Andy left, and before leaving, he left a message with Baker.
She hopes that if the Kingdom of Heaven reappears and the new King of Angels returns to his throne, she can return to the Kingdom of Heaven, even if the price is to be suppressed in a cave under the sacred mountain of Heaven for the rest of her life.
Then he left.
Eileen and Nova went out to see them off.
Baker didn't stop him. He had returned to New York, and the station was in Manhattan, so there wouldn't be a few eyeless tiger cubs popping up on his territory.
Again.
Uriel's entire clan was wiped out.
As soon as Hydra raised its flag and prepared to rebel, Aegis came to catch a turtle in a urn. Only a small number of Snake Shield agents escaped by chance, and the rest were taken care of by Aegis.
Of course.
The personnel in the middle and high-level leadership positions in Hydra were all captured by Aegis. The remaining minions were just like grasshoppers in the autumn, and they couldn't move much. God.
In this game, Hydra became the only loser. The reason was that they made a deal with Uriel and did not tell Baker in time.
His death was unjust, but his death was worth it.
At least SHIELD, Skye, and Stark all got what they wanted.
Yes!
"I'm really a good person who hides my secrets."
Baker praised himself so much, then drank down the glass of wine and prepared to go upstairs to change clothes.
at this time.
Baker's phone rang.
Gwen's.
Connected!
"Wow--"
The moment the call was connected, a heartbreaking cry came from the other end of the phone: "Baker, wuwuwuwu, I'm going to jump off the building. Don't come to the New York Stock Exchange to persuade me. I'm going to do it." I have decided that I am going to die."
Baker's eyebrows were pounding, and his trigeminal nerve ached faintly: "What's wrong?"
Gwen's cry became even more miserable: "I'm broke, woo woo woo."
She thought that Gwen had a huge sum of about five million US dollars at the end of last month. In order to make money into money, Gwen found a financial manager and purchased several high-quality stocks based on the financial manager's recommendations.
result……
Nine out of ten stocks recommended to her by that damn broker turned out to be Hydra properties.
Then Gwen appeared on the rooftop.
Well……
In fact, Gwen wanted to jump off the building half a month ago, but after all, Beck just arrived home today, so...
Half an hour later.
Baker appeared on the rooftop of the Stock Exchange.
Oops.
You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.
In addition to Gwen, there were three men and women of different ages on the rooftop. It seemed that they were all ready to jump off the building.
This one is really like lining up to jump off the building.
at this time.
A thud.
A fifty-year-old middle-aged white man jumped directly from the roof of the building. Unfortunately, he did not take a leap of faith. It was like the sound of a watermelon falling to the ground and then nothing else.
even.
The pedestrians walking on the ground just glanced at the corpse on the ground, and then went about their business.
New York……
It is heaven and hell at the same time.
Baker looked at Gwen, who was sitting on the roof jumping in action after he appeared. He covered his forehead with a headache and walked over: "Can you please stop making trouble?"
"no!"
"Why?"
"I'm broke!"
Gwen opened her mouth and started crying: "Oh, oh, oh, don't persuade me, I'm going to jump off the building."
Baker stood next to Gwen, looking down at the busy traffic below: "It's so high, I'd be afraid it wouldn't be easy to apply makeup if I jump."
Gwen howled loudly, that was her hard-earned money.
Baker sighed: "Are you hungry?"
Gwen nodded: "Hungry!"
Baker: "..."
Another half hour.
Baker took Gwen back to the beef restaurant on Fifth Avenue.
Gwen obviously wanted to use her grief and anger as appetite, and ordered three servings of wagyu.
After Baker ordered a cup of Gold Cup Bourbon, he looked at Gwen sitting opposite, whose eyes were as swollen as a heifer's and said helplessly: "Tell me what's going on."
Gwen told the story in detail after she received 10 million in after-tax consulting fees from Baker.
After hearing this, Baker became even more powerless: "I remember I reminded you that if you want a solid investment plan, just go to Dongguo to buy a house. Why are you running the stock market?"
"To make money to build a hospital."
"...No acquisition?"
Baker looked at Gwen curiously and said, "Tell me, how did you jump from acquiring a hospital to building a hospital yourself?"
Gwen is Gwen.
Not only this buggy learning ability, but also this brain circuit makes Baker feel that he is beyond his reach.
Gwen also gave her own explanation.
These days, there are many hospitals in New York that can accept acquisitions, but either the asking price is high, or the asking price is low, but the hospital must be accepted together with debts and employee contracts.
How could Gwen do it?
She has already thought about it. After acquiring a hospital, she will go directly to automation. Each department will be equipped with a fully automatic treatment device that she has experienced for many years, although it is still theoretical but already very feasible. She will invite a bunch of young and beautiful sisters to come over Guide, and then only accept high-end customers, not medical insurance...
When Baker heard this, he quickly stopped: "Are you running a hospital?"
Gwen frowned: "Why not?"
Baker glanced at Gwen angrily: "You are obviously here for those young and beautiful sisters. If you want beautiful sisters, five million, you can exchange them for one a day, and you can exchange them for the next year."
Gwen said: "If you open a hospital, you can make a steady flow of income."
Baker opened his mouth, then weakly patted his head, and waved his hand towards Gwen to signal her to continue.
Then Gwen revealed that nine of the ten stocks she had invested in had become junk stocks because of Hydra.
Baker said somewhat depressedly: "I remember last month, I asked you to call me two million, didn't you know I was going to take action?"
As usual, this time Baker took Gwen with him to make money.
Gwen was even more on the verge of tears: "I didn't know that nine of my stocks collectively won the lottery. This has never happened before when I bought lottery tickets."
Baker sighed deeply in his heart, then frowned and said, "Wait a minute, out of ten stocks, nine are winners, and there is one more."
Gwen curled her lips: "I heard you, I bought Stark Industries."
Baker raised his eyebrows and suddenly felt that something was wrong. During this month, Wall Street was very green, but there were still a few stocks that were like chicken blood.
Stark Industries is one of them.
A month ago, the market value of Stark Industries was nearly 90 billion. A month later, the market value of Stark Industries reached 150 billion.
Gwen lowered his head: "You gave me 11 million U.S. dollars, I paid off the loan, and there was still 7 million dollars left, and then I gave you 2 million dollars, and the remaining 5 million dollars were thrown into the stock market, and I bought Four million Starks, and then used a million to buy the other nine.”
Baker: "..."
Baker immediately panicked.
Five million, I bought four million Starks with my eyes closed, and then bought nine other stocks based on the recommendation of the financial manager for one million.
Then nine stocks that were supposed to be high-quality stocks collapsed instantly, causing a million dollars to be lost.
But……
There are four million more.
The corner of Baker's mouth twitched slightly, and then he came back to his senses. He looked at Gwen speechlessly, feeling helpless and sighing in his heart: "So, you made a profit?"
Gwen looked up, the expression on her face becoming even sadder.
Baker was helpless: "What did you do again?"
Gwen cried loudly: "When all nine stocks fell together, I was afraid that Stark would also fall, so I took them all out. When I finished working on Stark's stocks and prepared to operate the other nine stocks, I took them out. The price of Te Miao is not as high as the price of toilet paper.”
Baker: "..."
All right.
This operation was also invincible, and there were only two answers. As a result, Gwen perfectly missed the two correct answers.
Baker finally understood why Gwen was so sad that she flowed upstream.
If Gwen only lost one million, this month's Stark increase alone would be enough to make Gwen instantly rich.
pity……
There are no what-ifs in this world. From a certain perspective, Gwen's loss of five million is still light.
Baker sighed: "Okay, let me teach you a lesson. After a few days, when my plate is finished, I will give you your share."
Gwen had beef in her mouth and glanced at Baker: "How much?"
Baker rolled his eyes. "Enough to build a modern hospital in Jersey City."
Gwen's eyes lit up: "Really?"
Baker nodded expressionlessly. Even if it was not enough, Baker planned to pay for it himself. After all, Baker regarded Gwen as a sister who was closer than his own sister.
And to be honest.
It was also a good thing to have a hospital that allowed Gwen to do the research and development mentioned in the book with peace of mind. It saved him from having to think of ways to give Gwen money from time to time so that she could repay the loan.
Again.
Gwen took out the loan to enrich his knowledge base, not to gamble. Therefore, Baker always felt that Gwen could still be saved.
Half an hour later.
Gwen burped.
Baker sat back and said with a smile, "Are you full?"
"Um."
"Aren't you sad anymore?"
Gwen shook her head repeatedly: "No, no."
Baker called the waiter and handed over his credit card. After waiting for a while, the waiter returned the card. Baker stood up and said, "Let's go. If you don't want to feel bad about your money, go to Dongguo's with your eyes closed." Just buy a house in a few major first-tier cities, but housing prices there have just begun."
Gwen said oh.
Baker bid farewell to Gwen at the door of the apartment and returned home. Eileen and Nova had also returned.
"Andy sent away?"
"Um."
Irene responded. At this time, Nova came down from upstairs and said, "Brother, why isn't Barbara back?"
Baker said: "She is busy."
Can you not be busy?
This is just like fighting a war. It only took one day for SHIELD to defeat Hydra, but the finishing work is not over yet.
even.
It will probably be very difficult for another two months. This time, the Hydra uprising can be said to make SHIELD feel like there are ten rooms and four empty rooms.
And so many Serpent Shield agents were exposed at once, which made SHIELD have to wonder if there were some that had not been exposed.
Starting five days ago, SHIELD Director Maria Hill and Joint Operations Commander Victoria Hand signed a SHIELD executive order, ordering a thorough investigation of every detail of SHIELD. From non-staff members to level 9 agents, everyone must rejoin the loyalty program. Degree determination.
so……
“It would be nice to come back in October,” Baker said.
This is still an optimistic estimate. If it were not optimistic, this year's Christmas might be completely in doubt.
Baker was indifferent to this.
Career.
It's normal to be busy, just like Baker, when you're busy you don't even have to take a break.
I originally thought about opening bottles and changing jobs directly after returning to New York.
Now……
Baker just wanted to get some rest.
He can be considered as having defeated Hydra's plan just like Captain America. Captain America has been able to lie under the ice and rest for so many years. Baker feels that it is not too much to ask for him to rest until Christmas this year.
After playing with a group of bedbugs for so long, there was no need to fight wits and courage. However, in the past three months, Baker thought about the total number of people he had killed. Wow, it was almost five figures.
It really feels like a sight of killing thousands of people!
At night.
Family dinner.
Baker came back from Dongguo today, and there was a fire at home. Naturally, there was no reason why Richard Castle, the neighbor downstairs, could not come over.
Of course Alexis came over too.
only.
After Alexis was almost full, she ran to play with Kodo, the bald eagle who was lying dead in the living room.
Then only the three Baker brothers and sisters, Richard and his mother, Martha Rogers, a former Broadway actor in New York, were left at the table.
Yes.
It's still the captain's surname.
But unlike the guy Baker met before, Martha is actually related by blood to captain Steve Rogers.
Speaking of which, Martha is Captain America’s cousin.
This is what Beck knew when Richard spilled the beans one time, but Beck was never a gossip.
"correct."
Richard ate green beans sprinkled with salt and pepper and looked at Baker: "This financial crisis directly caused me to lose a lot of money."
"Did you buy stocks too?"
Richard nodded: "Well, after the last book was published, I probably made more than ten million, so I lost some money into it..."
Baker asked, "How much?"
"I think I lost nearly three million."
"..."
Baker nodded and looked at it. A man who had lost five million was jumping off a building to his death, and a man who had lost three million was talking like he had lost ten yuan.
Irene couldn't help but look up at Richard who said this, and then said, "I also lost a hundred thousand this month."
Baker frowned slightly: "Just one hundred thousand?"
This is unscientific.
Although Baker didn't calculate how much money he gave to Irene and Nova every month, he must have at least a net worth of two million each by now.
Erin said: "It's only one hundred thousand, which is enough to make me feel distressed for a long time. Starting from the 25th day, people on Wall Street lined up to jump off the building. I don't know how many people in New York have gone bankrupt this time."
This time, the Hydra thunderstorm incident completely triggered a shocking tsunami in the financial market.
For those who are rich, a loss of 10 million won't be a big deal.
But no money.
It can be considered a complete declaration of bankruptcy.
for example.
Some little security guard named Jim.
…
After having a common topic, Richard and Eileen shared the same hatred and directly formed an alliance to denounce Wall Street, which had made a lot of money during the stock market crash.
The real thieves hide on Wall Street.
The Morgans, the Starks, the Hestos, the Rockefellers, the Carnegies, the Gateses and...
Richard counted the Wall Street families who had made a lot of money this time, looked at Baker, and said, "There were people who jumped off the Heavenly Building last week."
Baker smiled: "I never accept investment advice from anyone, and the Heavenly Kingdom Building just changed its name three days ago, okay?"
Although he is known as a Wall Street investor, Baker's company did not open on Wall Street. Instead, it rented the top floor of a building as an office on the edge of Columbus Circle in Manhattan.
As mentioned before, there are two battlefields this time, one in darkness and one in light.
In order to make a profit this time, Baker directly launched a three-pronged attack.
On the one hand, most of Baker's efforts were placed on Stark Industries. Stark was encircling and taking over the exposed industries of Hydra, and Baker was collecting money.
Secondly, Baker's investment company also participated in this feast, asking his secretary to recruit nearly two dozen traders to control the billion dollars in Baker's company's accounts.
Finally, Baker was also operating on his own somewhere in Michigan.
Otherwise, why would Baker have stayed in Michigan for a month.
As for the origin of the Paradise Building, it is very simple. The previous owner of the building went bankrupt, and then came to ask for help.
Baker chose to take over the deal after his secretary reported it. Then, because Baker's investment company was called Heavenly Kingdom Investment, the 43-story building was naturally renamed Heavenly Kingdom Building.
You can't own the building and still call it someone else's name.
As for the name Morton Building?
Baker wasn't interested.
In fact, except for a few people in the industry and a few friends who knew that he was the owner of Tianguo Investment, ordinary New Yorkers only knew that Baker Morton was a famous investor, but did not know Paradise Investments is also his.
Richard looked at Baker: "How long have you been making money? Can you disclose it?"
Baker looked at Richard with a smile on his face: "You really want to know?"
Richard nodded.
Baker thought for a while and said: "Throwing away the one billion yuan to take over the building, we must have made about 4.5 billion yuan."
This doesn’t even count Stark’s profit!
Richard's mouth grew.
Erin dropped the fork from her hand.
Baker smiled modestly and looked at Richard's expression: "I remember that I sent a message a month ago telling you to take out the money from the stock market."
Richard came back to his senses and smiled gratefully at Baker: "I only lost two million after listening to you."
This is not a taunt.
If he had not listened to Baker, Richard would have suffered a little loss in this financial crisis that suddenly detonated without any warning.
This time Hydra's thunderstorm directly triggered a sonic boom in advance that was supposed to happen in 2008.
Erin also came back to her senses and looked at Baker: "So, you also participated in this harvest?"
Baker shook his head: "Harvest? No, no, no, at most I just drink soup. The ones who really eat meat are the families you just mentioned."
In fact, if it weren't for Baker Morton's continued reputation as Wall Street's top investor, Baker would have had no interest in taking action.
but……
Fame is tiring.
To put it bluntly, compared to Stark's calculated share after harvesting, the money earned by Tianguo Investment is not even a fraction of that.
Speaking of Stark's share...
the next day.
Baker took a taxi to the downstairs of the Paradise Building, which was sold to Baker at a loss after being built only ten years ago and now belongs to him.
fortunately.
This time the taxi driver was a Chinese, so the ride was quiet.
The forty-third floor of the Heavenly Building.
Ding!
Baker stepped out of the elevator.
The secretary at the front desk, Sofia Camille, an exotic beauty with perfect body curves and Uma Thurman-style black bangs, raised her head and said: "Boss, Ms. Pepper has arrived and is in your office."
Beck nodded.
Sofia, who was born in Algeria, saw this and got back to her work.
As for why Sophia didn't get up?
This is a good question.
Because Sophia is in a wheelchair, when Sophia was young, the village suffered a war, resulting in both of her lower legs being amputated.
After that, Sophia transferred to the Federation, and then became Baker's personal secretary, helping to deal with the financial issues of Baker and Paradise Investments.
In the luxurious office, which was as large as one-third the size of a football field, Baker had just entered the door when he saw Pepper Potts standing on the wall admiring the various hanging paintings on it.
Baker walked in: "Which one does Ms. Potts like?"
Pepper came back to her senses, turned around, saw Baker coming in, walked over, shook hands and said, "Congratulations, Baker."
Baker invited Pepper to the guest sofa and said with a smile, "Congratulations?"
Pepper said, "The building."
Baker smiled and said thank you to Pepper, then started pouring the wine and asked, "Why isn't Tony here?"
Pepper looked at Baker: "Don't you know?"
Baker laughed, how could he not know that he must be forcing Alexander Pierce to reveal the location of the Winter Soldier.
Strange to say.
For such a big thing as the Hydra rebellion, whether it was the Federation, Europe or other places, the Winter Soldier did not appear.
Perhaps it was because Hydra was suppressed so quickly that Alexander Pierce had no time to notify the people in the laboratory to activate the Winter Soldier.
And then……
The person in charge of the Winter Soldier project was even more frightened when he saw the changing situation outside.
Poor Pierce.
After three rounds of drinking.
Only then did Pepper get down to business. He took out a document from his bag and handed it to Baker and said, "The detailed profit sharing is inside."
Baker took the form and put it aside. Stark's share had already been transferred to the Tianguo Investment account this morning.
This money will be invested in Heaven and the taxes will be paid first.
Baker is a law-abiding person, and paying taxes is something that every federal citizen should do.
Chatted for a while.
Pepper stood up and said goodbye.
Baker didn't say anything about inviting Pepper to lunch. First, it was inappropriate. Second, if someone knew about it, he would go directly to the Dongguo Market to kill Baker.
so……
Baker also stood up and said, "I'll take you to the parking lot."
Pepper nodded.
at this time.
A thud.
Gunshots!
Baker raised his eyebrows, glanced at Pepper, walked outside the window, and then opened his reconnaissance guard map all over Manhattan.
…
