CHAPTER XVI
Zhang Jinyang's fingers kept sliding, on it was the historical information of a small town, a little-known town, he didn't know what this place was, and he didn't understand what was here:
"South Wyoming, what's going on here?"
Coulson raised his hand and pointed to the satellite image on the tactical screen: "This was originally an old mining town, and it has undergone natural gas development, but now it ...... The water source was contaminated years ago, and then most of the town's people moved away.
Recently, even the last few families have sold their houses – the previous ones had given up their rights, and now the whole town has been bought by a shell company, upstream of which is Madik.
We have been monitoring the flow of funds from the Madik family, after all, more than 90 billion US dollars, this fortune Hydra will definitely not give up.
And then we found out that this was the only abnormal flow of funds, and it was Trencia that operated it. ”
Zhang Jinyang carefully looked at the satellite map, analyzed the positions and shapes of the people above, and by the way, sent the monitoring task to the quantum satellites on his head, and their clarity was much better than that of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
"These people...... He looks like a soldier, and he's well-trained.
What are these? Combat Robots? Step-by-Step ?
The satellite images showed several large men patrolling fixed routes, which looked like ostriches, but from the comparison of the satellite images, it can be seen that these large men are not only all metal, but also very burly, at least four or five meters tall, and the flat top is also two or three square meters large, enough to stand for two people.
The two stout, anti-articular lower limbs appear and disappear due to the angle of the satellite, suggesting that they should have used three-toed bird feet—a bionic ostrich, and may have been a reference to the way extinct giant birds such as elephants travel.
The top is like an upside-down teapot, without arms, and is surrounded by forked spikes, which are found to be the barrels of various firearms, as small as NATO's 5.56 mm, as large as 40 mm grenades, and on the back there are a few things that look like missile launchers.
Since there is this thing, then it is natural that mechanical expert Fitz is indispensable - I don't know how he allocates his schedule: "It's a hodgepodge, a kind of automatic machine piled up with various conventional weapons, presumably a simple AI, I guess it's unlikely to be remote-controlled, because then the weakness is too obvious, and it is unlikely that the current EMP protection technology wants to resist the same level of attack."
But this play should have a very good effect on fire suppression, in terms of volume, it carries at least three to four ammunition bases of a squad, and the above firepower configuration is also in accordance with this.
It should be a new product that Trencia uses to scam money. ”
Coulson shook his head: "It's hard to say, this thing doesn't sound expensive, does it?"
Its effect can be half that of a team, and they can successfully get an order from the Ministry of Defense, but did they buy a small town just to make this thing for appearance?
There are weapons test sites, and even those that don't cost money, and the Ministry of Defense will plan a real mission to test the reliability of weapons, and this is what they have always done. ”
Zhang Jinyang crossed his arms and hugged them in front of his chest: "Isn't this game just an armored combat vehicle that does not carry people? If it were me, it would be sold for 200,000 at most, and the weapons would be kept at about 250,000, which was much cheaper than a squad of North American Eagle soldiers."
But it's cheap and not good, and it's sure you can get it with a bazooka, unless it's a little tricky with the operating system.
But Phil was right when he said that Trencia's flagship product was the nerve connection element that produced it...... It's definitely not going to be as simple as scamming money. To put it simply, even if this game should be crude—far worse than a battle mech—it didn't come out of nowhere, did he?
Prototyping, industrial design, performance testing, a lot of work to do, and Trenthia had only worked on exoskeletons before, but there were no projects in this area, where did they get so many professionals?"
Coulson shrugged and spread his hands to say that he didn't know, and as for Fitz, he never got involved in these intelligence matters, unless he needed to analyze something, and the office fell silent for a while.
They were all pressed for time, so this silence was broken by Zhang Jinyang himself within a few minutes: "Speaking of Phil, what are you bringing me here for? Just for this town? Isn't your relationship with Tolbert good? Ask him if the Ministry of Defense has any weapons exhibition plans or hearings in this regard?"
Coulson picked up the coffee on the table: "No. I've already asked, and they've all been working on self-developed weapons lately.
Because of Iron Man, the Ministry of Defense is reducing the scale of purchasing high-tech weapons and equipment, because they find that the combat effectiveness of the army will always be controlled by these arms dealers, even if the world is so dangerous now, those giants still refuse to give in, but ask the Ministry of Defense to continue to invest a lot of money in the research and development of backward weapons that do not know when they will succeed.
Coupled with the success of the mecha competition, the scientific research strength of the civilian sector actually surpassed that of the military, which made them a little disgraced. ”
As for what Zhang Jinyang said about sending people to push the town, he didn't hear it - S.H.I.E.L.D. has the strength to do it now, but it is limited to the camp and can't do that.
"Whew...... Well, the bureaucracy is a group with little vitality.
Are you tracking down Madik's fortune and the men under him?"
Zhang Jinyang turned around, only to find that there was no sofa in Coulson's office, and he wanted to lie down for a while for such a boring thing.
Fitz crossed his waist with one hand and scratched vigorously on his head with the other: "You guys ...... first There's a lot of work to do over there...... Gone first?"
Coulson and Zhang Jinyang both nodded, not caring about his anxious roar, now Fitz's burden is indeed very heavy, whether it is the alien development plan or the daily work of S.H.I.E.L.D., he is indispensable.
Regarding Zhang Jinyang's question, Coulson said that S.H.I.E.L.D. can only focus on monitoring, because their manpower is really insufficient, and if it weren't for Daisy to improve S.H.I.E.L.D.'s server algorithm, they wouldn't even be able to sort out the huge power and capital flow of the Madik family.
And among those key suspects, none of them had anything to do with this matter, but those second-level armed men, such as Madick's escort, were all in this town, and there were almost 300 people in total, but less than 400 people.
Coupled with dozens of mechanical ostriches, the town's defenses are not to be underestimated, but they have no idea why these people are gathered here.