Hard Tactics Failed, So He Switched to Soft Ones

Shen Fei left the café and looked at the message Klaw had sent him. Someone he had hired to buy up stocks had just been killed—blown to death by a bomb.

Well, damn. The Green Goblin really had gone after those people.

Since money could no longer solve it, they had started playing dirty.

Shen Fei sent over what he intended to do. Before long, his phone rang. "Shen, what are you doing?! You hired that woman to investigate me?"

Klaw was completely dumbfounded on the other end. He was still dealing with the subordinates killed by that Flying Goblin when Shen Fei told him he had hired Jessica to investigate him.

He knew exactly how strong Jessica was. Was this guy just itching to get him killed?

"Relax. I won't let anything happen to you!"

"What are you planning?"

"To win her over when she's at her weakest. S.H.I.E.L.D. is probably watching her right now, so we can't use force. We can only take the soft approach!"

"So you had her investigate me?"

"We need a common topic before I can take the soft approach! Oh, and have someone order flowers for me. Send them to her detective agency every day!"

"You bastard, are you trying to court her?" Klaw was truly stunned. What the hell was this guy thinking?

Shen Fei set down the documents in his hand and said with a smile, "That's right. Only when she has completely let down her guard around me will I have a chance to act!"

"You're insane!"

Klaw suddenly understood Shen Fei's plan. He wanted to exploit Jessica's broken heart, take advantage of her vulnerability, and make the woman trust him completely...

This guy had to be some evil ghost from hell wearing human skin!

Klaw suddenly felt a trace of fear toward Shen Fei. Not only was his talent for research terrifying, but he was also frighteningly adept at reading people's hearts. If he set his sights on someone...

They would definitely wish they were dead afterward!

"By the way, do you have any way to help me locate the military's Mutant Gene Pool?"

Shen Fei suddenly asked.

"Are you crazy, or did I hear wrong?! That place is absolutely one of the United States' highest-level secrets. I can't even ask around about it, and you want me to help you find it!

Don't think about things like that!

You only ever bring me trouble!"

"I was just asking!" Shen Fei did not care. If it were that easy, he would have captured Professor X and Magneto for research long ago.

Originally, he had planned to use Shaw to absorb energy and strengthen himself, but Shaw was dead now.

His body had most likely fallen into either the hands of the United States military or the Russians. Those were the only two possibilities.

Klaw finally explained, "I found the Daredevil you wanted. He's a lawyer now! But I heard he's been clashing fiercely with Kingpin lately.

Kingpin isn't someone you want to provoke..."

"Just keep an eye on his information for me!"

Shen Fei said. Daredevil was also one of his targets: Super Senses.

Other than his lack of eyesight, his sensory abilities could be called the best in Marvel, apart from certain beings who practically counted as cosmic brains.

More importantly, he was someone Shen Fei could capture right now. That was the good part.

Several days later, Shen Fei was reading a cutting-edge paper published by Connors, the Lizard Doctor. He planned to study it himself and see if he could replicate Connors's experiment.

But after finishing the entire paper, Shen Fei frowned and muttered, "There's no experimental data? Or has the data been hidden?"

Shen Fei saved the paper. By now, his understanding of Connors's experiment was no weaker than Connors's own, but he could not replicate it.

He could not do it because he lacked the equipment and experimental data. Even several drug formulas were deliberately obscured, clearly preventing the results described in the paper from being achieved.

Osborn had probably falsified part of the data. Still, Shen Fei believed Connors's experiment was close to the stage of human injection trials.

There was even a video link in the paper, showing a White Mouse that had lost its legs growing them back.

"With his help or his data, Phoenix 2 will be born! And he'll become another asset under my command!"

Shen Fei murmured. There was no doubt that the Lizard Doctor was a genius. The serum he created could be said to have overturned the boundary between superhumans and ordinary people.

He had just been too impatient. The company did not support him, and he had run out of funding.

Before conducting human trials, he had hastily injected himself with Lizard Serum.

If he had been given a little more time, he might really have created a drug capable of regenerating severed limbs.

"After that, I'll have an Undead army under my command!"

Shen Fei put down the documents. The acquisition of Osborn shares had now entered a stalemate.

The only major players left were him, Norman, and possibly that sneaky bastard Nick.

Every share had once again been driven up to a fairly high price.

Logan had now become their cash cow. Shen Fei had learned that Phoenix 1 was flooding into the Clinton District.

They were making money faster than when they sold Vibranium. The main reason was the endless supply of raw materials; back then, Klaw had needed to ration the Vibranium he sold.

As for Phoenix 1, they could draw out a huge jar of raw material every day.

With the detailed formula, they could replicate it endlessly.

Klaw had made the flaws perfectly clear, yet people were still buying it in massive quantities. That showed just how popular it was.

As for the money they earned, Klaw obediently used it all to acquire various technology companies on the verge of bankruptcy, while also restructuring their funds.

The two of them planned to establish their own company. It was an unavoidable step.

"Pym Technologies might be worth trying to acquire too. Second Generation Ant-Man... Our intelligence network is still far too weak."

Shen Fei shook his head. One piece of information after another about superhumans reappeared on his computer. He combined it with what he already knew to devise ways of dealing with different superhumans.

His path was clear.

He would become Superman.

A research-focused Superman!

Otherwise, he would be completely wasting his own talent. His physical gifts gave him a great deal of room for error when combining various superhuman powers.

Of course, he would also try other abilities. The key was whether he could research more "cards," so that his "card slots" would have something to load.

Just as Shen Fei continued reading the paper, his phone rang. He glanced at it.

"Jessica? She got news that quickly?"

Shen Fei answered the call. "Hello, this is Shen!"

"Shen! I found information about Klaw. Come to the detective agency!"

"Alright! I'm on my way!"

"And don't have anyone send me flowers again!" Jessica's voice carried a hint of anger.

Shen Fei said with a smile, "If you don't like roses, I'll have them send a different kind!"

"I don't like any of them!"

"Alright!"

"This is for you!" Shen Fei smiled as he handed the red roses in his hand to Jessica.

Jessica frowned. "Didn't I tell you not to buy any?!" Her voice was full of embarrassed anger, yet her hand unconsciously accepted the flowers Shen Fei offered and placed them to the side.

That area was already filled with flowers Shen Fei had sent. It was just that this bouquet had been delivered by him personally.

"Something possibly connected to your brother has appeared in the Clinton District! It can speed up people's healing. It's called Phoenix Potion, exactly like your nickname."

Jessica got straight to the point.

"Then we're going to Clinton?"

"We leave now!"

"Aren't we having lunch together first?"