Chapter Seventy-One: Another Option
Ellis and Jiang Feng weren't stupid enough to walk all the way back to downtown Los Angeles.
The two only walked for more than half an hour before they found a main road with a lot of traffic at night, spent $200, got on a long-distance freight hitchhiker, and returned to the city.
"Here, little one, how about a steak!"
In a 24-hour restaurant at the airport, Ellis carefully cut a small piece of medium-rare steak with a dining knife and put it in front of the little milk cat before looking at Jiang Feng, who was sitting opposite: "Why don't you eat, you vomit so much, aren't you hungry?" ”
"If your mouth is bitter, just drink some water!"
Jiang Feng took a sip of water from the water cup, looked at Ellis, who was still calm and breezy after killing a few people, with complicated eyes, and was silent for a while before asking, "For some reason, you have been hiding a lot of things from me, right?" ”
"Concealment?" Ellis didn't expect Jiang Feng to suddenly ask about this, so after glancing at him, he said lightly, "Are you questioning me?" ”
"Nope." Jiang Feng shook his head, "I just think that as your younger brother, I really don't know much about you." ”
"I don't know much about you either, if you hadn't been kidnapped, I wouldn't have known that you were a super hacker, and you had something to do with the SB of the 'Rising Tide Organization'."
Ellis really admires this biological brother's achievements in the field of hacking.
At the same time, he was very speechless about his predecessor, and the two grew up together, but they didn't even realize that their brother was a super hacker.
In order to support this family, he collected and sold some stolen goods from time to time, wandered in the gray area, and fought wits and courage with the US Internal Revenue Service.
You must know that a hacker of Jiang Feng's level can hack a small bank casually and make some mistakes.
Can he use his frightened, time-consuming and laborious collection and sale of stolen goods in New York to earn Jiang Feng's college expenses?
"It was only after I came to Los Angeles to study that I came into contact with the 'Rising Tide Organization' by accident, and I didn't officially join them, so I am a supernumerary for the time being."
Hearing Ellis say that the 'Rising Tide Organization' was SB, the corners of Jiang Feng's mouth twitched, but in the end, he didn't say anything to refute it, just simply explained his relationship with the 'Rising Tide Organization'.
Because Ellis is right, although the 'Rising Tide Organization' has brought together a group of the world's top hackers, it is very loose, and only focuses on the virtual world of the Internet, and does not form any forces in the real world, and it is indeed a bit SB.
Because the members of the 'Rising Tide Organization' often use superb hacking skills to hack into various organizations for various reasons, so they know a lot of secrets, so once their identities are exposed, they can only choose to flee in embarrassment.
Otherwise, after he was kidnapped by Hydra, Miles and Skye would not be helpless about it, and they would need to use the power of the police by hinting that Gavin Lebron would call the police.
"Are you a mutant?" Seeing that Ellis just nodded after listening to his words, and didn't say anything more, Jiang Feng took the initiative to ask him again, if he was a mutant who was hyped up some time ago.
That's right, the mutant turmoil caused by Congressman Kelly is basically a thing of the past.
After Magneto discovers that there is no such thing as a little naughty person, and that his grand plan to transform ordinary people into mutants has actually failed.
Considering that the mutants who followed him were not ready to go to war directly with humans, he chose to reconcile with Professor X for the time being.
The two teamed up to mobilize their network forces, and basically quelled the wave of anti-mutants who lost Congressman Kelly, who was in a hurry.
At least in the news, there are not many reports of mutants!
"As a top hacker, your perception of non-humans simply stays on mutants who have been repeatedly reported on the TV news?" Ellis asked rhetorically, then continued, "It's not just mutants who have inhuman abilities, otherwise this world would have been ruled by them a long time ago, wouldn't it?" ”
"You mean there are other non-human beings besides mutants?"
"Of course." In this regard, Ellis directly affirmed, "You hacked so many government websites, and you didn't find a single record of Inhumans, vampires, and magicians?" ”
"Do legendary creatures like vampires and magicians really exist?" After Jiang Feng exclaimed, he suddenly became excited: "Is this how your strength comes from?" Do you think I have the talent to practice magic? ”
"Practicing magic?"
"Yes, practice magic!"
Although magicians are a profession rather than a biological race, Ellis has no intention of correcting Jiang Feng's speech disease.
Because his words reminded Ellis that instead of letting Jiang Feng live under his wings all the time, it was better to let him have the capital to survive in this world.
Learning magic, indeed, is a good choice.
At least it's much better than exchanging lifespans, souls, or other things for superpowers in a pawnshop!
It just so happens that there is a mage temple in New York, and if you look carefully, it should not be difficult to find.
However, cultivating magic requires meditation, and he is very particular about understanding and patience, and I don't know if Jiang Feng, this kid, has this talent, and whether he can endure the boring cultivation life.
Moreover, he has nothing to do with the group of mages represented by Gu Yi, and if he wants others to accept Jiang Feng, he has to put some effort into it.
"Good idea to learn magic, try it!" After thinking about the gains and losses in his mind, Ellis nodded in agreement.
"Do you really know magic?" After Jiang Feng saw Ellis nodding, he misunderstood what he meant and stood up suddenly.
"No, it won't."
"Do you know a magician?"
"I don't know you yet."
"Then why do you say you can try?"
When Jiang Feng sat down disappointedly and looked at Ellis who was teasing the little milk cat with complicated eyes again, Coulson led a team of men and escorted Miles and Skye to the outside of the restaurant.
Standing at the door, he looked around the inside of the restaurant, and after determining Ellis's location, he hesitated for a while before walking into the restaurant alone and coming to the two of them.
"Boss Jiang, can I ask Jiang Feng a few questions?"
"He's not your prisoner, so, no." Ellis put down the kitten, glanced at Skye and Miles, and rejected Coulson directly.
There was no need to guess, Ellis knew what question Coulson wanted to ask Jiang Feng.
It's nothing more than who kidnapped him, and what information he found about the other party when he invaded S.H.I.E.L.D.
And Coulson is very insidious, and S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't have a special plane for him to use, so why do you have to bring Miles and Skye to the airport?
It's not that they want to use the relationship between the two of them and Jiang Feng to achieve the purpose of questioning.
If it weren't for Benjamin Spencer's phone call, it would not have been impossible to sell him a dispensable favor if he had pawned a glass gold Buddha at Coulson's pawn shop.
But now that Benjamin Spencer has made the Hydra people ready to compensate, it would be a bit unauthentic to reveal the existence of Hydra again.
It's not that Ellis is going to fall to Hydra, it's just that he thinks businessmen have to have the discipline of businessmen.
Unless, Coulson can offer a higher price than Hydra.