Marvel's Kryptonian Slacker
Chapter 822

Tracking the U.S. Military

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After finishing his conversation with Quicksilver, Henry excused himself and left, though he had actually gone to the secret base on the eleventh floor.

Whether to let the Mutants know about this place? The thought had never even crossed his mind.

Although his alien identity had not become known to the entire world through the Mutants, they kept absolutely no secrets among themselves.

His alien identity was a more or less significant weakness, but in reality, his bulletproof nature made it difficult for anyone to obtain samples for testing. Unless Henry voluntarily provided saliva, hair, or something similar.

Under those circumstances, how could Henry possibly dare reveal that he possessed technology more advanced than Earth's? Rather than gamble on the Mutants' character, he might as well treat every one of them as a blabbermouth incapable of keeping secrets.

So Henry went to the secret base alone.

Gilgamesh and the other two had already settled into the highly concealed space, eating chips while binge-watching shows. True couch potatoes...

After all, the television screen here was actually a large projected image.

Televisions in 2003 were still dominated by CRTs. LCD screens had only just begun to emerge, and large displays were out of the question.

There were plasma TVs, a large-screen product that would eventually be phased out, but the viewing area of Henry's projector depended entirely on the size of the projection screen.

Combined with the homemade home-theater-grade speakers, the viewing experience in the secret base was on par with a movie theater. Even waving money around to buy commercial appliances might not have put together the same complete setup.

Henry had also cracked every cable TV channel in the United States. Through the backdoor he had left in Stark Studios' film library, he could freely watch any old movie digitized

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