The outer shell of the Tesseract was absorbed to make it easier to carry the Space Stone.
Qin Xiao transformed his spatial storage device into a bracelet. As for the two bracelets he originally wore for positioning his armor, he stored them in his spatial storage, which he could take out when needed.
A groove appeared in the center of the control bracelet, and Qin Xiao placed the Space Stone inside.
As soon as it was placed on the device, a system notification sounded.
"Contact between the spatial storage device and the Space Stone has been detected. Influenced by the spatial laws of the gem, the storage space has expanded a thousandfold, activating the gem's second attribute: Energy Shield!"
"Oh? There's an unexpected bonus! System, you knew all along that the Space Stone was in my possession, why didn't you remind me sooner that I could use it to upgrade my storage device?"
As Qin Xiao spoke, a thought suddenly occurred to him.
A blue energy shield, about two meters high and one meter wide, appeared in front of the hand wearing the bracelet.
"This system isn't omnipotent. A certain energy mutation occurred when the host placed the gem. Just think of it as embedding a gem into equipment!"
"All right!"
Qin Xiao examined the energy shield carefully, but he didn't know its defense level; he figured it shouldn't be too bad.
After retracting the energy shield, Qin Xiao couldn't wait to test his enhanced fire manipulation abilities.
A ball of flame condensed in his hand, its temperature several times higher than before, and its energy density was also incomparable to what it had been before.
Concentrate your mind, focus all the flames on your right hand and spray them outwards slightly. Sure enough, a reaction force propels you through your palm.
Overjoyed, Qin Xiao once again unleashed flames from his feet. With his experience flying in his battle armor, Qin Xiao gradually controlled the intensity of the flame bursts.
His entire body slowly rose up.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Seeing that he had actually taken to the air, Qin Xiao laughed loudly, stopped trying to control himself, and simultaneously unleashed flames from his hands and feet, flying out of the base.
Just then, Coulson, who had just landed at the base in a jet, exclaimed, "Qin, God, when did you learn to fly?"
"Haha! Coulson! Want me to take you for a spin in the sky?"
Qin Xiao laughed heartily and circled Coulson's plane rapidly.
"No need, I'm afraid I'll turn into roast meat. You come down first, Qin. I have something important to tell you. The Captain and Hawkeye are missing!"
"What?"
Qin Xiao slowly landed beside Coulson.
"Wasn't the Captain supposed to be traveling the world on Stark's cruise ship? How come he's with Hawkeye?"
"Let's go inside and talk about it; it's too windy here!"
Once inside the base, Coulson recounted everything he knew to Qin Xiao.
Qin Xiao never expected that even though he had sent Captain and Peggy on a world tour, they would still encounter the hijacking of a S.H.I.E.L.D.. launch ship.
"Looks like you've got some serious internal problems, Coulson!"
While using his phone to tell Natasha to ask Peggy Carter, Qin Xiao spoke quietly to Coulson.
" Director Fury thinks so too, that's why he sent me to find you!"
The incident is most likely related to Alexander Pierce's Hydra. It's estimated that Captain or Hawkeye discovered something amiss on that ship, which led to the Hydra attack.
You said the commando Captain's name is Brock Rumlow?
Qin Xiao asked calmly.
"That's right, you suspect him?"
Coulson asked with a serious expression, "Brock Rumlow is the top person in S.H.I.E.L.D..'s external operations team. If there's something wrong with him, then probably very few people in the entire team are clean."
"No, I don't suspect him. I suspect most of you in S.H.I.E.L.D.. are problematic. I'm just asking him to quickly find out where the Captain is. Where is Brock Rumlow right now?"
"Wh... what?"
Coulson looked incredulous and was about to ask for more details when JARVIS's voice rang out in the room.
" Mr. Qin, someone came to Stark Tower and said they need to speak with someone from the Avengers. Miss Potts asked me to contact you!"
"Someone is looking for us?"
Qin Xiao asked doubtfully, "Jarvis, do you know that guy's name? Or what is the specific matter with him?"
"I'm sorry, sir, he said he wouldn't reveal anything until he met the Avengers, but he did give his name: Sam Wilson!"
"What?"
Qin Xiao was taken aback. Falcon? So what's coming will come?
That's fine, though. Even though Sam Wilson is just the Captain's loyal underling, he's still a fighting force.
"Where is he now? JARVIS!"
"He's waiting in a meeting room on the first floor of Stark Tower in New York!"
As JARVIS spoke, he very discreetly switched the view to that room and displayed it on Qin Xiao's desktop.
"Would you like me to connect the video feed for you, Mr. Qin?"
JARVIS sensed Qin Xiao's high regard for this person and said very considerately.
"No need, I'll talk to him myself. Thank you, JARVIS!"
"It's my pleasure, sir!"
Before JARVIS's voice had faded, Qin Xiao suddenly clenched his left hand, which was adorned with the bracelet, into the air.
A portal surging with blue-black energy appeared in mid-air, and on the other side of the portal stood a surprised Sam Wilson.
"Is this the power of the Tesseract?"
Coulson, ignoring Sam Wilson who was right across from him, exclaimed in surprise.
These familiar faces from S.H.I.E.L.D.. knew Qin Xiao better than outsiders. They were well aware that the incident Senate the senator's threat was orchestrated by the mysterious power of Kamar-Taj.
However, Qin Xiao's move was very similar to how the Tesseract opens a portal.
Ignoring Coulson's question, Qin Xiao waved directly at Sam Wilson.
" Sam Wilson! We heard you were looking for us?"
Falcon swore he had never seen more strange things in his entire life than he had in a single day.
First, while jogging, he ran into Captain America and Hawkeye, who had been kidnapped.
When he rushed to Stark Tower to help, he was astonished to see someone open a portal out of thin air.
"This is amazing! Is this the legendary Sky Base?"
Sam Wilson stepped inside, observed his surroundings for a while, and then went to the window to look out in amazement!
"Is this magic? Can you travel to any place in the world at will?"
"In fact, I can appear anywhere you can imagine anytime, as long as I know where, so if you don't get to the point right now, I'll send you to the moon!"
Qin Xiao closed the portal and said.