After much consideration, Skye ultimately chose to continue following the Coulson team.
With A's coordination, Agents in the field could receive the strongest fire support. As long as they didn't lose their minds, they could theoretically do whatever they wanted in any situation.
HYDRA must die this time; frankly speaking, they were just traitors to the planet, and keeping them around was truly useless.
As for the matter of the Aliens, he had to wait for Coulson to find something before he could spoil it; revealing too much wouldn't be good.
And for HYDRA Agents like Agent Ward, Harry had indeed arranged a good "destination" for them.
Arriving at the Hammer High-Tech Equipment Laboratory, Harry entered his private laboratory; this area belonged solely to him.
There was now a set of heavy Power armor here, which Harry had named GP-21. The full name was simple and crude: "Good Prison."
This armor was prepared for some special prisoners, such as Ward.
Their status could truly be considered special—they undoubtedly had to be punished. The things they had done and the number of people they had killed were enough to send them to the afterlife in regions with the death penalty.
But once their life histories were made public, some people would think that them becoming like this wasn't entirely due to their own factors.
Letting them serve time and then be released one day was impossible, so Harry thought of this method.
The performance of the GP series Power armor was almost comparable to the most powerful heavy Power armor currently available, almost on par with the Type O Super Soldier armor used by the Osborn team, but it was much heavier.
The reason was that this armor had a built-in powerful full-life support system. Even without supplies, the operator and the armor could continue to fight for 7 days. It also had various stimulant injection components, gravity balancing components, environmental adaptation systems, and so on.
This armor might not be the highest-performance armor in Harry's possession, but it was definitely one of the most adaptable.
The reason was that the users of this armor often had to execute missions with extremely high lethality, such as alien exploration or probing unknown superpowered individuals.
It was prepared for those criminals whose crimes were too numerous to record.
This armor would monitor the wearer in all aspects, from brain waves to internal hormone secretion, and even nerve changes. With just one command, they would turn into puppets controlled by the armor, or even self-destruct.
"Using this, they will become super killers—true super killers. Their violent nature can also contribute to this society, dying gloriously."
Harry put away the armor; now he had to deal with another person.
"What about you? Ms. Raina, if you like this armor, I can put it on you too."
Raina, of course, didn't want to be imprisoned in this iron contraption, so she immediately said, "You are right, Garrett is not some 'The Clairvoyant'; I was just looking for an opportunity to join you."
Harry sat down in front of Raina and indicated for her to start her performance.
Raina's insight was not weak, and she was very good at persuading people.
Taking Chen Haoran from the original plot as an example, through a brief contact, she saw the Fire Man's desire for fame and dissatisfaction with S.H.I.E.L.D. controlling his abilities.
So she painted a big picture for Chen Haoran—saying she could help him leave his name in history, and then told the Fire Man that if he didn't cooperate, he would only be an unknown person for the rest of his life.
Comparing the two, and then telling Chen Haonan that she just wanted to help him, Chen Haonan believed it.
Just like a college student who had just graduated and entered a company, full of energy after being encouraged by the boss's big picture.
Then Chen Haonan worked overtime for a few days, resolutely embarking on the road of no return to becoming a human battery, finally resentfully voicing his own thoughts:
If I had known earlier that superpowered individuals would be kidnapped and drained dry...
Ahem, I digress.
But no matter how strong Raina's persuasive ability was, it was built on the foundation of the resources she could mobilize. Therefore, the 1 million US dollars Harry gave Chen Haonan was more effective than ten thousand words from her.
So now she found that she really had nothing to persuade Harry with.
Except for superpowered individuals.
"I know a superpowered individual; he is very powerful! Very worthy of research!" Raina said as if she had grasped the key.
"Tell me, what abilities does he have?" Harry took the tea handed over by A using a movable robotic arm.
"He... he is very strong!"
Raina was talking about Skye's father, but as far as Harry knew, this old father was not a superpowered individual.
His strength was only because the drugs he injected into himself made him neurotic; in fact, he didn't really have much more strength than an ordinary human.
"Strong? Forgive my bluntness." Harry opened the combat video of the Hammer Extremis Agents.
These Agents, under the dual reinforcement of machinery and biology, were almost enhanced versions of Captain America.
"His emotions are very unstable, and he makes me feel afraid."
Harry was speechless. What kind of superpower was that? Was Osborn a mental hospital?
Speaking of which, was he that scary? Harry clearly felt that Raina's fear of him was quite severe; she wasn't like this last time they met, was she?
"Stop, stop, stop, Ms. Raina, I don't know why you've become so stupid. Even if you mentioned the centipede serum, I would find it much more interesting."
Raina replied, "The efficacy of the centipede serum is not as good as the Extremis, and I know you wouldn't be interested in that."
"Let me be straightforward. I know the person you are talking about; he is Skye's father, right?" Harry didn't want to beat around the bush anymore.
"You really did know."
Harry glanced at Raina. Was this woman testing him?
"I do know—"
"Please let me work for you!" Raina suddenly said.
Harry was stunned.
Because he discovered that his psionic vision showed that Raina was truly willing to work for him—the kind that didn't need a salary.
It seemed that his act of pretending to be a mystic had fooled her quite a bit.
But considering that Raina's lifelong pursuit was those "special humans" and the meaning of her own existence, it didn't seem surprising that she would have this reaction.
"You changed your tune really fast. I agree—but you still have to stay in the cage for a while."
The holographic conference room flashed, and Harry connected to Baron Zemo, who had been listening in.
"What do you think of this woman?"
"She is that kind of blind supremacist—like a blind fly that buzzes over as soon as it smells something, but I don't think she will like what she is pursuing."
As expected of Baron Zemo; he practically spoiled Raina's plot.
Harry said, "A very accurate view. Now tell me about the situation in Sokovia."
"Strucker has already been captured; is there anything else to report?"
Harry smiled and stared into Zemo's eyes, and finally, the latter lost the battle.
"Fine, fine! I admit it, Strucker was conducting human experiments—but he hadn't started yet. The data is with me; I originally wanted to destroy them."
Actually, Harry knew everything; he just wanted to see if this baron would hide anything from him.
It turned out that he did have some small ulterior motives, but it hadn't reached the point of betrayal.
"Very good, Baron. The fact that you didn't destroy them counts as pulling back from the brink—you were very close to jumping into the abyss."
Zemo swallowed hard. For some reason, even across the screen, Harry's words made him break out in a cold sweat.
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