My surname is Stark, who changed my job to become a female big gun?

Chapter 606 Maybe you are just an illusion in my head...

"Oh my god, there are so many. Do we have to check them all one by one?"

Skye looked at the boxes on the table in front of him that were taken out of the void by Lanie. They were all kinds of paper documents confiscated from Baron Stark's base. For a moment, he felt overwhelmed.

She couldn't help but recall again the night when she and Simmons and others had been searching for papers and reports in the latter's room all night. At that time, everyone was just like now, with a pile of documents and files in front of them, and then they flipped through them one by one, searching all night long.

When she finally found it, she discovered that the paper was actually sandwiched among the "junk files" that had been ignored by everyone. Even when she recalled it now, Skye felt that that night was definitely the saddest night since she joined S.H.I.E.L.D.

It was ten times more miserable than the first time I followed Lainie and the others on a mission, when I tossed and turned in the Arctic Ocean and couldn't sleep.

"of course not."

Lainie piled all the necessary file boxes on the conference table, then picked up one of the documents and opened the folder to reveal the file title on the first page.

"All we have to do is find the files on 'Ulysses Klaue.'"

"Ulysses Klaue?"

Natasha felt vaguely that the name sounded familiar. She seemed to have heard it somewhere before, but she couldn't remember where it was.

Coulson, who was standing next to him, had a good memory. He consciously joined the search team and explained to the other Avengers who were confused.

"Ulysses Klaue, a Belgian, is an arms smuggler. For the past 20 years, we have always thought that he was just a gray trader traveling to third world countries, but we didn't expect that he was actually secretly engaged in the reselling of vibranium."

"Vibranium?"

Another new word. Pietro, who also joined in the search, repeated the word.

"Yes, it's also called sound-absorbing metal. It's the hardest metal known in the world. Captain Steve's shield is made of it."

Dr. Banner glanced through the file in his hand, then put it aside and picked up another one.

"Skye's bracelet is the same. Because her ability causes uncontrollable resonance in her arm bones, which can eventually lead to very serious comminuted fractures, I got some vibranium and asked Tony to make that bracelet for her."

Lainie signaled with her eyes for the twins to look at Skye's wrist.

"Due to the unique properties of vibranium, it can absorb shock waves and reduce damage to the body, so it can better protect her from the side effects of her abilities."

Hearing this, the brother and sister glanced at the silver-gray bracelet worn on Skye's wrist, and then they realized that the reason why she wore the bracelet all the time was not simply for decoration, but for the necessary protection of her own safety.

"It's just that this thing is too expensive. The price of 1 gram of vibranium on the black market has been driven up to more than 2 US dollars, and there is still no demand. If it weren't for the fact that only that guy had this kind of thing, I wouldn't have let him rip me off."

Tony patiently looked through the box of documents in front of him one by one. God knew when they would be able to go through so many files.

Doesn't Stark know how to make a catalog or label? Doesn't he find it troublesome to have such a mess?

"2 US dollars?! And one gram?!"

Wanda widened her eyes in disbelief. She had not taken Skye's bracelet too seriously at first. After all, after a brief contact with Lainie, she had more or less learned something about the continent of Arad.

Therefore, Wanda was not too shocked by some magical special materials.

But at 2 US dollars per gram, Wanda felt that if she didn't do anything crooked in her life, she might not be able to earn enough money to buy half a bracelet. How much money would that require!
"It's actually 5 US dollars per gram. Lainie and the others were blackmailed by that black marketeer..."

Skye sighed, took off the bracelet in front of everyone so that others could "see" it, and then continued to search aimlessly while saying:

"Yes, you heard it right, it's 5 US dollars. When I heard this, I couldn't believe it just like you. I thought Lainie was deceiving me with Tony. I was so scared that my hands were shaking, let alone wearing it on my hand. I was even afraid that I would lose it for several days afterwards."

After hearing this, Wanda didn't dare to touch the bracelet anymore. She could only bend down and put her head closer to carefully observe how different this magical metal was.

However, apart from its unique shape and pattern, the bracelet did not show any extraordinary luster or texture to the naked eye. It seemed to be just an ordinary piece of carefully crafted jewelry rather than a priceless rare treasure.

"What's so scary about that? When bidding was going on at the auction, weren't you the most active one?"

Lainie rudely exposed Skye's trick. Thinking back to the time of the auction, Skye was the one who was most interested in bidding among the three of them. But in the end, she found that it was completely different from what she understood as an auction. Except for the last few items, the whole process was boring to death.

"Nonsense, I was just bidding for you! Besides, it's not my money, so I don't feel bad about it."

Skye's rebuttal was very confident and she didn't seem to be embarrassed at all, but she didn't want to continue talking about this topic any more. She paused for a moment and then brought the subject back on track.

"But then again, what does our review of Strucker's files have to do with that Ulysses Klaue? Could it be that Ultron also wants to buy Vibranium?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present couldn't help but turn their eyes to Lainie and Tony, because they were the only two people among them who had contact with the arms dealer.

"I can only say that you are worthy of being the one who eliminates the wrong answer first, right..."

Lainie curled her lips and complained, and then as expected, she found the file about Ulysses Klaue from a pile of seemingly identical documents.

"Oh, it seems I'm lucky."

Opening the folder that was clearly from the old S.H.I.E.L.D., in addition to the data files about the arms dealer, the most eye-catching ones were several arms trade orders. The order categories included a wide variety of weapons and equipment. Lainie even saw the outrageous words "Avant-garde Iron Soldier Prototype" on them.

"Strucker has been reselling SHIELD's weapons and equipment through this arms dealer?"

Steve saw the clue and his face turned pale. He turned his gaze to Nick Fury who had been sitting leisurely at the conference table.

"You didn't notice it at all?"

Upon hearing this, Egghead shrugged, obviously not surprised.

"With Alexander's protection, it's not difficult for those Hydra to resell arms, but they don't dare to do it blatantly, and most of what they resell are just some obsolete equipment.

As for those other things, you should ask her, she is the director of SHIELD now."

The egg-head spread his hands, as if he was just a retired person and he didn't care about anything.

Steve was speechless for a moment and couldn't help but look at Lainie again.

"After the Insight incident, SHIELD lost a lot of stuff, as you know. Many of these were things that were confiscated by the military. I never had the chance to get my hands on them."

Lainie said she didn't want to take the blame. "Wait, don't argue yet, Lainie, take a look at this first."

Tony on the side suddenly spoke up, holding in one hand a photo that was secretly taken by Baron Strucker at some point, and pointing with the other hand at the glass jar-like object in Ulysses Klaue's hand in the photo.

"If I'm not mistaken, is this the thing you showed me before?"

Tony had a strange expression on his face. He looked at Skye and Lainie beside him. The latter looked at each other and frowned deeply when they heard what he said.

"Obelisk..."
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At the same time, in South Korea, U-GIN Genetics Research Laboratory——

"Arrange for everyone to take a vacation as soon as possible. Suspend all experimental projects that can be suspended at this stage in the laboratory. If they cannot be suspended, find a way to take them away. We don't have much time..."

Dr. Zhao Hailun rushed back to the laboratory as soon as he got off the plane and gave instructions to the assistant beside him with a serious look on his face. At the same time, he also reminded others to hurry up and that except for necessary security, it would be best not to leave anyone in the laboratory and take away as many people as possible.

The matter of Ultron is no longer a secret to all important experimental institutions around the world. Except that it has not been fully disclosed to the public, almost all experimental teams that have something to do with it have now entered a state of emergency alert.

The same is true for Dr. Zhao Hailun and her team. Although the assistants are not very clear about what is going on, since the doctor has given the order, they just do it.

Even those experimental equipment and results will most likely be sent to the United States or Europe.

After arranging everything temporarily, Dr. Zhao Hailun pushed open the glass door of his laboratory and cast his eyes on his masterpiece.

"Do you really believe her?"

After pondering for a moment, Zhao Hailun suddenly spoke to the air beside him.

"From what I know about her, she won't harm you. The fact that she can promise you so confidently shows that she is sure that Ultron will come looking for her."

A mature and charming female voice suddenly sounded from the empty laboratory. It seemed to come from all directions, and seemed to be whispering in her ear only.

Zhao Hailun did not show any surprise. Instead, she sighed softly, turned around, and her eyes passed through the invisible air, as if she was talking to an existence that only she could see.

"I still don't understand. If, as you said, she had already guessed the ending of the story, why didn't she stop Tony Stark in advance? With her status and strength, I don't think it would be difficult."

"Who knows?"

The invisible figure seemed to move to the side of the desk, and Zhao Hailun's gaze was slowly moving along with the other person's movements.

If her assistant saw her like this, she would be so scared that she would think that the doctor was suffering from some kind of hysteria.

"Didn't you say you knew her very well? How could you not know?"

"It's true that I know her very well, but I'm not her, and I don't have her ability to predict the future."

Under Zhao Hailun's gaze, the figure turned on her office computer and typed back and forth on the keyboard with her hands, as if searching for something.

Zhao Hailun was puzzled and walked up to the other person and looked at the computer screen, only to find that the other person was searching for news reports about the laboratory attack.

"Predicting the future? Don't be ridiculous. This isn't a novel or a movie..."

"Then how do you explain my existence?"

That figure interrupted Zhao Hailun's confidence, and the smile on his face was very intriguing in Zhao Hailun's eyes.

"You... maybe you are just my illusion..."

Zhao Hailun tried to remain calm, but her unconfident tone showed that even she herself was not very sure about what she said.

After all, the other person was so real, so real that she could even touch everything in the room, as if she really existed.

"An illusion? Maybe you are right. I am just an illusion you created."

The smile on that person's face deepened a little, as if he could see through every subtle fluctuation in Zhao Hailun's heart.

Her hands suddenly moved away from the keyboard and moved to in front of Zhao Hailun, gently stroking the latter's cheek. Her movements were gentle but carried a hint of irresistible power.

"But you know very well that I won't hurt you as long as you obey me, right?"

The touch of fingers caressing her cheek made Zhao Hailun tremble involuntarily. The feeling was very strange, so strange that she wanted to resist the other party's touch, but her body seemed to be pulled by an invisible force and could not move at all.

"You are humiliating me."

Zhao Helen bit her lower lip tightly, with an unyielding light flashing in her eyes. Although her body could not move, her will did not yield.

"I may not understand your existence, nor do I know why you are here, but I am definitely not a puppet at your mercy... ugh!"

Before Zhao Hailun could finish her words, her mouth was gently pressed against by the other party's raised index finger. The action was neither a complete stop, but seemed to be a bit teasing and comforting.

"Don't be so excited. I have never treated you as a puppet. After all..."

The man had not finished speaking before he began to slowly dissipate in front of Zhao Hailun's eyes until he disappeared completely, and the touch that had been against her lips also disappeared without a trace.

"What? Explain yourself clearly..."

Zhao Hailun wanted to continue asking questions to force the other party to show up again.

But she suddenly felt a gentle breath in her ear, accompanied by a whisper that seemed far and near, and slowly floated into her heart.

"Shh...someone's coming."

Zhao Hailun was startled, and all the nerves in her body tensed up instantly. Although she was still bound by the invisible force, her intuition told her that she had to remain vigilant at this moment.

Just at this moment, a strange figure suddenly rose slowly in the darkness outside the window. At just one glance, Zhao Hailun felt the hairs on his body stand on end, and the alarm bells in his heart were deafening.

"Hello, Dr. Zhao Helen, it's great to see you again."

(End of this chapter)