I Want the Cosmic Cube

She broke up with Tony.

Egghead Fury opened the door of the black sedan, but didn't get in immediately. Instead, he gripped the door with one hand and said:

"It seems we need to have a talk with Parker."

"We've already looked."

Natasha tilted her head, as if to say: Boss, are you alright?

However, Nick Fury shook his head and said, "I mean, have an open and honest talk with him."

Of course, to say he was completely open and honest, based on Ben's understanding of him, it would be good if one or two out of ten of his sentences were true. He was open and honest, but only a little bit.

But regardless, since Nick Fury has made this decision, he won't care what others think.

Therefore, when Ben received Eunice's message at midnight that there was an intruder in Primus, he rushed over and just saw the guy blending into the darkness, dressed in all black.

"Ben Parker."

Nick Fury noticed the displeasure, even anger, on Ben's face, but he didn't care.

He's just a young guy.

If I can't even handle a sixteen-year-old high school student, what kind of king of spies am I?

He might as well resign and hand over the position of Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.. to Hill.

Therefore, he didn't care when he saw Ben's unfriendly expression, because he believed that as long as he explained his purpose and let this so-called genius understand the real inner world, this little unpleasantness would disappear.

He even went so far as to mobilize the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. to hack Eunice, which was itself a demonstration of S.H.I.E.L.D..'s power.

He had long understood that the more you deal with so-called geniuses, the more you need to demonstrate your abilities; otherwise, they won't even give you a second glance.

But he had clearly misunderstood Ben.

At this moment, the Egghead Fury was still sitting on the sofa in the Primus rest area with his legs spread apart, spouting nonsense at Ben.

"I must say, your artificial intelligence is quite good, almost catching up to Tony Stark, but still a little short."

After saying this, he squinted his eyes, observing Ben's reaction.

He figured Ben would react with the same disgruntled expression as Tony, but at the same time, he would also become interested in S.H.I.E.L.D..

This would be a good start.

But soon, his expression changed, because things were completely beyond his expectations.

"Fuck you?"

"What the hell do you want?!"

Not long after Nick Fury finished speaking, he saw Ben sneer and then pull a big treasure out of his coat.

The dark muzzle of a gun was pressed against his forehead from a distance.

Holy crap, this young man?

For a moment, Nick; his mind went blank.

However, he made no move. On the one hand, he was worried that any action he took would provoke Ben; on the other hand, he was also gambling that Ben wouldn't dare to fire.

But the next second--

"Boom!"

A beam of blue energy shot out from the gun barrel in an instant!

In an instant, the sofa struck by the light was blasted with a large hole.

Nick Fury, after all, is the king of spies. He kept his eyes on Ben's finger out of the corner of his eye. The moment he saw Ben pull the trigger, he rolled away and dodged the shot, thus avoiding the kind of crazy idea that happened to a certain President Ken.

No, Nick broke out in a cold sweat and glanced back at the sofa, now just a wreck.

If this gets hit, it won't just be a wild idea, it'll leave people completely baffled.

Having narrowly escaped death, Nick Fury was enraged. He knelt on one knee, supporting himself with one hand, his face contorted with fury, and roared:

"Are you fucking insane, pointing a laser weapon at my head?"

Ben stared at him coldly. "You forcibly breached my Firewall, hacked my system, and broke into my company. I've already been lenient by not blowing your head off, you nigger!"

"What do you mean you're being polite by not blowing my head off? You just missed!" he said angrily. "If I hadn't dodged quickly, I'd probably be dead already."

"If you learned to knock like your men do, I wouldn't have hit you," Ben sneered.

Trespassing on private property and still having the nerve to complain?

This black guy thinks he's something special!

If it weren't for the fact that it's the 21st century, Ben would have already dragged him out to pick cotton!

He understood that Egghead Fury was simply trying to intimidate him, and that there was probably no other malice involved.

But the problem is, Ben isn't his farmer, so why should he indulge him?

Is this a show of force?

Let's see who gives whom a taste of their own medicine!

Seeing Ben constantly using the slang "nigger" and "black guy," and carrying a laser gun that could open anyone's heart at any moment, Nick Fury felt like killing Natasha.

Oh shit!

Is this what you mean by "low risk"?

If Natasha could hear his inner thoughts, she would definitely cry out that she was wronged.

I said Ben Parker was low-risk, not that I told you to come up here and badmouth the company, and then force yourself to sit in their chair and act all high and mighty!

It's fair to say that after serving as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.. for two years, Egghead Fury has forgotten who he is.

After giving Nick Fury a hard time, Ben put down the laser gun he was holding.

He wasn't planning on causing trouble for himself; S.H.I.E.L.D.. was backed by the Security Council, and breaking with them wouldn't do Ben any good.

"Alright, Nick Fury, just say what you want."

Ben sat in another chair, crossed his legs, and said.

Upon hearing this, Nick was taken aback:

You've heard my story?

"The director of S.H.I.E.L.D.., with a heart even blacker than his face, it's not a big secret." Ben leaned back and said, "I know more than you think, even your trump cards."

"Yeah?"

Nick smiled noncommittally, but just as he thought Ben was nothing but a frog in a well, he noticed that the other man's gaze seemed to be directed at his belt.

There, lay his last weapon.

"This kid, could he really know?" Nick panicked.

At the same time, his body subconsciously tilted to one side, trying to block Ben's view.

He forced a calm expression and said, "Since you already know something about us, I'll be frank."

Nick, certain that Ben wouldn't attack him again, found another chair, sat down, looked Ben in the eye, and said:

"I have an idea: to bring together some talented people and see what we can achieve, so that when people need us... we can win battles they can't win."

After saying that, Nick looked at Ben.

First, he was attacked by Ben, and then Bant exposed his biggest secret, completely disrupting Nick's original plan.

However, he understood to some extent.

If the other side can even bring out such advanced laser weapons, they probably won't be impressed by Tony's armor, let alone since I don't even have armor myself.

After much deliberation, Nick Fury decided to reveal his Avengers Initiative directly.

Ben responded to this.

"Interesting, then what?"

I'd like to invite you to be one of them.

"I refuse."

Ben: I declined, brother.

To be honest, the idea of Avengers is actually not bad, but he doesn't need to join.

Instead of joining the Avengers and becoming an S.H.I.E.L.D. for S. H. I. E. L. D. and the Security Council, why doesn't he just establish the Galactic Plumbers Earth Branch?

He can do anything the Avengers can do, so why should I work for him for free?

Of course, Nick Fury doesn't need to know about this.

He shrugged and said:

"Sorry, I don't have time to play Super Hero house with you, Nick Fury."

"As you can see, I'm the boss of a company now. Primus's daily earnings are several small dollars, and they'll only increase in the future. I'm too busy counting my money to bother becoming Super Hero. How much money can Super Hero make?"

Nick Fury probably didn't expect Ben's reason for refusing to be so realistic, and was immediately stumped.

Nick then fell silent.

Since you've brought up money, what can I do?

We can't exactly pay you a salary, can we?

He did want to, but the problem was, as Ben had said, Primus's earnings, when averaged out, amounted to hundreds of millions a day. Who could afford that?

Besides...

"I'm here to ask for money, not to give money!"

That's what they said, but Nick still wanted to try, so he immediately said:

"The benefits of cooperating with S.H.I.E.L.D.. sometimes cannot be measured in monetary terms alone."

That's the truth.

Even a powerful entity like Stark Industries can still be constrained in certain matters in a country dominated by capital.

Not long ago, the congressman who tripped up Tony at the hearing did just that.

However, after Tony officially partnered with S.H.I.E.L.D.., they never uttered a single word again.

Of course, this was also partly due to his compromise and allowing Rhodey to take the Mark 3 away. But in any case, cooperating with S.H.I.E.L.D.. could indeed avoid some unnecessary trouble.

The problem is that S.H.I.E.L.D.. itself is the biggest problem.

Instead of working with these people, Ben might as well just go to Alexander Pierce's ear and say: Long live Hydra.

Then, they could go undercover in Hydra, avoiding 99% of the trouble.

How wonderful!

Therefore, Ben still shook his head when faced with the offer from Nick Fury.

Nick Fury was very frustrated by Ben's stubbornness, but in order to create a safer Safe House, Nick decided to go all out.

"So what do you want?"

What do I want?

Ben smiled slightly.

He originally intended to say it Skrull genes, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind.

There should be quite a few Skrull on Earth, so obtaining their genes shouldn't be difficult. Directly asking for them might actually arouse suspicion.

Then he thought of something else.

"I want the Cosmic Cube."

"Impossible!" Nick refused without even thinking.

He didn't even ask Ben how he knew the Tesseract was in his possession, because that wasn't important; keeping the Tesseract in his own hands was the most important thing.

Thank you to the passerby who enjoyed the novel for the 100-point reward.

I've been busy moving and cleaning these past few days, and I'm really exhausted. Plus, I missed a day of doing 10,000 daily exercises, so I'm thinking of taking a few more days off. I'll start doing 6 days a week this week. I'll resume doing 10,000 daily exercises from Monday. Since I missed a day, I won't count the previous days; the count will reset on Monday, starting with 30 days of doing 10,000 daily exercises.