BSAA (Complete)

Terragrigia was a high-tech city in the Mediterranean, as well as an artificial floating island. The United Nations had brought together funding from numerous countries to build it.

It had now become a highly important branch of both the FBC and BSAA. It was not their headquarters because this was the front line against bioweapons, gathering biochemical experts from all over the world to research vaccines for bioweapons viruses and combat the increasingly rampant threat.

"Long time no see." As Shen Fei followed the crowd off the plane, he immediately spotted Rebecca, who had come to greet him. Jill stood beside her.

"If Rebecca hadn't mentioned it, I never would have thought it was you. Welcome to the BSAA." Jill looked extremely surprised when she saw Shen Fei.

Although she had already heard about Shen Fei from Rebecca, Jill was still shocked when she actually saw him. The little boy from back then had grown this much.

"You're the ones truly worthy of admiration. Rebecca told me all about you." Jill and Chris had spent all these years fighting on the front lines against bioweapons. This was reality, and those were bioweapons—one careless mistake could mean death. Of course Shen Fei admired people like them.

Compared to them, Shen Fei's reasons for joining the BSAA were somewhat less than pure.

A year had passed since Shen Fei had met Stark at his New York villa. Shen Fei had spent that year at New York Empire University, and with the power of the Op-Op Fruit, he had gained a certain reputation in the fields of medicine and biochemistry.

He had come to the BSAA this time for an internship. There had originally been many places where Shen Fei could intern, and he had not needed to travel so far. Plenty of companies in New York would have accepted him, such as Stark Group and the FBC.

Even skipping an internship altogether would have been fine. Shen Fei was now, more or less, a billionaire. As long as he revealed his identity, he could have bypassed that step entirely.

Under Pepper's direction, the new company had been progressing very smoothly. Of course, that was also thanks to the strength of Stark Group. Without Stark Group's support, it would have been impossible for the new company to develop to this point so quickly.

If it had been the Shen Fei of the past, becoming this rich would have meant living off his wealth and waiting for death. But this was the Marvel Universe, where such a life was very difficult to achieve.

Shen Fei had considered himself a genius in this world, after all, he had graduated from Empire State University in just one year. But once he entered this circle, he learned that geniuses were not worth much.

The reason Shen Fei had not encountered geniuses before was because he had not been part of this circle. Now that he had entered it, he discovered that while geniuses were not exactly everywhere, there were far more of them than he had ever imagined.

At Shen Fei's level, he was impressive among ordinary people, but among geniuses, he was not particularly outstanding. Someone like him normally could not have joined the BSAA, but he knew people.

Rebecca.

Rebecca had originally wanted Shen Fei to join the FBC. Outsiders did not know Shen Fei's capabilities very well, but Rebecca knew them clearly, since the two of them often discussed such matters.

At first, Shen Fei had sought Rebecca's guidance on these issues. Now, they could discuss them as equals. That was a tremendous improvement.

However, Shen Fei ultimately declined to join the FBC and chose the BSAA instead. For one thing, the FBC was an organization under S.H.I.E.L.D. Leaving Hydra aside, it had countless experts. At Shen Fei's current age, he could only join as an ordinary researcher.

The second reason was bioweapon viruses. This was Shen Fei's main reason for giving up the life of a billionaire and coming to the BSAA. At the BSAA, he would have far more opportunities to come into contact with viruses. As for stealing viruses for his own research, Shen Fei's magic could certainly manage it, but without understanding bioweapon viruses, rashly stealing them would be far too dangerous.

Moreover, even if he stole them, he could not research viruses without a proper containment laboratory. These were viruses, after all. If one leaked, the consequences would be disastrous.

Shen Fei, who had focused on studying throughout the past year, had not built such a laboratory. Besides, a laboratory like that was not something one could simply establish at will.

"I'll take you to where you'll be staying first. Let's have dinner together tonight," Rebecca said in the car.

"Sorry, I probably can't make it. Chris needs support over there," Jill said before Shen Fei could speak.

"Is there trouble?" Rebecca asked, her expression turning serious.

"Yes. Chris seems to have found him." Although Jill did not say who she meant, Rebecca's changing expression made it clear that she knew.

"Then be careful." After a long silence, Rebecca said those words.

The atmosphere in the car became somewhat grave afterward, and Shen Fei did not know what to say for a moment. Fortunately, he said nothing.

"See you tonight." After dropping Shen Fei off at his residence, Rebecca drove away with Jill.

"Not a bad place." The room was not very large, but it had everything he needed. Shen Fei was quite satisfied.

Although Shen Fei was already very wealthy, he had not moved into a bigger, more luxurious villa in New York. He lived alone, after all, and did not need that much space.

More likely, it was a habit carried over from his previous life.

"Now I can finally come into contact with viruses." Several years had passed, and Shen Fei's strength had steadily increased, but after the Raccoon City incident, he had never encountered viruses again.

Back then, he had not understood the structure of viruses. That was no longer a problem now.

The more he learned about viruses, the more terrifying he found them. For Shen Fei, who possessed the Op-Op Fruit, destroying the world was not truly difficult. The human world contained far too many terrifying viruses. The Anthrax Virus and Ebola Virus were not much weaker than the T-Virus.

There were quite a few laboratories within the United States researching these viruses.

Fortunately, such viruses were generally extremely difficult to obtain. Otherwise, news reports would not be about terrorist suicide bombers, but human bioweapon bombs.

Therefore, Shen Fei decided never to abuse the Op-Op Fruit's power. At most, he would use it to improve his own strength. He would not consider using it to evolve all humanity. Humanity's evolution should be left to nature's selection.

During that year at New York University, Shen Fei had encountered plenty of scientists who constantly talked about doing things for all humanity. In truth, most of them only sought their own success and fame.

Rampant individual heroism was a common flaw among many American scientists. They all thought they had protagonist halos, believed themselves to be the smartest, considered everyone else fools, and imagined that their research could change the entire world.

Even Tony could not avoid this. His tongue was so vicious that if his last name had not been Stark, someone would have beaten him up long ago.

As his thoughts wandered, Shen Fei opened his combination case and took out a small box, placing it aside. In an instant, the entire little box expanded to the size of the combination case. When he opened it, it was packed with beverages.

After taking out several bottles, Shen Fei immediately shrank the box again and put it back into the combination case.

Just as the products released by most capital companies were never their most advanced technology, the medicine Shen Fei had taken out to cooperate with Stark was naturally not his best product.

His best product was the beverage now in his hands, a formula that could continuously enhance physical fitness while restoring mental fatigue. After using the Op-Op Fruit to buy every traditional Chinese medicine product available on the market, he had synthesized it himself with the fruit's power.

The ingredients were rare traditional Chinese medicines: ginseng, fo-ti, and others. Unfortunately, it was now rare to find medicinal ingredients with ages of one hundred or one thousand years. Otherwise, he could have made something even better.

"Time to go." When the time he had arranged with Rebecca arrived, Shen Fei took out a bottle of wine and prepared to head to the restaurant they had agreed on.

Stark had given him this wine. It was a rare treasure worth hundreds of thousands. After Shen Fei refined it with the Op-Op Fruit, it would probably sell for an even higher price.

Why did aged wine taste so good? It was because of the microorganisms inside it. Others might have had no way to deal with those microorganisms, but the Op-Op Fruit could.

As the knowledge he learned grew more extensive, the Op-Op Fruit found increasingly broad applications. It was not limited to medicine at all—it could be used for alcohol, beverages, even rice and food.