The suddenly flashing icon made Leo unconsciously smile.
The icon represents a worm virus monitoring program written by Leo himself, used to monitor an account opened by Leo in a foreign bank.
This account is the bank account number that Leo provided to Black Widow last time. Now the icon is flashing. According to the procedure set by Leo, someone has wired money to the account!
Staring at the flashing icon, Leo remembered that he had asked Black Widow for a million "life money". Could it be that the widow had already paid him labor fees?!
With excitement, Leo clicked on the icon, and after verifying a series of information, he entered his bank account.
One million! A whole million dollars is lying quietly in his bank account.
In the quiet and empty office, Leo's silly laughter suddenly sounded. In his current mood, Leo almost couldn't help but stand up and dance to the song "Chicken You Are So Beautiful"!
The sudden large sum of money made Leo no longer anxious to search for the consortium.
He thought for a moment, then opened a program similar to chat software. After some searching, sure enough, he found that the storage device given to Black Widow at that time had been connected to the Internet.
In the memory is something similar to a chat software written by Leo himself. Leo can unilaterally choose whether to communicate with the other end through text, and does not have to worry about the other party being able to discover his network address.
At this time, Leo typed a few letters "Thank you!" in the chat interface, and then sent it.
Afterwards, Leo was ready to close the interface and continue to search for a suitable consortium. Although one million was a lot, it was far from enough for the initial capital investment of El Technology Company.
But before Leo could close the chat interface, dense text suddenly popped up in the chat interface after a network delay.
null: Hello, Mr. Avatar. My name is Natasha Romanoff, and I represent Agent Nick Fury. I have some transactions that I would like to discuss with you. If you see them, please send me a message back.
null: Hello, Mr. Avatar. My name is Natasha Romanoff, and I represent Agent Nick Fury. I have some transactions that I would like to discuss with you. If you see them, please send me a message back.
…
Leo looked at the timestamps of these messages and found that since more than 20 days, Natasha had sent a total of more than 50 identical messages at a frequency of two every morning and evening.
Leo couldn't help but curse in his heart, Black Widow is so busy every day, doesn't she have to perform tasks?!
Black Widow, who is far away at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, has been constantly complaining for the past month. Is someone always indifferent to one million?!
Natasha was lying on the computer chair in the study room at home, with her feet folded on the computer table and clasping her fingernails boredly.
For nearly a month, Natasha has been sitting like this every day in her bachelor apartment at the SHIELD base, staring at the computer screen, expecting a message from a guy named Ivan Avatar.
Natasha applied to Agent Fury, asking Fury to find someone else to monitor the computer on her behalf.
But here’s what Agent Fury said at the time:
"Agent Romanoff, you and I are the only people in SHIELD who know about this memory.
There are Hydra spies in SHIELD now, and I don’t trust anyone except you, so please continue to work hard."
Natasha hadn't experienced the feeling of being trusted by someone for a long time. Facing Fury's sincere eyes, Natasha agreed and has persisted until now.
Of course, I have been bored to this day.
Suddenly, a Didi message notification sounded from the computer in front of me.
Natasha used her waist and elbows at the same time, supinated in the air, and sat straight in front of the computer.
On the display screen, the letters "Thank you!" appeared at the bottom of the message box.
Natasha's fingers flew and she quickly replied with a message.
Natasha: Mr. Avatar, you're welcome. I should say thank you, thank you for saving me.
After the message was sent, Natasha grabbed the phone at hand, dialed a number and said:
"Sir Fury, I have contacted the so-called Mr. Avatar. Please come here quickly."
Natasha put down the phone and turned her attention back to the screen again, and found that the other party had already replied to the message.
Leo: Miss Natasha, I heard that you want to negotiate a deal with me. What do you want to discuss?
Natasha: It's not me who wants to negotiate a deal with you, it's my commander, Nick Fury, who wants to talk to you. Mr. Avatar, please wait a moment, Commander Fury will be here soon.
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It is broad daylight now, most people in the base are working in the office area, and there are very few people in the accommodation area.
Nick Fury quietly reached the accommodation area of the base and used the password to open the door to Natasha's house.
In the study, Natasha and Leo were chatting with each other. She saw Nick Fury coming in, and quickly gave up her seat, allowing Fury and Leo to start communicating.
Fury: Hello, Mr. Avatar, my name is Nick Fury, and I am a senior agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. On my own behalf, I would like to make a deal with you.
Leo: Ivan Avatar. If you have anything to say, please tell me. Don’t talk to your mother-in-law. What’s the deal?
Fury: I want to know the location of the Hydra base, and I want to find the murderer of Howard Stark.
Leo: Why don't you want to go to heaven?! Who am I? From Hydra! I told you the location, are you waiting for you to bring someone to fight me?
Fury: Let no one speak secretly. If you were truly serving Hydra sincerely, you would not have let Agent Romanoff go before, and you would not talk to me like this now.
Fury: I don't mean to lie to you. I need the location of the Hydra base. What do you need? I can try my best to provide it to you.
Fury didn't know that Leo had defected from Hydra. He thought Leo was still in Hydra. So Fury made another promise.
Fury: In addition, I can guarantee your future safety, as long as you are willing to cooperate with me.
Leo has already left the Hydra base, and he still has a [Immortal Hydra] mission to complete. It would be great if someone could do it for him!
So of course he really wanted to agree to Fury's deal at this time, so that not only could he complete the mission, but it would also make Hydra so busy that it couldn't even bother sending people to track down Leo.
However, Leo needs to think carefully about what he can get back from S.H.I.E.L.D.
Leo: What can you offer me?
Fury: It depends on what you want.
Leo: Don't play riddles with me, and don't try to trick me. There's no point in pushing things like this. Just tell me what you can give me, so that I can decide how much information to give you.
After reading Leo's message, Fury felt a little angry, and turned around and asked:
"Agent Romanoff, has this Avatar always been so arrogant? Just reading his news makes me want to slap him twice."
ps: For those friends who really want to see the original plot and timeline, I suggest you rewatch the movie. That’s it~