Chapter 1972 - Inside Information on Werner

Phil was so clueless that a certain tycoon finally couldn’t help but stab him in the heart. “Your men have to work together to round up one superhuman. At least 50 superhumans have gathered under Werner. Inhumans don’t have completely identical superpowers. To deal with them, you would have to prepare hundreds of people.”

Pausing for a moment, he continued, “Also, Werner appears in very densely populated cities. Would you dare fight them head-on with hundreds of people?”

Phil: …Fine, I really wouldn’t.

But the tycoon wasn’t done yet. He nodded at Luke. “That hot girl who was almost caught. What’s her name again?”

Luke played along. “Daisy Johnson.”

He didn’t mind Tony bringing up Skye. This guy didn’t even remember her name, yet he remembered Jiaying and Gordon’s names very clearly.

This tycoon had stopped being a playboy for several years.

After all, he was about to become a father, and he was very patient when it came to Pepper. Who knew, maybe he had to kneel on a circuit board or sleep on the couch every now and then. Luke couldn’t help but gleefully picture this in his heart.

Tony didn’t know that a certain someone was discrediting his mighty and domineering image, and continued to deal blows to Phil. “That’s right, Daisy with the Vibration ability. If she goes all out with one punch, how big a collapse would you say she could make happen?”

Luke played along. “300 to 500 meters in diameter.”

Tony nodded casually and continued, “Did you hear that? 300 to 500 meters, wait, how much did you say?”

He looked at Luke with wide eyes, and Phil had the same expression.

Luke played with the wine glass in his hand and took a sip.

Tony put the wine bottle down in front of him with a bang. “Speak first before you drink. This bottle is yours. Stop acting like a know-it-all.”

Luke pretended not to have heard him. “300 to 500 meters.”

Tony and Phil let out explosive breaths. This was a powerful wide-range skill, and this guy had actually been hiding such a ‘big fish’ under their noses?

Luke, however, added, “Anyone in that range will be buried alive. If it’s just destroying normal building foundations, everything within a kilometer will take a hit.”

“WTF?” Tony said, “She’s already a human-shaped natural disaster!”

Phil subconsciously nodded, but then immediately stopped.

He had always wanted to rope Skye into New SHIELD. It was even better that she was this strong.

A large-scale danger? That didn’t matter.

Any short-range ballistic missile weighing 500 kilograms to a ton was no less lethal than Skye’s attack.

It was much easier to find a weapon that was just as lethal in this world than to find another superhuman like Skye.

At the very least, New SHIELD and the Avengers didn’t have anyone like that.

Luke, on the other hand, had Skye, the witch, and Lorna.

Phil immediately thought of another question. “Is that why Big Dipper was in a hurry to snatch her back that night, and let Werner go?”

He had seen Big Dipper kill mercenaries like chickens with his own eyes, and was quite surprised that Werner had escaped back then.

That guy had touched an official member of the Bat Squad, Skye.

The Bat Squad had always been petty. If they let the other party go, they were either a big fish or really that strong.

“No.” Luke calmly denied it. “It’s just that Big Dipper didn’t kill Werner at that time, and Werner had Gordon’s help.”

Tony interjected, “You’re overthinking it. Didn’t you read the file? Werner’s head was about to be cut off, but he immediately recovered. This guy isn’t human at all. The safest plan is to beat him up and burn him to ash.”

Phil: “… Fine, I was wrong.”

He had been mostly focused on Skye just now, and finally came back to his senses — until this Inhuman monster was killed, he wouldn’t dare use Skye in New SHIELD for the time being.

That would be equivalent to delivering a human nuclear missile to Werner…

Next, Tony pulled up an analysis report on Werner. “Based on the information we have, Bruce and I speculate that the target is probably not this guy, but these.”

He pointed at an enlarged image of the unique parasite. “Big Dipper and my equipment confirmed that this parasite has very faint mental fluctuations. They form a unified intelligent group.”

Phil rubbed his chin. “Like a swarm of bees or ants?”

Tony thought for a moment, but when he realized that Luke was looking at him, he gave up on the idea of teaching the ignorant director scientific knowledge. “That’s not wholly accurate, but it’s pretty much similar. In fact, the real swarm might be the entire Inhuman race. Werner, this so-called ‘god,’ is the queen. This is also in line with how it calls itself Hive.”

Phil frowned and thought for a moment before he said, “So, the Inhumans it’s creating are actually breeding worker ants?”

Tony snapped his fingers. “That’s right. It wants to replenish the empty ‘beehive’ and then rule Earth.”

Hm, wait, why did this objective sound so familiar? Phil: “…Alright, as expected of Hydra’s ‘god.’ Even the objective is the same.”

Tony said, “Wake up, this is the ‘oracle’ which it passed down to Hydra; Hydra is just using it as its slogan.”

Phil wasn’t in the mood to bicker anymore. He got straight to the point. “How do we kill this guy?”

Luke was speechless. What refined and easy-going old man? That was a lie. His uncle was just as ruthless and decisive.

Tony glanced at Luke, who nodded.

Tony brought up more information on Werner. “To call it a bee colony isn’t right, because after the parasites in the main body die, there’s a high chance that another ‘Werner’ won’t appear. The main body with the most number of parasites… is the only one.”

Phil’s eyes lit up. “In other words, as long as we can get rid of the main body, Werner, Hive will disappear?”

Tony and Luke nodded.

Phil took a deep breath. “Fine, tell me how you want me to cooperate with you.”

Luke gave Tony a look.

Tony immediately opened his mouth to rip off the bandaid. “Actually, it’s good enough for you to give us information whenever you’re able to. It’s not that we’re afraid of Werner, but that he’s avoiding the Avengers and the Bat Squad. There’s no need to rush. Hm, why don’t you hang around New York for a few days? Leave this to us. Your agents won’t be able to go up against a bunch of superhumans in a real fight.”

Phil’s confidence was hit again.

Luke didn’t help say anything on Phil’s behalf.

It was the truth.

After learning how difficult Werner was to deal with, it was impossible that Phil would let his agents go ‘fishing’ for a ‘shark.’

Werner wasn’t human. He killed people like they were ants, and had no mercy.