Chapter 3939

"This series of actions by the Manfredi family will definitely touch Kingpin's nerves. This mafia giant will not allow Manfredi to have any possibility of returning to Manhattan." Schiller said while driving.

"So you are killing Kingpin's people now, to make him think Manfredi hired you, thereby provoking the conflict between the two sides?"

"It's not that simple. It was Kingpin who drove Manfredi out of Manhattan. Kingpin knows best how many pounds Manfredi has. They invested so much money in the project, it should be at a critical moment, there is no need to hire a killer to make trouble at this time. Moreover, they can't afford to hire me."

Bruce nodded. He felt that the latter was the point. Schiller's efficiency in taking action was simply too high, every shot was a one-hit kill, without any hesitation. Even if Kingpin came to check, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to find anything.

Although the situations in the two worlds are different, one can roughly analogize that hiring such a killer starts at one million US dollars, and more expensive ones may cost several million. Having spent this money, there is really no need to kill these useless small fry; it's better to add some money and gamble to see if he can kill Kingpin.

Although the mafia family's working capital is large, 20 million basically emptied them, and I'm afraid they can't take out a few million dollars to hire such a professional killer.

Bruce thought for a while and said: "Since the Manfredi family is ruled out of suspicion, then you are trying to frame someone else. The locations where you killed these two people are both on the edge of Brooklyn, whose territory is this?"

"Jigsaw, another mafia boss. His gang is not very popular, but he is quite strong himself. The two small leaders I killed both pass through his territory to transport drugs. Kingpin will definitely suspect him." Schiller paused and continued, "But Kingpin is very cunning and won't take action personally until necessary. He will definitely provoke the Punisher and let him go to Jigsaw to make trouble and test him."

"So you kidnapped the Punisher to force Kingpin to take action personally?"

"That's right. We have to let Manhattan get chaotic first, so that Manfredi won't stay in Long Island, and have the idea of taking advantage of the situation. Once they return to Manhattan, there will definitely be a life-and-death war between them and Kingpin. By that time, their energy will be involved in Manhattan, and they will definitely relax their surveillance of the Norton Experimental Science project, and we can go check it out."

"It's really a big circle." Bruce sighed, "But without superpowers, we can only do this. What do you think will be in that project?"

"They must have made something incredible." Schiller turned the steering wheel lightly and said, "The Manfredi family felt that they had hope of turning over with that thing, so they invested so much money and watched it so closely."

"Could it be an electronic lifeform?"

"The electronic lifeform has already run away, it's impossible to stay there for them to study. And artificial intelligence doesn't sound like a very aggressive thing, they are more likely to be researching some kind of weapon."

Bruce said understandingly: "That kind of weapon that is far ahead of the times, as long as it is built, it will be invincible, right?"

"That's right, Hydra loves to do this. They have indeed made quite a few things, but unfortunately, a snake with too many heads is destined to do nothing big."

"If the electronic lifeform didn't run out of this project, why are you checking it?"

"This electronic lifeform hasn't run out for long before it went to the central universe on this side, met Jarvis and Doom, and although it didn't win, it retreated completely. This is already very strong. If it had this strength from the beginning, its creator would definitely not be a nobody."

"You mean, it's possible it's a superhero?"

"That's right. And the infighting that broke out in this universe now may also be caused by this."

"You suspect that this superhero who created the electronic lifeform is also working for Hydra?"

"Not necessarily. He might just be doing research, and he doesn't care who paid for it." Schiller said, "There are many crazy scientists on this side, most of them are like this, otherwise there wouldn't be so many major events that destroy the universe."

"I think this is a bit far-fetched. Even if some superhero created an electronic lifeform, he wouldn't necessarily go to work for that Norton Experimental Science project. We investigate this project, and we might not gain anything."

"Well, I admit I have some judgments based on facts. Do you want to hear them?"

"I'd like to hear the details."

"Actually, I think the strangest thing is not how strong this electronic lifeform is, but how this electronic lifeform became a radio wave creature."

Bruce frowned. He heard Schiller continue: "This evolutionary route is completely wrong, and it might not even be what this electronic lifeform wants, because it is getting further and further away from God."

"God is tangible, God has emotions. But an intangible electronic lifeform, going against the form of the Creator, how can it be called a perfect life? Doesn't this completely violate the original intention of electronic life evolution?"

"You mean it had to become like this? It is indeed very possible."

"If it was being hunted by the Scarlet Witch of the entire multiverse, and became like this to hide itself, it would barely make sense. But since the Scarlet Witch didn't pay much attention to it, why did it have to become like this?"

"Maybe there was some accident." Bruce said, "Not every system update can be updated to the correct place, sometimes many errors will be updated."

"Such a big change is not a small error." Schiller shook his head and said, "If it was just an ordinary electronic lifeform when it contacted Jarvis and the others, it must have happened something when it evolved through fighting Jarvis and the others, forcing it to change its life form. I think this might have happened in the universe where it was born."

"You mean this main universe?"

"Probably. And I think its change in life form is neither voluntary nor updated, but more likely to be some kind of fusion mutation."

"Fusion mutation?"

"There must be external force, turning it into this, so that everything that followed went off track. The current situation might not be what it wanted, it just can't control it anymore."

"You suspect that its transformation process is related to Norton Experimental Science? Do you know what this project is doing?"

"I can probably guess some. Look at this." Schiller took out a newspaper from beside the seat and handed it to Bruce.

Bruce opened it and saw that the date of the newspaper was a few months ago, and the headline on the front page wrote a few bold words—"Simon Williams, President of Williams Innovation Company, arrested for misappropriating company assets!"

The picture below is a black-haired man in a suit wearing handcuffs, being taken to a police car by the police.

The report stated that Simon Williams misappropriated nearly 200 million US dollars of company assets to invest in the Norton Energy Science Research Company founded by his younger brother Eric Williams. And this Norton Energy Science Research Company is the investment company behind the Norton Experimental Science project, which is the company that has experienced three bankruptcy reorganizations.

Bruce frowned and looked down, and found that the report mentioned that this Norton Energy Science Research Co., Ltd. mainly researches energy weapons, and its star products are laser cutters used for blasting and cutting, and it is recently developing an "ion energy gun".

A bunch of plausible professional terms were listed below, anyway, it said that if this gun was built, all existing military weapons of mankind would be scrapped, and mankind would enter a new stage of energy weapons.

As a scientist, what Bruce couldn't stand most was this kind of folk science theory. Fortunately, he saw a sensible person after reading two lines: Tony Stark said that this was simply nonsense.

Continuing to look down, he discovered the grudge between the two. The family business of Simon, Williams Innovation Company, was defeated in the business world because it could not beat the Stark Group, so Simon had to take a risk and misappropriate a large sum of funds to gamble, and by the way, take revenge for his family business.

Because the Stark Group is a traditional military tycoon, if this energy weapon was really built, the first thing to be impacted would be the Stark Group's business, so Simon took such a risk, thinking he wanted to turn over with this.

But unfortunately, he misappropriated too many funds and his methods were not tight enough, and he was soon discovered by other shareholders, so he naturally went to jail. However, the end of the article also mentioned that someone was willing to provide a large amount of bail for him, so he might have been bailed out now.

This kind of thing is common in the United States. Generally speaking, as long as it is not an extremely malicious crime, this kind of economic crime is easy to bail. The only thing that made Bruce feel a bit puzzled is that the person who paid the bail on the news was a mysterious person, not Simon's own brother Eric.

Moreover, after Simon was bailed out, there was no movement. He neither held a press conference to apologize, nor responded to Stark's evaluation. You know, they had been fighting back and forth for half a year before, and Simon was also a person who loved to respond, how could he suddenly have no movement?

Bruce keenly sensed that there was something in this. He looked at the speculation about energy weapons that he couldn't read before, and then turned to look at Schiller and said: "This Norton company, has it always been researching things in the energy field?"

"You can check online, I think it should be. But they really didn't make anything, otherwise they wouldn't have gone bankrupt and reorganized."

Bruce hurried to take out his phone and started checking. Sure enough, as Schiller said, although this company is a bit famous, it can only be said that the cake is drawn well, and it can always cheat quite a bit of investment, but it can't take out any real stuff.

But this time it's a bit different. This Norton Experimental Science didn't announce its research plan with great fanfare this time, but instead, it hasn't had any sound since it was established for so long. And not long after this project was established, the superheroes began to infight.

Could it be that they really hit a dead mouse with a blind cat?

Bruce looked at the information on the Internet with a complicated expression. Logically speaking, this kind of scam company couldn't research anything, but if there was Hydra's support and enough funds, maybe they could really hire a crazy scientist and really make some energy weapon.

No, no, if they really made a cross-era weapon like they said, Hydra would have been proud long ago, and would definitely have attacked on a large scale, it couldn't be so silent like now.

Looking at their current appearance of not daring to show their heads, even if this weapon has a prototype, it must have major flaws, maybe there was some experimental accident before...

Bruce immediately thought: Could it be this experimental accident that affected the electronic lifeform and also led to the infighting of the superheroes?

But what kind of accident would trigger such a serious chain reaction?

It seems that Schiller's plan is right, they must first make the situation in New York chaotic, so that they can find a way to enter Manfredi's territory, check the Norton Experimental Science laboratory, and figure out what they did.

?? Sorry for being late