RNP Chapter 182 Captain America
Chapter 182 Captain America
Chapter 182 Captain America
Is it reasonable for someone you've just met to ask you for your valuables right away?
Is such a request a bit excessive?
"This is absolutely outrageous!"
Coulson was furious. He was here to recruit superhumans, not to participate in a Chinese-style blind date.
"How could we possibly give you the Tesseract?! Wait, who told you S.H.I.E.L.D. had a Tesseract?! Oh right, "
Did you see it yourself?
The Cosmic Cube is classified at an extremely high level. Even Captain America, who was standing next to him, didn't know that it had been unearthed by S.H.I.E.L.D. decades earlier.
"I remember Captain America crashed in the Arctic along with the Tesseract."
After testing the waters and finding that S.H.I.E.L.D. was still tinkering with that dangerous item, Joey didn't forget to fan the flames, winking at Captain America beside him:
"Look, Captain, they found this tiny Rubik's Cube in the Arctic Ocean sixty years ago, like searching for a needle in a haystack. And you, a grown man, were only recently retrieved and thawed. In your opinion, which is more important to S.H.I.E.L.D., the Rubik's Cube or you?"
As a die-hard Captain America fan, Coulson's brain was overloaded upon hearing this, and he stammered, unsure how to refute it:
"That's not true at all! We, we..."
"There's no need to explain to him, Coulson."
Fortunately, Steve wasn't the petty type. Although he was somewhat surprised to hear about the Tesseract, he didn't hesitate to help S.H.I.E.L.D. out of their predicament.
"Back then, the Tesseract fell from the plane first, and its location was far from where I crashed. It's not surprising that it took S.H.I.E.L.D. a longer time to find me."
Steve Rogers has only been awake for a few weeks, and this outdated centenarian is far from being up-to-date.
At this moment, apart from the familiar word "mission," everything in this world was completely foreign to him.
In order to integrate into modern society as quickly as possible, he has even recently been catching up on old movies and TV series, following Coulson's advice.
He doesn't even know that Anakin Skywalker, the young Jedi Knight in Star Wars Episodes 1 and 2 that he's currently watching, will later become Sithdal Vader.
S.H.I.E.L.D. was a completely new thing to him, even though the organization's founder was his former comrade-in-arms Howard Stark. Seventy years had passed, and everything had changed.
After his encounter with the black burly man named Nick Fury, Captain America had a nagging feeling that something was off about S.H.I.E.L.D.
A mature commander cannot rely solely on intuition to fight, but neither can he ignore this vague sixth sense.
However, Captain America still acts according to the old ways. Soldiers take it as their duty to obey orders. He is a freedom fighter against the Nazis under the Stars and Stripes in the 1940s, and this should never change.
Even if S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't present itself as wonderful as it seemed, they objectively maintained social stability by ensuring the coexistence of superpowered individuals and ordinary people. This organization couldn't be that bad, could it?
Just as Captain America was still struggling with his own attitude towards S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson's gaze finally settled on the biggest figure present.
He gently lifted the Leopardton wreckage that almost covered the entire rooftop:
"What's with this thing? Has our tycoon finally gotten tired of playing with those little robots? But things have to go gradually, right? Suddenly going this big... won't he find it a bit much to use?"
Coulson wiped non-existent cold sweat from his forehead; he had almost blurted out something he shouldn't have.
Having gone through so much trouble to finally find Superman, and now that we're all here, we can't just exchange a few pleasantries and leave, can we?
In that case, Nick Fury would probably just kill himself afterward, and might even have to deduct the cost of the Quinjet's fuel from his salary.
Coulson had been following the agency's usual approach: first try to "influence" the other party to see if he could be persuaded to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., but that was clearly unlikely.
Among the many superpowered individuals who have cooperated with S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson has seen those who want money, power, fame, and those who want nothing at all, or those who are simply held hostage by S.H.I.E.L.D. But he has never seen anyone who asks for the Tesseract as payment for doing things for S.H.I.E.L.D.!
The Tesseract is to S.H.I.E.L.D. what oil is to the United States. Who would give this thing away so easily?
This outrageous demand clearly indicates a complete lack of cooperation. In principle, S.H.I.E.L.D. has always dealt a heavy blow to such uncooperative superpowered individuals.
So Coulson made up his mind: "Well, if we can't be friends, at least we can exchange contact information, right?"
Well, in principle, Superman isn't exactly a bad guy, so why make things so ugly?
The location where the three of them are currently situated is hardly suitable for any form of conventional combat operation, as the entire top space of the building is occupied by the wreckage of this giant robot.
The three of them together basically had nowhere to land. Superman was even floating in the air, making room for the Quinjet and its crew to land.
Besides, Coulson's brain wasn't ruined by drinking two iced Americanos every day. Faced with an entity that could kill an Abomination with a single punch, even if he and his elite action team were tied together, they wouldn't be enough to defeat it.
"How to contact me?"
When the other person mentioned it, Joey realized that she hadn't even bought a cell phone since coming to this world.
"I don't have his number. If you're really in trouble, contact Tony if you're not in a rush; if it's an emergency, just yell 'Superman!' and I'll come rescue you."
Hearing Joey's completely illogical words, Coulson was somewhat bewildered: "Huh?"
By spouting the idea that his name grants all requests, what does this Superman think he is? A god?
Besides, what kind of emergency could S.H.I.E.L.D. possibly have? If the situation were so dangerous that S.H.I.E.L.D. would be unable to take care of itself and would need outsiders to rescue them, wouldn't the whole Earth be doomed then?
"I can give you a communicator."
With the idea of spending more money in mind, Coulson handed Joey a device that looked like a pager from his pocket, and then, feeling guilty, explained:
"Don't worry, it has absolutely no eavesdropping function, only positioning—but it is, after all, a satellite communication device, and that's how it works. Since you're smart enough to solve the Osborn Group's research and development problems, you must understand these basic facts."
"Whatever."
Joey casually accepted the communicator, his request for the Tesseract was just a spur-of-the-moment thing.
With the Heirs family and Doctor Doom already having a full schedule, Joey just hopes that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s bombshell regarding the Tesseract will be delayed.
One crisis after another was chasing after him, and this sense of déjà vu made Joey feel somewhat nauseous.
This universe definitely has a problem, but Joey doesn't know where the problem lies yet.
Joey's deep thought did not dampen Coulson's beaming smile; the fact that Superman could accept even a fraction of the communicator was a huge step forward.
"No matter what difficulties you encounter, please don't hesitate to contact S.H.I.E.L.D. directly."
The two shook hands, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. team prepared to leave. Just then, Joey hesitated for a second, but ultimately decided to call out to Captain America, who had been acting as his bodyguard:
"Captain, do you have time? I have something I urgently need to talk to you about—and it has to be in private."
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