, it can also be regarded as a derivative energy source of the Space Gems.
Judging from the current technological level of the earth, this is a priceless treasure!
Tony actually gave such a thing as he said.
"you sure?"
Russell did not pick up the USB flash drive Tony handed him.
"I never regret the things I give away."
Tony said with a serious face.
"If that's the case, then I'll accept it!"
Russell did not refuse and accepted the USB flash drive from Tony.
"You don't have to feel like you're taking advantage of me. Without your reminder, I wouldn't be able to synthesize this new element. You can think of this as the consulting fee I pay you."
"Consulting fee, didn't you pay 100 million US dollars last time?"
Russell asked rhetorically.
After hearing Russell's words, Tony was stunned for a moment.
He forgot!
After seeing Tony's expression, Russell immediately guessed what Tony was thinking.
The way Tony looks now is like those wealthy people who have so many houses that after buying them they forget that they even bought a house here.
After realizing that Russell had seen through what he was thinking now, Tony put on an expression of "Of course I know" and said seriously: "That's just a deposit!"
"Okay, if you say it's a deposit, then it's a deposit."
Russell said with a smile and put the USB flash drive into the system space.
After chatting with Tony about some depraved topics among degenerate capitalists, Russell left Tony's mansion and returned to the office at the Octopus Monster's headquarters.
As soon as he returned to the office, he took out the USB flash drive from the system space.
"Synthesize some new elements according to the data, and compare which one is more efficient between the reactor using the new elements and the reactor currently used by the endosymbiosis armor."
"Okay, sir!"
No. 3 replied immediately.
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time flies.
A month passed before I knew it.
This month, Russell has had a very easy time.
Except for occasionally paying attention to Bakshi's "killing chickens to scare monkeys" plan and Callum's progress in rebuilding the Roman Assassin Brotherhood, he basically lived a normal life as a degenerate capitalist this month.
Although the life was a bit dull, Russell was quite satisfied.
Ordinariness is a blessing!
Octopus Headquarters Office.
Russell browsed the documents sent by the blonde secretary Ellie.
Octopus Industry and Octopus Laboratory are now completely on track, and he doesn't need to worry much.
Spider-Man, who only joined Zhenglian last month, has gradually made a name for himself and has become a frequent headliner in major media.
Gwen continues her dual life as a college girl and Spider-Woman, while Kara continues her dual life as Superwoman and a movie actress.
Hulk doesn't have much to say, he's still the same as before, drinking and training to fight Bai Zetsu.
Hulk has no dissatisfaction except that White and White are now possessed not by chimpanzees but by jaguars.
In this month, the one who has changed the most is Diana.
Because of Russell, the daily work of Diana's museum has become increasingly difficult.
Now, more people go to the museum to see Diana than normal tourists.
If these people were unscrupulous reporters from entertainment newspapers, Russell had plenty of ways to deal with them.
But the problem is, these people are ordinary ordinary people.
People go there just to see superhero girlfriends and beautiful women.
Although Russell disliked their approach very much, he really had nothing to do with these people.
Because of these curious people, Diana has not been at work for several days.
Although Russell didn't expect Diana's salary to help support the family, his troubles came when Diana was free.
Since she didn't have to go to work, Diana spent more time playing Ludo with him.
On the surface, this is a good thing.
But over time, even with a Kryptonian physique, it becomes unbearable.
Diana is becoming more and more beautiful now, but Russell feels that his physical condition is getting worse and worse.
He has now begun to take out the dragon bones he obtained before and make wine.
After finishing today's daily work, Russell directly ignored Ally's temptation and asked the black-haired and blond Ally to leave the office.
Just when he was considering whether to use the name of a traveler to take on a few assassin missions and go to other cities or foreign countries for a few days, he suddenly received an email in his personal mailbox.
"Sir, Agent Romanoff sent a secret email. Do you want to check it now?"
The voice of No. 3 rang.
After hearing the mechanically synthesized sound of No. 3, Russell, who was leaning back in his chair, slowly opened his closed eyes.
"Project it directly!"
"Okay, sir!"
The next second, a huge holographic projection screen appeared in front of him.
Russell originally thought that Natasha just sent an email to explain what she had been doing during her disappearance.
However, when he saw the specific content of the email, his expression became a little complicated.
Natasha did explain where she had been during this time.
As Russell guessed, Natasha was sent by Nick Fury to perform tasks related to the second phase of the Cosmic Cube.
Joint Dark Energy Mission!
This is a mission jointly carried out by NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and SHIELD.
In public publicity, this is a mission dedicated to studying the dark energy of the universe.
But in fact, in addition to studying dark energy, which has never been understood by humans before and accounts for 70% of the total energy of the universe, we will also study some things that cannot be disclosed to the outside world.
For example, the Cosmic Rubik's Cube.
A few days before Natasha "disappeared", she had been staying at the Joint Dark Energy Mission Research Base in Tucson, Arizona.
According to common sense, Natasha could still secretly contact Russell even in a heavily guarded base.
But the problem is, Natasha's experience this time is not at all normal.
According to Nick Fury's arrangement, Natasha's mission this time is similar to that of Hawkeye Barton. They are to escort the second phase of the research on the Cosmic Cube, protect the safety of the Cosmic Cube, and prevent the possibility of information leakage.
To put it simply, what Natasha and Barton do at the Joint Dark Energy Mission Base is similar to security directors.
This is not the first time Natasha has experienced this kind of task.
In the secret base in Norway where symbiote research was conducted, Natasha and Barton conducted a similar mission.
However, this time, both she and Barton encountered unexpected accidents.
To be precise, everyone in the laboratory at that time encountered an accident.
The Cosmic Cube, which was being tested, suddenly opened the portal and forcibly teleported them to a desolate and dead planet.
this……
Russell is very sure that in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there has never been a plot where Natasha and Barton were transported to a deserted planet.
However, what surprised him even more was the planet Natasha and her group were teleported to.
On that desolate and silent planet, Natasha and her group saw an ancient sculpture that was suspected to be a Hydra statue.
In the email, Natasha drew the Hydra sculpture she saw.
Although the painting was not particularly exquisite, after seeing this sculpture, Russell roughly guessed which planet they were transported to.
Planet Maveth!
Maveth, the planet that ancient Inhumans used to exile the first Inhuman hive in history.
Did Natasha get the wrong script?
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there is indeed a female SHIELD agent who was transported to the planet Maveth, but that female agent was not Natasha, but Gemma Simmons.
More importantly, Simmons being transported to the planet Maveth has nothing to do with the Tesseract.
What transported Simmons was not the Cosmic Cube, but the Korn Stone made by the Kree.
Although he didn't know why Natasha and her group were teleported to the planet Maveth where the hive is located by the Cosmic Cube, Russell didn't get too entangled in this issue.
This is not the first time that the Cosmic Cube has transported people to alien planets.
The famous Red Skull was transported to Vormir by the Cosmic Cube to serve as a "paternity tester".
In the following email, Natasha briefly described their experience of surviving on the desolate and lifeless planet Maveth and avoiding alien monsters.
After about a month or so, the experimenters from the United Dark Energy Mission Base finally found a way to open the Cosmic Cube portal and rescued them from that planet.
Although it has been several days since they came back, Natasha, Barton and others have been undergoing various physical examinations in the past few days.
It wasn't until today that she finally found the opportunity to send a secret email.
After reading the entire content of the email, Russell's only feeling was that the future development was getting more and more chaotic.
If he remembered correctly, in the movie universe, until Loki came to Earth, S.H.I.E.L.D. had not found a way to open the Cosmic Cube portal.
And here, SHIELD's control over the Cosmic Cube is obviously higher than in the movie universe.
At least they already know how to use the Cosmic Cube to open the portal.
Otherwise, Natasha and her party who were forcibly teleported away would most likely die on the planet Maveth.
Natasha didn't know who the alien monster was that attacked them on the planet Maveth, but Russell knew it clearly.
That was the first alien hive in history, and it was a hive that was always hungry.
The planet Maveth became that desolate and lifeless state because the hives ate up all the edible creatures on the planet.
Natasha and the others were able to survive on the planet Maveth for a month without being eaten by the hive, which was already the result of their training.
An ordinary person might not even be able to survive the first day.
Although Natasha has lived on the planet Maveth where the hive is located for a month, Russell is not worried that Natasha will be affected or parasitized by the hive.
Although SHIELD is not particularly reliable, they are a professional spy agency anyway.
As soon as Natasha and others returned, SHIELD immediately conducted a detailed full-body examination on them.
If they had been parasitized by a hive, SHIELD would have discovered it long ago.
After thinking for more than ten seconds, he replied to Natasha's email.
Collect information on the second phase of the Cosmic Cube, and keep an eye on the situation of the Cosmic Cube at all times.
If there are any signs of the Cosmic Cube being opened again, please contact him as soon as possible.
After replying to the email, he turned off the holographic projection screen in front of him.
"No. 3, how is the plan for the Rubik's Cube elemental energy weapon going now?"
Russell asked No. 3.
The Rubik's Cube Element is the name of the new element he synthesized for Tony.
Because he was incompetent in naming, he chose to directly use Rubik's Cube elements to order these new elements.
It is simple and easy to understand, and it can also symbolize the origin of these new elements.
"At present, 50% of the progress has been completed, which is enough to equip one hundred White Jue warriors with one main, two auxiliary and three energy weapons."
No. 3 replied quickly.
"Speed up the progress and complete the costume changes of all White Jue warriors as soon as possible."
Russell ordered.
"Okay, sir!"
White Zetsu warriors are the collective name given to the Hydra soldiers possessed by White Zetsu.
After deciding to keep only four animal hosts for the White Zetsu at the Zhenglian headquarters, the other White Zetsus possessed the Hydra soldiers prepared by Bakshi.
Although these Hydra soldiers are ordinary people and have not been brainwashed or strengthened by strengthening serum, Russell is not particularly worried about the loyalty of these people.
The Bai Jue possessing them not only gave them strength far beyond ordinary people, but also took on the task of monitoring them at all times.
Not to mention putting their rebellious behavior into action, as long as they have rebellious thoughts in their minds, the Bai Zetsu possessing them will be able to detect it immediately and then forcefully take over their bodies.
After giving orders to No. 3, he stood up and then flew out from the open-air balcony that had just been made.
In the past, he always flew out of the office through the renovated floor-to-ceiling windows.
Taking advantage of nothing else during this period, he asked No. 3 to arrange for the construction team to renovate the office and build a slightly exaggerated viewing balcony outside the office.
When No. 3 was designing the viewing balcony, he asked No. 3 to refer to the viewing balcony on the top floor of Stark Tower.
Although the later renovation of the building was somewhat inconsistent with building regulations, these problems were not a problem at all for Russell, who was already a capitalist.
Not to mention just remodeling his office and balcony, even if he wanted to rebuild the entire Octopus Mansion, he could easily handle all the legal procedures and get the permits he wanted.
That's right, the building where the Octopus Monster Industrial headquarters is now belongs to him.