Chapter 138: S.H.I.E.L.D

After all, Lin Yu's energy was nearly infinite.

With Strange's current magical attainment, even if he forced himself to the point of exploding his body, the energy he absorbed would be minuscule, estimated to be insufficient to even attract the attention of his original consciousness...

Of course, this was only from Lin Yu's perspective.

Given the scale of his original universe, the energy of a single sun could only be counted as a water molecule; estimated to be only the entire Milky Way that could barely be considered a wave in an ocean.

In short, lending Strange a bit of energy had no effect on him whatsoever.

Even if the Ancient One didn't care about face and insisted on taking advantage of this opportunity to fleece him heavily, it didn't matter; before leaving, he could just go to the universe, find some uninhabited star systems, and replenish them!

While Lin Yu was engaging in a battle of wits and courage with the Ancient One, Lin Lie next door was not idle either.

He gritted his teeth, spent eight hundred points, and invited four members with considerable combat power to join him as members of his temporary squad to participate in the upcoming Battle of New York.

Although he had long known this battle was inevitable, Lin Lie still harbored a glimmer of hope, leading Ji Ji Shuangshuang and the group members to the S. H. I. E. L. D. secret research base for the Tesseract.

But unfortunately, his existence had long triggered the butterfly effect.

S. H. I. E. L. D. Director Nick Fury had issued an order yesterday to halt the Joint Dark Energy Mission Project and transfer the Tesseract to another secret base codenamed 'Pegasus'.

When Lin Lie and the others arrived, the base was already empty.

Only a fiery red-haired woman remained waiting there.

Without a doubt, this person was the famous Black Widow, Natasha!

Seeing Natasha's unhidden figure, Lin Lie frowned, signaled the four group members to hide first, while he himself led Ji Ji Shuangshuang to stand before Natasha.

"If I'm not mistaken, you should have stayed here specifically to wait for me?"

Lin Lie looked at the red-haired woman before him and said calmly.

The red-haired woman smiled slightly, opened the file in her hand, and said in fluent Chinese:

"Lin Lie, from Magic City, twenty-one years old this year. Your father is a professor of archaeology at Fudan University, and your mother is the chairman of Liefeng Technology Co., Ltd. Starting from about four years ago, you have been active across China, handling a total of twenty-three supernatural incidents with a magical ancient divine sword and swordsmanship that does not match your past experiences."

"In the intelligence obtained by S. H. I. E. L. D., you are called the Master of the Fuxi Sword, a direct descendant of a certain Huaxia ancestor in mythology..."

Natasha recited the intelligence on the file at high speed; although some of the information was slightly inconsistent with reality, it was enough to prove S. H. I. E. L. D.'s prowess in intelligence!

Lin Lie heard this and frowned tightly, saying coldly: "What exactly do you mean?"

Natasha stopped reciting and instead handed the file in her hand to Lin Lie, saying calmly: "Mr. Lin, do not misunderstand. S. H. I. E. L. D. has no ill will towards you. The reason for investigating your intelligence is just a normal procedure before S. H. I. E. L. D. cooperates with other forces."

"... So refusing us before was also for this reason?"

"Correct." Natasha nodded, saying, "This concerns S. H. I. E. L. D.'s highest secrets. We cannot cooperate with you casually; we must conduct an evaluation for a period of time."

Lin Lie said calmly: "And the result?"

Natasha gestured again towards the file in her hand: "It's all here."

Only then did Lin Lie take the file, opened it, and found that it contained not only his data but also detailed information on Ji Ji Shuangshuang.

"It's actually this detailed!"

Lin Lie frowned and handed the file to Ji Ji Shuangshuang beside him.

Seeing this scene, Natasha spoke again: "According to our investigation, in the past ten years, Mr. Lin has made prophecies about the future more than once, and they have basically all been verified."

"Many Eastern business people regard these prophecies as Mr. Lin's keen business sense and forward-looking vision."

"But we believe you do not possess the relevant professional qualifications; the reason you were able to help Ms. Liu establish a business empire should be that you possess some kind of unstable precognitive ability..."

They even investigated this?

Lin Lie was surprised in his heart, but he still maintained a calm expression on his face: "So, you chose to believe my warning, stopped the experiment, and transferred the Tesseract to another location?"

"That's right."

"The exact location of this base was also voluntarily revealed to you by you, wasn't it?"

"Yes."

Lin Lie and Ji Ji Shuangshuang exchanged a glance, and he shook his head, saying: "It's too late!"

Hearing this, Natasha was stunned, then frowned tightly and asked: "What do you mean?"

Lin Lie said calmly: "The portal opened by the Tesseract is two-way. The spatial fluctuations caused by your research on the Tesseract were already noticed by the enemies on the other end."

"Stopping the project now and transferring the Tesseract will not achieve any effect at all!"

Natasha said heavily: "Do you have any basis for what you are saying?"

"Didn't you guess I have precognitive ability? Just treat it as my prophecy!"

Lin Lie looked at her and said lightly: "In short, believe it or not is up to you; anyway, I have said what needed to be said."

"By the way, the best course of action right now is to abandon the Tesseract and hand it over to someone capable of protecting it... but unfortunately, I know you will never give it up."

Saying this, Lin Lie turned around, preparing to leave with Ji Ji Shuangshuang.

"Wait!"

Natasha called out to stop the two, extending her hand to offer a micro earpiece: "Someone wants to say a few words to you."

Oh?

With Natasha's rank, the only one who could remotely control her like this was probably S. H. I. E. L. D. Director Nick Fury, right?

Lin Lie stopped, thought for a moment, and suddenly said out of nowhere: "Who is going to take this call?"

"..."

Hearing this, Natasha was stunned, then frowned slightly and looked towards Ji Ji Shuangshuang beside her.

But Ji Ji Shuangshuang showed no reaction at all, as if the words were not spoken to her at all.

"I'll take it, I'll take it!"

"My English is very good!"

The next second, an excited voice came from the air.

Natasha turned her head in shock, looking towards the source of the voice, and saw a strange figure materialize from the air, take the micro earpiece from her hand, and say excitedly:

"I've wanted to meet the famous Director Nick for a long time!"

"This opportunity, you must yield it to me!"

What?!

Natasha's pupils contracted sharply as she suppressed her shock, staring at the unfamiliar Chinese youth before her.

This guy had actually been hiding right beside her, yet she had noticed nothing at all—what kind of ability was this?

Invisibility, or optical camouflage?

A storm of shock rose in Natasha's heart.

Just then, another voice came from the air.

"Rest assured, no one is competing with you for it!"

A youth as beautiful as a woman revealed his form, glancing at the youth who had just appeared and retorting: "But that title of yours... do you really think the Director of S. H. I. E. L. D. doesn't understand Chinese?"

Accompanying the beautiful youth's retort, two other figures also revealed themselves.

A total of four superhumans, absent from the intelligence reports, appeared one by one, coming to Lin Lie's side.

This completely unexpected situation was undoubtedly slapping the face of Natasha, a top-tier agent.

And this was one of the purposes for which Lin Lie had his group members reveal themselves!

Having been played by S. H. I. E. L. D., he naturally had to get his revenge; only then would they understand that even on their own turf, not everything was under their control...

Gazing at the silent expression on Natasha's face, Lin Lie smiled slightly and said, "The files only contain information on me and Ji Shuangshuang; it seems your investigation was not thorough enough!"

Saying this, he turned his head, looking at Su Su Haoming and said calmly, "But the reverse is not necessarily true..."

At this moment, Su Su Haoming was joking with Fan Xian, who had been retorting at him. Noticing Lin Lie's gaze, he smiled slightly, inserted a micro-earpiece into his ear, and got straight to the point, saying:

"Are you Nick Fury, the Director of S. H. I. E. L. D.?"

"..."

The person on the other end fell silent for a moment, then slowly said, "It seems you know us quite well."

Su Su Haoming said modestly, "It's alright; I just happen to know the names of a few S. H. I. E. L. D. high-ranking officials and top-tier agents."

"For example, your right-hand men Maria Hill and Phil Coulson, as well as the Natasha Romanoff and 'Hawkeye' Clint Barton standing right here!"

"As for the rest, it involves your secrets, such as the Helicarrier you quietly built, and the old popsicle from the last century you dug up in the Arctic not long ago, and so on."

Nick Fury: "..."

You call that 'it's alright'?

Before he could respond, Su Su Haoming hurriedly added, "Oh right, I almost forgot to ask, how is the Captain recovering? If he's up to it, could you get me an autograph?"

"..."

Nick Fury fell silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Of course, no problem!"

Hearing this, Su Su Haoming was stunned and couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Really?"

Nick Fury said calmly, "Naturally it is true. Moreover, it's not just an autograph; as long as you are willing to cooperate with me, I can even hand over the current location of the Tesseract."

"How do we cooperate?"

"I have a plan named the Ave..."

"Stop!"

Su Su Haoming rolled his eyes and said, "Trouble you to change the subject; we are not interested in your band."

As expected, these people even knew about his personal Avengers Initiative plan; it seemed that after overcoming the current crisis, he would have to thoroughly clean out the internal filth...

Nick Fury narrowed his single eye, a dangerous light blooming in his pupil.

Just then, Su Su Haoming's voice rang out again:

"Is there anything else? If not, I'm hanging up!"

(End of this chapter)