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"Haha, another $50 billion in hand. This money is so easy to make."

Bai Ye sat in his office and laughed.

In the end, Obadi gave the money. It was not because Obadi had a low IQ and was fooled many times in a row, but because he had no choice. His sunk costs were already too high and he could not afford to lose. If he did not make a last attempt, he would be dead.

With no other options left, he had no choice but to seek help from the tiger and become an ally of Hydra.

As for Bai Ye, besides making money, he has another purpose - to get Iron Monger out so that Bai Ye can start a new round of missions.

Bai Ye’s stupid system makes it difficult to trigger tasks autonomously, and basically Bai Ye has to work hard to create the conditions.

Vulture, Lizardman, now it's Iron Monger's turn.

"Hmm... Tony is working on his Mark II armor and is having a blast. Should I also think of a way to upgrade the Blue Devil armor?"

Bai Ye is thinking.

Previously, the biggest obstacle restricting the further development of the Blue Demon Armor was more advanced energy. Now the Ark Reactor has come out.

Just as Bai Ye said to Obadi, the steel armor without the Ark reactor is undoubtedly a pile of scrap metal, which shows the effectiveness of the Ark reactor.

And Bai Ye's Blue Devil Armor can be upgraded and transformed using the Ark reactor, which will definitely greatly increase its strength.

However, there is a problem. Tony does not seem to want the Ark Reactor to flow out. Perhaps he is worried that others can use it to mass-produce iron armor. So when Bai Ye was going to purchase a few Ark Reactors from Tony to modify his Blue Devil Armor, Tony declined. He joked that Bai Ye's Blue Devil Armor was already strong enough, and if he used the Ark Reactor, wouldn't he be able to beat him?

"Tsk, if you don't sell it to me, what can I do? You do it on the first day, so don't blame me for doing it on the fifteenth."

Bai Ye thought of Ivan Vanko.

The Ark Reactor was not created by Tony's father Howard Stark alone, but by him and Ivan Vanko's father Anthony Vanko. After Tony miniaturized the Ark Reactor, coincidentally, Ivan Vanko also did the same, which directly led to the birth of the villain Ivan the Deathwhip.

Tony wants to take the Ark Reactor alone, and maybe he has more ideas, but what he shows is that he is ready to eat alone. Bai Ye doesn't want to indulge him, so he can find Ivan Vanko and take a big piece of the cake from Tony.

"Ivan Vanko has a good talent for mechanics and can create a legion of mechanical soldiers. I can bring him here to help me further develop the Blue Demon Armor."

Bai Ye touched his chin and said:

"Cold nuclear fusion has infinite uses. In addition to being an extremely large energy market, this high-end energy has infinite uses in many places."

Take S.H.I.E.L.D. for example. Many of their high-tech technologies actually come from the energy emitted by the Cosmic Cube, just as Wakanda’s technological civilization is built on vibranium.

Take the Quinjet for example, it uses special energy extracted from the Cosmic Cube.

Anyone familiar with aircraft design and construction knows that the design of the Quin-type fighter is very unscientific. The lift engine is usually installed in the middle of the fuselage of the aircraft, which can maximize the stability of the fuselage. The Quin-type fighter installs the lift engine on the wing, which increases the load on the wing, making the wing more susceptible to damage or even breakage. It is unrealistic to expect a fighter weighing more than 20 tons to take off with only two lift engines on the wing; in terms of aircraft appearance, the Quin-type fighter uses a reverse-angle wing, a design that is completely impossible to achieve in reality.

So why can the Quinjet still fly and perform so well? It's all because of the existence of unscientific high-end energy such as the Cosmic Cube Energy.

As long as the World Security Council controls the source of the Cosmic Cube's energy, there is no need to worry about the Quinjet being abused.

The Quinjet itself is not a magical weapon for air combat like the F22, so it has so many counterintuitive designs.

In actual air combat, the Quin-Jet fighter will not be a match for the F22. Visual stealth is meaningless. At this speed, visual stealth will not end well. Who can fight within visual range? So it can only be used as a transport aircraft. The Quin-Jet fighter has never shown its ability to fight in the air, and has never carried out ground bombing. It is basically a self-defense weapon for transport aircraft. It is basically impossible for a fighter to take off and land vertically, which seriously wastes the bomb load and deployment time.

Therefore, although the Quinjet looks full of black technology, it is just black technology built with the high-end energy of the Cosmic Cube. It was subject to various restrictions during its design and construction. It is not very outstanding in combat and has only ordinary weapons. Its most important function is to travel between land, water, and air without restrictions. It is an excellent transport aircraft. If we really talk about air combat, it has to be the F22.

In addition, the extraction of energy from the Cosmic Cube is not so smooth. The most it can produce can only be supplied to S.H.I.E.L.D., and there will be no more. The Quinjet technology cannot be exported to other governments because it is the same as the steel armor without the energy of the Ark reactor, just a pile of scrap metal.

Even in the Marvel world, the F22 is still the undisputed strongest fighter. Just like when Tony had just made the Mark III and went to Afghanistan to seek revenge, he ran into an F22 at the Afghan base on his way back to the city. If Rhodes hadn't recognized the person in the iron armor, most likely Tony, and ordered to slow down the attack, Tony was almost shot down by the F22 with a 1:2 ratio. Iron Man did not die at the hands of terrorists, but at the hands of the US military. That would have been a big joke.

Bai Ye was thinking about going to Polar Bear to find Ivan Vanko and his son, but he received a call from Andy. Maya Hansen was ready to take a risk.

"Ah!" Bai Ye lit a cigarette, took a puff, and shook his head: "20 US dollars a month, what are you playing with?"

Chapter 133 I am a kind-hearted person and I cannot bear to see you suffer.

I'll send you on your way.

Maya Hansen's monthly salary at AIM is 20 US dollars, which does not include benefits such as insurance bonuses. She even has partial shares in AIM. Under such circumstances, she still insists on seeking death and playing with her own life. Bai Ye really can't understand why someone would complain that he is living too comfortably?

"In that case, we have done our best and should follow the rules."

Bai Ye said lightly.

"OK."

Andy didn't waste any more time and hung up the phone.

The city streets at night are brightly lit and crowded with people.

Various sounds and smells intertwined together, forming a prosperous and noisy picture.

AIM Company Building.

When it was time to get off work, the company's employees packed up and prepared to leave.

"Maya, why don't you leave? Are you ready to work overtime?"

A female colleague asked Maya Hansen with a smile.

Maya Hansen looked a little pale. When she heard her colleague's voice, she raised her head, forced a slight smile, and said:

"You guys go ahead. I still have a few last bits of information to sort out, but it's almost done."

"Oh."

The female colleague nodded, but felt that Maya Hansen was a little strange. However, Maya Hansen was their boss after all, so she didn't want to ask anything too presumptuous. Besides, her boyfriend was coming home from a business trip tonight, and she had already prepared two boxes of balloons to use. How could she have the extra time to pay attention to Maya Hansen?

Maya Hansen waited until the entire AIM building was cleared out and half an hour later, then she turned off her computer, removed her special USB drive from the interface, and put it in her bag.

Arriving at the door, Maya Hansen took a nostalgic look at the place where she had shed sweat for nearly two years, turned off the lights in the laboratory, then turned around resolutely and walked towards the exit of the company building, with her head held high, like a banner of justice.

She is a scientist with integrity and cannot afford to be in cahoots with capitalists who treat human life as a joke.

The Extremis virus is very important. It is the achievement of her life. She also wants to develop the Extremis virus to a high level and make it the light of mankind. However, she definitely does not want to use human lives as a fuel like little Osborne did. Maybe other big capitals are doing the same. She can't control that. But she will not allow her scientific research to be tarnished and stained with endless blood. This is not what she wants at all!

Maya Hansen took the elevator, went down the building, and came to the company's gate. She paused, took a deep breath, suppressed her slightly trembling body, and finally took a firm step.

After only seven steps, a tall figure blocked the light in front of Maya Hansen Road.

She looked up and saw Tian Yangsheng, who was wearing sunglasses and had a stern look on his face.

As the chief researcher of AIM and having dealt with Bai Ye for two years, how could Maya Hansen not know that Tian Yangsheng was one of Bai Ye's personal bodyguards?

Tian Yangsheng looked down at Maya Hansen and said in the coldest voice:

"Ms. Maya Hansen, the master wants to see you. Please come with us."

"Little Osborne..."

Maya Hansen's steps went weak and she almost fell, but she finally managed to steady herself. With tears in her eyes and trembling steps, she got into the car prepared by Tian Yangsheng with trepidation.

As Tian Yangsheng closed the car door, Maya Hansen lost the last ray of light in front of her eyes and fell into complete darkness.

……

"Master, someone is inside."

Bai Ye's Maybach 62S arrived at a warehouse near the Hudson River. Tian Yangsheng opened the car door, pointed inside the warehouse and whispered.

"Ah."

Bai Ye nodded, got out of the car and walked into the warehouse.

Came to a big blue barrel.

Tian Yangyi opened the lid of the big blue barrel for Bai Ye.

Inside was a woman—Maya Hansen!

Maya Hansen was obviously unconscious, but her face was covered with bruises and blood, her lips were stained red, and her skin was marked with countless bloodstains. She looked like a tattered rag doll, covered in wounds.

"Mad, why is it so bloody and ugly?"

Bai Ye cursed dissatisfiedly:

"I asked you to ask her what she had done to betray us, but I didn't ask you to torture her like this!"

"If we don't beat her up, how can she tell us the truth?"

Tian Yangyi said aggrievedly.

"You dare to talk back?" Bai Ye looked over and said, "I'm not telling you to beat her up, but you handled it too roughly, do you know? If Gao Jin had been the one handling it, he would have done it much better for me. Forget it, this matter is my fault, and I shouldn't have let you handle it. You don't even know what torture techniques are."

"Master, this is the USB drive found on her, as well as her confession."

Tian Yangsheng placed two things in front of Bai Ye.

Bai Ye picked up the USB drive with one hand and took the confession with the other hand and glanced at it.

That's right, the data copied into the USB flash drive was the core data of the Extremis virus. Although Maya Hansen did not obtain the information about the final product of the Extremis virus made by Serio Stern and Killian, if she leaked this information, it would be a big event.

"Puff!"

Bai Ye crushed the USB drive with one hand and couldn't help but curse.

I just did some experiments on some African chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys, but I have never treated you unfairly. Are you really going to leak the information about the Extremis virus that I invested $20 billion in researching?

An ungrateful person!

The 20 US dollars I earn every month is just thrown into the dog's stomach.

Bai Ye felt that he treated his subordinates quite well. There might be some exploitation in their behavior, but he definitely gave them enough money. Both Maya Hansen and Killian had good incomes. As long as they didn't die, it would not be a problem for them to earn a net worth of several hundred million dollars.

Bai Ye had been polite enough to Maya Hansen, tolerating her jumping around step by step until now, until he finally caught her after catching the thief and the stolen goods.

Considering that she was the original developer of the Extremis virus and had made great contributions to Bai Ye, if Maya Hansen changed her mind seven steps before leaving the AIM building, returned to the building and destroyed the USB drive, Bai Ye would not have pretended that he had not noticed anything. It's a pity that he gave Maya Hansen so many opportunities, but this woman did not know how to cherish them. Now everyone is very embarrassed, and Bai Ye will inevitably be labeled as a person who is used as a tool to cook after the rabbit dies.

Tian Yangsheng asked: "Master, what should we do with this woman next?"

"I am a kind-hearted person and I cannot bear to see others suffer. Send her to death as soon as possible!"

Bai Ye turned around, waved his hand, walked out of the warehouse, and looked at the Hudson River in front of him.

The Hudson River at night is quiet and mysterious.

Under the soft moonlight, the river surface shimmers like a twinkling galaxy, making people feel as if they are in a dream world.

The trees along the bank are quietly reflected on the river, forming a beautiful picture.Occasionally a squirrel jumps from a tree to the bank, looking around warily, as if protecting this peaceful territory.

As night falls, the lighthouse on the riverside lights up, illuminating the entire river. The light is projected on the water, forming jumping spots of light; the skyscrapers in the distance look particularly spectacular under the night sky. Reflecting the brightly lit city, it is hard to tell whether this is reality or a dream.

It gives people a sense of tranquility and peace. It seems that time has stopped here, and there is only tranquility and beauty.

Bai Ye lit a cigarette for himself.

Inside the warehouse, Tian Yangsheng and Tian Yangyi poured cement into Maya Hansen's barrel and sealed it.

"Master, everything has been taken care of."

Tian Yangsheng came to Bai Ye.

Bai Ye put down the cigarette he had taken a few puffs, and stamped out the cigarette butt:

"Let's go!"

……

The next day, early in the morning.

The shops and cafes on the street are particularly lively.

Through the window, you can see all kinds of fashionable clothes, exquisite accessories and coffee cups, which make people yearn for it.

Betty Ross walked out of the Starbucks store, holding a steaming cup of latte, and headed towards the AIM building.

In AIM, employees who have access to the core secrets of the Extremis virus must live in the company dormitory, and there are some restrictions on daily life. However, researchers like Betty Ross who have not been exposed to core secrets do not have so many restrictions.

"Morning."

Betty Ross greeted her colleagues one by one with a smile.

When she arrived at her station, Betty Ross opened her computer and suddenly found a group email from the company. It was an email terminating Maya Hansen's position as AIM's principal researcher, saying that Maya Hansen's contract with AIM had expired, but she did not intend to renew it and had already resigned from the company. However, the company still wished Maya Hansen better development in the future.

"what?"

Betty Ross was a little confused. AIM fired Maya Hansen. How was this possible?

You know, Betty Ross grew up with her father, General Ross. She might have hated her father's style of doing things, but she knew how people in high positions think.

Maya Hansen is the developer of AIM's flagship product, the Extremis virus, and a core member among the core members. How could AIM let Maya Hansen leave AIM so easily?

Unless the person at the helm of AIM is a big fool, there is no other possibility.

But Betty Ross had come into contact with Andy, the CEO of AIM. She knew that Andy was not a silly woman. On the contrary, she was a woman with almost absolute rationality.