Changes, Part One
"Sir, here is your well-done steak. The fries are fried in duck fat, and the pasta is served separately."
In the restaurant in the Osborn Industries Park that was exclusively for Wei Xiuming, the chef, who hadn't been there for half a year, personally placed the dishes he had carefully prepared on the table and even poured Wei Xiuming a glass of sparkling wine. Because of Wei Xiuming's personal dining habits, the dishes were not served one by one as appetizers; they were all placed on the table after they were prepared.
The chef's skills are absolutely worth the salary Osborn Industries pays him. Take, for example, the original cut steak. Most restaurants, in order to ensure the taste, will cook it to medium-well at most. But Wei Xiuming insists on it well-done. Other chefs' well-done steaks are so tough that they can't even be cut, and the taste is similar to burnt charcoal. But this chef, after cooking it well-done, still ensures that the steak is tender and juicy. He is far superior to those "chef gods" who rely on advertising to hype themselves up.
Unlike Michelin-starred restaurants that pursue elegance, the dishes on the table are generous and filling, enough for almost five to seven people.
After introducing his dishes, the chef pushed the food cart away. Wei Xiuming, having removed his gas mask, put the first piece of steak into his mouth, savoring the authentic flavor that was different from that of Kamar-Taj. The door to the private restaurant was then pushed open again.
A travel-worn Nick Fury walked to the other side of the table, pulled out a chair, and sat down. He said calmly, "Kent Clark, you've been hard to find. Almost half a year has passed without a trace. We've tried every possible way to contact you. The last footage of you was from a security camera six months ago—you suddenly vanished while walking, making one wonder if you've already completed your mission and returned to your own time."
Wei Xiuming carefully chewed the food in his mouth, swallowed it, and then slowly said, "I also want to go back to my real hometown, but no matter how you look at it, that's impossible."
Using his fork to roll up a piece of seafood pasta, Wei Xiuming asked, "I told you, after resolving the vampire and Fang Vampire issue, I'll seek out Mages to gain some knowledge from them, and to be wary of any troublesome things they might come up with."
Nick Fury nodded, then asked curiously, "So what did you learn, and what did you discover from them?"
Nick Fury and even S.H.I.E.L.D.. had no records of Mages. After Wei Xiuming "disappeared," they even conducted a thorough search of the area where he was last seen under the guise of pipe maintenance, not even sparing the sewers, but ultimately found nothing. Therefore, Nick Fury had a strong interest in this unknown thing.
"I've learned a lot and witnessed just how many threats lurk in our world, even confronting gods from higher dimensions," Wei Xiuming said. "For someone destined to commit crimes in the future, we cannot judge him now that he has done nothing—and the S.H.I.E.L.D. of S. H. I. E. L. D. even skipped dinner to see an unknown like me suggests that a lot must have happened during my six months away."
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Black Eggplant paused for a moment. The world situation had changed so rapidly in the past six months that it had exceeded his expectations. And after Alexander Pierce told him that there were Hydra spies in S.H.I.E.L.D.., he began to doubt everything around him. There were some things he hadn't even told Coulson, whom he had trusted the most.
The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. were stationed at the Osborn Industries Complex as security personnel, learned that Wei Xiuming had returned. They specially flew here in Quinjet just to communicate with the only person they could trust now.
First, John Garrett, a high-ranking member of Hydra's S.H.I.E.L.D. on Pierce's list, was found to be suspicious when Black Eggplant investigated him.
John Garrett is terminally ill, and knowing that current medical technology is helpless against his condition, he has been searching for a cure with the help of S.H.I.E.L.D.., and has obtained a blood sample from a Fang Vampire Pearl.
It's important to know that the entire process of capturing the two Fang Vampire and destroying all the samples was under Nick Fury's supervision. Because of Wei Xiuming's false propaganda, he dared not relax his vigilance for even a moment, fearing that something might go wrong at any stage. Even so, some samples still leaked from S.H.I.E.L.D..'s laboratory and fell into John Garrett's hands.
This shows how deep Hydra's infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D.. is; they were able to do things right under the nose of the King of Agents.
The research on the blood of the Fang Vampire yielded no results. After realizing he had been exposed, John Garrett displayed the courage of his predecessors, injecting the only blood sample into his body and transforming into some kind of powerful monster. The S.H.I.E.L.D. force sent to capture him was completely wiped out.
In the end, it was Blade Warrior Brooks who stepped in, and after a fierce battle, he demolished an intact building into a crumbling structure before finally defeating John Garrett —but this also meant that the plan to break through him and obtain more Hydra personnel lists had failed.
Furthermore, the cleanup of vampires did not go so smoothly. For example, Victor and his group of vampires mutated into powerful Fang Vampire after being injected with Amazon Cells. In addition, those who learned magic from the "Book of the Blood God" sent by Daken Fis all possessed strength exceeding Wei Xiuming had set for Fang Vampire.
Humanity's conventional firepower is insufficient against these enemies. Even if they were to be eliminated, the amount of ammunition consumed would be equivalent to a small-scale battle during World War II, and countless innocent people would be affected. Therefore, when encountering the Fang Vampire, Blade is usually the Blade to step in – only monsters can deal with monsters.
In the constant battles, Blade was covered in wounds. He had used the sword's power beyond its limits and almost lost his human form, becoming a monster forever.
But human greed and folly are unimaginable. After the Fang Vampire were eliminated, some people set their sights on Blade. His powerful abilities after transformation, if applied on a large scale to soldiers, would allow him to rule the world without using mushroom bombs. Even though Blade risked his life to eliminate the human threat, he still couldn't avoid becoming a test subject. If Black Eggplant hadn't intervened and transferred him to his secret base, Blade's fate would have been unimaginable.
In the final distribution of rewards, all the achievements that originally belonged to Blade were divided up and allocated to the human army, creating several combat heroes.
In reality, their goal was to develop the genius scientist Kent Clark, who created two different Knight System. However, Nick Fury had already given Wei Xiuming the title of project manager at S.H.I.E.L.D..'s central laboratory. With this position, Wei Xiuming was no longer so easily swayed.
Even if they wanted to use underhanded tactics to make Wei Xiuming disappear from the public eye, he vanished long ago— Nick Fury deeply suspected that Wei Xiuming had anticipated this situation and that finding the Mages was just an excuse to avoid trouble.