"Young Master, are we just letting them go like that?"
Outside the Villa courtyard, Samira looked at the fully armed soldiers carrying several corpses quickly boarding a stealth fighter jet, her expression somewhat displeased as she quietly asked Luca.
Luca, hearing her words, calmly shook his head.
"What else can we do besides let them go? They even sent a fighter jet. Do we kill them and then wait to be hit by missiles?"
In fact, Luca's actions were out of necessity. Not to mention the fighter jet that transported Strucker and his group was still overhead.
Even without the fighter jet, with the power HYDRA possessed, Luca might have just eliminated Strucker, and then two missiles aimed at his location would immediately launch from a U.S. military Base.
'After all, my strength is still too weak!'
Although Luca appeared very strong in front of Baron Strucker, it was only a temporary upper hand.
In terms of foundation, strength, and influence, Luca was unable to confront HYDRA directly, even if Strucker only represented one faction of HYDRA.
Just think, Stark's Villa could be bombed by missiles, almost killing him on the spot. What was he compared to that? How many divisions did he have?
"However, business is business. It doesn't matter who I do it with. Perhaps it's also an opportunity for me."
Yes, Luca ultimately agreed to the cooperative deal Baron Strucker proposed.
However, there was a slight modification in the middle. It wasn't simply selling the 'Orderer' pistol to the other party for experiments in Sokovia. Instead, Orange Group would establish a branch company in Sokovia, directly dealing with the local government.
It seemed like an unnecessary step, as the Sokovia government was already controlled by Baron Strucker, but it also provided an entry point for Orange Family to return to Sokovia.
'That place seems like a good overseas Base.'
'However, I still need to secure myself first.'
After seeing Strucker and his group's plane depart, Luca directly pulled out his phone and made a call.
"Hello? Tony."
"...Lunatic! Who misses you?!"
"I have a business deal in Sokovia... Mhm, it's a partner from my mother's hometown. Are you interested in participating?"
"Hey, I'm trying to help you make money, and you're not happy about it? What's so great about being the richest man? Is being the richest man so impressive?"
"You wait, after I finish this big deal, sooner or later you'll be calling me Dad!"
"Testing the mech, huh? Alright, alright, wait until I finish modifying the Boxer, then I'll let you see what 'big is beautiful' means! Just wait to call me Dad~"
"Alright, alright, hanging up!"
After a few simple sentences, Luca ended the call, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
'Alright, reported~'
Under Samira's astonished gaze, Luca directly turned and returned to the room.
There was still someone waiting for him to deal with here.
Inside the Villa living room, the previous corpses and bloodstains had already been cleaned up.
But the figure in the corner, tied up, seemed somewhat out of place.
The departing Strucker had taken all his other subordinates with him, leaving only Heinrich, who was somewhat familiar to Luca.
At this moment, Heinrich's left eye was just a blood-soaked socket, and he appeared incredibly weak, as if he had completely lost all hope of survival.
Luca casually tossed the still blood-stained mechanical eyeball in his hand.
"Wayland Eyeball 'Oracle'"
"Cyberpunk 2077 2/5"
"Manufacturer: Wayland Optical Lab"
"Core Component: Electronic Eyeball"
"Synthesis Material: None"
"Item Description: Implantable prosthetic eyeball. One of Wayland Corporation's core products. After successful eyeball transplantation, it can scan and lock onto threatening enemies within the field of vision, and also highlight various traps, explosives, mechanical weapons, and other threatening armaments. This eyeball also has 10x optical zoom, effectively magnifying the current field of vision."
"Friendly Reminder: This is just a mechanical eyeball, and it requires a series of implantable prosthetics such as brain-computer chips to function. It cannot be used by simply inserting it into the eye socket~"
Apart from his previously created [Solar Skateboard] inexplicably becoming a core component, this was Luca's first time seeing a Golden Finger item that required absolutely no 'synthesis material'.
However, this time, the [Wayland Eyeball] itself, besides having improved effects in all aspects, was indeed very similar in function to the prosthetic eye dug out of Heinrich's eye socket.
Oh, the original 'Electronic Eyeball' also had a remote-controlled self-destruct function.
Of course, Luca had no interest in gouging out his own eyeball to replace it with a fake one, or even implanting himself with all sorts of messy brain-computer chips.
Besides, he could already mass-produce the current [crime tracking glasses], and a large part of its functions actually overlapped with the mechanical eyeball.
Even if this item were synthesized later, it would at most be used for technical reserves.
It was this Heinrich, who had lost his left eye.
Luca hadn't expected that the other party was also a 'spy' from another faction, planted under Strucker.
When Luca pointed out the problem with Heinrich's left eye, even Strucker himself was stunned on the spot.
Again, HYDRA's internal structure was not monolithic.
Although they operated under the same banner and often cooperated, there would always be some petty schemes between different factions.
Although Luca himself didn't really care if his cooperation with Baron Strucker was exposed.
After all, it was just normal business cooperation, and Luca 'didn't know' they were HYDRA.
Even if it blew up, he would at most be considered a victim who was deceived.
However, it was estimated that after Baron Strucker returned, he would try every means to settle accounts with that 'clairvoyant'.
"As for you... Forget it, Longbow, find a place to interrogate him."
Luca guessed that Baron Strucker was willing to leave this guy alive for him probably because he was confident that Luca wouldn't be able to interrogate anything useful from him.
But the necessary procedures still had to be followed.
'What if?'
'Or perhaps, Strucker wanted to use this guy to reveal HYDRA's identity to me?'
On the other side, the departing Baron Strucker was actually also pondering over the night's events.
Originally, he hadn't come simply for cooperation; he had mostly intended to directly recruit Luca into his command.
He just hadn't expected to be outmaneuvered by a ten-year-old child, and also discovered that he had been plotted against by his 'colleagues' from the SHIELD faction.
It could be said that he had lost face and dignity completely.
As a major figure within HYDRA, he naturally wouldn't remain indifferent to this.
He immediately narrowed his eyes, called a subordinate, and whispered instructions.
"After we return, send more men to probe Captain America's background and confirm whether he is truly on our side! I have a great use for him!"
"Yes!"
The subordinate scurried away.
However, what none of them noticed was that at Strucker's heel, a tiny black listening device had appeared at some point.