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Since they were now considered allies, the conversation between the few of them became much more casual.

"Actually, I really admire people from China. I can even speak a few words of Chinese!" Frank said, and then he demonstrated: "Hello, I don't have a gun, I surrender."

"Uh..." Bai Jing was speechless. "Where did you learn those words?"

"In the army, my superiors taught me. If you encounter Chinese soldiers and can't beat them, you can say these words to them!" Frank said with great interest. "I didn't encounter any Chinese soldiers in my area, but I heard that other legions did and were beaten badly!"

"Wait!" Bai Jing suddenly had a question. "How old were you when you joined the Vietnam War?"

"Around 17!" Frank replied. "I fought for more than two years, then came back. After that, I stayed in America and never went out again until I retired!"

"Then you must be 50 years old now?" Bai Jing asked in shock.

"55!" Frank sighed. Those few words conveyed a lifetime of hardship.

What would force a 55-year-old Vietnam War veteran to put on a uniform and pick up a gun to step onto the battlefield again?

This damned society!

But there wasn't much Frank could do. He hadn't studied properly as a child and had joined the army in his teens. The army didn't teach culture or ideology, so he knew nothing beyond military protocol.

Bai Jing was actually curious if female soldiers in the US military were really raped, but seeing Frank's world-weary expression, he didn't dare to ask.

After their conversation, he had a deeper understanding of the man before him.

He was a veteran whose military skills were maxed out, but his political and ideological knowledge was zero, just as Bai Jing had imagined.

As for Frank's position, it was easy to arrange: military advisor and instructor.

Bai Jing, who deeply understood that power comes from the barrel of a gun, had been looking forward to this for a long time.

With Frank, the scattered soldiers under Bai Jing could be organized, trained, and transformed into a regular army.

The scenes of the two groups confronting each other, firing shots into the sky, still occasionally flashed through Bai Jing's mind.

This was also a hint to Frank, letting him know that 300 regular soldiers could sweep through 3,000, or even 30,000 gangsters.

So, were gangsters really unsolvable?

After dealing with Frank, Bai Jing followed Denny to Bruce Banner's residence.

"The style here is so clean!" Bai Jing exclaimed, looking at the bedroom with plain white wallpaper, large empty spaces, only a bed, a table, and chairs, and extremely simple decorations.

This bedroom was located in the Viper Gang's base, and it was unclear who had been using it originally.

"It wasn't like this originally. It was renovated overnight according to Dr. Keanu's request!" Denny chuckled. "Most people wouldn't take the job, but a father and son from China did it!"

"Oh?" Bai Jing nodded, with no intention of contacting his countrymen.

To be honest, he didn't like countrymen who came here to live, unless they were coming to learn advanced knowledge and return to build their country.

"I'll set up bookshelves here, but the books are still on their way, so it looks quite empty!" Bruce Banner said with a smile. Even with a different face, he still looked as endearingly simple when he smiled.

"Oh." Bai Jing casually asked, "Did you buy them online?"

"Yes!" Banner nodded.

"These are the books I've organized for you!" Banner handed a notebook to Bai Jing.

"Just this much?" Bai Jing thought Banner had written the content of the books in the notebook. When he opened it, he realized they were just book titles.

Each book title was followed by the author's name. Since English names were very long, each book took up almost a line.

They were written line by line, page by page!

He flipped through one page, then another, and finally, with a whoosh, he flipped through half the notebook and finally finished!

"So many?" Bai Jing asked in surprise.

"It's quite a lot, isn't it!" Banner smiled. "If you're just studying quantum field theory, you don't need so many books. But studying just one subject is meaningless. Parallel studies across multiple disciplines can spark new ideas more easily."

That's for geniuses like you! Ordinary people spend their entire lives studying just one subject!

"Also, your abilities can actually be improved by reading related books. Superpowers and science are not incompatible. In fact, with knowledge, you'll be able to use your abilities more skillfully!" Banner said. "After you absorbed some of my transformation energy, I realized I could control a small amount of energy within me. This energy greatly increased my stamina and mental alertness. Those book titles were written under this condition. In fact, I didn't sleep at all last night."

"Uh..." Bai Jing was speechless.

"I used to read comics like Superman when I was a child, but I rarely read them as I got older!" Banner continued. "Because I always felt it was a huge waste for those people to use their superpowers for fighting. Like me now, using the energy that the Green Hulk uses for combat for learning and research is 3 to 5 times more efficient than before!"

"Even if used for combat, their methods are too crude. For example, with the ability to control water, if they could master fluid dynamics and vortices, wouldn't the destructive power of their abilities increase significantly?"

He was a more brilliant scientist than Tony. Tony could still design Iron Man with his abilities. If Banner hadn't been bothered by the Hulk, his achievements would have been much greater than Tony's.

Bai Jing nodded, thinking that Banner had skipped ahead and leaped directly to the later version where he merged with the Hulk?

Not necessarily. This version could use that energy without turning green. He felt it might be better than the later version.

At least that's how he looked.

"I understand!" Bai Jing nodded. He was actually very dissatisfied with his own energy usage and wanted to learn something, but he hadn't had the time!

He had only been here for two days, either fighting or looking for people. He had already found a school and prepared to study.

"Also, I want to conduct some experiments, but I don't have the equipment." Banner looked at Bai Jing again. "As a scientific advisor, I can't be without a laboratory, can I?"

"Uh..." Bai Jing said helplessly. "Of course, of course. What do you need?"

"I already gave him the list!" Banner pointed to Denny Roberts beside him.

"Then buy it!" Bai Jing turned to look at Denny Roberts.

"But the equipment he wants costs over 40 million US dollars, and that's just the equipment. The laboratory needs to be designed and built separately, which will cost tens of millions more!" Denny Roberts said.

"Build it, we have to build it!" Bai Jing nodded without hesitation.

Experiments are a man's romance, and any product or toy is just a man's plaything!

If you had the chance to play with a fighter jet, would you?

Would you want to watch a nuclear bomb being detonated?

In his past life, Bai Jing was just a corporate drone, he never had such opportunities, he wouldn't even dare to think about it!

But in this life, he had the chance!

Well, it wasn't his money being spent anyway!