After setting up everything, Luke bought some fast food and ate it on a stone counter in the special economic zone.
The use of drones was greatly restricted here.
No matter how stupid the American authorities were, they wouldn't allow drones to fly around the brain of the country.
The team was communicating via an encrypted ground network, and the surveillance range wasn't nearly as comprehensive as that of a drone.
Luke could only make up for the lack of surveillance.
Compared with drones, he could detect more things with his personal abilities.
Suddenly, his Sharp Nose picked up a familiar scent, but it was extremely faint.
It drifted over from an alley dozens of meters away, and there were only bits and pieces of the scent.
If it wasn't for the fact that Luke had a deep memory of the scent, he might have missed it.
He stood up and strolled toward the source of the scent while biting into his hamburger.
That person wasn't an enemy or a rookie, so Luke wasn't in a hurry.
Very soon, he passed through an apartment building and entered the alley next door, where he saw a small entrance in the distance.
His eyes flickered. Wasn't this the special economic zone's central hospital?
Not long ago, the stewed egg had "died" in the emergency room here.
That way, it made sense for that person to show up here.
When he walked into the hospital building through the entrance, he rejected his previous idea.
It was obvious that the person had only been here for less than twenty minutes.
And Nick Fury had been "dead" for almost two hours. Why was this person here?
Agents wouldn't do meaningless things. Nick Fury had been very important when he was alive, but now that he was dead, it might be worth a second trip.
Very soon, he found the owner of the scent, Black Widow Natasha.
The person who had grabbed her and pushed her into a corner was another acquaintance — Captain America Steve.
Luke couldn't help but laugh inwardly. Sure enough, things weren't that simple.
He didn't show himself, and simply used Elementary Soundwave to listen to the two people's conversation ten meters away from a corner.
A moment later, the couple left together.
Luke thought for a moment, then informed Frank and Tony of the intelligence.
Both sides simply replied, "Got it," and didn't say anything else.
It was enough for them to know about this additional intelligence. Luke didn't need them to do anything.
Luke followed them slowly and didn't stop until Steve and Selina put on makeup again, stole a Chevrolet pickup, and drove northeast.
Of course, it was only the level-two clone that stopped tailing them.
This strongest doppelganger had to stay in the special region to deal with major events that could happen at any time.
Therefore, he could only let the level-one clone follow the Chevrolet pickup.
Luke and Steve had met many times, but they weren't that familiar with each other.
If he took the initiative to approach them, the other party would definitely be suspicious, which would waste more time.
In any case, when he was following them just now, he had already heard their conversation and was very clear about their destination.
Steve's destination is the Gulf Coast Camp in New Jersey, which is only a little more than 200 kilometers away from the District. This clue may lead to Hydra.
At that time, he could have his doppelganger attack from the shadows and earn some experience and credit points.
If there really was an emergency in the Special Economic Zone, it would only take a few minutes for the clone to fly back at full speed.
…
In the evening, Steve and Selina drove to the Caspian Barracks, opened the door of an underground base, and walked in.
Luke, who had arrived half an hour earlier, was carefully searching the underground base with his spider drone.
This underground base belonged to S.H.I.E.L.D. and had been abandoned for more than 20 years.
Judging from the preliminary examination just now, it was true that no one had been here for several years, but the clues Natasha and the others got were related to this place.
Secondly, the power supply and ventilation system of the underground base were completely normal, and the electricity consumption wasn't small.
Although the power supply line was connected to a nearby farm, it was still very easy for a detective like Luke to find something suspicious.
After all, when American police caught suspects who grew weeds indoors, they would often check the electricity meter first.
Modern life and work were inseparable from electricity. Once a job consumed a lot of electricity, it was easy to arouse suspicion.
Luke had relied on Tony's ark reactor to provide enough electricity for his research while keeping it a secret.
There shouldn't be anything like an ark reactor in this abandoned base.
If it wanted to generate electricity on its own, it would need to build its own power station and have enough power sources (water, wind, and fire), which would be even more difficult to keep a secret.
The drone watched Steve and Natasha in silence as it found a hidden elevator and entered the password to descend.
Then, in the computer room of a bunch of antique computers, Natasha first noticed the eye-catching USB drive port.
Compared with the other old computers and storage devices, this USB drive port was clearly a recent product, and was connected to the antique computers with a separate cable.
Deep in thought, Natasha took out a silver USB drive from her pocket.
This USB drive was the reason why Nick Fury was "killed," and why Stephen was wanted by S.H.I.E.L.D.
Before Nick Fury "died," he had given it to Steve and told him not to trust anyone.
After Steve returned to S.H.I.E.L.D., fearing that Hydra would discover the USB drive, he had temporarily hidden it in a hospital vending machine.
In the end, the cunning Natasha got hold of it like a mantis stalking a cicada.
Naturally, Natasha wasn't Hydra, so she helped Stephen find out where the USB drive had come from, which was this antique computer room.
At that moment, she inserted the USB drive into the port, and the antique machines around her lit up and started to work.
A prompt appeared on the antique monitor. "Do you want to start the system?"
After a brief hesitation, Natasha typed "yes" on the keyboard and pressed enter.
The machine sped up, and the antique monitor flashed green as a blurry face was pieced together.
This antique monitor could only display green on a black screen, so the face looked like a ghost.
Luke's eyes lit up.
He liked to tinker with old things, but he had never played with an antique computer before. Now that he looked at it, it was quite interesting.
But the face directly called out Steve and Natasha's names and birth dates, and revealed its own name: Arnin-Zola.
It was a scientist under the Red Skull in World War II, and a core member of Hydra.
But Dr. Zola was actually Swiss, and had died of lung cancer in 1972.
But this green ghost claimed that it was Dr. Zola.
Before Dr. Zola died, he had saved his thoughts or something else into the computer here and turned it into a digital "it."
Steve and Natasha were astonished underground, and Luke's eyes almost popped out of his head.
After Zola revealed his identity, Luke immediately sent an emergency request to Tony.
Tony answered almost instantly, "Is something wrong?"
Luke simply sent the video that the drone had taken just now and said, "Jarvis, it seems like there's still a gap between you and real artificial intelligence, right?"
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