The venue of the game is the MetLife Stadium in New York City. There will be more than 100,000 people watching the game. Xia Shang needs to be responsible for the public security issues on site. These tasks kept him busy until the evening. Only after the work was finished did he make an appointment with the locomotive.
Locomotive was a little nervous about Xia Shang's meeting.
"The steak here tastes good. You can try it." Xia Shang used a knife and fork to cut the steak on the plate into small pieces, then put it into his mouth and chewed it slowly. "You look a little guilty. Are you afraid that the Water Group will find out if you use Compound No. 5 tomorrow?"
"Please, I really need to win this match. If I lose, I will definitely be kicked out of the Seven Team by Homelander."
The locomotive lowered his voice and pleaded with Xia Shang.
Xia Shang pulled out a wet towel and wiped the oil stains from the corners of his mouth. His extremely cold eyes were like a sharp sword piercing the locomotive. "You were kicked out of the seven-man team. What does that have to do with me? You didn't give me a penny of your annual dividend of a few percent."
"Five million US dollars. As long as you promise to keep the secret for me, I will give you five million US dollars." The locomotive showed a painful expression. He cursed Xia Shang in his heart as a greedy and damned vampire, and said with gritted teeth.
"Sorry, I'm very satisfied with the salary that Walter gives me at the moment." Xia Shang said after finishing the last piece of steak.
The locomotive was about to be driven crazy by the guy in front of him.
"So what do you want? Do you want me to help you become the president of the Water Group? Come on, man, just be straightforward. I'll tell you how much money you want me to spend before this matter is resolved."
"Five million dollars, plus your girlfriend's access to Compound No. 5."
As soon as Xia Shang finished speaking, the locomotive immediately refused: "Impossible, I can give you the money, but I don't know the channel for compound No. 5, and the demon claw woman can't tell me."
With a snap, Xia Shang crushed the glass in his hand. He picked up one of the pieces, put it in his palm, ground it into powder, picked up the locomotive's glass and poured the wine into it. Then he handed the glass back to the locomotive, motioning him to drink the wine.
"Remember, I'm not negotiating with you. No matter what method you use, whether it's threats or inducements, I just want to get what I want. If I don't get what I want after three hours, you will bear the consequences yourself."
Xia Shang said calmly.
He looked at the locomotive's face, which was flushed with humiliation, and sneered, "I advise you not to have the idea of killing someone to silence them, because that is ridiculous. If I want to, I can make you suffer a fate worse than this glass in one second."
Xia Shang knew very well how to deal with such people who only bully the weak and fear the strong. The other party would only obey if you act tougher. If you negotiate with the other party in a soft voice, there is no other possibility except that you will be regarded as an idiot.
"Promise me, you can continue to be the king of speed in people's hearts and continue to enjoy the crown of glory. If you refuse, you will become a waste that will be kicked out by Walter. I think you are a smart person and know how to make a choice."
"Do you want to be the king of speed, or a loser?"
Xia Shang's words sounded like the devil's whisper. After some hesitation, the locomotive took the wine glass from Xia Shang's hand and drank it all.
"Looking forward to your good news." Xia Shang smiled slightly and watched the locomotive leave.
...
An hour later, Xia Shang's mobile phone received text messages from the bank and the locomotive at the same time.
Looking at the 6.66 million U.S. dollars added to his account, Xia Shang chuckled and said, "Do you think I'm Satan? However, this is the first time I've seen someone use money to insult someone. It's very creative. I suggest you keep it up."
Xia Shang then looked at the text message from the train.
The content of the text message is very simple, just one line of text.
Mercy Hospital in Midtown, looking for the head nurse named Xiqi Gillie.
Mercy Hospital... I see. If Xia Shang remembered correctly, this matter should be related to Izkiel of the Water Group, the bisexual with rubber superpower whom he met in the nightclub before. This guy is the charity ambassador of the Water Group, responsible for delivering Compound No. 5 to hospitals around the world that cooperate with Water.
The compound No. 5 that Lokomotiv's girlfriend got should have been circulated from the hospital.
Then, he still guessed wrong. In fact, most of the superhumans knew that Compound No. 5 was circulated in the hospital. As for Compound No. 5 in the hands of the locomotive, it was given to him by his fellow countrymen.
Afterwards, Xia Shang first went to the car shop to buy an off-road vehicle, and then drove to the hospital gate. By tipping, he successfully met the head nurse named Xiqi Jili.
"This is a check for one million dollars. You should know what I want."
"Sorry, I don't understand." Xiqi was about to leave. She didn't like doing business with strangers because it was very risky.
"The Claw Woman told me about you."
Xiqi frowned and said, "Two million, or no deal."
"No problem." Xia Shang agreed readily. He took out his checkbook, signed a check for two million and handed it to Xiqi.
"Wait me five minutes." Xiqi took the check, turned around and walked into the hospital.
When she came out again, she had a box wrapped in black cloth in her hand.
"This is contraband. If anything goes wrong, it will have nothing to do with our hospital."
"I know the rules."
After changing back to his original appearance, Xia Shang returned to the car and opened the black box. Inside were neatly arranged rows of Compound No. 5. There were a total of ten units, with a unit price of US$200,000, which was ten times cheaper than the official purchase price.
Of course, Xia Shang estimated that the production cost of this thing should not be high, otherwise Water would not be so generous to give out so much Compound No. 5 to many hospitals for human research every year.
"I hope it will work. After all, the fusion speed of carbon super-intelligence is really too slow."
Xia Shang called out the panel, and the fusion progress was now 13%.
He took out a reagent, cut the head of the reagent with his fingertips, and then poured the blue liquid inside into the palm of his other hand. A crack appeared on the palm of Xia Shang's right hand, and after swallowing a few drops of compound No. 5, it re-glued itself like a zipper.
At first, he could feel slight tingling sensations all over his body.
But it's not obvious.
Could it be because the dosage was not enough? Xia Shang transformed his right index finger into a tiny tentacle, which then snaked into Compound No. 5, sucking the liquid bit by bit. To prevent any accidents, the tentacle sucked very slowly.
But as the absorbed dose continued to increase, Xia Shang closed his eyes and felt the changes in the cells in his body. The cells did not feel uncomfortable, but became quite active. They greedily absorbed compound No. 5, and their structure became more and more complex.
Wait until Xia Shang opens his eyes.
One bottle of compound number five has been absorbed.
I don't know if it's because he already possessed the superpower of invisibility, so this absorption did not allow him to gain an additional new superpower.
But this is not important. Xia Shang looked at the panel in front of him and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
[Carbon Super Talent is being integrated, the current progress is 33%]