As Heisenberg flipped through the comic, the Barbie doll asked softly, "That beam you shot from underground earlier was heat vision, right?"
"Hm?" Heisenberg weighed his words, then, still pretending to be a real Kryptonian elder, explained to the Barbie doll, "I'm not sure either. It's an ability I only got after coming to your planet. If you think it's heat vision, then sure, it is."
As he spoke, Heisenberg quickly finished flipping through the comic in his hands.
It was one of Superman's earliest comics, telling his origin story and the background between him and Krypton.
Just one comic, and it already contained plenty of useful information.
For example, Superman's power comes from Earth's yellow sun.
For example, kryptonite weakens Superman.
And also, there was an extremely precious Codex of Life inside Superman's body.
Heisenberg shook the comic book he'd just read.
"I can't believe it," he said. "The protagonist in here seems to be one of my descendants. Did a Kryptonian come to Earth before?"
"Of course not!" The Barbie doll hugged her chest helplessly. "Before you, nobody believed there really was a whole race of Kryptonians in the Milky Way!"
"That's why I find it hard to believe," Heisenberg said, putting on an "astonished" look. "I'll admit it, I really don't know what Krypton is like right now."
"After all, I was imprisoned and exiled 18,00018,000 years ago."
"In the vast universe, the only thing I could taste was loneliness and the passing of time."
"As for whether my people banned natural childbirth, or whether Krypton is actually gone, I can't confirm any of that. Can you?"
"Don't ask me." The Barbie doll sighed, her tone sour. "If I could answer you, I wouldn't be tossed next to you by my boss like some woman being ordered to sell herself."
She finished speaking and let out a long sigh.
"Ah."
"Ah." Heisenberg sighed too.
They looked at each other for a moment. Heisenberg smiled helplessly.
"Maybe I should find a spaceship and jump back to my homeland to take a look."
Of course, he was purely acting, but the Barbie doll bought it.
"Maybe I should resign earlier too," she muttered. "Otherwise, a female agent like me will eventually end up being sent to some guy's bed."
She said something crude again, and the content made them fall into silence once more.
Looking at Heisenberg's blank face, even though he clearly did not know how to respond, the Barbie doll smiled slightly.
"Alright, enough of that. You do your job when you're in the position, right? So from now on, I'll be hanging around you often under orders. Consider this an early hello."
"Uh…" Heisenberg finally snapped back.
He hesitated for a beat, then frowned. "You're really honest."
"So then," the Barbie doll said, "now that you know I was assigned to stay by your side, and my job is to use every method possible, pay any price I can pay, just to get every single piece of information about you…"
As she spoke, she gently kicked Heisenberg's calf with her foot.
"Now that you know the inside story, what do you actually think?"
"I…" For the first time, Heisenberg felt what it meant to have a soft mouth.
So as long as a girl really wanted to flirt with you, she could flirt you until your whole body went soft…
Seeing his reaction, the Barbie doll kicked his calf again.
"Say it already. I never had a chance to do this kind of close-protection intel work before. For a target like you, how do you see someone like me?"
"How do I see you?" Heisenberg spread his hands, shrugged innocently, and joked, "I'm watching while lying down…"
"I can only be glad that in my era, my planet didn't ban natural childbirth like the comic you gave me."
The Barbie doll's face instantly turned red. She kicked his leg hard with her white sneakers.
"You really are… very good at flirting." She complained while smiling, then reached her small hand toward him. "I'm Barbara. Barbara Morse. We're acquainted now, okay!"
Heisenberg held Barbara's hand and shook it, introducing himself as he did.
"Me, Heisenberg! As for a surname, in my time, Krypton didn't really have a concept like that. People just called me Elder Heisenberg."
"Then what about me?" Barbara asked. "I can't exactly call you Elder Heisenberg too."
"Considering our age gap, you can call me Dad, or Grandpa." Heisenberg said it calmly. "Either way, I don't mind."
"Damn it, you're really…" Barbara was finally defeated by his thick skin. "I'm done talking, I'm done talking!"
She jumped up from the couch like a flower just starting to bloom, bouncing lightly.
First she walked to Heisenberg's side and bumped fists with him, signaling they were friends now.
Then she turned and left.
As she walked, she tapped her index finger against her ear.
"My director is giving me orders right now. He wants me to get you a bar that satisfies you!"
"With a rooftop, the kind where you can sunbathe, right?"
"Yeah. Thanks." Heisenberg waved at Barbara as she left.
Only after Barbara's figure completely disappeared did Heisenberg smack his lips.
"Tsk tsk. This Mockingbird is way prettier than the actress on TV."
After judging Mockingbird Barbara's looks in his head, Heisenberg shook his head thoughtfully.
Looks like after confirming his earthshaking strength, S.H.I.E.L.D. chose the softest approach to appease him and recruit him.
Why did Mockingbird speak so directly to him, even jokingly leaking the command she heard through her earpiece as she left?
It was like two animals deciding to fight.
But before the fight even starts, one animal realizes the opponent is too strong and no longer wants to fight…
So what do you do?
You roll over and show your belly.
In Heisenberg's eyes, S.H.I.E.L.D. right now was like a hyena that had gone submissive.
It wagged its tail while rolling on the ground, showing him its belly, and howling in a shameless tone.
"Come rub me, I'm showing you my most secret spot!"
If Heisenberg didn't have his current Kryptonian identity and strength, he truly wouldn't want too many entanglements with S.H.I.E.L.D.
Because no matter how much a hyena softens, it's still a hyena.
If you actually believed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s temporary submission, then once they figured out your habits, once they grasped, or outright created, your weaknesses…
That hyena would flip right back up and tear into your neck, your belly, even your ass with its teeth.
But right now, Heisenberg was the only Superman in the Marvel movie world.
So instead, he had to connect with S.H.I.E.L.D.
Why?
Because his strength was exposed for everyone to see. His job was relatively stable, he only had to live in the Marvel world.
But his income, the Origin Matter that could make any imagination come true, depended on how many lives were influenced by Heisenberg.
The amount of Origin Matter was determined by the number of people whose life paths he affected.
So in the Marvel world, how did you affect more people's destinies?
Cause trouble.
For Origin Matter, Heisenberg had to stir up storms in this world.
Without S.H.I.E.L.D. standing in front of him, in the future, what would gather around him?
Spies from every country, CIA, FBI, MI6, Hydra, the Red Room…
Just imagining that kind of chaotic mess made Heisenberg prefer dealing with only S.H.I.E.L.D., just one disgusting bunch of agents.
They were agents too. They also reeked of secrecy.
But at least most of them were familiar faces.
Bad versus more bad, how do you choose?
So that was that.
While sunbathing, Heisenberg sorted out his thinking for the near future.
He decided to keep it like this for now.
Use S.H.I.E.L.D. to get the key that would let him participate in all kinds of major events.
Use S.H.I.E.L.D. to obtain enough intel, and also to lock down intel about himself.
Use S.H.I.E.L.D. to secure enough material pleasure. Heisenberg also wanted to experience "Tonight, the whole venue is on Young Master Hai" a few times!
And finally, use S.H.I.E.L.D. to build his sharp image to the outside world.
If even S.H.I.E.L.D. couldn't make him give face, then those small-time organizations should stay far away from him.
In short, Heisenberg decided that before S.H.I.E.L.D. got counterattacked by Hydra and fell into collapse, he would ride on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s head and act like a tyrant.
He would squeeze out every last drop of oil from S.H.I.E.L.D., otherwise it wouldn't be worth his trip through the Marvel universe.
At this moment, Nick Fury, who had finally put his pants back on, had no idea.
His miserable future had only just begun.
And that future, painfully miserable Nick was currently gathering all Level 7 and above S.H.I.E.L.D. agents together with Hill.
Many senior agents were out on missions, so the conference room had plenty of equipment for projecting virtual images.
Nick Fury sat among a crowd of "dummy bodies" and projected the video he had already extracted from his mechanical eye onto the big screen.
In an instant, the senior agents, who were usually arrogant, all widened their eyes.
Seeing that everyone had been properly shocked, Fury spoke.
"Heisenberg. Confirmed extraterrestrial visitor. Self-identified as the Chief Elder of the Kryptonian Elder Council, in other words, Krypton's leader!"
"Wait!" Fury had only said two sentences before someone cut him off.
An old man with a cigarette clenched in his mouth frowned and asked, "Are you sure you didn't misspeak? Kryptonians? Isn't that a comic?"
"John, I also wish this were a joke," Fury said, voice sharp. "But go read the files yourself."
"Look at his indestructible steel-like body. Look at the 'ordinary' punch that created a Level 6 earthquake. Then look at his signature heat vision and freeze breath."
Fury's tone wasn't good, because right now he didn't particularly like the man he was talking to.
John Gattler, his old comrade.
They used to have a bond forged in life and death.
But as time passed and they worked together longer and longer, Gattler's opinions of him seemed to grow worse.
No matter what the topic was, Gattler always liked to jab him a couple times.
Fury never dug into it because Gattler always only jabbed a couple times.
Like now.
After Fury emphasized it, Gattler nodded in understanding and fell silent.
So Fury continued.
"Back to the facts. At 00:2600:26 this morning, Heisenberg fell to Earth. At 03:4303:43, he left the Triskelion."
"Satellite data shows that in just seven hours, he circled Earth more than 7,0007,000 times. His speed is terrifying. At minimum, none of our current missiles can keep up with him or track him."
"At the same time, Heisenberg has a strong desire to show off and a strong sense of dominance. He's used to speaking to others with a commanding mindset and tone."
"In short, he is fully capable of bringing an absolute crisis to Earth. I want everyone to brainstorm and produce an appropriate solution!"
"A solution?" John Gattler sneered. "With what he showed in that video, how exactly do you think we're supposed to solve him? We can't even solve that big green guy!"
"So what?" Fury snapped back. "We just let him run wild on our planet, even if one day he decides to sit on top of us and turn himself from Krypton's ruler into Earth's ruler?"
"Nick, you don't need to ask us this," Gattler said, shaking his head with disdain. "Dealing with superhumans is more your area than ours."
"Of course, if we're only talking assassination, as long as it's not assassinating a superhuman like Heisenberg, I'm definitely better at it than you."
"I'm not asking you to do anything, Gattler." Fury slammed his palm on the table. "If he really has Superman's abilities from the comics, then I can say with certainty that even our entire country combined probably can't do much to him!"
Fury continued, voice heavy.
"The reason I've gathered you all is to make sure you understand that a person like Heisenberg exists."
"He has no restraints. At any time, he could barge into any of our branches again, and his reason might be as simple as wanting a cup of coffee from S.H.I.E.L.D."
"So when that time comes, if he has even a halfway reasonable excuse, I do not want any branch taking the initiative to attack him and provoke him!"
After that, Fury went silent for a full two minutes.
Only when the senior agents below began whispering did Fury speak again and cut them off.
He delivered his final line.
"As long as we don't have a confirmed method to kill him, you all must do what I said."
"With Heisenberg, we cannot become enemies."
"Absolutely not."
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