Chapter 2955
Under Peter's intermittent narration, Tim roughly knew what was going on.
This matter actually wasn't complicated. It was mainly when they were pre-forming teams in the Battleworld, Xu Shang-Chi actually complained to Shiler that he really couldn't stand his counterpart and was afraid that one day he wouldn't be able to help himself and would just gun them all down.
Shiler wanted to transfer him to the S. P. E. A. R., but this matter actually wasn't easy to handle, because first of all, Xu Shang-Chi was already a US citizen. Although this was before he traveled over, the matter had reached this point and couldn't be changed. And the S. P. E. A. R. wasn't like S. H. I. E. L. D., leaking everywhere; they managed things very strictly, basically only accepting their own nationals.
No matter how excellent Xu Shang-Chi was, he belonged to an outsider. Trying to stuff a foreigner into someone else's intelligence organization the moment he opened his mouth was indeed a bit inappropriate.
If you want to take a shortcut, you have to show some sincerity. Shiler studied it; there weren't many troubles that the S. P. E. A. R. couldn't solve. The Ten Rings were one, but after deepening cooperation with Kamar-Taj, this group of border bandits wouldn't be able to jump around for long.
While investigating the Ten Rings, Shiler suddenly remembered that there was another very special existence that had been missing, and that was Fin Fang Foom.
This character was actually also the embodiment of the bad stereotypes Americans had about Asians. The disgusting degree of the original comic was no less than "Shang-Chi." This monster itself was also very ugly, basically having nothing to do with the Chinese dragon, and was closer to a Western big lizard, with long hands and long legs, and green all over.
Shiler inquired about it sideways and discovered that this guy had actually caused quite a lot of trouble before, which also gave the S. P. E. A. R. a headache.
The main headache was that if you say it's not a dragon, it looks a bit like one. Every time it appeared, a group of stupid people would think it was a divine dragon descending, and the S. P. E. A. R. agents who fought Fin Fang Foom became the villains who provoked the divine dragon.
Especially now that the internet was developed, this damn evil dragon had also learned to use public opinion to influence things, developing some kind of Divine Dragon Sect in Hong Kong, and also fooling a bunch of believers. The formation was very large, making the people above furious.
However, under the pursuit of the iron-fisted, iron-willed S. P. E. A. R., Fin Fang Foom soon lost its arrogant momentum. But the trouble was that this guy could transform and could turn into different human forms at any time. Under normal circumstances, it really couldn't be identified.
The S. P. E. A. R. searched vigorously for several months, but they couldn't spend all their energy on this. After striking down the cult, they didn't care about it anymore.
In fact, many people in the S. P. E. A. R. were still worried about it. After all, it could fool a bunch of idiots whenever it jumped out, adding quite a lot of workload to the S. P. E. A. R. out of thin air.
Discovering this pain point, Shiler volunteered and discussed with the director of the S. P. E. A. R. to find a way to force this guy out.
Xu Shang-Chi had been busy in Hong Kong for several months. With the help of friends from all walks of life, he finally had some clues, discovering that this evil dragon had actually transformed into a chef and was doing quite well in major restaurants.
But after all, this could be considered its base camp, and the population was a bit too dense. If they acted here, it would inevitably be labor-consuming and money-wasting. At that time, Shiler wanted to design a chain of schemes to turn Fin Fang Foom into a chef and trick it to the United States to solve it.
But he didn't expect that just as he was sleepy, a pillow came. There were actually people on the US side who had long been flirting with the Divine Dragon Sect, and the leader was the owner of this farm, Digen.
The main reason he was interested in the Divine Dragon Sect was that he was a human modification fanatic, and the believers of the Divine Dragon Sect had shown extremely strong power during the process of fighting the S. P. E. A. R. agents, and clearly, just a few months ago, they were still ordinary people.
Being able to open a farm on the West Coast, Digen naturally had a background. His father made his fortune by reselling drugs during the war, and Digen Pharmaceuticals had now developed into the second-largest pharmaceutical company on the West Coast, monopolizing almost all biological agent industries.
Digen followed this clue and investigated, discovering that the believers of the Divine Dragon Sect had been using something called Dragon Blood Serum. So he suspected that this sect had a real dragon, which was why they could use the dragon's blood to strengthen themselves.
Just like the Hand that wanted to find dragon bones back then, Digen also set his sights on dragon blood. He conducted a series of investigations and even got samples of Dragon Blood Serum, discovering that this thing was very magical. In Eastern terms, it was a great tonic, could greatly strengthen human physical fitness, and had almost no side effects.
Moreover, whether it was ordinary people or genetically modified humans like Captain America, there was room for improvement after using this serum, with significant improvements in endurance, explosive power, and resistance to impact, and it was a permanent improvement.
And the production method of this serum wasn't complicated; it was just heating the dragon blood and injecting it into the body. According to Digen's research, it didn't even need to be injected; drinking it directly also worked. For ordinary people, the improvement effect was the most obvious, simply a magic weapon for mass-producing super soldiers.
Thus, Digen began to make contact with people from the Divine Dragon Sect, while Fin Fang Foom, who had transformed into a chef, had been pursued by the S. P. E. A. R. but lacked an opportunity to leave the local area. After meeting Digen, the two hit it off and immediately launched an evil cooperation.
But unsurprisingly, the data Digen investigated finally benefited Shiler. Through the network of Arkham Asylum, Shiler soon found out what was going on.
And what was laughable was that this Digen also had some skills. He didn't start a human modification project immediately like the military after getting some serum. He made a bold decision, which was to build Dragon Blood Health Supplements into a second Immortal Factor brand.
How brilliant Shiler's Immortal Factor industry was back then went without saying. Digen saw the same potential in dragon blood, so he organized this banquet to imitate Shiler's construction of Arkham Asylum back then, first conducting small-scale promotion in high-end circles, attracting investment, and then expanding the scale.
No one could say it was useless, so it naturally had its uses. Moreover, dragon blood was truly useful.
After learning this news, Shiler conducted further investigations. After all, this evil dragon didn't look very smart. Sure enough, after traveling to Hong Kong a few times, Shiler got tissue samples of Fin Fang Foom.
After joint analysis by the S. H. I. E. L. D. laboratory and the Stark laboratory, they discovered that it wasn't just dragon blood that was useful; this guy was a treasure all over, and eating it would prolong life.
This just happened to satisfy Shiler's needs at this stage. Don't forget, after Shiler had his own body, except for the personality traits of the magic side that were divided into energy, everyone else started from scratch and relied on themselves.
Greed understood better than anyone else that his biggest trump card was actually the Gray Mist. This magical symbiote provided him with the biggest confidence to jump around and cause trouble, because if he couldn't beat them, he could still run, and if he couldn't run, he wouldn't suffer serious injuries, and he wouldn't spend most of his time recovering from injuries.
So the first thing Greed did after getting a new body was to want to strengthen his physique. He considered the genetic modification serum used by Captain America, also considered the serum used by Nick, and even went to inquire about Seeing Natasha's modification process, but after researching back and forth, it was either impossible to replicate or unreliable.
Fin Fang Foom belonged to the category of running into the muzzle of a gun.
Upon learning that the children from another universe were coming to play, Shiler decided to fully utilize their abilities. This was exactly what it meant to catch a toad and squeeze out urine.
Pamela was the key, because Shiler needed someone to disrupt the banquet. In the process of going to Hong Kong for investigation, Shiler discovered that Fin Fang Foom was actually doing quite well as a chef, and also had many common problems of chefs: he couldn't accept diners not respecting the food he made. Using cabbage to stir up trouble would definitely anger him.
Jason went to Captain America to hold him back. The reason for keeping it from Captain America was that Fin Fang Foom was an alien, and Captain America was now the person in charge of interstellar diplomacy. It was his duty. If he hesitated for the sake of interstellar diplomacy, the dragon-killing plan would be a bit difficult.
Besides that, most of the remaining people were used to distract Tim. Dealing with Tim had no other purpose, just to let him learn a lesson: having a developed brain but simple limbs wasn't necessarily good either.
Facts proved that Tim's lesson was indeed very painful, because after his vision recovered, he discovered that the thigh of that evil dragon from that day was standing in the center of the farm, and Pamela was scraping meat from it. That strange fragrance was emitted by the roasted dragon meat.
After the meat was roasted, Harley was the first to eat. She ate a piece of meat steak in three or two bites, directly performing a "pulling up a willow tree" move. Even after digestion, she still retained powerful strength. Now, one punch could almost kill ten Tims.
Barry also ate a large piece. His body shape didn't change, and it didn't affect his speed, but his strength increased sharply. Now he was agile in body shape, fast in speed, and great in strength, almost not conforming to the laws of physics.
Even Captain America could throw his shield further after eating two pieces of meat steak. Jason's strength increased explosively. If Shiler hadn't stopped him, he estimated he could lift the house.
After eating dragon meat, the effect was best within a few dozen minutes. After digestion, it would retain about two-thirds of the strength, but that was already shocking enough.
And Tim, he didn't get to eat.
Mainly because he couldn't move now, everyone else ate their own, and no one intended to give him a portion. Shiler even deliberately shook the plate under his nose.
Tim took a deep breath, knowing he had fallen.
"Name your price." He said.
Lying flat and letting himself be slaughtered made his heart bleed.
"5 million for a piece of meat."
"Why don't you go rob someone?!"
"I am robbing you, are you giving it or not."
On this side, Tim was bargaining with Shiler, while on that side, Pamela was studying the matter of food with Harley.
With Shiler's help, Harley performed a scene of mutant ability going out of control in front of the internet-famous lawyer's camera. Professor X also deliberately pretended to be shocked and persuaded Harley to calm down in the heads of all mutants, which could be considered as confirming her identity as a mutant.
Because there was a new Shangdu country, the development plan of Andromeda was much smoother than before. With the help of a certain unknown Eastern power, their food was not only self-sufficient but also had quite a lot left over.
Pamela remembered the plan Seeing Natasha mentioned earlier about using hard currency to exchange for money, so she pulled in Harley, wanting to transport the surplus food produced in the Andromeda galaxy to Mexico, first open a portal in Mexico, transport the food to the Battleworld, then open a portal to the Mexico of her own universe in the Battleworld, transport the food to the Mexico of the DC universe, and then transport it to Metropolis through the undersea tunnel. The Luthor Group would eat as much as they got.
Don't look at how complicated the transportation process seemed and how high the transportation cost was, but in reality, if it was just transporting goods, Magneto could open a wormhole from the Andromeda galaxy to Mexico, and opening a portal in the Battleworld also didn't require costs, at most it would take some time. In reality, there were no logistics costs.
Jason and Barry increased their huge strength without doing much, Dick and Raven's travel plan went very smoothly and they had a great time, Harley successfully gained a foothold within the mutants and became the economic brain of this powerful weapon, and Pamela earned quite a lot of money, at least she didn't have to worry about the mortgage anymore.
Only Tim, who got a body full of injuries, bled quite a lot, and exhausted all his schemes, only learned a lesson.
Fortunately, he finally got to eat dragon meat. Tim thought while chewing hard, he had really been too leisurely before. From today on, he must hurry up and exercise, and never be a fragile mage again.
What he didn't realize was that he had also begun to walk on a path very similar to Batman: high wisdom, powerful body, rock-solid willpower, pursuing both form and spirit, flawless.
But perhaps, his stage was broader than Batman's, and he could also walk out a broad road that was brighter than Batman's.
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