Back on Earth, the location was still at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base.
Captain America had accepted reality and was applying to visit Carter in England with Fury, only to have Fury refuse on the grounds that he needed to follow up on his medical condition.
In fact, everyone knew that was just an excuse, Captain America had been tapped out for a month, what should have been checked had already been checked, and with Fury's scheming mind, a few vats of Captain America's blood had been surely drawn by now.
Seeing Fury again, Eric's eyes held a deep sense of sympathy. This guy was just created who could be controlled by the One on the moon at any moment, and yet he himself was still ignorant and thought he was the head of the number one secret service organisation in control of the world.
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Back in New York, Eric was relieved,
He had faced all kinds of old fogeys in the past two days, he could only call himself a child in front of them, and he didn't even have the chance to act like a clown.
Now that he was home, he had to find his balance. As for his opponents, who else but our mascot, Barton?
Over the course of the morning, Eric reined in his power to minimise damage and fought Barton for hundreds of rounds until Barton was so tired he couldn't get up any more, and the girl next to him was looking at the weak Barton with sympathy.
"Barton is too weak, looks like it's time to strengthen him up!" After venting his frustrations, Eric finally found his conscience and stopped.
But how to strengthen Barton? Directly inject the Super Soldier Serum and recreate a Captain America? That wasn't the result Eric wanted; Barton was a natural archer, sniper, and swordsman, leaning more in the direction of agility and long-range, rather than strength plus endurance like Captain America.
"I need helpers, geniuses who study genetics, well, those who study the four basic forces too!"
Trying to control the four basic forces is not an easy task.
In mystery novels, there are still gong methods and other things that can be practiced, like finding some magical stones or other source, suck in energy, have a few meditation, and the level will go up.
The four basic forces do not have these, except for mutations to obtain supernatural powers, they can only rely on scientific research, deducting data one by one, using a lot of calculations and experiments to pile up the leves!
The poor rely on mutation, the rich rely on technology.
When Eric started out as a poor man, he could only rely on unstable mutations, but now that he was a proper rich man, he naturally relied on science to be more secure.
A list was quickly forming in Eric's head, ready to be compiled and handed over to Barton to do. It couldn't be helped, he only had three people under him now, the juggernaut was a brainless one who only knew how to sleep, and the psylocke was a front and back newcomer, so how could he let people do this kind of hard work of running errands?
Barton's original job was handed over to Skye. She was a girl after all, and it was always inconvenient to have a big old man like Barton tagging along, and now that a more suitable candidate was available, he was of course eliminated.
The first person on the list was for Barton's enhancement, Maya Hansen, the famous geneticist and inventor of the Extremis virus.
The Extremis virus has major drawbacks, but no one can deny that it's powerful and it's very easy to access its power with a single shot, the only thing to worry about is the possibility of it blowing itself up at any moment.
Of course, the conscience-filled Boss Eric wouldn't let his man blow himself up, he had another good thing on his hands that had been sealed in his hands for years, and that was the main character that gave Barton his enhancements, the Extremis virus was just there to complement it, to mutually eliminate the after-effects and make Barton's enhancements even more powerful.
The second name is Franklin Hall, the originator of the gravitonium hypothesis, who somewhere in a parallel universe had also fused gravitonium to become Graviton and control gravity. No one knew more about gravitonium than he did, and he certainly ranked first in the study of gravity.
And it's very easy to get him to come, bring him a sample of gravitonium and he'll definitely begging for more!
The third name, Erik Selvig, coincidentally, is also called Erik.
He's the one who created the space disruptor that helped Thor defeat the Dark Elves, and is also the mentor of Thor's girlfriend Jane Foster, a renowned astrophysicist and quantum physicist. His research and understanding of space energy is among the best on the entire planet, otherwise Fury would not have asked him to study the Tesseract.
To get him to come, the old way is to show him the Tesseract, he will not be able to resist this temptation.
Magnetic force, gravitational force, strong force, weak force.
The first two are macroscopic forces, which are relatively simple to study. Magnetic forces can be solved by Eric himself; no one in the world knows more about electromagnetic forces than he does.
Gravitation has Franklin Hall and Erik Selvig, and with the aid of Gravonium and the Tesseract, and the A.I Future, It's not a big problem either.
But when it came to the two micro-level forces, the strong force and the weak force, Eric was stumped on the choice of scientists.
Both forces are inside the nucleus of an atom, and, leaving aside the convoluted explanations of scientific terms, one is the force that binds the matter in the nucleus together, and the other is the force released by atomic decay. As long as you study nuclear physics, you can't get away from these two forces, and how many scientists are there in the world who study nuclear physics? Too many to count!
In fact, the most suitable candidate would be Bruce Banner, whose research on gamma rays is unparalleled. However, he was still doing research in General Ross's secret experimental base, and Eric felt that the world still needed Hulk, so it was better not to bother him.
In the end, two more people were written down on Eric's list, one was Otto Gunther Octavius, the future great Dr. Octopus, who had devoted his life to researching nuclear fusion, and he's sure his understanding of this powers must be far superior to that of ordinary people.
It's easy to invite him over, don't you study nuclear fusion? I have a ready-made one! Look, an Arc Reactor! You could put a hole in your chest!
The last one is a Chinese named Chen Lu. Many people have not heard of him, but his other name is known to many, and that is Radioactive Man.
As his title suggests, in some marvel time-line he was exposed to high levels of radiation and mutated into a superhuman with the ability to control and emit deadly forms of radiation, he fought Thor, The God of Thunder and also joined Hydra, standing against the Avengers on a daily basis.
This is a generic villain with second-tier strength, but his talent is undeniable and his research in radiation is equally world-renowned.
Of course, at this point in time, Thor, the God of Thunder, hadn't even come to Earth, and naturally Chen Lu hadn't mutated, and was still the same erudite nuclear physicist who would surely be the right choice to hire him to conduct research on weak forces.
A list of names, five names.
When the list was handed over to Barton, Barton didn't complain in the slightest. After two years of working under this boss of his as an errand boy, his daily job was to drive Skye to and from school and occasionally teach fighting, so he was so idle that his balls were about to break, and now he finally had the task to go out for a wave, what was there to complain about, he couldn't be happier.
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