Although Banner felt that the timing of Lin Hai's cough had been a little peculiar, he did not dwell on it. His mind was now filled with the Tesseract. The sooner they solved it, the sooner he could leave this godforsaken place called S.H.I.E.L.D.
Taking his eyes off Lin Hai, Banner turned to Nick Fury and asked bluntly, "Any progress?"
Coulson, standing nearby, answered the question. "We monitor every camera on Earth connected to the internet. Phones, laptops—anything online becomes a target."
Banner raised an eyebrow. Although he had serious objections to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s indiscriminate surveillance, reason told him he had not come here to debate privacy rights. Besides, given S.H.I.E.L.D.'s style, trying to reason with them about something like this would probably be less effective than trying to reason with Hulk.
Natasha, standing beside them, poured cold water on the matter. "But we still can't locate them in time."
Banner showed neither disappointment nor dissatisfaction upon hearing the bad news. He fell silent for two or three seconds before asking, "We should narrow the search area. How many spectrometers do you have?"
"How many do you want?"
Nick Fury answered readily. In his view, Banner producing a seemingly workable plan so quickly was already far better than he had expected.
Banner did not give a specific number. "Call every laboratory. Put all the spectrometers on the rooftops. Calibrate them all to gamma rays. I'll set up a tracking algorithm, then identify the source. That way, we can at least filter out a lot of targets."
He did not speak quickly, but every word seemed to have been repeatedly considered in the genius's mind.
And his tone no longer carried the constrained uncertainty he had shown when facing Captain America. Instead, it held the powerful confidence of someone dealing with his