Marvel's God-level Mage

Chapter 247 Desperate Virus
"Key card, guys, bring your key card. I put signs in the toilets, please." While leading Zhou Yang inside, Hapi reminded the Stark Industries employees he saw, especially those who didn't Those with key cards should hang the key cards on their chests.

The relationship between Zhou Yang and Stark is also closer than ordinary friends. After all, they have experienced a life-and-death fight in outer space.

As Stark's personal bodyguard, Hapi has now become the security director of Stark Industries. He has secretly investigated Zhou Yang more than once or twice. Although he knows that Zhou Yang is not as simple as it seems on the surface, but in When the two parties actually contacted each other, he acted very friendly and casual, as if the two were already good friends.

Happy is not only a classmate of Stark University, his father is even an old employee of Stark Industries, but because he studied sports, he became Stark's bodyguard driver after graduation. His dearest friend and the person he trusts the most.

"He put all those robots in the basement and brought them party hats. I suggested to Pepper that we should use this asset and use them to replace all the incompetent doormen." Happy took the initiative He helped Zhou Yang and Justina Hammer who was behind him push open the glass door in front of them, and then continued: "Now the biggest weakness of our entire company is the human resources department, which is too unsafe."

Zhou Yang knew exactly what Happy was talking about. It has been more than a year since the New York War, and the influence of Black Widow Natasha Romanov on him has not been eliminated.

This woman hid it too well. Happy had personally been responsible for reviewing Natasha Romanov's background information, but was still deceived.

What's more, during her time working in Stark Industries, Happy has pursued this sexy stunner more than once, but the other party's attention seems to be all on Tony Stark, never caring over him.

However, when Natasha Romanov's identity as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent was exposed, Happy realized that he had been tricked.

It doesn't matter that he himself was played, the key is that Stark was also played along with him, which is the big trouble.

Afterwards, the incident of aliens invading the earth broke out, and for a long time, Stark has never stopped assassinating, especially once, someone pretended to be an employee of Stark Industries to assassinate Stark gram, which made him feel more necessary for internal rectification.

However, although he is the security director of Stark Industries, it is not up to him alone if he wants to review Stark Industries, even if it is just all employees in the entire Stark Industries building. The attitude towards this review is completely different, and it can even be said to be very resistant.

Originally, the employees of Stark Industries had gone through strict background screening before entering Stark Industries. Perhaps there were indeed some people with ulterior motives among them, but a further review was conducted without any evidence. This has already involved The issue of privacy violations.

Stark Industries has another set of mechanisms to guard against these people with ulterior motives, but that set of mechanisms is slightly behind, more in line with the law, and more accepted by people, but this set of Harpy, if it is true Get it up, maybe the entire Stark Industries will be in chaos.

Because even up to now, just one door card incident has caused the employee complaint rate of the entire Stark Industries to triple. For this reason alone, Pepper is enough to make Hapi say that he wants to get further scrutiny Block all plans.

Zhou Yang responded to Happy with a smile, and his eyes naturally fell on Justina Hammer behind him. This woman is still in a daze until now, and she doesn't know what happened.

Zhou Yang, who finally came to the headquarters of Hammer Industries, took her directly to the headquarters of Stark Industries after learning a little about the current group operations and the difficulties they are facing.

Hey, she is the daughter of Justin Hammer. At that time, the grievances between Hammer Industries and Stark Industries were enough for all Stark Industries employees who knew her identity to beat him out of here, so she He was very nervous, and even though he didn't care, his body couldn't help being a little stiff when he was walking.

In fact, Justina Hammer didn't know it at all. The moment she stepped into the gate of Stark Industries, all her identities and backgrounds had been investigated clearly, even though she only had a visitor hanging on her chest. ID card, but what should be investigated has already been investigated.

Otherwise, they would not be allowed to enter Stark Industries casually to see Pepper at all, what if something happens.

Of course Zhou Yang knew this, and he also understood the reason why Stark Industries didn't take unnecessary actions against Justina Hammer.

People don't like him at all now. Since Justin Hammer was imprisoned, the entire Hanbo Industry has long since lost one-tenth of its original scale under the blows of various aspects. It can maintain the current The operation of the current situation is already thanks to Zhou Yang's multi-party mediation, as well as the tens of thousands of employees who are still working in Hammer Industry.

The really valuable things of Hammer Industry have been taken away. There is no way to do it. They owe too much money to the bank. Even after negotiating over-mortgage payment, the bank still directly took away their mortgage. If it weren't for the follow-up capital investment and the guarantee of the New York City government, the entire Hammer Industry would have collapsed completely, accompanied by tens of thousands of unemployed employees.

And it is these tens of thousands of possible unemployed employees that are the biggest basis for them to be guaranteed by the New York City government.

This is an election year, and no politician wants to see tens of thousands of unemployed workers suddenly appear in their jurisdiction.

But it is also because of these tens of thousands of employees that most of Hanmer Industry's profits today are used to pay workers' wages. Although the entire group is still barely operating, it cannot create more value at all.

Zhou Yang brought Justina Hammer here today because it was mainly related to an industrial plan of the Hammer Group. If this industrial plan can be carried out smoothly, the whole company can breathe a sigh of relief.

It's just that some patent issues of Stark Industries are involved in this. Pepper is worthy of being Pepper. She is quick to start, and all the patents in related fields have been registered by her, so that others can't get around it even if they want to. You can only find him or her for patent licensing.

If Justina Hammer came alone, she might not even be able to get in the door, that is, Zhou Yang had greeted Stark in advance, so that he could meet with Pepper at 4:[-] pm.

"Pepper is now having some business affairs with the four o'clock guests..." Happy couldn't continue speaking halfway through, because Pepper, who was discussing business affairs with others, was now having a conversation with a man Standing together, the two of them stood so close that they almost seemed to be directly attached to each other.

"I have to call Tony quickly and tell him to come over quickly." After Happy finished speaking, he immediately left Zhou Yang to find a place to call.

"Sit down first." Zhou Yang told Justina Hammer to sit down on the reception chair beside him. At the same time, his eyes swept over a person in a gray suit who was half lying on the reception chair with his collar open. The young man in the guest chair, who was still chewing gum, looked supercilious.

That's the so-called Extremis. Zhou Yang turned his head and looked at Pepper's office again.

Pepper's office is surrounded by glass doors, and people outside can just see everything inside.

At this time, Pepper was standing with Dr. Killian, who was well dressed and looked very charming as a middle-aged successful man. Surrounding them was a projected image of a human brain, and this projected image made It is very delicate.

It removes the common skin, flesh and bones, and simulates the nerves, nerve nodes, and some key parts of the brain. From a distance, it looks like countless stars scattered throughout the sea of ​​stars.

It's just that this sea of ​​stars is actually the projection of the human head, and it is the real-time simulacra presentation of Dr. Killian himself.

This hand is indeed very delicate, very popular with women, and can quickly shorten the distance between each other, just like what Killian is doing now.

But Zhou Yang knows that Killian and Pepper seem to be very close, but there is still a small absolute distance between them that cannot be crossed. Pepper has always stood very straight, and only Killian bent forward Up close, it looks like a licking dog from a distance.

In fact, it was true. When he was in school, Killian had chased Pepper, but even she dismissed him back then, let alone now.

Pepper is a large technology company with a market value of more than tens of billions of dollars, while Killian has just emerged in recent years.

The stock of Stark Industries has been rising during this period. In addition to normal inflation factors, the other is Tony Stark's extraordinary ability when aliens invaded the earth, which greatly contributed to the stock price of Stark Industries. rise.

Zhou Yang has always held a part of the tradable shares of Stark Industries in his hands. When the superhero civil war occurs in the future, if he sells this part of the stock, he will immediately get another large amount of money. At the same time, he can avoid the stock market caused by the civil war plummeted.

As for Killian, others might not be able to hear the voice inside, but Zhou Yang could hear it clearly.

"After so many years of circumventing the president's ban on unethical biological research, my brain trust and I finally made a breakthrough recently. We call this breakthrough the Extremis Virus." Killian made no secret of what he had been doing, Because today, that stuff is completely legal.

Before the Kiritas invaded the earth, the scientific community still followed certain rules. However, the alien invasion directly broke this layer of rules, forcing the earth to strengthen its own strength in the shortest possible time.

On the other hand, the appearance of Captain America Rogers allowed a steady stream of raw materials for super soldier experiments, which naturally relaxed similar restrictions.

That is to say, Nick Fury put Rogers under his protection, otherwise, Rogers would have been regarded as a blood-drawing machine by others.

"That's the primary somatosensory cortex, the part of the brain that perceives pain, but what I want you to see is another part." Killian turned Pepper's shoulder to look in another direction: "The Extremis virus has developed us biological potential, you see here, this part is basically an empty slot, which means that our brains, in fact our entire DNA, are destined to be upgraded."

According to the results of human genome sequencing, humans only have about 25000 genes, which is not much more than fruit flies or nematodes.

The theory of Extremis Virus is to add artificial gene fragments on the basis of DNA, adding gene fragments with extraordinary abilities, so that humans can have specific extraordinary abilities. This idea is undoubtedly very advanced, but it is also very useless. use.

Regardless of whether they are mutants or aliens, according to research, the basic genes they possess are no different from those of ordinary humans, except that some specific fragments of genes have been mutated, but the overall number has not changed.

And science has also proved that the ability of human beings does not lie in the amount of genetic foundation, but in how to use the existing genes more effectively.

The human body is a mature individual, any addition of new genes or deletion of old genes will cause drastic changes in the DNA series of the entire human body, and even a careless one will lead to the collapse of the entire DNA, and this is exactly the hopeless situation The problem facing the virus now.

In any case, Zhou Yang has also studied bioengineering at Imperial University for more than a year. Although he is not as deep as Dr. Killian in a certain aspect of research, he can still understand the basic theory. Even be able to find out where the problem is.

And most importantly, Extremis was never Killian's, it was Maya Hansen's.

(End of this chapter)