Who Can Crack the Formula

This meant that Black Widow had only learned that Hydra had used some mysterious item to successfully catalyze Carl's superpowers.

As for what that item specifically was, she still did not know.

Thus, under Nick Fury's repeated urging,

in order to speed things up and obtain more reliable information, Black Widow had no choice but to bring out her trump card... seduction!

Just a few minutes before Carl called Pietro,

Black Widow had taken the initiative to become his teacher in the enlightenment of love, giving him a lesson in reproduction involving human biomechanics.

The total duration... two and a half minutes!!

That was why Carl had heard her telling Pietro to get a towel during the call.

It had to be said,

Black Widow had truly gone all out to complete her mission!

One could only wonder whether she had achieved the ten-thousand-men title over the years.

But seriously, Pietro, you really had guts!

You actually dared to go in raw and stick Black Widow with your needle.

It seemed like you really thought your little brother had lived too long.

The most outrageous part was...

You fucking even wanted to use public property for private purposes?

Weren't you afraid the enraged Marvel fans would break your third leg?

Still, considering that he had not "sold him out" over the Mind Scepter, and for little Wanda's sake...

Carl decided he would send someone over with a box of contraceptives later!!

Any later, and it might truly be too late.

Meanwhile, Pietro, who had no idea Black Widow had already gotten the better of him, asked in confusion, "Carl, who is Agent Romanoff?"

"Well... ask her."

Carl raised his chin and pointed toward Black Widow.

Though she was still doing her best to remain composed, the smile on her face had already stiffened.

Damn it, my identity has been exposed?!

Yet Black Widow could not figure out how Carl had learned her true identity.

But her years of undercover experience had not been for nothing.

She immediately put on a wronged and bewildered expression, wrapped herself around Pietro's arm, and coquettishly said,

"Darling, I don't understand what he's talking about."

Pietro's heart practically melted at the sight. He hurriedly comforted her softly, "Baby, don't worry. This must be some misunderstanding. I'll explain it to Carl right away..."

However,

before he could finish,

the increasingly impatient Carl directly activated Mind Manipulation. "Let's have her explain it herself!!"

The pitiful-looking Black Widow struggled briefly, but the resistance in her eyes immediately faded away.

Then, like a walking corpse, she began introducing herself.

"My real name is Natasha Romanoff. I was born in Russia in 1984..."

Pietro immediately cried out in disbelief, "Impossible! Natalie's Sokovian is so authentic. How could she be Russian?"

"What's impossible about it? She's an agent. Disguise is merely one of her many skills."

Carl said indifferently, "As long as she wanted to, she could learn any foreign language in just a few days and speak it at a native level."

What Black Widow said next filled Pietro with profound despair.

"As a child, I joined the Red Room with my younger sister, where I learned etiquette, culture, dance, and other skills, along with the killing techniques spies required, such as firearms use and close-quarters combat... My current identity is a Level 7 S.H.I.E.L.D. agent."

"My current mission is to travel to Sokovia, identify the superpowered individual from the video, and take the opportunity to determine the specifics of Hydra's human experiments..."

Pietro clutched his hair in anguish and let out a grief-stricken howl. "Why did this happen? Why would you do this to me?!"

At that moment,

his entire understanding of love completely collapsed.

He simply could not believe that the fiery, alluring woman before him, the woman who had utterly bewitched him, was actually an agent!!

What happened to the promises of eternal love?

What happened to growing old together?

Hadn't you even promised to bear me a whole litter of children?

Were all of those nothing but lies?

Thinking back on every little thing they had experienced together over the past three days,

Pietro felt as if his heart were bleeding!

All women were liars.

For the rest of my life, I will never trust another woman besides Wanda!

Brotherhood was more reliable...

But,

when he looked at Black Widow's stiff yet still seductive face, he could not help feeling a trace of reluctance.

He was not trying to excuse Black Widow.

He simply did not want to see her die before his eyes.

After all, one day as husband and wife meant one day of affection.

Even if it had been brief... No, even if that scumbag woman had toyed with his feelings.

Over these past few days, Pietro had truly thrown himself into it wholeheartedly.

But Pietro still had some self-awareness.

He knew he had nearly caused a huge disaster this time. Carl's decision not to punish him was already giving him plenty of face.

How could he possibly have the nerve to plead for a spy?

So in the end, he held back and said nothing.

"Don't worry. I won't kill her this time."

As though he had sensed Pietro's thoughts, Carl said calmly,

"She still has some value. I intend to use her to make an extremely worthwhile trade with S.H.I.E.L.D."

While searching through Black Widow's memories, Carl had unexpectedly discovered a great deal of useful information.

Among it, one person... or, more accurately, one prisoner, had caught his particular attention.

That was Dr. Samuel Stern, who had little presence in the movie universe.

In The Incredible Hulk, Dr. Samuel Stern had independently created a serum that suppressed Hulk's emergence using only the blood sample Bruce Banner had sent him.

That alone was enough to prove his scientific ability.

Later, after being struck in the head by Abomination, he accidentally came into contact with Hulk's blood sample, causing his brain to mutate and multiplying his intelligence hundreds, even thousands of times over!!!

However, during Hulk and Abomination's battle, Black Widow had seized the opportunity to capture him and successfully send him to a S.H.I.E.L.D. prison.

During that time, Dr. Samuel Stern had helped S.H.I.E.L.D. solve many technical problems.

But this had also made Nick Fury wary of him.

Afterward, claiming that his superhuman intelligence was too difficult to control,

he had directly sent him to the Raft, the highest-security prison specifically designed to hold supercriminals.

Now was the perfect opportunity to use Black Widow to trade for Dr. Samuel Stern.

That was right, Warp Group needed talent like him!!!

Carl believed that the mutated Dr. Samuel Stern, with his superhuman intelligence, would certainly be able to help him uncover the key to successfully cracking the original Super Soldier Serum formula.

Of course,

that was on the condition that Black Widow held enough importance in Nick Fury's eyes!

Otherwise,

given that old, cunning black... ahem, silent man's way of doing things, he would probably refuse the exchange even if he watched one of his subordinates get killed before his eyes.

Besides that,

how to make this "intellectual superman" submit to him was also a headache-inducing problem.

If his intelligence had increased hundreds or thousands of times, then his mental strength was likely at least hundreds or thousands of times greater than an ordinary person's.

That meant Mind Manipulation would probably not have much effect on him.

Even if Carl branded him with a Thought Imprint, it likely would not last very long.

It might even backfire...

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