Chapter: 286

When Mark mentioned this, it's uncertain whether due to excitement or shyness, Natasha's cheeks turned slightly red.

About her romantic involvement with Bruce Banner, they hadn't publicly announced it yet, and their relationship hadn't been officially confirmed.

Natasha hadn't expected Mark, who had limited contact with them, to notice the ambiguity between them.

In truth, Natasha was unaware that Mark hadn't figured it out himself. Despite his cheat-like abilities, his emotional intelligence was often lacking!

Mark knew about the relationship between Bruce Banner and Natasha purely because he was a reincarnator with an inherent knowledge of the plot. He had learned about the ambiguity between the two from movies in his previous life.

Though he wasn't sure when their relationship began, considering it wasn't long before the Sokovia events would start, Mark estimated that they must have started their relationship by now.

As expected, after Mark's probing statement, Natasha didn't express any doubt or displeasure, indicating that she had indeed become involved with Bruce Banner.

However, the issue was too crucial, and Natasha couldn't make an immediate decision after listening to Mark's explanation, especially with Hawkeye and Falcon waiting for her outside.

Natasha and Mark agreed on a deadline, and she promised to give a thoughtful response within that time frame before leaving Mark's laboratory.

Before Mark could receive Natasha's reply, he received information about another long-silent name – Mandarin!

After the final upgrade of the artificial intelligence stage, Baymax's data retrieval and intelligence analysis capabilities were significantly enhanced.

It could be said that if Baymax disregarded the energy consumption and hardware pressure of the data processing center, it could achieve 24/7 monitoring of all devices connected to the global internet and extract and analyze their data.

No network security company or government agency could prevent Baymax from obtaining what it desired unless they completely isolated their network from the outside world.

However, to ensure its long-term stable functioning and respect others' privacy, Mark never gave Baymax such instructions, and Baymax never engaged in unauthorized surveillance.

Today, the information about the Ten Rings and Mandarin primarily relied on Baymax's even more powerful data analysis capabilities.

With its strong analytical abilities, Baymax could easily find anomalies from numerous publicly available information sources without privacy restrictions and trace the clues back to their origins.

In daily life, there is an abundance of information flow, with most of it appearing completely normal. Even if there are a few pieces of abnormal data, they are often drowned in the massive flood of information, making it difficult for people to notice.

It's like an obscure company with no business transactions but still pays a significant amount of taxes to the tax department each year.

Due to the large sums of money involved, the tax department's employees only check whether the amounts are correct and if there are any tax evasion issues, but they don't investigate the legitimacy or source of these earnings.

Behind such information, there are often hidden unknown evils, and these are the objects that Baymax needs to collect and analyze.

Originally, Baymax's purpose in analyzing abnormal data was to quickly find the remnants of Hydra's secret bases and completely eliminate any possibility of their resurgence in the future.

Based on existing data models, after reaching the analysis results, Baymax can swiftly determine whether the hidden force behind the data is Hydra and trace its true location.

However, during today's analysis of this abnormal data, Baymax did discover a particularly distinct result among all the anomalies.

It was a company that had been legitimately paying taxes since the establishment of the national tax system. It had branches in major countries worldwide, and each branch's earliest tax records could be traced back to the year when the local tax system was established.

This seemed quite coincidental, indicating that the power behind this company had existed even before all modern civilizations were established, and it had persevered until today.

Furthermore, based on its tax amounts, it not only survived but thrived, providing substantial tax revenue to the local tax authorities every year. It also used money to bribe any government officials who doubted its hidden identity.

Even if bribery failed, according to the information collected by Baymax, those who didn't accept bribes all died due to unexpected reasons.

And the successors who replaced them would often accept the money secretly sent by this company and become its protectors, allowing it to continue existing in the same way.

After discovering the abnormality in this company, Baymax went all out, continuously collecting relevant information and tracing it to its source.

Eventually, it found a record of this company's transaction with the Ten Rings terrorists in the Middle East. This record allowed Baymax to analyze the true identity of this company.

On the surface, this company was controlled by an ancient and wealthy family that had been in existence for nearly a millennium. In reality, it was a financial tool used by Mandarin for conducting financial activities and laundering wealth.

The so-called ancient family that has been passed down for a thousand years actually consists only of Mandarin. In this way, it perfectly resolves the issue of Mandarin's agelessness and effectively conceals his true identity.

Unfortunately, despite confirming that this company belongs to Mandarin, no matter how much investigation is done, it's impossible to find more information about its internal operations.

It's as if this company is isolated from the world, leaving no traces in this information age.

This can't be blamed on Baymax's capabilities; even the abnormal data of this company was discovered from the tax bureau, not from the company itself. The only transaction record was found in information left behind by Obadiah, the traitor of Stark Industries.

Intelligence shows that all the information and financial records of this company are still kept in the traditional way before the digital age, using paper documents. After completing the tax clearance each year, these documents are completely burned to ashes, leaving no trace of any information.

"Baymax, continue monitoring all information and activities of this company. If necessary, deploy micro monitoring robots to investigate its internal operations.

I want to know what extraordinary abilities Mandarin possesses to have survived under the eyes of all government institutions worldwide for such a long time!"

"Understood, Master!"

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