On this day, Lucifer was bored at the front desk at the door, and Amenadiel was in the lobby as a sojourn missionary to spread the teachings of his father to the neighborhood, who had left on Earth years ago, while Rollo hid in his room after showing his face. Contacting the unknown hacker on the dark web who had made several previous transactions, Rollo was waiting for the next piece of information about 'special items with special powers' when a phone call came.

Stephanie? Malik. Tsk, it's really Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived.

It's good. Compared with the fact that he may be secretly planning a conspiracy against himself without saying anything, Rollo is still more willing to spread out with the other party. He was ready to be scolded by the other party or accept the other party's cold words and sarcasm.

However, it didn't.

Stephanie didn't even mention anything about Rollo being disguised as an ineffective missionary to hide his identity as an 'artifact thief', but instead asked, "What are you thinking about?" ”

What is "how is it considered", what is being considered?

It's not just such a brainless sentence that makes people strange, but also Stephanie's attitude. There was no special emotion in her tone, just like so many previous contacts.

Was her father persuading her to restrain her emotions and wait for the time to accumulate thick and thin, or was she already practicing such a city government when she was only in her twenties?

For a while, he couldn't figure out what Stephanie really thought, so Rollo could only follow his question and ask, "What do you mean?" ”

"Oh, it looks like Baron Struck is too busy to tell you." Stephanie said this lightly, without ridicule or ridicule. Then she paused for a moment, seeming to hesitate, before continuing, "That's right, since the last time you asked me to help you gather information about mutants, I've been on my side. This time, I found some clues, and I just heard that Baron Strok had some trouble with mutants, so I approached him and proposed to cooperate with the two sides. Well, I don't hide it, in fact, there is another reason. Considering the various special abilities of the mutant group, we need to have enough high-end forces to overwhelm the formation and deal with all kinds of unexpected accidents. So I offered him to let you make a move. Here's what he said, to quote him: 'Basically, I don't have an opinion, it's up to Rollo to do what he wants. ’”

Speaking of this, she smiled lightly: "'Rollo', I thought he would call you 'Blake' at most." ”

'Rollo' is the first name and 'Blake' is the surname, and as a salutation, the two represent different levels of familiarity. There is no doubt that although there is no tone or sentence in question, Stephanie is indeed testing the relationship between Rollo and Strok. Now people with a bit of status in Hydra know that Luo Luo has saved his life and talked to Feng? Schok 'hooked up' together. Among them, Luo Luo was able to rescue Strok from the hands of those high-level combat forces of S.H.I.E.L.D., and his combat effectiveness should naturally not be underestimated; And even if Strok was destroyed in the research base, even if he lost a number of capable subordinates and a lot of research materials and materials, his own knowledge and methods were still there, and the inheritance and inheritance of the aristocratic background were still there. To what extent did the two people who had their own influence in different fields 'unite' together, and to put it bluntly, to what extent the two trusted each other, was a question that the other leaders within Hydra wanted to know.

How can that sentence come to an early date, and if you know it earlier, you can plan it early?

"I've just learned about it, give me a moment to think about it." After thinking about it, Rollo responded. He's going to check with Strok.

Stephanie wouldn't fail to see what he was planning, but she didn't care.

"Yes." She replied casually, still discerning her inclination. "But I can give you time, the dynamics on the mutant side won't stay the same forever. So ......"

"I'll get back to you as soon as I can."

"Hopefully. Even if you don't want to make a move, make a statement in advance, and I'll make arrangements here. ”

After saying that, hang up, crisp and neat.

On the surface, it means "we will act with or without you", but in fact it is an inferior agitation method, hum...... Well, I think so, but Rollo clicked on the keyboard and dialed Strok's line.

It took almost a minute for the phone to go through, and then Feng? Strok's first sentence also asked Rollo why he called him only a few days later, and there was a hint of surprise in his tone. In other words, ordinary people have to think that they were not played by Stephanie's side with such low-level means. If it hadn't been for Rollo and asking more, Strok wouldn't have remembered that Malik had contacted him.

Speaking of which, Schuck has been busy enough these days. The castle in Segovia was destroyed by S.H.I.E.L.D. (speaking of which, there will be no "Segovia Agreement" in the future), and he naturally wants to rebuild a base, and there is a lot of attention to detail in this. First of all, he had to look for new places, taking into account various factors such as secrecy, transportation, entry difficulties, and terrain. The second is the general plan, such as the extent to which the new base will be reached, and what is expected to be transformed in the future; When the first two aspects are determined, it is natural to raise resources in the end, which is related to the other hydra leaders.

In fact, the family assets accumulated since the Prussian era were enough for Strok to build another base of the same size as the one that was destroyed before. It's just that he won't do it, and the other Hydra leaders won't allow him to do it. Although the leaders of Hydra said that they each had a force, it was an unwritten rule back then that no matter how much the two leaders did not deal with each other, they could not completely separate themselves from each other's actions. In other words, in order to maintain the centripetal force of the entire organization under the semi-polycephalic system of Hydra in the decades since the loss of the Red Skull, all the leaders' forces have been staggered to a certain extent to ensure that there is no too fierce attack on each other, and that they can unite as much as possible when necessary. This is a special rule, and in the case of Schuck today, when he rebuilds this base that belongs to him, the other leaders must provide a certain level of support, and he must accept it. In this kind of support, it is easy to talk about the financial aspects and the human resources...... Whether there are spies deliberately arranged by other leaders depends on Strok's own vision and means.

There is a lot of water grinding work in this, both externally and internally, and there are negotiations, pushes and pulls. Malik's side will propose a joint operation to Strok at this time, borrowing Rollo's hand, and there is no sense of bargaining. And Strok agreed, and also planned to compete for more high-quality resources from Malik, the rich man that Hydra has always had. This point, Schok did not hide from Rollo, and admitted it very calmly and voluntarily. But then he also said that Luo Luo was not exactly his subordinate, but more like his friend, or Keqing, so Luo Luo could push the matter away this time.

"But I suggest you accept it." After thinking about it, Feng who wanted to hang up the phone just like that? Strok added. "I won't talk about it on my side, but Malik's side ...... Old Malik did have courage, but he was never a generous man. Maybe he could do anything for something, but he never let go of the opportunity to settle things after the fact. So I mean, you end up having a good relationship with him. I've heard that you lied to him before, and now it's time to fix it and make amends. ”