Tony froze, scratched his head with a smile, then took another big gulp of chlorophyll.
"Why are you suddenly asking me that?"
"I used to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. You think I can't tell?"
Su Zhou coughed softly, then pointed at his eyes.
"If you don't want to talk, I won't push you. I'll be in Washington for a while too.
If you need any help, remember to call me."
Su Zhou rose from the couch, shook Tony's hand, and left.
He acted decisively, without the slightest hesitation. Even Tony himself couldn't figure out what Su Zhou meant.
Touching the reactor in his chest, Tony suddenly felt worse.
Whether it was the information he'd gotten from S.H.I.E.L.D. or the information he'd obtained from the Skrulls,
none of it contained a new element that could replace palladium. A new element that couldn't be found even among alien civilizations...
Even a scientist as ambitious as Tony felt somewhat hopeless!
So, even though Su Zhou had seen through him, Tony still hadn't told him about his problem.
Tony: (`●__●ˊ)
For someone like Su Zhou, whose muscle cells were more active than his brain cells, a high-level subject like creating a new element-
forget offering any suggestions. He probably couldn't even recite the periodic table!
In short, Tony had now decided to start preparing for what would happen after his death.
His life had entered its final countdown. He had to hurry and get everything arranged for his friends!
He needed to arrange a suit for Rhodey so he could give the United States military an answer.
As for Su Zhou, whether it was the nanobot suit he'd requested or the stocking he'd just delivered,
neither could be dealt with in a couple of quick steps. He'd work on them slowly for now.
As for S.H.I.E.L.D... let them do whatever they wanted. That Black Nick Fury couldn't help with anything. All he did was make trouble!
After leaving Tony's villa, Su Zhou planned to head back to S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury should have brought in Black Widow by now,
arranging for her to join the Stark Company's legal department so she could become that old pervert Tony's little secretary.
As for her identity and all that, it went without saying. He would make sure Tony could hardly find anything suspicious...
If Tony hadn't hacked into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s servers, the Black Widow Nick Fury had planted really might have fooled him.
But now, Tony knew far more about S.H.I.E.L.D. than even Nick Fury himself did!
If Su Zhou didn't warn Nick Fury, Black Widow would be a fat lamb walking into a tiger's den.
Tony would definitely make a move on that beautiful female agent. The instant she entered his sights,
he would ask Black Widow to spend the night at his villa and become his personal, close-attending little assistant!
What if she refused? Then she'd be fired!
Turn down a juicy morsel delivered right to his door? That wasn't Tony's style!!
Su Zhou had only just taken out his phone when a portal spraying sparks appeared before his eyes!
A stunning bald woman dressed in white appeared, the kind who looked thoroughly ascetic at a glance.
The hairstyle of the strong!
And an invincible presence!
This was the most powerful person on Earth right now, the Ancient One!
Su Zhou: (;OдO)
Huh?!
I'd already been taking routes that avoided the New York Sanctum!
Why did she still find me?!
Before Su Zhou could react, another portal appeared beneath his feet.
An intense feeling of weightlessness struck, and Su Zhou fell into the portal!
The spark-spewing portal and the bald Ancient One both vanished, leaving only a phone behind!
It simply wouldn't break from a fall!
After falling for thirty straight minutes, Su Zhou slammed heavily into a wooden floor.
The wooden floorboards looked fragile, and proved just as fragile when he hit them.
Boom! Crack!
Su Zhou smashed through two floors in a spread-eagled pose, then stared blankly at the large, spread-eagled hole before him.
Su Zhou: (눈‸눈)
He hadn't felt much while watching the movie, but experiencing cordless bungee jumping combined with free fall himself-
and the thirty-minute, ad-free, uninterrupted edition at that!
Su Zhou's heart was now dead as ashes. Even spending the rest of his life like this wouldn't be out of the question!
"Su Zhou, a Hydra agent undercover in S.H.I.E.L.D., yet you've never harmed a single innocent person.
But you didn't originally belong to this world. Which universe did you come from?"
With her hands behind her back, the Ancient One appeared silently beside Su Zhou.
Her expression was quite something, but since Su Zhou was still lying in the crater, he couldn't see her face at all!
"Ancient One? Could we find somewhere quiet and have a proper chat?"
Su Zhou hauled himself out of the floor and sat on the ground, looking at the Ancient One as she played the mysterious figure.
The scene before him suddenly changed, and Su Zhou found himself sitting on a couch!
The Ancient One sat with her legs crossed on the couch opposite him, holding a cup of tea.
"You know my name? So you really are from another world?"
The Ancient One set her teacup on the coffee table beside her, then looked at Su Zhou with a little more curiosity in her eyes.
"What would you like to drink? Would tea do?"
"As long as it's not alcoholic, even plain boiled water is fine!"
The moment Su Zhou finished speaking, a steaming cup of tea appeared in his hand.
The tea was at least eighty degrees Celsius, but that was nothing to Su Zhou with his enhanced body.
Gathering his thoughts, Su Zhou realized he didn't seem to have even a chance to resist.
He might as well lie flat and answer whatever she asked!
"Ancient One, if you're asking whether I'll pose a threat to this universe,
then I don't think I will. Compared with aliens or invaders from other dimensions,
an undercover HYDRA agent like me is practically a well-behaved baby!"
After saying that, Su Zhou lifted his teacup and began slurping, without even glancing at the Ancient One.
He looked as though he'd made his peace with life and death and left himself entirely at her mercy!
The Ancient One nearly laughed aloud at Su Zhou's expression. Even after all the countless years she'd lived,
this was her first time seeing such a clueless villain!
If the aura of another dimension hadn't suddenly appeared on Su Zhou,
he would never have attracted the Ancient One's attention. She was very busy!
She couldn't be bothered to care what some undercover Hydra agent was doing inside S.H.I.E.L.D.
It was just as well Su Zhou didn't know the Ancient One had come looking for him because of yesterday's stockings.
Otherwise, he would have slapped himself a couple of times. Why had he gone drawing equipment for no good reason?!
Wouldn't getting a few more skills to protect himself have been just as nice?!
"You carry the aura of another dimension. That's why I came looking for you!"
The Ancient One pointed a finger at Su Zhou, and the spatial ring on his hand appeared in hers.
She extended her mental power outside her body and inspected the contents of the spatial ring.
The Ancient One's expression turned quite colorful, and she said with a hint of teasing,
"Such a huge spatial ring, and you only put a few pairs of stockings in it?!"
Su Zhou: ⁄(⁄⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄⁄)⁄