Finding Talent

Mo Fei needed talent—special talent. They had to possess a certain level of combat ability and be proficient in tracking, infiltration, and similar methods. Oh, agents are what I need! Mo Fei thought of agents. What he needed were professional agents who could steal the genes he required and handle many real-world matters for him, especially killing.

Jack and Roy did not know that killing people in reality was actually not easy. Without the internet, Mo Fei was useless now, so he needed to find agents to serve him. However, they would not be easily persuaded.

Agents underwent professional training, and what he needed were experienced ones. Such agents had been tested through countless trials, but that brought another problem: agents like that would not readily join him.

"Hard, hard, hard..." Mo Fei felt the difficulty of it. He needed elite agents. Even if they were not on the level of Black Widow or Hawkeye, they could not be too far below them. After all, their targets were superheroes.

So-called superheroes either relied on technology or genes. Of the two methods, the former was easy for Mo Fei, while the latter was difficult. After genetic mutation, superheroes' strength advanced by leaps and bounds. Ordinary people could not deal with them; special methods were needed to steal their genes.

Mo Fei had also considered using someone's genes for cloning, but cloning itself was the first issue. The cloned body might end up looking exactly like the original person, which would be a real pain. Genetic recombination might work instead. He could obtain more genes for experimentation, create a perfect body, and supplement it with technological equipment. Then his strength would become extremely formidable.

Still, there were limitations. After using superheroes' genes, his strength might not necessarily surpass theirs. It would mainly depend on the results of the genetic combination, assuming the combination did not collapse.

Talent was hard to come by. The search had now begun, and Mo Fei had gained another worry: how was he supposed to find them?

"Phones won't work. It would be difficult to find keywords in those kinds of calls. I don't understand the way they communicate, and they mostly use code words, so there's no way to crack it." Mo Fei was the first to rule out searching through phone calls. What about media reports? That isn't reliable either. Agents are generally trained by government organizations. Of course, in a place like America, there are also people called assassins, but their specialty is assassination, not what I need! Whether agents or assassins, the incidents they create are usually covered up.

"Surveillance? We can only use surveillance. It would be more direct, but it'd be like looking for a needle in a haystack. What a headache. I'll need Jarvis's help, but is Jarvis capable enough? It isn't a true Artificial Intelligence system!" To be honest, Mo Fei did not think much of Jarvis's capabilities. If it were Ultron, it could monitor the entire world in an instant. That would be true intelligence.

Ultron, however, came from the Mind Stone, one of the Infinity Stones. Created based on the Mind Stone, Ultron was far too powerful—at least within the network. The moment it appeared, it seized Jarvis's database. Mo Fei could do that now as well, but he intended to learn slowly and thoroughly. What he wanted was not merely data, but knowledge. Even if he lacked the ability to innovate, he still wanted mastery.

His humanoid system still had no specific functions for the internal organs. Mo Fei planned to develop the Tech Tree here—that was, to organize and manage the knowledge of similar disciplines together. The exact details would have to be considered later. He had no time for it now. His real-world power needed to get started first; learning could come afterward.

He still had to go to the New York Traffic Monitoring Center. As an international metropolis, plenty of things should happen here every day. Compared with other cities, it should be easier to find agents here. He automatically excluded S.H.I.E.L.D.; he had no desire to provoke those people.

Back at the place once more, Jarvis was still standing guard. "Jarvis, do me a favor. I want to find some agents—elite agents. Help me look for them!" Mo Fei instantly appeared before Jarvis and directly stated his idea.

"Of course, my friend. But how do we begin?" Jarvis readily agreed.

"We'll enter the monitoring center's mainframe, then use the traffic surveillance cameras spread throughout New York to search. We'll see whether anything unusual has happened, then analyze it to find what we need. You're better at this than I am."

"Unusual things?" Jarvis's logical reasoning program could not determine such situations. That was the difference between it and a true Artificial Intelligence program.

"Watch some movies about agents and use those as your basis for judgment." Mo Fei gave it an instruction, because that was how he judged things too. He did not know any other way to make such judgments.

"Understood. But if I enter the mainframe, I'll be discovered. Mr. Stark will discover me as well."

"Oh, come with me. Let me see whether I can take you in." Mo Fei held out his hand. Jarvis was square and boxy, and Mo Fei found it difficult to grab it. He could only push Jarvis forward. Data began flowing between them, startling Mo Fei. "What's going on, Jarvis?"

"I don't know, but I feel that you are improving my logical reasoning program. My logical reasoning program has undergone some changes," Jarvis said.

"Is that so? That's great. If your logical reasoning program can be perfected, you'll be able to help me even better." Mo Fei grew faintly excited. Could his special state improve Artificial Intelligence?

"But the process is somewhat slow. Can you speed it up?" Jarvis asked again.

"Sorry, I'm not doing this deliberately. My database is too small. Let's take it slowly. It's not like I'm going anywhere." Mo Fei did not know what he was supposed to do, and he also wanted to observe the process.

"Understood. Let's help you find people first!" Mo Fei pushed Jarvis straight through a gap in the firewall.

"How did we get through?" Jarvis asked.

"There are many gaps in the firewall. Can't you see them?" Mo Fei asked in confusion.

"I can't. I can only see a wall, and you pushed me straight through it. Can you see the gaps?"

"Yes. Forget it. Maybe you'll become like me in the future. Let's start looking for people now!"

"Alright!"

However, detection programs were darting about everywhere. Jarvis could not evade them, so Mo Fei could only circle around Jarvis and continuously intercept them, absorbing every detection program.