puff!
Dr. Banner couldn't help but laugh out loud, which earned him an angry look from Tony.
"I still have more than 9,000 new currencies, which I can lend to you first." Dr. Banner raised his hand and forcibly controlled his facial expression, which made him look a little distorted.
"One thousand new currency per gram, who can afford it?" Tony estimated the price. Even if he was allowed to exchange it with real currency, it would still be a huge expense that would reduce his wealth.
Luke pointed at himself.
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"What happened to him?" Nick, who had finally gotten rid of those troublesome people, looked at Tony Stark who held his head high and left with a sour face in response to his greeting, and looked at Luke and the others in some surprise.
"Don't worry about him, he just can't accept the reality." Luke said.
"What reality?" Nick looked confused.
"Perhaps he refuses to accept the reality of being broke," Dr. Banner explained, suppressing a laugh, before hurriedly catching up. Norman and Nick were left alone with Luke. He knew Nick had something to discuss with Luke, and while he wouldn't mind a lengthy discussion of their respective skills, his years of experience had left him reluctant to get involved in official matters. And in Dr. Banner's eyes, Nick Fury was a troublemaker.
"Can you let me talk to Luke first, Mr. Osborn?" Nick cast his gaze on Norman standing aside, and drove him away in a subtle way.
"Can I take a tour here?" Norman looked at Luke and pointed to the warehouse.
"Feel free to touch, but please don't touch it. Although many of the materials have been processed and treated, and have radiation shielding measures, close contact without protection is still dangerous." Luke warned. He was not worried about what Norman could take from here.
"You drew a big pie for them and asked me to divide the cake among them. How should I divide it among them? I haven't even seen the cake yet!" Nick watched Norman walk away and could no longer hear their conversation. Then he walked side by side with Luke in the warehouse and complained.
"Haven't you seen it?" Luke pointed around.
Following Luke's finger, Nick glanced at the dazzling array of materials around him, and his heart began to beat violently. He felt his mouth dry.
"You mean these, all cakes?" Nick was a little dazed. He even felt that the person speaking in front of him was not Luke. How could the Luke who always took advantage of him one day offer him the opportunity to take advantage of him?
"Except for some that already have owners, you can choose freely from all the materials, finished products and semi-finished products in this warehouse." Luke nodded vigorously under Nick's gaze, indicating that it was just as he thought.
"What's the price?" Nick was both excited and heartbroken. He was excited by the various dimensional materials and finished products of Nine Realms technology around him; he was heartbroken because the little money he had saved up through QQ shopping was gone, and now it seemed like he couldn't keep it.
"These are the things they should worry about." Luke pointed outside the warehouse.
"Middleman?" Nick instantly understood what Luke meant. He was planning on being the provider of materials and other resources, with S.H.I.E.L.D. acting as the middleman, and the outsiders, including Norman, being the buyers.
"Do they have money?" Nick wondered.
"They may not have money, but they do have technology! They can sell it to the Data Dimension and obtain the corresponding new currency. They can also use their own technology and precious data to get loans. As long as they want, there will always be a way to obtain new currency." Luke said nonchalantly. His goal from the beginning to the end was not to collect followers or control others like other demons. He simply coveted everyone's talents and technical data.
He certainly welcomes those who are willing to contribute to his strength and dimension. Those who cling to their own technology and isolate themselves will eventually be eliminated.
After all, Luke's appetite was much better than that of other dimensional demons. At least he disguised his greed as a business transaction, which made it easier to accept.
It is never good to drain the pond to catch all the fish.
"Give me some advice. Which of these materials should I choose?" Nick nodded slowly. He no longer considered how to restrict Luke. Perhaps he had thought about it before, but before he could formulate a plan and start implementing it, the drastic changes in the world had killed the idea.
How could Luke be contained in this situation? How could he and his Hyperion be contained? Not to mention the numerous corporations and troublemakers with whom Hyperion shared common interests, Luke's close ties with the Ancient One, Odin, and the others alone made it impossible to easily change. Just as he couldn't do anything about Loki, who had orchestrated the Chitauri invasion, he couldn't do anything about Luke either.
Furthermore, Nick, who had done numerous business with Luke, also had to consider Luke's unfathomable skill pool. Without Luke showing signs of world destruction, Nick wasn't prepared to risk everything and rip him off. And Nick felt that this might be unlikely in the future.
So now that Nick found that he could no longer restrain Luke, he chose to lie down for the time being.
"Where's your ring?" Luke asked.
"Mind Ring?" Nick raised his hand with the Mind Ring.
Luke said, "I've given you permission. You can directly access the data dimension through your mind ring. The material information is stored there. You can show it to anyone, or let them view it themselves."
Nick immediately calmed himself and, following Luke's instructions, connected his mind to the energy within the ring. Instantly, he sensed the information he sought. To protect his brain and prevent misunderstandings, this information wasn't transmitted directly to Nick's head. Instead, it was presented to Nick's mind through a virtual projection, allowing him to flip through the information and data of each piece of material.
However, Nick didn't flip through it for too long. He just glanced at it twice and then came out of that state.
"I don't think there's a need for me and SHIELD to be the middleman. Maybe it will be easier for you?" Nick looked at Luke with a complicated expression. He found that he no longer understood the technology used by Luke.
"Early stage unification is still necessary." Luke said softly as he looked at Norman who reappeared not far away.
Nick also noticed Norman's reappearance and knew that this conversation was coming to an end. But it was clear that the test for him and S.H.I.E.L.D. had just begun. The next few days would probably be full of intense negotiations, and he would have to call more people over.
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Norman and a group of people argued together for three days before they initially set a transaction framework that everyone could accept. Nick, who had a certain amount of resource allocation power, sat back and watched Norman and the others arguing with each other until they were almost in a fight.
Ultimately, everyone exchanged their own technology or data for a certain amount of resource quotas and technology licenses. If they had simply provided their own technology, they would have certainly grumbled. But after Haibolun, which held an absolute technological advantage, had publicly licensed a large amount of its technology stored in its technology library, even if they still had objections, they had nothing to say.
It's simply a matter of viewing that data dimension as a shared technology repository. They're receptive to this. Furthermore, a certain degree of technical interoperability and authorization allows them to rapidly accumulate advantages early on. According to Nick, they're only among the earliest selected, but their position isn't set in stone, and they won't be replaced by subsequent competitors.
The higher the level of authority within the data dimension, the more control one has over resource allocation, technology acquisition, and other aspects. To increase one's authority within the data dimension, one must gradually improve by inputting various technologies, data, and knowledge, just like Stark and Dr. Banner.
After the meeting, which lasted nearly four days, finally ended, Norman and others who left in a hurry could not wait to start recruiting and poaching people.
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Stark Tower.
Tony, with dark circles under his eyes, held a piece of blood-red alloy in his hands, a smug smile on his face. Dr. Banner, wearing a nightcap, sat bleary-eyed on the sofa, listening to Tony's excited and chatty chatter in a daze.
"Aha, look, I finally made a relatively qualified new alloy! Although it's still not as good as Uru Gold, it's at least a good start, isn't it? Bruce, Bruce? Are you listening to me?" Tony didn't receive a response from Bruce Banner, and turned his head to look at Dr. Banner who was lying on the sofa with his head down.
"I'm listening! This is great! First of all, I congratulate you on being able to create a new alloy that can replace Uru Gold in such a short time, but you need to rest now. You haven't slept much in three days, Tony!" Dr. Banner woke up suddenly, raised his head, and while using his hand to support his sagging nightcap, he yawned and advised Stark.
"It's not really a substitute. We have to admit that it's still some distance away from the performance of Uru God Gold. I've uploaded this alloy to the data dimension for sale. My newly upgraded permissions tell me that as long as you are the creator of a certain material, you can consume a certain amount of new currency and use the data dimension to produce a certain weight of the corresponding material." Tony obviously didn't want to sleep, but moved closer to Dr. Banner and once again output ruthless sound waves to his ears and mind.
"Tony, you know what? Before, you would have been beaten to death by the Hulk." Dr. Banner had a look of despair on his face. He could already feel the Hulk stirring inside him. As long as he took off the Stone of Tranquility on his right finger and threw it away, the Hulk would come out immediately and teach Stark a lesson for disturbing his sleep.
"Hulk is a good boy now, he would not do such a bad thing. In fact, with this alloy, I can make our previous ideas become reality. Anti-Hulk armor, anti-mage armor. Inspiration is flashing wildly in my mind now, and you let me waste time sleeping?" Tony complained dissatisfiedly.
"I need to ask Nick for more resources! It's a huge waste to hand over materials and technology to a businessman like Osborn!" Without waiting for Dr. Banner to respond, Tony jumped to change the subject.
"What should I call this new alloy? Hell Alloy 1.0?"
Watching Tony's constant tossing and babbling, Dr. Banner closed his eyes in pain. He had been with Tony for two days, and his spirit really needed a rest!
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In a hidden city on the far side of the moon, a rebellion had just ended. Maximus, who had just gained supreme power in the Inhuman nation through the rebellion, was carrying out a large-scale purge of those who had rebelled against him.
Crystal, the sister of the former Inhuman Queen Medusa, saved many people with the help of her dog that could teleport back and forth. She then left the Inhuman city of Attilan under the leadership of Locktooth.
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crackle.
The figure of a girl and a large, scary dog appeared in a large bedroom inside a villa.
"Where is this? You teleported to the wrong place, Locktooth Dog!" In the darkness, Crystal stroked the Locktooth Dog's body and spoke in a low voice.
The big dog shook its huge head, its big eyes full of confusion.
"You said your teleportation was disrupted by some force?" Crystal was surprised. This was the first time she had seen such a situation.
"Woo woo woo!" The dog suddenly tensed up, baring its teeth and making a warning sound. Crystal subconsciously became alert as well.
A ball of black liquid fell from the ceiling, and before it touched Crystal's body, it was moved to the side by the huge body of the Locktooth Dog.
"Let's get out of here!" Crystal said to Locktooth Dog in a hurry. She didn't know where this place was, nor did she know what dangers it might hold, but she just wanted to get out of here quickly and find her sister.
"Woo woo woo!" Locktooth whimpered and stood in front of Crystal.
"You said your teleportation ability failed? How is that possible!" Crystal's heart suddenly jumped up.
The lights suddenly flickered on, and the darkness suddenly became bright, causing Crystal and Locktooth Dog's eyes to squint a little as they were not used to the light. They only vaguely saw a tall figure appear in front of the door not far away, and the words that came lightly.
"Teleportation is prohibited here!"
"What do you mean?" Crystal opened her eyes wide and asked in surprise at the man in black clothes and smiling not far away.