Chapter 228: Obelisk
Fury's movements were fast, and although she didn't know why Laura was suddenly interested in the obelisk, she still sent someone to deliver the packed things to her villa the next day, along with a sentence:
"Do everything you can to get Frank Custer, and if you need help, just ask."
Watching the note incinerate in her hand, Laura stared at the huge metal box that was sent to her and was silent, she couldn't understand Nick Fury's person.
As the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he failed to discover the infiltration of Hydra in time, and his subordinates, such as Garrett, were forced to go astray, as if everything could be quantified, monetized, and profited in his single eye.
But now, for the sake of the punisher Frank Custer, Nick Fury easily sends favors and resources away, and the contradiction is not like the same person.
"Forget it, it's useless to think so much, the hell knows if this Fury is Fury now."
Putting aside the clutter of her thoughts, Laura picked up the half-human-tall metal box with one hand under the frantic gaze of the fourth-level agent, and turned away.
"It's really a non-human, a few tons of things are taken away at will."
The agent muttered, this time the Transport Mission Bureau specially approved him a Kun fighter as a carrier, after the New York War, the Kun fighter is already a treasure of S.H.I.E.L.D., after all, the inventory that has been saved up is basically destroyed.
After Laura walked into the lab, she put the metal box on the stage and waved her hand to bring up the instructions sent by Nick Fury.
"The obelisk, which is said to have survived for a long time, cannot be effectively detected by the carbon 14 dating method. When Hydra moved it from its base in Austria in 1945, Agent Carter and Roaring Commandos destroyed the base and brought the obelisk back to the Strategic Science Corps for safekeeping and research.
The Hydra Files describe it as a power that 'explains death itself', and has been sealed for the deaths of 3 senior researchers from the SSR to the S.H.I.E.L.D. era. ”
Since everyone who touched the obelisk itself died from petrification all over its body, S.H.I.E.L.D., worried that it would spread through alienation, first made a ten-centimeter alloy box to isolate detection, and then put the fixed obelisk inside.
Laura naturally knew that this thing was actually the Terrigen crystal used by the Inhumans to activate their genes, and the Black Bolt King, who had been controlled by the supergiant star before, had a bunch of them in his house, and it was the remaining Inhumans on the earth who regarded this thing as a treasure.
After the metal box was opened in three or two clicks, the obelisk itself contained in a glass container reappeared.
"Rachel, scan the features of this object and search the whole network for relevant information."
Her purpose of looking for the black braised egg for the obelisk is naturally for Skye, but she has the impression that this thing can't be used directly, and it still needs a special ceremony or a venue, in fact, it is also a way to ask those inhumans on the moon, but Laura still plans to find it herself first.
Originally, she thought that humans had little interest in such objects of unknown purpose, but it turned out that she was wrong, and Rachel found hundreds of documents just by searching the image of the obelisk.
"Good guy, I didn't expect all of them to be talents."
Laura roughly flipped through a few articles, and found that people really didn't understand the true identity and purpose of the obelisk, but the various uses derived from the side effects were simply jaw-dropping.
It was first documented in the 18th century when a European farmer dug it out of a field, and the hapless farmer was the first victim.
Later, the item was confiscated by the local security department, and because of its record of petrifying death or madness many times, the police did not fear it and handed it over to the church for sealing.
As a result, because it was described as a "death stele", it was stolen from the church by cultists and used as a "holy weapon" to worship and use, and it was difficult to destroy, and its attribute of touching death made it famous, until it was captured by Hydra during World War II.
The vast majority of these documents found on the Internet depict the horror of this thing, and forcibly quote it in the direction of various religious theologies, in order to skip the babbling of these gods, forcing Laura to improvise a screening algorithm.
In the end, two valid documents were selected, one of which was a power of attorney, which was published in a European explorer's bulletin at the time.
The content was simple: find the obelisk and bring it to the association, and after confirmation by the publisher, you could exchange the ownership of a small bazaar in Marseille, which was quite a generous condition at the time.
However, what really interests Laura in this document is that many people who are obsessed with money first found a lot of fake obelisks to try their luck, and after the publisher showed up to personally identify the fakes, they rushed up to buy and sell, but the publisher disappeared in an instant in the chaos, leaving only a chaotic scene and dazed robbers.
The second document, from 1888, a letter from a member of a Christian order, states that a mixed contingent of people had come to the church where he worked in an attempt to buy the obelisk at great expense, which he described as follows:
"These men were men, women, and children, but with the exception of the white man in the lead, they hid their appearance with their clothes, which was quite suspicious, and I seemed to see that one of them had scales on his arm when the wind blew."
The believers were frightened, and the obelisk had long since been lost, so the strange team left in frustration after learning the truth.
With all that said, Laura suspects that the commissioner and the strange team are most likely Inhumans left on Earth during the Great Evacuation, so she plans to follow up on these two clues.
To this end, Laura changed into an invisibility armor and prepared to set off for Europe to inspect the church where the obelisk was originally sealed, and by the way, she could find traces of the Inhumans on Earth.
"Laura, my link to the Crawford Group's biological experiment base was suddenly cut off, and after several attempts to call, there was no answer, and the security system was offline twenty seconds ago, so I can't rule out the possibility of the base being invaded."
Rachel's sudden warning caused her to turn around in mid-air and make a U-turn towards the base while trying to call Maya Hansen, but it turned out to be unreachable, and Rachel brought another piece of bad news:
"The signal towers near the base were breached, and the data sent back by the security system before it was completely paralyzed showed that there were six simultaneous energy surges around it."