Just after seeing Spider-Man off, Hill rushed in with a few people.
"It's almost certain that this wasn't a coincidence!"
Hill was holding a tablet computer, and as he spoke, he projected the files on the computer into the air.
"This is a record from the New York airport. According to this document, the plane was about 100 kilometers east of us before it hit us."
"This document shows no signs of being modified. It's likely that someone hacked into the airport's system and deliberately interfered with the radar scan records."
Have you tracked down the intruder?
The Captain glanced at the documents and then asked.
"Some Captain, Agent Hill immediately notified the tracking team of the intruder. When I started tracking, he was cleaning up his intrusion traces. The network signal went through routers all over the world and finally locked onto an apartment hotel in Boston!"
JARVIS took over the conversation and projected two video feeds: one of the hotel lobby and the other of the street outside the hotel.
A man wearing a backpack and a baseball cap can be seen getting out of the elevator and walking straight out of the hotel.
Then, in the second scene, he appeared at the hotel entrance, but before he could walk more than a few steps, he suddenly collapsed in a pool of blood.
Although there was no sound, judging from the reactions of pedestrians on the street in the footage, it seems that a gunshot has occurred.
"The shooting occurred ten minutes ago. Boston police arrived at the scene and initially determined that the bullet came from two blocks away. I reviewed all surveillance footage from the surrounding ten blocks and found no suspicious individuals!"
As JARVIS spoke, Hill helplessly spread her hands; she had checked but still found nothing.
However, her expression immediately changed.
"There was one other interesting thing: this was a private business charter flight from New York to Berlin, but interestingly, no passengers boarded the plane at the airport. I don't know why the flight crew chose to take off!"
"So I investigated the entire cabin crew and found that Captain Brau Jack had been diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer two months prior. He had informed the company of his condition beforehand, but strangely, a month later, the airline notified him to return to work!"
As Hill spoke, he pulled up Blau Jack's text message records with his friend from two months ago and one month ago.
The above is a record of Blau Jack confiding in a friend when he was first diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer, and a record of his company asking him to return to work a month later.
His friends were curious and asked him why, and he said he didn't know. But after he returned to work, when his friends asked him again, he refused to say anything.
"After he returned to work, all records of his late-stage liver cancer disappeared completely, and all the airline staff who handled his case subsequently died one after another in various accidents. Interestingly, just half an hour ago, a bus exploded outside the New York airport."
"Everyone in the car was an airport employee, and they were all security personnel who had just returned from their shifts. They all died in this accident."
Hill then clicked on the news about the car accident. Without much explanation, everyone understood why the commercial airliner was carrying a large amount of explosives.
Although the number wasn't large, if Tony hadn't reinforced the base beforehand, it would probably have fallen into the Atlantic Ocean after this explosion.
"But who did this? I don't understand! This is pointless, just to send the base into the sea. Unless they're confident they can wipe us out in one fell swoop, whoever it is will face our furious retaliation. These explosives are simply not enough to wipe us out!"
Qin Xiao's question is also everyone's: even if such an attack manages to kill an unenhanced superhero like Natasha or Hawkeye, they will face the Avengers' most brutal retaliation.
"I suspect their initial plan was to wipe us all out!"
Hill took out a piece of metal with some characters and numbers on it that Qin Xiao couldn't understand.
Although it was only a small part, Natasha's expression changed drastically as soon as she saw it.
"The Soviet Union's Negasonic Teenage Warhead!"
Natasha's shrill cry sent a chill down everyone's spines. Negasonic Teenage Warhead warhead—even Qin Xiao and Thor weren't confident they could survive such an attack.
"But why this Negasonic Teenage Warhead?"
Before the Captain could finish speaking, Tony, the arms expert who already understood his meaning, immediately offered his explanation.
"In the last century, after several major powers acquired their own nuclear weapons, they held a multilateral international conference, which was the so-called prohibition of other countries from researching, testing, and developing nuclear weapons."
"But everyone knows that some powerful countries have been secretly developing nuclear weapons in order to have their own nuclear deterrent. Small countries with sufficient economic and scientific research capabilities can only look on with envy. However, the dissolution of the former Soviet Union gave them an opportunity, their only chance to possess their own nuclear weapons."
"Everyone knows that the Soviet Union possessed a terrifying number of nuclear weapons. No one knows the exact number. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, countless nuclear weapons flowed out of the black market. Even the former United States government purchased hundreds of small Negasonic Teenage Warhead on the Europe black market."
"But the whole world went crazy over it. Of course, the Russia government quickly intervened to stop it all. They intercepted a large number of Negasonic Teenage Warhead and removed the main chemical elements, such as uranium-235 and plutonium-239, for use in the manufacture of new nuclear weapons."
"But some people down there wanted to make money, so they took these discarded Negasonic Teenage Warhead, loaded them with a certain amount of TNT, made counterfeit versions, and sold them to some rich fools, or local tyrants in Africa and the Middle East!"
Needless to say, they encountered a counterfeit product today.
Qin Xiao and the others broke out in a cold sweat.
"Is it possible to find out which greedy Russia military personnel originally sold this Negasonic Teenage Warhead?"
Qin Xiao was even thinking of buying some gifts to visit them, but what a close call!
"Many Russia bigwigs were involved in this deal, making it very difficult to find out who handled the sale. They never show their faces themselves, but finding out who bought it is very easy!"
Natasha took over the conversation and immediately called her 'father' Alexei, while Tony also traced the origin of the Negasonic Teenage Warhead through his arms dealing channels.
Not long after, replies arrived from both sides simultaneously.
"This Negasonic Teenage Warhead was initially bought by a Middle East oil tycoon for his collection. He had three Negasonic Teenage Warhead in total, but a few months ago, someone offered a high price to buy one from his descendants."
The identity of the person who bought the goods is unknown. By combining the Boston shooting and the airport bus accident, Hill discovered the assassin organization behind them. The client's information was the same; their identity had been deliberately kept secret.
However, the flow of funds was traced back to an off-the-books company on a British island, and the registered owner of the company was Japan.
This chapter was uploaded last night. I have to go out to run errands early this morning, so I'll post this one first. I'll see how long I'm busy. There might be two or three more chapters later, but I can't be sure right now!