"Ha ha ha, Director Fury, you flatter me. They're just a few insignificant little trinkets. They can't compare to the advanced weapons developed by S.H.I.E.L.D."
Hawking looked into Nick Fury's single eye and secretly cast Legilimency, instantly learning why Nick Fury had come to see him.
He had been wondering why that old fox Nick Fury suddenly had the time to come chat with him.
So he had set his sights on the Portkeys Hawking had made.
"Mr. Hawking, you jest. Even if S.H.I.E.L.D. spent another hundred years researching this kind of spatial transfer technology, we might not necessarily be able to develop it.
I wonder which doctor under your command developed it. Was it Doctor Reed?"
Nick Fury smiled as he probed.
Reed Richards was one of the world's most famous scientists, though some of his ideas were simply too wild and fantastical, making them seem utterly impossible to achieve.
Quantum spatial transfer theory was one such idea.
He knew that Reed Richards was currently conducting all kinds of scientific research under Hawking. Perhaps he had perfected that concept he had proposed long ago.
If that was truly the case, Fury would have to consider how to poach him.
"Not at all. It's merely one application of my abilities, not a scientific product. I call it a Portkey."
Hawking did not hide it, because there was no need to. Besides, while Nick Fury wanted to sound him out, he likewise wanted to sound out Nick Fury.
He picked up the wineglass beside him and cast the alchemy for a Portkey upon it.
"All right, it's that simple. You can give it a try."
"Could this be...?"
Nick Fury skeptically accepted the wineglass. The next second, he appeared atop S.H.I.E.L.D. Tower.
"He actually made it himself, and he did it