bookbashuk Chapter 2745 Star Core Rescue (31)
Chapter 2745 Star Core Rescue (31)
Chapter 2745 Star Core Rescue ()
Mysterio returned to the base, and as soon as he entered the door, he opened his arms. Hearing the cheers he expected, he became even more proud. He opened his arms and turned around the room a few times, then took off his helmet.
"What did I say?!" He roared as if to vent his anger: "Stark has always been a fool. He is my defeated opponent, always! He is a damn thief! A despicable and dirty rat in the gutter! Only me! I am the real hero!"
After venting his anger, Mysterio let out a long sigh. He waved his hand and said, "Bring up the footage of today's battle. I want to see how far Stark Group has developed this technology."
Soon, everyone in the team began to gather in front of the screen to watch the replay of today's battle. Sophia frowned slightly and said, "It seems that they have made a breakthrough in animation technology. The curling of the sandstorm monster's body is more natural. There is almost no similar animation. It can be seen that they are not using a template."
"What's so strange about this?" Baker was still a little disdainful. He said, "Stark Group's computing power is much stronger than ours. Their rows and rows of expensive servers are not just for show. Moreover, they have a large number of employees who can manually render every action. It is normal for the animation to be more detailed. He just relies on this."
“But it does put pressure on us,” Sofia said. “The more elaborate the animations are, the harder it is for us to spot them.”
"Why should we expose them?" Baker turned around and asked, "We just need to defeat them again and again. The stronger and more vicious they act, the more I will look like a hero. Isn't that good?"
Sophia opened her mouth, but finally said, "I mean, there's a good chance they'll develop offensive illusions like we did. Don't forget, drone technology..."
"That's enough!" Baker roared, "I can't lose to him!"
He took a deep breath and stood there in silence. The Chinese scientist came up and patted him on the shoulder. Baker stood up, glanced at the time and said, "I'll find a way. No matter what, we already have the advantage now. They won't be willing to lose to me today. There will be another big show tomorrow night."
Baker returned to the hospital with the help of a drone. He gently opened the hospital window and found Schiller sleeping with his back to him. He breathed a sigh of relief.
He lay back on the hospital bed and slept until dawn, but it was already early morning when he fell asleep. He should have slept until noon, but Schiller woke him up at dawn.
Baker was in a daze, his mind was not very clear, it could be said that his mind was blank, but Schiller asked him to fill out the damn form. Baker was afraid that he would find out what happened in the middle of the night, so he had to patiently fill out the form.
After he finished filling out the form, he saw Schiller pouring him a glass of water. He picked up the cup, but the next second, the cup fell to the ground with a bang.
"It's so hot!" Baker cursed. He sat up from the bed, supported his upper body with his elbows, shook his arms, and then saw Schiller squatting down slowly to pick up the fragments.
"What's going on?" A tall and strong agent pushed the door open a crack and asked with some dissatisfaction.
"It's okay." Schiller stood up with the fragments wrapped in paper, glanced at Baker, but shook his head and said nothing.
The agent looked at Baker with an increasingly hostile gaze. He raised his eyebrows and said, "There will be another interrogation in two hours. You'd better behave yourself and don't do anything tricky, otherwise you'll be finished."
Then he turned to Schiller with some reluctance and said, "Thank you for your hard work, doctor. Just hold on for a few more days."
Schiller nodded to him as well, and the door was closed.
"Damn it! Why did you pour such hot water for me?!" Baker stared at Schiller with dissatisfaction.
"Didn't you see that I was pouring water out of the kettle that had just boiled?" Schiller looked at Baker helplessly and said, "Why did you reach out to take it?"
"But if you put it there, doesn't that mean you are..."
"When have I reminded you to drink water these past few days without saying 'drink some water'? Today I didn't say anything just to wait for the water to cool down."
Baker looked at the ceiling helplessly, let out a long breath and lay back on the bed. The pent-up emotion in his heart was indescribable. After thinking for a long time, he finally found another loophole and said, "Then why did you wake me up so early?"
"Because SHIELD is very busy today, the agents have to come two hours early. They asked me to make sure you are awake enough. Don't I get up as early as you?"
After saying that, Schiller yawned, turned around tiredly and went back to the preparation room. Baker always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
No one spoke, and Baker just lay on the bed. He got up too early today, and began to feel sleepy as soon as he lay down. Just when he was about to fall asleep, Schiller woke him up again.
"You can't sleep. There are still questionings." Schiller put an ice cube on Baker's head. Baker woke up suddenly again due to the coolness and felt his brain was swollen and painful.
“You are abusing the patient!”
"I'm just doing my job." Schiller acted helpless, as if he was facing a child who was making trouble for no reason. He said, "Your refusal to cooperate is what got you into this situation today, and it's also what got me into this situation."
"How else do you want me to cooperate?!" Baker suddenly became very excited, as if he was venting out the emotions that he had been holding back for a long time. "I've already told you, I don't know what's going on!"
"I admit that I changed my identity to avoid the huge compensation, but I also passed the review of the space station position with my own ability, right? I also did a good job in my work, didn't I? Why do you treat me as a criminal?"
"Because you are indeed a criminal." Natasha led a few agents to break into the house.
The only stranger among the agents took two steps forward, flashed his ID to Baker and said, "Senior FBI agent, we are arresting you now on 26 charges including identity theft, endangering national space safety, and planning and carrying out terrorist attacks. Come with us, Quentin Baker."
Baker's eyes widened, seemingly unable to believe it, but Natasha crossed her arms and said, "Do you really think you have done your job well? Then who deleted the surveillance video after the photovoltaic integrated device was burned?"
Baker opened his mouth wide and said, "I don't know! I..."
"You are the head of the software safety engineering department. After the disaster, you left your post without permission, causing the situation to deteriorate further. Even if you didn't do it, you can't escape blame. And since you changed your identity and sneaked into the space station, it's not wrong to convict you of endangering space safety."
"I'm not, but I finally found the key information. If you don't believe me, you can go ask Dr. Sophia. I took them to the control room..."
But at this time, the handcuffs had already been put on Baker's hands. Baker struggled frantically, but the agent didn't care at all. He pulled him up from the bed and took him out the door.
Just as he passed by Natasha, he saw a mocking smile on Natasha's face, and certain fragments of memories flashed through Baker's mind.
He had met Natasha when he was still working at Stark Group. He had seen Natasha going in and out of the laboratory, and he had even seen him having a good chat with Tony Stark.
She is Stark's person! Baker thought in disbelief, the two of them are in the same group!
Yes, how could he forget that Stark is a big capitalist. He can bribe the agents of the FBI and SHIELD, and even the judges and juries. As long as they insist that it is his fault for dereliction of duty, he will definitely be thrown into jail!
No, no, there is still a way. In panic, Baker thought, although Stark is rich, he is not completely without capital. He is the mysterious man. As long as he can find evidence to prove his innocence before the trial, there is still hope.
Baker turned to look at his phone.
As we all know, most countries have a bail system. In non-major crimes, the suspect only needs to pay a certain amount of bail after being arrested and indicate that he will appear in court on time to restore his personal freedom.
In the United States, paying enough bail can basically restore a person's complete personal freedom. Many wealthy people can even travel around without any restrictions on their activities before appearing in court, all because of the existence of this system.
That is to say, before the actual trial, Baker still has one last chance to turn the tables, which is to pay enough bail and use the time of bail to find evidence to prove his innocence.
If he doesn't pay bail, with the FBI and SHIELD keeping an eye on him, it would be almost impossible for him to climb over the wall and go out to carry out his great superhero career like he did in the hospital, so he would definitely choose bail.
Sure enough, five hours after Baker was arrested, Schiller's phone rang, and Coulson's voice came from the other end, "I have some clues. Would the doctor like to come over and take a look?"
Schiller set off for S.H.I.E.L.D. When he arrived at the office, Coulson and his subordinates were fiddling with computers. When they saw Schiller coming, Coulson immediately came up to greet them.
"You're amazing, doctor. We're finally getting somewhere." Coulson led Schiller inside and said, "The person who paid the bond for him is Dr. Sophia Adela. They are colleagues, at least on the surface."
"But according to the information, Dr. Adela's financial situation was not enough to pay Baker's bail, judging from her income flow, but she suddenly took out a large sum of money to bail Baker out."
"Have you found out the source of the funds?"
"This is one of the clues." Coulson sat down in front of a computer and said, "Two hours after Baker was arrested, Dr. Adela's account suddenly had an additional amount of money from an unknown source. The amount was exactly the same as the required bail."
Schiller narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at Coulson and said, "Who gave her the money?"
"The money went through several international accounts and we are now tracing it, but usually money like this is dirty money and it is difficult to find its true source."
"Boss!" Suddenly one of the agents shouted, "Found it!"
Coulson and Shearer walked over immediately. Shearer leaned in front of the screen and found that the place name pointed to by the ultimate source of the account was "Hong Kong".
"What did you say?!" Baker looked at the agent outside in disbelief through the railing and said, "I've already paid bail, why won't you let me go?!"
"I'm sorry, we found another case of yours." The agent outside said, "When you were working at Stark Group, you damaged the equipment in the laboratory. For this, you need to bear 200 million US dollars in compensation. If you can't pay this part of the compensation, we can't let you go just like that."
"Why? I've already paid the bail!" Baker kept banging on the railing and yelling outside, but the agent ignored him. After a long time, the agent said, "Don't forget, only suspects with less serious circumstances who meet the bail conditions can be released on bail. If you have no criminal record, you do meet the bail conditions, but if you consider your previous bad behavior, I'm afraid you won't be eligible for bail."
Baker hammered on the railing hard, but he knew what the agent said was true. Generally speaking, it is difficult to get bail for a second imprisonment, and even if it is possible, the bail required is very high.
The amount involved in his previous case was as high as 200 million US dollars. Even according to New York State regulations, based on the bail amount for the first imprisonment, a bail of at least 20 US dollars would be required. He can't even come up with 2 US dollars now, let alone 20 US dollars.
"I want to see Sophia, I want to see Sophia!" Baker shouted, grabbing the railing.