Forcing a Connection
"Marvel's Magnetic Field Rotation"
As for why they didn't approach Donald Black openly, the reason was that after Shilvert led his team to the location, they had tested the hammer with various instruments.
This behavior angered Donald Blake.
He treated this unshakeable hammer as his own, and Donald Black was happy to let the townspeople try to lift it or for people from neighboring towns to come and try to budge it, because the gathering of people made the town lively, like a banquet, and he thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere.
However, Donald Black viewed S.H.I.E.L.D..'s actions as a desecration of the hammer, and he clashed with S.H.I.E.L.D.. field agents at the time. It was during this period that his combat capabilities were assessed.
What started as a brawl between a few people quickly escalated when the locals, upon recognizing Donald Black among the fighters, joined in, helping this "one of their own," who had only been on Earth for a few days, to gang up on the S.H.I.E.L.D.. The fight nearly broke out into a gun battle, but thankfully, Shilvert intervened and had the field agents who had initially started the fight apologize to Donald Black, thus calming the situation.
Of course, their primary mission was to track down the Bat Monster, and stopping to check the hammer was just a habitual, impromptu action, without revealing their weapon or official identity.
After resting for a night, Coulson did not head directly to New Mexico, but instead went to the Osborn Industries Park, where, according to Nick Fury's plan, Wei Xiuming was to go with him.
The reconstruction of the damaged buildings in the industrial park is proceeding in an orderly manner. When Coulson arrived, he found several Quinjet parked in the parking lot. Agents from S.H.I.E.L.D.. who had been sent there had changed into work clothes and become porters, loading various equipment onto the Quinjet. There was even a very large car among them.
At the scheduled departure time, the cargo handling was just completed. Wei Xiuming, carrying a suitcase, boarded the plane, sat down, and fastened his seatbelt. Coulson sat in the same cabin as him.
The pilot is a man with a face full of scars. In a low-budget horror movie, he could play the villain without any makeup. It's as if someone completely smashed his face and pieced it back together. Although his nose and eyes are still the same, the crisscrossing scars make his face look like a jigsaw puzzle.
"Billy Russo"
After the fighter jet took off and entered stealth mode, Coulson called out the pilot's name.
Looking at Coulson, who seemed to still carry the chill of the Arctic, Wei Xiuming asked, "Do you know him?"
"Yes, Professor Clark." After thinking for a moment, realizing he didn't need to keep it a secret from Wei Xiuming, Coulson said, "Billy Russo is an elite member of the rapid reaction force. I once led a team to carry out a sniper mission against Doctor Death, and we cooperated... but it ended in failure."
That mission was a complete disaster for S.H.I.E.L.D.. Billy Russo's face was mangled and looked beyond saving, but he miraculously survived and didn't give up on himself because of the disfigurement.
"Professor Clark, why did you bring so much research equipment?" Coulson looked at the oversized car that was secured in the cabin, somewhat puzzled. "The S.H.I.E.L.D.. branch has already set up a laboratory around that hammer, and all sorts of advanced instruments and scientists from S.H.I.E.L.D.. have gathered there."
After Shilvert and Bruce. Dr. Banner's team discovered the hammer in the local town, they immediately reported it to Nick Fury. Although they later hurriedly followed the newly discovered trails left by the Bat Monster, Black Eggplant directly ordered S.H.I.E.L.D..'s subordinate base to send people and supplies to surround the hammer.
This time, they directly used the FBI's name to drive away the crowd holding the meeting here, and designated a certain area as a military restricted zone, the kind where anyone who dared to approach would be shot dead.
Donald Blake was naturally unwilling, but after firing a warning shot, the townspeople who knew him pulled him away and ran far away.
However, due to the pressure from above, the S.H.I.E.L.D.. branch, whose infrastructure skills were not yet maxed out, did not build reinforced concrete barracks in just a few days. It wasn't even a prefabricated house; it was just a bunch of steel frames covered inside and out with a layer of plastic rainproof tarpaulin, the kind that would make a loud pattering noise when it rained, keeping people awake.
"Most of what I brought isn't research equipment, it's weapons. You have no idea what we're going to be facing." The journey was quite boring, so Wei Xiuming was very happy to have someone to talk to. "As for this vehicle, it's a product of the Osborn Industries City Tank Project, named Sleipnir."
"A city tank... that's quite a fitting name." Looking at the car that almost filled the cockpit of a fighter jet, if it were actually driving on the road, it would truly resemble a tank.
Coulson didn't know what to say about this, but after glancing at Wei Xiuming, he thought he understood the reason.
Given Wei Xiuming's height of over two meters, riding in ordinary civilian vehicles would be a torment for him unless a car was custom-made for him.
As for the name Sleipnir, Coulson suddenly felt he had seen it somewhere before, and then he remembered the illustrated edition of Norse mythology that Nick Fury had handed him after his performance review yesterday. In it, All-Father Odin of the Norse gods, rode an eight-legged steed named Sleipnir.
Could it be... that this hammer has some connection to Norse mythology, and Nick Fury, knowing the inside story, is hinting at it in this way?
As for the most famous hammer in Norse mythology, it is none other than Thor's warhammer. Research on the hammer has revealed that it possesses extremely powerful energy and constantly emits electromagnetic pulses, very similar to the hammer called "Mjolnir".
The gods in Norse mythology were actually aliens, and their so-called artifacts were nothing more than scientific and technological advancements incomprehensible to human civilization.
Coulson wasn't too surprised by his own bold conjecture, since such speculation was quite popular in academia. He found that many things in ancient mythology, when applied to modern concepts, were actually creations of technology.
For example, the three-legged metal raven in Eastern mythology is clearly a description of a fighter jet.
But how did Nick Fury know this?
Although one should unconditionally trust one's superiors, Coulson still harbored some doubts, while Wei Xiuming clearly knew something about the naming conventions for cars.