Meanwhile, when Nick Fury saw that the mercenary codenamed Grim Reaper had agreed to meet with him, he rubbed the space between his brows, calming his excited yet nervous emotions slightly.
"Director, how many of us will be going the day after tomorrow?"
"Based on our assessment, there's a high probability that he's male, right?"
"Do we need to bring Agent Natasha along?"
Phil Coulson had been standing nearby the whole time, asking about the situation.
Not many people knew about the plan to contact the mercenary codenamed Grim Reaper, but Agent Natasha was one of them.
If this Grim Reaper truly matched their suspicions and was a superpowered individual, Director Fury hoped to recruit him into the Avengers Initiative.
However, the meeting fee alone was twenty million dollars. It had to be said that it was an outrageously high price, so they were determined to see it through.
"You and I will go."
"Agent Natasha is still investigating Harvey Anberaka, so there's no need to call her in yet."
Nick Fury tapped his fingers lightly against the desk, considered it for a moment, and gave his instructions.
Harvey Anberaka was also someone they had their eye on, because they had investigated this young wealthy man who had suddenly appeared over the past two years.
Harvey Anberaka had lost both his parents in the past. He was an asian who had grown up in an orphanage.
Asians received certain benefits in America, but they still faced varying degrees of discrimination and cold treatment from those around them.
Judging from his earlier life, Harvey Anberaka could be considered a pitiful person, and there had been nothing suspicious about him.
But when Harvey Anberaka was nineteen, he suddenly won a lottery prize worth tens of millions of dollars. After paying 5.7 million dollars in taxes,
he used the remaining 4.3 million dollars to buy shares in Zero Technologies and become one of its shareholders.
After that, many people kept investing in Zero Technologies, which continually paid Harvey Anberaka dividends.
Using the money he received from those dividends, Harvey Anberaka began investing in real estate and the stock market. As though he possessed foresight, he had never made a wrong move—whatever he bought went up.
In less than three short years, Harvey Anberaka, only twenty-one years old, had become a young wealthy man with considerable fame in New York. His net worth had multiplied several hundredfold and now exceeded four billion dollars.
Estates, luxury cars, and famous watches—he had it all. As a result, even though Harvey Anberaka was asian, he was still sought after by countless young and beautiful women in New York.
Since Harvey Anberaka had never committed any crimes, the higher-ups would not conduct an in-depth investigation into a taxpayer like him who paid his taxes in full.
Under normal circumstances, Harvey Anberaka was simply a lucky man who had struck it rich after buying lottery tickets only five times, winning a prize worth tens of millions of dollars and reaching the pinnacle of life.
His rise had been far too rapid. If one did not know that aliens existed beyond Blue Star, and that Blue Star might also hide other superpowered individuals,
Nick Fury would have simply regarded Harvey Anberaka's profile as that of a lucky man.
But Harvey Anberaka's miraculous rise, along with his subsequent ruthless, almost prophetic eye for investments and the stock market,
and the fact that Harvey Anberaka ate far more than an ordinary person, with his usual food expenses alone being beyond what most people could afford,
made him unusual. Yet whenever Harvey Anberaka appeared in public, he merely seemed like a young wealthy man who spent money lavishly and had an extraordinary appetite.
Therefore, Nick Fury had only decided to send Natasha to investigate him.
They certainly could not make a move against him, because for a high-paying taxpayer like Harvey Anberaka, as long as he had not committed a crime,
the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division had no authority to bypass the FBI and directly arrest or detain him.
However, if Natasha could discover during her contact with Harvey Anberaka that he truly possessed some extraordinary superpowers,
they would very much like to recruit Harvey Anberaka. After all, no one knew when a crisis threatening Blue Star might arrive.
"But I heard Agent Natasha's work hasn't been going smoothly."
"She feels like she's wasting her time, and she's in a bad mood right now."
Upon hearing this, Phil Coulson, who knew what Agent Natasha had been assigned to do, spoke up.
Normally, with Agent Natasha's beauty, it would not be difficult for her to infiltrate the circles around successful men.
Harvey Anberaka also owned villas and estates, so logically, he should have hired housekeepers or secretaries to manage them.
Yet Harvey Anberaka had done no such thing. He had no plans to hire a housekeeper, secretary, or anyone else.
Most of the time, Harvey Anberaka stayed inside his private estate, and no one knew what he did there.
Fortunately, Harvey Anberaka regularly visited various restaurants and hotels to enjoy good food.
But that was uncertain as well, because Harvey Anberaka was not picky about food. He might go to any restaurant, eat at the same place repeatedly, or suddenly head to Chinatown for street food.
After eating, Harvey Anberaka would return home directly. Only occasionally would he bring an exceptionally beautiful woman back to spend the night with him.
As a result, Agent Natasha had spent half a month undercover as a waitress at various restaurants, yet had still failed to meet Harvey Anberaka even once.
Although Agent Natasha used her beauty to seduce men in order to accomplish certain missions, there was no point discussing seduction if she could not even get close enough to meet him.
"Then I'll trouble you, Coulson... Forget it. I'll send her the message myself."
When Nick Fury heard that Natasha was in a bad mood because all her efforts had been in vain, he felt a little troubled as well. After some thought, he agreed with Coulson.
Besides, if Natasha was there, she could provide them with greater security in case the negotiations fell through.
Nick Fury then sent Natasha an order, telling her that she could temporarily stop her current assignment, take a day off, and meet them the day after tomorrow at a building on the outskirts of Washington.
Elsewhere.
Natasha had just finished another dull day working as a waitress and returned to the house she was temporarily renting. When she saw the message, her irritated mood improved slightly.
For the past half month, she had moved from restaurant to restaurant, applying for waitress jobs everywhere just to wait for Harvey Anberaka to show up.
But Harvey Anberaka had never appeared at any of them.
Natasha had even considered changing tactics—once she received Harvey Anberaka's destination, she could sneak in and strike up a conversation with him.
Such an approach would be faster, but it had one drawback: it would be extremely easy to arouse suspicion.
Why didn't Harvey Anberaka host some grand cocktail party and invite all kinds of friends and beautiful women?
Or attend a banquet or party held by some well-known figure.
That would give her plenty of ways to get inside and formally make contact with Harvey Anberaka.
Still, it was common for targets not to act according to her wishes, so Natasha adjusted her mood and went to sleep comfortably.
As for why Nick Fury wanted her to meet up with them, she did not think much about it. She would find out when the time came.
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