Chapter 1130

"The following is a breaking extreme weather message. A thick fog has hit many places in the northeastern United States, Ontario, and Quebec, Canada. Meteorological bureaus in many places have sent out thick fog warnings."

"According to climate experts, the coverage of this thick fog is extremely wide and the duration is long, which will seriously affect traffic safety levels. Citizens are requested to stay at home as much as possible and not go out. Flight delay information will be sent to passengers' mobile phones by corresponding airlines..."

With a "clatter," the TV was turned off. Nick threw the remote control onto the table next to him and turned to the agent outside the door.

"So there's no news about San Francisco, Spider-Man can't be contacted, and there are no clues about the supernatural news in New York State. I just want to know what the hell you guys have been doing for this period of time."

With another "clatter," the pen was thrown onto the desktop. Nick pointed outside the door and said: "Go find Captain America and have him come see me immediately."

About half an hour later, Steve appeared outside the door. Seeing Nick's expression, he knew his old friend was angry again, but this wasn't surprising. Nick rarely wasn't angry.

"Alright, buddy, don't forget you still have us. At the critical moment, I will assemble the Avengers." Steve walked up and patted Nick on the shoulder.

"Have you seen Spider-Man recently? We can't contact him." Nick still decided to solve the most important problem first, which was Spider-Man's death.

In fact, he had been looking for Spider-Man since the first day he came here. But it wasn't that he would lead a group of agents to break into someone's house just because he wanted to find someone. They were an official agency, not terrorists, and even less the FBI.

There was another reason Nick didn't dare to make a big splash, because he felt that the White Can must also be staring at Spider-Man, and it was even possible that Spider-Man's death was caused by the White Can. If he took too radical a method, it might lead to bad results.

So Nick felt the best way was to quietly find Spider-Man privately, and then use the Spider Totem to transfer him to another universe to hide from this disaster first.

As for the time-space paradox brought about by Bruce not obtaining the spider ability, it was a big deal to give him a less famous ability, and then arrange for Captain America to fake his death.

The plan was good, but the first step had a problem. The agents who went to investigate didn't find him at Spider-Man's home, school, and places he often appeared.

The most recent trace of Peter Parker that could be found was that he went to San Francisco about half a month ago, but there had been no news since then, which made Nick even more suspicious of the White Can.

"Steve, what do you think of Tony... I mean, how is he doing recently?"

Steve froze. He recalled slightly and then said: "What's wrong with Tony? He said his company has been very busy recently, so I haven't been in touch with him."

"Spider-Man is missing." Nick said with a serious expression: "Our agents can't find him at the places he often goes to. I suspect he might be in danger."

Steve frowned immediately. He looked at Nick and said: "You know something, right? Tell me."

Nick sighed deeply and said: "If I said it, you would definitely say I'm suspicious again, destroying the unity of the Avengers. But have you ever thought about why the Stark Group just started expanding its business in San Francisco, and San Francisco had resident mutation events?"

"Resident mutation events?" Steve appeared very surprised.

Only then did Nick remember that the timeline was still early now. The so-called San Francisco resident mutation event was only symptoms occurring on a few scattered people, and even the media hadn't paid attention to it. It was because he had the foresight of having seen the future timeline that he sent agents to investigate.

"Yes, because of a coincidence, our agents discovered that some residents in San Francisco had mutations in their appearance and body shape. It is preliminarily suspected to be chemical pollution or viral infection."

"Are you saying this was caused by Tony Stark?"

"I didn't say that." Nick maintained his consistent caution. He said: "I know you hate my style of suspecting everyone, but the things that have happened all along prove that it is necessary for me to do so."

"I don't want to explain too much anymore." Nick walked around the desk to the other side and said: "Go to San Francisco, Steve. At least determine that Spider-Man is safe. We really can't lose any more companions."

Steve set off. Taking a S. H. I. E. L. D. plane was almost immediately flying to San Francisco.

Just as Nick said, although Steve was a bit dissatisfied with Nick being suspicious all day, he also knew that agents were like this after being agents for a long time. Although it looked like worrying about nothing, once a big event happened, this kind of suspicion might save many people's lives.

Compared to Nick's personality, Steve trusted Nick's ability more. Since he opened his mouth, it wouldn't be shooting without a target.

After Steve arrived in San Francisco, he found the hotel where Peter stayed on the first night according to the information provided by Nick. Through the information provided by the hotel front desk staff, he learned that Peter went out at 7 o'clock in the morning the next day, and it was at the hotel entrance that he hailed a taxi.

This was a bit strange. Steve knew Peter very well. Peter was the kind of person who was very frugal. Even if he went to an unfamiliar city, he would choose to use his mobile phone to query bus routes and take a bus to his destination as much as possible. The first choice of travel method definitely wasn't taking a taxi.

After asking carefully, Steve learned from the hotel's parking staff that Peter was very anxious at the time, as if he had been called over for some urgent matter.

And he also obtained a very important piece of information from the hotel staff, which was the license plate number of the taxi Peter took.

After a bit more effort, Steve found the driver who carried Peter that day from the taxi operating company. Steve finally had a chance to ask his questions.

"Was he going to the Stark Group's park?"

"The Stark Group park is not far from there. You should know the industrial zone east of Silicon Valley, right? Many technology parks and laboratories have been newly built there recently. He was going to one of the laboratories."

"Do you know the name of that laboratory?"

"It's too awkward. I don't understand so many terms." The driver with a Mexican accent said: "Including many words he said on the phone, I couldn't understand. Oh, right, he was going to some physics laboratory, I could still understand this word."

Steve asked for a long time, but eventually couldn't get the specific name of the laboratory. However, the driver vaguely remembered the way, so Steve had to get into his car.

The Mexican-American driver was quite talkative, but didn't seem to recognize Captain America. He was just like everyone else, the first choice for polite topics was the weather.

"The weather hasn't been very good recently. There is always fog in the morning and evening. But this is a good thing for us drivers. Have you watched the recent weather forecast?" The driver turned on the audio and played music. Steve frowned slightly.

Because he had just seen the thick fog warning on his mobile phone. He closed the mobile phone screen and said: "Yeah, the weather in New York isn't very good either. But does the West Coast also have fog?"

"Not as serious as yours." The driver turned the steering wheel and said in a light tone: "We are warmer here, the temperature difference between day and night isn't big, and the fog isn't that thick."

"But there was really one time, I was driving and discovered that the fog was so thick that I couldn't see the road ahead clearly. That was also a morning. Let me think, what day was it?... I forgot, maybe it was really the day I carried the kid you are looking for."

Steve didn't care. When he arrived, he paid the fare. The driver pointed to the building in front. Steve nodded at him, and the driver drove away.

Steve looked up and saw: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Originally, this was a slightly awkward name, but recently Steve had heard it from many people's mouths. Even if he never paid attention to scientific research, he could connect this name with an extremely cool piece of equipment, which was the artificial sun.

The Livermore National Laboratory had established a project for the artificial sun in the 90s, but later there had been no progress. Why did it suddenly make a breakthrough recently? Steve wasn't very clear either, but he guessed it might have something to do with Spider-Man.

Recently, Steve rarely saw Spider-Man on the street. This was also one of the reasons why he rushed over without stopping after hearing Nick say that Spider-Man was missing. He indeed hadn't seen Spider-Man for a long time, and he was really worried that something would happen to Spider-Man.

However, about a few weeks ago, Steve and Peter talked on the phone. In the short chat, Steve learned that Peter seemed to be conducting experiments in nuclear physics with a professor named Otto Octavius.

As for why Peter suddenly entered the laboratory, Peter told Steve that he and Dr. Otto both felt that they should spend more time worrying about the future of humanity.

At that time, Steve felt this was a good thing, so he encouraged Peter and spent more time maintaining law and order on the streets of New York, because he felt this would allow Spider-Man to be more at ease to busy himself with his own career.

Nuclear physics research, Dr. Otto, San Francisco... these words intersected in Steve's mind. Finally, he still walked toward the laboratory in front.

With the help of S. H. I. E. L. D. and the blessing of Captain America's reputation, Steve soon met the person in charge of the laboratory. Hearing that he was looking for Peter Parker, he revealed an embarrassed expression.

Under Steve's forced questioning, the person in charge finally revealed that Peter Parker did indeed come that day, and it was exactly Dr. Otto who called him over. However, from that day on, both of them disappeared. The laboratory had also tried to contact them, but so far they hadn't found anyone.

As soon as Steve heard this, he had a bad premonition, so he hurriedly went to check the surveillance with the person in charge. But Steve didn't check from 7 o'clock, but from earlier.

In the surveillance footage, Dr. Otto came around 6 o'clock. When he first entered the door, his expression was a bit anxious. Not long after, he went to the particle laboratory.

Just outside the particle laboratory, Otto picked up the phone and called Peter. After turning up the volume, the conversation between the two was as follows.

"Yes, come over immediately. I know you just arrived last night, this is a bit hurried, but you must come and see this. This is too amazing, Peter."

"That's right, I'm waiting for you in the particle laboratory. Come over at the fastest speed, otherwise you won't see the most exciting part."

Not long after, Peter rushed over. He rushed to Otto's front at the fastest speed and then said: "What's wrong? Doctor, has there been new progress in the ignition particles?"

"Come and see this, Peter. I think we found the correct answer."

After finishing, the two walked into the laboratory together. After that, there was no more surveillance footage. Steve looked at the person in charge. The person in charge shook his head and said: "The high-energy physics collider and its preparation room don't have cabin surveillance, and the camera at the other channel exit happened to be broken, so we don't know what happened after that."