Hours later.
As dawn approached, a black jet slowly descended from the sky, landing on an aircraft carrier.
"Captain, I'll get your gear! I personally helped design it!"
A slightly balding middle-aged agent, a little excited, led a tall, well-built white man, pointing to an acquaintance passing by.
"Captain, this is Agent Romanoff."
"Hello, ma'am."
Captain America, wearing a retro leather jacket, shook hands with Black Widow.
"Hello, Captain. Them digging you out of the ice caused quite a stir. I thought Coulson would pass out from happiness. Did he get you to sign his Captain America trading card album?"
Natasha looked at Coulson, who was walking towards the distant bridge, and said to Captain America.
"Trading card album? I remember completing mine in second grade, and I haven't touched it since."
Qingshui disembarked from the plane, complaining to Banner beside him.
"That's Dr. Banner and Mr. Watt. They can help us find the Tesseract."
Black Widow introduced them to Captain America.
"Coulson just showed me the files. Hello, Dr. Banner, and Mr. Watt. If only we had the Regeneration Serum back then. Many of my comrades didn't die on the battlefield, but from injuries and illnesses after leaving it."
Captain America shook hands with Qingshui and Banner.
"War was born when life was born, Captain. These things are unavoidable. All we can do is fight every war well."
Qingshui said to Captain America.
To be heartless, Osborn supported war.
It would be best to drag America into the quagmire of war.
Stark had shut down his weapons division, and Hammer was in jail. Now Osborn was the military's largest weapons supplier.
"You're right, Mr. Watt, just like this time."
Captain America nodded very seriously.
"Um… what should we do now?"
Banner nervously clasped his hands, looking around at the busy scene.
"I'll take you inside first. This place will be oxygen-deprived soon."
Black Widow led the three men into the command center.
Immediately after, the turbines at the bottom of the aircraft carrier flipped, expelling seawater, and it began to ascend and activate its stealth.
Captain America silently pulled out ten dollars from his old wallet and handed it to a black man in a leather coat.
Nick Fury accepted the wager and walked towards Qingshui and Banner.
"Dr. Watt, Dr. Banner, welcome."
Qingshui had already defended his doctoral thesis at Columbia University a few months prior, earning his doctorate, so he could already be considered a doctor.
Meanwhile, Bruce Banner, beside him, had seven doctorates.
Well, this was only because Banner had only delved into seven fields so far, and the highest degree obtainable was a doctorate.
In fact, Banner was a leading expert in all seven of these fields.
Eight years later, in the original timeline, Banner's portrait would be displayed alongside Einstein and Newton in Spider-Man's high school classroom.
"What's your progress now?"
Qingshui scanned the room and asked the black man.
Banner just stood there and nodded to Nick Fury.
Because of his experiences over the years, he didn't particularly like dealing with people who looked like official personnel. Now that he had a student he somewhat trusted, who he had taught before, to handle the negotiations, he couldn't be bothered to step forward himself.
"We're currently scanning all wireless cameras, phones, and computers globally. As long as they can connect to a satellite, they're our eyes and ears."
Coulson stood in front of a computer and said to Qingshui.
"Hm, sounds like you've broken quite a few laws."
"That's not the point. I need your assistance in narrowing down the search area."
Nick Fury said expressionlessly.
"Deploy all the spectral analyzers you can mobilize worldwide. Detect based on the Tesseract's gamma frequency you've measured in the past, and get me a supercomputer. Professor Banner, you're in charge of drafting the algorithm, and I'll handle the cluster identification."
Qingshui gave his instructions.
He intended to gain benefits from this incident.
Things could change, but he also needed to ensure the situation developed as closely as possible to what he was familiar with, so he could make changes when needed.
Soon, a bald man found a lead.
"Feature match 68%… No, it's risen to 76%! Signal lost!"
"Why did the monitoring signal disappear?" Nick Fury asked.
"Perhaps something is blocking the radiation, or some method activated the energy within the Tesseract, causing the energy frequency to change. That's why our old data can no longer detect it," Banner said, pushing up his glasses.
"The last signal was from King's Road in Stuttgart, Germany. We found Loki!" the bald man said, also pushing up his glasses as he pulled up the image.
Loki was currently walking elegantly down the street, wearing a tuxedo with a dark green tie.
"Captain, I think we have a mission," Natasha said, crossing her arms and addressing Captain America, who stood beside her, chest puffed out.
"I hope you'll lend a hand, Watt. Perhaps you don't know, but we've already helped you and Stark by fending off a lot of covetous eyes from outside," Nick Fury said to Qingshui.
"Perhaps, but more than other factions, I'm more concerned about you. If an organization like yours has designs on me, that would be more troublesome than any other faction," Qingshui said, shrugging at Nick Fury.
After all, it was SHIELD.
"As long as you don't do anything that threatens this world, we won't bother you," Nick Fury said seriously.
"I hope you're truly the one in charge," Qingshui said, patting Nick Fury's shoulder before catching up with Captain America and Black Widow.
Nick Fury gazed deeply in the direction Qingshui had departed.
"His vigilance is strong, which matches our psychological profile of him. He is wary of everyone who appears in his sight, likes to conceal secrets, and creates information asymmetry to plan ahead for himself, just like before Norman died; no one would have expected Watt to rise so suddenly. He's very good at hiding his information.
His personality is ostentatious, but he can accurately assess risks to protect himself. His actions are precise and cautious, and his goals are clear. He desires to improve his strength and status. He's a typical combination of a schemer and an ambitious individual," Hill said, closing the tablet in front of her and looking in the direction Qingshui had left with Nick Fury.
"This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It's difficult for us to gain enough from him, but correspondingly, it's also difficult for others," Nick Fury said flatly, turning around.
He was also one of those people.
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