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Chapter 24: The Cosmic Cube? An enraged Nick Fury!

S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.

Nick Fury's office.

"What did you say? His marksmanship is better than yours? His speed was so fast that you couldn't even see it? He destroyed two tanks with just one kick?"

"Are you sure what you're saying is true? You're not delirious from a fever?"

After hearing Black Widow's report, Nick Fury seriously doubted the veracity of the story.

Natasha has undergone inhuman training to have such marksmanship, and her physical fitness is far superior to that of ordinary people, especially her nerve reflexes. On the other hand, Horn is just an ordinary college student who grew up under Tony Stark's wing, and he is only eighteen years old this year!

Even if you started training from the womb, you could never be stronger than Natasha!

Could he really be a genius?

Nick Fury frowned slightly, looked up at Natasha, and asked again.

"You just said he seems to have some kind of X-ray vision ability? He accurately found Tony in the cave? And he even pinpointed where the enemies were?"

"That's right."

Natasha nodded.

These are all things that Horn agreed to report, so there's nothing to hide.

"Such an ability is not something an ordinary person could possess, unless... he was also exposed to something similar to gamma rays and became a mutant?"

A couple of days ago, Lenovo reported on a green monster, which made Nick Fury think of the connection.

"If that's true, then we definitely have to recruit them!"

He couldn't let such a talent slip by.

Especially considering his identity as Tony Stark's brother.

"Natasha, continue to monitor Hornstark's situation. Notify me immediately if anything unusual happens."

Having made the decision, Nick Fury immediately gave the order.

"no problem."

Natasha nodded in agreement.

She was just worried that she didn't have a chance to get closer to Horn.

"Why did you agree so readily this time?"

Nick Fury was somewhat surprised.

Just as he was about to ask, he saw that Natasha had already left his office.

"Reporting to the Director, just now, Tony Stark announced the closure of the Weapons Division and decided to unconditionally transfer 10 percent of his Stark Industries shares to Hornstark."

Just then, Hill strode in carrying a tablet.

"What did you say?! Close the weapons department? And transfer the shares to Horn?"

Nick Fury sprang up from his chair, his single eye wide open, staring at Hill in disbelief.

"That's right, Tony Stark said it himself at a press conference."

Hill nodded very affirmatively and handed him the tablet in her hand.

"Damn it!"

Nick Fury took the tablet, glanced at it, his face turning as black as coal, and quickly sat back down in his chair, opening the Stark Industries stock page on the computer.

In an instant, a green light was projected onto his face, turning his complexion green, making him look even worse than if he had eaten a bitter melon.

He immediately turned pale, took out his phone, and made a call.

"What's wrong? Why are you calling so urgently?"

Horn's confused voice came through the phone.

"Damn it, what else do you want to ask! Didn't you see the news?"

Nick Fury cursed under his breath, barely suppressing his anger.

If he had known it would turn out this way, he shouldn't have trusted the other party in the first place. Now look what's happened, the stock has plummeted to its daily limit.

"News? I didn't see it."

Horn still acted as if he knew nothing.

"Tony Stark shut down the Armaments Department and transferred 10% of his Stark Industries shares to you! Do you know what that means?"

Nick Fury had completely lost the composure expected of a top agent and was practically roaring as he spoke.

"What?! Ten percent of the shares were transferred to me?"

Closing the weapons department was entirely within Horn's expectations, but the transfer of shares was something he never anticipated.

After all, that's 10% of the shares!

Based on Stark Industries' market capitalization, it's worth at least 20 billion!

And it's in US dollars!

In his memory, on his tenth birthday, Tony gave him nothing more than a manor house and a black card with a billion dollars in assets.

"What's going on, bro?"

Horn was also a little confused by him. "We're going to his place for dinner tonight anyway, I'll ask him then."

"Why didn't you tell me beforehand that Tony was going to shut down the weapons department?"

"Do you know how much this has cost me? And what did you say to me just three days ago?"

Nick Fury's words came out in rapid succession over the phone.

"Can't you just calm down? It's only been a few days! You can't even sit still anymore?"

Horn raised an eyebrow, only now realizing that the other party had come for this matter, which left him speechless.

And he's the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.? The stock has only dropped a little, and he's already changed jobs like this.

"How many days? It's been a full seventy-six days since Tony disappeared! Do you know how I've spent these seventy-six days?"

Nick Fury wished he could crawl through the phone.

"How about we make a bet? If the stock price skyrockets as I predict on the date I set, you'll do me a favor, okay?"

Horn's lips curled up slightly. Since the other party had offered themselves up for him to exploit, why wouldn't he take advantage of it?

"What did I promise you?"

Nick Fury frowned, sensing something strange about the matter; it didn't seem as simple as it appeared.

"Let me play with the Tesseract for a few days."

Horn said it bluntly.

With his current knowledge, he was confident that he could create powerful weapons using the Cosmic Cube in just a few days. When equipped with the scaled-down version of the armor, it would greatly enhance his combat power.

Of course, if we could develop space teleportation technology, that would be an even bigger win.

"What?! A Tesseract?"

Nick Fury was startled, his mind immediately on high alert. "Is this something to be played with casually? Absolutely not!"

"In that case, forget it. You can sell the stocks if you want."

Horn immediately prepared to hang up the phone.

"Wait, you've screwed me over so badly, and you're just going to let it go like this?"

Nick Fury quickly called out to him.

"So what do you want to do? And don't forget, it was me who saved Tony."

Horn reminded him.

If it weren't for his intervention, even without the butterfly effect, Tony would still be locked up in that dark, sunless cave, and the stock price would probably have plummeted by then.

After all, in the public's perception, the Middle East is a region of constant war. If someone falls into the hands of local terrorists, even if they are not killed by them, they may be mistakenly killed by other armed forces. The longer they are missing, the smaller their chances of survival become.

"Okay, I agree."

Nick Fury thought about it and realized that he really didn't know what to do with the other party. Besides, what bad intentions could a college freshman have? Even if he got the Tesseract, so what?

As for why the other party knew about the secret item "Cosmic Cube", he subconsciously assumed that Howard or Tony had told him, and did not suspect anything.

"But what if you lose?"