Hulk had vanished from people's sight.
But the Abomination had not; everyone knew he was locked up in the Osborn prison in New York.
The absurd part was that the Military insisted that Bronski, also known as the Abomination, was a war hero, and they planned to pin everything on the Hulk.
However, to alleviate the fear of martial law among New York citizens, Harry opened up access to the ctOS that day, allowing everyone to watch the battle through undamaged surveillance cameras.
Although the big green guy didn't look like a normal person either, the big bald guy was clearly the one who had actively caused the destruction.
On this point, Nick agreed, but unfortunately, his superiors—the World Security Council—believed they needed to recruit the Abomination as a candidate for the Avengers Initiative.
Therefore, they needed to send an Agent who could botch this deal.
In the original story, this person was Tony Stark.
But here, the conversation on Norman's side had already been botched, and on Harry's side, Agent Sitwell had arrived.
Sitwell looked at Harry's half-smiling expression and felt inexplicably strange—it seemed like this was their first meeting, yet the way this Mr. Osborn looked at him didn't feel like a first encounter.
This Sitwell was in cahoots with the head of the Council, Alexander Pierce; they were both HYDRA.
So, he offered Harry some very generous terms.
"These are our terms." After finishing, Sitwell silently took a sip of water.
These terms included a significant range of political support, such as helping the Osborn Group pass a bill in Congress, a bill regarding the relaxation of regulations on power armor-related equipment.
Currently, any group or collective wishing to purchase the Osborn Group's power armor or powered exoskeletons had to pass certification from relevant organizations before they could buy the civilian versions of this equipment.
While they were called civilian versions, in reality, these exoskeletons should more accurately be called industrial exoskeletons, most of which were used for work and production.
Once the bill passed, Osborn could sell watered-down versions of the equipment to the public; this was a huge market, but also a very sensitive topic.
In the United States, gun control had always been a hot topic, not to mention these advanced pieces of equipment.
This was just a small example; in short, the terms were very generous.
"Nice terms, but I refuse."
Handing a knife to HYDRA was a bit stupid; the Abomination was, after all, quite good research material.
As for the bill support, with this incident having occurred, public outcry would only grow stronger, and it was only a matter of time before Congress passed the bill.
Sitwell was very surprised.
"You see, the public outcry in New York is intense; I can't just hand him over like that."
Although Harry said this, his expression was very dismissive.
Sitwell realized that Harry had no intention of handing over the Abomination at all.
He didn't mind, though; one way or another, he could always complete his mission for HYDRA or S.H.I.E.L.D.
After a friendly handshake, Harry saw Sitwell out.
"Another Agent?" Hurley walked in, carrying a folder as usual.
"Yeah, such a big monster, you'd know it definitely has something to do with the federal government."
Harry frowned as he spoke.
He noticed a strand of white hair on Hurley's head, but he had injected her with an activity enhancer just a few months ago, so this shouldn't be happening.
"Are you under a lot of stress lately?" Harry placed the document on the table.
"It's always been high." Hurley sighed.
Seeing this, Harry walked to the snack machine and fiddled with it, producing a pizza.
"Then take a break, Georgia prairie flavor, your favorite."
"Harry." Hurley's tone was somewhat helpless, but she finally put down the documents and picked up the pizza.
It smelled so good.
"It's been so many years, you still haven't changed your taste." Harry also sat down on the sofa. "Remember what I said about a vacation? I really think we should take one."
By now, S.H.I.E.L.D. had already gone to study Thor's hammer; Coulson had gone to New Mexico shortly after the Stark Expo opened, and the plot should be nearing its end now.
The only thing of value there was the Destroyer, but Harry couldn't take all the benefits; if he really angered S.H.I.E.L.D., things would get troublesome.
"Where to?"
"Santorini?" Harry thought about places they hadn't been to. "Fiji? Or some desert? Sandboarding is fun. Where do you want to go? Though, if you ask me, these places all seem about the same."
As Harry spoke, he had the holographic projector display images.
As they watched, the atmosphere in the office became ambiguous.
The next second, they shared a French kiss.
"How about right here?"
"The Osborn Group president's office?" Harry smiled and reached out. "Not bad."
Office romances were generally prohibited, but the boss dating in the office?
The office was the boss's home, and the law couldn't interfere that much with dating at home.
To be precise, the top floor of the Osborn Tower was indeed Harry's home, similar to the top floor of the Stark Tower.
They didn't finish their "battle" until nightfall.
It was truly a wonderful day.
The next day.
[Mission Chain: Bloodline]
[Mission Progress: Treat 5,000 patients with various hereditary diseases and record the causes: 256 / 5,000]
[Collect 50 types of human genes with positive traits: 6 / 50]
The Leader, the Abomination, and the Hulk had added three special genes to Harry's collection, although Harry secretly complained: Can these guys from the Gamma family even count as human?
It was foreseeable that this mission would take Harry a very, very long time.
However, with ctOS, finding these super-powered individuals would be much easier.
Striking while the iron was hot, he could take advantage of the public's fear of super-powered people.
The target was wearing a black coat and a purple scarf, a British man, with a woman following him.
At first glance, passersby might think they were a couple, but Harry knew this man was no good.
The man's name was Zebediah Kilgrave, also known as the Purple Man; his ability was to release a special virus that could control the behavior and thoughts of those around him, a quite evil ability.
It seemed S.H.I.E.L.D. hadn't lied to him about the Purple Man being in New York, though someone had used this as a cover to infiltrate the ctOS server.
And the woman beside him was someone he was controlling, named Jessica Jones, a woman with super strength.
"Frank, do you see the target?"
"Yes, boss. What did you say this guy's ability was again?"
"Never mind what that idiot's ability is, pay attention to my signal in a moment."
Yes, an idiot.
After ctOS was installed in New York, most Agents had withdrawn from the city; even if super-powered people remained in New York, they knew to keep their heads down.
Only someone like Kilgrave—Harry could only say he was stupid—was he challenging the intelligence of ctOS?
Harry had discovered him a few days ago; this kid was breaking into private homes as usual, then controlling others to be his servants, and it wasn't just once or twice.
Although they hadn't captured what he did after breaking into the homes, his repeated entry and exit from different residents' houses had still caused ctOS to take notice of him.
Furthermore, this guy might have had something wrong with his brain; he kept creating chaos in various parts of New York and then having Jessica fix it.
After doing this a few times, ctOS directly flagged this person in red: Extremely dangerous criminal! Probability of crime: 9%!
And after Harry's observation, he confirmed it was indeed the Purple Man.
It seemed there was a mysterious organization called IGH behind the Purple Man, but Harry didn't care.
No one could do whatever they wanted in New York unless Osborn nodded.
"Alright, boss."
Frank placed his hand on the trigger.
And Harry straightened his clothes; there was a speech waiting for him outside.
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