In the quiet café, Rosho, Skye, and Jim sat down as guests.

Jim didn't say too much to greet, but chose to go straight to the point: "Xiu, if we want to get a patent for your manipulator, will you agree?" ”

Luo Xiu put on a blank look, looked at Jim and asked blankly, "Then I...... What are the benefits? ”

Jim smiled: "We'll give you a lot of money, enough for you to finish college at any college, or even enough for you to buy a property after you graduate, trust me, you can make a profit working with us at Hammer Group." ”

Hearing this, Luo Xiu's eyes flashed with light.

"How much money can I get? Half a million? Or maybe 700,000? ”

Luo Xiu's reaction made Jim smile brightly, but there was a touch of contempt in his heart: "Sure enough, he is a nerd who has never seen the market, and this little money makes him lose his mind." ”

But Skye next to Luo Xiu was full of suspicion, because Luo Xiu in the café was very different from usual.

In the past, Luo Xiu was shrewd, not to mention a person who had never seen money, and his parents' inheritance itself was not a small amount, how could he be tempted by the hundreds of thousands of prices offered by Jim?

After careful consideration, the only explanation was that Luo Xiu was deliberately showing weakness, and he was afraid that he would have another plan when he met Jim.

At this time, Jim smiled and said to Luo Xiu: "Oh, Xiu, if you are willing to transfer the patent of the robot to us, you will get a million directly." Yes, you heard it right, it's a million. ”

Luo Xiu showed a surprised expression on the surface, but he silently complained in his heart: If S.H.I.E.L.D. knew that their mechanical exoskeleton, even if it was only one robotic hand, and only sold a million patent transfers, the R&D department was afraid that it would be like a thunderstorm.

"Oh, is that true? Will I really be able to get that much money? "Luo Xiu's performance was tepid and just right.

He rubbed his hands excitedly, his eyes were burning and shining, and he looked up at Jim, but Luo Xiu hesitated: "But my manipulator is not perfect at present, in fact, its power system is not perfect, if I sell this technology to you now, it is equivalent to selling you a semi-finished product......"

Jim was a little confused, wondering what the hell this nerd was selling.

"Xiu, what do you mean......" Jim asked tentatively.

Luo Xiu said: "You gave me such a large sum of money, I don't allow myself to sell you a semi-finished product, I am now perfecting the power system of the manipulator, but I lack the research and development conditions here...... So could I make a request for you Hammer Group to help me provide a lab so that I can continue to refine the manipulator. ”

Jim nodded without thinking about it: "Of course it's okay, of course it's okay, we just want to get the perfect design from your hands, if you can continue to improve the robot in the video, it's also a good thing for us in the Hammer Group." We will fully support you, please rest assured. ”

Getting the answer he wanted, Luo Xiu had a smile on his face.

"Great, so I'm relieved."

Jim smiled and nodded: "In that case, we might as well make an appointment for you to take your robot and come to the laboratory provided by our Hammer Group for you." ”

Luo Xiu agreed without hesitation: "Okay." ”

The meeting ended in a cheerful and harmonious atmosphere, and Rosho agreed a time with Jim of the Hammer Group.

After the two sides parted, Skye asked smartly: "So your problem has been solved, and there is finally a laboratory for preparing graphene batteries." ”

Luo Xiu smiled and nodded: "I knew that I couldn't hide everything from you." ”

But despite the solution of the problem, Skye was not optimistic, but asked solemnly: "But Xiu, do you really plan to cooperate with the Hammer Group?" First of all, you still don't know what the Hammer Group wants your robot to do, they may use it for illegal crimes; Secondly, this manipulator is a secret equipment of S.H.I.E.L.D., and if the Hammer Group mass-produces it, it will make a big splash and cause trouble...... Once S.H.I.E.L.D. tracks it down, you and the Hammer Group are inseparable. ”

Rosho understood Skye's worries, and these issues were actually within his own consideration.

"Rest assured, Skye, none of your fears will happen. My cooperation with the Hammer Group was only brief-lived, and it will come to an end before our deal is completed. Luo Xiu said calmly, "Soon, many friends will come to me." ”

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At this moment.

A secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base hundreds of kilometers away.

A S.H.I.E.L.D. Level 3 agent walked eagerly into a room with a tablet.

"Agent Coulson, I think you should take a look at this."

Agent Level 3 said as he handed the tablet in his hand to a dazed-looking Phil Coulson in the room.

"Okay, I'll take a look."

Coulson nodded, glancing at the screen.

I saw a YouTube video on the screen, the video quality is not clear, in front of the camera is an old garage, and in the garage is an Asian teenager standing.

"He's ......"

Coulson vaguely felt that the person in the video was familiar, but he couldn't immediately remember his name, when he was shocked to see a robotic hand on the operating table in front of the Asian teenager automatically match and directly equip his hand.

"Oh my God!"

Steady as Coulson couldn't help but be surprised.

And the performance of the protagonist in the video has just begun - I saw him wearing a mechanical hand, first flexibly tapping on the small and delicate keyboard of the laptop, and then bending a steel pipe as thick as a child's arm like playing with plasticine, and finally picked up a marble brick and gently clenched it to turn into fly ash......

Coulson was dumbfounded, there were so many things about this video that shocked him.

First of all, this Asian teenager he knew, it was Luo Xiu, who was rescued by S.H.I.E.L.D. from Hydra some time ago.

Secondly, the robotic hand worn by Luo Xiu in the video is exactly the same as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secret weapon, the mechanical exoskeleton, in terms of appearance, performance, and mode of operation.

Of course, what shocked him the most was that Luo Xiu and the mechanical exoskeleton got together, and this equipment was obviously made by Luo Xiu himself.

"Agent Coulson, is this our mechanical exoskeleton in the video?"

The Level 3 agent beside him asked solemnly.

Coulson didn't answer, but gave an order: "Bring me the surveillance footage from last month's Closed Room 6 at the New Orleans base, and I'll be there right away." ”

"Okay." The Level 3 agent sprang into action and returned ten minutes later.

Coulson meticulously and comprehensively screened the surveillance footage, which recorded all the footage of Luo Xiu from the time he moved in to the time he left, 24 hours a day, except for going to the bathroom.

He saw that not long after Luo Xiu moved in, he downloaded many e-books on his mobile phone.

Enlarge the screen, the patterns on the mobile phone are clearly visible, these are professional books about programming languages and network technology, it can be seen that Luo Xiu was teaching himself information technology at that time.

Coulson's brows furrowed, and his mood was solemn.

After watching a few more surveillance videos, Coulson couldn't help but gasp: "God, why is his reading speed so fast?" ”

Until one day, Rosho picked up the tablet in the closed room - because Rosho didn't have the authority of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, so Coulson didn't take the tablet used to control the closed room.

"No, that's not the case......" Coulson shook his head in surprise, he couldn't believe his eyes.

But ten minutes later, Luo Xiu in the surveillance video broke the tablet, and then the drawing of the mechanical exoskeleton was displayed on the tablet screen.

"Oh! Damn it! Coulson depressedly turned off the surveillance video, and then shouted, "Julie! Come over Julie! I need you to keep an eye on someone for me, from now on, I need to monitor him 24 hours a day, this person is very important, I want to get news from him at any time, understand? ”

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Meanwhile.

New York.

Stark Tower.

21 floors.

Two cybersecurity engineers hide behind a screen and whisper.

"Hey, Joe, how was the invasion investigation yesterday?"

"Clueless, the other party is very cunning."

"So what now? Do we have to report to our superiors? ”

"Of course not! Don't you want to work anymore? ”

"But the other party has already succeeded, and when Stark Industries' confidential scientific research results become known, our fate will definitely be even worse! Don't you know our boss? ”

There was a brief silence.

"That'...... All right! Report to your superiors immediately! We've been hacked and core secrets have been stolen! ”