Tang Song looked at Lai En's performance and nodded with satisfaction. This control over water magic showed that Lai En's practice of the "Black Water True Method" had reached the level of mastery.
The Black Water True Method has thirteen levels. When one cultivates to the highest level, one can not only control the flow of water, but also become one with the power of true water and transform into a black dragon.
Now that Lai En has transformed into a half-dragon, he has somewhat mastered the true meaning of the Black Water Method, although he is taking a shortcut by using the No. 0 potion.
However, the improvement in physical strength and mastery of water magic is real.
Lai En continued to show Tang Song his strength after he transformed into a dragon. Not only was he able to control water, but after he transformed into a dragon, he could also control the cells in his body to release strong electric pulse waves like Adam...
In an indoor shooting range that is specially designed to test the attack power of experimental subjects, Lai En opened his mouth and roared like a dragon. After he turned into a dragon, a red and white lightning beam as thick as an arm spurted out of his mouth...
The beam of light shot towards the target wall...
The strong current under high temperature directly melted the alloy test target into a pool of molten iron.
… …
"Well done!" Tang Song gave Professor Connors an appreciative look.
Professor Connors was somewhat flattered: "Boss, the research of serum medicine mainly depends on the materials you provided—"
Connors said this without any intention of being modest, whether it was the flesh and blood material of King Ghidorah Zero, the blood orchid, the alien alien, or the mutant's self-healing factor.
For ordinary biologists, these may be top research materials that they may not see once in their lifetime.
With these materials, it is no exaggeration to say that if we put a dog in charge of this laboratory and take charge of these researches, we can achieve results.
Connors knew that he was not a gifted or talented researcher.
He became a biology professor by studying hard bit by bit for decades, but he is not as good as those gifted geniuses.
When Professor Connors was teaching at Caltech, he once heard an old professor mention a student named Banner, who majored in physics and in just a few years earned a doctorate in nuclear physics and six other fields, including a doctorate in biology.
Compared to him, Professor Connors is not a talented player, and his research is steady step by step.
After solving the problem of his broken arm, he was less impatient for quick success.
Professor Connors strives for excellence in his research.
This is also why Tang Song admires Professor Connors.
He is not short of money. The Hive Laboratory is his private property and all experimental projects are his sole responsibility.
Unlike the Osborne Group, any large investment project needs to consider the return on investment and the constraints of the board of directors.
This was also the main reason why Professor Connors' lizard serum research failed.
Because of the excessive investment in this area, it directly aroused the dissatisfaction of the shareholders on the board of directors. Under pressure from the board of directors, Norman Osborn ignored his dissuasion and pleas and directly planned to cut the project.
If Tang Song had not taken over the project and invested a large amount of money, according to the original plot, Professor Connors would have risked skipping the human experiment stage in order to regenerate his broken arm and injected himself with imperfect lizard serum, directly transforming into Dr. Lizard.
To some extent, Mr. Tang is Professor Connors's mentor.
Professor Connors' decades of immersion in biological research also brought rewards to Tang Song.
The federal military invested tens of billions of dollars and spent more than ten years, but in the end they only managed to restore a secondary serum based on the super serum.
Professor Connors spent several years researching the lizard serum, and in less than a year, he successfully developed the zero serum.
What is the most valuable thing in the 21st century? Talent!
The Tang and Song dynasties attached great importance to talents...
"Strengthen the security of the laboratory. From now on, the entry and exit system will be supervised by Red Queen. You and the security supervisor must sign at the same time to enter and exit the laboratory!"
Tang Song picked up another tube of emerald-colored No. 0 medicine, a spiral-shaped injection, and the emerald-like liquid seemed to be glowing.
After Tang Song finished speaking to Professor Connors, he glanced at Lai En who had returned to his human form and asked:
"The families of the researchers in the laboratory will be given priority in being relocated to Raccoon Town, with free housing, medical insurance, and subsidies!"
Lai En nodded: "Yes, boss, I will do it right away!"
Considering the frequent experimental leaks in movies, Boss Tang is extremely concerned about the security of the laboratory.
The honeycomb base has now been completed and the bottom five floors have been put into use.
The bottom layer of the hive is the Red Queen's main hangar, and the level above is the biological agent storage room.
This experimental area is located above the biological agent storage room.
These three floors are the top priority of the Hive Base. Only Tang Song, Professor Connors and Ryan, a few big bosses, have the authority to enter the Red Queen's main hangar.
When it comes to the maintenance of the Red Queen host, Tang Song's personal signature is required.
The biological agent storage room stores biological agents developed by the Hive Laboratory, including lizard serum and daywalker serum prepared with perfect blood.
There are also several newer injectables that have commercial applications.
No matter what kind of medicine it is, once it is circulated on the market, it represents huge economic value.
If you want to get or store medicine on this floor, it is separate from the laboratory researchers on the upper floor and there are dedicated people in charge.
To reach this level, one needs A-level authority. Those who possess this authority are all Tang Song’s confidants, and their loyalty to Tara is beyond doubt.
As for the upper floor of the laboratory, it is a weapons warehouse.
The weapons warehouse, as the name suggests, stores a number of light and heavy firepower weapons. These weapons are enough to arm an infantry battalion of the Federation and are not only distributed to laboratory security personnel.
Instead, it is the weapons warehouse of the entire Tang Building. There is an elevator in the armory that leads directly to the building and is not connected to the other honeycomb floors.
To enter the weapons warehouse, B-level authorization is required. People with this authorization are at least at the supervisor level of the base, usually card soldiers at the top of the sequence and security supervisors.
As usual, an additional laser channel is set up between each floor of the honeycomb and between the elevator and the entrance.
This is for possible intruders.
In Red Queen's main computer room, Tang Song also placed several additional steel robots and skeleton monsters as security.
If someone really breaks into this base, the security measures of this base will let the invader know what despair is.
… …
"If Serum Zero falls into someone else's hands, what are the chances of it being copied?"
Tang Song casually put the serum zero medicine into the constant temperature storage suitcase, and Lai En took the suitcase.
Professor Connors laughed and said confidently:
"Boss, rest assured. The successful development of Serum Zero depends mainly on materials. Whether it's Ghidorah's flesh and blood sample or the blood orchid or the alien, if any one of them is missing, the serum cannot be replicated!"
"Don't even mention outsiders copying it, because of the influence of the blood orchid's flowering period, even if our own laboratory wants to replicate it, we have to wait until the blood orchid's flowering period."
"Don't be so absolute," Tang Song said, "Be cautious in everything. Seal the experimental steps of the No. 0 serum and add a layer of insurance in the future. If anyone tries to crack it, the medicine will self-destruct!"
"Yes! Boss!" Professor Connors nodded.
"Lain, I remember Magneto mentioned that he has a mutant who can control the growth of plants. Let's go back and ask him to borrow him to see if he can shorten the flowering period of the blood orchid!"
Tang Song turned around and told Lai En:
The blood orchid plant has very strict requirements on the environment. Even though there are special environmental simulation devices in the honeycomb laboratory, it cannot simulate the changeable climate of the Borneo tropical rainforest 100%.
For this purpose, Tang Song used jade to set up a spirit gathering array in the environment simulation culture room where the blood orchid grew, which allowed the blood orchid to survive.
However, if you want to shorten the flowering period of blood orchid, you have to think of other ways.
As for the mutants who control plants, it was not long ago that Magneto came to visit and the two chatted in the pavilion in the middle of the lake in Tang's manor.
As the two were drinking tea and appreciating the lotus, Tang Song casually mentioned that it was a pity that the lotus only bloomed in midsummer.
Magneto went on to say that there was a mutant in the Brotherhood of Mutants who could control the growth of plants, and that he could be sent to him to be a gardener to help him take care of the plants in the manor, so that his manor would be like spring all year round and lotus flowers would bloom all year round.
So Boss Tang just laughed it off and brushed it off.
The reason why Magneto came to visit was the cooperation between the two. Over the past six months, the Brotherhood of Mutants used the gold they had mined to exchange for large sums of money and weapons through Tang Song's channels.
Although Tang Song received a lot of kickbacks and commissions, channels are king after all. It seems that there is nothing wrong with Magneto's visit.
However, during the conversation over tea, Tang Song vaguely realized that Magneto had been testing his attitude towards mutants and seemed to be very afraid of his views on mutants.
As for mutants, as long as he is not provoked, Tang Song would not care what Magneto wants to do.
Tang Song knew about Magneto. He was persecuted by the ** when he was young, but when he got older, he became obsessed with Hitler's racist theories.
To regard mutants as the future of mankind is a bit like Hitler's supremacy of Aryans. This kind of character and ideals are destined to be incompatible with Boss Tang, who puts profit above all else.
Lai En took a white coat from a researcher nearby and put it on. He smiled at the girl wearing glasses.
The female researcher wearing thick bottle-bottom glasses smiled so hard that her face blushed, especially when she saw Ryan's exposed six-pack abs, her earlobes turned light pink.
Lai En nodded at Tang Song while putting on his white coat.
"I'll take these potions and Adam with me. Professor, from now on, the focus of the Hive Laboratory can be placed on the corpses of those giant beasts. You can decide the research direction, and don't worry about the funding!"
"Yes! Boss!"
After returning to the Tang family manor, Tang Song asked someone to call Kane and others.
When Tang Song learned the number of serum potions No. 0, he had already distributed the remaining serum potions in his mind.
Kane and Frank are both old friends who have been around him, so they are naturally indispensable.
As for the other three, they will be regarded as rewards for the people below.
Bai Youling, Yin Fan Vanke, Sloan...Tang Song was weighing the order of priority among them.
Several people have practiced the breathing technique he taught them, and the rest depends on who gets started first.
"Boss, the supplies for SHIELD have been dispatched and are at Pier 7!"
In a training ground in the manor, Tang Song was watching Kane and Frank venting their energy after being injected with serum zero, and Ryan walked in and said.
"Give them a note and ask them to pick it up themselves..."
… … …
New Mexico
"Chief, I'm Coulson, I've arrived at the energy explosion point! The falling object is a medieval European hammer! The Hydra people haven't arrived yet!"
On the sand dune, a simple-looking short-handled square hammer was placed horizontally with its head facing downward, and various pickup trucks were parked around it.
A group of shirtless men surrounded the hammer, taking turns trying to lift it to prove their strength.
Unfortunately, no matter whether they were black or white, old or young, no one could move the hammer even a little bit, even if they used all their strength.
The residents of the town simply treated this place as a tourist attraction, and many people set up grills nearby to sell sausages, drinks, and burritos.
Phil Coulson mingled in the crowd, holding a burrito in one hand and looking at the energy display on his palm.
"hammer?!"
Nick Fury was a little surprised when he heard Phil Coulson's report.
Although the old fox Nick Fury faked his death, he deliberately left a backdoor on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s energy monitoring satellite.
Energy monitoring satellites detected a high level of energy burst in the area.
The energy monitoring and detection system automatically transmitted the numerical coordinates to him through the backdoor he reserved.
The old fox Nick Fury also modified the coordinates of the energy monitoring satellite through the back door.
This caused Hydra's observed coordinates to deviate from the direction of more than half a state.
"Director, yes, it doesn't look like a meteorite. I suspect it's some kind of supernatural object, but no radiation was detected at the scene!"
Phil Coulson reports his guess to Nick Fury.
"Can we bring it back to the base!?" Nick Fury asked.
"It's difficult. This hammer looks very heavy!"
While Phil Coulson was talking to Nick Fury, he saw an old man driving a pickup truck and trying to use it to lift the hammer.
Bang! Just as Nick Fury asks if he can bring the hammer back.
The old man stepped on the pickup truck's accelerator to the floor.
With a bang, the pickup truck's cabin was blown backwards.
"Let's put the hammer matter aside for now. Tang has provided us with a batch of weapons and equipment, including a batch of the most advanced bulletproof vests for high-end tables!
This is something we urgently need…”
"I've asked Matt to take people to the black market to pick up the goods. Since it's inconvenient for you to show your face, take people to meet you outside the pickup point!"
… … …
The black market, especially the underground black market, is a place where you can buy anything.
This is especially true for contraband items, because the more contraband an item is, the higher its buying and selling value is. For example, many things that are expressly banned by the federal government are the most circulated in the black market.
Because it's valuable.
Deadpool took Matt Murdock into this underground black market with familiarity, a corridor that was converted from a large air-raid shelter during World War II.
A very lively bar, with ink pen writing on a whiteboard at the bar counter:
Things to buy,
Hired men, assassins.
The types are varied, ranging from the most advanced Federation fighter data to two pure women.
Hiring an entire mercenary group, hiring an elite assassin, clearly marked the price
From time to time, someone would go to the bar to buy a glass of wine and chat with the boss for a few minutes. The old bartender, who looked to be in his fifties, would take a rag and wipe off a line and add a new one.
The bar was full of people wearing cloaks, and quite a few of them were wearing masks. It was obvious that none of them wanted others to know their identities.
Of course, there are also many who are open and honest! There are fools, and there are also many bold and confident people.
"Hey! Old George, two glasses of whiskey!"
From the disdainful look of the old bartender, it can be seen that Deadpool is a regular customer.
"There's been a lot of commotion lately, so I have a few missions suitable for you, assassination missions!"
The old bartender wiped the wine glass with a towel, looked at Matt Murdock, and then turned his gaze back to Deadpool.
"Assassinate two generals of the Federation. Are you interested? Five hundred thousand dollars each!"
Deadpool picked up the whiskey in front of him and drank it in big gulps, but he laughed without hesitation:
"Five hundred thousand dollars, huh, the two together only make one million dollars, Old George, the offer is too low, I found a long-term meal ticket..."
As he said that, Deadpool patted Matt Murdock on the shoulder, and Matt Murdock sat aside with disgust!
"Hey, Old George, I'm here to get something!"
Deadpool said, handing him a note.
The old bartender looked at Deadpool in surprise and took out a box from under the bar.
"serial number!"
"F56Y74!" Matt Murdoch said the number.
The old bartender opened the box and took out an envelope with a number on it.
"Here is the container address of the goods, go and pick it up yourself!"
The money has been paid to the buyer through some kind of online currency on the dark web, and this is just a transit station for picking up the goods.
Deadpool drank a few more drinks at the bar before being dragged away by Matt Murdock.
This bar has nine passages leading to the outside world, each with at least three exits, and it pays great attention to the privacy of its customers!
"Deadpool?! Weird, when did he join the organization?"
Deadpool is a mercenary, a well-known expert in the killer industry, especially his immortality, which makes him very difficult to deal with. The old bartender has dealt with him before, and the people at the high table also want to recruit such a talent.
However, Deadpool has always been a loner.
The old bartender wiped his glass and thought.
... ... ... ... ... ..
"What good stuff, so mysterious! Smuggled Eastern European refugees are still big *, I heard that there is a clock test in the horse pens in Hong Kong,
Does our organization have one? I think I can be a mama-san and let all the girls come to me... "
Deadpool, wearing his iconic tights, looks at Matt Murdock and gossips endlessly!
Matt Murdock resisted the urge to raise his cane and beat the bastard to death as he searched for the container number.
Deadpool's eyes kept moving, thinking about how much he should steal if there really were good stuff. Well, the price offered by Boss Matt was not small, but who would complain about having too much money
Although Matt has always said that they are working for world peace, the organization behind the scenes has refused to explain to him, keeping everything mysterious.
If it really involves human trafficking or organ transplantation, Deadpool subconsciously grasped the hilt of his knife.
He, Deadpool, is also a superhero!
“Found it!”
Matt Murdock takes Deadpool through the densely packed containers.
After walking for two or three minutes, we arrived at an inconspicuous blue container.
Card!
Matt Murdock raised his cane, and the fist-sized alloy lock fell to the ground with a clang.
Ma pulled open the iron door, revealing the densely packed wooden boxes inside.
Opening a wooden box, Deadpool looked at the contents of the container, breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly loosened his hand from the handle of the samurai sword.
"How do we transport the stuff? Should we call a truck?"
“Here it comes!”
Matt Murdock's ears twitched.
In the harbor at night, a submarine surfaced amid the roaring waves.
Phil Coulson, dressed in a black suit, arrived at the dock with several agents.
"Where's the stuff?"
Matt Murdock raised his blind stick and pointed at the container in front of him.
Phil Coulson made a tactical gesture, and the agents he led walked towards the beach in groups of two, carrying wooden boxes.
… … …
For Tang Song, supplying Nick Fury with a batch of the latest bulletproof vests was just a small matter.
However, something very unpleasant happened in Japan.
He had to go to Japan in person...
Two days later, in Tokyo Bay, Shishida Manor
Four Mercedes-Benz cars stopped at the gate of the manor, and four or five Shishida family bodyguards wearing black suits and headsets came to greet them.
"Ms. Yukio!"
Yukio, who was sitting in the first Mercedes-Benz, got out first. As a bodyguard of the Shishida family, he naturally knew this Shishida retainer who was inseparable from Miss Shishida Mariko.
Her status is not something that bodyguards like them can compare to.
"Go and tell him that Mr. Tang from New York is here to visit you!"
With his back to Tang Song and the others, Xue Xu winked at a bodyguard in a suit.
"Ha Yi!"
The bodyguard in a suit turned around and trotted quickly into the manor.
"Mr. Tang, I'll take you in!"
Arriving at Shizhitian Manor seemed to give Xuexu a bit more confidence. He spoke to Tang Song, bowing and making a gesture of invitation.
Tang Song was still wearing his white suit. (Of course, he has more than 30 white suits made by Italy, and he has never worn the same one twice.)
With a cane in his hand, he seemed not to notice Xue Xu's little action.
"Sorry, you can't go in!"
Two bodyguards from the Shishida family stopped the bodyguard who wanted to follow.
Tang Song's accompanying bodyguards, who were also wearing black suits and looked more agile, stepped forward and put their hands on their lower backs.
"..." The bodyguards of the Shishida family looked at their suits lifted up, revealing black pistols, and subconsciously took two steps back.
Hold the walkie-talkie and call for support.
"You stay here!" Tang Song turned around and said indifferently!
"Yes! Boss!"
After the bodyguards saluted, they stood in front of the Mercedes-Benz in groups of two, with their hands folded.
With flowing water under a small bridge and bluestone paved ground, the Shizhitian family's manor is very elegant, with some Buddhist Zen and the meaning of ancient Chinese architecture.
Xue Xu took Tang Song along the pavilion, admiring the scenery of the manor as they walked.
"This manor was designed by the master who summoned three of the world's most famous designers. It incorporates the essence of European, American, Japanese, and Chinese architecture! It cost 1 billion yen and took five years to build!"
Xue Xu said as he saw Tang Song looking at the surrounding buildings.
“That’s quite interesting!”
Boss Tang knows nothing about architecture or scenery. Of course, he doesn't look at the buildings or the scenery, but the people.
The people of the Shishida family, the hidden sentries, and the gunmen, none of them could hide from his eyes along the way.
"Yukio!"
Xue Xu was walking with Boss Tang when two people came towards them.
The first one was a middle-aged man, not very tall, with a square face and a beard on his chin. He looked smart and steady.
He saw Xuexu and his group and called out to him.
"Xue Xu, who are these people?"
"Master Shingen, this is Mr. Tang from New York, here to visit the master!"
Xuexu bowed 90 degrees to the visitor and introduced him!
"You are Tang Song from the Tang Group in New York. Mr. Tang, I have heard of your name for a long time. I am Shishida Shingen!"
After hearing Xue Xu's introduction, the middle-aged man in a black Japanese kimono and wooden clogs had a gleam in his eyes and stretched out his hand towards Tang Song.
"Hello, Mr. Shishida! Who is this?"
The two shook hands.
Tang Song's gaze passed over his cheap father-in-law and turned to the middle-aged man in a suit, with a scruffy beard and unkempt appearance.
"This is Dr. Serizawa, a famous biologist and ancient historian in Japan, and the president of the Paleontological Conservation Association!"
"Hello, Dr. Serizawa!"
Tang Song nodded to the middle-aged man in the suit, his face calm and composed.
"Hello!"
"Dr. Serizawa, I have guests here, so I won't take you any further. I will consider the research and investment!"
Shishida Shingen seemed quite enthusiastic towards Tang Song. He defeated Dr. Serizawa with a few words and entertained Tang Song warmly.
"Xue Xu, go to your father first. He should be taking a nap now. I will entertain Mr. Tang!"
"Ha Yi!"
Xue Xu bowed ninety degrees, politely saluted Tang and Song and the other two, then turned and left.
As the eldest son of Shishida, Shingen Shishida's status in Japan is naturally beyond doubt.
As the suzerain state of Japan, the Federation's every move can radiate to Japan, its little brother.
The upper echelons of Japan pay close attention to many things happening in the Federation.
As the alliance's top economic city, New York naturally knew Tang Song's identity.
Stark Group, a dual shareholder of Osborne Group.
A member of the Federal Congress, the chairman of the Tang Group, the "Emperor" of the Federal underground world, any of these identities is worthy of Shishida Shingen's friendship!
However, what Shishida Shingen cared more about was Tang Song's other identity.
The man who was behind his rebellious daughter.
At the same time, he also knew the purpose of Tang Song's visit.
In the traditional Japanese living room, Shishida Shingen kneels down to make tea, while Tang Song sits cross-legged opposite him.
Purple clay tea sets, two brews, mountain spring water to boil the tea, Shishida Shingen personally brewed and served the tea.
"Mr. Tang, this is the finest oolong tea. It was sent by Mr. Qiu from the Three Federations of Taiwan Island. Please help me taste it!"
Tang Song picked up the tea cup, the color was dark green, the soup was golden yellow with green, and it smelled like a flower.
"Mmm, a sweet taste!"
Tang Song took a sip and found it tasted good! It was indeed the best Dong Ding Oolong.
"Mr. Tang, I have heard of your great name in Japan for a long time. You started from scratch and have made such a great career in the Federation. This is what a real man should be like!"
Shishida Shingen's face was full of admiration, holding the tea bowl and said!
Tang Song said modestly, "Mr. Shizhitian, you are too polite. I am just a nouveau riche. There is an old saying in my hometown that only three generations know how to eat and wear. A family like the Shizhitian family that has been passed down for a hundred years is a true aristocrat!"
"A century-old family, Mr. Tang, you must be joking. The Shizhitian family is what it is today because of my father's hard work. Now the head of the Shizhitian family is still my father..."
After Shishida Shingen finished speaking, he saw that Tang Song was obviously not interested, so he changed the subject.
"Mr. Tang, I heard that you took over Hammer Industries. As far as I know, Hammer Industries has been supplying one-fifth of the federal military's weapons. Shishida Group is also responsible for the arms and light industry business. I think the two sides can cooperate a little..."
"Well, that's possible, but I'm new to the arms business. I'll have someone from the company come to Japan to visit and learn a thing or two..."
Upon hearing this, Shishida Xinxuan held up the teacup with both hands and turned towards Tang Song, asking for tea!
... ... ... ..
"Miss, Mr. Tang Song has come to Japan!"
Xuexue was kneeling on the tatami, a samurai sword at his side.
Opposite her is the beautiful woman with a kimono and a perfect figure, Mariko Shishida.
The granddaughter of Shishida Shingen and the eldest daughter of the Shishida family.
Yukio was technically her retainer.
"I knew he would come!"
Shishida Mariko was like a white swan, trimming the flowers in front of her with a pair of pruning shears, smiling like a flower:
"Tang Jun is a very possessive man. He won't allow me to have a fiancé.
My father was afraid that I would covet the position of the head of the Shizhitian family with Tang Jun's support.
So he was anxious to get me engaged.
He doesn't know how much trouble he's in!"
Yukio has long burgundy hair and a star tattoo on her left cheek, and looks like a little gangster on the streets of Shibuya.
But she looked at Shishida Mariko very seriously:
"Mariko, I've been in the Federation for a long time. From what I know, Tang Song is a very scary man..."
Xuexu hesitated for a while:
"If you marry him, I'm worried that the Shishida family will be taken away by him...!"
Kacha!
Shishida Mariko tilted her scissors and directly cut off a flower from a plant.
"Xuexiao, don't talk about some things carelessly!" Mariko spoke softly and seriously.
"Yes, I understand!"
Yukio understood Miss Mariko's concerns and nodded.
"Don't worry, Yukio. The Shishida family will eventually belong to Shishida!" Shishida Mariko stood up, pulled open the screen, and looked at the courtyard outside.
In the courtyard, four red-clothed ninjas were kneeling on futons, guarding the courtyard where Shishida Mariko was.
... ... ... ..
Tang Song did not see Shishida, who was said to be ill. After declining Shishida Shingen's invitation to stay overnight, Tang Song left the Shishida family mansion with his bodyguards.
"Find out who the fiancé that Shishida Shingen found for Mariko is, and have White Ghost bring his head back to me!"
"Ha Yi!"
A red-clothed ninja appeared in front of Tang Song and bowed to him at a 90-degree angle.